Sentences with phrase «former coal power plants»

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Al Gore called for a ban on the construction of new coal - fired power plants, a post-Bali session to review its results, and a high - level meeting every three months afterward «until a treaty is successfully arrived at» by 2010, at the latest, the former U.S. vice president said.

Expressed in financial terms, the health costs linked to biomass burning for power generation run into billions of euros each year, with health costs associated with emissions from former coal and co-fired plants amounting to 137,000 euros per year on average for every megawatt of electrical capacity installed.

Since Rousseff — a former head of oil giant Petrobras — took power, however, the controls have been weakened, deforestation is once again on the rise, more hydropower plants are planned in the Amazon and the government has approved its first coal - fired plant in nine years.

Jeff Holmstead has used his credentials as a former EPA Air and Radiation assistant administrator to cast doubt over the legality and efficacy of new rules to reduce carbon emissions at US power plants, including coal plants operated by Holmstead's clients.

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.»

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, star of the upcoming An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, has come out against the hugely controversial coal plants under construction in Bangladesh's Sundarbans,...