Petrol taxes are designed to achieve three things: to reduce congestion, to reduce pollution and to raise money.
It will reduce pollution, given that freight vehicles produce roughly one fifth of the greenhouse gas emissions related to transportation.
Provincial governments will also use the funds to build more efficient heating systems and to reduce pollution from coal-fired power plants.
Ferretti argued emissions trading allows companies such as these to make money on "hidden assets, " such as efforts to reduce pollution.
Automakers are working furiously on fuel-cell technology, in the hope that it will free us from our dependence on fossil fuels and reduce pollution.
Chinese authorities have said they're confident they can reduce pollution levels but athletes will still have to compete in less-than-healthy air, which can hurt performance.
Moreover, it is economic growth that has provided the resources enabling us to dramatically reduce pollution and improve the environment, without trashing our standard of living.
Beijing is under pressure to embrace more environmentally-friendly energy supplies to reduce pollution levels across the country and set a lead in the global fight against climate change.
The oil and gas industry has said the EPA has overestimated emissions of methane and argued that they already were working to reduce pollution, without the agency's intervention.
Because when you educate a girl you educate a family, reduce over-population, reduce disease, reduce pollution and environmental impact, reduce terrorism and a whole host of other world problems.
Both Mr McCain and Mr Obama support a form of cap-and-trade to limit carbon emissions using market mechanisms (this would probably put up prices, though it should reduce pollution).
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This suggests that the familiar bell-shaped curve reflects no immutable law, and that intelligent government policies might well help to reduce pollution levels even while countries are still relatively poor.
To reduce pollution, between July 20th and September 20th the city is aiming to halve the number of private vehicles on the roads by allowing those with odd-number licence plates to drive one day, and those with even-number plates the next.
Which is indeed nice as just about everyone else would just love to clean up the planet, reduce pollution and not boil Gaia but we have this sneaking suspicion that the costs of doing so are going to be greater than the benefits.
Mr. HINCHMAN: We've chosen the stricter California program because it's the only policy option available to us that we can use to reduce pollution emissions from the transportation sector, which is the most polluting and fastest-growing problem in terms of air quality in the Northeast.
Authorities have asked the public to set off fewer fireworks in Beijing to reduce pollution, a new anti-extravagance drive has prompted government officials and state-owned companies to cancel their banquets at high-end hotels and a campaign against food waste is leading to half-portions in restaurants.
President Obama saw an important opportunity for the Federal Government to lead by example when he issued Executive Order 13514 directing agencies to meet ambitious sustainability goals in our operations that will improve the government's environmental, energy and economic performance, reduce pollution, and save taxpayer dollars in avoided energy costs.
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Our communities, our economy, and our environment all stand to benefit as we move forward with the Energy Data Initiative to unlock data that can lead us to new ways to save energy and money, reduce pollution, provide energy services, and create jobs to ensure an American economy that is built to last.
In 2006 the Illinois Pollution Control Board adopted mercury pollution standards of its own, which required all coal plants to install technologies to reduce mercury pollution by 90% or more by 2009 and 2013.
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Scene Five: Now we have the richly childed Al Gore telling us that the way to reduce global warming pollution is to reduce family size.
In doing so, we would further reduce air pollution and our dependency on oil.
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Should Africa sit down and wait for the major players to reduce industrial pollution?
Bottom line: Obama is likely to take more steps to reduce the pollution blamed for climate change.
The party also claims the plans will reduce air pollution and encourage more people to use sustainable transport.
MTBE, an additive mixed with petrol to reduce air pollution, had caused it to leak into water supplies.
In Beijing the authorities have shut down some factories and taken cars off the roads to try to reduce the pollution.
In Maryland, scientists estimate that the change on the household dishwasher front will reduce phosphorus pollution to the Chesapeake Bay by 3%.
And, lastly, insurers should be pushing for policies that reduce carbon pollution.
The legacy of the Great Smog was the Clean Air Act of 1956 which introduced a number of measures to reduce air pollution.
When we put in place new common-sense rules to reduce air pollution, we create new jobs building and installing all sorts of pollution-control technology.
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