Sentences with phrase «freeze coal plant construction»
He would have to form alliances abroad, and propose things like carbon taxes on imports from China and India unless they also freeze coal plant construction.
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Now, many people opposing greenhouse - gas restrictions are on the warpath over your reference to death trains and crematoria in your argument for freezing coal - plant construction to avoid dangerous human - driven warming.
They also supposedly called for an immediate freeze on new construction of coal - burning power plants.
In China and India alone, scattered across more than 100 sites, some 68 GW worth of coal plant construction was frozen in place.
If they withstand the expected legal challenges, the regulations will set in motion sweeping policy changes that could shut down hundreds of coal - fired power plants, freeze construction of new coal plants and create a boom in the production of wind and solar power and other renewable energy sources.
Mr. Obama's new blueprint brings together several domestic initiatives that were already in the works, including freezing construction of new coal - fired power plants, increasing the fuel economy of vehicles and plugging methane leaks from oil and gas production.
Murray blamed the plan for the closure of 411 coal - fired power plants and a freeze on new construction.