Sentences with phrase «site with the emissions»

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Aspiration evaluates mutual fund companies across three categories — social, environmental, and governance programs — and will choose to work with them only if they have committed to more employee training to reduce safety violations on site, reducing their carbon emissions, or increasing gender diversity at the board level.

«Greenhouse gas emissions are going to go through the roof with a project of this kind,» said Wilderness Committee National Campaign Director Joe Foy «From escaped methane at the drill sites to the massive carbon emissions required to cool the gas, to more escaped methane on the long trip across the ocean to Asia and then the emissions from burning the gas.

Baking bread in lighter tins, cleaning pipes with ice instead of hot water, and using microwaves to dry fruit gums and jellies: these are just some of the ideas being explored by the Carbon Trust and food industry leaders to cut energy use and carbon emissions at UK manufacturing sites.

With that said, I am an environmental engineer who specializes in reducing greenhouse gas and particulate emissions from coal fired power plants, natural gas fracking sites, and landfills.

Population pressure, on - site activities associated with access and carbon emission related to travel can cause a site to deteriorate further, thus raising its «destination status» by being in greater danger and creating more demand for visits.

Another particulate, secondary sulfates (formed in the atmosphere from emissions, such as those from coal - fired power plants), had the highest concentration (between 30 and 44 percent) of all pollutants at urban and rural sites, with readings being mostly uniform across locations.

The countries are aiming to set up a so - called Methane Abatement Facility with pledges of $ 100 million under the auspices of the World Bank to buy and cancel carbon credits, initially from projects that cut emissions at landfill waste sites.

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Hybrid or mechanical ventilation with appropriate filtration systems, can be powered using on - site and / or off - site renewable energy to reduce overall carbon emissions.

Speaking with Dutch automotive site AutoRAI, Subaru Europe's General Manager of sales and marketing manager David Dello Stritto said the current engine would not be able to meet upcoming emission standards.

According to our site BMW says the electric powertrain delivers around 14 miles of emissions - free driving at speeds up to 75 mph in Max eDrive mode, with the 65 - kW electric motor soaking up energy from braking and acceleration to recharge itself.

Delivering 170 kW / 231 hp and coupled with a Steptronic Sport transmission (combined fuel consumption: 5.7 l / 100 km; combined CO2 emissions: 133 g / km) *, the top - of - the - range model is ideally equipped for getting to the next operation site as fast as possible.

As it's unlikely that the sudden rise is anything to do with an increase in GHG emissions (CO2 is only 295 ppm in 1900 as quoted by Prof Mann on this site) it would seem to be caused by an increase in solar radiation.

But with that qualifier, I believe Allen et al. have done a fine job of characterizing emissions in the sites they have studied.

But even this operation would have additional energy associated with transportation, and chainsaws along with site emissions.

For years, Alcoa had been mired in a dispute with environmentalists and the federal Department of Justice over emissions from its coal - fired power plant operations on the site.»

He also helped model greenhouse gas emissions for the siting of renewable energy installations on green space versus contaminated lands as part of his work with EPA's RE-Powering America's Land Initiative.

Most studies have shown that more than half of the methane leakage from natural gas comes from drilling sites and gas processing plants (i.e. upstream emissions), with the remainder coming from pipelines and storage systems (i.e. downstream emission).

While there are no global warming emissions associated with operating wind turbines, there are emissions associated with other stages of a wind turbine's life - cycle, including materials production, materials transportation, on - site construction and assembly, operation and maintenance, and decommissioning and dismantlement.

However, it notices that, while progress has been made in measuring the site - specific and activity - specific GHG emissions associated with an array of land clearing and agricultural activities, there are important gaps in knowledge that need to be filled before informed policy action can proceed.

We calculate the emissions that will be reduced, evaluate financial additionality, and establish a relationship with the project through site visits and discussions with project participants.

Anyway, I downloaded some historical emissions data from the CDIAC site and played around with it.

-- A grant, contract, or other assistance provided under this subsection may be used to purchase carbon dioxide when needed to conduct tests of carbon dioxide storage sites, in the case of established projects that are storing carbon dioxide emissions, or for other purposes consistent with the purposes of this section.

In contrast with ACR's 2010 methodology for N2O Emissions Reductions from Changes in Fertilizer Management, which incorporates site specific data into a peer - reviewed, tested and highly parameterized computer model to calculate N2O emission reductions resulting from changes in how fertilizer is applied and used, the MSU - EPRI methodology is based on empirical equations and NCR data to set conservative estimates for emission reductions.

Known as flaring, this process substantially increases the global warming emissions associated with shale oil (flaring is so extensive in some areas that North Dakota's flaring sites can be seen from space).

This report found that direct measurements of methane emissions from 190 onshore natural gas sites in the United States indicate that methane emissions from completed wells are are lower than commonly thought although the report also acknowledged that emissions from pneumatic controllers and other equipment associated with natural gas production facilities were higher than previously estimated.

Direct field measurements of N2O emissions are prohibitively costly, and the use of default values can not capture variation in emissions associated with weather conditions and site - specific factors.

With the need for better global water management and the push for expanded global hydropower capacity, careful siting of new reservoirs, and revising management of existing ones may help balance the positive ecosystem services that reservoirs provide against the GHG emission costs.

For each new carbon reduction project, the NativeEnergy supply team conducts an extensive check, calculates the emissions that will be reduced, evaluates financial additionality, and establishes a relationship with the project via site visits and meetings with project participants.

To date, half of Siemens» sites in Germany use 100 % green energy, which has reduced emissions by more than 400,000 tons of CO2 in the first year — with expected annual savings of more than US$ 24 million from 2020 onwards.

Sorry, a frustrating few days dealing with the same myths on other sites and at work, plus I'm really annoyed at our Canadian government for Copenhagen and emission standards as well as some provincial medical - woo nonsense...

And you and I would agree, I'm sure, that if the proper externality taxes and policies on safety (all energy sources, etc), power plant siting, mining, the electric grid, agricultural emissions, etc, were put in place, with maybe some public investments directed toward pre-mass market technologies, etc, then whatever mix of sources develops should be good.

«The proposal by German energy company E.ON to build a new coal - fired power station on this site which will emit up to 10m tonnes of C02 a year for the next 50 years are totally at odds with government targets for cutting CO2 emissions,» said Oakley.»

The RSE's web site states: «The science that indicates that climate change is resulting from greenhouse gas emissions is well established, with the only real uncertainty being the scale of the future changes.»

In the Emission from the Site subsection, the design and construction is assessed base on criteria dealing with Air Pollution during Construction, Noise during Construction, Water Pollution during Construction, Emissions from Cooling Towers, Noise from Building Equipment and Light Pollution.

SUMMARY • Dynamic professional offers hands - on experience in inspection and evaluation of work operations, engineering controls and determining potential contaminant emission sources • Well acquainted with interpreting rules & regulations to management and on - site EH & S coordinators.