Sentences with phrase «coal use fell»

According to the Carbon Brief, CO2 emissions fell by 5.8 per cent in 2016, after coal use fell a record 52 per cent.

It outstrips even years with miners» strikes (1921,1926 and 1984), when coal use fell by around 30 % before rebounding a year later.

[At first blush, this data seems to contradict recent reports that total China coal use fell in 2014 for the first time by about 2.5 percent.

The world added a record amount of energy from renewable sources in 2016 and global coal use fell again, according to the 2017 BP Statistical Review of World Energy, published earlier this week.

Not exact matches

Last year, two events caused North American thermal coal — the coal used by utilities to generate electricity — to fall by about 30 %.

In combination with the data on when the specimen was collected, the results tell the tale of coal use in the United States; rising from the late 1800s and falling during the Great Recession; then increasing again through the middle of the century until legislation in the»50s,»60s, and»70s set limits on air pollution, The Washington Post reports.

The International Energy Agency estimated last year that both the decline in China's coal use and falling electricity demand reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5 percent in 2014, leading to a 0.2 percent reduction in global emissions.

Coal Collapse Coal use has peaked in China, the world's largest polluter, and is falling off earlier than expected, according to a Nature Geoscience analysis.

Electricity generated using coal in the U.S. has fallen 38 percent since it peaked in 2007, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data.

The Lackawanna Hotel, where we spent the night, occupies a grand old train station that used to bustle with passenger traffic but fell moribund when the city's star faded along with Pennsylvania coal and oil production.

Unfortunately, fossil fuels are so abundant that resource depletion is not going to make them too expensive to use, so that emissions fall in time (indeed, resource depletion of oil this side of 2050 will mean coal and gas will be used for synthetic fuels - pushing emissions up even faster that I think the IEA recognise).

For a country where oil and coal use have been growing for more than a century, the fall since 2007 is startling.

Coal use for power generation fell even more, by at least 4 %, as power plant efficiency improved and gas and biomass displaced coal in thermal power generatCoal use for power generation fell even more, by at least 4 %, as power plant efficiency improved and gas and biomass displaced coal in thermal power generatcoal in thermal power generation.

The United States clearly is using less coal: Domestic consumption fell by about 114 million tons, or 11 percent, largely due to a decline in the use of coal for electricity.

Environmentalists countered that Utah seems to be content with falling behind neighboring states, where old coal - fired plants are being required to use SCR.

The huge fall in CO2 from coal use in 2016 was partially offset by increased emissions from oil (up 1.6 %) and gas (up 12.5 %).

Coal use has fallen 74 % since 2006 and is now 12 times below the record 221Mt used in 1956.

In the United States, coal's dominance in the power sector has been eroded by low gas prices; in China, coal demand has fallen due to lower use in the industrial and residential sectors linked to efforts to improve air quality; while in the United Kingdom a recently introduced carbon price floor has rung the death knell for coal use in power generation.

The use of coal is going to fall, and producers in the U.S. have already got that message and have begun exporting coal to China.

But it's worth noting that present coal burning capacity in China is 900 gigawatts and the best news for all involved would be if this capacity did not increase and that China's rate of overall coal use continued to fall.

Efforts to curb coal use have proliferated, and for the first time since the 1990s, the growth in global consumption stalled in 2014 before falling in both 2015 and 2016.

Since Tuesday, the coal industry and their allies in Congress have already begun attacking the President with the same rhetoric they've been using since the passage of the Clean Air Act 30 years ago — and surprise, surprise the sky hasn't fallen every time we've issued new safeguards for clean air.

In the UK coal use has fallen to levels last seen during the 1850s industrial revolution, causing a significant part of the large emissions reduction last year.

By using science in the service of politics Thatcher sought to demonise CO2 in order to get the environmentalist to hate coal and fall in love with nuclear.

Coal use in the United States is falling rapidly.

Coal use in the U.S. fell sharply — 15 percent — in 2015, pushing the U.S. from the second to the third biggest consumer of the fuel, after India and China.

China's coal consumption is projected to fall over the forecast period in contrast to its coal use over the past 20 years.

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Against an overall increase in Chinese energy use of 2.2 per cent, coal was the only major energy source to see falling demand during 2014, with a 2.9 per cent drop.

Analysis from Greenpeace suggests coal use in the first four months of 2015 fell 8 % on the same period in 2014.

Significantly, preliminary analysis suggests the reduction in coal use will mean Chinese emissions fell in 2014.

Emissions fell 1.4 % despite the current ineffective state of the Emissions Trading Scheme and increase in coal use

Growth in aviation emissions alone offset more than one third of the emissions decline from falling coal use in the electric power sector.

Coal use continues to fall.

However, coal use is already falling rapidly, supplying just 7 % of UK electricity in 2017.

China smashes solar energy records, as coal use and CO2 emissions fall once again (ThinkProgress, Feb. 28, 2017)