Sentences with phrase «from coal and oil»

The country now leads the world in turning away from coal and oil, and setting the highest targets for renewables and emission cuts.

This is a bogus metric not only because it simply reflects the amount of unused or idle generation in the system, but also because the reference time period (the first 26 days of December) is a period when there wasn't much generation from coal and oil.

In the past, these IPCC reports have turned into a lightning rod for attacks by organizations like the Heartland Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who claim to tout freedom and liberty as their cause, but enjoy big dollar sponsorship from coal and oil companies like Koch Industries, Murray Energy, and ExxonMobil.

However, the country has taken major steps to move away from coal and oil - fueled power, and towards renewables — particularly solar.

Governments can blunt the feared global warming of the future by adopting energy policies that shift from coal and oil to natural gas, and eventually to energy sources that do not generate heat - trapping gases.

This was achieved three years later in a 2008 DC Circuit Court ruling supporting the Clinton EPA's December, 2000 decision to reduce mercury air pollution from coal and oil utilities using a MACT rule.

Bear in mind that this listing factors in toxic air pollution — from coal and oil - fired power plants primarily — not dumped waste or contaminated land or such.

«You have received over one million dollars in funds from coal and oil interests.

* Redirecting more than $ 250 billion in subsidies in industrial countries away from coal and oil and putting them behind carbon - free technologies; (would these figures still be adequate, several years later?)

«Moving away from coal and oil is inevitable in a transition to a more connected world that will be ever more dependent upon electricity as a fuel source.»

The growth in greenhouse gas emissions is driven especially, but not solely, by very high growth rates in China and India, with energy supply coming predominantly from coal and oil.

The about - to - retire Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, Phil Radford, unabashedly points to Ross Gelbspan as «the lone voice, the moral compass, the beacon that has inspired countless people, me included, to demand our country and our future back from the coal and oil interests behind global warming» (full text here).

According to OpenSecrets.org, Inhofe has received almost $ 2 million in political contributions from the coal and oil industry.

... Redirecting more $ 250 billion in subsidies in industrial countries away from coal and oil and putting them behind carbon - free technologies; Creating a large fund, which has been estimated at about $ 300 billion a year for a decade, to transfer clean energy to poor countries.

According to Harper's, Balling has recieved more than $ 200,000 from coal and oil interests over the past six years.

Lomborg writes that «rich countries are already finding the move away from coal and oil to be a difficult one, and there are no easy answers for developing economies,» leading Lomborg to ask «today's crucial question,» which is, «what should the world prioritize?»

Plants can improve efficiency (heat rate) at fossil units as they have, and firms can engage in fuel switching / redispatch from coal and oil to gas and renewables, as they have.»

There should be a 30 % Cleanup Carbon Tax (CCT) on profits from coal and oil production to offset the eventual cleanup bill.

Unfortunately, mean temperatures have risen much further when account is taken of the short - term masking effect of aerosols emitted from coal and oil, mainly sulphur dioxide and its oxidized products... «Thus, according to -LSB-...]

FPL says it expects its solar power generation capacity will exceed that from coal and oil combined by 2020.

The American Lung Association believes that protection of lung health and a sound U.S. energy policy are compatible goals that require an emphasis on energy conservation, energy efficiency, and the use of cleaner energy resources, including a transition from coal and oil to cleaner alternatives.

The orthodox explanation for that one is that the cooling effect of white aerosols such as sulphates — released from coal and oil burning — was masking the warming effect of greenhouse gases until various clean air acts allowed the anthropogenic warming trend to re-emerge.

To illustrate, he provided one hypothetical (and impossible) menu for getting those 18 additional terawatts without emissions from coal and oil:

The bill aims to thread various needles, for instance including measures to encourage a shift from coal and oil to natural gas (which produces roughly half the emissions per unit of energy) but in ways that won't alarm environmentalists worried about impacts of expanded gas drilling.

The president and Congress must also end the market - distorting subsidies given out like Halloween candy to industries across the energy spectrum — from coal and oil to wind and solar.

Salem was an ideal test case: an old, dirty plant in a region already shifting from coal and oil to natural gas.

Not exact matches

Estimates vary widely on just how much methane is leaked from the vast network of oil and gas wells, pipelines and processing plants, but the problem has cast doubt on how much better natural gas is than coal for the environment.

But the real level of unemployment or underemployment is masked by the fact that the official data does not include China «s 277 million migrant workers, such as Zhang Sihu and his wife from Bianqiang in Yulin, a region rich in coal, oil and natural gas in northwestern Shaanxi province.

Most of the senators who signed are from states that depend on the continued burning of coal, oil and gas.

This has played out satisfactorily in the procession from wood to whale oil to coal to oil and natural gas, but the concept that no real substitute is available runs counter to capitalist ideals.

President Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris deal in June, saying the accord would have cost America trillions of dollars, killed jobs, and hindered the oil, gas, coal and manufacturing industries.

Last year, Alberta obtained 23.5 % of its total revenue from oil, gas and coal.

But politicians, especially from the Maritime provinces, were also of the view that their taxpayers had bought and paid for the western timber, farmlands, coal and later oil and gas with the payout to the Hudson's Bay Co..

Burning gas emits just 40 % of the CO2 as deriving the same unit of energy from coal, and between 65 % and 75 % the emissions of oil.

Notably absent from the list are oil and coal companies that have built their businesses on fossil fuels.

with carbon pricing and other measures, including eliminating coal - fired power plants, cutting methane emissions from the oil industry, and making cleaner fuels, Canada will still be 90 million tonnes shy of its international emissions targets set in 2015 under the Paris agreement

We are moving from a system built upon commodities — think oil, gas, coal — to one built upon clean energy services and technologies.

Disclosing the Facts: Transparency and Risk in Methane Emissions focuses on the critical risk of methane emissions and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energy markets.

Higher use of oil and gas in transport, heating and industry would lead EON and RWE to export its surplus energy from coal, gas, and nuclear to other European markets that are lagging behind.

President Trump's decision on Thursday to enact new tariffs on steel and aluminum could break his promise to protect the coal miners he adores so much, leaving everything from oil pipelines to wind turbines vulnerable to foreign retaliation.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

DENVER — The first report in the Energy Institute's Energy Accountability Series finds that proposals from Hillary Clinton and other politicians to ban oil, gas, and coal production on federal lands and waters would cost America hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions in revenue.

Section 2 (1) of Bill 12 refers to refined products which (oddly) do not fall under the primary production from natural resources, which are defined so as to include crude oil and natural gas but, «not a product resulting from refining crude oil, refining upgraded heavy crude oil, refining gases or liquids derived from coal or refining a synthetic equivalent of crude oil.»

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

These excluded products consisted of «manufactured products» (inapplicable in the present context) and products «resulting from refining crude oil, refining upgraded heavy crude oil, refining gases or liquids derived from coal or refining a synthetic equivalent of crude oil».

Presumably that means divesting from companies that are engaged directly in coal, gas, and oil exploration and production, though not their use.

The greatest human influence on the sulfur cycle comes from industrial activity, mainly the combustion of coal and oil and the smelting of sulfur - bearing metallic ores.

Much of this energy still comes from the burning of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas, which release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere and contribute to extreme weather patterns that imperil everyone on earth — especially our food producers.

Brush your grill rack with a little oil and set it about 5 inches from the glowing coals.