Sentences with phrase «pollutants than fossil fuels»

He added that ethanol may also emit more global - warming pollutants than fossil fuels, according to the latest scientific studies.

Not exact matches

Damage by such pollutants to the environment from renewables is 3 to 10 times lower than damage from fossil fuel based systems, the report says.

This would serve multiple purposes, of (a) weaning us from dependence on foreign oil and simultaneously depleting terror - exporting countries of their revenue stream, (b) reducing other pollutants besides CO2, (c) encouraging a more gradual and less economically disastrous transition from an economony based on a finite resource, (d) slow global warming, (e) move us in the direction of a VAT tax rather than an income tax (actually, personally I don't think e is such a great thing, but as many conversative groups favor it, I don't see why they would oppose a revenue - neutral tax on fossil fuels.

The main culprits are small particulates — pollutants less than one tenth the thickness of a human hair that are produced by incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass.

According to the report, more than a quarter of the water withdrawn by fossil - fuel power plants to cool their generators goes up in steam — the remainder carries pollutants and excess heat into rivers and waterways, causing fish kills and algae blooms.

With the stroke of a pen the technocrats quietly absolved government of all responsibility to reduce emissions from some of the most obvious and most tractable sources of pollution in the land: the fossil - fuel devouring power stations and factories whose smokestacks belch millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year — not to mention huge amounts of other pollutants which damage our health more directly than CO2.