Sentences with phrase «fuel carbon pollution»

Yet despite this innovation, the transportation sector — and specifically, oil — still produces more than a third of Oregon's fossil - fuel carbon pollution.

Not exact matches

The federal emissions standard is estimated to reduce carbon pollution equivalent to 134 coal power plants burning annually and save drivers $ 1,650 per vehicle through fuel savings according to the coalition that includes Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington.

However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane.

Last year, the federal government announced it would develop a policy that aims to cut more carbon pollution than any other in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, by promoting the production and use of cleaner fuels in vehicles, buildings and industry.

It would require fuel suppliers to reduce the carbon intensity (the amount of carbon pollution released for every unit of fuel consumed) of their product, while offering flexibility in how they choose to do so.

By 2030, Canada's Clean Fuel Standard is expected to reduce carbon pollution by 30 million tonnes — equal to taking more than seven million cars off the road.

Jeremy Moorhouse, senior analyst at Clean Energy Canada, said the following in response: «The Clean Fuel Standard is one of Canada's most important climate change policies, cutting more carbon pollution than any other measure in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and...

«There is a straightforward, proven formula for cutting carbon pollution: clean up your electricity system and shift from fossil fuels to clean power for heating buildings, fueling cars, and powering industry.

The forces at play today include technology and cost breakthroughs that make clean energy increasingly competitive, as well as a rapidly growing domestic and global market for clean energy solutions fuelled by the desire of governments and citizens to reduce carbon pollution.»

For example, the growth of secondary industries and their use of fossil fuels has led to the imminent exhaustion of fossil fuels and the pollution of the atmosphere with excess carbon dioxide and other gases.

«Not only will EPA actions to curb carbon pollution through the Clean Power Plan and new fuel standards combat climate change, they will encourage economic growth, spur innovation in our energy sector, and improve public health for all of our communities.»

We will gain something, though: millions of tons of carbon pollution pumped into our air by the likeliest alternative, fossil fuels.

Reducing carbon pollution 80 percent by 2050 means that in just 34 years there will be no more fossil fuels burned in New York.

Reducing carbon pollution 80 percent by 2050 means that in just 34 years there will be no more fossil fuels burned in New York,» stated Bambrick.

A new water splitter powered by a single AAA battery could reduce the carbon pollution created from making hydrogen fuel cells, scientists report August 22 in Nature Communications.

Food production is rising sharply, requiring more carbon - based fuels and nitrogen - based fertilizers, both of which exacerbate global warming, river and ocean pollution, and a host of other ills.

Further steps could include pushing for more renewable energy; an aggressive cut in the use of coal and natural gas to make electricity; wider use of electric cars, biofuel, and hydrogen fuel; changes in farming practices; and putting a price on carbon pollution.

For the industrial era, Lovejoy's analysis uses carbon - dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels as a proxy for all man - made climate influences - a simplification justified by the tight relationship between global economic activity and the emission of greenhouse gases and particulate pollution, he says.

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now,» echoed Kim Knowlton, senior scientist and deputy director of the Science Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a release.

Fossil fuel - based electricity production is responsible for about 38 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions — CO2 pollution being the major cause of global climate change.

These castoffs are a huge source of automotive - related pollution — the average used tire weighs 22.5 pounds and contains about two gallons of fuel, as well as other combustible carbon compounds.

It is stupid to use irreplaceable fossil fuels to produce food with the by - product of carbon dioxide pollution, when we can do the same using energy from sunlight and actually remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

Putting a price on pollution can incentivise the phase - out of fossil fuels, but the existing carbon markets have so far not delivered a high enough price to drive the transition to...

And of course, the car is powered by a fuel - efficient 2.0 - liter four - cylinder engine that will reduce carbon emissions in a city that sorely needs less pollution.

The advantage of subsidy reform are significant and varied: appropriate energy prices would reduce global carbon emissions in 2013 by 21 % and fuel - related air pollution deaths by 55 %, while simultaneously boosting extra revenue of 4 % of global GDP and increasing social welfare by 2.2 % of global GDP.

