The process that smokestack "scrubbers" use to reduce nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions creates high-quality synthetic gypsum, said Robert E.
The latest industry blueprint from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which took effect in October, cut maximum thresholds for sulfur dioxide emissions.
Based upon 2005 emissions, power plants must cut sulfur dioxide emissions 73% (from 8.8 million tons per year to 2.4 million), and nitrogen oxides 54% (from 2.6 million to 1.2 million).
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For important pollutants monitored by the EPA, natural gas power cuts carbon monoxide emissions by 81%, nitrogen oxide emissions by 80%, sulfur dioxide emissions by 99%, mercury emissions by 100%, and particulates by 99%.
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So in the Clean Air Act of 1990, he proposed a plan that would cap sulfur-dioxide emissions but let the market decide how to allocate the permits.
This simple move, documented in a U.S. Department of Energy report will cut emissions of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide and other emissions significantly while reducing costs.
Because they often burn high sulfur fuels, they produce about 50% of the global emissions of sulfur dioxide.
Originally scheduled to go into effect on January 1st, the rule would have required 27 upwind states to dramatically reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions by 2014.
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Impurities are removed from the gas before it is burned, which results in lower emissions of sulfur dioxide, particulates and mercury.
Thanks to mandated installation of emissions-reduction technology, since 1990 U.S. emissions of sulfur dioxide have dropped from more than 15 million tons per year to less than 4 million tons.
The report analyzed data for 2010 and found in that year that emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide were 68% lower than in 1990 and had fallen 32% and 31% respectively just since 2008.
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If we believe environmental activist claims that carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, mercury, and particulate emissions to say nothing of global warming and carbon dioxide emissions are so bad for human health, natural gas production should be a no-brainer.
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It must implement regulations that capture the environmental benefits of nuclear, such as low emissions of carbon dioxide as well as nitrogen and sulfur oxides.
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Ferretti, vice president at the Chicago Climate Exchange, extolled emissions trading, noting that the practice had helped bring sulfur dioxide and acid rain under control much less expensively than traditional command-and-control regulation.
They promise lower emissions of nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, particulate matter, and carbon dioxide (CO2).
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