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Instead, as the Sane Energy Project site notes, «We support investment in renewable energy and the goal of zero fossil fuel dependence by 2030.»

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The plant's water recovery plant exceeded its designers» high expectations in its first year of service while also providing valuable biogas for boiler heating, reducing its dependence on fossil fuels and ultimately cutting overall energy needs by 15 per cent.

The company believes that by collaborating with customers, governments, NGOs, and thought leaders we can help find solutions to such global challenges as providing enough healthy food for people everywhere, decreasing dependence on fossil fuels, and protecting life and the environment.

The waste water treatment and green energy plant at the $ 120 million Pacific Beverages» Bluetongue Brewery in NSW also provides valuable renewable energy for the brewery, reducing its dependence on fossil fuels and ultimately cutting overall energy needs by 15 per cent.

Goodwin added: «Avoiding meat one day a week is a simple way to help the environment, as well, by reducing your carbon footprint, conserving energy, water, and lower our dependence on fossil fuels.»

The reasons for the continuing support for nuclear energy by political parties of all colours is simple: our dependence on fossil fuels poses real risks to the country's energy security, the environment and energy prices.

«As a developed, industrialised country the UK has to lead the way by ending our dependence on fossil fuels, and investing in clean, renewable sources of energy which we are fortunate enough to be blessed with in the UK,» Christian Aid's senior climate change adviser Alison Doig said.

Not only will these projects benefit our environment by reducing dependence on fossil fuels and using renewable energy, but they are also creating well - paying jobs for New Yorkers.

Nixon backs a plan, approved in the New York state Assembly that would completely end the state's dependence on fossil fuels by 2050.

The federal courthouse was also the scene of a midday protest by opponents of the CPV plant, who view it as a corrupt artifact of the nation's ongoing dependence on fossil fuels as opposed to renewable sources.

The long - term warming over the 21st century, however, is strongly influenced by the future rate of emissions, and the projections cover a wide variety of scenarios, ranging from very rapid to more modest economic growth and from more to less dependence on fossil fuels.

Considering what is possible and what is desirable in our energy future, Smil argues that human dependence on fossil fuels must be reduced not because of impending resource shortages but because of the environmental, economic, and political problems caused by our current consumption.

In early 2007 he co-sponsored the Coal - to - Liquid Fuel Promotion Act of 2007 as a measure to lessen dependence on foreign oil by turning coal into automobile fFuel Promotion Act of 2007 as a measure to lessen dependence on foreign oil by turning coal into automobile fuelfuel.

Fossil fuels have been a great gift — but as the greenhouse gases produced by burning them accumulate in the atmosphere, our continued dependence on coal, oil, and natural gas poses a grave threat to the climate on which all life depends.

Argonne is poised to help our nation build an economy fueled by safe, clean, renewable energy and free from dependence on foreign oil.

By having ketone bodies as an additional source of fuel, the dependence on glucose is reduced.

Crossing Souls is a serviceable action - adventure fueled by 1980s nostalgia, but its dependence on classic tropes isn't enough to make it remarkable.

Following the direction set by President Obama on May 21, 2010, NHTSA and EPA have issued joint Final Rules for Corporate Average Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas emissions regulations for model years 2017 and beyond, that will help address our country's dependence on imported oil, save consumers money at the pump, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change.

Adams's life story encapsulates the history of the founding era, for she defined herself in relation to the people she loved or hated (she was never neutral): her mother, whom she considered terribly overprotective; Benjamin Franklin, who schemed to clip her husband's wings; her sisters, whose dependence upon Abigail's charity strained the family bond; James Lovell, her husband's bawdy congressional colleague, who peppered her with innuendo about John's «rigid patriotism»; her financially naïve husband (Abigail earned money in ways the president considered unsavory, took risks that he wished to avoid — and made him a rich man); Phoebe Abdee, her father's former slave, who lived free in an Adams property but defied Abigail's prohibition against sheltering others even more desperate than herself; and her son John Quincy, who worried her with his tendency to «study out of spight» but who fueled her pride by following his father into public service, rising to the presidency after her death.

NSTA has distributed a video produced by API called «You Can't Be Cool Without Fuel,» a shameless pitch for oil dependence.

So as we replace oil with fuels like natural gas and biofuels, we can also reduce our dependence by making cars and trucks that use less oil in the first place.

However, it is important to keep in mind that we might easily more than double it if we really don't make much effort to cut back (I think the current estimated reserves of fossil fuels would increase CO2 by a factor of like 5 or 10, which would mean a warming of roughly 2 - 3 times the climate sensitivity for doubling CO2 [because of the logarithmic dependence of the resulting warming to CO2 levels]-RRB-... and CO2 levels may be able to fall short of doubling if we really make a very strong effort to reduce emissions.

· Policies to reduce America's dependence on fossil fuels and promote renewable energy are favored by a majority of registered voters across party lines.

