The emission factor for lignite from the Gulf Coast
Coal Region in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas is 213.5 pounds of carbon dioxide per million Btu.
This is 1 to 3 percent lower than the emission factors for lignite in the Fort Union
Coal Region in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana and for lignite in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.
Linfen, China — a city in the heart of China's
coal region in Shanxi Province, its three million inhabitants choke on dust and drink arsenic that leaches from the fossil fuel.
The EU Platform for
Coal Regions in Transition was launched by the European Commission in December last year to support Member States and regions as they shift away from coal towards renewable energy, in order to «leave no region behind».
Not exact matches
In this petroleum - dominated
region, there isn't much
coal - power expertise.
But the real level of unemployment or underemployment is masked by the fact that the official data does not include China «s 277 million migrant workers, such as Zhang Sihu and his wife from Bianqiang
in Yulin, a
region rich
in coal, oil and natural gas
in northwestern Shaanxi province.
One silver lining: recent data shows that Americans who live
in coal country, like the Appalachian
region, aren't resting on their laurels.
In some coal states in the Midwest and the South, electricity costs even less than that, and it will be a long time before solar is competitive in those region
In some
coal states
in the Midwest and the South, electricity costs even less than that, and it will be a long time before solar is competitive in those region
in the Midwest and the South, electricity costs even less than that, and it will be a long time before solar is competitive
in those region
in those
regions.
HWE Mining has a presence
in iron ore
in the Pilbara
region of WA and is active
in gold,
coal, bauxite, nickel and copper both
in Australia and overseas.
Installing enough batteries to make most electrical grids fully reliant on wind power or even to take older natural - gas or
coal plants off - line isn't cost effective yet
in many
regions.
The areas of Donetsk and Lugansk,
in the middle of the
coal - producing Donbas
region, declared independence last month and cut ties with the central government
in Kiev.
When a couple of former
coal workers launched Bit Source, a software and web developer,
in Pikeville
in 2015, there was buzz about the
region becoming «Silicon Holler.»
Production
in the Western
Region, which represented about 55.7 % of total U.S.
coal production
in fourth — quarter 2017, totaled about 108 million short tons (5.9 % lower than fourth — quarter 2016).
Appalachian Voices, an environmental group, estimates that
coal companies have buried over 2,000 miles of streams
in the
region through mountaintop removal mining since the 1990s.
The Company owns and operates three surface
coal mines
in the PRB, the lowest cost major
coal producing
region in the nation.
In a
region where more than a 1,000 workers were recently laid - off from the
coal mines, projects like this offer a much - needed economic boost that helps diversify the local economy and buffer, as the mayor of Tumbler Ridge said, the «devastating shocks» from the regular boom - bust cycle of the traditional resource sectors.
The
region's product also competes with cheaper
coal from elsewhere
in the country.
Coal cars will need to continue to travel longer distances to eastern ports as the mining of coal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increa
Coal cars will need to continue to travel longer distances to eastern ports as the mining of
coal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increa
coal deposits
in the Appalachian
region declines and the activity
in the Powder River Basin
in Wyoming and Montana increases.
Coal cars will need to travel longer distances to eastern ports as the mining of coal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increa
Coal cars will need to travel longer distances to eastern ports as the mining of
coal deposits in the Appalachian region declines and the activity in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana increa
coal deposits
in the Appalachian
region declines and the activity
in the Powder River Basin
in Wyoming and Montana increases.
It does people
in the
region no good to believe that
coal jobs will come roaring back once pesky pollution regulations are overturned.
The two most important figures
in the founding of the European
Coal and Steel Community (the predecessor of the EU), French foreign minister Robert Schuman and German chancellor Konrad Adenauer, both had roots
in the
region.
Those who would fight them
in court can find precious few lawyers
in the
region not already employed by the
coal companies.
Bacon: One size does not fit all September 21, 2015:
In the unassuming city of Frontenac, a rural town in southeastern Kansas that's situated in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 198
In the unassuming city of Frontenac, a rural town
in southeastern Kansas that's situated in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 198
in southeastern Kansas that's situated
in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 198
in a
region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known
in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 198
in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for
coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 1982.
Two new breweries are set to open later this year
in Cambridge on the edge of Tasmania's
Coal River Valley wine
region, just a couple of minutes» drive from Hobart Airport.
From cool climate
regions in Tasmania and Victoria such as the
Coal River and Yarra Valleys, through to warmer
regions like McLaren Vale
in South Australia and Frankland River
in Western Australia.
The report further stated that slowing economic growth and energy consumption
in China as well as the restriction of
coal use
in its coastal
regions will impact seaborne trade, especially Indonesian exports.
