Sentences with phrase «dirty coal power»

Dirty coal power is never coming back because it can't compete with clean energy, and denial won't make climate change go away.

This is a pretty big deal — about half of U.S. electrical generation comes from cheap - but - dirty coal power, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Renewable energy can cut Los Angeles» reliance on dirty coal power from out of the state.

As expensive, dirty coal power staggers toward its inevitable demise, natural gas has come to dominate the electricity market.

Here, their data nicely visualized: Market Forces: Now, who are really the biggest lenders to dirty coal power plants?

¶ «Like Coal, Natural Gas Losing Ground to Renewables» • As expensive, dirty coal power staggers toward its inevitable demise, natural gas has dominated the electricity market.

People do not buy your dirty coal power's today will come, at that time, you will loss more money.

When Unit 3 at the Boundary Dam Power Station in Saskatchewan, Canada, switches on later this year after a lengthy refit, it will mark a historic moment for dirty coal power.

«If we intend to preach to others, we can not do so while building dirty coal power stations and new runways.

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.

China is closing many of their dirtiest coal power plants, and they are building much clean nuclear and wind generation.»

This process has already begun with the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) classifying carbon dioxide as a pollutant enabling it the enforce efficiency standards on the dirtiest coal power stations.

As of 2013, US greenhouse gas emissions had fallen just 8.5 percent below 2005 levels, a drop that largely happened due to the recession, to a natural gas boom that pushed out dirtier coal power, and to a rise in vehicle efficiency.

Not exact matches

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

Cheap power often means dirty power, and in China, miners draw on low - cost coal and hydroelectric generators.

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.

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.

The nation is building coal - fired power plants — one of the dirtiest forms of energy production — at a clip of two to three a week.

A big test of the World Bank's resolve will likely be made early next year when it will decide whether to give funding guarantees to a highly controversial power plant using «dirty» coal in Kosovo.

Because China relies on coal for much of its power, goods produced there can have a dirtier carbon footprint than those produced elsewhere.

Like all big coal - fired power plants, the 1,600 - megawatt - capacity Schwarze Pumpe plant in Spremberg, Germany, is undeniably dirty.

Using the power grid to charge automobiles strikes many as bad public policy, since coal, the dirtiest fuel, generates about 60 % of America's electricity.

This is because new pipelines coming on - line will allow gas to replace dirtier power sources such as coal in regions where gas was previously inaccessible.

Duke Power and Progress Energy in North Carolina are planning new coal plants, allowing them to shut down older, less efficient and dirtier plants.

Given the near - term and enduring benefits of electric power expansion in developing countries, the other long - term effect of expanded coal - powered generation is accrued wealth and economic growth (along with health costs if they are dirty plants, of course).

Like the coal - powered 1873 Bollee Steam Car pictured here, every plug in hybrid dream and every all - electric car prototype sold in North America currently endorses a dirty - coal - fired, climate - destroying future.

This puts Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a bind: He knows he needs to increase India's power supply (one avenue for doing this is investing in dirty coal - fired plants), but he also knows that being the lone obstructionist at global climate talks will impede his ability to deliver on a range of his campaign promises, many of which require global finance.

Chicago's southwest side was home to two of the nation's oldest and dirtiest coal - fired power plants — the Fisk and Crawford plants, owned by Midwest Generation.

Earthjustice's landmark court victory, which put in motion strict new limits on toxic air pollution from coal - fired power plants, drives the retirement of many dirty plants and a shift to cleaner power.

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.

Today, a fact finding team of five non-governmental organizations (NGOs)-- the Sierra Club, 350.org, Carbon Market Watch, Friends of the Earth U.S. and Pacific Environment — released a scathing report, The U.S. Export - Import Bank's Dirty Dollars, on the rampant human rights abuses at the U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im) financed Sasan coal - fired power plant and mine in Singrauli, India.

Using the power grid to charge automobiles strikes many as bad public policy, since coal, the dirtiest fuel, generates about 60 % of America's electricity.

Working with Power Past Coal — an alliance of environmental, health, and community organizations — we delivered more than 124,000 public comments voicing grassroots opposition to this dirty coal termiCoal — an alliance of environmental, health, and community organizations — we delivered more than 124,000 public comments voicing grassroots opposition to this dirty coal termicoal terminal.

Imagine if the data centres that drive our internet were powered by renewable energy, rather than dirty coal.

«But China isn't just relegating its dirty coal - fired power plants to the outskirts of society; for years, it's been building 16 unprecedentedly massive, brand new «coal bases» in rural parts of the country.

America's Power Army, the sister organization to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), sent an email this week to its Astroturf «army» laying out the coal lobby's plans to barrage key Democratic targets in the coming weeks to ensure that energy and climate legislation provides sufficient loopholes to maintain the Dirty Coal status Coal Electricity (ACCCE), sent an email this week to its Astroturf «army» laying out the coal lobby's plans to barrage key Democratic targets in the coming weeks to ensure that energy and climate legislation provides sufficient loopholes to maintain the Dirty Coal status coal lobby's plans to barrage key Democratic targets in the coming weeks to ensure that energy and climate legislation provides sufficient loopholes to maintain the Dirty Coal status Coal status quo.

Given coal is such a dirty energy source, it's climate change repercussions are starting to be taken into consideration when deciding on whether to build new coal - power plants.

According to Reuters, in the report Greenpeace concludes that «the last thing we need is for more cloud infrastructure to be built in places where it increases demand for dirty coal - fired power.»

«[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.

The four other mainland states have cheap (and dirty) coal and the remaining state, Tasmania, has plentiful hydro - power.

Unfortunately, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is getting ready to open more than 3,500 acres of land next to the park for a new Utah coal strip mine, just to supply a few more years of dirty energy to power to Los Angeles.

Mike Ewall is the founder and director of Energy Justice Network, a national support network for grassroots community groups fighting dirty energy and waste industry facilities such as coal power plants, ethanol plants, natural gas facilities, landfills and incinerators of every sort.

Now, imagine that on the other side of your light switch, one of two scenarios exists: the first is a «clean» world where wind turbines spin to generate electrons to power your light bulb and the other is a «dirty» world where a coal - fired power plant lumbers into operation, spewing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other pollutants into the atmosphere, to create the same level of brightness in your living room.