Sentences with phrase «on emissions of carbon dioxide»

Mr. Inhofe reminded the delegates that the last time the group assembled in Washington, the House had just passed a sweeping cap - and - trade bill to address global warming by putting limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other climate - altering gases.

Most notably, the platform that delegates will be asked to endorse at the Democratic Party convention, which starts on July 25 in Philadelphia, calls for putting a price on emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Mr. Pataki also supports a federal limit on emissions of carbon dioxide, the dominant heat - trapping gas, from power plants as part of a broader cleanup of the plants.

Starting with the negotiations leading to the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty in 1997, it has promoted the idea that lingering uncertainties in climate science justify delaying restrictions on emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping smokestack and tailpipe gases.

The estimates — based on analysis of fire's impact on emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane; albedo or the reflectivity of Earth's surface; and release of aerosols and other particulates — suggest fire plays a major large role in climate than conventionally believed.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order today (March 28) that dismantles the Clean Power Plan, an Obama - era regulation that would have set limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants from power plants.

To this day, there are few federal limits on emissions of carbon dioxide by utilities, one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gases.

Sections 243.1 - 243.4 of Article 243 of the Code, specifically: rate of the tax due on emissions of certain pollutants into the atmospheric air, caused by stationary sources of pollution; rates of the tax due on stationary sources» emissions into the atmospheric air of pollutants (compounds), which are not listed in Section 243.1 of this Article and are falling within a certain substance hazard category (except for carbon dioxide), shall be applicable subject to determined approximately safe impact levels of such substances» (compounds») impact on the atmospheric air of urban settlements; and rates of tax due on emissions of carbon dioxide

They call for «a drastic reduction on the emissions of carbon dioxide.»

The ancient Chinese mask - changing dance that I saw here Tuesday night (at a dinner for participants in a meeting on science and sustainable development) came to mind in considering the unraveling of news a few hours earlier of an official Chinese plan for a firm cap on emissions of carbon dioxide, hard on the heels of President Obama's proposed carbon pollution rules for existing American power plants.

He cites studies concluding that various provisions would allow expanded coal use in coming decades despite an overall cap on emissions of carbon dioxide.

Global data on emissions of carbon dioxide vividly illustrate the wishful nature of such thoughts when considered against powerful underlying trends.

Its members include many big American producers and consumers of coal, oil and electricity — such as Dow Chemicals and the National Coal Association — all of whom might suffer from controls on emissions of carbon dioxide.

Last September California became the first US state to impose a cap on the emission of carbon dioxide and other gases and has since called for other states to follow suit.

By 1988, environmental pressure groups were already arguing for similar restrictions on the emission of carbon dioxide «to save the climate.»

Not exact matches

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.

Virginia's limit, or «cap,» on carbon dioxide emissions would tighten 30 percent between 2020 and 2030, while adding measures to maintain market stability with a reserve of credits that power plant owners can purchase to help them comply.

Obama had introduced a raft of regulations intended to slash emissions of carbon dioxide blamed for climate change, a policy course that accelerated the retirement of older coal - fired power plants and bolstered the nascent solar and wind sectors, which depend heavily on weather conditions for their power output.

Even if the ambitious targets of the world's biggest economies are met, and internal combustion engines give way to electric or other zero - emission vehicles by 2040, the total impact on global carbon dioxide emissions will be minimal, according to a new study released Tuesday.

While U.S. power plants have limits on other air - born pollutants — like nitrogen and sulfur oxides that cause acid rain — there haven't been limits, until now, on the levels of carbon dioxide emissions that power plants can emit.

Many types of emissions from coal - fired plants have been reduced, but the capturing and storing of carbon dioxide, the emission that scientists say is most responsible for climate change, has been harder to accomplish on a significant scale.

After two years of negotiations and controversy, President Barack Obama on Monday afternoon officially revealed a finalized version of a plan to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emissions that power plants across the U.S. can emit.

The total biomass of our livestock is almost double that of the people on the planet and accounts for 5 % of carbon dioxide emissions and 40 % of methane emissions — a much more potent greenhouse gas.

