Ethanol is currently meeting about 10% of our fuel needs and reduces GHG emissions almost 4%.
So how many Priuses would it take to get that same GHG emissions reduction.
Option A would reduce GHG emissions by 90% by 2050, but only if the future unfolded as anticipated.
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This is the largest percentage decline in total U.S. GHG emissions on record.
Option B would reduce GHG emissions by 70% by 2050, but would do so across a range of possible futures.
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Still, the EPA now claims permitting authority to restrict carbon dioxide and other GHG emissions from stationary sources they attribute to causing climate change.
Roughly two-thirds of the members of Ceres Company Network have in place targets to reduce GHG emissions, increase renewable energy production and procurement or both.
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Last week, the EPA published its GHG Emissions Report, assessing the sources and volumes of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. for calendar year 2010.
An attributional accounting protocol that relies on facilities-level GHG balances to report net CO2 uptake and track otherwise unregulated GHG emissions throughout fuel and feedstock supply chains.
That Quirk is pushing California to prepare a 2050 roadmap for GHG emissions reductions in one of his first acts as a state lawmaker should come as no surprise.
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The BlackBerry maker remains in last place for its complete failure to disclose to Greenpeace its GHG emissions or to set public targets for the reduction of emissions by 2015.
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Annually, the plug-in electric vehicles in our pilot are expected to save nearly 29, 000 gallons of gas, reduce GHG emissions by 257 metric tons, and save taxpayer dollars in avoided fuel costs.
Whether you or I think that this is small cost to pay for reductions in GHG emissions and energy independence is beside the point, the law is pretty explicit on this topic.
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Upon reflection, policy is best defined using current-period accounting of carbon stocks and flows, ideally with direct, measurement-based, verifiable tallies of GHG emissions from the production and use of all fuels and feedstocks.
Officials from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality did not attend the federal court hearing, but have made it clear that they have no intention of modifying their permitting process to include GHG emissions.
Two years ago, Ceres released The 21st Century Corporation: The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability, which calls for companies to reduce GHG emissions by 25 percent and obtain at least 30 percent of energy from renewable sources by 2020.
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An executive order signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) in June 2005 established short- and long-term greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduce targets for California: to reduce GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.
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The Navy chooses to ignore two RAND studies, a report by the National Academy of Sciences, a report by the German Academy of Sciences, and a raft of recent lifecycle analyses that all indicate that biofuels accelerate fossil fuel use, have higher lifecycle GHG emissions, and increase environmental damage.
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This trend can be a major contributor to North American energy security and emissions reduction goals by potentially displacing approximately 1.7 million barrels a day of oil, (1) while reducing total "well to wheels" GHG emissions by 7-15 percent.(2) The small-scale solution also is economically suited for customers seeking a 10-50, 000-gallons-a-day production capacity.
Unfortunately, for people like myself who believe that there is a compelling business case for protecting the environment, data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration today showing that U.S. GHG emissions dropped a whopping 5.8% in 2009 will likely reinforce the perception that profligate pollution is good for economic growth.
In California, for instance, CO2 accounts for a much bigger share of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (76%) than the global average (56%).
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New York City could cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 90% by 2050 by implementing a portfolio of energy reduction measures using existing technologies, according to a report released last week by the Urban Green Council.
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