Sentences with phrase «pollution reduction»

It's our job to actually look at where we can get continued carbon pollution reductions from both fossil fuels.

This is a tool where we have 40 years of history of being extraordinarily successful in getting air pollution reductions.

If a similar emphasis had been placed on pollution reduction instead of CO2, this is a problem that would have been solved long ago.

The governor's office just published a detailed and thoughtful study exploring the pathways to achieving deep greenhouse pollution reduction by 2050.

For example, contests that use pollution reduction as a lottery criterion can be too successful - driving down emissions hugely but at a significant cost to economic output.

As of 2008, the company had sold 130 million bulbs; the resulting pollution reduction through energy savings is the same as that of two large coal - fired power plants.

Beyond that, each government needs to open communications with each other in order to help incorporate pollution reduction programs and technologies into every nations lifestyle around the world.

Even if we didn't face climate change, even if it were for reasons of health or aesthetics, wouldn't pollution reduction be worthwhile anyway?

The result would be 1.5 million new jobs as well as significant pollution reduction and savings in water and other resources.

If all new cars had at least 50 km battery range we would see huge pollution reduction where it most matters, in the cities and a significant reduction in gasoline usage.

Check out the fascinating products here which offer features ranging from color adjustment for better visibility of planets to light pollution reduction.

In terms of carbon pollution reductions, this is comparable to taking 80 million vehicles off the road.

Third, the government should invest in cost effective energy infrastructure, where the net benefits calculations include the value of the resulting pollution reductions.

The Clean Power Plan, as crafted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets achievable carbon pollution reduction goals for each state, based on the unique energy mix currently serving the power needs of each state.

Nonetheless, Fan Yuansheng, director of the pollution control department at SEPA, has said China will meet further sulphur dioxide and water pollution reduction targets in 2007.

Waterborne transport still offers an enormous potential for pollution reduction and energy efficiency gains.

In 2009 pollution reduction requirements resulted in truck traffic increases in on the Richardson Highway.

Instead, the Rudd government seems intent to compensate trade exposed industries as if the carbon pollution reduction scheme does not apply at all to trade exposed industries.

China's government is struggling to meet pollution reduction targets and has pledged to spend over 3 trillion yuan to [continue reading...]

SUPR 2 is an easy - to - use tool for exploring the cost and pollution reduction potential of a variety of compliance options.

A new ALEC model bill, adopted in December 2014 and titled «Act Requiring Approval of State Plan to Implement EPA's Carbon Guidelines,» requires that states seek legislative approval for their carbon pollution reduction plan under the Clean Power Plan, and conduct an analysis of the economic impact of any plan to reduce pollution — an effort that mirrors the BHI studies.

«Governor Cuomo has committed to achieving very aggressive climate pollution reduction goals.

Over the course of the semester, students will advise a community group on an environmental justice advocacy strategy, help clients determine whether they have standing to bring an environmental case, negotiate a RCRA enforcement settlement and a regional - scale habitat conservation plan, design a litigation strategy to address changes to air quality standards, and testify at a hearing on water pollution reduction — among many other exercises.

Challenged to launch their own plastic pollution reduction projects either in the classroom or in their community, this diverse group of next generation leaders is continuing the fight for a planet free of plastic pollution.

Similar to carbon trading, WQT lets an entity that needs to meet water quality standards meet those by buying pollution reductions from another source, for a lower cost.

This ambitious target is grounded in intensive analysis of cost - effective carbon pollution reductions achievable under existing law and will keep the United States on the right trajectory to achieve deep economy - wide reductions on the order of 80 percent by 2050.

In conjunction with the study, a Finger Lakes Water Hub was also launched to provide focused expert staff to study algal blooms and undertake pollution reduction projects in the Owasco Lake watershed and the other Finger Lakes.

What it means: Unlike the Kyoto Protocol — a 1997 climate pact that sought to force specific pollution reductions on certain countries, but failed to do virtually anything to slow global warming — the hoped - for Paris agreement would see nations taking voluntary steps to stem greenhouse gas pollution.

Such performance metrics should (1) integrate transportation investment, land - use planning, and air pollution reduction efforts, and (2) encourage development of healthier, more compact, mixed - use communities that support accessible and affordable transportation alternatives for residents of all income levels.

It then produces national - scale estimates of avoided premature deaths and crop losses; LEAP - IBC also estimates the climate benefits of addressing short - lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), adopting air pollution reduction strategies and implementing greenhouse gas mitigation.

It is disingenuous at best to cite instances of local pollution reduction alongside increased economic growth in the rich world as evidence of decoupling when those reductions were made possible only because of much larger pollution increases elsewhere.

That's because the bill gives utilities a financial incentive to keep burning coal by joining the cap - and - trade system — a kind of marketplace where polluters could reduce their emissions on paper by buying pollution reductions created by others.

Enck spoke about the U.S. EPA's proposed Carbon Pollution Standards, where the agency would set pollution reduction targets for each of the 50 states, and allow state governments to develop their own plans to meet those goals.

Yet the coal mining and electric utility industries spent over $ 125 million combined in the first nine months of 2008 to lobby Congress to delay global warming pollution reductions until clean coal technology is ready.

Urban pollution reduction policies.

Tropical forest conservation is one of the most affordable and fastest ways to achieve large pollution reductions.

First, the challengers claim that the «best system of emission reduction» — a key statutory term — can mean nothing more than making minimal carbon pollution reductions through small improvements in generating efficiency at individual power plants.

If you replace these power plants with modern, safe nuclear reactors you could do a lot of [pollution reduction] quickly.»

But so far, the regulators drafting statewide pollution reduction plans have not heard from their most critical stakeholders: young people who will actually be around in 2050, living through the consequences of our action — or inaction — today.

For more than two decades, power companies and grid operators have met pollution control limits for sulfur dioxide and other pollutants by ramping up cleaner generation and ramping down dirty generation, using both smokestack pollution controls and pollution reduction credits.

The American Lung Association favors a transition to enforceable pollution reduction obligations for all facilities.

I support pollution reduction strategies, for example, re-establish pollution free tram systems in all Australian capital cities (as they had after the 2nd world war).

The Senate must promptly follow the House's leadership by passing a clean - energy and global warming pollution reduction bill.

Inaction or inadequate pollution reductions by the government would allow natural disasters in the United States to amplify in scale and frequency.