Sentence examples for polluting alternatives from inspiring English sources

For another thing, emissions caps would effectively provide a subsidy to less polluting alternatives, one that would be harder for lobbyists to manipulate and that wouldn't require lawmakers to pick winners among various possible technologies.

GM caused anxiety among its unionised workforce a few years ago when it talked publicly about its Project Yellowstone, to adapt production by assembling cars from pre-prepared modules made by outside parts suppliers.Changes to manufacturing methods could also arise from new technology being incorporated in cars, particularly as less polluting alternatives to petrol and diesel engines come along.

On one hand, oil is now cheaper than in the recent past, making it tempting for struggling economies to fall back on this relatively dirty fossil fuel, rather than plowing ahead with efforts to develop less polluting alternatives, like wind and solar power.

"We're waiting to see exactly what plans the city has for controlling idling trucks, rotting smells, noise from queuing trucks and whether they obligate private haulers to switch to less polluting alternatives to diesel fuel," said the councilwoman, who represents the area where the transfer station is located.

Now that governments seem to be getting serious about emissions, car and fuel companies are getting serious about finding less polluting alternatives.Fuel-efficiency regulations of varying kinds already exist in all the countries that matter, but in America, where they were fairly tough during the oil crises of the 1970s and 1980s, they have lost their bite.

In national parks throughout the West, rangers and traffic engineers work long hours to nudge travelers out of their cars and onto trails — or at least onto shuttle buses and other less polluting alternatives.

It also means the poor will have the choice to spend their money on far superior and cleaner lighting products that aren't forced to compete with a heavily subsidized, and heavily polluting, alternative.

He can hasten the development of less-polluting alternatives to older-generation refrigerants and other chemicals.

A successful carbon tax bill, whether it is proposed by Democrats, Republicans or both, would not only impose a levy on fossil fuels but steer the economy toward innovation, less-polluting alternatives for high-emitting sectors, and fairness to consumers and citizens.

The new cabs are a bigger and, according to the manufacturer, a less polluting alternative to the tourist symbol that traces its roots back to 1919.

The results indicate that the Cr III passivated coatings with sealing treatments have a corrosion resistance comparable with that of coatings with a Cr VI passivation treatment without a sealant; therefore, they could be a less polluting alternative to the traditional chromated coatings.