Sentences with phrase «harmful emissions from coal»

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday rolling back rules to curb harmful emissions from coal - fired power plants.

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Switching from coal to gas to generate electricity eliminates a major harmful set of pollutants and improves health as well as reducing emissions.

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.

The call for investors to divest from coal assets, one of the most carbon - intensive energy sources, has been primarily based on the harmful social and environmental outcomes linked with carbon emissions.

The commentary, published in the British scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, estimated the impact of consuming the fuel from oilsands deposits â $» without factoring in greenhouse gas emissions associated with extraction and production â $» would be far less harmful to the planet's atmosphere than consuming all of the world's coal resources.

If some kind of political change makes governments serious about hitting the 1.5 — 2.0 ËšC temperature targets from the Paris Agreement, it will mean doing everything possible to rapidly reduce emissions, from imposing high carbon prices to mandating the abandonment of especially harmful technologies and practices like burning coal and using exceptionally filthy fuel for international maritime shipping.