Sentences with phrase «same environmental benefits»

That report did not recommend pursuing wind or solar power; instead it looked at conventional pollution control methods which would have yielded the same environmental benefits as the GEA, but at a tenth of the current cost.

While all offerings present essentially the same environmental benefits, some community solar projects promise bigger savings than others.

The British study warns of the rising cost to consumers of wind power subsidies on the grounds that governments could achieve the same environmental benefits by other means at much lower cost.

Likewise, the same environmental benefits could be seen on the cow - calf system providing cattle for the feedlot, matching greater production per unit land with the environmental benefits of grazing, he added.

According to the report, New York's recycling programs provide the same environmental benefit as taking roughly 338,000 cars off the road each year.

Not exact matches

Both agreements involve many of the same benefits and limitations, and differ only in certain categories like environmental standards, she adds.

Additionally, this choice carries the same perceived environmental benefits as the organic foods that you yourself might choose to eat.

B.C.'s Premier Christy Clark, previously opposed to Kinder Morgan's tanker proposal, greenlighted the project based on the same flawed NEB review, which systematically underestimated the environmental and economic costs while relying on industry numbers to overstate the economic benefits.

However, critics argue that organic agriculture may have lower yields and would therefore need more land to produce the same amount of food as conventional farms, resulting in more widespread deforestation and biodiversity loss, and thus undermining the environmental benefits of organic practices5.

combisafe ticks all the boxes you'd expect for long - life food packaging, and at the same time it offers environmental benefits.

«[The phone calls] involve discussions between Dean Skelos and Adam Skelos about the ways in which Dean Skelos can maximize his leverage with the Governor during the budget negotiations — the same negotiations during which the Government alleges Dean Skelos attempted to insert legislation that would benefit Adam Skelos and the Environmental Technology Company in the charged schemes,» prosecutors say in the court filings.

The opposition puts him within the same camp of labor leaders and environmental groups who had opposed holding a convention on the grounds constitutionally protected rights and benefits would be put at risk.

If successful, it is likely to eventually displace coal from the UK's energy supply, and make more gas available to do the same elsewhere in the world, which has major environmental benefits.

If we could make milk the same way we make beer, the environmental benefits would be huge, says bioengineer Ryan Pandya

However, co-authors Richard Lockey, MD, and Chen Hsing Lin, MD suggest pregnant women receive the same benefit following the Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency's recommendation to consume 8 - 12 ounces (2 - 3 servings) of low mercury fish a week.

In a press release, Dr. Norman Edelman, senior scientific adviser for the American Lung Association, said, «Taking steps to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, like the Clean Power Plan proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, can reduce other pollutants at the same time, resulting in immediate health benefits.»

Getting more wheat from the same area of land would have massive environmental benefits — freeing up land to put aside for wildlife or to capture carbon, for example.

The project should bring numerous environmental benefits, including reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 880 to 1111 tonnes per year, cutting chemical fertiliser use and water consumption by 20 % and increasing carbon sequestration in soil by the same amount.

Mazda finally entered the hybrid scene, providing the same size and convenience as the regular Tribute — but with the added environmental benefits of a hybrid powertrain.

Whatever climate implications soot / ozone control may have, they should be lumped together with the general basket of environmental benefits provided by reductions in soot and ozone, and not viewed as addressing in any way the same issues as posed by CO2.

The typical environmental benefit of a Philadelphia power company's wind energy program is the same as planting about 11 million trees or not driving 144 million miles.

The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) press release of July 6, 2016 was headlined «Canada can integrate large amounts of wind energy reliably, cost - effectively, says report» followed by the industry trade association's assertion that «Canada can get more than one - third of its electricity from wind energy without compromising grid reliability — and at the same time realize economic and environmental benefits».

When we talk about the environmental benefits of solar power, we often talk about how installing a solar energy system can have the same effect on the environment as planting trees.

For example, when effectiveness is measured in tons of reduced pollutant emissions, cost - effectiveness estimates will be misleading unless the reduced emissions of diverse pollutants result in the same health and environmental benefits.

nitrous oxide, tropospheric ozone and methane — doesn't have the same high profile but are in fact much easier to deal with in the short term, bring positive environmental and health benefits and promise short term progress.

The study's findings indicate that Canada can get more than one - third of its electricity from wind energy without compromising grid reliability — and at the same time realize economic and environmental benefits.

At the same time, USTR is expected to push for provisions in the agreement that encourage patents on human, plant and animal genes and use of cost - benefit analysis rather than the precautionary principle when setting environmental regulatory standards.

Nuclear's environmental benefits are the same today as they were back then.

That same weekend brought the Rethink Green Charity Gala on Saturday night benefiting the Environmental Charter High School.

The report says that despite the widespread perception of slash - and - burn being «a destructive system that leads to forest loss and degradation,» policies that support conversion to rubber plantations (which gets counted as reforestation, even though a plantation forest is hardly the same thing as natural forest) don't have a great environmental benefit.

This is also in line with UNEP's Green Economy initiative as for the same dollar, euro, peso or yuan not only are we combating climate change, but potentially delivering additional economic, environmental and developmental benefits from improved water supplies, soil stabilization and reduced biodiversity losses alongside new kinds of green jobs in natural resource management and conservation.

At the same time, many studies have found that the economic and environmental costs of fossil fuel subsidies far outweighs any of its perceived social benefits, which can be achieved by other more effective means.

The next bus I rode had another ad with the same theme, but referring to the environmental benefits of composting (specifically, that keeping organic material out of landfills reduces methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change):