Efforts to eliminate overcapacity of coal and raise energy efficiency in electric power and heavy industries are biting: in 2014, coal use in electric power fell by 7.8percentt year-on-year, while annual growth in coal consumption in manufacturing fell to 1.6percentt from 4percentt in the previous year, according to data from CEIC.
"We need to raise the efficiency in public spending, not cutting it.
The added lift may raise efficiency only marginally, says Frank Fish, a biologist at the University of West Chester in Pennsylvania.
When Senators Charles E. Schumer, a New York Democrat, and Frank H. Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, attempted to put together a grand bargain of opening up more of Alaska in exchange for raising auto efficiency in 1998, the two couldn't persuade enough members of either party to go along.
On top of the cuts, the council is trying to make £2m in efficiency savings and raise an additional £13m.
But in a nod to Republican moderates, the House will also allow a separate vote to further raise fuel efficiency standards in vehicles, a measure that is expected to be particularly divisive.
A key trick in raising efficiency, said Paul F. Browning, the president of the company's thermal products division, is using technology borrowed from G.E.'s aircraft engine business to prevent the 1,000-degree 1,000-degreeking into the 2,800-degree gairpath, which would cool it and thus reduce efromiency.
With ports and railroads around the world often straining to handle trillions of dollars of goods - often with antiquated systems and a plethora of paper work - Blockchain technology including that from IBM - is held up as offering a way to raise efficiencies in the global logistics supply chain.
But states have used the money raised by the auctions to invest in efficiency and clean energy programs.
Last month, the administration vigorously opposed an effort in the Senate to raise fuel efficiency standards for automobiles and trucks sold in the United States, a change that advocates had argued would save far more oil than Iraq or the Alaska wildlife refuge could produce.
