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Asia-Pacific leading the world on carbon emissions trading
2014-01-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Post: It is not well know that Kazakhstan -- a nation whose landmass exceeds that of Western Europe and which boasts the largest economy in Central Asia -- introduced a carbon trading scheme last year. It is the first Asian nation to take on an economy-wide cap and the trading system has been designed to help it achieve its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. Indonesia is also considering carbon trading and, in 2014, Thailand will introduce a voluntary...
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Quickly Determine Heating Costs And Emissions By Fuel Type With New Energy Calculator App
2014-01-13 02:57:20| pollutiononline News Articles
The Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) has launched a free Energy Calculator app that gives construction professionals and propane marketers an even faster way to compare fuel emissions and heating costs
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EPA to award up to $4M for projects to reduce diesel emissions from port fleets
2014-01-12 14:30:28| Green Car Congress
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Natural Gas Has Sharply Reduced Emissions from Power Plants
2014-01-10 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The dramatic increase in using natural gas to produce electricity in the United States has led to an equally dramatic decline in the amount of pollutants and carbon dioxide emitted from the nations power plants, according to a new study. The study, conducted by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, showed that the switch from coal-fired to natural gas-fired power plants has reduced CO2 emissions by 23 percent and emissions of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide by 40...
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Switch to gas has slashed power-plant emissions, study finds
2014-01-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Natural gas plants emit a tiny fraction of the smog-causing gases and slightly more than half of the greenhouse gases emitted by their coal-burning counterparts, according to a soon-to-be published study. 32 ounces of carbon dioxide for every kilowatt hour of energy for a coal plant, compared with 19 ounces for natural gas. The assessment builds upon earlier reports that substituting natural gas for coal has sharply reduced air pollutants from power generation in the United States. "Since...
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