And in terms of reaching new carbon dioxide highs, 450 will come even faster than than the change from 350 to 400, given observed trends, Shepherd said.
The agency also claims the new scheme will at least double the amount of carbon dioxide sequestered, compared with FutureGen, and that the new plants will be operating by 2015.
Phony: that new hybrid adds carbon dioxide emissions, because that Accord it was traded in for is going to be on the road another decade.
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As part of a drive to combat global warming the European Commission has been preparing to propose legislation that restricts CO2 emissions from cars to an average of 120 grams per kilometer by 2012. (See: "Carbon Trading Catch-Up") Currently the average new car in Europe produces 160 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer.
As of 2007, the average American was responsible for 19.8 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually, with Australians, New Zealanders, and Canadians following.
Utilities are investing in new scrubbers that reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
The Environmental Protection Agency has just announced that it will not meet a Sept. 30 deadline to issue new rules limiting emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants.
Glaringly absent from the press conference was any mention of how many (or how few) airplane flights it would take to wipe out all the carbon dioxide savings achieved in the energy-efficient new terminal.
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Sir David King, Tony Blair's chief scientist, recently argued that one further generation of nuclear power stations is needed (in Britain at least) to buy time, in order to keep down emissions of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, while new carbon-free non-nuclear technologies are developed.
The new data undercut assertions that atmospheric carbon dioxide is causing a global warming crisis.
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Because scientists who study climate agree that it is being modified by the human release of greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide and methane and that this puts places like New York City at risk.
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European leaders have also agreed to institute new binding EU-wide targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
And the government has promised to completely de-carbonise electricity generation by 2050 - so any new gas or coal plants will be needing their carbon dioxide captured and stored.
Even if the United States completely and immediately eliminated all carbon dioxide emissions, in less than a decade China would add more new emissions than what the United States eliminated.
Now, no new coal plants can be constructed unless they would capture carbon dioxide releases.
Earlier this month the U.S. Department of Energy released new figures for 2010, showing that global output of carbon dioxide had increased by the biggest amount on record.
Speedier development is important because most of GM's engines and transmissions will have to be new within the next few years due to stricter government carbon dioxide pollution and fuel economy regulations, Winegarden said.
On coal, the new government has promised to continue existing support for four new "clean-coal" power stations, which bury carbon dioxide underground.
New data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are continuing to rise but global temperatures are not following suit.
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Governments are solidly behind the new vehicles, which they see as essential for bringing down carbon-dioxide emissions and reducing pollution in cities.
The new data rebut assertions that the United States needs to impose new restrictions on coal-fired power plants and other sources of carbon dioxide emissions.
And its latest warning - that global carbon dioxide emissions from energy use rose by 5% during 2010 - is casting a new layer of doubt on the ability of governments to meet the targets they've signed up to on curbing climate change.
Even in the new Five Year Plan that has my green friends swooning, emissions of carbon dioxide go up by 15%.
Siemens and Shell, for example, have just announced a new fuel-cell technology for oil rigs that will capture emissions of carbon dioxide and methane, generate power from them cleanly, and sequester the exhaust.
American Electric Power ( AEP - news - people )'s 1.3-gigawatt coal plant in New Haven, West Virginia began burying 1.5% of its carbon dioxide under a cap of dolomite 7, 800 feet below the Ohio River.
The administration has been sharply criticized for scuttling or scaling back Clinton administration steps to reduce arsenic levels in drinking water and impose new pollution standards on miners, and for abandoning a Bush campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
With 12, 000 megawatts of new wind power last year and 30% growth in solar power, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions fell 3.7% in 2012.
Last week, the Obama Administration said its new calculations showed that grain-based biofuels like corn ethanol and soy-based biodiesel displaced more carbon dioxide than originally thought.
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