Not exact matches
Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without
domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with
emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down
coal - fired
plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas
plants.
Fifty tons of mercury — one - third of all
domestic mercury
emissions — are pumped into the atmosphere annually from
coal plants.
Other factors that have significantly contributed to reduced U.S. carbon
emissions are the recent new growth in
domestic natural gas production - consumption and EPA regulations that have restricted new
coal power
plant construction.
While all such forecasts are implicitly uncertain, this one helps clarify where to focus efforts to cut greenhouse gas
emissions; reinforces the importance of resolving questions about how to safely expand, while not stopping, extraction of vast
domestic reserves of natural gas; and powerfully challenges proponents of accelerated deployment of today's menu of renewable energy technologies or nuclear power
plants to lay out a credible strategy for supplanting
coal.
Synapse's work related to
coal power also includes evaluating
coal plant emissions, markets for
domestic coal, subsidies received by the
coal industry, and the lifecycle costs and impacts of
coal power compared to other energy sources.
However, while tighter restrictions on
domestic coal plants have been imposed by the central government to curb pollution, Beijing has pushed the development of high - efficiency, low -
emission coal plants across Southeast Asia as part of the «Belt and Road Initiative».