Sentences with phrase «nitrogen emissions by»

In order of reduction, they call for controlling nitrogen oxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels using «maximum feasible reductions,» which could reduce reactive nitrogen emissions by 55 billion pounds of a year; increasing the efficiency of fertilizing crops (33 billion pounds a year); improved animal management policies (33 billion pounds); and ensuring that at least half the world's urban population has sewage treatment (11 billion pounds).

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Switching from coal to natural gas would reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent and nitrogen oxide emissions by more than 60 percent.

And I'm going to see another technology in the U.S. that reduces nitrogen oxide emissions from diesel trucks by up to 50 % while preserving horsepower.

Emissions of nitrogen oxides have fallen by 62 per cent between 1990 and 2010, and fell by 3 per cent between 2009 and 2010.

Soon after the delay to the decision was announced by Hoon last Christmas, the Miliband and Benn camps both contacted the Institute for Public Policy Research, over a pamphlet by Simon Retallack, the IPPR's head of climate change, arguing that the third runway should not go ahead unless the government required aircraft using it to meet the aviation industry's own targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and noise in new aircraft by 50 % and nitrogen oxides by 80 % by 2020.

Global agricultural emissions of the gas have increased by 20 per cent in the last century as a result of widespread use of nitrogen - based synthetic fertilizers.

Such technology could cut acid rain — causing sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent, smog - forming nitrogen oxides by 75 percent, and — ultimately — capture more than 80 percent of the CO2 normally produced by combustion, storing it in nearby depleted oil fields by 2015.

Emissions of nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide, the main sources of acid rain pollution, also fell by 38 percent and 14 percent, respectively.

EMISSIONS of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from shipping in the English Channel are «almost equivalent to those of Denmark», according to a study of marine pollution by Lloyd's Register.

By simulating how a highly volatile, low - soot fuel behaves in many engine designs, «We hope to retain the performance of diesel fuel with lower particulate matter and nitrogen oxide emissions,» said Roberto Torelli, an Argonne postdoctoral researcher on Som's team.

A study commissioned by Iridium found that between the service's proposed start in 2017 and 2030, the technology should save airlines about $ 7 billion on fuel and cut carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions by 35 million tonnes.

An analysis of 27 states found that, on average, summer emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2) go up by hundreds to thousands of metric tons per degree Celsius increase.

Heavy - duty vehicles, such as commercial trucks and buses, were found to be, by far, the largest contributor of emissions, accounting for 76 percent of the total excess nitrogen oxide emissions.

Although the U.S. could tighten existing clean air rules to combat atmospheric nitrogen emissions, the nation has neither comprehensive laws nor adequate monitoring devices for such emissions by livestock and farms.

Many of his mistakes are big ones: he bungles the issues involving reserves and resources that are critical to his core argument about oil remaining cheap; he drastically misleads his readers about the extent to which sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from coal - burning have been reduced; he trivializes the climate - change risks from coals carbon dioxide emissions by suggesting we know the impacts will be worth only 0.64 cents per kilowatt - hour.

I criticized this statement, noting that the actual emissions from U.S. coal - burning power plants declined only from 16.1 million tons to 12.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of sulfur dioxide and from 6.1 million tons to 5.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of nitrogen oxides (mostly emitted as NO, not NO2, but by convention measured as tons of NO2 - equivalent).

Ozone is produced by reactions involving nitrogen oxides (NOx), which come primarily from motor vehicle emissions, and volatile organic compounds resulting from industrial processes.

-- For a covered entity described in section 700 (13)(C), 1 emission allowance for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent of fossil fuel - based carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, or any other fluorinated gas that is a greenhouse gas (except for nitrogen trifluoride), or any combination thereof, produced or imported by such covered entity during the previous calendar year for sale or distribution in interstate commerce.

One of those new laws mandates that by 2003 older power plants must reduce their emissions of nitrogen oxide (by 50 %) and sulfur dioxide (by 25 %).

Light emitted by oxygen is shown as blue, hydrogen emission is shown as green, and nitrogen emission as red light.

By producing more food on less land, it may be possible to reduce these emissions, but this so - called intensification often involves increasing fertilizer use, which can lead to large emissions of nitrogen - containing gases that also contribute to global warming.

Instead their spectra are dominated by broad emission lines of highly ionized helium, nitrogen, carbon and sometimes oxygen.

The EGR system works by recirculating some of the exhaust gas back into the intake to lower combustion temperatures and cut emissions of nitrogen oxides.

The Government estimates that nitrogen oxide emissions (bought sharply into focus by VW's diesel scandal) and poor air quality in general cost the economy # 2.7 billion in lost productivity each year, calling it «the largest risk to public health in the UK».

According to GM, the new Duramax turbo - diesel will boost efficiency by 25 percent, while cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 13 percent and nitrogen oxide emissions by 90 percent.

