Sentences with phrase «coal releases into»

«When coal releases into the water, the mussel population goes into deep freeze.

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The mounting evidence for climate change, and all its tragic consequences, has provided a powerful argument against fossil fuel power stations: the burning of coal, gas and oil releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and this is almost certainly responsible for global warming.

Much of this energy still comes from the burning of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas, which release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere and contribute to extreme weather patterns that imperil everyone on earth — especially our food producers.

There are great mounds of imported coal being loaded onto rail cars for shipment to a local power station to be burned and release thousands of tons of climate - changing carbon into the atmosphere.

Even in a seemingly implausible accidental - release scenario in which all of a well's hydraulic fracturing fluid and untreated wastewater were discharged directly into surface waters for the lifetime of the well, shale - gas electricity had a lower lifetime human toxicity impact, or HTI, than coal electricity, according to the study.

There are over 100 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) found in oil, coal and tar, which are readily released into the environment when fossil fuels are burned.

In fact, if one of today's plug - ins draws its juice from a current coal - burning power plant, then overall it will cause slightly more carbon dioxide to be released into the air than a standard hybrid.

Power plants burned coal that released sulfur into the atmosphere, but coal use has declined.

Most eventually finds its way into the environment, along with mercury released from burning coal, smelting metal, making cement and incinerating waste.

When it burns, coal releases sulfate aerosol particulates into the atmosphere that reflect some of the sun's incoming energy back into space.

In other words, coal mining companies own the coal they extract but not the methane that mingles with it and is released into the atmosphere during production.

Some of it is returned to watersheds in altered forms - like water heated during coal - fired electrical production and stored in cooling towers or ponds before being released - at higher temperatures - back into rivers.

«Produced» water from coal - bed methane extraction releases underground water with high mineral content into watersheds.

More than 1 billion gallons of toxic sludge were released into a Tennessee community when a dam collapsed last December, causing a massive coal - ash spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant, a coal - burning power plant owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Every molecule of methane in the air has 25 times the effect on temperature rise compared to a molecule of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by burning coal, oil or gas.

«Small - scale gold mining contributes to one third of the mercury released into the environment today,» says physicist Stephan Robinson of Green Cross Switzerland — Blacksmith's partner in the research and ranking — or nearly as much as coal burning by power plants.

Hydrogen can also be split from water in high - temperature nuclear reactors or generated from fossil fuels such as coal or natural gas, with the resulting carbon dioxide captured and sequestered rather than released into the atmosphere.

A recent report released by the environmental law firm Earthjustice says 25 million tons of coal ash are dumped into American mines every year, threatening ground water.

Although mercury, a neurotoxin, occurs naturally in the environment, it is also released into the atmosphere when humans burn coal and other fossil fuels.

Even though large amounts are released into the air by human activities such as coal burning, smelting, mining and waste incineration, mercury also occurs naturally in the environment, where it undergoes a complex chemical cycle.

Burning coal releases sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and other pollutants into the atmosphere.

Recently published research documents that nearly two - thirds of the industrial carbon pollution released into the atmosphere since 1854 can be directly traced to the carbon extracted from the Earth by just 90 entities — 83 producers of coal, oil and natural gas, and 7 cement manufacturers.

If human - caused climate change is to be slowed enough to avert the worst consequences of global warming, carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants and other pollutants will have to be captured and injected deep into the ground to prevent them from being released into the atmosphere.

Biofuels can also cause a much smaller net release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than fossil fuels such as coal and oil.

And as we burn more and more fossil fuels and coal, that releases mercury into the air, which is deposed into the ocean.

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For the past four years almost nothing meaningful has been done to stop the rampant production and release into the atmosphere of ever greater amounts of carbon dioxide, and there have even been more frantic calls for more production of oil and expanded use of coal as a fuel.

The right way is to promote more emission - free nuclear power and encourage the investments necessary to produce electricity from coal without releasing carbon into the air.

In a hundred years or so, we're releasing millions of years of carbon sequestered in oil, natural gas, coal, etc into the atmosphere.

Billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide have been released into the atmosphere from coal - fired power stations that would never have been built if it weren't for our fear of nuclear power.

In the U.S., this coal and the carbon dioxide it will eventually release into the atmosphere are some of the unwanted leftovers of an America going greener.

Well, coal burning has released more radiation into the environment by far than nuclear has.

If you make charcoal out of it, that would still release some CO2, of course — but the carbon that ends up as char coal is held back: Char coal does not decay that quickly (> 1000y) so if you put it into soil instead of burning it, you got THE ONLY CARBON SEQUESTRATION METHOD CURRENTLY KNOWN DOABLE.

The situation reminds me of the uncontrolled fires burning in coal seams from Australia to Pennsylvania, which in 2001 were estimated to be releasing hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide a year into the atmosphere.

Last — but not least — the burning of coal releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

We can not burn all of the fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal and unconventional fossil fuels such as tar shale and tar sands) and release the CO2 into the air without creating a different planet.

Recently published research by Richard Heede of the Climate Accountability Institute documents that nearly two - thirds, 63 percent, of the industrial carbon pollution released into the atmosphere since 1854 can be directly traced to the carbon extracted from the Earth by just 90 entities — 83 producers of coal, oil, and natural gas, and seven cement manufacturers.

I talk about how when we burn fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas for our energy, it releases carbon dioxide (CO2) into our air supply.

He cautioned, however, that burning oil and coal to drive our cars and heat our homes — which releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — is not to blame for an increase in the damage done by hurricanes.

By driving cars, using electricity from coal - fired power plants, or heating our homes with oil or natural gas, we release carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases into the atmosphere.

This is due to a combination of particulate matter, sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen that are released into the atmosphere when coal is burned.

Using paper fiber as fuel reduces the amount of CO2 permanently released into the environment compared to the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, that are not renewable.

Remember, Coal combustion releases CO2 sequestered millions of years ago permanently into the environment.

Technology currently exists to capture CO2 emissions from coal - fired plants before they are released into the environment and to sequester that CO2 in underground geologic formations.

«In generating exactly the same amount of electricity, wood will release four times as much carbon into the atmosphere as gas would do, and one and half times as much as coal.

Paper may have environmental advantages in that unlike coal, the CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) that is released into the atmosphere is not additional CO2 freed from coal sequestration and permanently added to the atmosphere, but may be recaptured by planting a tree to create more paper.

To Myrh: do I understand you correctly as saying that burning of oil (unlike coal and gas), does * not * release large quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere?

«The burning of fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal releases greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide into the Earth's atmosphere, which has warmed to levels that can not be explained by natural variability, scientists say,» USA Today reports.

To reduce ozone levels, people can exert tighter control over many activities that release methane into the air, from cattle farming to waste - water treatment to coal mining.

That won't surprise energy realists, but the item I wasn't expecting was the reference in the IEA press release to growing efforts in China to convert coal into liquid fuels and especially synthetic natural gas (SNG).