Sentences with phrase «eliminate coal fired power»

Having already promised to eliminate coal fired power plants by 2014, he is in a hurry.

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with carbon pricing and other measures, including eliminating coal - fired power plants, cutting methane emissions from the oil industry, and making cleaner fuels, Canada will still be 90 million tonnes shy of its international emissions targets set in 2015 under the Paris agreement

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that current carbon - sequestration technologies may eliminate up to 90 percent of carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants.

They also must control mercury air emissions from coal - fired power plants, waste incineration and related industrial processes, and reduce or eliminate mercury use in small - scale gold mining and chemical manufacturing.

On the energy front: He also closed coal fired power plants and promised to eliminate coal from the province by 2014, changed the rules to encourage alternative energy, and is introducing a controversial but important green energy plan.

For a small fraction of the cost I could eliminate more greenhouse gas by converting the large Four Corners, coal - fired electric power plant in New Mexico to natural gas.

My point is this: In my view, the Times should find out, and convey to the public (in one place and in organized fashion), the views of each and every Congressperson, and person running for Congress, regarding a moratorium on coal - fired power plants (until their carbon dioxide emissions can be eliminated), a carbon «cap - and - auction» or «cap - and - trade» system, or carbon tax, and related matters having to do with global warming.

Wind, solar, hydro, and geothermal make me feel warm and fuzzy and want to sign Kumbaya but they are not reliable enough, nor in sufficient quantities to eliminate the need for coal / oil / gas fired power plants.

On April 9, 2003 the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. EPA announced a settlement agreement with Alcoa Inc. for an estimated $ 330 million to install a new coal - fired power plant at its aluminum production facility in Rockdale, Texas with upgraded pollution controls to help eliminate sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions.

That is the same as eliminating annual emissions from more than 600 coal fired power plants by 2020 and about 30,000 coal plants by 2050.

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced Thursday that he will donate $ 50 million to the Sierra Club to support its nationwide campaign to eliminate coal - fired power plants.

Case in point: witness the progress Ontario, led by Premier Kathleen Wynne, has made in eliminating coal - fired power plants from its energy mix.

In addition to being used to simply produce cyclic carbonates, North believes it could also be retrofitted on coal - fired plants: «If our catalyst could be employed at the source of high - concentration CO2 production, for example in the exhaust stream of a fossil - fuel power station, we could take out the carbon dioxide, turn it into a commercially - valuable product and at the same time eliminate the need to store waste CO2.»

He noted that if everyone started using the most efficient lighting available (which in most cases means CFLs), that would eliminate 12 percent of world energy demand, obviating the need for 705 of the world's nearly 2,400 coal - fired power plants.

Further south, Florida Power & Light retired another coal - fired power plant — the second in a plan to eliminate all coal from their powerPower & Light retired another coal - fired power plant — the second in a plan to eliminate all coal from their powerpower plant — the second in a plan to eliminate all coal from their powerpower mix.