Sentences with phrase «emitting coal and natural gas»

Dominion acknowledges on its website that climate change is a concern, but in the same paragraph notes its plans to use greenhouse - gas emitting coal and natural gas far into the future.

Not exact matches

We humans emitted 35.9 metric gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2014, mostly from burning coal and natural gas in power plants, making fertilizer and cement, and other industrial processes.

Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

But there's a catch: The electricity that comes out of the socket is typically generated in power plants that burn coal or natural gas and emit plenty of CO2.

Permits can be issued to companies that emit carbon dioxide or to those that supply it for burning — oil, coal and natural gas firms.

As a result, many emissions brokers are former traders of the commodities important to the industries that emit CO2 — whether metals or coal, oil, and natural gas.

But additional buildup of coal - to - natural - gas projects could also create an environmental nightmare because producing the gas will emit huge amounts of carbon dioxide and worsen the water crisis in China's arid western regions.

Natural gas produces a quarter of the nitrogen oxides emitted by coal and half the carbon dioxide for every unit of electricity generated.

Burney is examining a similar trade - off between sulfur and black carbon in the United States, as coal - fired electricity plants shift to cleaner natural gas, which emits half as much CO2 as coal per unit of electricity.

As rumored, EPA will require that all new natural gas - fired plants emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt - hour, and coal plants no more than 1,100 pounds per megawatt - hour.

At present pace, the trillionth tonne would be emitted just before Christmas in 2040, according to calculations by Oxford physicist Myles Allen, and there's more than enough coal, oil and natural gas left in the ground to cook the climate.

«(B) the nonemissive use, in 2012 or later, of petroleum - based or coal - based liquid or gaseous fuel, petroleum coke, natural gas liquid, or natural gas as a feedstock, if allowances or offset credits were retired for the greenhouse gases that would have been emitted from their combustion; and

The unnecessary investments and energy expended and greenhouse gasses emitted to the atmosphere while exploring and exploiting unproven natural resources in the Arctic Basin such as oil, natural gas, coal and minerals should be prohibited by International Law as was done in Antarctica.

Therefore, if switching to natural gas from coal reduces the amount of CO2 you emit, you can tolerate quite a large amount of leakage and still come out ahead, because the warming caused by the leakage will go away quickly once you eventually stop using natural gas (and other fossil fuels), whereas the warming you would get from all the extra CO2 you'd pump out if you stuck with coal would stay around forever.

This proven technology has helped shift more electricity generation to natural gas, which emits less nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, mercury and more than 50 percent less carbon dioxide than coal.

Those who study energy patterns say we are in a gradual transition from oil and coal to natural gas, a fuel that emits far less carbon but still contributes to global warming.

Natural gas is said to emit only half as much CO2 as coal; but recent research suggests that natural gas drilling produces far more methane than had previously been thought, and methane is an extremely potent and dangerous greenhouNatural gas is said to emit only half as much CO2 as coal; but recent research suggests that natural gas drilling produces far more methane than had previously been thought, and methane is an extremely potent and dangerous greenhounatural gas drilling produces far more methane than had previously been thought, and methane is an extremely potent and dangerous greenhouse gas.

Natural gas is much more environmentally friendly than coal, which continues to be the mainstay of electricity production around the world and in the U.K. Gas emits less than half the CO2 per kilowatt hour produced, and it emits much lower amounts of other pollutants like nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, black carbon, carbon monoxide, mercury, and particulatgas is much more environmentally friendly than coal, which continues to be the mainstay of electricity production around the world and in the U.K. Gas emits less than half the CO2 per kilowatt hour produced, and it emits much lower amounts of other pollutants like nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, black carbon, carbon monoxide, mercury, and particulatGas emits less than half the CO2 per kilowatt hour produced, and it emits much lower amounts of other pollutants like nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, black carbon, carbon monoxide, mercury, and particulates.

Carbon - dioxide - emitting fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas, provided 87 percent of America's energy needs in the past decade, and have been the overwhelming supplier for over a century.

Compared to coal, the use of natural gas for power generation emits 50 percent fewer emissions of carbon dioxide, and even more substantial reductions in traditional air pollutants.

The 2009 State of the Climate report gives these top indicators: humans emitted 30 billion tons of of CO2 into the atmosphere each year from the burning of fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas), less oxygen in the air from the burning of fossil fuels, rising fossil fuel carbon in corals, nights warming faster than days, satellites show less of the earth's heat escaping into space, cooling of the stratosphere or upper atmosphere, warming of the troposphere or lower atmosphere, etc..

Natural gas does emit less GHG than coal on a per Btu basis when burned, but the analysis assumes there are no methane leaks from both conventional and unconventional wells.

Colorado's coal - and natural gas - fired power plants harm public health by emitting smog - forming pollution.

