Sentences with phrase «from harmful greenhouse gases»

The concept that the atmosphere is a public trust [251], that today's adults must deliver to their children and future generations an atmosphere as beneficial as the one they received, is the basis for a lawsuit [252] in which it is argued that the U.S. government is obligated to protect the atmosphere from harmful greenhouse gases.
Since 2008, we have saved more than $ 8.6 million in waste expenses and protected the planet from harmful greenhouse gases.

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As well as explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resources.
Schneiderman today joined a coalition of 14 attorneys general and the City of Chicago in filing a motion to intervene in a lawsuit against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's actions to halt regulation of leaks of greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollutants from new sources in the oil and gas industry.
Erie County is developing a Climate Action and Sustainability Plan for internal county operations with funding from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) which is expected to not only reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions but also save the County on energy costs.
A team of researchers from four American universities says the key to reducing harmful greenhouse gases (GHG) in the short term is more likely to be found on the dinner plate than at the gas pump.
In fact, according to new research from Carnegie Mellon University, following the USDA recommendations to consume more fruits, vegetables, dairy and seafood is more harmful to the environment because those foods have relatively high resource uses and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per calorie.
-- A new post on ClimateEthics.org argues, as others have before, for another uncomfortable reality: Complacency is not an ethical response to the persistent uncertainty clouding forecasts of harmful impacts from the continuing buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
It's been nice in recent days to see some strong advocates for curbs in emissions of greenhouse gases shift from the more overheated, and unsupported, rhetoric they used earlier this year in attempting a kind of «kitchen sink» argument aiming to tie virtually every recent harmful weather event to warming, even those — like powerful tornadoes — for which there is no link and certainly no trend.
A new post on ClimateEthics.org argues, «Complacency is not an ethical response to the persistent uncertainty clouding forecasts of harmful impacts from the continuing buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.»
This is so because any national position on climate change is implicitly a position on adequate global atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration stabilization level and all nations have a duty to prevent atmospheric greenhouse concentrations from exceeding levels that are harmful to others.
A team of researchers from four American universities says the key to reducing harmful greenhouse gases (GHG) in the short term is more likely to be found on the dinner plate than at the gas pump.
As the federal government's most comprehensive assessment of the harmful impacts of climate change on human health and public welfare in the United States, this report, years in the making, should have been used in developing EPA's required «endangerment» finding as a step toward regulating greenhouse gases, instead of keeping the work of the Climate Change Science Program disconnected from this decision support role.
These projects capture, destroy or reduce harmful greenhouse gases emitted from sources such as animal waste, landfills, fossil fuel use or refrigerants.
The commentary, published in the British scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, estimated the impact of consuming the fuel from oilsands deposits â $» without factoring in greenhouse gas emissions associated with extraction and production â $» would be far less harmful to the planet's atmosphere than consuming all of the world's coal resources.
The eventual replacement of oil with fuels generated from sustainable and carbon - neutral sources is necessary if we are to avoid harmful climate change due to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
An electric vehicle, on the other hand, produces no harmful emissions directly from its «tailpipe», but unless it's being charged with solar, wind, or other clean electricity, an EV is responsible for some air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions being produced at the point of electricity generation.
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