Sentences with phrase «by coal pollution»

Here West Virginia is first in the nation, with an estimated 14.7 people per 100,000 adults killed by coal pollution.

The implications of the amount of lives that could have been saved in this eight - year timeframe is staggering: tens of thousands of people have likely been unnecessarily killed by coal pollution because of the delay.

When we did a road tour to visit the communities that were impacted by coal pollution, we found many anecdotal stories of people saying, yes, my husband, my father, my wife died of lung cancer and never smoked a day in her life.

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

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

Not exact matches

So we asked in our research: What would happen if current low natural gas prices or pollution control policies caused all US coal - burning power plants to be replaced by natural gas generators?

«Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on ThursCoal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thurscoal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thursday.

The package includes a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity generation by 2030, a commitment to generate 30 per cent of Alberta's electricity from renewable sources by 2030, new financing for energy efficiency, and an economy - wide price on carbon pollution.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

By: David Oliveira 20th May 2016 Specialist assessments required for the draft environmental impact report (DEIR) for the proposed extension and remediation of the discard dump and two pollution control dams at the North Shaft section of local coal mining and beneficiation company Kuyasa Mining's Delmas coal mine is currently... →

First, he discusses the recent conclusion that China's massive burning of coal actually thwarted warming (an ironic idea) by increasing particulate pollution.

In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

New Chinese hydro, nuclear, wind and solar are also significantly curtailing coal power generation, driven not only by energy security and climate concerns but also by efforts to reduce local pollution.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

Nationwide, 40 percent of all coal - fired burners covered by the new standards will need upgraded pollution controls, the EPA estimates.

Indeed, the Clean Power Plan proposed by the Obama administration to clean up CO2 emissions from power plants relies on capture and storage to allow coal - fired power plants to continue to produce electricity, but with less climate - changing pollution.

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.

That sulfur dioxide market, run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has reduced sulfur dioxide levels by 40 percent since 1992 by allowing companies to buy and sell the right to emit the acid - rain forming pollution from coal - burning plants, which has increased the acidity of lake waters throughout the region.

By examining rates of mortality and respiratory - related illnesses on both sides of the river, Greenstone's team identified a difference: life expectancies are lower and pollution concentrations are higher north of the Huai, where coal burning was widespread.

The findings show the nation can cut carbon pollution from power plants in a cost - effective way, by replacing coal - fired generation with cleaner options like wind, solar, and natural gas.

While country - specific effects would be varied, IMF projects that eliminating post-tax subsidies for the most - polluting energy fuels, such as coal and gasoline, could raise government revenue by $ 2.9 trillion, while also slashing premature deaths from pollution - related diseases by more than 50 percent.

Air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from two coal - fired power plants in the Four Corners area of northwest New Mexico, the largest point source of pollution in America, were measured remotely by a Los Alamos National Laboratory team.

Large swathes of China are affected by chronic air pollution from factories, vehicles and coal - burning power plants.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

When atmospheric scientist Christine Wiedinmyer first went to Ghana in 2011 to investigate air pollution produced by burning different materials — from crop stubble to coal used in stoves — she noticed an unexpected potential source: burning piles of trash.

Cleaner coal - burning technologies would reduce emissions not only of greenhouse gases but also of soot and other by - products that cause local and regional pollution — and they could prove to be easier or less expensive to implement.

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.

Others include: toxic by - products from polysilicon manufacture dumped indiscriminately in China; air pollution spewed from coal - fired power plants that provide the electricity needed to produce photovoltaics; and recovering cadmium, a known human carcinogen that is a primary ingredient in some thin - film solar cells, from mining slimes.

But according to the U.S. Department of Energy, pollution is on the rise in the U.S. and world energy use is expected to grow 57 percent by 2030, with coal being the fastest growing energy source.

The North Carolina court decision came a day after Alpha Natural Resources Inc said it would spend $ 200 million to settle a dispute with the U.S. government over pollution discharged by coal mines.

The report by the Mumbai - based Conservation Action Trust is the first comprehensive examination of the link between fine particle pollution and health problems in India, where coal is the fuel of choice and energy demands are skyrocketing.

Despite the ads» claims, an analysis by the Center of American Progress determined that ACCCE's companies spend relatively few dollars conducting research on carbon capture and storage, the most promising clean coal technology to reduce global warming pollution from coal - fired power plants.

Recently published research documents that nearly two - thirds of the industrial carbon pollution released into the atmosphere since 1854 can be directly traced to the carbon extracted from the Earth by just 90 entities — 83 producers of coal, oil and natural gas, and 7 cement manufacturers.

Alberta is phasing out all pollution from coal - fired electricity generation (6,300 MW) by 2030 and renewable energy — mostly wind — will replace two thirds of it with renewable energy; expected to drive development of at least 4,000 MW of new wind energy capacity.

Dr. Willie Soon is a Smithsonian Institution astrophysicist paid by Charles Koch, ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute and coal utility Southern Company to write papers dismissing climate change, publish op - eds saying coal pollution won't affect our health, refute the seriousness of ocean acidification, and apparently anything else he can be paid to deny.

Last year Greenpeace revealed that Willie Soon is exclusively funded by fossil fuel interests like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil and Southern Company, a major contributor to mercury air pollution from its coal plants.

Meanwhile, coal production fell by a record 231Mtoe (5.9 %), as massive output declines continued in the US and China worked to reduce overcapacity and combat air pollution.

The two primary sources of mercury exposure are dental amalgams (mercury - based fillings) and seafood consumption, followed by thimerosal - containing vaccines and mercury pollution from coal - burning power plants.

· Coal - or gas - fired systems with carbon capture and storage (CCS) reduce GHG emissions, but increase other pollution problems by 5 - 80 per cent, and create higher human health and environmental impacts.

For those who have lived in China recently, choking on the world's most notorious coal - produced pollution, the gauze invokes the frail barrier offered by masks against the toxins.

The stark reality is that there is literally no such thing as clean coal electricity in the United States today — not one American home today is powered by a coal - burning plant that captures and stores its carbon pollution.

We've known for some time that air pollution created in Asia — largely because of fast expanding economic activity fueled by coal — spreads far and wide, even reaching the shores of the United States.

Just a quick note to those seeking a rapid decline in emissions of greenhouse gases (and other pollution) from coal combustion: The challenge, in a world with rising populations and energy appetites, is getting harder by the day.

The primary source of NO2 pollution is the burning of fossil fuels, especially by coal - fired power plants and diesel engine cars, like those in the Volkswagen emissions-gate scandal.

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Another case for a sensible war on coal is this new analysis by Synapse Energy Economics of the much - lauded NRDC plan that proposed a state - by - state approach to setting limits on carbon pollution.

Coal plants are now by far the largest source of toxic water pollution in the country.

The efforts to reduce air pollution in China range from the seemingly minor — asking residents to refrain from using coal stoves and furnaces in their homes — to the massive — scaling back steel production capacity by an additional 50 million tons.

[v] CBC News, Closing Ontario coal plants didn't cut air pollution by much, says Fraser Institute.

It is difficult to overstate the degree and impact of air pollution in China, much of it caused by coal - fired electricity generation.