Sentences with phrase «coal emissions still»

Though its role is declining, coal emissions still represented 1/4 of US greenhouse gases in 2012.

Not exact matches

with carbon pricing and other measures, including eliminating coal - fired power plants, cutting methane emissions from the oil industry, and making cleaner fuels, Canada will still be 90 million tonnes shy of its international emissions targets set in 2015 under the Paris agreement

While I concede that coal mining produces more CO2 emissions that cement production, I think a better comparison would be «well, I am going to quit drinking Coca - Cola, but instead will drink diet Coca - Cola; it's not as bad, but it's still fucking awful for my body.»

It will be nearly impossible for the state to reach its goal of reducing emissions 40 percent by 2030 if there are still coal - burning power plants operating, she said.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Coal may get cleaner as pollution controls minimize the emissions that cause acid rain and smog as well as cut the greenhouse gases changing the climate, but there are still plenty of leftovers from coal burning: toxic ash, mercury and other issCoal may get cleaner as pollution controls minimize the emissions that cause acid rain and smog as well as cut the greenhouse gases changing the climate, but there are still plenty of leftovers from coal burning: toxic ash, mercury and other isscoal burning: toxic ash, mercury and other issues.

Yet the analysis shows that even with higher gas prices, coal plants still fail to be economically competitive under the new greenhouse gas rule, which requires that fossil plants not exceed emission rates of 1,000 pounds of CO2 per megawatt - hour.

Emissions released from burning them still would be small compared with those from burning coal and natural gas

Another measure, the federal Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, will require still more expensive controls on coal plants in the Midwest and South to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions that travel across state lines, creating ozone and fine particle pollution downwind.

But campaigners have expressed concern that the burden of pollution is likely to be shifted to other regions, with high - emission sectors like thermal power still on course to expand rapidly in big, coal - rich regions like Inner Mongolia, Ningxia or Xinjiang.

Environmentally speaking, the Model S is classed as a zero - emissions vehicle, but as most of the UK's domestic electricity is generated by fossil fuel - burning power stations (as of 2014, about 30 per cent gas and 29 per cent coal), every mile you drive still has a CO2 consequence.

He said it was particularly important, if that goal is to be reached, for the federal government to work with utilities to curb emissions from power plants (half the country's electricity still comes from coal burning.).

But worldwide emissions have continued to swell, driven mainly by blistering economic growth and coal burning in Asia; debate over a new climate treaty has stalled; lawmakers of both parties have not embraced legislation aimed at cutting emissions; and polls show the public still largely disengaged.

Some environmental groups are starting to soften their blanket opposition to nuclear power as an option for cutting coal use and emissions, but most still maintain that bright line in the sand.

Recent IEA reports show that world - wide greenhouse gas emissions still are growing rather than receding and the use of coal still is dramatically rising.

The oil sands are still a tiny part of the world's carbon problem — they account for less than a tenth of one percent of global CO2 emissions — but to many environmentalists they are the thin end of the wedge, the first step along a path that could lead to other, even dirtier sources of oil: producing it from oil shale or coal.

Worse than that, in related «horse trading» that the industry insisted on before it would allow the regulations to happen, they managed to grandfather old coal plants — so today we are still stuck with emissions from old coal plants — most of the electricity form coal is from plants that were built before 1970, indeed, most built before 1950, I believe....

A single, large coal plant, if built with the best - available technology, can reduce emissions by the annual equivalent of taking a million cars off the road compared to the subcritical coal - plant technology still prevalent in most countries.

A new buzz phrase in the push to limit greenhouse gas emissions is «unburnable carbon» — an effort to define and then wall off the portion of the world's still - vast reserves of coal, oil or natural gas that might, if combusted, cause unacceptably costly or dangerous climate change.

But there is still huge untapped potential for capturing emissions from gas wells, oil tanks, coal mines, landfills, livestock operations and other sources.

The tool is useful for getting a better sense of how industry and our power sector contribute to climate change — and serves as a useful reminder that the U.S. still gets 50 % of its energy by burning coal, the chief source of carbon emissions worldwide.

If the U.S. keeps building new coal - fired power plants without CCS (a technology still in development that is intended to take carbon dioxide out of emissions), we can't very well ask or expect other countries (e.g., China) to care much about the issue, unless they decide to care for their own reasons.

