Sentences with phrase «coal pollution comes»

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It does people in the region no good to believe that coal jobs will come roaring back once pesky pollution regulations are overturned.

Alberta's electricity producers are planning to build new natural - gas - fired plants to replace a few aging coal plants — a move that will reduce carbon emissions and air pollution that comes with coal.

Carbon pollution coming from traditional fuel sources such as coal and gas directly contributes to climate change and is associated with asthma and other lung conditions.

With more than 70 percent of China's energy coming from coal, a power source that contributes heavily to air pollution and global warming, the nation's bad or good energy practices in buildings will be reflected in the color of the sky and the temperature of the Earth.

Inhalable and almost invisible to the eye, this type pollution comes from car exhaust, coal - fired power plants, and other industrial processes.

They eventually linked the mysterious pollution to a nearby natural - gas field, and their investigation has now produced the first hard evidence that the cleanest - burning fossil fuel might not be much better than coal when it comes to climate change.

The North Carolina court decision came a day after Alpha Natural Resources Inc said it would spend $ 200 million to settle a dispute with the U.S. government over pollution discharged by coal mines.

A huge amount comes from coal power stations — and a new report argues our pollution guidelines are hopelessly lax.

In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, 72 percent of all toxic water pollution in the country comes from coal - fired power plants, making coal plants the number one source of toxic water pollution in the U.S. (1) What's more, four out of five coal plants in the U.S. have no limits on the amount of toxics they are allowed to dump into our water.

Yes, for the individual owner it maybe does, but that at the cost of the rest of the world, because electric energy still comes mostly from coal / oil / nuclear power generators for one, with correspondent pollution and infrastructure load.

The EPA estimates that 40,000 people die every year from air pollution coming from coal plants.

[9:10 a.m. Insert More of the logic in expediting a shift from coal to natural gas in developing countries comes from the latest pollution mortality estimates, as reported in the Global Burden of Disease study in The Lancet.]

I have a sort of mental chart with lots of arrows: actions that produce GHGs (e.g., coal - burning) causing a plethora of problems (& goods — like power), acid rain, ocean acidification, local ground, air, water pollution, GW, health problems & dangers for miners, military threats / expenses (according to Pentagon studies re oil), etc.; and also many arrows of good (some bad) coming out of measures to abate GW.

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.

The fossil fuel alternative also comes with many, many well proven consequent illnesses and deaths: from the pollution connected with coal mining and with the pollution following the burning of the coal.

A number of Indian cities have similar air pollution problems as does Beijing and a substantial part of that pollution comes from burning Australian coal.

The EPA is considering adopting new standards for water pollution coming from coal - fired power plants.

It does people in the region no good to believe that coal jobs will come roaring back once pesky pollution regulations are overturned.

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 -LSB-...]

If it comes from coal, the electric cars produce 3.6 times more soot and smog deaths than gas, because of the pollution made in generating the electricity, according to the study that is published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

• Support for energy innovation today comes from those concerned about the high (and rising) economic costs, not to mention the foreign entanglements created by America's dependence on oil; the need for greater energy access in poor countries; diseases and deaths caused by air pollution, oil and gas drilling, and coal mining and waste; and the potential for America to manufacture and export new energy technologies at a profit.

The scope of the waste stream coming out of coal - fired power plants is almost unimaginable: hundreds of thousands of tons of air pollution and nearly 280 billion pounds of toxic coal sludge dumped into our environment every year.

Electric utilities would have three to four years to come into compliance under the new standards, and according to the EPA, «[M] ore than half of all coal - fired power plants already deploy the widely available pollution - control technologies that allow them to meet these important standards.»

They can even finance the modernization of a coal plant to ensure that those dirty monstrosities that could have otherwise been retired continue to spew out pollution for decades to come.

The terminal decline of coal power is coming at the right time, when ever - cheaper renewables are able to fill in the gap, and concerns about air pollution spread around the country,» he said.

According to the 2010 report, «Impact of EPA Rules on Power Markets,» by Credit Suisse, tougher federal air pollution rules that will be coming in the next few years could prompt electricity companies to close as many as 1 in every 5 coal - burning power plants in America, primarily facilities more than 40 years old that lack emissions controls.

Without major changes, the federal coal leasing program will continue to undermine federal, state, and international efforts to reduce carbon pollution; the BLM Wyoming office plans to lease over 10 billion tons of coal in the coming years, dwarfing the emissions reductions expected from the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan.

If the energy comes from fossil fuels — oil, coal, and natural gas — we would see air pollution harming our health, extreme heat, drought, sea - level rise, and other climate impacts caused by carbon pollution, and we would see the disproportionate impacts on communities of color, low - income communities, and tribal communities.

In Australia 3000 deaths annually are caused by air pollution; most of which comes from the mining, transport and burning of coal and from fossil fuel powered motor vehicles.

A clear articulation of the EPA's new mission came last year in a meeting of coal - industry leaders with Mandy Gunasekara, deputy assistant administrator for air pollution.

The greenhouse gas pollution of coal - fired power plants is another huge cost that is not factored into the price of electricity (even though 50 % of our power in the US comes from coal), and the same goes for the air pollution caused by the burning of petroleum.

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 Decoal 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 DeCoal 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 DeCoal 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 DeCoal - Fired Generating Capacity May Be «Retired» Over Coming Decade

Even taking into account methane leakage natural gas comes in at 47 % the climate pollution of coal.

Ohio comes in second with 1,221 additional premature deaths; New York takes third with 945 dead from coal pollution.

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.

Steam coming out of cooling towers from coal fired power plants being portrayed as pollution is another fabrication to make emissions appear as pollution.