Sentences with phrase «emissions from coal came»

About 90 % of the energy - related CO2 emissions from coal came from the electric power sector.

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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.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

Renewable energy: Commit to 100 percent renewable power The Climate Collaborative states that about one - third of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas to produce electricity.

Second, analysis of isotopes, which can distinguish among sources of emissions, demonstrates that the majority of the increase in carbon dioxide comes from combustion of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas).

While new data may come from FutureGen, a $ 1.8 billion prototype «zero emissions» coal - fired plant funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, it is not likely to open before 2012.

However, Kavanagh pointed out that electrolysis is only as clean as the grid that feeds it, so if the energy comes from a coal - fired power plant, there may not be any carbon emissions savings.

About one - fifth of the emissions reductions needed to cut the global output of greenhouse gases 50 percent by 2050 would have to come from CCS technology at coal - fired power plants, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

These gases come from human activities such as combustion of coal and oil as well as natural sources such as emissions from plants.

Eighty - five percent of those CO2 emissions come from burning coal, oil and natural gas, which are providing more than 80 % of the world's energy; most of the rest coming from deforestation.

Currently, the vast majority of electricity used to charge cars comes from coal - fired power stations, which inherently involves masses of carbon emissions.

He said it was particularly important, if that goal is to be reached, for the federal government to work with utilities to curb emissions from power plants (half the country's electricity still comes from coal burning.).

The key factors determining carbon emissions for corn - based ethanol are (1) whether coal or natural gas is used to power the ethanol plant, (2) whether distillers grains are dried or sold wet, and (3) whether expansion of corn acreage comes mainly from reduced acreage of lower - value crops or if idled land is brought into production.

Similarly, average factors probably overstate emissions from gas plants since much of the erosion in coal's base load share has come from the most efficient gas - fired power plants.

Emissions of the main human - generated greenhouse gas are surely tracking the reversal in electricity output, given that the vast majority of the country's electricity comes from burning coal.

EPA Rules Controlling Greenhouse - gas Emissions — The big day for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy should come sometime in June, when her agency is scheduled to unveil historic standards controlling carbon emissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natEmissions — The big day for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy should come sometime in June, when her agency is scheduled to unveil historic standards controlling carbon emissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natemissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natural gas.

The piece focuses on a study coming next month from Max Auffhammer and others at the University of California, Berkeley, which concludes that growth in China's coal use and emissions had been underestimated and would easily outpace any gains from efficiency or other shifts in industrialized countries.

But the biggest hope for reducing emissions from coal may come from policies that encourage its replacement by lower - emission energy sources.

Well, with 43 % of current world emissions from fuel combustion coming from coal (2009, IEA figures), we can forget about that.

Cathles is quick to note that shifting from coal to gas is no panacea, given that combustion of any fossil fuel comes with emissions of greenhouse gases.

Even ignoring the impacts on forests, harvest and transportation and looking only at the emissions coming from smokestacks, wood releases around 50 % more CO2 per megawatt of electricity generation than coal!

Capturing the Elusive Carbon CCS technology captures carbon dioxide emissions, liquefies it and injects it deep into the ground, back to where coal comes from in the first place.

Today, global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2)-- the principal climate - altering greenhouse gas — come largely from burning coal, oil, and natural gas.

The coal industry, which last year created the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, has been equally busy priming Americans over the indispensability of coal (about half of all the U.S,'s domestic electricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» since 19coal industry, which last year created the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, has been equally busy priming Americans over the indispensability of coal (about half of all the U.S,'s domestic electricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» since 19Coal Electricity, has been equally busy priming Americans over the indispensability of coal (about half of all the U.S,'s domestic electricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» since 19coal (about half of all the U.S,'s domestic electricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» since 1970).

Between January and May, U.S. carbon emissions fell to a 20 - year low; 48 percent of that resulted from substituting coal for cheap shale natural gas, while little, if any, came from deploying subsidized wind and solar, according to Michael Levi, the director of the climate change program at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Most boiler - based emissions come from a small handful of very large industrial and commercial facilities that operate coal, oil, and biomass - fired boilers.

However, that small increase is far outweighed by the emissions reductions that come when utilities switch from coal to gas to generate electricity.

With about 90 % of the carbon emissions from our electricity sector coming from coal fired power stations, Australia will need to look beyond just coal towards the full spectrum of available energy solutions.

In India up to 40 percent of our current CO2 emissions comes from coal fired power stations.

The analysis separates out coal power into a separate step, concluding that no new coal - fired power plants can be built under a 1.5 °C pathway, and that emissions from coal must come down by 30 % by 2025 — and 65 % by 2030.

Most of today's emissions come from the burning of coal.

Most of its carbon emissions, around 80 percent of its primary energy needs, come from coal.

It comes after emissions declined four out of the six years since their 2007 peak, due to efficiency gains and a shift from using coal to cleaner - burning natural gas.

The largest drop in emissions in 2012 came from coal, which is used almost exclusively for electricity generation (see figure below).

Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2)-- the principal climate - altering greenhouse gas — come largely from burning coal, oil, and natural gas.

Methane is 34 times stronger than carbon dioxide at trapping heat over a 100 - year period and 86 times stronger over 20 years; roughly 10 percent of all US methane emissions come from coal mining.

A carbon tax could come back to bite natural gas producers big time if the EPA decides, along the lines of Cornell University research, that fugitive methane emissions from hydraulic fracturing make natural gas as carbon - intensive as coal.

At a moment of soaring gas prices and deep economic insecurity, ACCCE conveyed a series of easily digestible talking points: 50 percent of the nation's electricity comes from coal; coal is 77 percent cleaner (when you don't include CO2 emissions) now compared with 1970; America is the Saudi Arabia of coal; coal is cheap, plentiful and clean.

(China's annual CO2 emissions primarily come from coal use.

Two thirds of the EU's coal emissions come from Germany, the UK and Poland according to campaign group Sandbag.

EIA says the largest emissions drop came from coal — largely because of increased natural gas use.

While most of the news about the speech will be about how Obama is planning to accelerate renewable energy, I believe the biggest area of near - term action on reducing emissions will come from some underreported sections that will encourage the replacement of coal with natural gas for energy generation, both in the U.S. and globally.

The carbon dioxide they produce will equal about an eighth of China's current total carbon dioxide emissions, which come mostly from coal - burning power plants and factories.

The growth in greenhouse gas emissions is driven especially, but not solely, by very high growth rates in China and India, with energy supply coming predominantly from coal and oil.

The groups wanted more studies of the environmental impacts of the mine, including the greenhouse gas emissions that will come from the burning of coal.

More and more people are learning about how bad fracking is, even Robert F. Kennedy jr, came out and publicly admitted that Fracking is not a safe bridge away from fossil fuels and is worse for climate change then using coal because of the fugitive methane emissions that are released in the fracking process's.

No reasonable ethical theory could justify current US projected ghg emissions, including projected reductions that are expected to come from increased substitution of coal with natural gas at least in the medium to long term.

Most of those emissions come from fossil fuels like coal and natural gas [1, 2].

The publicâ $ ™ s waning interest in global warming poses a challenge for Mr. Obama, who emphasized climate change throughout his campaign and pledged to seek a cap on emissions in the United States of heat - trapping gases, led by carbon dioxide, which come mainly from burning coal and oil.

«Despite no greenhouse emissions coming from its electric engine, Subaru says using Australia's coal - fired electricity would produce about 125g of carbon dioxide for each kilometre travelled in the Stella — almost 20g more than a Toyota Prius hybrid car that uses a 1.6 - litre petrol engine alongside its electric motor.»