Sentences with phrase «coal plants in»

More stringent environmental rules for aging coal plants — almost three - quarters of U.S. coal plants in operation today were built from the 1940s to the 1970s — also play a role.

«This is a worst - case scenario,» said David Graham - Caso, spokesman for the Sierra Club, which estimates that its «Beyond Coal» campaign has helped to block 139 proposed coal plants in the United States over the last few years.

In October 2009, Appalachian Voices released an analysis of monitoring data from coal waste ponds at 13 coal plants in North Carolina.

They recognize the health threat of coal burning, having banned new coal plants in key regions and reduced coal production by nearly 3 % over the last year.

California enacted a policy in 2006 called the Emissions Performance Standard which has helped to dramatically reduce the amount of electricity California receives from individual coal plants in the West.

However, environmental rules blocked coal plants in many states.

It is reportedly closing down 50,000 small coal - fired furnaces and has essentially stopped building new coal plants in big eastern cities like Beijing and Shanghai.

Peabody is the world's largest coal company and mines states like Wyoming and Montana for coal bound for coal plants in the U.S. and overseas markets.

The radical move is claimed to be a protest against the approval of new coal plants in the UK.

An interview published in the latest issue of the journal Naturehttp: / / www.nonewcoal.org.uk / shows why Hansen has become such an admired figure among the scientific and activist community.Hansen was in London this week to testify on behalf of «Stop Kingsnorth,» an initiative aimed at blocking the construction of new coal plants in the UK (the first of which would be built in Kingsnorth).

On the supply side we had, up until a month ago, about 151 new coal plants in various stages of development in the U.S.; conventional dirty coal plants.

Few were really against cleaning up the pollution from coal that led to acid rain and few were advocating shutting down all the coal plants in the 70's.

Yesterday, we featured the audio, and today, we have the 4 - minute video clip of Barack Obama talking about bankrupting new coal plants in the US.

Meanwhile, in Cebu, community representatives, environmental activists, and civil society groups led a 60 - kilometer «climate walk» tracing the path of existing and proposed coal plants in the province last March 15 to 18.

Last week Japan counted another $ 630m in loans for coal plants in India and Bangladesh as climate finance.

The event was monumental because it was the biggest act of public protest against coal plants in the Philippines, which made the growing resistance against fossil fuels reach national consciousness.

Almost all coal plants in the European Union will be outspending their income by the end of the next decade, relying on subsidies to stay open to back up wind and solar generation.

«If existing coal plants in the U.S. that only need to recoup operating costs are losing money and closing, then it is difficult to imagine how any new coal plant, no matter how efficient or cheap, can be built and recover investment costs on top of operating costs — at least in the U.S. — as long as gas prices remain low,» said Wade Schauer, director of Americas Power & Renewables Research at Wood Mackenzie.

Sounds like India intends to continue to use coal fired power plants and will not recognize studies that put coal plants in a bad light.

Among the last minute changes to the bill was the elimination of fixed resource adequacy plan (FRAP) that would have provided capacity payments for coal plants in the south of the state, as well as deletion of provisions for residential demand charges and the elimination of retail rate net metering.

Within the last few months, most of the planned coal plants in the United States have been canceled, denied permits, or been involved in protracted litigation.

The drive to capture carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, and coal plants in particular, has been highlighted by the world's increasing reliance on coal - power.

The most recent changes included removing a fixed resource adequacy plan (FRAP) that would have provided capacity payments for coal plants in the southern part of the state, as well as dropping a provision that would have ended retail rate net metering and one that would have mandated residential demand charges.

«One thing that really motivated us was learning that four out of five coal plants in the U.S. have no limits on the amount of toxics like arsenic, mercury, lead, and others that they're allowed to dump into our water,» said Sierra Club Pennsylvania Organizer Randy Francisco.

The results of a comprehensive study investigating the impacts of living near 378 coal plants in the United States have found that people of color and low - income communities are disproportionately more burdened by this pollution than any other segment of the population.

And even if Ohio's nuclear plants were entirely replaced with natural gas, the result will be that other coal plants in Ohio and neighboring states will stay on - line longer, resulting in more premature deaths.

The IEA has forecast an increase in new HELE coal plants in the next 25 years.

The Export - Import Bank, over which the president has authority, has come under fire from environmental groups for financing coal plants in less - developed countries.

RICKY BATES: You know, we stopped building coal plants in 88 in Texas for a reason.

As shown in «Polluting Democracy,» Mike Rogers (R - MI) has no large coal plants in his district, but takes coal company cash and votes against pollution controls on coal plants in neighboring districts that kill about 454 people every year, very likely including people in his district.

Currently, 1,600 new coal plants in 62 countries are planned or in the process of being constructed across the world, expanding the world's coal - fired energy capacity by 43 % in the coming years (New York Times, 2017).

Organizing its vast community of activists into an online network, it has focused community efforts to shut down coal plants in the United States.

I also saw his extension to coal plants in China in the middle of the thread.

China is pushing for a national switch to high efficiency low emissions (HELE) coal plants in a drive to create the world's cleanest coal - fuelled power system.

Though the goal of Germany's «energy turnaround» is to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions while gradually phasing out nuclear and coal plants in favor of more renewables, the results have been a mixed bag.

Bloomberg - Jess Shankleman and Rachel Morison Almost all coal plants in the European Union will be...

The 50 dirtiest coal plants in the U.S. — just 1 percent of the nation's electricity - generating fleet — account for 12 percent of the country's carbon emissions.

CoalSwarm provides individual profiles of over a thousand existing and proposed coal plants in the United States and numerous other countries.

Also, the location of the coal plant can exclude it from the restrictions, which have exemptions for certain types of coal plants in developing countries.

In addition, CoalSwarm provides sortable tracking tables for proposed coal plants in the United States, coal plant retirements in the United States, and proposed coal plants in India.

Avila knows that because she herself was once a wide - eyed campaigner, fighting against coal plants in Texas.

In 2014 Enel announced plans to cut off 13GW of its fossil fuel capacity in Italy by 2020 and the company also cancelled two planned coal plants in Italy and Chile.

Let «X» be: Undersea volcanism; Outgassing of the Tundra; Decay in the rainforests; Coal plants in China (see, that matches the increase — the rest of the world gets off scott free!)

Robert Oliphant continues to spew his rhetoric about Ontario's killer coal plants in an ongoing effort to push through McGuinty's wind agenda.

At other facilities, including both coal plants in Texas during Hurricane Harvey and nuclear plants in Florida during Hurricane Irma, staff had to be evacuated, forcing those plants offline.

DECC also points out that new coal plants in the UK would have to comply with the emissions performance standard set by the Energy Act.

Emissions from coal plants in China were responsible for a quarter of a million premature deaths in 2011 and are damaging the health of hundreds of thousands of Chinese children, according to a new study.

What do you predict for non-fossil energy or clean coal plants in that period?

There is good reason to believe that China already has more coal capacity than it needs — capacity factors for coal plants in the country (the amount of time they spend running) dipped below 50 percent in 2015 and continued falling in 2016 — so all things being equal, these trends should continue.

PAC and PGE have ownership shares in a number of out - of - state coal plants in Utah, Montana, and Wyoming.