Sentences with phrase «impacts coal use»

But that forecast is based on everything that impacts coal use staying about the same.

Not exact matches

The report further stated that slowing economic growth and energy consumption in China as well as the restriction of coal use in its coastal regions will impact seaborne trade, especially Indonesian exports.

«This study shows it's possible to reduce coal use and cut emissions without major economic impacts, refuting skeptics who've predicted economic ruin,» said Paul Bledsoe, a former Clinton White House official and climate expert attending the Paris negotiations.

In their comparative study, called a lifecycle impact assessment, the researchers used Pennsylvania as the point of origin for both shale gas and coal, since both energy sources are abundant in the state.

Researchers, meanwhile, said they could see using the data to better understand the policy impacts of addressing coal in different countries.

And the impact of China's decline in coal use may go beyond the border.

«They use default emissions factors for various types of coals, they have to use various efficiency rates and things like that, and slight tweaks in those has huge impacts when you're talking about hundreds of millions of credits.»

If such developments were to occur elsewhere, either because of shale gas or the advent of a truly global natural gas market, then, according to our analysis, this could have a major impact on the use of different fuels — oil, gas, coal, renewables, and nuclear.»

Researchers then used models to estimate changes in ambient pollutant concentrations due to the presence of coal - fired plants in the region and estimated health impacts using peer - reviewed methodologies used in similar studies around the world.

The rapid increase in domestic natural gas production from shale reserves has significantly impacted the economics of coal fuels used for power and heat in recent years.

«The methodology can not be used to infer anything about the direct impacts of specific policies, such as power plant emissions limits or renewable portfolio standards, or the effect that changes in relative prices may have on fuel choice, such as the impact of the change in supply or price of natural gas or renewables may have had on the competitiveness of coal.

We find (i) measurements at all scales show that official inventories consistently underestimate actual CH4 [methane] emissions, with the natural gas and oil sectors as important contributors; (ii) many independent experiments suggest that a small number of «super-emitters» could be responsible for a large fraction of leakage; (iii) recent regional atmospheric studies with very high emissions rates are unlikely to be representative of typical natural gas system leakage rates; and (iv) assessments using 100 - year impact indicators show system - wide leakage is unlikely to be large enough to negate climate benefits of coal - to - natural gas substitution.

If the trend continues, the dramatic changes in energy use in the United States — in particular, the switch from coal to newly abundant natural gas for generating electricity — will have only a modest impact on global warming, observers warn.

GES was set up by the coal utility cooperative Western Fuels Association (WFA) «as a vehicle for advocacy on climate change, the environmental impact of CO2, and fossil fuel use.»

Severnini's methods — which took into consideration the geographical and temporal variation in exposure to the additional pollution — could be used to estimate future health impacts in nations that are closing nuclear plants and replacing them with plants using coal and other fossil fuels such as Germany, Japan, and the USA.

Clemente, who co-authored the National Coal Council's report The Urgency of Sustainable Coal, argues that we need to use every option with the least impact on the environment as possible, and coal with CCS technology is as good a solution as we have, for Coal Council's report The Urgency of Sustainable Coal, argues that we need to use every option with the least impact on the environment as possible, and coal with CCS technology is as good a solution as we have, for Coal, argues that we need to use every option with the least impact on the environment as possible, and coal with CCS technology is as good a solution as we have, for coal with CCS technology is as good a solution as we have, for now.

From mining through final disposal of waste from coal - fired power plants, the use of coal produces a wide range of impacts on the natural environment and human health.

«[Howarth et al.'s] analysis is seriously flawed in that they significantly overestimate the fugitive emissions associated with unconventional gas extraction, undervalue the contribution of «green technologies» to reducing those emissions to a level approaching that of conventional gas, base their comparison between gas and coal on heat rather than electricity generation (almost the sole use of coal), and assume a time interval over which to compute the relative climate impact of gas compared to coal that does not capture the contrast between the long residence time of CO2 and the short residence time of methane in the atmosphere.»

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The American Lung Association believes that the U.S. should not continue to expand its coal - fired generating capacity because of the extensive scope of health risks associated with the use of coal and the disproportionate impact on local communities.

By «using more reasonable» data, Cathles and his colleagues confirm that «gas has less than half and perhaps a third the greenhouse impact as coal.

Depending on the resources that your utility uses to produce energy — many are still reliant fossil fuels like coal — the impact of your decision to go solar could be very significant.

«BLM's federal coal leasing program has a massive impact on our climate and public health, affecting the waters we use, the air we breathe, and the wild areas we enjoy,» said Roger Singer, Senior Organizing Manager with the Sierra Club in Colorado.

