Sentences with phrase «domestic coal plant emission»

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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».