Sentences with phrase «coming out of a coal»

To change our earlier analogy, today we are like men coming out of a coal mine who suddenly begin to hear the rock rumbling, but who have also begun to see a little square of light at the end of the tunnel.

It is a matter of established scientific fact that there is more radiation coming out of a coal - fired power plant than is emitted from a nuclear plant.

The scope of the waste stream coming out of coal - fired power plants is almost unimaginable: hundreds of thousands of tons of air pollution and nearly 280 billion pounds of toxic coal sludge dumped into our environment every year.

Not exact matches

A National Grid spokesman said the record low was a sign of things to come, with coal - free days becoming increasingly common as the polluting fuel is phased out.

While we're on the question of Ric Stowe and his Griffin Coal Company, bar - room chatter coming out of Collie indicates that life is about to get somewhat tougher in the coalfields and a new round of cost cutting may be on the way — with interesting variat

Few thought Japanese regulators would take their sweet time evaluating whether the deal would give Glencore too much control over the market for certain types of coal that come out of HVO.

So Proverbs 25:22 teaches that if the fire of your enemy goes out, and they come asking for a coal to relight their fire, instead of turning them away or giving just one, we should be be extravagantly generous.

«To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes - washing, and window - washing, to road - building and tunnel - making, to foundries and stoke - holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and more sober ideas.

Speeches came from a variety of speakers, including a science broadcaster and writer, a Pakistani - born Canadian Muslim who works in STEM, a Pakistani - born professor who studies cell biology and anatomy; and, an emergency room physician who helped start the process to phase out coal - fueled power plants by 2030 in Alberta.

And until it's economical to pull it out of coal - fired power plant smokestacks or other industrial sources, it comes from petroleum - based sources, as well.

Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed

But there's a catch: The electricity that comes out of the socket is typically generated in power plants that burn coal or natural gas and emit plenty of CO2.

When I mention clean - coal technology to Judy Bonds, a local activist and coal miner's daughter in Whitesville, West Virginia, she scoffs: «Even if you could get marshmallows to come out of a power plant's smokestacks, you can't wash the blood off coal.»

In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, 72 percent of all toxic water pollution in the country comes from coal - fired power plants, making coal plants the number one source of toxic water pollution in the U.S. (1) What's more, four out of five coal plants in the U.S. have no limits on the amount of toxics they are allowed to dump into our water.

Every scientist that comes out against the IPCC view is dismissed as «unqualified» or is automatically in the pockets of Big Oil and Coal.

There's just too much inertia in coal and oil and too much incentive to make sure all of it comes out of the ground.

Edward (332), Good point; but if you get them to build no more coal plants as of 3 years from now, that's not just waiting them out and they'll come along 20 - 30 years from now.

Controlling coal exports would have real leverage, since many current estimates indicate that China could be running out of coal in the coming decades (see esp.

I have a sort of mental chart with lots of arrows: actions that produce GHGs (e.g., coal - burning) causing a plethora of problems (& goods — like power), acid rain, ocean acidification, local ground, air, water pollution, GW, health problems & dangers for miners, military threats / expenses (according to Pentagon studies re oil), etc.; and also many arrows of good (some bad) coming out of measures to abate GW.

Phillip Shaw: SO2 does have an impact on climate, but the natural Hawaiian SO2 emissions are tiny compared with what is coming out of China's coal - fired power plants.

Therefore, if switching to natural gas from coal reduces the amount of CO2 you emit, you can tolerate quite a large amount of leakage and still come out ahead, because the warming caused by the leakage will go away quickly once you eventually stop using natural gas (and other fossil fuels), whereas the warming you would get from all the extra CO2 you'd pump out if you stuck with coal would stay around forever.

Meanwhile, through its Buffalo Resource Management Plant update, BLM has called for an additional 10 billion tons of coal to come out of the ground over the next 20 years, all while claiming the federal coal program has no impact on our climate.

China might have recently passed us up when it comes to annual emissions, but take heart: Our coal - fired power plants and industrial factories are still churning out pollution with the best of them.

The real news coming out of these talks is what happened outside the negotiating halls: massive protests at Germany's open pit coal mines with Pacific islanders standing in solidarity, governments joining a new initiative to power past coal, Norway's push to ditch oil and gas investments, and the emergence of non-state actors as a powerful force for change.

