13The amount of coal distributed by State of origin and State of destination is reported on Form EIA - 6, «Coal Distribution Report,» for consuming sectors other than electric utilities, and on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Form 423, «Monthly Report of Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Plants,» for utility
coal by rank.
All of EIA's carbon dioxide emission factors for
coal by rank and State of origin should be considered as «fixed» for the foreseeable future.
Not exact matches
Idaho
ranks second - lowest, next to Washington, among states that are not dominated
by coal or natural gas.
Yet John Thompson, director of the fossil transition project at the Clean Air Task Force, said Kemper still could open the door for CO2 capture with countries like Poland and India with low -
rank coals,
by lowering costs for the second generation of plants.
Near Plant Branch,
ranked as the 10th dirtiest
coal plant in the nation in 2011
by the National Natural Resources Defense Council, the average income within three miles is $ 22,702.
«Small - scale gold mining contributes to one third of the mercury released into the environment today,» says physicist Stephan Robinson of Green Cross Switzerland — Blacksmith's partner in the research and
ranking — or nearly as much as
coal burning
by power plants.
A script pulled out the direct fossil fuel investments using the Carbon Underground 200 that identifies the top 100 public
coal companies globally and the top 100 public oil and gas companies globally,
ranked by the potential carbon emissions content of their proven reserves.
The National Mining Association has argued against limiting mercury emissions
by stating (34) «Regulations designed to further reduce mercury emissions must not jeopardize the nation's ability to utilize this domestic strategic energy resource and must not disadvantage any specific
coal rank in the marketplace.»
The People's Communique comes in contrast to the communique produced
by a
coal industry conference supported
by the Polish government and attended
by Christiana Figueres, the UN's highest
ranking official on climate change.
Coal Classification: In the United States,
coals are classified
by rank progressively from lignite (least carbonaceous) to anthracite (most carbonaceous) based on the proximate analyses of various properties (fixed carbon, volatile matter, heating value, and agglomerating character), following methods prescribed
by the American Society for Testing and Materials.
The sulfur content of
coal varies
by rank.
First are basic emission factors covering the various
coal ranks by State of origin.
The emission factors vary significantly
by coal rank, confirming a long - recognized finding, and also within each
rank by State of origin.
EIA's emission factors will improve the accuracy of estimates of carbon dioxide emissions, especially at State and regional levels, because they reflect the difference in the ratio of carbon to heat content
by rank of
coal and State of origin.
The ratio of carbon to heat content was computed for each of the 5,426 selected
coal samples
by coal rank and State of origin under the assumption that all of the carbon in the
coal is converted to carbon dioxide during combustion.
EIA's first reported emission factors
by coal rank, published in Electric Power Annual 1990, DOE / EIA -0348 (90)(Washington, DC, January 1992), p. 124, were as follows: anthracite, 209; bituminous
coal, 209; subbituminous
coal, 219; and lignite, 213.
Therefore, emission factors
by consuming sector in each State were derived
by weighting the emission factors
by coal rank and State of origin
by the respective amounts received
by sector.
Coal rank was assigned to each sample according to the standard classification method developed
by the American Society for Testing and Materials.
(19) The share held
by low -
rank coals in the electric utility sector increased substantially.
These emission factors are based on the mix of
coal consumed and the basic emission factors
by coal rank and State of origin.
,
ranks the largest publicly listed companies
by the carbon intensity of their
coal, oil, and gas reserves; the Clean200
ranks the largest publicly listed companies
by their total clean energy revenues, with a few additional screens to help ensure the companies are indeed building the infrastructure and services needed for what Lester Brown and many others have called «The Great Energy Transition» in a just and equitable way.
His stories for The Times have taken him to Greece, where he wrote about the country's growing
ranks of nurses who aren't really nurses; Ukraine, where he covered the economic devastation caused
by war; and Poland, where he followed so - called rathole miners into illegal
coal pits.