While the recent moratorium on new coal leases on federal land will not directly impact the Colorado Roadless Rule decision, advocates are hopeful it signals that the Obama Administration will use this opportunity to take another stand against coal and climate pollution.

Earth 2 will be still be using coal and petroleum in 2050, with resulting air quality health impacts and devastated environment from mining and spills.

As we (and a number of other mainstream news outlets) reported, Robert Kaufmann and colleagues analysed the impact of growing coal use, particularly in China, and the cooling effect of the sulphate aerosol particles emitted into the atmosphere.

Earlier this year a team of University of Minnesota researchers looked at the life - cycle air quality impacts of alternatives to conventional gasoline vehicles and found that powering vehicles with corn ethanol or with coal - based or grid electricity increases «monetized environmental health impacts by 80 % or more relative to using conventional gasoline.»

Impacts of a climate policy on coal use will depend upon the type of climate policy employed, the stringency of the policy, the future price of natural gas, the future cost and penetration of nuclear and renewable technologies, and the cost of coal - fired generation with carbon capture and storage technologies.

All the law did was require coal plants to use them, a change that had very little impact on consumers, who were more concerned then about acid rain than they are today about global warming.

«The methodology can not be used to infer anything about the direct impacts of specific policies, such as power plant emissions limits or renewable portfolio standards, or the effect that changes in relative prices may have on fuel choice, such as the impact of the change in supply or price of natural gas or renewables may have had on the competitiveness of coal.

Meanwhile it gets used to soften the impact of the idea of new build coal, everyone talks about capturing the carbon and there's nothing to worry about.

Generating energy using coal, oil, and gas also comes at high environmental costs by decreasing air quality, impacting our water resources, and negatively affecting our health.

Will an increase in natural gas demand for electricity generation in states that currently use coal have a significant impact on prices that California pays for natural gas?

Last year, on behalf of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, an expert team of scientists summarized the science of climate change and the impacts of climate change on the United States, now and in the future, and called the evidence of a warming climate «unequivocal,» primarily due to the use of fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas — and the loss of forests.

Nevertheless, since these social cost of carbon figures are used by other federal agencies, they provide a glimpse at one way the Interior Department could consider the impacts of climate change when managing coal on behalf of the American people.

Using the median per - ton costs of health damage, the total annual health damage from the region's major sources of pollution is $ 9.4 billion.T hat cost also doesn't include coal's impact on environmental resources and aesthetics.

[1] When coal is mined and used to generate power, external costs include the impacts of water pollution, toxic coal waste, air pollution, and the long - term damage to ecosystems and human health.

These impacts are magnified by the transportation and combustion of coal — from the trains, trucks, and tractors used to transport coal to polluting power plants, all of which heavily contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, and climate change.

And of course there can be good reasons for using less energy, including being less economically wasteful and curbing the environmental impacts of energy sources such as oil and coal.

In making the arguments about the coal - export impact you have to use a figure for the the increased coal burning, not the total coal burning.

The plant will use outdated technology and as a result will be a coal plant with disproportionate emissions, impacts on human health, water availability, and agricultural productivity in an age when any new coal plant can not compete economically with renewable energy and is a climate crime.

Because of the limited existing research on the economic effects of climate change impacts associated with coal use, the research team made the determination that it would be difficult to value such impacts and omitted such analysis.

In the next two decades, according to the report, fossil fuel use will need to decline by about 20 percent — phasing out coal, in particular, would have a significant impact.

Whether or not global warming is entirely or largely due to human use of carbon for fuel, the reduction of the dependence on carbon makes sense for reducing asthma in children; reducing black lung disease; reducing the production of coal ashes, residues, and effluents; reducing the impact of carbon greenhouse gasses; reducing pipeline failures; reducing coal and oil surface transport accidents; reducing pipeline - related warfare; and reducing air pollution.

In other words, limiting sea level rise, extreme weather events, heat waves, and other climate impacts requires staying within world's «carbon budget» — which doesn't include unabated coal use.

SkyTruth intern Yolandita blogged about visualizing local impacts of coal exports to Asia, using all sorts of Google tools, and the finished product [video] was quite an eye - opener for many readers.

We are well on the way to eliminating the health impacts of coal and oil use.

Using methane's 20 - year GWP — a measure of the short - term climate impact of different GHGs — increases the share of oil and gas methane to over 8 % of global GHG (with emissions of 5,650 Mt CO2e), the equivalent of about 40 % of total CO2 emissions from global coal combustion in 2012.

Given that many nations are already seeing overall energy consumption and coal use decline (over and above any impact of an economic slowdown), this latest announcement is a very welcome confirmation that China is also benefitting from this rapid transition.