Sentences with phrase «emissions from power plants while»

An unusual 5 — 4 decision halts the federal effort to curb carbon dioxide emissions from power plants while the court battle continues

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By 2030, the figure could grow to 14 percent of capacity, a level that would be met with «minimal» additional investments in power transmission and storage, while significantly cutting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, the draft asserted.

While at the EPA, he argued that reducing emissions from power plants would save thousands of lives.

We can only increase energy supply while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions if new power plants turn away from using the atmosphere as a waste dump.

Mercury emissions from coal - fired power plants can be reduced by using chemical filters, but while this is increasingly the norm in the rich world many developing countries have yet to catch up.

While the fossil fuel industry tries it hands at by squandering billions of dollars of research on unfeasible technical solutions such as geological sequestration of carbon emissions from power plants, soils are a natural solution which has been proven for hundreds of millions of years of biological and evolutionary history.

The emissions from coal power plants inflict billions of dollars of health problems and while in the U.S., 47 coal workers died mining coal in 2006, China suffered 100 times as many fatalities — 4,746 in total.

Over months of contentious debate, while the Waxman - Markey bill and subsequent Senate action were being considered, millions of Americans were introduced for the first time to the phrase «cap and trade,» a regulatory approach that first came to prominence in the 1990s as the centerpiece of a national program to address the threat of acid rain by limiting emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), primarily from electric power plants.

While far from perfect, the proposal is one of the most significant environmental rules proposed by the United States in recent history and is seen by many as a step in the right direction, as coal - fired power plants account for nearly 40 % of all US carbon emissions.

While Republican lawmakers in Washington have fought to protect coal - fired power plants, opposing President Barack Obama's efforts to curtail climate - warming carbon emissions, data show their home states are often the ones benefiting most from the nation's accelerating shift to renewable energy.

Methane emissions derive mostly from landfills, agriculture (particularly rice farming), livestock, and natural gas and coal extraction, while soot, otherwise called «black carbon», results from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and derives primarily from primitive cook stoves used throughout much of the developing world, as well as diesel engines and coal - burning power plants.

Our patented technology allows for the low - cost capture of CO2 from stationary emissions sources such as oil production operations, power and steam plants and metals production facilities, while leveraging existing solvent - based gas scrubbing approaches already known to industry.

While the EPA has, under the Clean Air Act put federal limits on toxic emissions of arsenic, mercury, and lead pollution that power plants emit — as well as on pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — there are currently no such limits on the carbon emissions from new or existing power plants.

Dr. Staffell added that while the switch from coal - fired power plants to natural gas is not «a long term solution,» it is «an important step to start reducing emissions quickly and at minimal cost» and could allow time to develop the «required renewable energy capacity to permanently cut global carbon emissions.»

Among Peabody's beneficiaries, the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change has insisted — wrongly — that carbon emissions are not a threat but «the elixir of life» while the American Legislative Exchange Council is trying to overturn Environmental Protection Agency rules cutting emissions from power plants.

While at the EPA, he argued that reducing emissions from power plants would save thousands of lives.

While CO2 emissions from coal power plants is a significant part of the climate problem, we will also need to eliminate CO2 emissions from other sources within the next few decades to meet climate targets.