Peabody Energy, one of the most vocal critics of the U.S. crackdown on
harmful coal plant emissions, has been struggling to stay afloat.
Not exact matches
NRG now promises to invest $ 1.6 billion at the Tonawanda site by 2013 to install a new gasification
plant that will burn low - sulfur
coal and reduce
harmful emissions.
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday rolling back rules to curb
harmful emissions from
coal - fired power
plants.
Here in Arizona, the EPA is proposing to reduce
harmful nitrogen oxide (NOx)
emissions from the Navajo Generating Station (NGS), a
coal plant that is one of the largest sources of NOx
emissions in the U.S. as well as from the Apache, Coronado, Sundt, and Cholla generating stations.
And to the latter point, China plans to revamp its existing
coal plants in order to lower
harmful particulate
emissions.
EPA has separate authority under environmental laws to regulate power
plant emissions and activities that have other
harmful impacts, such as cooling water intakes and
coal ash disposal.
Two new federal air pollution regulations are expected to spur the closure of up to 69 aging, inefficient,
coal - fired power
plants, reducing both
harmful air pollutants and
emissions of the climate destabilizing greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), according to an AP survey of US power
plant operators and a preliminary Breakthrough Institute analysis of the likely impacts on CO2
emissions.