Sentences with phrase «about coal pollution»

Oliphant's outdated, over-exaggerated claims about coal pollution hopefully will soon come to an end as more and more of the general public become aware of the falsehoods and made up numbers that Oliphant continuously spews forth.

Read more about coal pollution: Coal Pollution Will Kill 13,200 Americans This Year & Cost $ 100 Billion in Additional Health Care Bills Coal Costs US Public Up to $ 500 Billion Annually: Harvard Study Study Claim: Up To 20 % Of US Coal - Fired Generating Capacity May Be «Retired» Over Coming Decade

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Despite legitimate concerns about air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, coal use will continue to be significant in the future.

Dire warnings about China's ravenous appetite for coal also emerged in recent weeks, with researchers finding that hundreds of thousands of early deaths stemmed from coal - derived pollution (Greenwire, Aug. 18).

Around the country, about 600 power plants must be closed or retooled in the next two years, the result of EPA rules issued in 2011 that clamped down on coal - fired pollution.

There are about 200 sites nationwide where coal ash pollution has tainted air and water.

An international study published in July showed that air pollution is shortening the lives of people in northern China by about 5.5 years compared to the south, a legacy of a policy that provided free coal for heating in the north.

A 2012 Greenpeace India report estimated that about 20 percent of premature deaths and more than 20 million asthma cases each year could be attributed to coal pollution.

As many as 115,000 people die in India each year from coal - fired power plant pollution, costing the country about $ 4.6 billion, according to a groundbreaking new study released today.

The investigators found that — pound for pound — particles from coal burning contribute about five times more to the risk of death from heart disease than other air pollution particles of the same size — less than one ten - thousandth of an inch in diameter (known as PM 2.5).

In a way, it makes sense that GOP politicians would be so cavalier about dismantling those Clean Air Act rules that would require better pollution controls on coal plants — after all, as a group largely comprised of affluent white men, they've probably never had to live next door to one.

I honestly think she's too young to be listening to me going on and on about such confusing stuff as oil, gas, coal, greenhouse effect, global warming, manmade climate change, population explosion (she knows about it), deforestation, desertification, rapid extinction of other species, pollution, problems, overconsumption, overindustrialization, problems, politics, economics, consumerism, and problems, religion, war, etc., etc., etc..

Aside from concerns about climate change, air pollution is becoming a nation - wide problem that is already affecting almost all major coal - consuming provinces.

The St. Louis «beauty» contest, along with numerous other events across the country, coincided with the release of a new report about an extremely serious problem that has received shockingly little attention: water pollution from coal - fired power plants.

The authors note that as fossil fuel reserves shrink, as air pollution worsens, and as concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, oil, and natural gas, a new world energy economy is emerging.

To put the 25,000 reporting threshold into perspective, it is the amount of pollution emitted from the annual energy use of about 2,200 homes, approximately 58,000 barrels of oil consumed, or 130 railcars of coal.

I'm not against EPA getting into some stringent controls of real pollution that may be associated with coal fired power; enough is known about clean coal that there is no reason for the (US) to put up with the kinds of gunk we used to.

«Around 30 people testified about how OPPD's coal pollution impacts them and their families, and that it stands as a towering example of what holds the North Omaha community back,» said Holly Bender of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campacoal pollution impacts them and their families, and that it stands as a towering example of what holds the North Omaha community back,» said Holly Bender of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaCoal campaign.

To take just one example, the agency could decide that older coal plants only have to make efficiency upgrades to curb pollution — in which case a modest cut in emissions is about the best that could be expected.

In the short term gas - fired power stations could be used to «fill the gaps» when renewable energy was not available (gas has about half the greenhouse emissions of coal, and produces far less other air pollution); in the longer term Australia could change to 100 % renewables - generated electricity.

But the 51 gigatonnes of carbon pollution (GtCO2) in the coal reserves that Australian companies already have on their books represent about 25 per cent of a precautionary 200 GtCO2 global carbon budget for coal.

Venners has been hearing about the promise of a pollution - free future for coal since he joined the National Coal Council in 1coal since he joined the National Coal Council in 1Coal Council in 1984.

When the industry talks about «clean coal,» it is referring to a range of technologies that burn coal more efficiently, and pollution controls that remove some of the nastiest pollutants from the smokestack.

Since 1982, little has changed about the toxic pollution coal - fired power plants are allowed to dump in water, although change was on its way.

