Sentences with phrase «on carbon dioxide emissions»

That bill contains a limited version of cap and trade, a system of setting a limit on carbon dioxide emissions while allowing companies to buy and sell permits to meet it.

A tax on the carbon dioxide emissions of fuels is key to achieving both.

That is why economists across the political spectrum support an efficient market - based solution that would impose an economy - wide price on carbon dioxide emissions.

, who was rolling out his own energy bill, a measure that relies heavily on expanding nuclear power and raising fuel economy standards without putting a cap on carbon dioxide emissions.

If the human population continues to grow, more pressure will be put on carbon dioxide emissions — leaving future generations vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

He also said he believes the climate is changing as a result of emissions caused by man, and that he'd support «business - friendly» restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions.

There is no clear conflict between wealth creation and putting a lid on carbon dioxide emissions.

However, Swedish cars registered in 2008, or later, are taxed based on carbon dioxide emissions.

He had his reasons for doing so: he wished to stress the importance of action now on carbon dioxide emissions.

They also provide stats on the carbon dioxide emissions produced by each on an annual basis.

An ambitious national climate policy, anchored by a stiff price on carbon dioxide emissions, would serve both goals at once.

They also wish for higher taxes on carbon dioxide emissions.

Moreover, the Senate bill that would fund DOE — the so - called energy and water bill — hangs in limbo, thanks to the political battle over the Obama administration's plan to use Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations to set new limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, especially those that burn coal.

For all intents and purposes, the two phenomena are unrelated, since the scourge of air pollution relates to the presence of dangerous fine particulate matter in the air while global warming propaganda focuses on carbon dioxide emissions.

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- The European Union on Tuesday agreed a compromise to enforce stricter rules on carbon dioxide emissions for EU cars, ending months of wrangling after Germany insisted an earlier deal was torn up.

Likewise, environmentalists in British Columbia, which enacted the first tax on carbon dioxide emissions in North America two years ago, are incensed that Vancouver has blossomed into a major coal loading location.

By Barbara Lewis and Tom Körkemeier BRUSSELS (Reuters)- The European Union on Tuesday agreed a compromise to enforce stricter rules on carbon dioxide emissions for EU cars, ending months of wrangling after Germany insisted an earlier deal was torn up.

When I do that, aggressive curbs on carbon dioxide emissions fall well behind the immediacy of filling the world's energy gaps (and work to limit vulnerability of poor places to today's norms for climate and coastal hazards).

Researchers at Purdue University in Indiana, with funding from NASA, have shoehorned a wealth of data on carbon dioxide emissions into the interactive globe tool that is Google Earth.

Saudi Arabia, the world's leading oil producer, has indicated that it would not have a problem with a universal charge on carbon dioxide emissions, implying it would not restrict oil production to capture the revenues of a charge on carbon.

Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont) to set a cap on carbon dioxide emissions within the region.

The UK will be the deciding factor in an EU debate on carbon dioxide emissions standards for new cars tomorrow, with green groups calling on the government to hold firm.

In a recent interview with E&E TV's Monica Trauzzi, the American Wind Energy Association's (AWEA) Rob Gramlich discussed the effects that EPA's new regulations on carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants would have on wind energy.

The main reason the US ranks so poorly on carbon dioxide emissions is because its per - person consumption rate of electricity is so high; all of that energy comes primarily from fossil fuels.

So I initially thought there was no way drones could compete with trucks on carbon dioxide emissions,» said senior author Anne Goodchild, a UW associate professor of civil and environmental engineering.

And California's Republican governor, of all people, a notorious Humvee aficionado, vowed to defend his state's own pioneering limits on carbon dioxide emissions against the girlie men in the automobile industry.

For starters, does Britain intend to embrace the European position on carbon dioxide emissions — stabilising them at 1990 levels by the year 2000?

An up - to - date coal plant costs about $ 3,000 a kilowatt, but charges levied on carbon dioxide emissions, or extra equipment to capture the gas instead, could add substantially to that.

Fighting the «Carbon War»: Every war needs a war room, and the war on carbon dioxide emissions is no different, he said, explaining why he helped create a «Carbon War Room» in Washington intended to exam all possible ways to cut emissions or remove the gas from the atmosphere.

It took a decade for those seeking a rising price on carbon dioxide emissions as a means to transform American and global energy norms to realize that a price sufficient to drive the change was a political impossibility.

Treated as gospel by governments around the world, it is the reason billions are being spent on carbon dioxide emissions reduction.

Among the six solutions proposed by WHO for combatting air pollution, not one of them touches on carbon dioxide emissions, for the simple reason that CO2 is not a pollutant and is not harmful to human health.

Since the ESA forbids the Federal Government from funding any activities which might harm a listed species, why not sue to prevent the ridiculous Federal subsidies on Ethanol, on the grounds that the production, distribution, and use of ethanol have a net negative impact on carbon dioxide emissions when compared with petroleum products, thus accelerating global warming and further endangering the polar bears.

The committee believes that decisions on whether to invest in new coal - based power plants are likely to depend on both future constraints on carbon dioxide emissions and on the commercial readiness of carbon emission reduction technologies.

Yet by focusing entirely on carbon dioxide emissions, major environmental organizations have failed to account for published data showing that other gases are the main culprits behind the global warming we see today.

Earlier this week Climate Central posted a story on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants noting that 41 states experienced reductions from 2008 to 2013, according to a study by Ceres, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Bank of America and four large utilities.

This statement is totally at odds with the analyses of the effect of wind energy on carbon dioxide emissions by Dr. C. lePair [6] for The Netherlands; and by Dr. F. Udo [7] for Ireland.

There's an update over at Nature News on efforts to get a regulatory handle on carbon dioxide emissions from the shipping industry.

Although the bill, sponsored by a motley assemblage of labor unions and electric utilities and a bipartisan group of senators led by Jeff Bingaman (D - NM) and Arlen Specter (R - PA), would effectively set mandatory limits on carbon dioxide emissions beginning in 2012 through a cap - and - trade system, it comes with a huge caveat: a «safety valve.»

The impact of social factors and consumer behavior on carbon dioxide emissions in the United Kingdom

This petition criticizes the science underlying the Kyoto treaty on carbon dioxide emissions (the Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change), and it asks scientists to recommend rejection of this treaty by the U.S. Senate.

We must also take action on carbon dioxide emission and that will mean significant adjustments to our economies: more efficient power stations, cars which use less fuel, better - insulated houses and better management of energy in general.

The governor highlighted the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative as one of the ways his administration will act, pushing for a more aggressive cap on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Unfortunately, RECs are almost entirely non-additional (e.g. the wind turbines producing them in Iowa would have been built independent of the REC income stream), so buying RECs has no real effect on carbon dioxide emissions.

The agency denied California a waiver under the Clean Air Act that would allow it (and indirectly at least a dozen other states following California's lead) to set limits on carbon dioxide emissions from motor vehicles.