Ammonia, greenhouse gases, and particulate emissions from livestock operations can potentially affect air quality at local, regional, and even global scales. These pollutants, many of which are generated through various anthropogenic activities, are being increasingly scrutinized by regulatory authorities. Regulation of emissions from livestock production systems will ultimately increase on far...

Energy from waste (EfW) for nonrecyclable wastes is a suitable method of waste management and is important for renewable energy production. South Korea currently recycles 57% of household waste and landfills 26%. The remaining 17% is incinerated, mainly for heat production. In this study, the potential for energy production and reduction of corresponding greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from muni...

China’s Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2011–2015) aims to achieve a national carbon intensity reduction of 17% through differentiated targets at the provincial level. Allocating the national target among China’s provinces is complicated by the fact that more than half of China’s national carbon emissions are embodied in interprovincial trade, with the relatively developed eastern provinces relying on ...

GHG emission reduction is one of the key environmental problems for the sustainable development discussion in the 21st century, because it is closely related to energy use and bulk material flows. Concrete and binding targets for reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for Annex-1 countries are now agreed to in the Kyoto protocol. Emissions in the European Union will be reduced by 8% in the...

This paper presents an analysis of the reduction in S02 emissions by electric utilities between 1985 and 1993. We find that emissions have been reduced for reasons largely unrelated to the emission reduction mandate incorporated in Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. The principal reason appears to be the change in the economics of coal choice that has resulted from the remarkable de...

Since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol, a major e€ort has been launched in Canada to identify cost-e€ective measures to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Agriculture is an important contributor of methane and nitrous oxide in Canada. Over one-third of methane and almost four-®fths of nitrous oxide emissions are from agriculture either directly or indirectly. By 2010 primary agricultural p...

Incident radiation has been reported to facilitate mercury release from soils. In this study the influence of light on mercury emissions from substrates amended with pure synthetic mercury species, and from naturally and anthropogenically mercury-enriched substrates were investigated using laboratory experiments and in situ flux measurements. Light-enhanced emissions were found to occur from su...

A significant proportion of global carbon dioxide emissions are attributed to ocean-sailing ships and shipping predicted double in less than 30 years. This paper investigates the benefit using weather ship routing optimisation, assessing for minimum distance routes optimised routes. The present contribution merges estimation pollutants their mitigation through optimisation; two lines research w...