Sentences with phrase «coal power plants emitted»

According to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Emissions Inventory, US coal power plants emitted 45,676 pounds of mercury in 2014 (the latest year data is available).

In 2014, US coal power plants emitted more than 1.5 million tons.

US coal power plants emitted more than 3.1 million tons of SO2 in 2014.

Even today's most efficient coal power plants emit 1,800 lbs CO2 / MWh on average.

When compared with pure electric vehicles that use coal - generated electricity, H600's emission of sulfide, nitrogen oxide, and particle matter is 0.17 %; 0.67 %; and 50 % of the latter, respectively (a typical coal power plant emits 272 grams of PM when generating one kWh of electricity).

Not exact matches

And it could mean a future viable source of energy that emits no pollution or radioactivity, burns no fossil fuels, and could be no more expensive to run than conventional coal or electric power plants.

An article in Scientific American last year titled «Inside a Western Town That Refuses to Quit Coal» said the plant emits nearly 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, earning a spot among the top 20 carbon - producing power plants in the country.

The Environmental Protection Agency is getting ready to drop a new rule drastically limiting the amount of carbon that new coal - burning power plants can emit.

Essentially, sulfur dioxide gets emitted near the surface, either by a coal - fired power plant's smokestack or a volcano.

But he also measured all the infrastructural greenhouse gas emissions that support the product's fabrication; for example, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted while mining the coal, treating it and transporting it to the power plant.

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

Much of that comes from power plants that burn coal or natural gas — emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, even more than was captured.

We humans emitted 35.9 metric gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2014, mostly from burning coal and natural gas in power plants, making fertilizer and cement, and other industrial processes.

Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

Another study, published last year in Reviews of Geophysics, lists the man - made aerosols as coming from sulfates, nitrate and black carbon emitted by internal combustion engines, coal - fired power plants, slash - and - burn agricultural practices, and smoke from cooking.

Coal - burning power plants in the United States emit about 2.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year — nearly 17 percent of worldwide coal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warmCoal - burning power plants in the United States emit about 2.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year — nearly 17 percent of worldwide coal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warmcoal emissions — and finding technologies that reduce those emissions in the United States and China, which burns even more coal than we do, is crucial to combating global warmcoal than we do, is crucial to combating global warming.

By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

But there's a catch: The electricity that comes out of the socket is typically generated in power plants that burn coal or natural gas and emit plenty of CO2.

It is unlikely that all of the CO2 emitted in the U.S. could ever be captured and transported — whether by pipeline or tanker — to the west coast for injection, but local coal - fired power plants might be able to take advantage of the formation.

The results might not have immediate repercussions — nitrogen trifluoride currently adds 0.04 percent of the global warming effect created by carbon dioxide emitted from sources such as coal - burning power plants and cars.

In fact, a typical coal - fired power plant exposes local residents to as many as 18 millirems of radiation yearly, whereas a nuclear power plant emits less than six millirems per annum, according to researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

I criticized this statement, noting that the actual emissions from U.S. coal - burning power plants declined only from 16.1 million tons to 12.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of sulfur dioxide and from 6.1 million tons to 5.4 million tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case of nitrogen oxides (mostly emitted as NO, not NO2, but by convention measured as tons of NO2 - equivalent).

Study lead author Michael Raupach, GCP co-chair and atmospheric physicist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, says it will take economic, policy and social changes to reverse the trend, such as capturing the CO2 emitted by coal - fired power plants and increased international cooperation.

Why It Matters: Power plants that burn coal and other fossil fuels emit more than 40 percent of the nation's carbon dioxide.

Both are pollutants, but the first is dominated by sulphate emissions from coal burning power plants, the second from ozone precursors such as NOx, volatile organic compounds, and carbon monoxide mainly emitted from vehicles.

A power plant that produces 1,000 megawatts of energy consumes 9,000 tons of coal a day and emits 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas linked to climate change.

Fine particles emitted by vehicles (especially diesel - powered ones), coal - fired power plants, and burning wood can penetrate deep into the lungs, while car exhaust, heat, and sunlight contribute to high ozone levels.

First, given the events of the past weeks in financial markets, I'm not sure how these groups intend to build confidence in a market trading a ton of carbon that is avoided by protecting a forest acre in, say, Borneo, for a ton emitted by a coal - burning power plant in Boston.