In 1991, it was nothing more than a suggestion to invite science - based rebuttal back into an issue Al Gore and his friends hijacked with assertions that catastrophic man - caused global warming was settled science; a suggestion which came out of a leaked non-profit coal association's public relations test market campaign which was so obscure that practically no one ever saw or heard about it.

So far, the only energy trade groups to come out in support of the proposal are from the nuclear and coal industries.

Especially after it came out that most of the contributors of those «public information sources» is on some other oil or coal companies payroll.

Alberta has a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity and have 30 per cent of electricity used by Albertans come from renewable sources like solar, wind and hydro by 2030.

They know better than anyone just how much coal comes out of the ground each year to turn lights on in Missouri or Texas.

Harvey, in many cases when you compare the costs of new build power stations gas comes out cheaper than coal even without a carbon price.

Half of America's energy comes from coal, she pointed out, yet Obama wants, essentially, to ban it.

Perhaps the most totemic sign of the times came in September when the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a philanthropic body set up by the heirs to the Standard Oil fortune, announced that it would pull its money out of fossil fuels, beginning with coal and tar sands.

It has been invented out of desperation because it is very difficult to come up with «clean oil» in a manner similar to the fake «clean coal».

Interestingly, while the coal bears came out swinging early last year, warning of some kind of «war on coal,» plenty of coal stocks soared.

(1) A long - time supporter of nuclear power as a way to lower greenhouse gas emissions, which has made him unpopular with environmentalists, Lovelock has now come out in favour of natural gas fracking (which environmentalists also oppose), as a low - polluting alternative to coal.

I accept a level of hypocrisy because to engage with every injustice all the time is not only to open ourselves up to way too much suffering but can lead to a form of self - disarmament (consider for example the committed climate activist who won't use fossil fuel transportation on principle and therefore can't get to the action to shut down the coal plant — who comes out losing?)

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.

John Sauven, of Greenpeace, said: «The Tories» proposals should have been more ambitious given what today's technologies can deliver but, by ruling out the proposed old - style coal plant at Kingsnorth in Kent, today's announcement puts Cameron way ahead of Brown when it comes to cleaning up our energy system.»

After you take out the occasional embarrassment like the citizens assembly on delaying action against climate change as long as electorally convenient, the climate achievements of those governments come down to remarkably low proposed emission reductions, increases in MRET, a series of on again off again focus group - driven programs like Green Loans and the solar feed - in tariff, and shovelling as much coal as possible out of the ground and exporting it.

E3G's scorecard looks at the progress made on phasing out coal since the Paris climate conference and shows that an additional 40GW of existing coal plants have been marked for retirement over the coming years.

Fog forms around airborne particles, including pollutants, Dave Britton of the UK Met Office explains to the Guardian: «Go back to the 1950s and the big pea - soupers in London came from the amount of crap that people were putting out of their chimneys from coal fires.»

But the phase - out comes with a tricky statistic at the heart of the plan, a cap - and - trade rule that could shift power generation in Europe decisively away from coal.

In the coming months, as Congress and the Obama administration dole out billions in stimulus dollars to kick - start a green economy and draft sweeping legislation to curb climate change, the future of coal will be at the heart of the debate over energy policy.

We also single out the biggest culprits when it comes to state involvement and support, and we explain the (changing) role of the international (financial) institutions in the coal economy.

«Let me point out that if you have a well - designed coal plant, what comes out of the stack of the plant is almost the same thing that comes out of a person's breath.»

The WSJ editorial came out over a week ago, but if I recall correctly, Prof Tribe was filing on behalf of the Peabody Coal Company.

That brings us to the second problem: Yes, swapping out coal for natural gas does reduce carbon emissions initially, but in fact it ultimately doesn't help the planet avoid a rise of 2 degrees Celsius over the coming decades, the limit scientists around the world say we must not exceed in order to prevent the worst impacts of global warming.

However, the evidence coming out of China is that they are starting to take steps to address it, such a early signs that they are starting to reduce their coal use.

More and more people are learning about how bad fracking is, even Robert F. Kennedy jr, came out and publicly admitted that Fracking is not a safe bridge away from fossil fuels and is worse for climate change then using coal because of the fugitive methane emissions that are released in the fracking process's.

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