The tunnel could significantly ease congestion and lessen the emissions spewed by commercial vehicles by taking hundreds of trucks a day off the roads, proponents say.
Anthony Millett Marlborough, Wiltshire Just why are we continuing with the landscape-disfiguring windfarms when there are many other ways to lessen carbon emissions ('UK wind farm plans on brink of failure', News, last week)?
SST cooling would lessen CO2 emission because colder sea water has greater gas solubility, but for strong upwelling regions, the difference in DIC concentration is so large between the surface and deep ocean that the changes in SST and solubility are less influential.
If known, how has this country's output of greenhouse gases affected other countries (environmentally, economically, etc).? -What is the country's obligation to lessening greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol?
But many of these officials also say such action will have to come from Congress, which authorized the use of the additive in 1990 as part of the Clean Air Act in an effort to lessen carbon monoxide emissions.
Despite the progress the city has made toward lessening industrial air emissions, as Morrison notes, there is still the incessant dust blowing in from Mongolia, a main contributor to the air quality alert of the last two days.
While the United States has sat on the sidelines, other governments are enthusiastically embracing nuclear power as a way to lessen their greenhouse emissions and their dependence on imported oil.
That powerful economic interests -- with their lawyers, lobbyists and eager politicians -- are lining up to fight an inadequate, baby-step plan to lessen automotive greenhouse emissions 30percentt by 2016 shows that our huge global warming experiment is likely to proceed unchecked.
Assuming Franken is ultimately confirmed, the Republicans will be hard-pressed to hinder Obama's agenda, including provisions to lessen greenhouse gas emissions, expand government health insurance programmes, his $3.7tn budget, his judicial nominations, and potentially more costly fiscal stimulus measures.
The Mercedes Benz engineers also managed to lower fuel consumption by 20%, and lessen nitrogen oxide emissions by 80%.
