Sentences with phrase «expanded coal use»

See my recent look at India's argument for expanded coal use.)

He cites studies concluding that various provisions would allow expanded coal use in coming decades despite an overall cap on emissions of carbon dioxide.

Expanding coal use in China is a recurring theme on Dot Earth.

Note that the October 2016 report «Beyond Coal,» from international poverty and development organizations, found the opposite to Peiser's claim, noting that while «the coal industry claims that expanding coal use is critical to fighting extreme poverty and improving energy access for billions of people in developing countries.

Not exact matches

Christian charities have disputed claims that the use of coal needs to be expanded in order to help people... More

In other words, to get away from fossil fuels requires not just expanding alternatives but also discouraging the use of coal, oil and natural gas.

And even as the developed nations of the world cut back on fossil fuel use, there will be no justifiable way to prevent the Third World from expanding its use of coal and oil.

China has the top experts on gasification in the world, says Levine, because it is expanding its use of coal to produce chemical raw materials.

For the past four years almost nothing meaningful has been done to stop the rampant production and release into the atmosphere of ever greater amounts of carbon dioxide, and there have even been more frantic calls for more production of oil and expanded use of coal as a fuel.

There's scant evidence that well - meaning efforts to raise public awareness and will around the climate challenge will engender willingness to abandon the fuels of convenience — coal and oil — particularly where expanded energy use matters most, in the fast - growing nations of the developing world.

To hear «clean coal» mentioned among the first prescriptions of Obama's energy policy is, to my ears, a clear signal that he intends not only to expand the use of coal, but also to «Invest» (see: publicly finance) any deployment of CCS.

Why are people so willing to expand the use of coal as a source of energy with all of the negatives associated with coal when nuclear energy has so much more potential.

... [E] ven as the developed nations of the world cut back on fossil fuel use, there will be no justifiable way to prevent the Third World from expanding its use of coal and oil.

Among their suggestions were the following: expand conservation tillage to 100 percent of cropland, stop all deforestation, drive two billion cars on ethanol, increase wind power 80-fold to make hydrogen for cars, replace 1,400 large coal - fired power plants with gas - fired ones, and cut electricity use in buildings by 25 percent.

We've got to expand nuclear; we've got to do clean coal, we've got to expand the use of hybrid vehicles, wind, solar, hydroelectric, liquid natural gas, natural gas, domestic oil, more refineries....

And even as the developed nations of the world cut back on fossil fuel use, there will be no justifiable way to prevent the Third World from expanding its use of coal and oil.

He talks to [Prime Minister Narendra] Modi, and they're doing this great job of expanding solar, but they're also going to double their coal use because they need electricity for 300 million people.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

The American Lung Association believes that the U.S. should not continue to expand its coal - fired generating capacity because of the extensive scope of health risks associated with the use of coal and the disproportionate impact on local communities.

While the government has an ambitious programme to ramp its use of renewables, including solar energy, it has also vowed to continue expanding its use of coal.

Renewable technology has greatly expanded across the continent, with wind power overtaking coal as Europe's second - largest form of power capacity in 2016 — though coal is still used to meet more of the continent's electricity demand.

Recent EPA actions on climate, air quality, human experiments, the Clean Power Plan, the war on coal, and «waters of the United States» were used to expand its budget, personnel, and powers over the nation's environment, energy, and economy.

Beyond the US, the fracking that has led to much of the US decrease has not yet expanded rapidly, but given that the technology exists (and is getting further refined every day) the rest of the world will also enjoy reduced CO2 emissions by using nat gas instead of coal.

Thank goodness for fossil fuels, coal in particular (which has been expanding in use recently).

China is aggressively embracing energy efficiency, expanding clean energy, and shuttering the dirtiest power plants to meet its planned 2020 (or sooner) peak in coal use.

For instance, global coal use would have to peak before 2020; power plants and factories would have to get a lot more efficient; things like nuclear power and renewables would have to expand at an even faster rate.

-- expand drilling / fracking to extract as much domestic energy as possible, — use clean natural gas, where possible, to replace dirtier coal and for heavy transportation vehicles; — support basic research efforts aimed at finding economically viable green energy technologies; — at the same time, install new nuclear power generation capacity in place of new coal plants, wherever this makes economic sense.

At the same time, EPA will expand its regulations to additional industrial sectors that use coal (e.g., iron and steel).

In the years since Fukushima, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Japan, and France have all expanded their use of coal, much of that imported from the United States.

Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released a new analysis, which shows that instead of aggressive over-reliance on natural gas by utilities as they phase out coal plants, a far better bet for achieving a clean energy future is to greatly expand the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency.

But the scientific report in Nature Climate Change suggests that under the «business as usual scenario» − whereby no steps are taken to address climate change, and the expanding the use of coal, oil and natural gas dumps ever greater quantities carbon dioxide in the atmosphere − then such conditions could occur once every decade or so before 2100.

This will further expand the country's use of coal for electrical power generation, writes Dan Yurman, nuclear energy specialist and author of the Neutron Bytes blog.

The Washington Post writes of the Sierra Club's use of the funds, «With Bloomberg's donation, the Sierra Club plans to expand its «Beyond Coal» staff from about 100 people to nearly 200 full - time employees, which it will deploy in 46 states.

There is no reason to believe that the technology won't expand elsewhere and markedly reduce any potential increase in the use of coal as a power source.

To achieve this, he would remove all checks on the use of coal — the dirtiest energy source of all — and expand oil and gas production on Federal lands.

solar, nuclear or greatly expand pumped hydro so that no FF would need to be used and for some countries such as China that don't have very much NG but are developing good hydro resources that may be the way they go once all coal is replaced.

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.

Spokesmen for the Independent Petroleum Association of America and the natural gas lobbying groups Energy in Depth, American Clean Skies Foundation and America's Natural Gas Alliance, which have all been pushing to expand the use of gas, declined to comment on the EPA's new figures and what they mean for the comparison between gas and coal.

$ 800 million will be used to expand DOE's Clean Coal Power Initiative, which provides government co-financing for new coal technologies that can help utilities cut sulfur, nitrogen and mercury pollutants from power plaCoal Power Initiative, which provides government co-financing for new coal technologies that can help utilities cut sulfur, nitrogen and mercury pollutants from power placoal technologies that can help utilities cut sulfur, nitrogen and mercury pollutants from power plants.

Aside from the dangers and harms presented by expanding the use of coal and nuclear, the poor countries of the world simply don't have the resources to build the power plants or the distribution grids.

The United States is in fact headed in the completely wrong direction on fossil fuels — pledging to revive the coal industry and pursuing multiple strategies to expand use of fossil fuels at home and abroad.