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Emissions
The release of a substance (usually a gas when referring to the subject of climate change) into the atmosphere. (source: EPA) Background from Wikipedia The word emission generally means sending something out. It can be used in the following contexts: In common usage, emission is most often the giving off of gases from industrial processes and the engine exhausts of transport vehicles (automobiles, trucks, airplanes, trains and ships). As they occur on an industrial scale, even relatively harmless gases can have an undesired effect (such as carbon dioxide contributing to the greenhouse effect). In chemistry, emissions are the products of a reaction, either chemical or nuclear. In physics and physical chemistry, emissions are outputs of electromagnetic radiation or particles. Also in physics, emission theories assumes that light leaves the object that emits it at a particular speed. This idea is most commonly identified with Isaac Newton and Walter Ritz. In the history of optics, light was supposed by adherents of emission theory (vision) to be emitted by the eyes. Visual perception was accomplished by such rays of light acting like feeling hands.San Jose Mercury News,California needs to assert its authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. The suit in federal court would seek a long-delayed, EU row delays plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions - 22 Oct 2007 Guardian Unlimited,It has emerged that the European Commission, due to announce on December 5 its proposals on how to cut CO2 emissions by 20% and use renewables for 20% of Environmental groups join to support emissions scheme - 22 Oct 2007 Stuff.co.nz,Five New Zealand environmental organisations have joined forces to back the Government's emissions trading scheme. Greenpeace, Environmental Defence Society Fighting Global Warming The Right Way - 22 Oct 2007 Hartford Courant,Indeed, if we fail to start substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the next couple of years, we risk catastrophic damage. Testing a new solution to CO2 emissions - 22 Oct 2007 Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription),He envisions economic benefits for the state if carbon emissions are regulated and companies locate near disposal sites. This will be the first such Direct Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduced Significantly Despite ... - 22 Oct 2007 Earthtimes,Furthermore, through energy efficiency improvements, the industry has reduced indirect emissions from electricity production by eight percent per ton of Jack Cogen Named Chairman of the International Emissions Trading ... - 22 Oct 2007 Earthtimes,WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) today announced that Jack Cogen, CEO of Natsource, was elected Chairman of the WSP Fines Employees For Excessive Carbon Emissions - 22 Oct 2007 Environmental Leader,Employees at an environmental firm in the UK are keeping tabs of their out-of-work carbon emissions and paying fines when they go over the limit, Rockland City Council Votes On Train Emissions - 22 Oct 2007 WCSH-TV,ROCKLAND (NEWSCENTER) -- The Rockland city council is expected to vote Monday night on a proposal to regulate emissions from passenger trains. TRX, Others Refine Carbon Analysis - 22 Oct 2007 Business Travel News,TRX's tool ranks carriers on given routes by emissions, enabling users to see which would leave the smallest carbon footprint, while an air inventory Power Producers Seek Lower-Cost Alternatives for Emissions ... - 22 Oct 2007 Market Wire (press release)Power plant owners are continuously working to devise the most effective emissions-reduction strategies while keeping an eye on the bottom line in terms of MPs' concerns over UK carbon plan - 22 Oct 2007 BBC News,MPs have asked the government to provide evidence that the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is helping cut the UK's greenhouse gas emissions. Digital Check Scanners Reduce CO 2 Emissions by an Estimated - 22 Oct 2007 Business Wire (press release),The resulting reduction in CO 2 emissions from this projected industry-wide adoption of remote deposit capture solutions could approach more than 4.3 Howard's climate fund comes under attack - 22 Oct 2007 The Age,The federal government said it would earn billions of dollars a year from the sale of carbon pollution permits under its emissions trading system, Our forests, our future - 22 Oct 2007 Jakarta Post,Greenhouse gas emissions from forest clearing and forest burning eclipse the emissions from all the cars, trucks, planes, trains and ships in the world A pioneering 'clean' city - 22 Oct 2007 Los Angeles Times,The European Union, mindful that many member states are failing to meet mandated emissions cuts under the Kyoto Protocol climate-change treaty, Oceans Absorbing Less Carbon Dioxide - 22 Oct 2007 Daily GreenEven as the world’s emissions of carbon dioxide increased, the amount absorbed by the North Atlantic declined precipitously, according to a new 10-year Climate change is a war that we must fight - 22 Oct 2007 The Age,We must rapidly reduce carbon emissions and encourage alternative energy sources, far faster than either government or opposition are prepared to Supporters to rally today for diesel bill - 22 Oct 2007 Boston Globe,The DEP is expected to complete a statewide plan for reducing diesel emissions this winter. The plan will address all sources of diesel emissions, An aviation global warming tax could prove very useful - 22 Oct 2007 Bangkok Post,If the massive GHG emissions by airports, as well as by cars and buses making millions of pick-up and drop-off trips, are factored into the overall Seeing the carbon for the trees - 22 Oct 2007 BBC News,Liberia's greenhouse gas emissions are roughly 250000 times lower than those of the US, yet its remaining forests store approximately four billion tonnes of Eating kangaroo meat will cut down on green house gas emissions - 22 Oct 2007 Daily Mail,A Sydney scientist yesterday insisted that in turning away from beef and eating kangaroo meat we will drastically cut down greenhouse gas emissions. Colin James: A National complication in climate change show - 22 Oct 2007 New Zealand Herald,Along with most interest groups, National gave David Parker's greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme an in-principle tick on day one a month ago. Lomborg takes on 'feel good' environmentalism - 22 