Sentences with phrase «gas emissions control»

They failed to reach agreement because of the horrific costs of implementing greenhouse gas emissions control measures as envisaged in the Kyoto Protocol.

Meehl and his colleagues used two sophisticated computer models of global climate to predict what would happen under various scenarios for greenhouse gas emission controls, taking into account the oceanic time lag.

If the «investigation» had been made by a person NOT having strong personal and political and commercial (financial investment and management) interests in maintaining the CAGW theory and CO2 gas emission controls, would the ultimate verdict have been the same?

Given conservative opposition to greenhouse gas emission controls, the veto should have been something to cheer, right?

Some years ago they both decided to bat for the team that wants to oppose GH gas emission control.

Meehl and his colleagues used two sophisticated computer models of global climate to predict what would happen under various scenarios for greenhouse gas emission controls, taking into account the oceanic time lag.

Third, conservatives should be wary of abdicating responsibility for the pace and nature of greenhouse gas emission control policy to the EPA.

Not exact matches

Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

When Alberta announced its latest strategy to control industrial greenhouse gas emissions several years ago, it anticipated carbon capture and storage (CCS) would deliver 70 % of planned reductions.

At the same time, a number of Republican - controlled states throughout the United States have significantly reduced their greenhouse gas emissions due to the transition away from dirtier fossil fuels to wind, solar, and gas.

The joint statement by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, the Investor Network on Climate Risk, and the Investors Group on Climate Change also encourages intensive gas users and governments in oil and gas importing regions to consider playing a role in encouraging control of methane emissions.

After all, gas - powered vehicles, which use catalytic converters to control emissions, are expected to be surpassed in sales by electric vehicles, which do not require palladium, as early as 2040.

It means protecting our air, land and water by controlling all greenhouse gas emissions, from wellhead to waterline.

Designs, manufactures, distributes and services diesel and natural gas engines, electric power generation systems and engine - related component products, including filtration and emissions solutions, fuel systems, controls and air handling systems.

Gas - powered lawn equipment don't have emissions control that cars do.

Scientific instruments showed that the gas had reached an average daily level above 400 parts per million — just an odometer moment in one sense, but also a sobering reminder that decades of efforts to bring human - produced emissions under control are faltering....)

In his email, Martens mentions everything from lowering the cap on greenhouse gas emissions and securing funding for long - neglected flood control structures and coastal erosion projects to banning the sale and importation of elephant and rhinoceros ivory and undertaking «one of the largest additions to the forest preserve in the state's history.»

Emissions of methane — which is a potent greenhouse gas - are already subject to control, but I am today commissioning a study of the possible impacts of shale gas development on greenhouse gas emissions and climatEmissions of methane — which is a potent greenhouse gas - are already subject to control, but I am today commissioning a study of the possible impacts of shale gas development on greenhouse gas emissions and climatemissions and climate change.

He then analyzed greenhouse gas emissions using a fixed - rate panel regression that allowed him to indirectly control for unseen variables.

Coal may get cleaner as pollution controls minimize the emissions that cause acid rain and smog as well as cut the greenhouse gases changing the climate, but there are still plenty of leftovers from coal burning: toxic ash, mercury and other issues.

Another aspect of the plan that is likely to see significant airing in future hearings is the rule's «outside the fence line» approach, which allows states to look beyond power plant modifications to demand - side efficiency and the adoption of renewable energy when controlling greenhouse gas emissions.

The research shows that protecting more of the ocean will also improve the outlook for environmental recovery after greenhouse gas emissions have been brought under control.

The Bulletin acknowledges that the increased use of carbon - free nuclear energy could help mitigate global warming brought on by fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions but concludes that the possibility of misusing enriched uranium and separated plutonium to create bombs is a «terrible trade - off» for trying to control climate change.

