Sentences with phrase «of emissions of gases»

David Archer of the University of Chicago has again done yeoman's service by posting a detailed look at this paper on Realclimate (along with last Monday's methane paper, discussed here, providing a new and higher estimate of emissions of this gas across the United States).

The important input to Hansen's model was the total forcing from greenhouse gasses, but Pielke ignores this to focus on the growth rate of emissions of each gas.

For NF3 remote microwave plasma chamber cleaning, compared with CF4 cleaning processes, a reduction of emission of gases relevant to global warming is observed.

Not exact matches

Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

Globally, it's thought that 6 % of all greenhouse gas emissions are caused by livestock.

In Ottawa this past June, the leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico pledged to work together to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry between 40 % and 45 % by 2025.

Chris Severson - Baker, Alberta director of the Pembina Institute, said reducing methane emissions is critical because the gas is 25 times more potent as a climate warming agent than carbon dioxide.

When Alberta announced its latest strategy to control industrial greenhouse gas emissions several years ago, it anticipated carbon capture and storage (CCS) would deliver 70 % of planned reductions.

Globally, it generates an estimated 350 million tons a year of greenhouse gas emissions.

Since 2015, the World Bank, via Anita Marangoly George, former senior director of Global Practice on Energy and Extractive Industries, has pushed to eliminate «a huge amount of greenhouse gas, equivalent to the emissions of 77 million cars,» by 2030.

An Environmental Defense Fund - commissioned study by consultancy ICF International found that Canada's oil and gas industry could achieve a 45 per cent methane emission reduction at an average cost of $ 2.76 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Moho Nord also exemplifies Total's determination to end routine flaring, a source of greenhouse gas emissions.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said that the environmental impacts can include greenhouse gas emissions, the production of solid waste — some of which may be hazardous — and the use of water resources.

Adding to it are ever tougher government constraints on greenhouse - gas emissions: Europe, China, and much of the rest of the developing world are moving to curb carbon even as President Trump pulls the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord.

The European Commission has described aviation as «one of the fastest - growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions.»

To give one example, Climate Mayors is a group of U.S. mayors committed to working with one another to boost local efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and support aims for «binding federal and global - level policymaking.»

But many experts think that since these initiatives don't fight greenhouse gas emissions or climate change — the root cause of what's killing coral reefs — they won't be enough to save the fragile environment.

The oil and gas industry and its products account for half of global carbon dioxide emissions.

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality will begin presenting its draft greenhouse gas program next week to the state's pollution board for approval to create the state's first cap - and - trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

By 2030, California aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 40 % below 1990 levels, a plan that includes deriving at least 50 % of its electricity needs from renewable energy.

The EPA with cooperation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and California Air Resources Board established in 2010 a single national program of greenhouse gas emissions standards for model year 2012 - 2025 vehicles.

But after crunching some Department of Energy data, Surace estimates that the construction and operation of buildings — heating; cooling; lighting; the manufacture of cement, drywall, and glass — produce 52 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

They also said Costco (cost) and Safeway (swy) previously settled cases over refrigerants, but that Trader Joe's accord is the EPA's first requiring repairs of hydrofluorocarbon leaks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The emergence of low - cost natural gas in the U.S., largely uncovered through fracking techniques, is one of the major reasons that the country has been able to lower its carbon emissions and has started to ween itself off of coal use.

The carmaker had sought to delay the consumer - fraud trials because of comments made by Melkersen, including remarks in a Netflix documentary where he compared emissions testing on monkeys to the Nazi use of poison gas in World War II.

Ola Elvestuen, Norway's minister of climate and environment, says the International Maritime Organization's agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the shipping industry represents a «great step forward.»

Indeed, natural gas is a key part of U.S. climate change plans, and many have called President Obama's Clean Power Plan, which reduces emissions from the power industry, a natural gas power plan.

By way of comparison, total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2016 were 6.5 billion metric tons.

Those interests align with Beyond Meat's mission: to create a plant - based product that looks, tastes, and behaves just like meat but has a much lower environmental impact because it takes livestock — one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions — out of the equation.

They'll also vote on a proposal requiring it to report on its efforts to restrict emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Labor unions have pushed for approval of the pipeline, saying it would create thousands of construction jobs, while environmentalists opposed it because it would increase greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's oil sands.

I propose to you who want to honor Thoreau's legacy, to develop your integrity, even if no one else knows, and to make our planet more tolerable, and to make yourself a leader of yourself, to reach your potential, to choose one thing you can do today that will challenge yourself to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions, at least just for today.

Greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry currently total about as much as those of Germany, not a small amount, and experts say that sum will grow as the world becomes even more mobile.

Confirmation of a leak would jeopardize the multi-billion-dollar effort by governments and corporations to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions by storing them deep underground in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs and salt caverns.

In the 13 years since he left office, President Clinton has been a relentless and forceful advocate for a number of causes: the fight against HIV / AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, and the need to stem greenhouse gas emissions.

Although the National Association of Manufacturers, or NAM, which represents 11,000 U.S. manufacturers, has forcefully condemned recent moves by the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Keller voluntarily cut his company's emissions 20 percent from 2005 to 2010.

McDonald's has announced its first targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, claiming it will «prevent 150 million metric tons of emissions by 2030.»

The United States, under former President Barack Obama, had pledged as part of the Paris accord to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025 to help slow 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.

The commercial building sector is currently responsible for 5 per cent of Australia's total energy consumption and approximately 10 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions.

An agreement by the International Maritime Organization to cut the shipping industry's greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent — from 2008 levels — by 2050 will not be easy, but it can be done, Norway's Minister of Climate and Environment said.

In Williams» own words: «In terms of greenhouse - gas emissions, the news is even better.

«The framework announced today will allow the ongoing innovation technology, investment and growth in the oil and gas industry at the same time we are looking to reduce overall carbon emissions,» said Murray Edward of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd..

A new combined - cycle natural gas power generator would generally expect to have an emissions intensity of less than 400 kg per megawatt hour, so these regulations are unlikely to be binding.

For example, he signed and sent a letter as Oklahoma Attorney General criticizing EPA estimates of emissions from oil and gas wells, without disclosing that it had been drafted in its entirety by Devon Energy.

Emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, rose by an average of 0.73 percent for every 1 percent growth in gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, Richard York of the University of Oregon wrote in his report.

More important, climate activists argue, the export of surplus coal negates America's own reductions in greenhouse - gas emissions, simply pushing the problem offshore.

Generally speaking, the U.S. and international press seemed to think the report, which finds the pipeline would have minimal effects on greenhouse gas emissions, bodes well for TransCanada's long - delayed project to connect the oilsands to Gulf of Mexico refineries.

CEO Steve Williams said Suncor has asked the Alberta government to allow it to «strand» some of its oilsands reserves if they're too expensive to produce, or if they'd add too greatly to the intensity levels of its overall greenhouse gas emissions.

The EU considers itself at the forefront of the fight against climate change and as a bloc it's on track to meet its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, which limits the emissions of gases that warm the planet.