Sentences with phrase «emissions from power plants because»

When he challenged the Obama rule in court as Oklahoma's attorney general, Pruitt was one of the leading voices for the legal argument that EPA can't regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants because it already has a standard for mercury and air toxics emission from generators — known as the 112 exclusion, referring to a section of the Clean Air Act.

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Estimates vary, but between 7,500 and 52,000 people in the United States meet early deaths because of small particles resulting from power plant emissions.

Scott Segal, the head of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, will argue the CPP is expensive and illegal because it requires some utilities to reduce emissions «beyond the fence line» or far away from the power plants themselves.

Capturing carbon emissions from electric power plants and other sources is a hot research topic because there's a lot of room for improvement.

The RGGI program also might not actually curb emissions, because power plants are already emitting less than the proposed cap — due to take effect on January 1, 2009, and based on projections from 2005 — thanks to slower than anticipated growth in electricity generation.

But it's not really good news for the climate because greenhouse gas emissions from power plants are up 4.5 % since 1998.

Lower rates of asthma and other health problems are frequently cited as benefits of policies aimed at cutting carbon emissions from sources like power plants and vehicles, because these policies also lead to reductions in other harmful types of air pollution.

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

There's an under - bias in my numbers due to self consumption at power plants and especially because average emission factors understate emissions from older and smaller (higher heat rate and thus higher emissions) plants that have disproportionately been the ones shut down or not dispatched.

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 challengers next claim is that EPA is completely barred from limiting power plants» dangerous carbon pollution because EPA has already used another part of the law — Section 112 — to curb the same plants» emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants.

Serbia is in negotiations to join the European Union; critics of the country's energy policy say that in the future the government in Belgrade could incur fines of millions of dollars levied by Brussels because of emissions from power plants such as Kostolac.

Emissions from coal - fired power plants, which emit much less BC because of their better combustion efficiency, are not included here.»

Serbia is in negotiations to join the European Union; critics of the country's energy policy say that in future the government in Belgrade could incur fines of millions of dollars levied by Brussels because of emissions from power plants such as Kostolac.

Nuclear power is often seen as attractive because it can offer baseload power without carbon dioxide emissions that come from fossil - fuel natural gas and coal power plants.

The report's authors point out that recent increases in emissions from the EU's coal - fired power sector are not due to more coal - fuelled facilities coming on stream, but rather because existing plants are running at full capacity.

In the United States, the Clean Power Plan, announced by former President Barack Obama in 2015, has been called a «climate game changer» because of its potential to reduce carbon emissions from the largest single source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions — power plants, which account for over 1/3 of the U.S.'s carbon dioxide emissPower Plan, announced by former President Barack Obama in 2015, has been called a «climate game changer» because of its potential to reduce carbon emissions from the largest single source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions — power plants, which account for over 1/3 of the U.S.'s carbon dioxide emisspower plants, which account for over 1/3 of the U.S.'s carbon dioxide emissions.

Rhone Resch, president and chief executive of the Solar Energy Industries Association, said the rule will have an enormous impact because it is so different from previous air - quality regulations in which power plants installed pollution controls to curb the emissions coming out of their stacks.

Because emissions from power plants fell about 15 percent from 2005 through last year, actual reductions are much smaller.

It is because so little energy is being used, and because alternatives are ruled out ab initio (the model contains no nuclear power, and no technology for storing away carbon emissions from fossil fuels; natural gas prices rise strongly and coal plants are retired well before they are clapped out) that the model ends up with such a high percentage of renewables; indeed given the premise it's slightly surprising it doesn't end up with even more.

The RGGI program also might not actually curb emissions, because power plants are already emitting less than the proposed cap — due to take effect on January 1, 2009, and based on projections from 2005 — thanks to slower than anticipated growth in electricity generation.

This proposed rule is significant for the United States because 40 percent of the US carbon pollution that drives climate disruption comes from power plants — the rule would cut emissions by 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, making it the largest single action that the United States has taken to address climate change.

But whether sequestration is a viable means of curbing plant emissions remains to be seen; cost is an important factor in implementing the strategy because carbon dioxide has to be separated from a power plant's gas stream and compressed before it can be injected into the ground.