Sentences with phrase «dirty coal burning»

I'm not sure how to unpack your question about whether I want dirtier coal burned instead.

Not exact matches

If SolarCity succeeds, clean power will replace dirty energy, spelling the end of the coal - and natural - gas - burning power plants.

«We established the state's first carbon dioxide emissions standard when siting new power plants which will ensure that no new dirty, coal - burning plants will be built in the State of New York, period,» Cuomo said.

Light - colored sulfate aerosols are emitted mainly by dirty burning of coal.

For power plants, burning natural gas is cleaner than coal and dirtier than wind, solar and hydropower.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

The concern that figuring out how to sequester CO2 could act as a «license to burn» more coal is important, since dirty coal has such a negative impact on local air quality and human health, in addition to emitting CO2.

No matter what you do to it, coal is dirty, when mined and when burned.

BIDEN: China is building one to three new coal - fired plants burning dirty coal per week.

I was talking about exporting that technology to China so when they burn their dirty coal, it won't be as dirty, it will be clean.

China is building one to three new coal - fired plants burning dirty coal per week.

That coal happens to be so dirty of a fuel source makes the decision to burn less of it easy, as unfortunate as that may be for people that have earned their livings mining and burning coal.

Wood burning is subsidized as renewable energy and also favored for use in dirty older coal plants that must meet new regulations on sulphur dioxide emissions.

The fuel, a particularly costly and dirty energy source whose carbon dioxide emissions are second only to burning coal, lit up four antiquated generators on an island where power outages are common.

The only way to eliminate the health impacts associated with burning coal in Europe is to phase out these dirty power plants and replace them with clean renewable energy.

And in Germany, which is phasing out its nuclear plants, those other plants primarily burn dirty coal.

With respect, cars merely replaced tens of millions of steam engines of one type or another burning wood or very dirty coal.

11/19/17 — Despite its stated goal of dramatically reducing carbon emissions by aggressively pursing clean energy technologies and phasing out fossil fuels, Germany is still burning lots of an especially dirty form of coal and is likely to badly miss its upcoming emission - reduction targets.

We, the world, are burning more coal — and it's dirty.

«[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.

and instead has ended up building new power plants that burn lignite (dirty brown coal).

Prague was dirty from burning coal.

(3) China was (and is) desperate for new energy sources to power its growing economy — and replace the dirty coal - burning plants on which they now rely.

But the mainland still gets 70 per cent of its energy by burning dirty coal.»

However, the articles continually say things like this, in Friday's Washington Post: «Green - friendly Europe has a dirty secret: It is burning a lot more coal.»

China has shown the world how much it truly cares about global warming by burning significantly more dirty, carbon - unfriendly coal than it previously pretended.

Your 1800's trains, of course, burned coal, and that not very efficiently and were very very dirty.

Coal is dirty, burning it emits more greenhouse gasses than any other single source, mining it destroys mountains, streams, and rivers... but it DOES give us energy, to which I'm thankful for it.

Even so, our region continues to be dominated by expensive, dirty fossil plants that burn coal and gas — harming our health and polluting our air and water, as we watch the clean energy economy pass us by.

Over the last 130 years, global temperatures have increased due to carbon pollution from the burning of dirty energy like oil and coal.

If without new coal ports less PRB coal makes it to Asia and dirtier coal is burned instead.

The main cause of the climate change we're seeing now is greenhouse gas pollution, which we put into the air when we burn dirty energy like oil and coal.

There is overwhelming evidence that humans are warming the climate by burning dirty energy like coal.

Again your own reasoning says that Asia will burn BOTH our dirty coal and their own even dirtier coal.

The main cause of the climate change we're seeing now is carbon pollution, which we put into the air when we burn dirty energy like oil and coal.

When we burn dirty energy, we're adding carbon to the air that had been out of the loop for millions of years and was stored underground as deposits of coal, oil, and gas.

While you are doing this you are letting (7) 3 million ton a year plants burn dirtier coal.

When we burn dirty fossil fuels like oil and coal, and when we cut down forests that store carbon, we pollute our atmosphere and warm our planet.

Scientists know our climate is changing, primarily due to carbon pollution from the burning of dirty energy like oil and coal.

Yes, the Passive House in the Woods home is powered by electricity; and yes, electricity is predominantly a dirty fuel in this country — mostly generated by burning coal.

You seem to be saying that other countries will burn their own dirtier coal if we don't sell them our slightly cleaner coal.

First, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased about 40 percent since humans started burning dirty energy like coal.

So we should sell them our coal to burn and then their dirty coal will stay in the ground forever.

First, the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased about 40 percent since humans started burning dirty energy like coal and oil on a wide scale.

So by your own reasoning the other countries will burn BOTH our coal and their own dirty coal.

Coal burning is often a lot dirtier than diesels and on a lot bigger scale.

In fact, Germans are now burning even more dirty coal to meet their energy needs.

Dirty - burning coal is a massive problem.

Controversial so - called «clean coal» technology just got a triple - digit investment — GreatPoint Energy, a company that converts dirty coal into cleaner - burning natural gas, has raised $ 100 million in a Series C funding, a company spokesperson told us.

We all know that burning coal is a very dirty source of energy.