Publicly, most automakers are ducking the issue and emphasizing potential pitfalls of building hybrid cars with plugs, but pressure is mounting behind the scenes to give the idea some life... «Such development should have the highest research and development priority because it promises to revolutionize transportation economics and to have a dramatic effect on the problems caused by oil dependence,» write George Shultz, former U.S. secretary of state, and James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in a June position paper on oil and U.S. national security... They argue that battery development for plug - in hybrids «should for the time being replace the current research and development emphasis on automotive hydrogen fuel cells.»

As the government looks to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and increase the reliability of its power sector, it plans to more than triple geothermal installations by 2015.

According to a new report by Greenpeace, not only is CCS an extraordinarily expensive, commercially - unproven technology, «CCS proposals maintain our dependence on fossil fuels and exacerbate climate pollution.»

The Obama standards were also expected to save families more than $ 1.7 trillion in fuel costs, and to reduce America's dependence on oil by more than 2 million barrels per day in 2025.

He played a major role in the island's transition away from dependence on fossil fuels by convincing his neighbors to become early adopters of wind energy.

By 2030, Colorado could install solar energy capacity equivalent to that of a million solar rooftops — reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, addressing global warming and boosting our economy.

«I respectfully request that your government put the mistakes of the last three years with respect to Climate Change to rights by declaring a climate emergency and adopting 100 % renewable energy target by removing our dependence on fossil fuels, immediately, by enabling legislation to achieve a liveable planet.»

Created at a time of energy dependence and domestic energy scarcity, [the Renewable Fuel Standard] has outlived its usefulness, and could create serious fuel supply disruptions and by some estimates a rise in the cost of gasoline by as much as 30 percent and diesel fuel by as much as 300 percFuel Standard] has outlived its usefulness, and could create serious fuel supply disruptions and by some estimates a rise in the cost of gasoline by as much as 30 percent and diesel fuel by as much as 300 percfuel supply disruptions and by some estimates a rise in the cost of gasoline by as much as 30 percent and diesel fuel by as much as 300 percfuel by as much as 300 percent.

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The entire developed world is implicated by its dependence upon fossil fuels to function yet some have over the past few decades struggled valiantly to change this while others have fought to keep the status quo.

As such, the country is promoting efforts to decommission fossil fuel based power plants and break its dependence on energy imports by building ever more PV systems and not strangling the market.

This change is induced primarily by concerns over high fossil fuel prices, greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel import dependence.

The current situation represents a major opportunity for the forestry sector to contribute to increasing energy security and mitigating climate change by reducing dependence on fossil fuels.

Both sets of comments explain that New England's expanding clean energy resources are moving the grid in the right direction by reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and lessening the electricity system's vulnerability to cold - weather disruptions in natural gas supplies.

Rather than creating fuel security problems, New England's clean energy trajectory will benefit homes and businesses by reducing dependence on fossil fuels and making the grid more resilient, including during winter storms.

Organized by «Operation Free» — a veterans» group designed specifically to move America away from fossil fuels — the event focused on America's dependence on foreign oil imports and fears that an unpredictable climate could lead to more international humanitarian and military operations in the future.

The idea is, if we allow oil and gas corporations to exploit our land and water to extract fossil fuels, it will benefit the average citizen by lowering energy prices and reducing dependence of «foreign» energy supplies.

By playing up jingoistic fears of «energy dependence,» King Corn has convinced the Congress that ethanol, a motor fuel distilled from corn, is a national security imperative, despite the fact that it increases gas prices, it's awful for the environment, it contributes to asthma, and it makes food costlier.

Fossil fuels have been a great gift — but as the greenhouse gases produced by burning them accumulate in the atmosphere, our continued dependence on coal, oil, and natural gas poses a grave threat to the climate on which all life depends.

The abundance and geographic diversity of fossil fuels made possible by technology in time will reduce the dependence of the U.S. on particular foreign energy exporters, eliminating the national security argument for renewable energy.

Using clean, sustainable wind energy not only makes a positive impact on your bottom line by reducing your monthly electric bills, it's also a highly visible symbol of your business» commitment to reducing its dependence on fossil fuels.

«The 30,000 pensioners were killed by a decades long UK policy of fossil fuel dependence.

But Sutley says that the Department of Defense, with numerous programs to shift to greener fuels and reduce oil dependence, has set one of the most aggressive greenhouse gas reduction targets government - wide: 34 percent by 2020.

The decision in May 2009 to raise U.S. auto fuel efficiency standards 40 percent by 2016 will reduce U.S. dependence on oil far more than converting the country's entire grain harvest into ethanol could.

By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from fossil fuel dependence to rely primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power.

«I have to ask a question: why in the world would we ever consider approving a new big oil pipeline to carry dirty fuel and keep America addicted to oil, when we can save money, create jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil by moving towards stronger fuel economy standards?»

Gore and others believed that political forces would eventually drive the policymakers in Washington to do the only logical thing: ward off the disaster by reducing U.S. dependence on fossil fuel.