Sentences with phrase «created by coal»

Inslee requests an extremely thorough environmental assessment report for the proposed port site, factoring in the costs of emissions and pollution created by the coal were it burned in Asia.

So, using this estimate, how many trees per year would you have to plant to absorb all the CO2 created by coal combustion?

(The Information Council on the Environment, an organization created by coal interests)(Dunlap and McCright, 2011:150) • Work to persuade the public and governments that climate change is not a threat, mainstream climate science.

«Fly ash is a fine, glass - like powder recovered from gases created by coal - fired electric power generation.

In arguing this he quoted discredited statistics from the Greening Earth Society, a front group created by the coal - powered Western Fuels Association that argues the benefits of global warming.

Using the so - called «clean - coal», a term created by the coal industry's PR firms, will still leave us with the dirtiest energy source in the nation.

A search of the New York Times archives just pulled up this excellent op - ed piece from 2006 showing that «clean coal» is a misnomer created by the coal industry to greenwash the massive harm inflicted on human beings and the environment by the coal.

What appears to be beautiful tree - lined mountains in this region at first glance are actually coal tips created by coal miners» hands.

Renewable electricity produces just 5 % to 6 % of the greenhouse gas emissions created by coal - fired energy plants, and 8 % to 10 % of those generated from gas - fired plants.

Not exact matches

The backlog created by Cyclone Debbie's disruption was still being felt in December, with long shipping queues at major coal ports such as Dalrymple Bay.

You can create this by arranging your coals to one side or turn on only one or two burners on a gas grill.

Renewable energy sources, such as the sun and wind, advances in technology to capture and store the carbon created by burning coal, and even the harvesting of uranium's energy will all likely be required.

A tale of two solar press releases A new startup at MIT is working hard to create a kind of printable solar panel that could produce electricity that is cost - competitive with the electricity produced by burning coal.

The results might not have immediate repercussions — nitrogen trifluoride currently adds 0.04 percent of the global warming effect created by carbon dioxide emitted from sources such as coal - burning power plants and cars.

About 60 % of Florida's manatees rely on warm - water refuges created by outflows from 10 coal and nuclear power plants.

Fly ash is a fine powder recovered from gases created by the burning of coal.

Of course, that creates problems too, not least the incessant hand - holding, whether that be in the form of cursing out a trader at a financial firm or loudly lamenting the stupidity of a would - be participant to said participant — a situation common to all commodity markets, at least judging by the occasional bombast from the coal or weather desks.

In response, five environmental organizations led by the Alliance for Climate Protection created the «Reality Coalition» to educate the public, media, and public officials «that in reality, there is no such thing as «clean coal.

The fuel - flexibility enabled by this new technology will reduce dependency on imported coal and create cost savings, since cheaper options, including waste coal, can be used for fuel, VTT says.

Some dyes are created by burning coal tar and others are derived from petroleum byproducts like tartrazine and erythrosine.

· Coal - or gas - fired systems with carbon capture and storage (CCS) reduce GHG emissions, but increase other pollution problems by 5 - 80 per cent, and create higher human health and environmental impacts.

An oil - drilling craze that began here in the 1850s created vast fortunes but would boom, bust, and eventually dry up in Pennsylvania, like coal and steel, leaving behind unemployment, a compromised ecology, and faded grandeur by the cubic foot.

A study of greenhouse gas - emissions by the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California at Irvine shows fuel - cell vehicles running on hydrogen derived from natural gas ultimately create far less GHG emissions than BEVs running off the U.S. grid, which is powered mostly by coal and natural gas.

She creates visual narratives inspired by the experience of growing up caught between a collapsing conservative steel town and the rural escapism of her grandparent's farm in the coal mountains of central PA..

The main body of Nistor's exhibition «canary in a coal mine» was formed by eleven small panels, each titled Evidence and no bigger than about twenty by sixteen inches, creating a modest and intimate space.

The Sierra Club has created a New Coal Plant Tracker, a state - by - state guide to where new coal - burning power plants are planned, indicating the efficiency of the design, the anticipated amount of electricity and carbon dioxide emissions, and other informatCoal Plant Tracker, a state - by - state guide to where new coal - burning power plants are planned, indicating the efficiency of the design, the anticipated amount of electricity and carbon dioxide emissions, and other informatcoal - burning power plants are planned, indicating the efficiency of the design, the anticipated amount of electricity and carbon dioxide emissions, and other information.

