Those plants will utilize more than 1 million metric tons of carbon content, which otherwise would have been released to the atmosphere.

这些热电厂的燃料为焦炉煤气，电厂将使用1百多万公吨的碳燃料，否则这些燃料将被释放到大气层中去。

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This led the EPA in 2009 to approve greenhouse gas reporting requirements for any facility that annually releases 25, 000 metric tons or more of carbon dioxide equivalents to the atmosphere.

这导致在2009年EPA作出要求，每年向大气中排放25 000吨以上二氧化碳当量的任何设施场所都必须进行温室气体审报。

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Instead of emitting the CO2 to the atmosphere and paying Norway's carbon tax of around $30 per metric ton, it is pressurized and injected into a sandstone layer some 1 km under the seabed.

二氧化碳被加压后注入了海床一公里下的沙石层之中。 因此，而不必将其排放到大气里，并向挪威支付每公吨30美元的碳税。

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And 7 to 8 billion metric tons a year into the atmosphere is a very big thing in the historical sweep.

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So if you are going to release 7 to 8 billion metric tons a year into the atmosphere, predictably that increases carbon concentration in our atmosphere.

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According to a study led by two Stanford University scientists and published earlier this year, advances in high-yield agriculture during the past half-century have prevented massive amounts of greenhouse gases--the equivalent of 590 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide--from entering the atmosphere.

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