Sentences with phrase «coal emissions kill»
Freese shows that coal emissions kill about 30,000 people a year, causing nearly as many deaths as traffic accidents and more than homicides and AIDS.
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He has long criticized the Obama administration's Environmental Protection Agency, saying that its proposals to tighten emission standards on coal - burning power plants are killing American jobs.
Recent studies suggest that energy obtained using the technique would be cheaper than more popular methods of getting low emissions coal power, like so - called Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC), which involves gasifying coal above ground in facilities like the FutureGen project, which the Bush Administration proposed and then killed.
They can't grasp this visceral reminder that emissions from coal plants kill tens of thousands of people across the nation every year.
Particulate emissions from coal have killed hundreds of thousands of people since Silent Spring.