Oct 2007 The Copenhagen Post,In addition, he claims that the enormous sums being used to cut carbon dioxide emissions would be better served going towards the many other world problems, UK in double jeopardy from rising imports - 22 Oct 2007 Scotsman,China is criticised for its levels of pollution, particularly its rising greenhouse gas emissions, but it is demand for Chinese goods which fuels this rise, Meijer Wins US EPA SmartWay Environmental Excellence Award - 22 Oct 2007 Earthtimes,...based Meijer an Environmental Excellence Award for its leadership in conserving energy and lowering greenhouse gas emissions from its transportation and Global warming worsens - 22 Oct 2007 Adelaidenow,AUSTRALIAN greenhouse gas reduction targets need to be substantially increased, as emissions grow at a much faster rate than predicted, the CSIRO warns. Winds of change beginning to blow - 22 Oct 2007 iNSnet,The world's biggest retailer is to ask all its suppliers to measure their greenhouse gas emissions. One of the biggest supermarket chains is to label all Governor Arnie to EPA: Hasta La Vista, Bureaucratic Delay Monkeys - 22 Oct 2007 Wired NewsIf successful, fourteen similarly-delayed emissions laws passed by other states will have a green light -- which could explain, perhaps, why the automotive Canada can assume a leadership role in deciding how to tackle ... - 22 Oct 2007 Vancouver Sun,It did nothing to curb the growth of emissions from the two most populous countries in the world, India and China, and the world's largest emitter, SMMT: TfL congestion charge plans will neither cut congestion nor ... - 22 Oct 2007 Auto Industry,In an initial response to Transport for London’s consultation on emissions-related congestion zone charges, the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders has Climate Change 2007 - 22 Oct 2007 NewsReleaseWire.com (press release)She adds that the UN report also found that continued greenhouse-gas emissions at or above current rates would cause further warming and induce many changes Space sensors shed new light on air quality - 22 Oct 2007 European Space Agency,With their vantage point from space, satellites are the only way to carry out effective global measurements of air-polluting emissions and their Nelscott Reef Tow In Classic Goes Green - 22 Oct 2007 Surfline.com Surf News,Behemoth, LLC announces that it has offset its carbon emissions for the Nelscott Reef Tow In Classic via the CarbonFree Surfing program, a partnership Carbon Trust launches new campaign to help SMEs act on climate change - 22 Oct 2007 Retail Bulletin,New research* released today by the Carbon Trust has revealed that lack of time and expertise to measure and reduce their carbon emissions is preventing the The CRE Group, LLC Partners with Carbonfund.org to go CarbonFree - 22 Oct 2007 SocialFunds.com..."Energy use in buildings is a large source of carbon dioxide emissions and is an important factor in the increasing risk of climate disruption," said Steve From Bagels to Coal Fires: An Unorthodox Economist Keeps Pushing ... - 22 Oct 2007 New York Times,No nation wants to pay for emissions reductions while others continue to increase their emissions. Gaining international acceptance of broad policy actions, Most Americans: emissions main cause of global warming - Oct 20, 2007 Xinhua,BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Most Americans think emissions from cars and industrial plants should be the primary cause of global warming and the United Higher emissions from coal and gas power stations threaten ... - Oct 20, 2007 Sunday Herald,Between them, the three power stations emitted 4.6 million tonnes more carbon dioxide in 2006 than in 2005, swamping significant cuts in emissions achieved California AG seeks federal measures on ships' gas emissions - Oct 21, 2007 Alaskajournal.com,The state filed the petition on behalf of environmentalists and community groups concerned about the growing impact of ship emissions on global warming. Toward greener jet fuels - Oct 21, 2007 ZDNetThe second one, funded by NetJets, a company providing business jets, will help to develop new jet fuels with near-zero net greenhouse gas emissions. In many countries, cement is crucial for growth but an enemy of green - Oct 21, 2007 International Herald Tribune,But making cement creates pollution, in the form of carbon dioxide emissions, and the greenest of technologies can reduce that by only 20 percent. Mercury Emissions From US Fires Surprisingly High - Oct 19, 2007 Science Daily (press release)It is the first study to estimate mercury emissions for each state, based on a new computer model developed at NCAR. The authors caution that their Syd S. Peng - Oct 20, 2007 Charleston Gazette,A joint program is being launched by government and industry to demonstrate ways to capture and store carbon dioxide emissions deep underground. Individuals are forming groups to monitor each other's household ... - Oct 19, 2007 CNNIn Britain where climate change is the modern-day bogeyman, individuals are not just waiting for corporations to cut their carbon emissions -- they are Technology alone won't tame climate-change juggernaut - Oct 21, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle,Transportation accounts for almost half of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the Bay Area and statewide. There are two main ways to reduce emissions from Quarter of China's carbon emissions due to exports - Oct 19, 2007 ReutersBy Jeremy Lovell LONDON (Reuters) - One quarter of China's booming emissions of climate warming gases are from its export trade to Europe and the United Killer Genes, More Emissions Than Usual in Senate, Space Transport ... - Oct 19, 2007 Wired News...[PR] CO2 Emissions Bill in Senate: Senators Joseph Lieberman (D, CT) and John Warner (R, VT) have introduced a bill to combat climate change. EU Commission delays emissions trading proposals - Oct 19, 2007 ReutersLISBON (Reuters) - The European Commission will postpone to January proposals on emissions trading and on renewable energy, a spokesman for the EU executive Emissions from shipping rise as trade grows - Oct 19, 2007 ABC Online,A study by an industry group representing tanker operators says carbon dioxide emissions from the global shipping industry have risen dramatically. News index | RSS | News Feed Advertisements: Organic Apparel from Patagonia | Insect-repelling clothing |
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