Sentences with phrase «coal industry estimates»

Coal industry estimates of incredible abundance are notoriously incorrect.

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Today, solar jobs vastly outnumber those in coal, and those numbers continue to grow — a recent report from the International Renewably Energy Agency estimated that employment in the solar industry expanded 17 times as fast as the US economy overall in 2016.

Tens of thousands of gas wells are expected to be drilled in the coming decade, according to energy industry and U.S. government estimates, and much of that gas will be delivered to electric utilities as a cleaner substitute for burning coal.

And action is going to take money: the IEA estimates at least $ 20 billion over the next decade, whereas the industry group American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity says it will cost $ 17 billion for CCS to be available by 2025.

But green energy watchers always suspected that the government was not ready to pony up the necessary billions it would take, including the ballooning $ 1.8 - billion estimated budget for FutureGen, which many environmentalists charged was a mere payoff for the politically connected coal industry.

As for the criticism for McCain wanting to build non-carbon capturing coal plants, since we're going to be burning coal for decades by any estimate, if we implement a carbon restrictive regime, wouldn't we want to allow industry to build new plants that are more efficient than the current fleet?

Hugh Wynne, an investment analyst who studies the utility industry for Sanford Bernstein, estimates that the mercury and smog regulations alone could force up to one - fifth of the nation's oldest and dirtiest coal - fired plants to retire in the next five years, largely in the Midwest and South.

«Industrial coal combustion is estimated to provide about 9 % of global emissions, mainly in small boilers, process heat for brick and lime kilns, and coke production for the steel industry.

Coal's share of electricity generation increased from 33 % in April to 42 % in November, the most recent month for which public data is available (Figure 5), and industry consultancy GenScape estimates that coal's share stabilized at these levels through JanuCoal's share of electricity generation increased from 33 % in April to 42 % in November, the most recent month for which public data is available (Figure 5), and industry consultancy GenScape estimates that coal's share stabilized at these levels through Janucoal's share stabilized at these levels through January.

A study published earlier this year found that methane emissions from the natural gas industry were likely 50 percent higher than previous government estimates, but that switching from coal to natural gas would still cut greenhouse gas emissions.

'' A conservative estimate of the coal industry's spending on paid advertising for the first half of 2008 is $ 7.4 million.

the Michigan Tech scientists focussed only on deaths from air pollution linked to coal - burning power stations: they did not make a calculation about the economic costs of chronic illness linked to polluted air, nor did they estimate the health costs that might be linked to the entire coal industry, nor include the estimates of deaths that might be attributed to climate change as a consequence of prodigal fossil fuel combustion.

Importantly, the Michigan Tech scientists focussed only on deaths from air pollution linked to coal - burning power stations: they did not make a calculation about the economic costs of chronic illness linked to polluted air, nor did they estimate the health costs that might be linked to the entire coal industry, nor include the estimates of deaths that might be attributed to climate change as a consequence of prodigal fossil fuel combustion.

Confusingly, the China Coal Industry Association estimated that coal consumption measured in tonnes fell by 1.3 %, not the 4.7 % reported by the government statistical burCoal Industry Association estimated that coal consumption measured in tonnes fell by 1.3 %, not the 4.7 % reported by the government statistical burcoal consumption measured in tonnes fell by 1.3 %, not the 4.7 % reported by the government statistical bureau.

«Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy» creates a framework for calculating the air pollution externalities of industries, called «gross external damages» (GED), and estimates that coal creates roughly $ 53 billion in damages a year - a cost that is over twice as high as the market price of the electricity.

We estimate that the coal and oil industries spent an astounding $ 427.2 million over the first six months of 2008 to influence public opinion and public policy.

«In 2006, Earth Track estimated that the US oil and gas industry received $ 39 billion in federal energy subsidies, and the coal industry a further $ 8 billion.»

Not only is this a substantial quantity of product vanishing into the air (natural gas is primarily methane), it is also significantly higher than most previous estimates — including from industry — and would reduce or eliminate any advantage natural gas has over coal from a climate standpoint.