This bodes ill for the passage of more difficult projects, such as his big plans for carbon-emissions control and health-care reform.
Diesel engines and the elaborate emissions control equipment they require in the United States are more expensive to build than gasoline engines.
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Drawing on more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences.
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That won't happen until America adopts serious domestic emissions-control measures.
For if we gain the power to control the emissions of carbon dioxide, we have gained the power to control every aspect of human life.
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The report says government efforts to control emissions of reactive nitrogen from combustion sources have been more successful.
Concentration for most pollutants remains high despite legislation passed in 2002 to control emissions in ten of China's biggest cities and several river valleys that provide industrial arteries into the interior from the heavily populated coasts.
Just days after the American election, the Canadian prime minister proposed a continental cap-and-trade system to control carbon emissions something the oil industry in Canada adamantly opposed.
Another question mark: The U.S., which hasn't joined the Kyoto Protocol limiting greenhouse gases, is still trying to figure out how it wants to control carbon emissions.
Meanwhile, Governor Romney once supported a cap-and-trade mechanism to control carbon emissions but as the 2008 presidential race neared, he backed off and favored modest penalties for coal-fired power plants.
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The continuing reluctance to engage to the greatest possible extent in flexible market-based ways of reducing emissions not only makes control of greenhouse gases vastly more expensive than it would otherwise be (a good thing, admittedly, in the view of many environmentalists).
"Investments in geo-engineering research are almost certainly the biggest bang for the buck that one could get in terms of addressing catastrophic climate change - a much, much bigger return than, for example, trying to control carbon emissions at the moment, " he says.
The only way to control carbon dioxide emissions is to make a car combust less fuel.
Last November the Chinese government passed a work plan to control greenhouse-gas emissions further.
But there are a number of bills hanging around Congress, at various stages of maturity, to control greenhouse-gas emissions.
The TRAIN Act would nullify the Utility MACT Rule and direct EPA to adopt less burdensome regulations to control power plant HAP emissions.
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Third, the Supreme Court is to rule next year on whether the federal government has the right to control carbon-dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act.
However, even if the airports themselves are trying to reduce their emissions, it is difficult to control all the concessions and sub-contractors that work within big airports.
Also given that the fuels can be potent sources of Radon the flimsy construction advocated by some as a benefit to lowering construction costs is dubious concerning containment concerns and control of potential gaseous emissions.
The Supreme Court agreed to wade into some of the biggest and most contentious issues facing corporations today when it accepted appeals of a massive discrimination suit against Wal-Mart Stores and a lawsuit by states seeking to control utility carbon dioxide emissions.
And I think that that's where this is going to be a challenge unlike Los Angeles, unlike Athens, in terms of trying to control not only the emissions, but also, of course, the cars and just the people who are trying to drive those cars, as I said, by a thousand a day.
In the mid 1990s, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says that mercury emissions from coal plants totaled 1, 850 pounds per year.
Also, the Modbook Pro's SSDs are fine-tuned to not interfere with its high-resolution pen tablet interface (whereas the electromagnetic field emissions of HDDs are notoriously difficult to control).
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In particular aviation planners are focusing on ways of cutting the amount of time planes spend queuing to take off and land, in the process burning large and unnecessary amounts of fuel (IATA estimates that airlines could cut their annual CO2 emissions by 12 percent if air-traffic control operations were more efficient).
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Under Wood Dana would build three things: drivelines (which transfer power from the transmission to the axles), sealing systems (which reduce oil consumption and emissions) and thermal-management systems (which control temperatures in batteries and other components).
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And to the disappointment of the greens such as the UN's secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, the rich states' undertaking did not specify any short- or medium-term goals on cutting emissions, over which their leaders could have more control.
And now under proposed new rules of the Prevention and Significant Deterioration program, EPA has expanded its regulatory reach way beyond mobile emissions authorized by the 2007 Supreme Court decision to control permitting of stationary sources as well.
That is why the next wave of environmental policymaking will need to employ commonsense tools such as cost-benefit analysis, and make greater use of flexible, market-based instruments such as emissions-trading, rather than the tired command-and-control approach favoured by most greens.
For example, our New Jersey coal plants with their various pollution-control systems have been able to reduce, by over 90 percent, emissions of mercury, acid gases and soot.
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, defying opposition from business lobbies and some fellow Republicans, agreed with Democrats who control the California legislature to cap the state's greenhouse-gas emissions and reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by 25% by 2020.
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