Sentences with phrase «large emission sources»

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If current trends persist, the transportation sector will overtake power sector as the largest source of U.S. emissions.

Since coal is the largest source of US emissions, the move to clamp down on the industry will go a long way toward reducing America's carbon footprint over the next two decades.

The energy - intensive mining project, Canada's largest single source of emissions, now emits 68 million tons a year.

Yet environmentalists argued that none of the New England states has put forward a comprehensive plan for tackling transportation emissions, the largest source of greenhouse gases in all six states.

Rather, the world's largest oil company maintained that all sources of energy, including fossil fuels, will be necessary to meet the future global demand and that the best path toward managing greenhouse gas emissions is through technology advancement and adoption of energy efficiency programs.

For example, soil is second only to oceans as the planet's largest carbon sink, while agriculture and land use changes represent the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Altogether, the unreported and underreported sources account for about 12 percent of all human - made emissions of sulfur dioxide — a discrepancy that can have a large impact on regional air quality, said McLinden.

«New study measures methane emissions from natural gas production and offers insights into two large sources.»

«If we use the storage as the means to foster the adoption of significantly more renewables that offset the dirtiest sources, then storage — done the right way and installed at large - scale — can have beneficial impacts on the grid's emissions overall,» Webber said.

In response to these cases and others, state and county health officials conducted a series of monitoring projects that found that gas drilling was the area's largest source of several hazardous air pollutants, including benzene and ozone - forming emissions.

Globally, the largest sources include emissions from small - scale and artisanal gold mining and coal - burning power plants.

But by putting the targets into law and mandating a set of regulations — including requiring 35 percent of the country's electricity to come from clean sources by 2024; establishing a voluntary carbon market; developing incentives to promote renewable energy; phasing out fossil fuel subsidies; and forcing companies in the largest carbon polluting sectors to report their emissions — they said the results could be groundbreaking.

This mass extinction has long been linked to a large and abrupt release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, but the exact source of this emission has been unknown.

Transportation is the second - largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, at nearly 30 percent of the total output.

«Power plant emissions verified remotely at Four Corners sites, largest point source pollution in U.S..»

Air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from two coal - fired power plants in the Four Corners area of northwest New Mexico, the largest point source of pollution in America, were measured remotely by a Los Alamos National Laboratory team.

Continuing widespread use of coal and low - grade diesel fuel, which also produce fine particles of soot, leaves China's record as the world's largest single source of man - made greenhouse gas emissions unchallenged.

Meanwhile households have replaced industry as the country's largest source of carbon dioxide emissions, according to government data.

The remaining E.U. sources — defined as producers of «industrial emissions,» including power plants — are fewer and larger, and thus easier to control.

Placing carbon capture at these industrial facilities is significantly cheaper than general air capture and reduces emissions from the single largest sources of CO2.

In some locations, motor vehicles are the largest source of emissions, while in other locations it might be electricity, food, or goods and services.

Using atmospheric models to trace the acid back to the sources of the pollution such as large power stations, the aim is to pinpoint which emissions should be cleaned up.

Land - use change and agriculture are by far the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil, as forests and savannas are cut down for cattle pastures and cropland.

The analysis found that at its peak, the blowout doubled the rate of methane emissions from the entire Los Angeles basin and temporarily created the largest known human - caused point source of methane in the United States, twice as large as the next - largest source, an Alabama coal mine.

The EPA's endangerment finding kicks off a process to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry, the latest sector to be regulated under the Clean Air Act after cars, trucks and large stationary sources like power plants.

Transportation is the second - largest source of carbon emissions in the D.C. area, behind buildings.

Methane is a greenhouse gas up to 35 times as potent as carbon dioxide as a driver of climate change over the span of a century, and landfills are the United States» third largest source of methane emissions, according to the EPA.

They are the single largest source of greenhouse gases, accounting for 26 per cent of our emissions.

The largest source of «clean» energy is not reducing carbon emissions by as much as official figures claim — and it is causing immense harm to the poor and to wildlife

«(2) deforestation is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries, amounting to roughly 20 percent of overall emissions globally;

The study found that the largest sources of vehicular - related methane emissions came from tailpipes (30 %) and crank cases (39 %).

Webb's ambitious design tackles the two main challenges for an infrared telescope: it has to have a large mirror in order to best capture long infrared wavelengths; it also has to be kept cold, in order to keep unwanted sources of infrared light from interfering with the emissions it attempts to detect.

The study found that natural gas end use sources — like gas meters, furnaces, boilers and hot water heaters — as well as landfills, are responsible for a large portion of urban methane emissions.

Another of his recent work, on how to strategically point telescopes to find electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave sources, was adapted for observations by the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico, which successfully observed radio emission from the merger.

The EPA estimates that methane accounts for about 9 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. Landfills are the third - largest source of methane emitted by humans in the U.S. behind oil and gas production, and livestock.

However, six out of 31 excess sources in the Herschel OTKP DUNES have been seen to show significant - and in some cases extended - excess emission at 160 -LCB- \ mu -RCB- m, which is larger than the 100 -LCB- \ mu -RCB- m excess.

As the country's largest source of emissions - free electricity, America's nuclear plants power our lives with clean, reliable electricity.

The EPA's most recent geenhouse gas inventories show that natural gas production and distribution is the second largest source of methane emissions nationwide, just behind methane emissions from livestock.

The largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States is from burning fossil fuels for electricity, heat and transportation.

The transportation sector, as one of the largest and fastest growing sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is becoming a major policy focus for addressing climate change.

As has long been the situation in these talks, the stances of these countries, the two dominant sources of greenhouse gas emissions, largely shape prospects for the world at large to move beyond the weak terms of the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change and the limited scope of the Kyoto Protocol.

Emissions from these sources are estimated to be as large as 40 to 60 Tg (CH4) yr — 1.

Ed Dlugokencky of NOAA, who confirmed a couple of weeks ago that recent increases in atmospheric methane were continuing, tells me that the emissions estimates are reasonable, but that the global data is not yet consistent with a large and growing source of Arctic methane....»

Some panel scientists said Mr. Bush might end up regretting the choice, noting that Dr. Pachauri has repeatedly criticized the president for not acting more aggressively to cut emissions in the United States, which is the largest source of heat - trapping gases.

The hot spot in Sicily is the active volcano Mt Etna — volcanoes are probably the second largest source of SO2 after anthropogenic emissions.

The destruction of tropical forests around the world is one of the largest sources of emissions contributing to climate change, and deforestation rates in Peru doubled in 2012 from the previous year, accounting for nearly half its annual greenhouse gas emissions.

Working to shift from energy norms that come with large emissions of carbon dioxide is an imperative in this century (along with bringing energy by any smart means to the billions of people without reasonable sources now).

And, we (by which I mean, the U.S.) are the largest source of CO2 emissions in the world.

The nation's largest single source of methane emissions is the vast network of infrastructure, including wells, pipelines and storage facilities, that supplies U.S. natural gas.

Thus the influence of aerosols must be visible mainly in the NH and specifically in regions downwind the sources where the largest change in emissions has happened.