Sentences with phrase «comes from coal burning»

He said it was particularly important, if that goal is to be reached, for the federal government to work with utilities to curb emissions from power plants (half the country's electricity still comes from coal burning.).

Various experts, including a nonpartisan panel at M.I.T., have said the world needs something like 10 FutureGen - style projects to be developed in the next decade or so if there is to be any hope that gas - trapping technology will play a meaningful role in stanching the tens of billions of tons of carbon dioxide that will be coming from coal burning in the next few decades.

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Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

Most electricity still comes from burning coal, believe it or not.

Base load power, the residual power that has to be generated day - in, day - out, came primarily from burning coal, typically in a plant located right at a mine site owned by the power company.

As recently as 2008, about half the electricity in the U.S. came from burning coal and one - fifth from burning natural gas.

According to the Pembina Institute 63.7 % of Alberta's electricity generation now comes from burning conventional coal.

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.

Renewable energy: Commit to 100 percent renewable power The Climate Collaborative states that about one - third of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas to produce electricity.

One came for free, the result of a years - old consent agreement with National Grid as a result of problems with coal - burning power plants in Western N.Y; the other was the result of a $ 4.5 million purchase from a national land trust group.

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.

Even all the oil reservoirs in the world could not handle the more than 13 billion metric tons of CO2 that come from burning coal each year, even if pipelines and the rest could be built.

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.

Nearly 50 percent of the electric power in this country comes from burning coal to create steam that drives electricity - generating turbines.

About 80 percent comes from burning coal, oil and natural gas; most of the rest comes from deforestation in the tropics.

In the United States, roughly two - thirds of all sulfur dioxide and a quarter of all nitrogen oxide come from electric power generation that relies on burning fossil fuels, such as coal.

Plants produce VOCs when they decay, but a major source comes from automobile exhaust, coal burning, and other human activities.

Much of that heat comes from burning coal.

If that electricity comes from burning oil and coal, it might mean that green alternatives aren't that green after all.

Eighty - five percent of those CO2 emissions come from burning coal, oil and natural gas, which are providing more than 80 % of the world's energy; most of the rest coming from deforestation.

This is evident by the decline in bituminous coal being burned in the U.S. for electricity and the increasing share of coal production and consumption coming from the lower btu sub-bituminous and lignite coal.

Even if all of your power comes from coal (and most of us get at least some portion of our electric from hydroelectric dams, nuclear power, wind, or solar) you still are putting the environment in a better position than burning gas.

226 Rick Brown 228 Ray Ladbury: Leukemia more likely comes from benzene which comes from petroleum, coal and burning scented candles.

Sea salt comes from sea spray over the oceans, dust from dry desert areas, black carbon from burning of forests and fossil fuels, sulphates derive from ocean plankton and burning coal, nitrates derive from fertiliser use, car exhausts and lightning, and secondary organics come from the stew of volatile organic compounds from industrial and natural sources alike.

Emissions of the main human - generated greenhouse gas are surely tracking the reversal in electricity output, given that the vast majority of the country's electricity comes from burning coal.

And if the climate movement can keep pressuring the the government, banks and universities to invest in the future and divest from fossil fuels, it seems inevitable that we'll be burning less coal in the coming years, whether President Obama has officially waged a War on Coal or coal in the coming years, whether President Obama has officially waged a War on Coal or Coal or not.

The fossil fuel alternative also comes with many, many well proven consequent illnesses and deaths: from the pollution connected with coal mining and with the pollution following the burning of the coal.

Today, global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2)-- the principal climate - altering greenhouse gas — come largely from burning coal, oil, and natural gas.

These electrons most likely come from plants that burn coal or natural gas.

A number of Indian cities have similar air pollution problems as does Beijing and a substantial part of that pollution comes from burning Australian coal.

The reason is simple: Most of our electricity comes from the burning of fuels like coal and natural gas.

Most of today's emissions come from the burning of coal.

It comes after emissions declined four out of the six years since their 2007 peak, due to efficiency gains and a shift from using coal to cleaner - burning natural gas.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2)-- the principal climate - altering greenhouse gas — come largely from burning coal, oil, and natural gas.

About 80 % of China's electricity comes from burning coal, which is why the wind turbine and solar panel manufacturers are closing factories here and in the EU and building new ones in China.

As energynow comes from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas...

About 70 percent of China's CO2 comes from burning coal, but the country is also now the world's largest automobile market and by far the world's largest producer of cement and steel.

The carbon dioxide they produce will equal about an eighth of China's current total carbon dioxide emissions, which come mostly from coal - burning power plants and factories.

The groups wanted more studies of the environmental impacts of the mine, including the greenhouse gas emissions that will come from the burning of coal.

And, compared with the range of serious health and environmental harms that come from burning coal, natural gas's most immediate substitute, a sensible environmentalist would choose fracked gas any day.

The publicâ $ ™ s waning interest in global warming poses a challenge for Mr. Obama, who emphasized climate change throughout his campaign and pledged to seek a cap on emissions in the United States of heat - trapping gases, led by carbon dioxide, which come mainly from burning coal and oil.

Temperatures around the world are rising due to the ever - increasing greenhouse gas emissions most of which come from burning fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas — for energy, but which are also released by deforestation and industrialized agriculture.

As it is, our atmosphere has 4 % more moisture in it NOW, and wherever the coal is burned, and wherever it comes from, we are in the adaptation stages of climate change already.

Another difference is that a larger fraction of China's electricity comes from burning coal, which is more polluting.

In Australia 3000 deaths annually are caused by air pollution; most of which comes from the mining, transport and burning of coal and from fossil fuel powered motor vehicles.

The switch from burning wood to coal came about as forests gradually dwindled, but also as the technology for mining coal safely was developed.

The worsening of the picture, ironically, is due to a projected cleansing of the atmosphere in coming decades of other emissions from fuel burning that have a cooling influence on climate — specifically the veil of tiny particles of sulfates from unfiltered burning of coal and oil that contribute to smog and acid rain.

«Ironically, burning coal simply returns carbon to carbon dioxide from where it came during formation of massive forests that later formed coal.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 30.1 percent of the nation's electricity comes from coal - burning plants.

The greenhouse gas pollution of coal - fired power plants is another huge cost that is not factored into the price of electricity (even though 50 % of our power in the US comes from coal), and the same goes for the air pollution caused by the burning of petroleum.