2000 Coal Environment Global 
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MAY 15, 2014
Shale gas in particular has grown rapidly, from less than one percent of US production in 2000 to 34% in 2012, and projections show strong production growth continuing for the foreseeable future. With this abundance of natural gas comes a variety of questions.
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JULY 3, 2017
Improving the efficiency of road-freight transport is critical to reducing the growth in oil demand, carbon emissions and air pollution over the next decades, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report, The Future of Trucks: Implications for energy and the environment. —“The Future of Trucks”.
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JANUARY 16, 2013
Black carbon (BC) is the second largest man-made contributor to global warming and its influence on climate has been greatly underestimated, according to the first quantitative and comprehensive analysis of this pollutant’s climate impact. Emission rates of BC in the year 2000 by region, indicating major source categories in each region.
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MARCH 8, 2015
Leaded gasoline was a larger emission source of the toxic heavy metal lead than mining in South America, even though the extraction of metals from the region’s mines historically released huge quantities of lead into the environment, according to a study by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the University of Bern.
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FEBRUARY 14, 2011
The new booklet— Signals & Signposts —updates the company’s thinking by taking into account the impact of the global economic and financial crisis. In summary, Shell believes that the world is entering an era of volatile transitions as the effects of energy consumption on the environment become increasingly clear.
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MAY 5, 2014
Preliminary global mean CO 2 concentrations in February 2014 were 398.06 These gases come from human activities such as combustion of coal and oil as well as natural sources such as emissions from plants. Predicted changes in regional climate and globally enhanced ozone are estimated to increase surface ozone over most of the U.S.;
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JANUARY 13, 2013
Unintentional emission sectors: Coal burning, ferrous- and non-ferrous (Au, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn) metal production, cement production. UNEP produced its first Global Mercury Assessment in 2002 and a subsequent study in 2007. These global percentages will, of course, vary on a regional basis. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge.
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