Sentences with phrase «from coal operations»

The public health costs of pollution from coal operations in Appalachia amount to a staggering $ 75 billion a year

Growing up near a coal plant, she experienced firsthand the pollution and dust from coal operations and witnessed many people in her community develop cancer.

Or the real message of this study may be that gas fluxes from coal operations have been underestimated, and that they are mostly responsible for the hotspots.

Not exact matches

The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered by cheap electricity from coal - fed generating plants.

The operation would transfer coal from rail cars to barges, which would then carry it to nearby Texada Island where it would be loaded on ships and transported to Asia.

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.

We had a former coal mine operator, a motorcycle dealership owner, a commercial airline pilot, a security special operations manager, a real estate broker, a person from the private equity sector, a hedge fund manager, a car dealership manager, and a person that worked in digital marketing.

In addition to the Company's mining operations, the Company markets and broker coals from its operations and other coal producers, both as principal and agent, and trade coal and freight - related contracts through trading and business offices.

It is that aspect of the law that frightens environmental groups that have fought for years for the coal - mining rule and another rule to restrict energy companies from burning off natural gas during drilling operations on public lands.

Chief executive Tom Albanese said «We have set new quarterly records for iron ore sales and hard coking coal production as our operations recovered from the severe weather experienced earlier in the year.

Govender cites changes to the river's ecosystem that stem from infrastructure outside the park, including hundreds of coal - mining operations upstream, where crocodiles have disappeared almost completely, and a dam downstream of the gorge.

It has participated in lawsuits surrounding the operation's environmental impact — leaks from the mine's coal ash ponds have been an environmental concern in the area for years (Greenwire, Oct. 23, 2013).

Spending on school operations — not including school construction or debt payments — ranges from less than $ 8,700 per student in a coal country district, one of the state's lowest - achieving, to more than $ 26,600 in a tony Philadelphia suburb.

About 85 % of the value of Babcock & Wilcox comes from the nuclear operations business that serves the U.S. Navy as its end customer and the power general on business that serves mainly U.S. coal power plants.

Please tell your Electricity supplier not to purchase coal from coal barons that have mountain top removal operations.

The Howarth paper, «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» had estimated that leakage of gas from hydraulic fracturing operations (given that natural gas is mainly methane, a potent heat - trapping substance) and other factors made the climate impact of gas from such wells substantially worse than that of coal, measured per unit of energy.

Original post In 2011, a Cornell research team led by the environmental scientist Robert Howarth published «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» a widely discussed paper positing that gas escaping from drilling operations using hydraulic fracturing, widely known as fracking, made natural gas a bigger climate threat than the most infamous fossil fuel, coal.

Just been looking up the sources for commercial CO2 and here is a short exerpt from google: «The most common operations from which commercially - produced carbon dioxide is recovered are industrial plants which produce hydrogen or ammonia from natural gas, coal, or other hydrocarbon feedstock, and large - volume fermentation operations in which plant products are made into ethanol for human consumption, automotive fuel or industrial use.

The latest evidence comes in an Earth Day news release from Peabody Energy, the largest private coal company, which is thriving both domestically and through rapidly growing coal exports from its worldwide mining operations to China, India and other developing countries.

But there is still huge untapped potential for capturing emissions from gas wells, oil tanks, coal mines, landfills, livestock operations and other sources.

For years, Alcoa had been mired in a dispute with environmentalists and the federal Department of Justice over emissions from its coal - fired power plant operations on the site.»

This is relevant because the greenhouse impact of leaks and emissions from gas operations remains an important consideration, even as new research supports the role of gas in cutting emissions relative to coal.

In best practice a detailed rehabilitation or reclamation plan is designed and approved for each coal mine, covering the period from the start of operations until well after mining has finished.

In one example from the report, government - backed Yancoa last year bought Rio Tinto's thermal coal mine operations in Australia's Hunter Valley.

(Although mining operations began in October 2009, the fight to save Coal River Mountain from complete destruction continues.)

If it were possible to cut this number in half from a combination of DERs, low - energy new construction, and renewable energy use, this would be the equivalent of removing 263 coal - fired power plants from operation (EIA 2009; Green Power Partnership 2011).

Peabody's strategy has been to seek an involvement in coal projects in Mongolia with the aim of exporting to the Chinese market, expand its Australian operations, enter the Indonesian market and look to expand exports from its Powder River Basin mines in the U.S. to supply the Pacific market.