Transportation: Saab Combustion Control (SCC) Engine - «A car that digests its own pollutants» Eric Olofsson, Combustion and Gas Exchange Manager at Saab Automobile AB in Södertälje, Sweden was honored for the SCC innovation which reduces carbon dioxide and hydrocarbon emissions by 10 percent and other emissions by 75 percent.

Single - point failures of natural gas infrastructure can hamper methane emission control strategies designed to mitigate climate change.

While a bill to actually implement a cap - and - trade system eluded state lawmakers in the legislative session that ended in March, they did direct the state Department of Environmental Quality to study «a market - based approach to controlling greenhouse gas emissions.»

Through their control over transport and logistics operations, companies have the power to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, but business leaders are being wary as they select from a wide array of alternative fuels and technologies.

Now it warns that control of greenhouse gas emissions «would create a competitive advantage for our international trading partners at the expense of US jobs».

«The clearest result was how effective emissions controls have become for organic gases,» Drozd says.

Carbon capture has never been proved at scale in the power sector but is considered the chief way to control heat - trapping emissions from coal, gas and other fossil fuels.

In a report last year, the Global CCS Institute found that technologies reusing captured CO2 could play a role in controlling emissions in some markets, even if their global potential for controlling the greenhouse gas is small.

Environmental controls designed to prevent leaks of methane from newly drilled natural gas wells are effective, a study has found — but emissions from existing wells in production are much higher than previously believed.

Researchers at Radboud University and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen discovered a microorganism that couples the reduction of iron to methane oxidation, and could thus be relevant in controlling greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Technology proved crucial for controlling greenhouse - gas emissions starting in the 2020s.

Because the threats climate change poses to reef systems are difficult to control without global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, many coral reef experts have advocated reducing the stresses to coral reefs that are easier to control at a local level.

The result is an overall emissions decline with the lowest overall economic impact, at least in theory, though some economists and other experts argue that such trade in greenhouse gases amounts to «voodoo economics» — the benefits of the trading never trickle down to the actual pollution control.

The time to control greenhouse gas emissions is now.

Boxer and the Senate's other senior Democrats — who control the body — have largely deemphasized the issue since 2010, when they abandoned a major effort to pass legislation aimed at curbing U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

For over a decade, companies have recognized that the industry would need to install controls to comply with the act's air toxicity requirements, and the technology exists to cost effectively control such emissions, including mercury and acid gases.

There's no realistic possibility of passing new laws to curb US greenhouse gas emissions — Republican control of the House of Representatives will see to that.

A host of new techniques and technologies will be required to reduce emissions from these sources that includes reusing heat and power generated in manufacturing processes; recycling materials or substituting them; controlling greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide (CO2); and, ultimately, capturing and burying the CO2 produced.

As the technology improves and the costs come down, Matter thinks sequestering carbon dioxide in basalt could become a viable strategy for controlling greenhouse gas emissions.

Adds Aronson: «We absolutely must control emissions of the principal greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, if we are going to preserve life in the oceans in some approximation of the way it should be.»

Each model simulated a «control climate,» for the years 1981 to 2000, as well as a «warm climate,» for the years 2081 to 2100, assuming relatively high emissions of greenhouse gases.

The faltering federal controls on methane followed a growing recognition of the gas's impact on the climate that translated into regulations on methane emissions for landfills and the oil and gas industry toward the end of Obama's second term.

Passing new laws to cut greenhouse gas emissions remains unlikely, with the House of Representatives still controlled by a Republican majority dominated by climate change sceptics.

No matter how well the world controls emissions of greenhouse gases, global climate change is inevitable, warn two new studies which take into account the oceans» slow response to warming.

Environmental groups and researchers have long focused on controlling livestock emissions through the use of gas - trapping digesters that have the potential to convert manure methane into usable energy.

A recent study suggests that if greenhouse gas emissions aren't controlled, that ratio could balloon to 15 - to - 1 by the end of the century.

PNNL's model scenario limits the heat - trapping effect of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to levels only 65 percent of what they would reach if no future emissions controls are implemented.