After experiencing 189 severe smog days last year and serious health effects as a result, Beijing announced that is
closing coal facilities in six...
Not exact matches
The Prosper - Haniel
coal mining
facility in Germany's western state of North - Rhine Westphalia is slated to
close in 2018.
It was extremely discouraging to me when an official from the City of Niagara Falls seemed to promote the
closing specific power generators, like this clean
coal facility in Somerset, putting hundreds of hard working men and women out of work.
The Cayuga
coal - burning plant outside Ithaca may
close and the R.E. Ginna
facility in Western New York is being subsidized by ratepayers for another few years because it is needed to maintain the state's electrical grid reliability.
She swooped in a few years before an enormous Fort Mohave
coal power plant
closed and struck a deal to transfer the
facility's long - term water rights to Las Vegas.
Factories have been shifted to industrial parks on the outskirts of town and small, inefficient
coal power plants
closed in favor of larger, higher heat
facilities in an effort to clear the air for visiting athletes and tourists.
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
A high rate of cancer among inmates at a southwestern Pennsylvania prison is linked to a nearby
coal ash dump, and the correctional
facility should be
closed down, according to a report made public on Tuesday.
The
facility, scheduled to open in May 2014, is located
close to low - cost lignite
coal.
«We've made incredible gains since acquiring the property,» Keith Longtin, general manager of Wind Products for GE Power & Water stated during a tour of the
facility, pointing out that today's GE turbines are operating at
close to 98 % availability, the same as a thermal
coal plant.
Despite those investments the
facility closed like many other
coal - fired plants because the operating cost of burning
coal was not competitive with gas - fired competition.
ALSO: A New Mexico county is considering letting its 3 percent ownership stake in a
coal plant expire in 2022, the year the
facility is set to
close.
According to the 2010 report, «Impact of EPA Rules on Power Markets,» by Credit Suisse, tougher federal air pollution rules that will be coming in the next few years could prompt electricity companies to
close as many as 1 in every 5
coal - burning power plants in America, primarily
facilities more than 40 years old that lack emissions controls.
The project would be the first LNG export
facility ever built so
close to so many homes, the first built in
close proximity to Marcellus Shale fracking operations, and a potential trigger of more global warming pollution than all seven of Maryland's existing
coal - fired power plants combined.