Sentences with phrase «coal research»

In 2009 alone, the government and the private sector plan to dedicate nearly a billion dollars to clean coal research and development.
As a prime example of the sort of influence the coal industry has had on the bill, Solve Climate highlights the $ 500 million in «administrative expenses» allotted to a new clean coal research center: David Sassoon points out that Rep. Rick Boucher (D - VA) managed to get the full text of a bill he proposed last year (which other than a few hearings went nowhere) that would establish the Carbon Storage Research Center inserted into ACES.
«China is kicking its coal addiction,» said Chen Yafei, vice-director at the China Coal Research Institute.
For example, in terms of coal research, the Bush Administration wanted to partner with China on the process of gasifying coal for power and storing the CO2 underground.
Scientific proof of coal's cleanliness comes in the form of a video interview with Dr. David Bayless, director of the industry - sponsored Ohio Coal Research Center.
Last week she emailed the head of WWF, Greg Bourne, expressing her concern at the new alliance and claimed it was an attempt by the industry to get more government subsidies for clean coal research in the lead - up to the May budget.
Since 1973, the federal government has spent $ 40 billion (in 2012 dollars) on coal R&D, including President Bush's $ 2 billion Coal Research Initiative designed to «improve coal's competitiveness in future energy supply markets.»
14, 1990, p. 323; 210.2 in Changing by Degrees, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, February 1991, p. 333; 205.6 for bituminous coal in Greenhouse Gases, Abatement and Control, IEA Coal Research, June 1991, p. 24; and 183.4 in Limiting Net Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States (Executive Summary), U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Analysis, September 1991, p. 37.
This program will emphasize advancing educational opportunities across a broad range of minority colleges and universities and will use DOE's University Coal Research Program as the model for implementing the program.
It is a new department of the China Coal Research... Read More
Bayless, director of Ohio University's Ohio Coal Research Center, thinks that the easiest way to eliminate the carbon dioxide given off by coal - burning power plants is nature's way, through photosynthesis.
Obama of course has also promised to fund clean coal research and also supports ethanol from corn, which McCain, to his credit, does not.
J David Hughes has studied the energy resources of Canada and the US for four decades, including 32 years with the Geological Survey of Canada as a scientist and research manager, where he headed unconventional gas and coal research.
The effort will have three areas: coal research, energy efficiency, and clean vehicles.
In particular, the future of the Coal Research Establishment (CRE) near Cheltenham, which is owned by British Coal, should be decided urgently, says the report.
The energy research offices have priorities that tend to shift with the «partisan» tides, he said, as administrations and bureaucrats favor wind or nuclear or coal research, for example, depending on the «political» winds.
The president's 2018 budget proposal suggested 55 percent cuts to the Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Research and Development Program, which funds clean coal research and implementation, the news site Axios reported in May.
And the draft climate legislation by Waxman and Markey — who only a year ago pushed for a moratorium on new coal plants — offers the industry a pathway forward and provides billions for clean coal research.
Every dollar currently spent on oil and coal research and development is being poured into obsolete, dangerous technology.
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