As such, the pipeline would not increase production of greenhouse gases.
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Europe's so-called Emissions Trading System, first launched in 2008, was designed to raise the cost of polluting and discourage the production of greenhouse gases to protect the environment.
As president, McCain would cap overall production of greenhouse gases.
Production of oil from tar sands bitumen produces between three and five times the greenhouse gas pollution of conventional oil production.
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One university scientist even wrote a paper alleging that greenhouse emissions from shale gas production are worse than the burning of coal.
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And Canada is still fighting for an exemption from a rule inserted into the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act that bars the American government from buying fuels whose production causes more greenhouse-gas emissions than conventional petroleum sources, as producing oil from tar sands does.
And certainly as we get into a longer legislative debate on climate change, just in my conversations with the CEO, he talked about the notion of if you actually price greenhouse gas emissions into the production of power, you have a powerful incentive to find clean energy alternatives.
Over half of them involve reducing emissions of trifluoromethane, a by-product of refrigerant and Teflon production and an especially nasty greenhouse gas.
As well as animal welfare concerns over rearing large numbers of farm animals in close proximity, the water use, farmland for animal feed, waste and greenhouse-gas emissions associated with meat production make it one of the most significant environmental problems in the world today.
But before Westerners begin pointing fingers at Asian countries for contributing to greenhouse gases and other anti-sustainability actions, it should be understood that while they may be growing in their contributions to deleterious effects on the earth, they still lag far behind western nations in terms of per capita production of Carbon Dioxide, the greenhouse gas identified as the greatest contributor to climate change.
The company confirmed that it would expand and modernize three aluminum production facilities to reduce costs as well as greenhouse emissions.
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There is also a risk that large amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, could escape during shale-gas exploration and production.
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Benbrook also fails to mention that by improving weed control and reducing the need for ploughing, genetically engineered herbicide-tolerant crops enable many farmers in North and South America to adopt and maintain no- or reduced-tillage production systems, which results in important reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
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It treats the wastewater more effectively, and doesn't have any of the environmental drawbacks of that technology, such as production of unwanted hydrogen sulfide or possible release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
However, in order to meet European Union greenhouse gas emission standards, Poland is planning to switch a substantial part of its electricity production from coal to natural gas.
Production and distribution of glass wine bottles account for 6.3 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually, or 0.1% of all emissions.
Because meat production is so resource intensive, livestock farming actually accounts for 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Those estimates are based on full fuel-cycles, combine all steps in the use of a fuel from production to consumption, and include carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane, the three major greenhouse gases emitted by motor vehicles.
The EU proposed to further limit greenhouse gas emissions from cars by 2020, stirring unease in an industry already suffering from a slump in demand and production overcapacity.
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