Sentences with phrase «from coal power plants»

For example, we can discuss a move away from coal power plants in terms of the public health threats of emissions rather than climate change.

So you've designed the perfect carbon capture process, cheap and easily installed in everything from coal power plants to car exhaust systems.

The classic example is mercury toxicity release from coal power plants.

have gained some traction with the first approaches, there is still a massive amount of work to be done to eliminate CO2 emissions from coal power plants across the globe.

750 people are killed every three months in Europe by coal power plant pollution from coal power plants in Germany alone.

E.g., does the electricity come from coal power plants or solar panels?

Recent Earthjustice legal action helped bring about this happy outcome, aided by flooding from superstorm Sandy, a storm made fiercer by the climate - changing emissions from coal power plants like this one.

While coal retirement campaigns like the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign have gained some traction with the first approaches, there is still a massive amount of work to be done to eliminate CO2 emissions from coal power plants across the globe.

For instance — even while usage of some resources — although not power plateaued in the US — supply of electricity from coal powered plants increased globally.

The Obama administration's policies on renewable energy, greenhouse gas emissions trading, and the shift away from coal power plants means that hydroelectricity becomes more attractive to municipalities.

The EPA has been considering stricter regulations of coal ash, the toxic solid waste from coal power plants that the public was largely unaware of before the 2008 TVA spill in Kingston, Tennessee.

China is also championing electric car ownership, but with a big majority of electric power produced from coal power plants, the emphasis on electric bikes and electric cars might not enough of a dent in overall pollution.

Thus, the government was attributing almost one - tenth of all health - care spending in the province to illnesses and mortality arising from coal power plants that were responsible for only one percent of annual particulate emissions, which is implausible.

The emissions from coal power plants inflict billions of dollars of health problems and while in the U.S., 47 coal workers died mining coal in 2006, China suffered 100 times as many fatalities — 4,746 in total.

Stable carbon in the form of fly ash from coal power plants is added to cement so it will cure faster.

Fish already have to deal with over fishing, runaway plastic pollution, and mercury from coal power plants.

Liquid solvents can efficiently capture and convert carbon dioxide from coal power plants — view how.

Nathan Myhrvold found «some really counterintuitive results» when he and study coauthor Ken Caldeira set out to see what the climate effect would be if the world switched from coal power plants (like the one seen above in West Virginia) to natural gas and other sources.

«The damaging health effects from coal power plants are well - documented — as far as respiratory problems, low birth weights, and more.»

Over the past eight years, the Environmental Protection Agency has taken sweeping steps to cut air pollution from coal power plants, adding to the industry's woes.

That's why the Indian Government's national think - tank NITI - Ayog noted in a recent report that «around three - quarters of our power comes from coal powered plants and this scenario will not change significantly over coming decades.»

According to Doug Pryor of NextEra Energy Resources, EarthEra and their renewable energy certificates helps to boost customer demand for renewable energy, which means more money going toward renewable energy facilities and away from coal power plants.

CO2 emissions from coal power plants in the EU are undermining climate efforts, reveals the Europe's Dirty 30 report, released today by CAN Europe, WWF, the European Environmental Bureau, the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) and Climate Alliance Germany.

Even with much decreased numbers, the report says sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from coal power plants will «continue to take a significant toll on the health and longevity of millions of Americans.»

Without changes, they warned, «hundreds of thousands of lives will continue to be lost due to emissions from coal power plants.

After rapping through some of the energy issues we're facing — the high cost of current oil production methods, the ridiculous talking points around the Keystone XL, and pollution from coal power plants (highlighting China)-- the rapping crew takes a very brief look at Elon Musk's electric vehicle and solar solutions (but with the main focus being that he is on Mars dressed like Iron Man), then gives a satirical presentation of Richard Branson's asteroid mining plans.

But at the same time as warming the planet, pollution from coal power plants, airplanes and other sources of industrial soot, aerosols and sulfates are artificially cooling the planet by filling the atmosphere with reflective particles, a process known as global dimming.

We wanted to get the word out and build momentum for the Road to Paris in a country where rising heat is becoming deadly and researchers find that pollution from coal power plants is chopping over three years off the average citizen's lifespan, but «climate change» is hardly in the popular lexicon.

At the end of this process, would - be CO2 emissions from the coal power plants are trapped underground, resulting in a large reduction in the power plant's impact to the climate.

While CO2 emissions from coal power plants is a significant part of the climate problem, we will also need to eliminate CO2 emissions from other sources within the next few decades to meet climate targets.

Companies like Duke Energy (DUK) and ConocoPhillips (COP) are working on innovations to reduce or store CO2 emissions from coal power plants, but there is a lot of skepticism over the industry dubbed «clean coal.»

That has helped Germany create a thriving renewable energy industry, but meshing it into a system accustomed to steady power — like that from coal power plants — has been a challenge.