Chevron insists it has dealt with the sulfur safely and legally, and is contesting the fine.
Today's diesel and natural gas engines emit similar amounts of sulfur, nitrogen and particulates, he said.
As a result, U.S. refiners have continued to produce large amounts of high-sulfur diesel.
They promise lower emissions of nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, particulate matter, and carbon dioxide (CO2).
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Further, the coal is low on sulfur and fly ash content, which increases its attractiveness.
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For small-scale sculptures in the early 1990s, Mr. Othoniel made disembodied orifices from wax and sulfur.
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All life forms on earth use six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur.
Even diesel fuel itself was being reformulated to cut down on its sulfur content.
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Aside from organic sulfur and copper mixes, they use no chemical sprays, no artificial fertilizers or pesticides.
The 600-megawatt Indiana plant will convert coal into turbine-ready gas while stripping out pollutants nitrogen and sulfur.
There are no international laws regulating geo-engineering, so any nation could start emitting sulfur into the atmosphere.
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Sulfur dioxide forms lung-damaging soot and smog, and has been linked to an array of respiratory problems.
According to the company it removes not just sulfur dioxide, but also carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
The same controls used to cut sulfur, meantime, are also removing the mercury before it exits the smokestack.
Because they often burn high sulfur fuels, they produce about 50% of the global emissions of sulfur dioxide.
Ertel was soon a big producer at Natsource, trading sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, carbon and even weather derivatives.
"The marble and sandstone were being weathered by atmospheric fumes, including sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, " Gopalakrashne says.
It releases nearly 500 tons each of copper and nickel oxides and 2 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the air.
With production capacity for high-quality, low-sulfur crude offline in Libya, Yemen and Sudan, the cartel is unable to compensate.
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The Baldwin plant in Illinois is the worst offender for sulfur dioxide pollution.
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He soon broke ranks with utility executives by supporting a cap-and-trade system for sulfur dioxide and other coal-plant pollutants.
The Indiana-based utility is investing in the required equipment to reduce its sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury pollution.
It was Budyko, in the nineteen-sixties, who first suggested cooling the earth by putting sulfur particles in the sky.
The nations most likely to adopt the sulfur technique are those who most keenly suffer from climate change-related events.
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Finally, CONSOL Energy and Peabody Energy are big beneficiaries of the convergence of high sulfur and low coal pricing.
Technology has made it possible for power plants such as this to reduce conventional pollutants such as sulfur dioxide.
In most cases pollutants such as sulfur and mercury are stripped out after the fuel gas has been synthesized.
Because Tengiz oil is so high in corrosive sulfur compounds, it must be partially refined before going through the pipeline.
That's how that got solved, was basically what happened -- the Clean Air Act slapped a price on sulfur emissions.
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It also releases double the other pollutants regulated by the Clean Air Act that include sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide.
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