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Greenhouse Gas Emissions — This is the yearly green house gas emissions from your heat plant.

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We have increased our investment in measures to improve the energy efficiency of Scotland's homes which, in addition to making fuel bills cheaper, has also helped to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from housing, consistent with our ambitions to combat climate change.

The nation's largest landlord — the New York City Housing Authority — has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from its buildings by 30 % over the next 10 years.

Second, a cooler house requires less air conditioning — and hence results in fewer greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

Lawyer Philip Cooney, a CEQ chief of staff and a 15 - year veteran of the American Petroleum Institute, spent the first term of the administration editing science reports from various agencies on climate change to downplay the role of greenhouse gas emissions — emphasizing elements of uncertainty from a 2001 National Research Council report on climate change, according to an investigation by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

One big challenge to U.S. efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions comes this week, as a federal circuit court hears arguments over a challenge to the White House's major climate change initiative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulations targeting emissions from power plants.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

A 2014 Chatham House report found greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock sector are estimated to account for 14.5 percent of the global total, more than direct emissions from the transport sector.

The preliminary results of this study have been on our website since the time the flooding happened, but now we have looked not only at the rainfall, but also the influence of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions on the atmospheric circulation and how this propagates from rainfall, to river flow down to the direct impact of flooded houses in the river catchment zones.

Brain research raises the possibility of a very exotic future (this article assumes that such animals wouldn't be vicious or use their new - found smarts to drive other species to extinction) «Liberated» mice from Italian lab now housed in poor conditions Methane leaks of shale gas may undermine its climate benefits: If methane leak rates are more than 3 percent of output, fracking of shale gas formations may be boosting greenhouse gas emissions rather than lowering them.

Both houses concurred on Sen. Waggoner's resolution that asks Congress to prevent the Environmental and Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions without Congressional approval.

From what I can tell, there is not much in the way of studies on determining the green house gas emissions (GHG) from non-conventional oil productFrom what I can tell, there is not much in the way of studies on determining the green house gas emissions (GHG) from non-conventional oil productfrom non-conventional oil production.

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Since, the solar power is Green House Gas (GHG) emissions free, the power generated will replace anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases estimated to be approximately 93,022 tonnes of CO2e per year, thereon displacing 95,145 MWh / year amount of electricity from the generation - mix of power plants connected to the INDIAN GRID, which is mainly dominated by fossil fuel based power plant.

The White House and private - sector leaders announced ambitious new actions yesterday to reduce emissions from hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), greenhouse gases commonly used as refrigerants that are as much as 12,000 more potent than carbon dioxide.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's new plan to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from city buildings by 2050 relies on Passive House as a guiding standard for new construction and existing building renovation.

Apart from widespread damage to infrastructure (roads, houses) in northern territories, resulting annual carbon emissions could eventually amount to 15 - 35 percent of today's yearly emissions from human activities, making the reduction of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere a much more difficult task.

Yesterday, the White House announced its first - ever efforts aimed at reducing methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industries.

Green house gases emissions in the production and use of ethanol from sugarcane in Brazil: The 2005/2006 averages and a prediction for 2020

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Contribution from working group I to the fifth assessment report by IPCC TS.5.4.1 Projected Near - term Changes in Climate Projections of near - term climate show small sensitivity to Green House Gas scenarios compared to model spread, but substantial sensitivity to uncertainties in aerosol emissions, especially on regional scales and for hydrological cycle variables.

Methane emissions that occur during drilling and from pipeline leaks also add to the so - called green house gas effect.

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A White House fact sheet explaining the plan notes, «Emissions from the oil and gas sector are down 16 percent since 1990 and current data show significant reductions from certain parts of the sector, notably well completions.»

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25 Fig. 20 - 6, p. 469 Troposphere Cooling from increase Aerosols Warming from decrease Green - house gases CO2 removal by plants and soil organisms CO2 emissions from land clearing, fires, and decay Heat and CO2 emissions Heat and CO2 removal Deep ocean Long - term storage Land and soil biotoa Natural and human emissions Shallow ocean Sun Ice and snow cover

While natural gas is one of the cleanest burning fossil fuels, this statistic alone offers a bracing reminder that Canada remains a long way from the day when our housing stock is no longer responsible for a formidable share of the country's overall greenhouse gas emissions.

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A well paced effort to reduce green house gas emissions can also help us transition away from fossil fuels in a «gentle fashion», without threatening lifestyles or making traumatic changes.

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If AGW is proved to be a problem and it is far from proven that it is, and if you guys were fair dinkum about reducing green house emissions, then Australia with hundreds of years of natural gas reserves could easily convert nearly everything to run on that and cut GH emissions by 90 % with very little economic pain.

[3] The Greenhouse House Gas Protocol categorizes direct and indirect emissions into three broad scopes: Scope 1: All direct GHG emissions; Scope 2: Indirect GHG emissions from consumption of purchased electricity, heat or steam; and Scope 3: Other indirect emissions, such as the extraction and production of purchased materials and fuels, transport - related activities in vehicles not owned or controlled by the reporting entity, electricity - related activities (e.g. T&D losses) not covered in Scope 2, outsourced activities, waste disposal, etc..

The Bush administration has conducted a concerted, behind - the - scenes lobbying campaign to try to generate opposition to California's request to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, according to documents obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

To us, this seems like a win - win situation — reduce green house gas emissions and keep our energy bill from going through the roof.

The decision to withdraw from the Paris accord came this summer as the White House was preparing to rewrite Obama - era rules that were supposed to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

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Also on Capitol Hill during this «mother of all climate weeks»: the House Science and Technology Committee will also hold a hearing on Wednesday about measuring greenhouse gas emissions, while the Senate will hear from State Department climate change envoy Todd Stern on new global climate change agreements.

Nau: We are engaging with our logistics providers to track the magnitude of our green house gas emissions (carbon footprint) that result from shipping our products and to make continual improvements and efficiencies in the supply chain in order to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.

The Tokyo government also aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions from ordinary houses and cars by 25 percent from the year 2000 level by 2020, but it remains to see if that can actually be enforced.

In March, the White House asked the EPA to reconsider whether methane from oil and natural gas systems should be directly regulated as part of its broader strategy to reduce methane emissions.

Actioning broader lifestyle issues, the Australian Conservation Foundation, with funding from the state government, have put hundreds of Sydneysiders through their GreenHome education program and figure that in past few years they've saved about 116 Olympic sized swimming pools worth of water), reduced green house gas emissions equivalent to taking 1370 cars off the road and avoided 510 kilolitres of waste.

The potential benefits of greater energy efficiency in the household sector are large; a 2009 study by Thomas Dietz and colleagues found that annual greenhouse gas emissions from the residential sector could be reduced by 20 % within 10 years by employing 17 types of behavioral interventions, such as weatherizing houses or properly maintaining vehicles and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning equipment.

On the first full day of legislative business, House Republicans introduced measures on Wednesday to block the environmental agency's proposed regulation of greenhouse gases and new rules limiting toxic air emissions from cement factories.

The topics covered ranged from shipping in the Arctic, to green house gas emissions, to general maritime law developments.