A recent study done by the University of Minnesota, University of Tennessee and Tsinghua University did find e-bikes, although powered mainly from coal, did still perform better on most emissions metrics than cars, buses, and motorcycles.

China might have recently passed us up when it comes to annual emissions, but take heart: Our coal - fired power plants and industrial factories are still churning out pollution with the best of them.

Oil is a much smaller contributor to CO2 emissions than coal, and if its users switch from petrol to diesel (eg double the km / litre) and from fuel oil to gassification etc its contribution to GHG will diminish still further.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

If coal burning had zero emissions they would still oppose it.

A new report assesses the credit risks that power plants face from the global transition to an economy with lower carbon dioxide emissions and finds that some U.S. coal plants are still exposed to those risks, despite Trump administration efforts to roll back CO2 reduction rules.

And though technology is improving our ability to reduce emissions from coal usage, natural gas is still a much cleaner source»

Even if companies could be certain they'd never have to pay for their carbon emissions, we'd still never see a new coal power station built in Australia given the current cost of renewable energy here and overseas.

«to tackle the root causes of an unfolding climate tragedy and do what is required to protect future generations and nature, including meaningful reductions of Australia's peak carbon emissions and coal exports, while there is still time.

The burden of any plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions would have fallen most heavily on coal - burning power plants, which still account for more than 50 percent of the electricity generated in the United States.

For instance, because natural gas has half of the emissions of coal, but still emits carbon dioxide, it could receive half the credit as zero carbon energy sources.

11/19/17 — Despite its stated goal of dramatically reducing carbon emissions by aggressively pursing clean energy technologies and phasing out fossil fuels, Germany is still burning lots of an especially dirty form of coal and is likely to badly miss its upcoming emission - reduction targets.

But even when you account for that, the IPCC figured that staying below 2 °C would depend on a series of long - shot maneuvers: all nations would need to act right this second, ramp up wind and solar and nuclear power massively, and figure out still - nascent technologies to capture and bury emissions from coal plants.

Still, Denmark has in fact used its wind capacity to decrease coal use and carbon emissions.

Still, coal power accounts for 39 percent of carbon emissions within the European Union's emissions trading scheme, which includes factories and power stations from all 28 member states.

Even if every coal power station were closed and replaced with zero - emissions technology, the NEM's emissions intensity would still be three times this 15g per kWh limit.

Future efforts to control and limit mercury emissions, since the technology for doing it is yet to be identified, will make paper fiber still more attractive as a fuel substitute for coal.

Backed by 20 countries — and predictably, opposed by countries that still rely heavily on coal (Figure 1)-- the BREF includes new emission limits, expressed as wide, ambiguous ranges, for sulfur dioxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), mercury, and particulate matter.

If the entire grid were coal, you could double that (7,800 pounds), so even in that worst - case scenario, you'd still have far LOWER CO2 emissions from a plug - in Prius than from the average new car on the road running on gasoline.

But hurdles remain: Growing economies like India and Brazil still haven't submitted pledges to cut emissions, casting doubt on developing nations» willingness to reining in their carbon footprints — especially since many rely on cheap but emissions - heavy coal for growth.

It can deliver better outcomes than coal, but gas must continue to work on reducing its fugitive emissions and there is a possibility that if it reaches too large a share of the energy mix then in the longer run this could still be incompatible with a 2 ⁰ C outcome»

In terms of carbon emissions, new technology coal is still around 30 per cent higher than LNG but much lower than conventional coal powered generation.

A study published earlier this year found that methane emissions from the natural gas industry were likely 50 percent higher than previous government estimates, but that switching from coal to natural gas would still cut greenhouse gas emissions.

It doesn't make a difference that a coal - burning powerplant has to reduce its emissions if they have to do it by reducing their own coal, that could be more costly than just buying an offset and we still get the same environmental result.

These upgrades will have increased coal efficiency and reduced emissions, but still amount to perpetuating Polish coal reliance.

Can we really afford to burn coal and still reduce our greenhouse gas emissions?

I think we can continue to burn coal and still control our greenhouse gas emissions, because we have seen some incredibly innovative approaches to how you deal with carbon.

The states suing assert these claims irrespective of the fact that the Clean Power Plan is still in draft form and EPA hasn't actually begun regulating carbon emissions from existing coal plants.