Sentences with phrase «former coal gas»

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These include warm summer weather, which drives up use of air conditioners and electricity, the increased popularity of natural gas (versus coal) among power producers (partly reflecting the low price of the former), and cutbacks in production by some players in the natural - gas industry.

OAK PARK — The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has directed Commonwealth Edison and Nicor Gas to revise the plan for removing coal tar and benzene from the site of a former gas manufacturing plant in south Oak Park that for years has been a community paGas to revise the plan for removing coal tar and benzene from the site of a former gas manufacturing plant in south Oak Park that for years has been a community pagas manufacturing plant in south Oak Park that for years has been a community park.

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.

Ian Dunlop, a former oil, gas and coal industry executive and ex-chair of the Australian Coal Association, now directs Safe Climate Austracoal industry executive and ex-chair of the Australian Coal Association, now directs Safe Climate AustraCoal Association, now directs Safe Climate Australia.

Coal is a mixture of carbon and hydrogen, with the emphasis on the former; methane, the main component of natural gas, consists of one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms.

I had some rocky moments after founding CalCars, when one of the Club's DC policy leaders kept dissing EVs as dirty because some electricity comes from coal; when the Club barred EV advocates from its Sierra Summit; when it pitched Ford's non-pluggable hybrid SUVs to its members; and when the former Executive Director joined T. Boone Pickens promoting natural gas.

David Banks, a former lobbyist for Exelon and now a special advisor to Trump, authored a report in 2014 that was critical of demand response, renewable energy, and natural gas in wholesale markets because «non-subsidized plants — including nuclear and coal units — are disadvantaged.»

As you can see, led by the collapse of the former communist economies and the shuttering of inefficient Soviet industries, in addition to the substitution of British gas for coal, the European negotiators knew they had tremendous CO2 reductions already in their pocket, IF 1990 was chosen as a base year.

Trump is set to sign an executive order Tuesday that would promote domestic oil, coal and gas by reversing much of former President Barack Obama's efforts to address climate change, according to details shared with Bloomberg News.

Because it produces roughly half the CO2 emissions of coal, natural gas has been considered as a bridge fuel to zero - carbon energy supplies by Al Gore, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Resources for the Future, former Environmental Protection Agency head and former Obama climate chief Carol Browner, and energy experts across the political spectrum.

Earth scientist Bill Chameides, dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and a former chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, urges the administration to use its Clean Air Act authority to promulgate carbon regulations for existing power plants like it has for new ones: «Doing that will force fuel switching from coal to natural gas.»

Increasing funding for ARPA - E, said Rafe Pomerance, former deputy assistant secretary of state for environment and development and currently an environmental consultant, «you get new technologies that undercut coal, oil, and gas.»

While in the former area climate campaigners are Big Oil's enemy, in the latter area they are its ally, as gas emits less CO2 than its main rival (coal) for a given amount of energy.