It is also clear that particulate, sulfate and mercury pollution from coal are about as healthy as a three pack a day habit and that there is humongous excess mortality, in the UK and US during the early to mid part of the last century and in China, India and the rest of the developing world now and into the future.

2013 Goldman Prize recipient Kimberly Wasserman commented on the policy, «While it's great to hear about the presidential memorandum to work on completing the carbon pollution standards for new and existing coal power plants, it sorely lacks a specific timeline for moving forward to make this plan a reality.

Analysts say this is the first time Beijing has put a ban on the opening of new mines: the move has been prompted both by falling demand for coal as a result of a slowing economy and by increasing public concern about hazardous levels of pollution, which have blanketed many cities across the country over recent months.

In the new version of «Northwest Coal Exports» we set out some basic facts about coal exports: how much North America currently exports, what the new proposals involve, and what the pollution consequences mightCoal Exports» we set out some basic facts about coal exports: how much North America currently exports, what the new proposals involve, and what the pollution consequences mightcoal exports: how much North America currently exports, what the new proposals involve, and what the pollution consequences might be.

• Support for energy innovation today comes from those concerned about the high (and rising) economic costs, not to mention the foreign entanglements created by America's dependence on oil; the need for greater energy access in poor countries; diseases and deaths caused by air pollution, oil and gas drilling, and coal mining and waste; and the potential for America to manufacture and export new energy technologies at a profit.

First, the inability of anyone in power to do anything about the underlying problem: proper protection of our communities and our water from coal pollution.

The ad said that according to the U.S. Department of Energy, «new coal - based power plants built beginning in about 2020 may well use technologies that are so advanced that they'll be virtually pollution - free.»

As fossil fuel resources shrink, as air pollution worsens, and as concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, oil, and natural gas, a new world energy economy is emerging.

Investment in coal - fired plants fell sharply, with nearly 20 gigawatts (GW) less commissioned, reflecting concerns about local air pollution and the emergence of overcapacity in some markets, notably China, though investment remained elevated in India.

If you're a coal lobbyist like Jeff Holmstead, getting stuck in an elevator with Greenpeace activists is an inconvenient occupational hazard, especially if you then can't find a cab and cars are honking at your during an uncomfortable conversation about your work to attack pollution laws.

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.

Hailed as the first - ever nationwide limit on climate - warming pollution for power plants, the proposal would require that newly built coal - fired power plants capture and store underground about 20 to 40 percent of the carbon they emit.

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.

The terminal decline of coal power is coming at the right time, when ever - cheaper renewables are able to fill in the gap, and concerns about air pollution spread around the country,» he said.

In China about 500,000 deaths / year from coal pollution from 1800 TWh.

Despite legitimate concerns about air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, coal use will continue to be significant in the future.

In the USA about 30,000 deaths / year from coal pollution from 2000 TWh.

He shows no indication of caring about the ocean acidification that the burning of fossil fuels is causing, nor the many deaths and serious diseases caused by the air pollution from burning coal to generate power.

While the climate impact of the tar sands and Northwest coal exports are both undeniably grim, it is the more visceral concerns about groundwater pollution that have energized both liberal environmentalists and conservative representatives (eg Nebraska's governor) to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline.

As shown in «Polluting Democracy,» Mike Rogers (R - MI) has no large coal plants in his district, but takes coal company cash and votes against pollution controls on coal plants in neighboring districts that kill about 454 people every year, very likely including people in his district.

He added that even if the EPA were forced to regulate greenhouse gases, it would target emissions from coal - fired power plants and then vehicles — which combined account for about half of the nation's global - warming pollution — before requiring smaller operations to apply for new emissions permits.

Air pollution from burning coal, driving cars, and using fire to clear land, among other activities, is the fourth - leading cause of death worldwide, killing about 5.5 million people each year.

Just down the road from us is Didcot A power station, a large coal - burning plant with poor pollution control and therefore with substantial effects on local air quality, as well as more substantial emissions of radiation than from any UK nuclear power station and a Co2 output of about 8 million tonnes a year.

Because natural gas produces about half the carbon dioxide that coal does, and almost no soot, this has both long - term global climate benefits and immediate pollution benefits.

«Coal with carbon sequestration emits 60 - to 110 - times more carbon and air pollution than wind energy, and nuclear emits about 25 - times more carbon and air pollution than wind energy,» Jacobson said.