Sentences with phrase «dirty power plants»

Second, clean wind energy will be able to replace or retire dirty power plants.

Some states might decide to leave behind dirty power plants altogether and switch them out for renewable ones.

NRG's plants in Tonawanda and Dunkirk emitted more pollutants than any other New York power plant and were the 31st and 155th dirtiest power plants in America in 2005, respectively, according to a Environmental Integrity Project report.

Here's the basic problem the EPA faces: The best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources — primarily power plants — is to approach the situation holistically: shut down a bunch of dirty power plants, build a bunch of clean power plants, and push hard on efficiency to cover the cost differential and protect ratepayers.

Here in the US, we started our own energy turn with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Clean Power Plan to reduce emissions from dirty power plants.

The EPA designed the Clean Power Plan to do just that, making dirty power plants cut the dangerous emissions choking our air and changing our climate.

As we noted last night, the global warming deniers were sure to start firing on all carbon - emitting pistons this week in response to the Obama EPA's landmark announcement todayof proposed new rules to decrease harmful, climate - destabilizing CO2 pollution from existing dirty power plants, as per the U.S. Supreme Court - mandated enforcement of the Clean Air Act.

While wind turbines produce clean energy unlike dirty power plants that pollute out of sight, many people aren't thrilled to see them dotting the landscape.

Rather than build dirty power plants, many countries in Africa could invest more in solar and wind, and while there's an upfront investment, after that the «fuel» is free forever!

The top two dirtiest power plants based on efficiency are both in Greece; however, due to their small capacities, these show up only in places 11 and 24 for contribution to overall CO2 emissions.

Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants: New EPA restrictions on mercury and toxic pollution, issued in December 2011, likely to lead to the closing of between sixty - eight and 231 of the nation's oldest and dirtiest coal - fired power plants.

Since the dirty reliable power must remain on standby to backup the new unpredictable wind power, there is virtually no reduction in the use of dirty power plants or the dirty fuel they burn.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designed the Clean Power Plan to do just that, making dirty power plants cut the dangerous emissions choking our air and changing our climate.

Similarly, CPP set emissions reduction targets for individual states, but left open the formula for how to meet those goals, whether through retiring dirty power plants, building up renewables, or trading compliance credits with other states.

Utilities can use batteries to make the grid more stable, and to avoid building new expensive and dirty power plants that they only operate during times of peak power demand.

«The CPV power plant in Orange County was built on bribes, and it's Gov. Cuomo's obligation — if he is a true climate leader, if he is a true climate leader, he must shut this dirty power plant down,»» said Eric Weltman of non-profit group Food & Water Watch.

At the same time, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in his annual State of the State speech on Wednesday, the state will phase out its dirtiest 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.

As it stands, oil fields like Tinsley or Macumber's Raleigh will make or break prospects for cleaning the dirtiest power plants.

The Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA) tool produced by the Center for Global Development, updated and released this week, shows that seven of the world's 10 dirtiest power plants are in Asia — though none in China.

The people who operate the grid would rather pay us to turn down instead of paying a dirty power plant to turn on.

«America's dirtiest power plants are the elephant in the room when it comes to global warming,» said Julian Boggs, global warming program director at Environment America Research & Policy Center, in a statement.

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.

But, if fully adopted, the original Clean Power Plan was projected to prevent an estimated 90,000 asthma attacks each year by reducing the dirty power plant emissions choking the air we breathe.

Not just in New York, but in cities all across America, lower - income residents live closer to dirty power plants and reside in older buildings with leaky windows and inefficient appliances and systems.

The Environmental Protection Agency designed America's Clean Power Plan to accelerate this shift and cut the dirty power plant emissions driving climate change.

On November 24, clean energy supporters protested outside the dirtiest power plant in all of California - the Mountainview natural gas plant in Redlands - to keep up the pressure as well.

The new rules are expected to save up to 11,000 lives each year and avoid tens of thousands of asthma attacks by ensuring that the dirtiest power plants in the nation install the available technology to cut mercury, arsenic and other dangerous pollutants.

Under Brown, California has sought to scale back dirty power plants, reduce the number of gas - powered cars on the roads, and cut industrial greenhouse gas emissions through a cap - and - trade program that requires businesses to pay to pollute.

Pruitt has been working to weaken standards designed to clean up dirty power plants and to walk back fuel standards for cars.

Leaders who came to Brussels to agree new historic climate goals, are actually discussing whether to hand out money to Europe's dirtiest power plants.»

Rich societies are environmentally resilient; poor societies have dirty power plants and sooty huts.

China is aggressively embracing energy efficiency, expanding clean energy, and shuttering the dirtiest power plants to meet its planned 2020 (or sooner) peak in coal use.

Campaigners have welcomed the EU's adoption of new air pollution limits that could significantly reduce toxic emissions from Europe's dirtiest power plants.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designed America's Clean Power Plan to accelerate this shift and cut the dirty power plant emissions driving climate change.

The idea that dirty power plants are good for actual plants has a certain poetry to it, but unfortunately it's the kind that usually appears only in preteen diaries.

Instead of limiting the amount of emissions, the bill limited only the rate of emissions, and only in the dirtiest power plants.

We've stood up to big polluters to roll out a decades - long backlog of life - saving public health safeguards to clean up dirty power plants and keep the air our families breathe clean.

It also continues EPA's ability to set performance standards for old, dirty power plants to make sure they clean up.

What's more, these energy savings can allow us to shut down the oldest, dirtiest power plants — and not build new ones to replace them.

Under a cap and trade rule, dirtier power plants would buy credits to release more mercury from plants with lower emissions, and communities around the dirtier facilities could face greater health risks.

Improving the efficiency of our power generation — along with increased efficiency in buildings, appliances, and electronic devices — can create significant energy savings that would allow us to safely and reliably shut down old, dirty power plants.

«The further we dug into the pollution issues from TransAlta, the more we discovered that this old, dirty power plant was an Edsel.

He's ordered the evisceration of the Clean Power Plan, aimed at cutting carbon pollution by nearly a third from the dirty power plants that account for 40 percent of the nation's carbon footprint.