Not exact matches
Other benefits are more socioeconomic, such as parking assistance, a reduction in labor costs,
fuel conservation, and the ability to move the elderly and people
with disabilities around.
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With: Clean Air Council, Department of Environmental
Conservation, National
Fuel, Northern Access Project
Instead, the Administration's plans for energy
conservation and using energy sources
with less CO2 emission will help in the short - term, he said; down the road, a new National Climate Change Technology Initiative will help develop cutting - edge technologies such as
fuel cells and carbon dioxide sequestration, Bush said.
The agency argues a «system» includes a full range of options, including energy
conservation or replacing fossil
fuels with renewable sources.
The new additions will support the company's long - term commitment to reduce vehicle emissions and improve
fuel economy across its range through the introduction of more efficient engines along
with alternative powertrains, lighter vehicles and improved vehicle energy
conservation.
The same attitude is echoed by the most vocal cheerleader for fossil
fuels in the Senate, James M. Inhofe, the Republican of Oklahoma, who devoted a long speech earlier this year to the untapped riches beneath American soil,
with nary a word about
conservation.
However, if some (or many) of these efforts have some smoke - and - mirror aspect to them, or if they become the seemingly easy «solution du jour» and allow us to think that we can avoid larger solutions (
fuel efficiency standards; carbon tax, or firm carbon cap combined
with a robust and regulated carbon credit trading mechanism; substantial investments in new energy technologies; energy
conservation; etc.), their net impact can be more damaging than beneficial.
I'm all for
conservation and alternative
fuels but to spin it in the realm of global warming just means you are out of touch
with reality AND science!
The Wildlife
Conservation Society spent nearly $ 50 million over six years to create a small patch of Madagascar in the city, and to draw attention to the plight of an island
with an extraordinary ecological bounty that has been relentlessly destroyed by a struggling, poor population trying to expand rice farming and find wood for
fuel and construction.
Conservation organizations dismissed the House vote as a handout to the fossil
fuels industry during a Tuesday teleconference
with reporters.
Replacing fossil
fuels with renewable energies and ramping up energy
conservation is going to make life cheaper and more pleasant for everyone.
Climate change and energy policy
with focus on energy technology policy assessment, energy supply policy assessment, renewable energy development and energy
conservation, including energy and emission scenarios, assessment on energy and
fuel tax, research on China's potential to achieve its energy targets and development of the Integrated Policy Assessment models.
Through the Energy Policy and
Conservation Act of 1975, Congress established
fuel economy standards for new passenger cars starting
with model year (MY) 1978.
An effective fossil energy policy should include a tax on carbon emissions...
Fuel taxes should encourage
conservation, but
with rebates to taxpayers so that the government revenue from the tax does not increase.
HEATING AND HOT WATER As mentioned, DEAP is linked to compliance
with Part L of the Building Regulations, «
Conservation of
Fuel and Energy».
Chevron's filing also cites numerous statutes that refute the plaintiffs» claims that fossil
fuels unreasonably interfere
with public rights, including the Energy Policy and
Conservation Act of 1992, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Mining and Minerals Policy Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, and the Federal Lands Policy Management Act, all of which specifically call for the production of oil and natural gas within the United States:
There are good reasons to slow down the rate of fossil
fuel consumption but those all have to do
with conservation of a finite resource and not a damn thing to do
with global warming because global warming and more CO2 is a hugely positive thing for the primary producers in food chain — green plants.
As we saw in our interview
with co-founder Lyle Estill here, here and here, the organization is also painfully aware of the limitations of biofuels, stressing the need for massive
conservation and localization before plant - based
fuels can ever meet our energy needs.
Repairs to firehouses, police precincts, city offices and courthouses, along
with purchases of more
fuel efficient vehicles will also help reduce emissions Regarding the price tag for these efforts, the mayor said that the city should break even on its
conservation investments by 2013.
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