Sentences with phrase «warming pollution»

Just like that, we're already halfway to our new goal of reducing global warming pollution from power plants.

Several recent studies have further demonstrated that off - the - shelf technologies can reduce global warming pollution from both cars and trucks while saving consumers money at the pump.

By 2030, that would reduce global warming pollution by nearly 4 billion tons, akin to shutting down 140 coal - fired power plants over that time frame.

Because we're putting 35 billion tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every year.

For example, low - carbon fuel standards require a reduction in the average amount of global warming pollution per gallon of fuel.

The leading experts predict that we have less than 10 years to make dramatic changes in our global warming pollution lest we lose our ability to ever recover from this environmental crisis.

The biggest single source of global warming pollution actually started to shrink in 2014.

The question becomes: will preventing further globe - warming pollution ruin the global economy?

He picked a series of lobbyists and a vice-president at the core of his campaign that will try to prevent serious regulation of man - made global warming pollution if they are elected.

Then, they engage directly with their state's top regulator about cutting global warming pollution locally.

This movement has kept well over 400 million tons of harmful global warming pollution out of the air, making significant progress in the fight against climate change.

About a third of global warming pollution comes from transportation, largely private automobiles.

Using 85 - percent corn - based ethanol can reduce global warming pollution from 10 percent to 30 percent.

We urge you to support a 100 % carbon - free energy standard, a price on global warming pollution, and clean fuels.

RGGI represents the first mandatory cap - and - trade scheme for global warming pollution in the U.S., but it only covers the 10 eastern seaboard states that signed on to do this: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont.

In 2004, California used this authority to regulate global warming pollution for the first time.

In 2002, California became the nation's first state to introduce global warming pollution standards for cars and trucks.

«This is another reason why we must take steps to curb global warming pollution as much and as quickly as possible,» said Amanda Staudt, a climate scientist with the National Wildlife Federation, which released the report today with Physicians for Social Responsibility.

The week of April 4, 2016 The Power Dialog is organizing conversations in every state capitol between students and the top regulators in their state charged with reducing global warming pollution under the E.P.A.'s Clean Power Plan.

By knitting fuels out of the excess CO2 in the air, this new bioreactor could help mitigate planet - warming pollution problems while bringing cleaner fuels to people who do not currently have access to modern energy.

The field, off the coast of Indonesia, would have been the single largest source of global warming pollution at the time.

Several analyses of the 2007 Senate climate bill, the Lieberman - Warner Climate Security Act (including studies done by the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency (pdf)-RRB- show that we can cut global warming pollution significantly while maintaining a strong economy and containing energy costs.

The coal and utility industries have spent millions of dollars to oppose mandatory reductions in global warming pollution until CCS is commercialized.

«Any realistic plan to reduce global warming pollution sufficiently — and in time — to avoid dangerous consequences must rely in part on preserving tropical forests,» reports Environmental Defense Fund.

Environmentalists were furious at Stachowksi for voting against a 2009 wetlands protection bill, two clean air acts and a global warming pollution control act).

As part of the Renewable Fuels Standard, EPA will attempt to determine the global warming pollution associated with fuel from plants

U.S. states are beginning to attack another major source of global warming pollution besides power plants: your car.

In the end, natural gas will always be a fossil fuel that would need to be phased out (or its global warming pollution captured and stored) in the next few decades to avoid even worse climate change.

And the same type of global warming pollution market just got started among the 10 states of the Northeast.

Canada's federal government, in a pledge that skeptical climate campaigners called a triumph of hope over experience, promised on Friday to reverse years of emissions growth and get its global warming pollution back on a downward slope.

The EPA announcement confirms what science has told us — global warming pollution poses a grave threat to the nation's public health and welfare.

By 2030, solar power can help Colorado avoid 3.6 million metric tons of global warming pollution annually — equivalent to taking 760,000 of today's passenger vehicles off the road.

Brazil, for example, has reduced its deforestation - related emissions by two - thirds in just six years, and Indonesia, a large emitter of global warming pollution because of high rates of deforestation, has pledged to cut overall emissions by more than 25 percent by 2020.

«Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles» found that even when accounting for the metals required to build PV cells, the efficiency of the cells, and the waste produced, PV cells still emit less global warming pollution throughout their life cycle than the fossil fuels needed to produce the same amount of power.

Overall, the smog - forming pollution performance of the industry continues to improve in response to new regulations, while global warming pollution performance remains stuck in neutral.

Despite this progress, the Detroit «Big Three» — Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler — still lag behind, with higher than average smog - forming and global warming pollution emissions.

Tech companies join CEI in spite of the fact that the oil industry - funded front group continues to be one of the most vocal opponents to addressing global warming pollution regulations inside the Beltway.

Our model accounts for global warming pollution generated both upstream — ie, during oil extraction, refining, and transportation — and downstream, when it's combusted in the vehicle's engine.

We need to significantly reduce global warming pollution here at home — to take care of this collective place we hold dear, and also to show the world that a just transition from fossil fuels is possible.

The global warming pollution created by biodiesel depends on how it is made and (especially) what it is made from.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its authority to regulate global warming pollution went through its first shakedown today before the Koch Industries and ExxonMobil funded [pdf] House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Energy and Power Subcommittee.

The failure to pass legislation to limit global - warming pollution ensured that the much - anticipated Copenhagen summit on a global treaty in 2009 would also end in failure.

Their claim that a «consensus» exists that we can not cut global warming pollution substantially with clean energy solutions ready today is refuted by Socolow and Pacala's seminal 2004 «wedges» paper in Science.

U.S. government scientists conclude that droughts, heavy downpours, excessive heat, and intense hurricanes are likely to become more commonplace in the United States as we continue to increase global warming pollution in the atmosphere.»

In 2009, a historic agreement between the Federal Government, state regulators, and the auto industry established a national program to implement these first meaningful fuel efficiency improvements in over 30 years and the first - ever global warming pollution standards for light - duty vehicles.

Let's start at the end of 2015, when global leaders are expected to show up in Paris, France, in early December to negotiate a new global agreement on global warming pollution reductions.