Sentences with phrase «phased out oil»

The Scandinavian nation already has an almost carbon - free electricity supply and has phased out oil use in residential and power sectors.

There won't be a diesel option, owing to Toyota's decision to phase out oil burners in its range.

The media reports on every wind farm or turbine being erected as if this satisfies the terifying prospect of phasing out oil, gas and coal in favour of as yet infant technologies that have yet to be deployed to the masses.

Not exact matches

Since then, she's dealt with the crash in oil prices, and the current Alberta government's plan to phase out coal - fired power.

It also gradually phased out subsidies that kept retail fuel cheap, causing prices at the pump to climb by an average of nearly 25 % since 2014, even though global oil prices fell by as much as 75 % during that period.

Raitt's three - year timeline to fully dispose of older DOT - 111A tankers (and immediate phase - out of 5,000 of the most vulnerable cars) is going to be a difficult one to meet given the existing capacity for suppliers to build new tankers, as well as the desire of oil and gas companies to continue the exponential increases in oil - by - rail shipments into the future.

The genre - defying creative minds who brought you the Mexican pizza also plan to phase out high fructose corn syrup and palm oil by 2016, and at least some preservatives by the close of 2017.

The Canadian Labour Congress and the Climate Action Network of Canada co-hosted a discussion event on Thursday night that focused on job creation and facilitating a transition for the coal, oil and gas sectors — all of which will gradually be phased out as the world moves to a clean energy economy.

The hard truth is that in coming decades the oil industry must be phased out in Canada and around the world if we are to avoid catastrophe from global warming.

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

Economists note that the drop in oil prices should get phased out of the inflation data in coming months, helping inflation edge up.

And if finances are shaky now, what happens when the company is entirely on its own, the federal tax credit for solar phases out and demand for panels — with oil cheap — remains weak?

«Reducing carbon pollution from electric power plants is a good start, but the goal must be phasing out coal, oil, and natural gas as our energy sources,» said Howie Hawkins, Green candidate for Governor of New York (http://www.howiehawkins.org).

The U.S. Department of Transportation on Wednesday issued new proposed rules on tankers transporting oil including quickly phasing out the use of old DOT - 111 rail cars for moving crude oil and other hazardous liquids.

Global energy - related emissions could peak by 2020 if energy efficiency is improved; the construction of inefficient coal plants is banned; investment in renewables is increased to $ 400 billion in 2030 from $ 270 billion in 2014; methane emissions are cut in oil and gas production and fossil fuel subsidies are phased out by 2030.

The World Energy Outlook 2016, released last week, is just one among an increasing line of studies showing how nations need to slow and, ultimately, phase out investment in new fossil fuel supply infrastructure — from oil fields and pipelines to coal mines — if they are serious about keeping warming to 2C or less.

In September 2016, the G20 countries re-affirmed their 2009 commitment (at the G20 Leaders» Summit) to phase out fossil fuel subsidies and many national governments are using today's low oil prices as an opportunity to do so.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined that partially hydrogenated vegetable oil is no longer «generally recognized as safe» and should be phased out of the production of food over the next several years.

But here is a reminder, olive oil is liquid in room temperature, cocoa butter is SOLID, and it STARTS melting at about 100 degrees Fahrenheit... so, you can not control and cool it to a point where it will be still in a solid phase, because it can not be pressed and «flow» out.

Some manufacturers are phasing out the use of hydrogenated oils and replacing them with palm oil and other safer alternatives, but trans fats are still widely used in processed foods (10).

After the Arab oil embargo of 1973 and the 1979 fuel crises, a majority of American FR vehicles (station wagons, luxury sedans) were phased out for the FF layout — this trend would spawn the SUV / van conversion market.

Cruz said that with oil at $ 50 per barrel, there is less incentive to get rid of these gas - guzzlers; but nonetheless, they'll likely be phased out in the next five years.

As you come to the closing stages of the game the titular Peak Oil phase is triggered once all of the black barrels have been taken from the bag, representing how the world has finally run out of liqid dinosaur remains.

Oil is stinky and toxic and needs to be phased out however warm the planet gets.

