India imports about 130 million tons per year to help make up the shortfall.
The potash market is over 50 million tons per year and growing at 3-4% per annum.
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The U.S. at No. 2 is slowly cutting emissions and is down to 5.9 billion tons per year.
While nitrogen oxide emissions have dropped from more than 6 million tons per year to less than 2 million.
There would always be hydrogen, though: The U.S. market is on the order of 19 million tons per year.
The company said that at full production the mines are expected to produce about 84 million tons per year.
With the additional recycling bins, the conservancy hopes the recycled materials will grow to 80 or 90 tons per year.
While many millions go without food, one-third of the food produced in the world (which amounts to 1.3 billion tons per year) becomes landfill.
In a joint venture with Fu Hua Group, which has a 15% share and operates production, the plant will have a capacity of 900, 000 tons per year.
With 700 gigawatts of new coal-fired power plants planned for the next decade, world demand could surge by a third, or 2 billion tons per year.
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.
One more doubling of import demand and China will be wanting to import 600 million tons per year, about the total amount of coal exported by all exporting nations last year.
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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Compared to conventional notebook PC manufacturing processes, this system is expected to reduce the amount of newly produced plastic used by 10 tons per year while cutting CO2 emissions by approximately 15%.
Fitch Credit Ratings estimates that this is whittling coal sales by about 63 million tons per year, equivalent to 6% of 2010 consumption, with new EPA regulations further reducing sales by another 5%.
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On that note, China has restarted about 1.1 million metric tons per year of energy-related second half of 2010 cuts this year, yet it still has around 4.4 million tons annually of idled capacity.
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According to The National Union of French Apiculture, or Unaf, the increase in honey imports has encouraged an illegal multi-million euro market of honey coming mainly from China, which, at 350, 000 tons per year, has become the largest honey producer in the world.
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And while the amount of coal consumed by American power generators is down about 15% from the 1 billion tons per year average of the 2000s, the EIA expects the domestic coal burn to inch up to 859 million tons in 2013 and 870 million in 2014.
Smallwood pointed to Pascua Lama coming on stream at the end of 2014, Constancia coming on stream at the end of 2014, Salobo reaching 24 million tons per year by the end of 2014 and Rosemont which he thinks will be up and running by the end of 2015.
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In addition, the enhanced detail of where and how much ice melted allowed them to estimate that the annual loss acceleration was much lower than previous research suggested, roughly increasing by 8 billion tons annually, Previous estimates were as high as 30 billion tons more per year.
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Therefore, a car driven 12, 000 miles per year would roughly be responsible for generating 5.5 metric tons of CO2 per year.
Effective July 1, 2011, any new source of greenhouse gas emissions that exceeds 100, 000 tons of CO2 per year or plant modification adding 75, 000 tons annually, will be subject to permit approval based upon undefined case-by-case "best available control technology" assessments.
The Alpha coal project being developed by Hyderabad-based infrastructure group GVK would produce up to 86 million metric tons of coal per year, compared to global trade of 938 million tons during 2010.
In the meantime it set up a refinery, about two kms from the forest, where it could process 1 million tons of aluminum per year and was in the process of expanding that capacity to 6 million tons.
The shop turns 850, 000 tons of steel per year into corrosion-resistant sheet for cars.
Unskilled mining countries like India, Poland and especially China--which mines about 1 billion tons of coal per year--need infrastructure to support high-tech machines.
Previous estimates suggesting depletion rates as high as 50 billion tons of ice per year were exaggerated by a plus-or-minus 20 billion ton error.
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The Clean Air Act, most recently amended in 1990, orders the EPA to regulate emitters of as little as 100 tons of pollutants per year.
If you're worried about sustained U.S. productivity, take heart that Americans, at least, are good at producing garbage--229 million tons of waste per year at last count.
Here's the problem: According to the Clean Air Act, once the EPA regulates greenhouse gas emissions for autos, it must do so for so-called "stationary sources" that emit the equivalent of more than 250 tons of CO2 per year.
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