Sentences with phrase «new fossil fuel sources»

Globally, there is a transformational shift to renewable electricity underway, with global investment in new renewable electricity capacity outpacing investment in new fossil fuel sources.

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Indeed, a recent research report from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) found that the majority of methane released in the air over the last 10 years likely came from agricultural sources (cow burps) as opposed to fossil fuel production.

In her first major environmental proposal, Nixon called on New York State to commit to 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2050 — a benchmark that has been something of a Holy Grail for activists concerned about the warming of the planet as a result of the burning of fossil fuels.

Officials have warned that taking away nuclear power altogether — without an alternate energy source to replace it — would give fossil fuel industrial companies the opportunity to move in, setting New York even farther back in carbon emissions.

Having the Belleayre, Gore and Whiteface ski centers join The Climate Reality Project's «I Am Snow 100 %» program is in line with Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, which requires that half of all electricity used in New York come from renewable sources, rather than fossil fuels, by 2030, the governor's office said in a press release.

She was part of the campaign to end fracking in New York State and has advocated for an end to reliance on fossil fuel and replacing it with sustainable power sources like solar, wind and hydro electric power.

Environmental groups have cautioned that drilling for natural gas in New York will pollute water sources, increase reliance on fossil fuels and harm human health.

States like New York will have to take the lead in developing new sources of energy that do not rely on the burning of fossil fuels and are saNew York will have to take the lead in developing new sources of energy that do not rely on the burning of fossil fuels and are sanew sources of energy that do not rely on the burning of fossil fuels and are safe.

New battery technologies are going to be more and more important as we wean ourselves off fossil fuels and adopt greener energy sources.

This time, the dominant carbon isotopic values in the new inputs were about -60 ‰, pointing to a microbially driven source rather than fossil fuel inputs.

According to Lester Brown, author of the 2003 book, Plan B (and three subsequent updates) and founder of the non-profit environmental think tank, Earth Policy Institute, the plan is based on replacing the fossil - fuel - based, automobile - centered, throwaway economy with a new economic model powered by abundant sources of renewable energy.

«You can extend the fuel source with these and thus avoid the energy associated with new fossil fuels.»

Industrial Revolution A period of time beginning around 1750 marked by new manufacturing processes and a switch from wood to coal and other fossil fuels as a main source of energy.

Industrial Revolution A period of time in the early 1800s marked by new manufacturing processes and a switch from wood to coal and other fossil fuels as a main source of energy.

«If McDonald's delivers, the new measures could eliminate lots of fossil fuel - derived plastic, boost demand for sustainably certified paper sources, and create additional market demand for recycled - content materials.»

Adaptation in my mind means adapting infrastructural services to a new energy source to replace the fossil fuel powered electrical generating facilities.

I doubt that politicians truely understand the problem at hand, it is not as if we have a new energy technology ready to fill in for fossil fusl at the present time and whilst I am sure than energy efficiency can reduce carbon emissions by around 25 % it will be left to the markets to decide this and that means awaiting the onset of peak fossil fuels to push up the price of it that will make other energy sources more viable.

A new energy source could replace fossil fuels, governments could control emissions, or maybe a series of huge volcanoes will erupt.

Has it occurred to you that we will get one the day we stop plugging into new sources of fossil fuel?

The Council of the American Physical Society believes that the use of renewable energy sources, the adoption of new ways of producing and using fossil fuels, increased consideration of safe and cost effective uses of nuclear power, and the introduction of energy - efficient technologies can, over time, promote the United States» energy security and reduce stress on the world's environment.

An important source of insights in coming weeks will be a new series in The Times, «Beyond Fossil Fuels,» that kicked off today with a look at Portugal's push on wind power and electric vehicles.

I'm all for finding a new source of energy rather than fossil fuels (unfortunately our enemies have most of it, and what we have the environmental lobby blocks from being accessed) for security and economic reasons, but until the market proves that $ 100 + per barrel of oil is not efficient enough to switch, I'm not for the government putting a gun to our heads and forcing us to change.

In the New Mexico of 2020 includes a move away from fossil fuels, a perfected use of renewable power sources, zero - emissions buldings, fewer miles traveled, less imported power and fewer power lines, micorgrids that produce their own electricity for hundreds of communities, a reconfiguration of human organizations that aligns with better pricing and energy supply, green collar jobs, and supportive local governments.

Mongabay: Why did climate activists choose to focus on the pipeline over the Obama administration's approval of drilling in the Arctic, which is opening a new source of fossil fuels and, if a spill occurs, could be near - impossible to clean - up?

Let's reword all this and say that we want to improve energy efficiency and reduce waste and real pollution wherever we can, we want to move away from ever scarcer and costlier fossil fuels, particularly those that have to be imported from a price - fixing cartel of nations that are generally hostile to us and we want to develop new domestic sources of energy, be that shale oil and gas, new biofuels (not silly corn - to - ethanol schemes) and other renewable energy sources, etc..

