Sentences with phrase «coal pollution»

First, the inability of anyone in power to do anything about the underlying problem: proper protection of our communities and our water from coal pollution.

The intentionally edgy and provocative hashtag is opening the eyes of millions to the threat of coal pollution and the urgency of moving to clean energy.

The big worry for all of us goes beyond the millions of people killed by coal pollution every year.

Coal companies know this — utilities that burn the fossil fuel are willing to spend millions of dollars each year to undermine laws that cut back on coal pollution and protect public health.

Things are so bad that a recent study found that life expectancy was about 5.5 years shorter in the parts of the country where coal pollution is more concentrated.

Not even counting climate change, the cost to society from coal pollution is greater than the benefit it supplies.

If you add the indirect subsidies, like the cost of sickness caused by coal pollution, the global subsidy is five trillion a year.

In Montana, residents worked to raise awareness of coal pollution in the Yellowstone River, downstream from the Corette coal plant.

The reference to «clean coal» was somewhat unclear in this context, because clean coal refers to attempts to recapture carbon released when coal is burnt or to otherwise reduce coal pollution during the combustion process.

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Oliphant's outdated, over-exaggerated claims about coal pollution hopefully will soon come to an end as more and more of the general public become aware of the falsehoods and made up numbers that Oliphant continuously spews forth.

Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club commented: «Mike Bloomberg's partnership with the Sierra Club and our more than 3 million members and supporters has put our country on a path to cleaner air and cleaner water, good - paying clean energy jobs, and healthier communities that are safe from toxic coal pollution».

The TVA case study fits with many other examples of how coal pollution can harm health, says Bernard Goldstein, a physician and environmental public health expert at University of Pittsburgh.

That's welcome news as another fresh study showed coal pollution prematurely killed 366,000 Chinese in 2013.

Much of the evidence of health effects from coal pollution comes from the United States or Western Europe, which are much cleaner.

Dr. Willie Soon is a Smithsonian Institution astrophysicist paid by Charles Koch, ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute and coal utility Southern Company to write papers dismissing climate change, publish op - eds saying coal pollution won't affect our health, refute the seriousness of ocean acidification, and apparently anything else he can be paid to deny.

Coal pollution combined with emissions from China's burgeoning industries and the exhaust of a fast - growing national vehicle fleet are plenty enough to impair breathing and jeopardize health.

The first U.S. commercial nuclear power plant, which went critical at Shippingport, Pennsylvania, in 1957, was hailed as a green new technology: it promised to reduce the terrible coal pollution that plagued nearby Pittsburgh.

All told, anti-nuclear groups — financed largely by wealthy individuals and organizations located in New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. — killed six nuclear reactors in Ohio, locking in coal pollution for a generation.

For example, the United States plans to cut coal pollution by 2030, while China says it will put a cap on greenhouse gas emissions altogether.

The Sierra Club threw its full weight behind a fear - mongering campaign in Ohio where elected officials sought nuclear energy as a way to reduce deadly coal pollution.

Coal pollution travels all over the globe.

Perhaps to basic MBA penny - pinching, earning dollars off others» lungs through ignoring coal pollution's externalities, or a Corporate culture that remains ignorant of social costs, one of the most popular websites in the globe made the choice to poison all 500,000,000 of its -LSB-...]

The Canadian federal government under Prime Minister Stephen Harper seems to have no problems enacting federal climate regulations that target coal pollution, boasting:

«The glimmer of fact in Whitfield's claims is that the health costs of mercury poisoning of our nation's children over decades of unlimited coal pollution are difficult to quantify.

The fifteen members of Congress in «Polluting Democracy» consistently vote against cleaning up coal pollution so we can breathe clean air.

Coal pollution belched from city smokestacks'til the sky was black during the 1800s; industry went largely unregulated — yet, we're still here.

The ongoing US coal - to - gas transition is the result of three decades of federal investment in fracking technologies (and is helped along by environmental regulations that penalize coal pollution).

Thermal coal is of such low value that any reasonable coal pollution price will put it out of biz as a fuel source.

When someone sent us some old 1970's newspaper advertisements from coal - burning giant American Electric Power, questioning proposed regulations to stop coal pollution, the language had a familiar ring to it.

The implications of the amount of lives that could have been saved in this eight - year timeframe is staggering: tens of thousands of people have likely been unnecessarily killed by coal pollution because of the delay.

Through ALEC, Duke works with state legislators to distribute anti-environmental model bills across the country that delay policy solutions to climate change, block clean energy, prevent EPA from regulating coal pollution, fasttrack coal mining projects and other dirty energy initiatives.

Local power - plants are legal and now necessary given the success of the coal industry in watering down and delaying real action on coal pollution in Congress.

The National Academy of Science has found that exposure to coal pollution in China lowers life expectancy by five years.

Lots of stuff travels to other hemispheres through the ocean and air — California gets enough Chinese coal pollution to challenge the state's air pollution standards.

Their lobbying goals included weakening 2009 climate legislation and working to interfere with US EPA rules to reduce coal pollution or greenhouse gases.

Read more about coal pollution: Coal Pollution Will Kill 13,200 Americans This Year & Cost $ 100 Billion in Additional Health Care Bills Coal Costs US Public Up to $ 500 Billion Annually: Harvard Study Study Claim: Up To 20 % Of US Coal - Fired Generating Capacity May Be «Retired» Over Coming Decade

When we did a road tour to visit the communities that were impacted by coal pollution, we found many anecdotal stories of people saying, yes, my husband, my father, my wife died of lung cancer and never smoked a day in her life.

In fact, recent reports estimate up to 100,000 people in India and 250,000 people in China die each year as a result of coal pollution.

In China about 500,000 deaths / year from coal pollution from 1800 TWh.

«Coal is literally choking our cities, with close to a million people dying every year from coal pollution,» Catherine McKenna, Canada's minister of environment and climate change, said.

«Coal is literally choking our cities, with close to a million people dying every year from coal pollution.

A 2012 Greenpeace India report estimated that about 20 percent of premature deaths and more than 20 million asthma cases each year could be attributed to coal pollution.

Scientific analysis of the health impacts of coal pollution is lacking in Mettur and other communities.

«Why on earth would they buy a coal mine that would lock its ratepayers and the surrounding community into decades of coal pollution?»

In Vietnam and South Africa, nuclear could be as cheap as coal, without even factoring in the tens of thousands of additional deaths that will result from coal pollution.