Sentences with phrase «by coal»

It's the attorney, not the climate scientists, that's funded by the coal industry.

Total energy generated by coal plants in most of the state declined from about 40 percent in 2010 to about 25 percent in the first half of 2016.

Many households and businesses use electricity from the grid, which is largely powered by coal, and struggles to cope with country's increasing demand for energy.

Among the surprising conclusions: the waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated by their nuclear counterparts.

Consequently, more coal would be mined, transported, processed and burned, increasing the amount of air pollution and hazardous waste generated by coal plants.

This is an important contribution to the mitigation of environmental pollution caused by coal mine methane.

But it will not do much to prevent the local damage caused by coal mining in the first place.

The town of about 3,000 is largely fueled by the coal mining.

Those who would fight them in court can find precious few lawyers in the region not already employed by the coal companies.

The film, funded by the coal industry, promises a new age of agricultural abundance will result from the doubling of the atmosphere's concentration of carbon dioxide.

Where would the electricity come from to replace the electricity provided by these coal fired plants?

I suggest that most countries with a large percentage of their electricity provided by coal could do similar.

The project contributes to a cleaner energy supply in the region, which is still largely dominated by coal - fired plants with high emissions.

So, using this estimate, how many trees per year would you have to plant to absorb all the CO2 created by coal combustion?

The industrial revolution began with wood being replaced by coal as the primary energy source.

Since the supply of coal is not as restricted as oil, an increase in the share of energy supplied by coal seems inevitable, notwithstanding environmental legislation.

The source you quoted is very probably sponsored by the coal industry.

Therefore, emission factors by consuming sector in each State were derived by weighting the emission factors by coal rank and State of origin by the respective amounts received by sector.

These communities, once powered mostly by coal, are benefiting from increased tax revenue, job creation, and rural economic development.

It is entirely possible that thousands - even tens of thousands - of workers are indirectly supported entirely by the coal industry.

The big worry for all of us goes beyond the millions of people killed by coal pollution every year.

The industrial revolution began with wood being replaced by coal as the primary energy source.

These emission factors are based on the mix of coal consumed and the basic emission factors by coal rank and State of origin.

The shift in the mix of coal ranks consumed becomes apparent when production by coal rank in 1980 is compared with that in 1992, as most production was for domestic consumption.

It could have been written by the coal industry.

Natural gas and renewables have filled that gap, with natural gas providing about two - thirds of the electricity to plug the hole left by coal; renewables made up the other third.

I was fortunate enough to find out that these greenhouse skeptics were getting paid sort of under the table by the coal industry.

The emission factors vary significantly by coal rank, confirming a long - recognized finding, and also within each rank by State of origin.

While only five jobs were added by coal firms since 2016, more than 100 contract employees are back in the mining business.

Hence, the ratio of carbon to heat content depends on these heat - producing components of coal, and these components vary by coal rank.

And what about the truly massive quantities of water needed for cooling — a vulnerability shared by coal plants, by the way?

Perhaps the most famous PR effort by coal is the clean coal marketing campaign.

Last year, he sued to block a rule restricting how much mercury could be emitted into the air by coal plants.

The proposed restrictions were hailed by environmentalists but criticized by the coal industry as leading to higher electricity prices.

More than 75 % of the extra demand was covered by coal - fired power, which increased by more than 10 % relative to the same period in 2015.

Those figures don't include recent layoffs announced by coal mining firms.

If the external costs of burning coal were recovered by a coal tax, coal would be the most expensive of all energy - generating fuels.

Yet our country has continually improved public health and environmental protections without the economic disasters hyped by the coal industry.

Does not include coal processed by coal preparation plants.

Thus far investments by coal companies in clean coal technologies have been insufficient even to fund a single large - scale demonstration plant.

This working paper outlines a recommended methodology for estimating and reporting the potential emissions from fossil fuel reserves held by coal, oil, and gas companies.

In addition, gas combustion is not carbon - free, producing about 60 % of the CO2 produced by coal for the same electrical generation.

This emission was «similar to the greenhouse effect of electricity generated by coal - fired plants» and would persist for at least 50 years.

The plants under construction reflect a 10 per cent increase to the total global generation powered by coal.

Today, the local economy is fueled by coal mining, transportation healthcare and retail.

If you add the indirect subsidies, like the cost of sickness caused by coal pollution, the global subsidy is five trillion a year.

The amount of carbon dioxide emitted by our coal plants?