Sentences with phrase «dumping coal power plants»

Some changes can take a while, such as dumping coal power plants, but are necessary to make real progress.

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Others include: toxic by - products from polysilicon manufacture dumped indiscriminately in China; air pollution spewed from coal - fired power plants that provide the electricity needed to produce photovoltaics; and recovering cadmium, a known human carcinogen that is a primary ingredient in some thin - film solar cells, from mining slimes.

The issue of pollution from coal ash gained momentum in North Carolina last month, when a spill from a retired Duke power plant dumped at least 30,000 tons of ash in the Dan River.

In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, 72 percent of all toxic water pollution in the country comes from coal - fired power plants, making coal plants the number one source of toxic water pollution in the U.S. (1) What's more, four out of five coal plants in the U.S. have no limits on the amount of toxics they are allowed to dump into our water.

Every year, coal - fired power plants dump millions of tons of toxic metals into our waterways.

From the edge of the pit, trucks must drive only a few hundred yards to dump their loads of coal onto a conveyor belt that carries it up and into the power plant.

In terms of community impact, BNP has been directly involved in the funding of a four giga - watt coal power plant in India, the Tata Mundra plant, which affects the livelihood of thousands of fish workers by dumping gallons and gallons of warm water from the plant into the naturally colder water of the coastal area.

Since 1982, little has changed about the toxic pollution coal - fired power plants are allowed to dump in water, although change was on its way.

The scope of the waste stream coming out of coal - fired power plants is almost unimaginable: hundreds of thousands of tons of air pollution and nearly 280 billion pounds of toxic coal sludge dumped into our environment every year.

Bear in mind that this listing factors in toxic air pollution — from coal and oil - fired power plants primarily — not dumped waste or contaminated land or such.

«Meanwhile, toxic dumping continues to rise: in 2010 alone, power plants used unsafe and leak - prone coal ash ponds to dispose of wastes containing 113.6 million pounds of toxic metals, a nearly ten percent increase from 2009.