Sentences with phrase «dirty coal plant»

In Kansas, communities are now celebrating a hard - fought victory to block a dirty coal plant that would have set their state back.

We applaud TVA for retiring the 55 year - old Allen facility instead of investing millions of dollars to continue operating it as a dirty coal plant.

The Obama campaign aired radio ads criticizing Romney for saying a dirty coal plant «kills people» when he was Governor of Massachusetts.

Maybe a dirty coal plant needs a few more years of operation and will pay a premium?

We can breathe easier knowing that yet another dirty coal plant will retire its massive air pollution.

Ex-Im Bank not supporting this dirty coal plant is a victory against Trump's promotion of fossil fuels at the expense of our climate and local communities.

«It's insane to have a dirty coal plant in a densely - populated area.»

Near Plant Branch, ranked as the 10th dirtiest coal plant in the nation in 2011 by the National Natural Resources Defense Council, the average income within three miles is $ 22,702.

«If there is substantial natural gas leakage, then building new natural gas plants would lead to more near term climate damage than using the old dirty coal plants,» explained Caldeira.

We need nuclear plants as quickly as possible to begin the phase out dirty coal plants and to start to think seriously about mass produced, American made electric cars.

Typical British farmers use more electricity - both directly and indirectly for the processing of its fertilizers, feeds, and additives - and are thereby saddled with the emissions from lots of dirty coal plants.

If industry - generated aerosols have a more limited cooling effect than originally thought, we can clean up and scale down dirty coal plants without worrying too much about consequent sudden jumps in global temperatures of up to 2 degrees C (if I remember the upper limits of earlier studies correctly).

It might make sense to take a small portion of the aerosol that would have been dumped into the troposphere by retired dirty coal plants, and inject that directly into the stratosphere where it will restore the lost cooling effect while (hopefully) doing less harm than the old stuff dumped into the lower atmosphere.

The attraction of the proposal is that we are already conducting an uncontrolled experiment on aerosol - based geoengineering, through the sulfate aerosols injected into the troposphere by dirty coal plants.

2013 Goldman Prize recipient Kimberly Wasserman led local residents in a successful campaign to shut down two of the country's oldest and dirtiest coal plants — and is now transforming... Read More

Older, dirtier coal plants need to get replaced with cleaner wind or solar or nuclear plants, say.

In June 2016, APS filed for a $ 3.6 billion rate increase (Docket E-01345A-16-0036) to go into effect July 2017, including higher fixed charges, new demand charges for solar customers, lowering the rate paid for distributed solar from the retail rate (12 - 13 cents / kWh) to wholesale rate (3 cents / kWh), and spending billions of dollars to introduce fossil fuel plants, including one of the Western U.S.'s oldest and dirtiest coal plants, into rate base.

Elsewhere in the world, China — often still thought of by many as relying almost entirely upon dirty coal plants for electrical generation — actually added more clean energy generation capacity in the first 10 months of 2013 than fossil fuel:

Similarly, 2013 Prize winner Kimberly Wasserman led local residents in a successful campaign to shut down two of the country's oldest and dirtiest coal plants — located in low income neighborhoods.

It started spewing out its annual, relatively clean, 13 million tons of CO2, and other nasties, so much lower than those older dirty coal plants that would have put out 15 million tons of CO2 for the same power output.

The 50 dirtiest coal plants in the U.S. — just 1 percent of the nation's electricity - generating fleet — account for 12 percent of the country's carbon emissions.

Unfortunately, some dirty coal plants have still not cleaned up, which is why these new protections are critical for improving our health.

Kimberly Wasserman led local residents in a successful campaign to shut down two of the country's oldest and dirtiest coal plants — and is now transforming Chicago's old industrial sites into parks and multiuse spaces.

The 2,250 - megawatt NGS, near Page, Arizona, is the largest and dirtiest coal plant in the state.

Scott Pruitt is committed to preserving and resurrecting dirty coal plants, in part by gutting environmental protections under the Clean Water Act.

The EPA crafted a rule cracking down on mercury pollution, which has pushed utilities to retire many of their oldest, dirtiest coal plants.

Judith, this gives much more detail in points I have used to argue with those who say that green energy (aka Renewables) will solve our problems and we just need to get rid of those dirty coal plants.

The Obama Administration has shown a strong commitment to economic prosperity through cleaner energy, and that means new regulations to force dirty coal plants and oil refineries to clean up their act to create less pollution and more clean energy jobs.

On the supply side we had, up until a month ago, about 151 new coal plants in various stages of development in the U.S.; conventional dirty coal plants.

Another thing that has to get across to the investment sector is that not only do we need a moratorium, but we are going to need to phase out all these dirty coal plants.

They wouldn't be doing this unless there was tremendous pressure not to build these dirty coal plants.

We need a global moratorium on coal, then we need to phase out all dirty coal plants.

The past year saw the shutting of thousands of the country's smallest and dirtiest coal plants.

More dirty coal plants will be the course de jour.

If we are going to effectively reduce air pollution and address global warming, we need to shut down the oldest, dirtiest coal plants — and not build new ones to replace them.

It will force the nation's dirtiest coal plants to upgrade their operations, and clean up emissions.

The Danskammer Plant, located along New York's Hudson River, is one of the state's oldest and dirtiest coal plants.

Companies like Engie and EDF, in which the French state is a shareholder, still refuse to close their 46 dirty coal plants.

One of New York state's oldest and dirtiest coal plants, the Danskammer Plant has been shut down since October 2012.

Not exact matches

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

Environmental groups have lauded the Obama administration for its work in slashing emissions from dirty coal - fired power plants in the US.

We can expect NDP cabinet ministers to boast about achieving the approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans - Mountain Pipeline expansion and Environment & Parks Minister Shannon Phillips to release further details of the plan to address Climate Change, including government support for communities impacted by the phase out of dirty coal - fired power plants.

Coal only provides about 4 percent of the state's power, but closing down the dirtiest power plant is a symbolic victory for environmentalists.

«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.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

One - third of those plants, among the oldest and dirtiest in the United States, were to be shuttered by the end of 2012, making it the biggest year for coal plant retirements in the nation's history.

The Greens want to shut down the country's dirtiest coal power plants, and support a climate - protection law to help Germany meet its plans to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions by 80 — 95 % from 1990 levels by 2050.

EPA enforcement of the Clean Air Act is pushing the oldest and dirtiest coal - fired power plants out of the nation's power fleet.

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

After all, the 10 RGGI states are connected to a national grid for power that can allow, for example, cheaper, dirtier power from coal - fired power plants in Ohio to substitute for reduced electricity production at a coal plant in New York State.