One of those new laws mandates that by 2003 older power plants must reduce their emissions of nitrogen oxide (by 50 %) and sulfur dioxide (by 25 %).

Photo: Public domainOther Truck Fleets, Pay AttentionDid you know that replacing a pre-1994 diesel truck (or at least the engine) with a 2004 - 2006 model could cut soot pollution by about 2/3, and reduce smog - forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions by

The US EPA says that a buffer that could be in place by next year could «save 8,000 lives a year with new air quality standards cutting sulphur in fuel by 98 %, particulate matter by 85 % and nitrogen oxide emissions by 80 %.»

These changes in land use would be expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from soils, and increase carbon sequestering by means of an increase in soil organic matter.However, this reduction in amount of land in summerfallow, and an increase in land in crop, has been accompanied by an increase in use of nitrogen fertilizers.

Given the well - demonstrated health consequences of nitrogen - related air pollution, along with the additional risks posed by a changing climate, now is not the time to relax emission controls.

The goal was to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by 90 percent, and nitrogen oxides by 72 percent by 2030.

Reducing carbon emissions will also cut particle pollution, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide by more than 25 percent.

Progress is however markedly slower for eutrophication, which is caused by excess nitrogen deposition resulting from emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and ammonia (NH3).

The traffic - related nitrogen oxide emissions in the Federal Republic of Germany have fallen sharply since the introduction of the emission limitation for road traffic in 1960 up until today and a further reduction by a total of 86 % in maximum emissions is expected in the future as well [58].

Green freight programs work with the freight industry to minimize the public health impacts of diesel emissions by promoting technologies that reduce emissions from the combustion of diesel, including particulate matter (PM) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx), which benefits the health of vulnerable populations.

The new standards would reduce the volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides that lead to smog by 80 %, reduce particulate matter by 70 % and reduce fuel vapor emissions almost entirely.

The $ 30 million overhaul was made without installing, as required under the New Source Review requirements of the Clean Air Act, the best available technology to minimize emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — pollutants that harm human health by contributing to heart attacks, breathing problems, and other health problems, the suit alleges.

A new design for jet engine combustors — the chamber where fuel is burned — cuts nitrogen oxide emissions by 80 %.

But it's also the by - product of fossil fuel combustion, and when a refinery or power plant reduces its greenhouse gas emissions (by becoming more energy - efficient, for example), it also releases fewer smog - forming chemicals like nitrogen oxides, less of the sulfur dioxide and soot that can irritate lungs and cause respiratory disease, and fewer toxic emissions linked to cancer and neurological disorders.

The reliability of supply provided by our nation's network of storage and distribution facilities has contributed to the increased use of natural gas in many sectors of the U.S. economy, which has led to reductions in air emissions — ranging from criteria pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, to greenhouse gases.

Backed by 20 countries — and predictably, opposed by countries that still rely heavily on coal (Figure 1)-- the BREF includes new emission limits, expressed as wide, ambiguous ranges, for sulfur dioxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), mercury, and particulate matter.

Nitrate deposits in the Arctic remains high even after the turn of the century, despite environmental policies adopted by neighboring countries in the late 20th century to cut nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions.

And an analysis done by the EPA in 2017 showed that Fitzgerald's trucks emitted 43 times as much nitrogen oxide as trucks that comply with modern emissions standards.

TXU also promised to cut emissions of pollutants including sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide and mercury by 20 percent, saying it would spend $ 500 million on equipment to control pollution at three of its existing coal - fired units in Texas.

California environmental goals include reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 % from 1990 levels by 2030 and by 80 % by 2050, as well as reducing nitrogen oxides (NOx) and other health - harming pollutants in areas of the state with the highest levels of air pollution by 2032.

95 The case for crop - based biofuels was further undermined when a team led by Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize — winning chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany, concluded that emissions of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, from the synthetic nitrogen fertilizer used to grow crops such as corn and rapeseed for biofuel production can negate any net reductions of CO2 emissions from replacing fossil fuels with biofuels, thus making biofuels a threat to climate stability.

Automobile exhaust and industrial emissions release a family of nitrogen oxide gases (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC), by - products of burning gasoline and coal.

According to the Department of Energy, if the transportation sector switched to natural gas, it would cut the nation's carbon - monoxide emissions by at least 90 percent, carbon - dioxide emissions by 25 and nitrogen - oxide emissions by up to 60.

One mechanism by which fossil fuel emissions increase carbon uptake is by fertilizing the biosphere via provision of nutrients essential for tissue building, especially nitrogen, which plays a critical role in controlling net primary productivity and is limited in many ecosystems.

Instead, the company wants regulators to allow it to make a $ 45 million investment by 2011 to partially clean up its emissions of mercury and oxides of nitrogen, then operate the plant until 2020.