Sentences with phrase «caused by coal»

Can they not just filter out the soot (and other pollutants) from the fumes caused by coal power?

As for the problem of acid rain being «avoided» - it was being caused by coal - fired power stations which then cleaned up their act - but has anyone told the Chinese and Indians that?

Muni on February 27 visited a community in Bataan province, where residents are complaining of health problems, including skin and respiratory diseases, that were allegedly caused by the coal - fired power plants in the area.

Confronted by emerging «clean coal» energy policies, local activists watch a world blind to the devastation caused by coal's extraction.

An AGW tipping point is most likely going to be caused by coal - powered energy generation coming out of the developing BRICA world (BRZ, RUS, IND, PRC and ARAB).

The cost blows away the purported healthcare costs supposedly caused by coal generation.

Ignore the intense pollution caused by coal combustion in China because it doesn't fit into your agenda.

Notably, Stanford University earlier this year announced it will divest publicly listed coal mining companies from its $ 19bn endowment, citing, like other fiduciaries as of late, the substantial environmental and social injury caused by coal as the justification for its decision.

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

The gist of his case was that the recent short - term emergency that gave rise to price spikes was caused by coal - fired power station outages.

The rest is caused by coal burning, the burning of firewood and cow dung cakes for fuel and cooking, and crop fields after harvest.

She seems to have no concern for anything (such as the future of the planet with climate change damage or the huge environmental and health problems caused by the coal industry) other than getting her way;

In addition, EPA is issuing more stringent regulations on coal plant emissions to reduce chronic respiratory illnesses and deaths caused by coal - fired power plant emissions.

The Ghosts of Coal is a photo - blog which describes the environmental and health problems caused by coal - fired thermal power plants.

The film lays out in disturbing detail the damage caused by the coal industry to Appalachia over the past decades: a million acres of forest destroyed, 2,000 miles of streams buried and 300 million gallons of toxic sludge spilled.

As discussed above, from the WHO report, it is reasonable to accept that there are two million deaths caused by coal burning world - wide each year.

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

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

Ocean acidification, also largely caused by coal - burning, will change the ecology of the oceans and combine with the warming of the oceans caused by climate change to destroy the worlds coral reefs and damage fisheries.

«Unlike other exhibitions that have treated the subject of art and coal, this is not an illustrated history of coal mining, but places the emphasis on the visual transformations caused by coal within the history of art from the late 18th century to the present,» said Ades.

It is cheap because the environmental damage caused by coal burning isn't factored into the price.

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

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.

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?

What retailers and shippers alike want to avoid is a repeat of 2013, when snafus and bad weather caused UPS to miss delivering two million packages by Christmas, earning the company lumps of coal in its stocking.

Last year, two events caused North American thermal coal — the coal used by utilities to generate electricity — to fall by about 30 %.

New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural...

Foreign miners are ready to pounce on any supply disruption caused by Aurizon's controversial new approach to railway maintenance in the Queensland coalfields, with Canadian miner Teck warning the stoush could «definitely have an impact» on coal markets.

They found that the carbon dioxide - caused warming exceeds the amount of heat released by a lump of coal in just 34 days.

In a modeling study of coal, oil, and natural gas, Zhang and Caldeira compared the warming caused by combustion to the warming caused by the carbon dioxide released by a single instance of burning, such as one lump of coal, and by a power plant that is continuously burning fuel.

Mountaintop - removal coal mining causes many streams and rivers in Appalachia to run consistently saltier for up to 80 percent of the year, a new study by researchers at the University of Wyoming and Duke University finds.

He put the birth date of the new epoch at the period after the Industrial Revolution, when humans were causing massive shifts in the biosphere, triggered by coal production.

«Gradual warming of the earth's atmosphere is caused by the developing countries as well as the developed countries,» says English professor Wang Xiansheng of Zhengzhou University, which is also facing rolling blackouts as a result of the current coal shortage.

Similar emissions are caused by the iron, aluminum, and copper mines needed to produce material for renewable systems, Hertwich noted, but the massive scale of coal mining makes its emissions much more significant by comparison.

Instead of Australia dumping millions of tonnes of sludge onto their Great Barrier Reef so they can export more coal to be burned (8 February, p 7), why don't they send it to an island country that needs it because of rising sea levels caused by climate change, such as Tuvalu in Polynesia?

These are the principal findings of new research from Carnegie's Ken Caldeira and Xiaochun Zhang, and Nathan Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures that compares the temperature increases caused by different kinds of coal and natural gas power plants.

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.

More than 1 billion gallons of toxic sludge were released into a Tennessee community when a dam collapsed last December, causing a massive coal - ash spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant, a coal - burning power plant owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Among priorities in 2011, the government intends to make headway against two diseases that hit China hard: hepatitis B and skeletal fluorosis, which is caused by inhalation of fluorine given off by home coal stoves.

Simply increasing carbon dioxide levels — by hitting the planet with a large rock and causing a massive dieoff, or exposing something like the US western deserts» coal beds long ago and having them catch fire and burn off — also causes warming.

Global greenhouse People are causing the change by burning nature's vast stores of coal, oil and natural gas.

In the Four Corners region, which is the area where New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah meet, the methane emissions are caused mainly by the production and transport of natural gas from coal beds, said the NASA team.

The motivation is the ongoing and escalating climate change primarily caused by excessive human consumption of fossil fuels — coal, oil and gas.

But coal is not «cheap» for the Appalachian communities destroyed by mountaintop removal (see appvoices.org), nor for the miners killed or sickened because worker safety would be too costly for mine owners, nor for the areas made permanently dead from the mining practices, nor for the children poisoned by the toxic fumes of even the cleanest - burning coal plants, not to mention the entire planet, every species, every community, every neighborhood being damaged and degraded by the global warming coal burning causes.

The devastation caused by mountaintop removal in combination with the millions of tons of pollutants, including greenhouse gases, released by burning coal clearly demonstrates that there is no such thing as clean coal.

Not to mention the devastation caused by mining coal, whether you burn it «cleanly» or not.

The Moapa Band of Paiutes are coping with health problems caused by the Reid Gardner coal - fired power plant in Nevada.

He explained that an article I wrote in 2002 about fires, both natural and human caused, smoldering in coal seams around the world, inspired him, while he was completing a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, to switch from studying risks posed by smoldering combustion in spacecraft to those back on Earth.

Visceral fear is not widely aroused by, for example, the daily emissions from coal burning, although, as a National Academy of Sciences study found, this causes 10,000 premature deaths a year among Americans.

Warming caused by burning coal in a power plant can be felt in the atmosphere within 95 days — the time it takes for the emissions released from the plant to trap enough heat to exceed the amount generated from the plant itself, according to the study.