This Should be Done Everywhere According to a piece in the NYT's Green blog, new regulations for heating oil in NYC were proposed today and could phase out the dirtiest types of heating oil used by about 10,000 buildings in New York: «No. 6, the

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Geophysics reveals the requirements: phase out coal, leave tar sands in the ground, do not pursue the last drops of oil.

Because oil is used mainly for transport, we can phase it out by electrifying the transport system.

It means, for example, phasing out all coal - fired power plants by 2020 while greatly reducing the use of oil.

The report, entitled Financing Climate Disaster: How Export Credit Agencies Are a Boon for Oil and Gas, calls on USEXIM and other nations» export credit agencies (ECAs) to phase out all financial support for fossil fuels by 2020 at the latest, in order to help prevent the worst impacts of climate change.

Some outlets have incorrectly reported that the World Bank Group will eliminate only their finance for fossil fuel exploration, but it's even bigger than that: the World Bank described it as a commitment to end «upstream oil and gas finance,» which means they're planning to phase out all of their extraction - related finance.

Emission growth has slowed only because certain forms of emission have been easy to phase out and energy efficiency has become a priority for environmental reasons, but if you think coal, oil and deforestation will just go away by themselves, you are dreaming.

Over the next few decades, we must complete the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, phasing out carbon emissions from coal, oil, and gas throughout the economy.

Our public lands aren't the only critical battleground in the fight to phase out fossil fuels — offshore oil and gas drilling is a growing threat to our health and climate.

Quantitative policy implications have been defined: coal emissions must be phased out over the next 20 years, and unconventional fossil fuels, such as tar sands and oil shale, must remain undeveloped.

By some estimates, a phase out of global fossil fuel consumption and production — particularly coal and oil — will need to be nearly complete within 50 years.

It means oil demand will begin to be phased out quickly in an increasing number of countries as well.

Since you haven't lived in my own head for my entire life, Mike F., I can hardly blame you for not knowing that my desire to see fossil fuels phased out in favor of alternatives began during the oil crises in the 1970s.

Further, the Indian government has made major progress in its phase - out of fossil - fuel subsidies, of which the most important step has been a reduction of subsidies for imported oil, a shift that has accompanied the international collapse of oil prices.

LONDON - As the International Maritime Organization's Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC70) meeting came to a close today [1], the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a member of the Clean Arctic Alliance, welcomed the progress made by member countries towards a phase out of the use of heavy fuel oil (HFO) by vessels operating in the Arctic.

Conversely, oil is going to be the most difficult fossil fuel to phase out because of the technological challenge of shifting planes, ships and trucks toward zero - carbon fuels.

[10] Get heavy fuel oil out of the Arctic, say environmental, Indigenous reps «The International Maritime Organization must begin the immediate phase - out of heavy fuel oils from Arctic waters»

Yet as detailed in the GAO audit, PHMSA did not require this practice in its proposed safety rule because the American Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas industry's largest trade group, claimed «its recommended practices do not direct operators to phase out such wells because this practice may not significantly improve safety in all cases.»

Over the last two decades, global warming activists succeeded in slowing the development of the oil sands, blocking major pipelines like Keystone XL, phasing out coal plants and banning shale gas and oil projects.

Meanwhile, campaigners plan to use the agreement to push Obama to stop Congress lifting a ban on oil exports in the budget bill, and to phase out fossil fuel extraction on public lands.

Lawrence Solomon: Over the last two decades, global warming activists succeeded in slowing the development of the oil sands, blocking major pipelines like Keystone XL, phasing out coal plants and banning shale gas and oil projects.

We've got to phase out coal — and then oil and gas.

That seems the clearest statement yet of the real problem == is there anything that can replace current levels of air pollution, if high sulfur coal and oil are phased out for respiratory health reasons, that would make up for the loss of the aerosols» negative forcing on global temperature?

They'll stress why it is important to gradually phase out fossil fuels in favor of cleaner alternatives like wind and solar energy, emphasize the national security benefits of scaling back oil imports and underscore the reality that America's own oil and natural gas resources will eventually run out.

And I am also intrigued to see Big Oil cheering the phase out of Big Coal.