Read: New Research Suggests CO2 Can Be Scrubbed From the Atmosphere to Avoid Climate Change Crisis Global Carbon Emissions From Fossil Fuels Remained Relatively Flat for 3 Consecutive Years Climate Change Effect: Soils to Become a Net Source of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide in the Future

Today (June 25th) is the deadline for submitting comments on the EPA's proposed Carbon Pollution Standard Rule, which will establish first - ever New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil - fuel electric generating units.

«Absent some new technological innovation, large - scale CDR techniques have costs comparable to or exceeding those of avoiding carbon dioxide emissions by replacing fossil fuels with low - carbon energy sources.»

In April 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a new source performance standard (NSPS), limiting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from new fossil fuel — fired electric generating units (EGUs).

«The only way I can explain the trend over time,» Hastings said, «are the nitric oxide sources, because we've introduced this whole new source — and that's fossil fuels burning.»

The motivating question was: «Is the dramatic decline in oil prices a complete gift to the West because of the enormous funds being saved, or is it an unintended Trojan horse because development of renewable energy as well as new fossil - fuel sources will decline in the West, posing longer new challenges?»

Renewable Energy Sources (RES) offer many benefits, such as CO2 emissions mitigation, fossil fuels import requirement reduction and new jobs creation, just to name a few.

Now that the US has greatly increased sources of oil and natural gas thanks to drilling using new technology (thus obviating the need for depending on the Middle East), renewable energy advocates have fallen back on their claims that fossil fuel use must be reduced to avoid catastrophic anthropogenic global warming.

Fox occasionally gestures to the likes of «political, economic, and social inequality,» but energy sources are his real target: fossil fuels are the root of evil, while renewables hold the sparks of a new world.

However, in absolute terms both energy demand and the share being met by fossil fuel are growing faster since 1990 than the growth in new renewable energy sources, which is accelerating, but not yet fast enough to curb the increasing global CO2 trend.

While coal is also New Zealand's most abundant fossil fuel, the island nation generated 73 percent of its electricity from renewable sources in 2009.

In 2013, far from bringing in new, clean sources, 90 % went to upgrade existing fossil fuel infrastructure.

So we spend # 13.84 per household (per year) on clean new sources of energy, nearly three times as much more to clean up the mess the nuclear industry has already made and up to eight times as much to subsidise fossil fuels.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance forecasts that by 2040, the world will shift from a generation mix dominated by fossil - fuel plants to one with 60 per cent zero - emissions energy sources.

To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing any rule imposing any standard of performance for carbon dioxide emissions from any existing or new source that is a fossil fuel - fired electric utility generating unit unless and until carbon capture and storage is found to be technologically and economically feasible.

Global investments in new electricity capacity from renewable sources have exceeded those in fossil fuel sources for the past seven years, and the gap is growing.

Suggesting that we can abandon these vital 94 % energy sources — in favor of new variations on antique technologies that Mr. Obama promotes as energy of «the future» — ignores the fact that these politically correct sources are expensive, intermittent, heavily subsidized and wholly dependent on fossil fuels.

Andrew Higham, chief executive officer of Mission 2020, a group aimed at driving down emissions to net zero, by 2050, identified six milestones that need to happen by 2020 to achieve Paris targets, including for renewables to outcompete fossil fuels as new sources of electricity.

Developing countries, the largest source of new emissions, won't abandon fossil fuels unless there are competitive alternatives.

Using a combination of the NOAA annual global temperature dataset and two sources of global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, it can be determined how each new tonne of CO2 emissions is «accelerating» temperatures, or not.

As grid ruinable electricity sources, like wind and solar, can not be regulated for demand but they have priority in supplying the grid, they added a new level of control to the grid, a control that throttles the simplicity and efficiency gains of fossil fuel generation whilst adding considerable complexity to grid control.

The main issues under discussion were the link between climate change and a eucalypped forest that produced the catastrophic fires of 2017, the threat of underwater mining in the Azores region, the impact of the new mechanisms of international trade (Multilateral Investment Court) in climatic injustice, the necessary relationship between combating climate change and promoting public transport, threats to the exploitation of fossil fuels in Portugal, alternative sources of energy and the migration process linked to climate change.

However, as it became clear that biofuels were not only connected to deforestation, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions (sometimes exceeding fossil fuels), but also competed with the global food supply and water sources, biofuels no longer seemed like a silver bullet, but a new problem facing the environment and the poor.

Block a new source of fossil fuels.

As we add new power plants to our electricity grid, new capacity must be based on clean energy sources, rather than gas or other fossil fuels.