The
region with the highest growth rate
in coal use
in the IEA outlook period is
in Southeast Asia, where Indonesia, Viet Nam, Malaysia and Philippines among others plan to underpin their power generation with new
coal power plants.
Unfortunately, around half of the new
coal - fired generation capacity under development
in the
region still uses inefficient subcritical technologies.
Those temporary closures
in 1985 left a gaping hole
in the
region's energy production, a need immediately filled by
coal.
Projects to harvest natural gas from a
coal mine
in the Four Corners
region is spewing the potent greenhouse gas
EPA's forthcoming regulations on new and existing power plants are no exception, especially
in regions dependent on
coal - fired electricity.
«It's really a tale of two markets,» he said, noting that as U.S. thermal
coal prices soften, demand for high - grade metallurgical
coal and some thermal
coal has helped prop up U.S.
coal mining activity
in traditional high - volume
regions like Appalachia and the Powder River Basin.
Salem was an ideal test case: an old, dirty plant
in a
region already shifting from
coal and oil to natural gas.
Within the Asia - Pacific
region, China continued to outpace its neighbors with 3.3 billion metric tons of
coal produced
in 2011, accounting for a 68 percent share of all production
in the
region.
Our findings show that the gaseous form of mercury — emitted by
coal - burning, mining and other industrial processes
in the industrialized world — is being lofted into the
region from thousands of miles away.
But campaigners have expressed concern that the burden of pollution is likely to be shifted to other
regions, with high - emission sectors like thermal power still on course to expand rapidly
in big,
coal - rich
regions like Inner Mongolia, Ningxia or Xinjiang.
Many of the worst
coal fires are
in remote areas or
in poor
regions where ruined communities and impaired public health have not commanded much attention.
«China's central and western
regions are rich
in coal, and their environmental capacity is better than the Beijing - Hebei - Tianjin
region, so we are encouraging them to develop
coal - to - gas and to replace
coal burning
in eastern
regions.»
But additional buildup of
coal - to - natural - gas projects could also create an environmental nightmare because producing the gas will emit huge amounts of carbon dioxide and worsen the water crisis
in China's arid western
regions.
Republicans have long criticized the monument status for blocking access to massive
coal deposits
in the area's Kaiparowits Plateau and crippling potential economic growth for the
region.
«It depends on the fertility of the soil
in the
region where you are producing the biochar, and whether you are offsetting
coal or some other form of energy,» Amonette says.
A study by the World Resources Institute last October showed 51 percent of planned
coal - power plants
in China were
in regions with severe water shortages, potentially pitting energy production against agriculture and basic needs for clean water.
December 8, 2017 India's steel industry, like America's, is dominated by electric - based processes November 20, 2017 Link between growth
in economic activity and electricity use is changing around the world November 16, 2017 Growth
in global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions expected to slow November 8, 2017 EIA forecasts growth
in world nuclear electricity capacity, led by non-OECD countries October 25, 2017 China leads the growth
in projected global natural gas consumption October 10, 2017 Buildings energy consumption
in India is expected to increase faster than
in other
regions October 4, 2017 Global gas - to - liquids growth is dominated by two projects
in South Africa and Uzbekistan September 27, 2017 Chinese
coal - fired electricity generation expected to flatten as mix shifts to renewables September 19, 2017 Beyond China and India, energy consumption
in non-OECD Asia continues to grow September 14, 2017 EIA projects 28 % increase
in world energy use by 2040
Researchers then used models to estimate changes
in ambient pollutant concentrations due to the presence of
coal - fired plants
in the
region and estimated health impacts using peer - reviewed methodologies used
in similar studies around the world.
In the Four Corners
region, which is the area where New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah meet, the methane emissions are caused mainly by the production and transport of natural gas from
coal beds, said the NASA team.
Climate alarmists have long anticipated Earth's polar
regions to symbolize the proverbial canary
in the
coal mine when it comes to witnessing the impacts of CO2 - induced climate change.
The required additional fossil fuels will involve exploitation of tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking for oil and gas,
coal mining, drilling
in the Arctic, Amazon, deep ocean, and other remote
regions, and possibly exploitation of methane hydrates.
Mr. Palmer's TEDX speech, entitled «Learning Appalachia: My Time Teaching
in Coal Country» detailed the need for the
region to invest
in retaining the most creative and brightest young minds to spur economic and cultural development.
Author Joan Quigley, a former business reporter for the Miami Herald, and a descendant of
coal miners, uses her own family history to illustrate the stubborn determination of those who have toiled
in the anthracite
coal region of Appalachia.
The practice, which involves walking barefoot across burning
coals, is specific to the Strandja Mountain
region in southeast Bulgaria, an area that shares both borders and cultural ties with Greece.