Sentences with phrase «emissions from power plants within»

Mr. Bush, according to the Associated Press this morning, will specify the need to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants within 10 or 15 years (methods unspecified) and will propose that the United States end growth in its greenhouse - gas emissions by 2025.

Not exact matches

When the team combined OCO - 2 data from selected passes over certain power plants in the United States with computer models of how emissions plumes would disperse, its estimates of those plants» emissions fell within 17 % of the actual amounts those facilities reported for those days, the researchers report this week in Geophysical Research Letters.

The epa has estimated that just one - quarter of U.S. mercury emissions from coal - burning power plants are deposited within the contiguous U.S..

Warming caused by burning coal in a power plant can be felt in the atmosphere within 95 days — the time it takes for the emissions released from the plant to trap enough heat to exceed the amount generated from the plant itself, according to the study.

The EPA also recently regulated CO2 emissions from power plants, as it views climate change as an environmental impact within its purview.

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.