While Davis ' record is generally considered pro-environmental due to increases in spending for land acquisition, maintenance of the state's park system, signing legislation that attempts to cut greenhouse gas emissions by having automakers produce more efficient vehicles, cutting fees to state parks and opposing offshore drilling, he was criticized for not backing tougher restrictions on timber companies as some environmentalists desired.

While electric and hybrid cars have reduced tailpipe carbon emissions, the energy they consume is sometimes produced by means that have environmental impacts.

While this does significantly reduce VOC emissions, the timber swells during treatment, removing many of the advantages of LOSP formulations.

" The paper concluded, " While on-going national and international actions to curtail and reduce greenhouse gas emissions are essential, the levels of greenhouse gases currently in the atmosphere, and their impact, are likely to persist for several decades.

This provides a low-impact energy source, especially when compared with coal and natural gas While incineration produces more greenhouse gas emissions than landfilling, the waste plants are well-fitted with filters to minimize this negative impact.

While the Black Sea " cleanup " was largely unintentional and involved a drop in hard-to-control fertilizer usage, the U. N. has advocated other cleanups by reducing large industrial emissions.

* Carbon dioxide emissions: While all three bills implement emissions targets on power sector emissions of NO < sub > x </ sub >, SO < sub > 2 </ sub >, and mercury, the Clean Air Planning Act and the Clean Power Act also call for limits on carbon dioxide ( CO < sub > 2 </ sub >) emissions.

While hush kits effectively reduce noise emissions from older aircraft, noise cannot always be reduced to the level of modern planes at a reasonable cost.

While observing the apparently uniform fluorescence on a zinc sulfide screen created by the radioactive emissions ( mostly alpha radiation ) of a sample of radium, he spilled some of the radium sample, and, owing to its extreme rarity and cost, he was eager to find and recover it.

While the energy represented in these emissions determines which elements are present, the intensity of the spectrum reveals the elements concentrations.

While Suzuki held on to the two-stroke engine concept for a half decade longer than any of its Japanese competitors, eventually market pressures and ever tightening emissions regulations spelled its end in the Alto by September 1981.

While downcycling is criticized for reducing the value of a product, it is justified in terms of reducing the energy and CO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions that would be entailed in producing products from scratch with new raw materials.

While Suncor has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of its oil sands operations by more than 50 % since 1990, total greenhouse gas emissions from the company's operations have increased because of growing oil sands production.

While traditional carbon emissions trading programs promote low-carbon technologies by increasing the cost of emitting carbon, RECs can incentivize carbon-neutral renewable energy by providing a production subsidy to electricity generated from renewable sources.

While PET is considered less toxic than many other types of plastic, the Berkely Ecology Center found that manufacturing PET generates toxic emissions in the form of nickel, ethylbenzene, ethylene oxide and benzene at levels 100 times higher than those created to make the same amount of glass.

While reduced visibility in the valley was due to sulfur emissions in the past, it is now due to fine particles in the air.

While carbon sequestration is a potentially important way to limit atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations in the long term, the use of phytoliths to achieve this must be balanced against other uses that might be made of the same biomass carbon ( or land for producing biomass ) to reduce GHG emissions by other means including, for example, the production of bioenergy to offset fossil fuel emissions.

While local emissions reduction schemes have no status under the Kyoto Protocol itself, they play a prominent role in creating the demand for CERs and ERUs, stimulating Emissions Trading and setting a market price for emissions.

While a wind wave never travels at more than 60 miles per hour, the velocity of a tsunami in the open sea must be reckoned in hundreds of miles per hour.

While the rate of growth varies by region, time of year and gender, Zug and Zug found an average initial growth rate of per day, followed by an average rate of per day.

While the 6x86's integer performance was significantly higher than P5 Pentium's, it's floating point performance was more mediocre — between 2 and 4 times the performance of the 486 FPU per clock cycle ( depending on the operation and precision ).

While < sup > 153 </ sup > Eu is stable, < sup > 151 </ sup > Eu was recently found to be unstable to alpha decay with half-life of, giving about 1 alpha decay per two minutes in every kilogram of natural europium.

While the particles themselves can move quite slowly, sometimes with an average drift velocity only fractions of a millimetre per second, the electric field that drives them itself propagates at close to the speed of light, enabling electrical signals to pass rapidly along wires.

While emigration began to tail off in England and Wales after the First World War, it continued apace in Scotland, with 400, 000 Scots, ten per cent of the population, estimated to have left the country between 1921 and 1931.

While on the Bears, Aaron earned $ 10 per game ($ today ).

While it is true that three power strokes typically occur per rotor revolution due to the 3: 1 revolution ratio of the rotor to the eccentric shaft, only one power stroke per shaft revolution actually occurs ; this engine provides three power ' strokes ' per revolution per rotor giving it a greater power-to-weight ratio than piston engines.

While a forward pass may only be thrown once per down by the team on offense from within or behind the neutral zone, there are no restrictions on the use of lateral passes ; any player legally carrying the ball may throw a lateral pass from any position on the field at any time, any player may receive such a pass, and any number of lateral passes may be thrown on a single play.

