Sentences with phrase «dependence on coal»

There's heavy dependence on coal and fossil fuels, less experience with environmental remediation, and a fast - growing industrial sector.
BEYOND FOSSIL FUELS: Coal Flows to Growing Asia Articles in this series examine innovative attempts to reduce the world's dependence on coal, oil and other carbon - intensive fuels, and the challenges faced.
A long history of dependence on a coal - based energy system also leaves its signature: «Historically, coal - producing areas have had cheaper power prices and therefore less of a solar market,» pointed out Richard Lawrence, executive director of the North American Board of Certified Energy Professionals.
She was in favour of building up nuclear energy to break the dependence on coal and the main opposition to nuclear came from the environment movement.
«We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels,» Sir Richard said.
Choked with smog that shut down roads, schools, and its main airport, the city of Harbin (map) this week offered a striking reminder that China has a long way to go in addressing the hazards caused by its dependence on coal.
But China could enhance its national energy security by developing innovative policies than prompt change in the country's energy consumption structure, shifting it from heavy dependence on coal and oil to energy - saving products and alternative energy.
The state has been reducing its dependence on coal and oil for electricity generation, but in the process has become heavily reliant on natural gas.
Their website, apart from general climate - related education, is focused on Poland and the denial of human - caused climate change they encounter there mostly due to the country's dependence on coal.
Fossil fuels have been a great gift — but as the greenhouse gases produced by burning them accumulate in the atmosphere, our continued dependence on coal, oil, and natural gas poses a grave threat to the climate on which all life depends.
Through the U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im), Trump is pushing developing countries toward dependence on coal for decades to come.
«The basic idea is that we have to establish a price level for carbon in China, and I think that is the right step to take,» said Yang, adding: «I think the enormous local impacts of China's energy mix and dependence on coal is becoming a huge push for China to take even stronger climate mitigation action.»
The Institute's mission is to accelerate the transition to a diverse, sustainable and profitable energy economy and to reduce dependence on coal and other non-renewable energy resources.
As the U.S. dependence on coal slackens, the industry is attempting to export it abroad.
¶ A cooperative serving four Western states could lose customers because of its dependence on coal.
Her motive was not to «save the planet» but shift the country away from it's dependence on coal and hence undermine the power of miners» union.
Most remarkably of all, China's dependence on coal is faltering.
He tied climate science to the imperative of ending our dependence on coal — thus adding another dimension of leadership and support to Appalachian residents who are confronted with the practice of blowing up mountains and dumping the debris into nearby streams and valleys to reach seams of coal.
While de Jong's political passion extends to resolving not to fund faith - based schools, including Catholic ones, and to ending dependence on coal - fired plants by 2009, he said climate change is the most important issue.
If we want to play a significant, responsible role in tackling climate change, we must lead the way by reducing our dependence on coal and finding newer, cleaner ways to produce electricity.
At a time at which U.S. dependence on coal is decreasing (due to increased supplies of unconventional natural gas and hence lower gas prices), China continues to rely on coal, but is very concerned about this, partly because of localized health impacts of particulates and other pollutants.
For - profit utilities across the U.S. are rethinking that nation's dependence on coal for 50 per cent of its electric power.
The goal of the state's electric utilities was, at the time, to reduce dependence on coal, oil and natural gas, which were and remain expensive and dirty.
And I see opportunities to build, locally and nationally, from concern about vulnerability to climate and coastal hazards to the challenge of moving beyond widespread dependence on coal and oil.
The piece centers on Secretary of State John Kerry's trip to China in July, and thus appropriately casts China's policy choices on greenhouse gases and its deep dependence on coal in the broader context of the never - ending «you first» dance between these two greenhouse - gas giants.
His blog Fundoo Professor features his investing lectures, general thoughts on value investing, and industry analysis, such as his recent study of India's dependence on coal.
The new data suggest that the task of meeting that deadline by reducing China's dependence on coal will be more daunting and urgent than expected, said Yang Fuqiang, a former energy official in China who now advises the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Fossil fuels have been a great gift — but as the greenhouse gases produced by burning them accumulate in the atmosphere, our continued dependence on coal, oil, and natural gas poses a grave threat to the climate on which all life depends.
The poor pay the highest cost of India's dependence on coal, said Jennifer Wang of the nonprofit group Health Care Without Harm.
The Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) asserts that reaching that 5 percent level, which would produce 260,000 megawatts of electric power and reduce our dependence on coal by one - third, is doable by 2050.
China needs to reduce its dependence on coal and improve the range of fuels it uses if it is to have long term energy security, according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA).
The new Minnkota transmission line seeks to phase out all of Minnesota's dependence on the coal - fired Young 2 plant by 2024.
China continues to lead in the ranking of the world's top 40 renewable energy markets, despite its continuing high greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on coal.

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We hear a lot about China's dependence on dirty coal, but major changes are underway there too.
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Drilling for natural gas has been promoted because it burns more cleanly than coal and can reduce dependence on imported energy sources, and it can also bring jobs to economically battered regions of the state.
All to reduce the dependence on — and the pollution from — burning coal.
This means developing more of America's own energy resources, including wind, solar, clean coal, biofuels, nuclear energy, as well as oil and natural gas — which will reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern oil and create thousands of jobs here at home.
Increasing dependence on brown coal has raised doubts about whether Berlin will hit its medium - term CO2 emission goals.
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China, the world's largest user of coal, has announced that as part of its economic reforms, it is moving to lessen its dependence due to the detrimental effects on the environment.
Your rejection of the pipeline provides a tremendous opportunity to begin transition away from our dependence on oil, coal and gas and instead increase investments in renewable energies and energy efficiency.
What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.
Demonstrating that the overall environmental damage is less than that from coal does not imply that gas production and use is cost - free, and the sooner we reduce our dependence on fossil fuel sources of energy of all kinds the better.
I have no quarrel with those taking an absolutist «no fracking» stance, including the makers of «Gasland,» the searing documentary on fracking nominated for an Academy Award, as long as they come up with other energy options that can reduce dependence on oil or coal (and cutting energy waste, while vital, doesn't do the trick).
From producing gas - guzzling cars to building more coal - fired power plants, to creating toxic waste disasters and simply maintaining our dependence on fossil fuels — are the members of USCAP really leading the pack?
From providing cleaner cookstoves to rural families and improving rice cultivation to reduce methane emissions to reducing emissions from deforestation and cutting deepening dependence on carbon - emitting coal, the solutions to global warming pursued by countries across Asia are specific to their unique needs and opportunities.
Therefore, we must stop looking at coal as an option and start by reducing our dependence on it beginning right now.
There could be as much as 2,600 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas available domestically.63 The U.S. currently uses approximately 22 tcf per year.64 If the shale deposits meet their potential, these finds will certainly help accelerate the retirement of coal power plants and reduce our dependence on foreign oil and our foreign exchange imbalance.
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