Sentences with phrase «lower emission from power plants»

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In his State of the State address, the governor committed to lowering emissions of climate - altering pollution from power plants.

Like fossil fuel development or not, the Kemper plant is at the center of U.S. EPA's plans to regulate carbon dioxide from new power plants and at the center of global emissions, considering that «low - rank» coals like Mississippi lignite constitute half the world's coal supply.

Even the oil sands ultimate consumption in a gasoline, diesel or jet engine only results in 500 kilograms of CO2 - equivalent per barrel of refined petroleum products, meaning total oil sands emissions from well to wheel are considerably lower than those of this nation's more than 500 power plants burning coal to generate electricity.

The Electric Power Research Institute's report on decarbonizing electricity generation said an «aggressive» push on new technologies could lower 2005 - level carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 41 percent in Power Research Institute's report on decarbonizing electricity generation said an «aggressive» push on new technologies could lower 2005 - level carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 41 percent in power plants by 41 percent in 2030.

Oil firms might pay to use CO2 emissions from power plants, but low petroleum prices could doom the effort

Lower rates of asthma and other health problems are frequently cited as benefits of policies aimed at cutting carbon emissions from sources like power plants and vehicles, because these policies also lead to reductions in other harmful types of air pollution.

«Living downwind of coal - fired power plant could increase risk of low birth weight: Study found that babies born during 1990 - 2006 to mothers living as far as 20 to 30 miles away from proven emitter of sulfur dioxide emissions had 6.5 percent greater risk of low birth weight and 17.12 percent greater risk of very low birth weight.»

Communities of color and those with low education and high poverty and unemployment may face greater health risks even if their air quality meets federal health standards.A pervasive air pollutant, the fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 is a mixture of emissions from diesel engines, power plants, refineries and other sources of combustion.

Less commonly, countries spoke of reducing the use of inefficient coal - fired power plants, lowering methane emissions from oil and gas production, reforming fossil fuel subsidies, and carbon pricing, the report says.

The latest injection technology, fully variable valve control performance control and latest - generation turbochargers: All petrol power plants from the BMW EfficientDynamics engine family offer impressive strength — and astonishingly low fuel consumption and emissions.

The key factors determining carbon emissions for corn - based ethanol are (1) whether coal or natural gas is used to power the ethanol plant, (2) whether distillers grains are dried or sold wet, and (3) whether expansion of corn acreage comes mainly from reduced acreage of lower - value crops or if idled land is brought into production.

A new report assesses the credit risks that power plants face from the global transition to an economy with lower carbon dioxide emissions and finds that some U.S. coal plants are still exposed to those risks, despite Trump administration efforts to roll back CO2 reduction rules.

The contradiction was further sharpened by Obama's Aug. 3 announcement of his Clean Power Plan, devoted to lowering greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, which he called, «the single most important step America has ever taken in the fight against global climate change.&rPower Plan, devoted to lowering greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, which he called, «the single most important step America has ever taken in the fight against global climate change.&rpower plants, which he called, «the single most important step America has ever taken in the fight against global climate change.»

The EPA uses a formula of «CO2 emissions from fossil fuel - fired power plants in pounds (lbs) divided by state electricity generation from fossil - fuel fired power plants and certain low - or zero - emitting power sources in megawatt hours (MWh)» to calculate each state target.

(Irony alert: much of the global warming that imperils low - lying island nations and coastal nations like Bangladesh is a due to CO2 emissions from... coal - fired power plants.)

«Solar not only meets this peak need at a lower per kilowatt - hour cost, but also without the harmful emissions from running a power plant on standby (or fracking its fuel out of the ground),» he writes.

The Clean Power Plan reached beyond individual plant upgrades by allowing generators unable to meet its emission standards to offset their power from lower carbon - emitting resources, such as renewaPower Plan reached beyond individual plant upgrades by allowing generators unable to meet its emission standards to offset their power from lower carbon - emitting resources, such as renewapower from lower carbon - emitting resources, such as renewables.

A shift by utilities away from coal and toward natural gas during the last 15 years has helped make carbon emissions from power plants 23 percent lower than they otherwise would have been, said research scientist Joost de Gouw of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at University of Colorado at Boulder.

Gettrick said Dominion sees «gas and solar» as the way to comply with the EPA's Clean Power Plan, which will require states to lower their carbon emissions from electric generating plants.

Our patented technology allows for the low - cost capture of CO2 from stationary emissions sources such as oil production operations, power and steam plants and metals production facilities, while leveraging existing solvent - based gas scrubbing approaches already known to industry.

Marcellus Shale production is helping the Commonwealth to lower carbon emissions with $ 10.5 billion worth of new power natural gas - fired power plant investments, and as this latest study shows — those benefits aren't even close to being cancelled out by methane emissions from record production.

For example, a 2009 UCS analysis found that a 25 percent by 2025 national renewable electricity standard would lower power plant CO2 emissions 277 million metric tons annually by 2025 — the equivalent of the annual output from 70 typical (600 MW) new coal plants [4].

Greenhouse gas emissions from Northeast power plants were about 10 percent lower than predicted during the last two years...

By Wednesday, Aug. 5, the government announced carbon emissions from power plants in April 2015 reached a 27 - year low.

Increased generation from Victoria's brown coal plants with their relatively low thermal efficiencies has also lowered the average national thermal efficiency of power generation, leading to a corresponding rise in atmospheric emissions.

Atmospheric CO2 is likely to increase to around 640 ppmv *, assuming — There will be no global Kyoto type climate initiatives — Human CO2 emissions increase with human population — Global per capita human fossil fuel use increases by 30 % by 2100 (it increased by 20 % from 1970 to today)-- Population growth is estimated to slow down sharply, with population reaching 10.5 billion by 2100 (* Note that this could be lower by around 60 ppmv if there is a concerted switch to nuclear power instead of coal for new power plants)

Thus, the problem with the proposals currently being discussed in Congress: They will, for the foreseeable future, direct private investment toward the least expensive emissions reductions (such as burning methane from landfills, purchasing forest land for carbon sequestration, or retrofitting power plants and buildings so they operate more efficiently) rather than toward breakthrough technologies (like low - cost solar energy and carbon capture and storage), which are too expensive to become widely adopted today but which are vital for creating a new energy economy and thus drastically reducing emissions.

By 2002, sulphur dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants were 40 per cent lower than they had been in 1980, as new life crept back into the continent's dead - zone lakes.

Reginal Greenhouse Gas Initiative is 9 Northeast States that agreed to lower carbon dioxide emissions from the region's power plants by 2.5 % each year through an auction of emission allowances the plants buy.

Lower emissions from natural gas turbines and lignite power plants compensated for the increase in CO2 emissions from hard coal plants.

They argued that much of the EPA program's apparent success in reducing SO2 emissions from power plants was due to simultaneous railroad deregulation which reduced the cost of delivering low sulfur coal strip - mined in the west.

Under a cap and trade rule, dirtier power plants would buy credits to release more mercury from plants with lower emissions, and communities around the dirtier facilities could face greater health risks.

Sure enough, over time sulfur - dioxide emissions from power plants were cut almost in half, at a much lower cost than even optimists expected; electricity prices fell instead of rising.