Sentences with phrase «global warming pollution»

Just like that, we're already halfway to our new goal of reducing global warming pollution from power plants.

About a third of global warming pollution comes from transportation, largely private automobiles.

Several recent studies have further demonstrated that off - the - shelf technologies can reduce global warming pollution from both cars and trucks while saving consumers money at the pump.

Then, they engage directly with their state's top regulator about cutting global warming pollution locally.

We urge you to support a 100 % carbon - free energy standard, a price on global warming pollution, and clean fuels.

The problem, according to many energy analysts, is that burning pellets creates more global warming pollution than coal, not less.

By 2030, that would reduce global warming pollution by nearly 4 billion tons, akin to shutting down 140 coal - fired power plants over that time frame.

But over its full life cycle — from chicken feed to poop to energy — it produces electricity with much less global warming pollution, so it's better for the climate.

Because we're putting 35 billion tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every year.

For example, low - carbon fuel standards require a reduction in the average amount of global warming pollution per gallon of fuel.

If you are purchasing a new vehicle, consider a hybrid or electric vehicle to save on fuel costs and minimize global warming pollution.

The biggest single source of global warming pollution actually started to shrink in 2014.

He picked a series of lobbyists and a vice-president at the core of his campaign that will try to prevent serious regulation of man - made global warming pollution if they are elected.

The life cycle of nuclear power results in relatively little global warming pollution, but building a new fleet of plants could increase threats to public safety and national security.

Setting strong global warming pollution and fuel efficiency standards will deliver critical oil savings, emissions reductions, and relief at the pump.

This movement has kept well over 400 million tons of harmful global warming pollution out of the air, making significant progress in the fight against climate change.

Using 85 - percent corn - based ethanol can reduce global warming pollution from 10 percent to 30 percent.

Burning fossil fuels to produce electricity or heat is responsible for roughly half of global warming pollution.

«These are monumental decisions that will have an immediate impact in reducing global warming pollution in the United States,» Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement Sunday night.

RGGI represents the first mandatory cap - and - trade scheme for global warming pollution in the U.S., but it only covers the 10 eastern seaboard states that signed on to do this: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont.

That policy is the California Global Warming Solutions Act — Senate Bill 32 — which aims to extend the state's impressive progress in curbing global warming pollution while building a stronger economy.

In 2002, California became the nation's first state to introduce global warming pollution standards for cars and trucks.

U.S. government scientists conclude that droughts, heavy downpours, excessive heat, and intense hurricanes are likely to become more commonplace in the United States as we continue to increase global warming pollution in the atmosphere.»

ALEC is also targeting the Environmental Protection Agency's effort to limit global warming pollution from coal - fired power plants.

In 2004, California used this authority to regulate global warming pollution for the first time.

Tech companies join CEI in spite of the fact that the oil industry - funded front group continues to be one of the most vocal opponents to addressing global warming pollution regulations inside the Beltway.

Several analyses of the 2007 Senate climate bill, the Lieberman - Warner Climate Security Act (including studies done by the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency (pdf)-RRB- show that we can cut global warming pollution significantly while maintaining a strong economy and containing energy costs.

«This is another reason why we must take steps to curb global warming pollution as much and as quickly as possible,» said Amanda Staudt, a climate scientist with the National Wildlife Federation, which released the report today with Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Overall, the smog - forming pollution performance of the industry continues to improve in response to new regulations, while global warming pollution performance remains stuck in neutral.

In the House, two veteran Democrats - John Dingell of Michigan, who chairs the Energy Committee, and Rick Boucher of Virginia - are pushing a proposal with more modest fuel - economy standards and a provision to remove the states» authority over global warming pollution from vehicles.

But it's a good sign that China is on track to restrain global warming pollution in the next decade or so, as agreed under a lauded deal with the United States — the world's second largest polluter.

We call for a rapid embrace of already developed clean energy resources, spurred by a smart program that guarantees reductions in U.S. global warming pollution.

We are hopeful that the Court will ultimately uphold this key pillar of the Obama Administration's commitments that it took to the COP21 Climate Conference in Paris, as it earlier upheld the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s authority to regulate global warming pollution under the federal Clean Air Act.

No, the point of this bill is to cap global warming pollution, put Americans back to work building out our clean energy future, and free us from our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.

The coal and utility industries have spent millions of dollars to oppose mandatory reductions in global warming pollution until CCS is commercialized.

Despite this progress, the Detroit «Big Three» — Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler — still lag behind, with higher than average smog - forming and global warming pollution emissions.

«Any realistic plan to reduce global warming pollution sufficiently — and in time — to avoid dangerous consequences must rely in part on preserving tropical forests,» reports Environmental Defense Fund.

U.S. states are beginning to attack another major source of global warming pollution besides power plants: your car.

Geoengineering will probably also be required to solve the planet's global warming pollution problem, Edenhofer and the report noted.

Given those prospects, and the Trump administration's likely lack of action, perhaps in the future China will cooperate with the European Union — which also has a cap - and - trade carbon market — to impose carbon tariffs on U.S. goods produced from an economy that has no constraints on such global warming pollution.

Big oil interests are scraping away hundreds of thousands of acres in North America's Boreal forest to produce tar sands oil, and in the process consuming large amounts of natural gas and generating three times as much global warming pollution as conventional crude oil production.

Yet the coal mining and electric utility industries spent over $ 125 million combined in the first nine months of 2008 to lobby Congress to delay global warming pollution reductions until clean coal technology is ready.

And the same type of global warming pollution market just got started among the 10 states of the Northeast.

If coal is to remain a part of our energy future, it must be mined responsibly, burned cleanly and guaranteed to not worsen global warming pollution.

Despite their impact on the global climate, greenhouse gases and other global warming pollution from ships remain unregulated by the U.S. Government.

His complaint about the untold story of improved emissions from coal plants is ironic, given the parts he chooses to leave untold: that coal producers and coal plant operators fought every single one of the policies that produced these gains; that they continue to fight the policies that could produce similar gains for carbon dioxide if adopted; and that Peabody is truly a world leader in funding the campaigns to block meaningful action against global warming pollution.

He went to great effort to say he honored the scientists work, but then flatly said that though the Arctic is in meltdown and its worse than models predict, that we can not make a causal link to human global warming pollution can not he said things like «I wish this decision could have been otherwise» and talked about colleagues saying they were glad they weren't in his shoes.

The EPA announcement confirms what science has told us — global warming pollution poses a grave threat to the nation's public health and welfare.