Sentences with phrase «key greenhouse gas»

All of the above points to important environmental progress — cleaner air and lower emissions of key greenhouse gases.

Water vapor and carbon dioxide are key greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

In one report, Generation and Use of Thermal Energy in the US Industrial Sector and Opportunities to Reduce its Carbon Emissions, researchers from INL and the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) identify key greenhouse gas (GHG) emission sources in the industrial sector and propose low - emitting alternatives using targeted, process - level analysis of industrial heat requirements.

«Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Other Greenhouse Gases Measurements of key greenhouse gases, including CO2 and CH4, are essential parts of a program to understand climate forcings and trends....

The legislation is entirely based on the agency's finding, in 2009, that key greenhouse gases in the atmosphere «threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations» — because of their contribution to global warming.

Despite the Trump administration's efforts to do away with the Obama - era Clean Power Plan, Dominion says it expects power stations» emissions of carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas, are still virtually certain be regulated.

Methane is a key greenhouse gas; the Arctic is a key region for natural emissions of methane; high summer and autumn are key periods when emissions can peak and change rapidly.

Long - anticipated measurement of 400 parts per million confirms relentless increase of key greenhouse gas

But now researchers from the University of Helsinki have found that beetles living in cow pats may reduce emissions of the key greenhouse gas — methane.

CO2 is a key greenhouse gas leading to anthropogenic climate change, with cities around the world as major emitters of CO2.

When fuel is burned, as in an automobile engine, virtually all of the carbon in the fuel is released to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas.

Once the deal takes effect, industrialized countries will have until 2012 to cut their collective emissions of six key greenhouse gases to 5.2 percent below the 1990 level.

Higher temperatures and permafrost thaw could cause an increase of up to 50 per cent in emissions of a key greenhouse gas from northern lakes and ponds by 2100.

EPA's endangerment finding covers emissions of six key greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride — that have been the subject of scrutiny and intense analysis for decades by scientists in the United States and around the world.

It's pretty obvious what that finding will be: The agency already set the stage for this back in 2009, when it found that the key greenhouse gases in the atmosphere «threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations» and that emissions from motor vehicles are contributing to that threat.

According to the press release, «By supporting wind energy, Coldwater Creek is preventing more than 299 million pounds of CO2 — a key greenhouse gas — from entering the Earth's atmosphere between now and 2009.

And while he hopes this will spur action including a tax on the burning of fossil fuels, which emit carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas, others doubt it.