Sentences with phrase «by coal plants»

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.

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

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

Currently, there is no commercially viable way to control the most dangerous form of pollution created by coal plants, carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change.

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

The loss generated by the coal plants, as well as depreciation, is tax deductible, according to tax experts.

The amount of carbon dioxide emitted by our coal plants?

For a system of enhanced oil recovery fed by coal plants designed for carbon capture to pay off, Denbury, Tellus and every other oil company must survive current low oil prices.

Meeting the new goal will mean reducing energy produced by coal plants by 88,252 megawatts, in addition to 77,600 megawatts already eliminated, the group said.

Even if the regulation reduces the emissions by coal plants by 15 %, the impact on the total carbon cycle will be 0.03 % of natural emissions.

«While Central Hudson may not technically buy power from specific power plants, they are buying it from a grid that is fed by coal plants using mountaintop removal coal,» she said.

The transfer of wealth from high consumers of electricity to the public as a whole would not be unjust, for it would compensate people for the health problems and other harm caused by the coal plants» pollution — some 10,000 premature deaths each year in the United States alone.

Amory Lovins (Scientific American, Sept 2005) said that 3 % of the electricity generated by coal plants actually reaches an outlet, after mining, transportation, heat loss and transmission are taken into account.

In the Pacific Northwest, many homes and businesses use power produced by coal plants outside the state: Oregon gets a third of its power from coal, and Washington gets 13 percent from coal.

The costs of the equipment needed to control acid and toxic metal emissions, such as flue gas desulfurization (FGD) and dry sorbent injection (DSI), play a significant role in retrofitting and retirement decisions faced by coal plant operators.

And this doesn't even take into account the long - term impacts of all the CO2 released into the atmosphere by these coal plants...

They won't like it when their 10,000 square - foot log home MegaMansions, perched on glorious promontories, are surrounded by pillaged vistas, clouded by coal plant haze.

In New York City, San Francisco, and at another demonstration in Toronto, protesters drew attention to the fact that companies like Apple use electricity generated by coal plants to run their data centers — which power the cloud that is now sucking down a ballooning slice of the world's energy pie.

Global production grew only 2 %, as the Obama administration announced strict new rules limiting carbon emissions by coal plants.

«The risks have also increased as more coal ash continues to be produced by the coal plant and threatens other areas in Cebu, and there are still no clear plans for proper disposal,» said Mark Dia, Country Representative of Greenpeace Southeast Asia.

Yardley's study gives hope that this technology is feasible now, and in a world whose coal lust is unlikely to diminish, quick reactions — in sandstone or by coal plants — may be just what is needed.

There are lots of nasties that are generated by a coal plant.

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

Photo credit: wsilver via Flickr / CC BY Clean coal is friendlier - sounding euphemism for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), the technological conceit of snagging emissions belched out by coal plants and storing them under ground in order to keep them

Hundreds of people turned out to support EPA and these safeguards against the toxins spewed out by coal plants — toxins that adversely affect public health.