Sentences with phrase «coal emissions responsible»

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Many types of emissions from coal - fired plants have been reduced, but the capturing and storing of carbon dioxide, the emission that scientists say is most responsible for climate change, has been harder to accomplish on a significant scale.

Electric power generation from coal and natural gas plants is responsible for 40 % of U.S. carbon emissions.

Coal, meanwhile, is believed responsible for a host of more quotidian problems, such as mining accidents, acid rain and greenhouse gas emissions.

To reduce use on Portland cement, the material responsible for 7 percent of global CO2 emissions, Bullitt uses fly ash (a waste product of coal burning) to create cement.

Substantively, she said, the covered sectors pull their weight in terms of contributions to climate change: Cement is responsible for fully half of the country's CO2 emissions, and 85 percent of China's electricity generation is coal - fired.

Of course, coal is also responsible for nearly 30 percent of U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide, and 20 percent globally.

Carnegie's Caldeira and Zhang, along with Myhrvold, aimed to identify the key factors that are responsible for most of the difference in greenhouse gas emissions between individual gas and coal plants.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, coal - and natural gas - fired plants were responsible for a third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2012.

According to Beijing's environmental watchdog, vehicle emissions in Beijing were responsible for about 31 percent of the hazardous airborne particles known as PM 2.5, with 22.4 percent originating from coal burning.

We find (i) measurements at all scales show that official inventories consistently underestimate actual CH4 [methane] emissions, with the natural gas and oil sectors as important contributors; (ii) many independent experiments suggest that a small number of «super-emitters» could be responsible for a large fraction of leakage; (iii) recent regional atmospheric studies with very high emissions rates are unlikely to be representative of typical natural gas system leakage rates; and (iv) assessments using 100 - year impact indicators show system - wide leakage is unlikely to be large enough to negate climate benefits of coal - to - natural gas substitution.

So if the world moves toward a system for tracking emissions, who is responsible for a particular batch of carbon dioxide — the company that mined and sold the coal, the power plant that burned it, the consumer who buys the exported widget made with the electricity generated by that combustion, or...?

Regarding your question about who is responsible for the GHG emissions when coal is traded internationally, I'll share what I tell my students during our carbon trading simulation: «The carbon follows the money.»

According to the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the burning of coal is responsible for 70 percent of the emissions of soot that clouds out the sun in so much of China; 85 percent of sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain and smog; and 67 percent of nitrogen oxide, a precursor to harmful ground level ozone.

Thus, the government was attributing almost one - tenth of all health - care spending in the province to illnesses and mortality arising from coal power plants that were responsible for only one percent of annual particulate emissions, which is implausible.

Coal is responsible for at least 50 % of sulfur dioxide emissions and is a major contributor to nitrous oxide and Particulate Matter (PM2.5) emissions which are three major toxic air pollutants;

It was a reminder of the skepticism that conservative and business groups have expressed over whether other nations — particularly China, which is responsible for about a quarter of the world's carbon emissions and is burning increasing amounts of coal — will follow Obama's lead in restricting such emissions.

Coal from the Powder River Basin is already responsible for 13 % of our country's total carbon dioxide emissions.

Emissions from coal plants are also responsible for 13,200 U.S. deaths annually — a number that dwarfs the U.S. lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

Beyond coal - related carbon emissions being a primary contributor to climate change, studies have found that coal - fired electricity has significant public health risks; a 2016 analysis found that coal dust is responsible for about 22,900 premature deaths per year throughout the E.U.

Mercury: Coal plants are responsible for 42 percent of US mercury emissions, a toxic heavy metal that can damage the nervous, digestive, and immune systems, and is a serious threat to the child development.

#KXL would be responsible for at least 181 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) each year, comparable to the tailpipe emissions from more than 37.7 million cars or 51 coal - fired power plants.

As the dirtiest form of electricity generation, coal is responsible for 40 % of global greenhouse gas emissions and is a major source of air and water pollution.

Coal is the dirtiest of fossil fuels and is responsible for three - quarters of all power sector emissions despite only providing two - fifths of power.

Emissions from coal plants in China were responsible for a quarter of a million premature deaths in 2011 and are damaging the health of hundreds of thousands of Chinese children, according to a new study.

Despite its advanced knowledge of the climate disruption fueled in large part by oil, gas and coal pollution, ExxonMobil turned its back on crafting responsible solutions and instead funded a sophisticated campaign to sow doubt and delay action to curb carbon emissions — honing the tobacco industry's playbook with even more advanced public relations, advertising and lobbying muscle.

Responsible policymaking requires a rising price on carbon emissions that would preclude emissions from most remaining coal and unconventional fossil fuels and phase down emissions from conventional fossil fuels.

India's Center for Science and Environment (CSE) reports coal is responsible for 80 % of India's mercury pollution, 60 % of airborne particulate matter, 45 % of sulphur dioxide emissions, and 30 % of nitrogen oxide levels.

According to this internal analysis, Shell's products (oil, gas, and coal) were responsible for 4 % of total global carbon emissions in 1984.

If approved, Keystone XL would be responsible for at least 181 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) each year, comparable to the tailpipe emissions from more than 37.7 million cars or 51 coal - fired power plants.

These laggard coal - reliant companies are responsible for ecologically destructive coal mining and the carbon dioxide emissions that drive global climate change, not to mention a litany of dangerous pollutants.

And while coal power is responsible for massive amounts of CO2 emissions, new plants are still coming online, and «clean coal» technologies are largely unproven.