The reduction in sooty pollution, a clear health threat, also is accompanied by reduced fuel consumption and fewer carbon dioxide emissions.

I've always thought that CCS was an inelegant way to lick the carbon problem — because it involves burning fuels and then corralling a huge mass of pollution rather than avoiding the pollution in the first place — but if gas is to be a real «bridge» to a low emission future rather than a nice - looking dead end then we must seriously explore ways to further cut emissions from gas plants.

Human alteration of environments produces multiple effects, some advantageous to societies, such as enhanced food production, and some detrimental, like environmental pollution with toxic chemicals, excess nutrients and carbon emissions from fossil fuels, and the loss of wildlife and their habitats.

The administration's carbon pollution and fuel economy standards are helping rebuild the car industry by making cars cheaper for American families to own and operate.

climate change Oregon Business Climate Declaration reducing carbon pollution support for clean fuels

Throughout the first term, the Administration took strong actions to cut carbon pollution, including investing more than $ 80 billion in clean energy technologies under the recovery program, establishing historic fuel economy standards, doubling solar and wind electricity, and implementing ambitious energy efficiency measures.

Those who got rich by burning fossil fuels have taken up the available atmospheric space for carbon pollution, leaving little for the rest.

King said green energy already had advantages over fossil fuel power in cutting deadly air pollution and reducing the carbon emissions that drive global warming.

The electric utility industry is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, accounting for one - third of total US greenhouse gas emissions and about 40 percent of all carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning.

On September 27th, 10 judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral argument on challenges to EPA's landmark limits on the harmful carbon pollution from the nation's fossil fuel - burning power plants.

The gasoline and diesel we use to fuel our vehicles is also the largest source of climate - wrecking carbon pollution in the region — emitting roughly twice as much as power plants.

Thanks to innovation by countries in the United States and around the world, we have the technology to increase fuel efficiency and reduce carbon pollution.

Fossil fuels have many alternative uses that do not involve dumping carbon pollution into the atmosphere, such as petrochemicals, and should be used far more wisely if indeed we consider them to be precious — so that we save the climate, oceans and air pollution and don't scrape the barrel dry.

By encouraging industry to use cleaner - burning fuels and to make efficiency improvements, Boiler MACT will modernize U.S. industry, reduce toxins, and cut carbon pollution.

But because coal is one of the cheapest ways to fuel electricity, with abundant stores all around the world, global carbon pollution is growing.

«Your Administration can point to important areas where it is making real progress towards sustainability — including making major new investments in renewable energy, promulgating EPA rules on carbon pollution from power plants, and proposing to reduce fossil fuel subsidies, among others,» the letter reads.

This tax been amazingly effective in cutting the root of carbon pollution: the burning of fossil fuels.

REMI concluded that CCL's proposal would create between 2.1 to 2.8 million jobs, reduce carbon pollution by 50 %, increase household incomes, save up to 230,000 lives that would otherwise be lost from the pollution of burning fossil fuels, and add up to 1.3 trillion more to the GDP over a 20 year period.

Friedman... would have viewed climate change as a negative externality associated with burning fossil fuels and would have believed that society was entitled to recover its losses from those who emit carbon to advance their economic interests... While there is a market for the products that are associated with greenhouse gas emissions — like electricity, fuel and steel — there is no market for the pollution inflicted by their manufacturers on the public.

The lifetime effects of these RGGI investments are projected to save 28 million MMBtu of fossil fuel energy and 9 million MWh of electricity, avoiding the release of 5.3 million short tons of carbon pollution.

Their goal is to cut greenhouse gas emissions and promote transition to a green energy economy through a revenue neutral «carbon fee and dividend» approach to pricing carbon pollution from fossil fuels.

Even with the Guardian's welcome campaign, the world still needs a transparent price on carbon pollution to strangle demand for fossil fuels by replacing them with non-carbon alternatives.

Putting a price on pollution can incentivise the phase - out of fossil fuels, but the existing carbon markets have so far not delivered a high enough price to drive the transition to...

This would be good news on many fronts — simultaneously reducing energy poverty, air pollution, carbon emissions, and costly fossil fuel imports.