While there are no official numbers, LDS Family Services estimates that there are on average four or five members per LDS ward who experience same-sex attraction.

While individuals could produce 200 pins per day, Smith analyzed the steps involved in manufacture and, with 10 specialists, enabled production of 48, 000 pins per day.

While reconstruction took place, the team played its " home " games at Manchester City's Maine Road ground ; Manchester United was charged £ 5, 000 per year, plus a nominal percentage of gate receipts.

While trade between the two countries fell sharply after World War I, trade agreements signed in the mid-1920s helped to increase trade to 433 million Reichsmarks per year by 1927.

While steals don't win much money per hand, they can accumulate to considerable profit if the players to the left of the stealer are tight enough not to contest enough steals.

While pressure may be measured in any unit of force divided by any unit of area, the SI unit of pressure ( the newton per square metre ) is called the pascal ( Pa ) after the seventeenth-century philosopher and scientist Blaise Pascal.

While a small family farm typically produced a wide range of crop, garden, and animal products, all requiring substantial labor, large industrial farms typically specialize in just a few crop or livestock varieties, using large machinery and high-density livestock containment systems that require a fraction of the labor per unit produced.

While there was an initial interest in 100 words per minute operation, many Amateur Radio operators moved back to 60 words per minute.

While later televisions were cable-ready with a standard converter built-in, the existence of premium television ( aka pay per view ) and the advent of digital cable have continued the need for various forms of these devices for cable television reception.

While " distortion " can include arbitrary deformation of an image, the most pronounced modes of distortion produced by conventional imaging optics is " barrel distortion ", in which the center of the image is magnified more than the perimeter ( figure 7a ).

While the original Sterling semi-auto would be classed a " short barrel rifle " under the U. S. National Firearms Act, fully legal long-barrel versions of the Sterling have been made for the U. S. collector market.

While the tiny gap between cylinder and barrel on most revolvers is insignificant to the internal ballistics, the seal is especially effective when used with a suppressor, and a number of suppressed Nagant revolvers have been used since its invention.

) While working there, he was living with his religious church-going great-grandmother and had her convinced that he worked as a night watchman in a barrel factory.

While basic carburetors have only one venturi, many carburetors have more than one venturi, or " barrel ".

While Euclid was the originator of what we now understand as the published geometric proof, Pythagoras created a closed community and suppressed results ; he is even said to have drowned a student in a barrel for revealing the existence of irrational numbers.

While speedball and tournament players generally have no time to clear this obstruction and instead simply " shoot through it ", woodsball and scenario players generally carry a tool to allow them to clear the barrel following a break.

While the men roped or rode bulls and broncs, the women barrel raced.

While similar in energy to the aforementioned test, the railgun used is considerably more compact, with a more conventional looking barrel.

While many prefer the pyramid shape of variety etrog, and others prefer the barrel shape of the Diamante, some look for an etrog with a gartel — an hourglass-like strip running around the middle, more commonly found on the Moroccan citron.

While the shortened cylinder made loading easier the barrel was attached to the cylinder pin ; over time this weakened the gun, decreasing its accuracy.

While Drucker is a provincial everyman in Petticoat Junction, his character is bent a bit here ( keeping plastic pickles in a barrel to appease " city folk ").

While none of these applications rival the majesty of the ancient and Classical predecessors, they demonstrate the pervasiveness of the barrel vault as an architectural concept in contemporary times.

While wooden hoops could require barrels to be " fully hooped ", with hoops stacked tightly together along the entire top and bottom third of a barrel, iron-hooped barrels only require a few hoops on each end.

While the barrel process was an improvement on the patio, it was found not to be well adapted to the rapid working of the Comstock ores as pan amalgamation.

While adult sailors received their lashes on the back, they were administered to boys on the bare posterior, usually while " kissing the gunner's daughter " ( bending over a gun barrel ), just as boys ' lighter " daily " chastisement was usually over their ( often naked ) rear-end ( mainly with a cane – this could be applied to the hand, but captains generally refused such impractical disablement – or a rope's end ).

While not a difficult operation, barrels are unwieldy and expensive, so many organ grinders only have one barrel for their instrument.

While a simple slot milled in the barrel, such as those used in Magna-Porting, will provide some benefit, efficient redirection of the gas flow requires large ports and baffles to deflect as much gas as possible.

While focusing on the target, the muzzle is placed about below the target ( the distance being measured at the muzzle ), which places the barrel nearly parallel to the line of sight of the shooter.

While most hunting shotguns hold between 2 to 5 shells ( often 3 shells, to comply with U. S. regulations for migratory bird hunting ), riot shotguns can have a magazine tube as long as the barrel, allowing for 6 to 10 shells to be loaded depending on the model, barrel length, and type of shells loaded.

While many equate sabot to rifled barrel, this slug design was specifically designed for and tested in smoothbores.

* Cock: While often depicted as a cockerel, this term usually means that the pub originally served beer from a barrel rather than in bottles.

While the rocking chair moved, the barrel moved and churned the milk within into butter.