A U.S. Energy Department study found that liquefied natural gas from the U.S., used for power generation in Asia and Europe, will emit fewer greenhouse gas emissions from a lifecycle perspective than electricity generated by regional coal.

Natural gas power plants are replacing nuclear and coal - fired power plants where there is pipeline capacity, but proponents of a carbon - free grid are already attempting to prevent the construction of natural gas power plants because they use methane, a GHG, and emNatural gas power plants are replacing nuclear and coal - fired power plants where there is pipeline capacity, but proponents of a carbon - free grid are already attempting to prevent the construction of natural gas power plants because they use methane, a GHG, and emnatural gas power plants because they use methane, a GHG, and emit CO2.

Natural gas, which burns cleaner than coal and emits about half as many greenhouse gases, was responsible for less than 19 percent of U.S. power generation.

«A power plant burning wood chips will typically emit one and a half times the carbon dioxide of a plant burning coal and at least three times the carbon dioxide emitted by a power plant burning natural gas.

And while one kWh of natural gas - fired generation emits roughly half as much CO2 as a kWh of coal - fired power, renewables emit no CO2 so each kWh of additional generation delivers a bigger emission reduction punch.

Generating power from coal emits almost twice the carbon of natural gas - fired power, so ramping it down (or installing pricy pollution controls) is a key lever to pull, especially for seven states that get 70 percent of their power from coal: Kentucky, West Virginia, Wyoming, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, and Utah.

Electricity generators have chosen natural gas for its affordability and reliability, often replacing coal - fired power plants and emitting up to 56 percent less greenhouse gases than coal for the same amount of electricity.

Under the previous president, Barack Obama, the U.S. used environmental rules to encourage the closing or costly upgrade of coal plants because burning the fuel emits almost twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas and 28 percent more pollutants than heating oil.

By engaging in this practice — known as resource shuffling — electricity importers are able to preferentially replace high - emitting coal power imports with lower - emitting natural gas and renewable energy sources.

Eighty percent of the world's energy needs are met through carbon dioxide emitting natural resources like coal, oil, and natural gas.

So, you would actually impose a tax for every ton of carbon dioxide that's emitted when we burn a ton of coal, or natural gas or we burn oil and petroleum products.

Natural gas (methane (CH 4)-RRB- is the cleanest burning, emitting less carbon dioxide than the others (coal and oil).

The combustion of natural gas emits almost 30 % less carbon dioxide than oil, and just under 45 % less carbon dioxide than coal.

Although a fossil fuel, combustion of natural gas emits only 45 % as much carbon dioxide as combustion of coal, and hydroelectric is of course a very low - carbon energy source.

The air and water pollution emitted by coal and natural gas plants is linked with breathing problems, neurological damage, heart attacks, cancer, premature death, and a host of other serious problems.

Geothermal and biomass systems emit some air pollutants, though total air emissions are generally much lower than those of coal - and natural gas - fired power plants.

For example, higher coal prices due to carbon taxing will lead cost - minimizing power grids to more heavily dispatch lower - emitting natural gas power plants in the short run, and to switch increasingly to zero - carbon wind and solar generation over time.

Industry groups say EPA's calculations may inadvertently harm nuclear plants, which emit zero carbon, and in some cases call on shuttered natural - gas plants to replace coal.

States are already devising plans to comply with the proposed carbon rules, and one of the most obvious and least expensive strategies is to replace coal with natural gas, which emits about half as much carbon.

BC's natural gas exports will be hit with a big CA carbon tax, even though the BC natural gas supplies displace demand for higher - emitting oil products and coal - fired electricity imports.

David Cameron, the leader of the conservative party and possibly the next primer minister of the UK, said today that a Conservative government would put a tax on the carbon emitted by coal and natural gas power plants.

1Coal combustion emits almost twice as much carbon dioxide per unit of energy as does the combustion of natural gas, whereas the amount from crude oil combustion falls between coal and natural gas, according to Energy Information Administration, Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 1985 - 1990, DOE / EIA -0573 (Washington, DC, September 1993), p. 16.

Utilities should consider extending the licenses of power plants, which unlike coal and natural gas plants, do not emit any major air pollutants as identified in the Clean Air Act,» said Roy Schwitters, chair of the APS report.

Larger image to save or print.The main human activity that emits CO2 is the combustion of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil) for energy and transportation, although certain industrial processes and land - use changes also emit CO2.

Currently, carbon is emitted primarily by burning fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and natural gas.

Natural gas emits far less carbon dioxide than coal when it burns, and new reserves have driven down its price, greatly expanding its use in power plants, homes, and businesses.

The oil giants also want to do more to promote natural gas, which has become more abundant because of recent developments in the exploitation of shale gas and emits half as much greenhouse gas as coal does.