Sentences with phrase «u.s. coal sector»

In June 2014, President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a set of proposed new regulations that would see the U.S. coal sector reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2030.

Even without the Clean Power Plan, the U.S. coal sector is suffering.

Not exact matches

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

The electric power sector accounted for about 92.4 % of the total U.S. coal consumption in fourth — quarter 2017.

Solar created one out of every 50 new jobs in the U.S. last year, and the sector now employs more Americans than coal.

That same Clean Power Plan predicted that by 2030, under the policy's changes to the electricity sector, natural gas would provide 33 percent of U.S. electricity, and coal would provide 27 percent.

The findings suggest that as the U.S. energy market continues to shift from coal to natural gas, the overall «toxicity burden» of the electricity sector will decrease, said study corresponding author Shelie Miller, an environmental engineer and an associate professor at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability's Center for Sustainable Systems.

Trump, who has called climate change a «hoax,» has re-committed the U.S. to coal energy, which was the largest single source of climate pollution in the U.S. until being eclipsed by the transportation sector last year.

The world's largest private - sector coal firm, along with other U.S. giants like Arch Coal Inc., Cloud Peak Energy Inc. and Alpha Natural Resources Inc., are swimming against a powerful current of regulatory and economic change that has shrunk markets and driven down stock prices to unprecedented lcoal firm, along with other U.S. giants like Arch Coal Inc., Cloud Peak Energy Inc. and Alpha Natural Resources Inc., are swimming against a powerful current of regulatory and economic change that has shrunk markets and driven down stock prices to unprecedented lCoal Inc., Cloud Peak Energy Inc. and Alpha Natural Resources Inc., are swimming against a powerful current of regulatory and economic change that has shrunk markets and driven down stock prices to unprecedented lows.

• Leads global sector public financing towards cleaner energy by calling for the end of U.S. government support for public financing of new coal - fired powers plants overseas, except for the most efficient coal technology available in the world's poorest countries, or facilities deploying carbon capture and sequestration technologies; and

... In the U.S. electricity supply sector, the cost benchmark for reducing carbon dioxide emissions lies with substitution of natural gas for coal, especially older, less efficient units.

The tool is useful for getting a better sense of how industry and our power sector contribute to climate change — and serves as a useful reminder that the U.S. still gets 50 % of its energy by burning coal, the chief source of carbon emissions worldwide.

In the power sector, which accounts for 93 percent of coal usage in the U.S., coal consumption fell about 1 percent in 2014, and is expected to fall an additional 2.6 percent by 2016, according to the EIA.

According to U.S. Energy Information Administration *, coal accounts close to 80 % of the greenhouse gas emissions from the electric sector.

But coal demand has fallen dramatically across the U.S. as natural gas power plants and renewable energy farms take coal's place in the power sector.

The U.S. coal industry has slumped since 2008, and clean energy is now one of the fastest - growing U.S. job sectors.

In the energy sector, design problems and opportunities are signaled by a playing field strongly slanted towards oil, with coal, natural gas and nuclear power rounding out the U.S. government's favored energy sources.

«The roof has fallen in on U.S. coal, and alarm bells should be ringing for investors in related sectors around the world,» said Andrew Grant, Carbon Tracker's financial analyst and report co-author.

Andrew Grant, Carbon Tracker's financial analyst and report co-author: «The roof has fallen in on U.S. coal, and alarm bells should be ringing for investors in related sectors around the world.

That's because U.S. coal companies including Peabody Energy Corp. won't be looking to secure new reserves of the fossil fuel on federal land for years, especially as mining slows amid the sector's worst downturn in generations.

Indian utilities may also want to consider a coal retirement policy previously used to help utilities retire nuclear assets through private - sector bonds, now being considered by utilities in Western U.S. states like Colorado and New Mexico to transition from coal to clean.

Consider the bankruptcy of Peabody, the largest private - sector coal company in the world, as well as dozens of other U.S. coal companies.

WASHINGTON (October 10, 2017)-- Despite political rhetoric to the contrary and recent actions by the Trump administration, the market reality is that coal - fired power has become increasingly uneconomic and is the main factor driving the U.S. electricity sector to rapidly transition away from coal.

At the end of 2012, 64.3 % of the U.S. coal generating capacity in the electric power sector already had the appropriate environmental control equipment to comply with the MATS and allow their operation past 2016.

The biggest shift in half a century is underway in the U.S. power sector, as electricity from coal plants shrinks and power from natural gas and renewables grows.

EIA's carbon dioxide emission factors by consuming sector and State will be updated periodically to reflect changes in the mix of U.S. coal consumption.

The U.S. power sector is undergoing its own transformation — more wind, solar, natural gas, and less coal.

Many of Jeff Holmstead's current clients were recently named among the top mercury polluters in the coal utility sector, the largest source of mercury pollution in the U.S. Of the 25 companies listed as 2010's biggest mercury polluters (see Environment America report [PDF]-RRB-, at least 9 are represented by Holmstead.

With this change and the ongoing shrinkage in coal - fired power generation, driving is gaining on electricity for the dubious distinction of most climate - damaging U.S. sector.

The U.S. solar industry alone is beginning to overtake the coal mining sector with higher employment figures, according to 2014 data released by the Solar Foundation.

Luckily, coal - fired plants are closing down throughout the U.S. as the fuel becomes less profitable due to state and federal regulations, an aging fleet, and competition from other sectors such as natural gas, wind, and solar (3).

The renewable energy economy is already larger than the coal economy: The U.S. solar installation sector employs 77 percent more people than the domestic coal mining industry, according to the Solar Foundation's National Solar Jobs Census 2015.

Because of coal's limited comeback in the last two years, U.S. carbon emissions from the energy sector have increased since 2012, notes the report.

Murray, 77, founder of the largest privately held coal mining company in the U.S., told Monday's Guardian he is confident the president will follow through on promises to scrap the clean power plan, former President Barack Obama's signature climate change plan, which was designed to cut carbon emissions from the power sector by 32 percent by 2030.