We've known for some time that air pollution created in Asia — largely because of fast expanding economic activity fueled by coal — spreads far and wide, even reaching the shores of the United States.

Since they were presumably going to operate as base load as opposed to peaker power, it's likely they were intending to sign long term contracts so that their incremental addition to the demand for coal would be absorbed not by creating an additional demand on the spot market but by identifying a fixed source with a standing order and putting a few American miners to work on a full - time basis.

Today's sobering story on how economic turmoil could blunt climate - friendly energy plans, by Elisabeth Rosenthal, implies that a new kind of climate and energy trance may indeed be nigh — not one created just by dropping prices for coal and oil but also by the urgency of a global economic retreat.

Researchers have created an impressive new kind of concrete that's made out of waste products from coal plants — concrete that could both last for hundreds of years and reduce carbon emissions by 90 %.

The utilities and coal companies who created the outrageous ad are motivated purely by financial interest.

Secondly using coal to power vehicles is best done by creating electric power and wall charging all electric vehicles (AEVs).

This would be better than pouring more subsidies into coal, whose use will be limited by the carbon emissions, and which creates environmental problems in the mining process (e.g., «mountaintop removal).

The report describes how India, despite its poverty, has moved ahead with an initiative for raising money for energy research that the United States — thanks to a lack of leadership, congressional polarization and fear of anything remotely resembling a tax — has so far been unable to do: India has created a National Clean Energy Fund for research and innovation financed by a levy of $ 1.10 (U.S.) per metric ton of mined or imported coal.

To make this a just transition towards a cleaner, healthier and more prosperous economy for all, Alberta has also created a Coal Community Transition Fund, to support municipalities and First Nations impacted by the phase - out of coal in the proviCoal Community Transition Fund, to support municipalities and First Nations impacted by the phase - out of coal in the provicoal in the province.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

The coal industry, which last year created the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, has been equally busy priming Americans over the indispensability of coal (about half of all the U.S,'s domestic electricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» since 19coal industry, which last year created the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, has been equally busy priming Americans over the indispensability of coal (about half of all the U.S,'s domestic electricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» since 19Coal Electricity, has been equally busy priming Americans over the indispensability of coal (about half of all the U.S,'s domestic electricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» since 19coal (about half of all the U.S,'s domestic electricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» since 1970).

Take China: The country created an economic miracle by relying on coal as its primary energy source.

As reported by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit advocacy coalition of scientists, the waste that coal creates is catastrophic:

Here is article on actual green jobs created by industry - http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/art... mbers.html You need to account for the lost jobs in coal industry that have been impacted.

«Waste created by a typical coal plant includes more than 125,000 tons of ash and 193,000 tons of sludge from the smokestack scrubber each year.

India is taking the lead in creating a country powered by renewable energy by replacing expensive imported coal with affordable solar power in just four years» time.

With this data, it is possible to calculate a rough approximation of how much CO2 will be created by each kilogram of CO2 captured from a CCS coal plant, and used to enhance oil recovery.

Many observers are worried that there will be attempts to render Environment Minister Hendrik's announcement toothless by creating loopholes that the coal industry could drive a truck through.

The Clean Energy Future: Protecting the Climate, Creating Jobs, and Saving Money puts forth a plan that expands renewable energy and energy efficiency, phases out all coal - fired power by 2050, and decreases natural gas capacity, along with modest changes in other sectors.

We also call on Governor Deval Patrick and the legislature to pass the Clean Energy Commonwealth Bill (HB 2935), which would create a community empowerment fund to assist communities and workers by protecting the local tax base and providing worker assistance and retraining opportunities when a coal plant retires.

President Donald Trump, who once called climate change a «hoax» created by the Chinese, has pledged to both revitalize the United States» slumping coal industry and withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.

«[A] n electric car running on power generated by dirty coal or gas actually creates more emissions than a car that burns petrol,» Dr. Dénes Csala, an engineer at Lancaster University, wrote in The Conversation.

My proposal is to create an artificial CO2 dome in a pristine area, for example by relocating the emission point of a coal fired power station.

The argument that paper fiber is not a standard product due to the mix of paper fiber available is answered by the fact that coal even from the same source is not standard and varies dependent upon the soils and vegetation that created it in the first place.