Sentences with phrase «cleaner power»

When coal - fired power plants close communities can face painful transitions, and the debate over one Massachusetts facility shows the local impacts of a national shift to cleaner power

Such a carbon tax could help keep coal, oil and natural gas safely in the ground in favor of alternatives like electric cars and cleaner power plants.

Research has shown that investments in energy efficiency that promote conservation are cheaper and provide quicker returns than building new, cleaner power plants.

But advocates are increasingly saying that Obama needs to provide the nation with a reason for converting its energy systems into ones that use cleaner power.

Smaller, cleaner power systems are less costly and cleaner alternatives to the bigger power stations that have made up the power grid,» he said.

Even coal enthusiast and climate change - skeptic Trump recently showed some openness to clean power when he floated plans to line his proposed Mexican border wall with solar panels.

It was their perception that less soap means less cleaning power.

Indeed, natural gas is a key part of U.S. climate change plans, and many have called President Obama's Clean Power Plan, which reduces emissions from the power industry, a natural gas power plan.

«Our goal is to reduce the cost of solar so that everyone can adopt clean power,» says Lyndon Rive.

They produce no tailpipe pollution and, in most provinces, drivers plug in to relatively clean power grids.

Tesla replaces gas - burning vehicles with electric ones; SolarCity provides clean power drawn from a source Musk is fond of calling a giant fusion reactor in the sky, the sun; and SpaceX ensures that we will become a «multiplanetary» species.

California Gov. Jerry Brown, whose state is currently being ravaged by wildfires, said, «Scrapping the Clean Power Plan ignores sound science and the extreme cost of climate change.»

Matthews is the founder and CEO of Uncharted Play, a company dedicated to producing clean power through kinetic energy, which is created whenever something moves.

Republicans, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, cheered the proposed rule, saying in a statement, «Repealing the Clean Power Plan is the right move for the economy and for the rule of law.»

If SolarCity succeeds, clean power will replace dirty energy, spelling the end of the coal - and natural - gas - burning power plants.

«Killing the Clean Power Plan is a reckless and dangerous decision that jeopardizes the health, safety, economy, and way of life of people in New Mexico and across the country.»

«California will, in fact, exceed the goals of the Clean Power Plan,» Brown said.

Despite the Trump administration's efforts to do away with the Obama - era Clean Power Plan, Dominion says it expects power stations» emissions of carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas, are still virtually certain be regulated.

Their laundry pods are safer, naturally - derived, and non-toxic, but still have great cleaning power.

Last week, Trump signed an executive order rolling back former President Barack Obama's climate change policies, including the Clean Power Plan to slash carbon emissions from power plants — a key factor in the United States» ability to meet its Paris commitments.

Nat Kreamer, chairman of the Solar Energy Industries Association and CEO of Clean Power Finance, which provides funding for solar projects, lays out the potential.

The state has aggressive goals to generate a quarter of its electricity from clean power by 2025.

On Monday, a link that formerly went to an EPA web page describing the Clean Power Plan redirected viewers to a page titled «Energy Independence.»

All projects boast excellent infrastructure and access to some of the lowest cost and cleanest power globally from Quebec hydro power.

And last fall, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt said the Trump administration plans to eliminate the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration's biggest initiative to fight climate change by curbing emissions.

While currently blocked by the federal judiciary, the group says the Clean Power Plan should be redrawn to address concerns about regulatory overreach and the possibility of infringing on state authority.

The D.C. Circuit Court put a legal challenge to the Clean Power Plan on hold in April.

Revoking the Clean Power Plan March 28 Trump ordered the EPA to review the Clean Power Plan, Obama's signature attempt to regulate planet - warming carbon emissions from power plants.

New interprovincial power lines could prove key to delivering clean power, and clean growth, across the country.

It's been a safe bet so far — utility solar and wind farms represent the bulk of the clean power in the U.S..

Environmentalists have long urged Ontario to import more clean power from Quebec's hydro - electric dams, but officials always said that would require huge and expensive upgrades to the transmission lines linking the two provinces.

The idea is that utilities generate large amounts of clean power in remote, large power plants in much the same way that natural gas, coal, and nuclear power are generated today.

NDP environment critic Peter Tabuns welcomed the import of more clean power from Quebec, but said the impact on consumers» electricity bills and the actual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the agreement will be minuscule.

As our energy system increasingly switches from fossil fuels to clean power, we will need both more renewable energy supply and greater integration of our power grids.

Industry advocates often blame the Obama administration's «war on coal,» specifically two signature policies to reduce fossil fuels» carbon emissions — the Clean Power Plan, which never went into effect before the Trump administration moved to eliminate it altogether, and the Paris Climate Agreement, from which the United States has withdrawn.

One of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's last acts was to halt the EPA's Clean Power Plan, at least temporarily threatening the United States» ability to carry out promises made in Paris on curbing climate change.

Eighteen states issued statements supporting the Clean Power Plan the day after the Supreme Court's stay.

The most high - profile case is his ongoing lawsuit against the Clean Power Plan, Obama's most ambitious climate - related regulation.

Clearly, the clean power industries — including solar, wind and even smaller sectors like geothermal — will benefit greatly from the plan.

The Obama administration has turned to the Environmental Protection Agency to use the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from the power industry through the Clean Power Plan.

«He doesn't believe in climate change; he wants to roll back the Clean Power Plan.»

Clean Power Finance and Kilowatt Financial have completed a merger, joining to become one company, Spruce Finance.

One of the more interesting inclusions in the finalized Clean Power Plan is the «Clean Energy Incentive Program,» which incentivizes states that move more quickly on meeting their carbon emissions targets.

The Obama administration is hoping to target power plant operators through the Environmental Protection Agency Clean Power Plan, which requires that they reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

States that opt to meet their requirements by investing in clean power projects could be a major boon to these technologies.

In addition to suing over Clean Power Plan regulations, Pruitt has argued that climate activists should be prosecuted, and that debate over whether climate change is human - made should be encouraged in classrooms and Congress — despite overwhelming scientific evidence that the debate is settled.

It's great to see a net - zero building code, a national zero - emission vehicle strategy, and plans to make Canada's clean power go further with new transmission lines.

This resulted in a range of policies — from the Clean Power Plan to methane regulations for oil and gas drilling — that now face uncertainty or complete rescindment.

Founded in 2015 when Clean Power Finance and Kilowatt Financial merged, Spruce Finance aims to be the best consumer finance company in the energy efficiency and residential solar markets.

In Canada, this means building far more clean power, along with a smarter grid and a new generation of cars, buildings, and industrial processes.