Sentences with phrase «aimed at coal plants»

But chief among them, the EPA's incoming greenhouse gas regulations (and other pollution rules aimed at coal plants) are surely working to convince power companies to make the switch, and they'll help ensure that coal stays boxed out should the price of nat gas spike again.

Not exact matches

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

Cuomo has pushed in recent years to adopt new efforts aimed at reducing emissions and shifting the state toward the majority use of clean and renewable power in the coming years, including an effort to close coal - burning power plants by 2020, promoting offshore wind projects and developing a clean energy standard to have the state on 50 percent renewable energy by 2030.

The letter aimed to standardize the latter in the Rosenfeld: It specified what kind of coal plant and at what efficiency it runs.

The DOE says that it will request $ 241 million for fiscal year 2009 to demonstrate technologies for cost - effective carbon capture and storage for coal - fired power plants — including $ 156 million for the restructured FutureGen approach (aimed at commercializing the technology by 2015) and $ 85 million for the agency's Clean Coal Power Initiatcoal - fired power plants — including $ 156 million for the restructured FutureGen approach (aimed at commercializing the technology by 2015) and $ 85 million for the agency's Clean Coal Power InitiatCoal Power Initiative.

The setup is part of an experiment aimed at testing an unusual water pollution control scheme that uses gypsum, a waste product from coal - fired power plants, to reduce nutrient runoff from farms.

China Energy News, a state - run newspaper, cited a policymaker Monday as saying that China will complete the construction of approved coal - to - natural - gas plants but will not approve new projects until 2020, aiming to keep its coal - based synthetic natural gas production capacity to 15 billion cubic meters at the end of the decade.

-- Matt Wald had a news article describing a big change in direction for the long - planned, and delayed, federal FutureGen program aimed at building the country's first coal - burning power plant capturing and storing carbon dioxide.

They also recommended prompt investment in projects aimed at capturing and permanently storing carbon dioxide from power plants on a large scale — something that many energy experts say has to happen because coal will continue being used as a fuel for decades.

Most industry observers expect the agency to respond with a less - stringent regulation aimed at modest efficiency improvements for coal plants.

According to the Times, Doniger «worked with a team of experts to write a 110 - page proposal... that was aimed at slashing planet - warming carbon pollution from the nation's coal - fired power plants.

To the relief of coal company barons and the chagrin of health advocates, the Energy Independence executive order, takes aim at the Clean Power Plan, our nation's first regulations to reduce the amount of climate pollution from coal - fired power plants, among other safeguards of our climate and public health.

-- expand drilling / fracking to extract as much domestic energy as possible, — use clean natural gas, where possible, to replace dirtier coal and for heavy transportation vehicles; — support basic research efforts aimed at finding economically viable green energy technologies; — at the same time, install new nuclear power generation capacity in place of new coal plants, wherever this makes economic sense.

The proposed carbon - pollution standards for new power plants that the Obama administration recently announced take aim at our single biggest source of carbon pollution: coal.

The agency turned down a US Department of Energy (DOE) proposal aimed at subsidizing nuclear and coal energy plants as baseload resources to improve the resilience of the US energy system.

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a regulation Monday that would cut carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants by up to to 30 percent by 2030 compared with 2005 levels, taking aim at one of the nation's leading sources of greenhouse gases.

Brady McCombs AP News 9/11/2017 SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-- An appeals court granted a request Monday from President Donald Trump's administration to halt a plan for new pollution controls at Utah's oldest coal - fired power plants aimed at reducing haze near national parks.

Primarily aimed at struggling coal and nuclear plants, support for the rule could see a boost if the nation's power grid is tested.

If Fisher's past writings on the topic are any indication, the forthcoming DOE study is sure to be a thinly veiled attack on renewable energy aimed at propping up outdated coal and nuclear power plants that can't compete in today's electricity market.

An interview published in the latest issue of the journal Naturehttp: / / www.nonewcoal.org.uk / shows why Hansen has become such an admired figure among the scientific and activist community.Hansen was in London this week to testify on behalf of «Stop Kingsnorth,» an initiative aimed at blocking the construction of new coal plants in the UK (the first of which would be built in Kingsnorth).