The Party has also removed the cap on wind power to encourage the development of more non-renewable wind energy; initiated studies on the feasibility of carbon capture and storage as a means of disposing carbon dioxide emissions; and provided grants to promote the bio-energy industry.

This required 1.6 billion litres of fuel and, based on a conservative figure of 50 grams of carbon dioxide per tonne - kilometre resulted in 4.1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions (4).

For an analysis of vegetable products, emissions of carbon dioxide may be calculated from an energy analysis based on known amounts of carbon dioxide emissions per megajoule of energy used.

The U.S. power sector must cut carbon dioxide emissions 30 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels, according to federal regulations unveiled on Monday that form the centerpiece of the Obama administration's climate change strategy.

It will see the UK pass on information about its experiences in the EU emissions trading scheme to California, which is the seventh largest economy in the world and the 12th largest emitter of carbon dioxide.

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.

On 28 May, a Japanese governmental advisory body laid out options for the mix of energy sources in 2030, along with projected effects on the economy and carbon dioxide emissionOn 28 May, a Japanese governmental advisory body laid out options for the mix of energy sources in 2030, along with projected effects on the economy and carbon dioxide emissionon the economy and carbon dioxide emissions.

«Those will have profound effects on carbon dioxide emissions,» Stavins said, «because they'll reduce investment in new coal and slow the use of existing coal.»

But the impact these gases have on the climate has until now not been as widely studied as the effects of carbon dioxide emissions.

But there are technology options on the horizon that might allow for future coal - fired power plants to avoid the average emissions of more than four million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year per plant.

Based on a unique model that links China's energy system and economy, the study finds that China's coal use, a major source of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, should peak some time around the year 2020, while the country's overall CO2 emissions would peak around 2030, or perhaps sooner.

For example, it is now straight - forward to calculate that the carbon dioxide emissions for each seat on a return flight from, say, London to San Francisco causes about five square metres of Arctic sea ice to disappear.»

The Republican - led House of Representatives is currently working on the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011, which would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions to mitigate climate change.

Trump has called climate change a hoax and has promised to refocus the EPA on protecting air and water quality, while scrapping many of Obama's initiatives to curb carbon dioxide emissions.

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.

These heat maps show carbon dioxide emission differences between drone and truck deliveries as a drone's energy requirements (measured in watt - hours per mile) and the number of stops on a route increase.

Eliminating this financial risk premium makes nuclear power levelized electricity cost competitive with that of coal, and it becomes lower than that of coal when a modest price on carbon dioxide emissions is imposed,» the report says.

For Germany, having turned its back on nuclear power and investing heavily in all forms of renewables to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions, this is an important breakthrough.

If these rates continue, emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide on 100 - year time scales, will increase 4 percent over the next decade.

Bowen says the two relatively rapid carbon releases (about 1,500 years each) are more consistent with warming oceans or an undersea landslide triggering the melting of frozen methane on the seafloor and large emissions to the atmosphere, where it became carbon dioxide within decades.

Experts on greenhouse - gas emissions tell me that every time my car burns a gallon of gasoline, I am putting more than 25 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as well as a smaller amount of methane, nitrous oxide, and various other toxic gases.

Because I work on my computer more than 12 hours a day, switching would eliminate 135 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a year.

«The endangerment finding is key because it obligates the EPA to take regulatory action to cut carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft — it triggers a legal mandate,» said Drew Kodjak, executive director of the International Council on Clean Transportation.

carbon dioxide emissions per passenger on a Virgin Galactic spaceflight would be about 60 percent of a passenger's carbon footprint on a round - trip flight between New York and London.

Even the 350 - ppm limit for carbon dioxide is «questionable,» says physicist Myles Allen of the Climate Dynamics Group at the University of Oxford, and focusing instead on keeping cumulative emissions below one trillion metric tons might make more sense, which would mean humanity has already used up more than half of its overall emissions budget.

Human activities that act on the crust are likely to multiply in the future, Wilson noted, as projects to tap into geothermal sources of energy and to store carbon dioxide emissions become more widespread.

The team discovered that the human impact on biogenic methane and nitrous oxide emissions far outweighed the human impact on the terrestrial uptake of carbon dioxide, meaning that humans have caused the terrestrial biosphere to further contribute to warming.