In its 2010 annual report Peabody notes that the New York Office of the Attorney General Subpoena wrote to Peabody on June 14, 2007 and referred to the company's «plans to build new coal - fired electric generating units,» and stated that the «increase in CO2 emissions from the operation of these units, in combination with Peabody Energy's other coal - fired power plants, will subject Peabody Energy to increased financial, regulatory, and litigation risks.»

Air pollution is a considerable problem in Serbia, much of it due to emissions of CO2, ash, sulphur and nitrogen oxides from coal - fired power plants and mining operations.

The fishermen have pursued inquires, especially after reports have highlighted increases in respiratory problems and other health issues coinciding with the start of the coal plant and its operating time, but the only answers they have received were more reports from those who funded the project, which protect the operations of the plant.

The clip introduces the important location of Hon Cau MPA, the native marine biodiversity with high scientific and economical values to the locals; and threats of coal power (through operation, discharge and dredging) to the MPA and to local livelihoods (fishing, salt, aquaculture etc.) This is a call to protect Hon Cau MPA from coal power impacts

It is also barred from obtaining planning permission or any other authorisations required for carrying on coal mining operations.

«[Norway's] Finance Committee recommends the exclusion of «coal power companies and mining companies, who themselves or through operations they control, base 30 % or more of their activities on coal, and / or derive 30 % of their revenues from coal.»

While boondoggles involving wood chips from natural forests have emerged due to foolish regulation, a more gradual approach to conversion could well support a growth industry in «renewable» coal replacements, while allowing existing mining operations to use up their resources with little interference.

The company stated that it estimated that the combined company would have total shipments of approximately 179 million tons of coal and $ 4.3 billion in revenues with approximately «50 percent of earnings generated from eastern operations and 50 percent from western operations.»

A moderate cost reduction rate of 10 % per doubling of capacity would see the cost of electricity from small nuclear at half that from new coal plants (in Australia, or new gas in USA) when 200 GW are in operation.

Coal producers say they are scaling back operations and laying off thousands of workers due to fierce competition from natural gas, falling coal prices and tougher power plant regulatiCoal producers say they are scaling back operations and laying off thousands of workers due to fierce competition from natural gas, falling coal prices and tougher power plant regulaticoal prices and tougher power plant regulations.

In December 2008, the Bush Administration approved a final rule that made it easier for coal companies to dump rock and other mine waste from mountaintop removal mining operations into nearby streams and valleys.

There are laws and rules that address the impacts of current mining operations and abandoned mine sites; air pollution from coal combustion; and disposal of the ash left over after coal is burned.

Because a solar thermal power station operates like a conventional coal or gas power station, many of the jobs require the same skill sets as conventional energy jobs — from its construction phase through to operations.

Since a mountaintop - removal operation moved in in 2000, Maria Gunnoe has tried to protect her home and community from the effects of mountaintop removal coal mining.

The remainder is methane (9 %, from landfills, coal mines, oil and gas operations and agriculture); nitrous oxide (5 %, from burning fossil fuels and from certain fertilizers); refrigerants and other «engineered» chemicals (2 %); and carbon dioxide from other sources (2 %).

The analysis also included calculations of a producer's direct emissions via flaring and venting processes, emissions from entities using their own fuel, and fugitive emissions of methane from oil and gas operations and coal mining.

In Oregon, for example, Governor Kate Brown signed a bill that will move the state to 50 percent renewable energy production by 2040 and end the state's use of coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year ago.

«Over the past two years, Norges Bank, following upon its investment mandates from the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) and the Minister of Finance, divested the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG)'s of its holdings in at least 49 companies with substantial operations related to mining and burning of coal.

Recent research has indicated that leakage of methane into the atmosphere from gas wells and particularly from coal - seam - gas operations, might do more climate - changing harm even than coal.

He added that even if the EPA were forced to regulate greenhouse gases, it would target emissions from coal - fired power plants and then vehicles — which combined account for about half of the nation's global - warming pollution — before requiring smaller operations to apply for new emissions permits.

The operations use more than 4.2 million tons of coal each year, accounting for nearly 75 percent of the company's total emissions from U.S. electricity use.

While there are some pilot CCS projects in operation, the technology involved is far from mature enough to be deployed at a large scale... Despite what the clean coal carolers would have you believe.

The report claims that Walmart's renewable energy projects are «far too small relative to the huge scale of Walmart's operations» and that the company's clean energy deployment is only in «relatively few» states, with about three - fourths of its solar installations in just two states (and more than half are just in California), and none at all in «large swaths of the country, including including many of the most coal - intensive states — the states that would benefit most from clean power.»