Sentences with phrase «coal plant emissions»

Coal plant emissions include mercury, arsenic, and sulfur dioxide, pollutants that are very dangerous to your health.

The reason is because of pollution control technologies such as flue gas desulfurization, selective catalytic reducers, fabric filters, and dry sorbent injection, all of which have greatly reduced coal plant emissions.

Company fuel cells have a naturally high concentration of CO2 in their fuel stream — about 75 percent concentration of CO2, compared to 10 percent or so from a typical coal plant emissions stream.

In its test in its Danbury lab, the company plans to mix carbon dioxide, air and nitrogen to simulate coal plant emissions and then shoot those gases into a fuel cell stack.

Other companies and universities are trying out different solvents and sorbents that in theory could scrub CO2 from coal plant emissions more efficiently than the amines and chilled ammonia mixes that exist today.

Peabody Energy, one of the most vocal critics of the U.S. crackdown on harmful coal plant emissions, has been struggling to stay afloat.

Another «clean coal» technology is «carbon capture and sequestration,» or CCS, which captures coal plant emissions before they enter the atmosphere, and stores them underground.

Synapse's work related to coal power also includes evaluating coal plant emissions, markets for domestic coal, subsidies received by the coal industry, and the lifecycle costs and impacts of coal power compared to other energy sources.

Advanced coal plant emissions controls are the norm, and PRB coal is in use to some extent at most power plants in the U.S., and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed standards for reducing carbon emissions from existing power plants under Section 111 (d) of the Clean Air Act.

Google, the search giant with the famous motto: «Don't be evil,» is boasting about its involvement in a 2012 coal industry lobbying effort to block the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ability to protect the public from dangerous and potentially lethal coal plant emissions, according to a recently discovered Google case study.

He is pinning his green cred on domestic coal plant emission limits.

Explanations for the pause in global warming range from ocean oscillation cycles to Chinese coal plant emissions, volcanic activity to some scientists even saying there is no hiatus in warming.

«Unless you commercialize it, it's not going to contribute,» Kellie Caught of the World Wildlife Fund - Australia said about carbon capture technology needed to reduce coal plant emissions.

A month later, they ruled that coal plant emissions were no business of the EPA's after all — a ruling that could have sped up approval for even more plants.