EPA Rules Controlling Greenhouse - gas Emissions — The big day for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy should come sometime in June, when her agency is scheduled to unveil historic standards controlling carbon emissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natural gas.

China are ignoring coal emitting greenhouse gas, not only build coal power plants but also useing coal in transportation area, coal to liquid.

Andy points to the erstwhile dilemma posed by mercury - thanks to the Times interminable editorializing about the tons of quicksilver emitted by coal fired power plants several states upwind, many Manhattanites fear Minimata Disease should they crack open a window.

Rudolph W. Giuliani called for moving from energy rhetoric to action, using the popular Republican phrasing «clean coal,» a phrase with no meaning in the climate context until someone comes up with a cheap way to capture and store carbon dioxide emitted by power plants on the scale of billions of tons a year.

Coal that's mined from federal lands is burned in coal - fired power plants; coal - fired power plants emit carbon pollution; and carbon pollution warms our planet and contributes to increasingly destructive weather events and other consequences of climate disruption Coal that's mined from federal lands is burned in coal - fired power plants; coal - fired power plants emit carbon pollution; and carbon pollution warms our planet and contributes to increasingly destructive weather events and other consequences of climate disruption coal - fired power plants; coal - fired power plants emit carbon pollution; and carbon pollution warms our planet and contributes to increasingly destructive weather events and other consequences of climate disruption coal - fired power plants emit carbon pollution; and carbon pollution warms our planet and contributes to increasingly destructive weather events and other consequences of climate disruption (2).

Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine, and Robert Socolow of Princeton (best known for his work dividing the climate challenge into carbon «wedges») have written «Commitment accounting of CO2 emissions,» a valuable new paper in Environmental Research Letters showing the value of shifting from tracking annual emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants to weighing the full amount of carbon dioxide that such plants, burning coal or gas, could emit during their time in service.

We have known for some time that coal - fired power plants emit heavy metals into the air, among which is mercury.

In 2005, AEP's 21 major coal - fired power plants emitted 155.3 million tons of CO2 (2.6 % of all U.S. CO2 emissions) and 1,037,000 tons of SO2 (6.9 % of all U.S. SO2 emissions).

The Plan puts the first - ever limits on the nation's biggest source of carbon pollution — some 1,500 coal - and gas - fired power plants that together emit nearly two billion tons per year of carbon dioxide.

China's NEA knows that new Ultra-supercritical coal - fired power plants can meet the requirement of emitting less than 1,627 pounds of CO2 per MWh.

At a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide low - GHG - emitting synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investment.

At stake are limits on the nation's biggest single source of dangerous carbon pollution — some 1500 coal and gas fired power plants that together emit nearly two billion tons per year of carbon dioxide.

The overriding objective would be to raise the global average efficiency of coal - fired power plants and so minimise CO2 emissions which will otherwise be emitted while maintaining legitimate economic development and poverty alleviation efforts.

In addition, closer to New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie and Commissioner Martin have called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expedite action to reduce pollutants emitted by the Portland Generating Station, a coal - fired power plant operated by RRI Energy in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, directly across the Delaware River from Knowlton, New Jersey.

It also emits more CO2 than coal plants and to this writer it seems strange that the UK will look to North and South America to supply them with biomass fuel that requires processing and shipment thousands of miles, when they (Drax) could use locally mined coal to generate power.

Attacking climate science and climate policy is the most visible front of this war, but it leaves open a vulnerability: in addition to emitting carbon dioxide, pollution from coal - fired power plants also happens to have negative health impacts that can kill people.

FutureGen plant is coal powered, but it would emit no carbon dioxide because it would trap the greenhouse gases, store them underground using experimental technologies.

The EPA's new rule, which will be finalized in January 2015, would effectively ban construction of new coal - fired power plants because the average coal - fired power plant emits nearly 1,800 pounds of carbon per megawatt hour.

Emissions from coal - fired power plants, which emit much less BC because of their better combustion efficiency, are not included here.»

In 2006, DTE's 7 major coal - fired power plants emitted 43.3 million tons of CO2 (0.7 % of all U.S. CO2 emissions) and 214,000 tons of SO2 (1.4 % of all U.S. SO2 emissions).

When we waste less energy, we need fewer power plants, which emit harmful pollutants and heat - trapping greenhouse gases — especially coal - fired ones.

Colorado's coal - and natural gas - fired power plants harm public health by emitting smog - forming pollution.