Sentences with phrase «in emissions from coal»

Achieving the Obama Administration's goal to cut greenhouse gases would require major cuts in emissions from coal - fired power plants such as this one in Page, Arizona.

The recent strong increase in fossil fuel CO2 emissions is mainly driven by an increase in emissions from coal, whereas emissions from oil and gas to a large degree follow the trend from the 1990s.

The biggest drop was in emissions from coal — which is primarily used to generate electricity — as power plants switched to cheaper natural gas and as the use of carbon - free wind energy more than quadrupled.

To have a discernible impact on the growth in emissions from coal burning, carbon dioxide disposal would have to get to the billion - tons - a-year level.

The findings from that multi-state, multi-partner study, along with other factors, led to the enactment of the Clean Smokestacks Act in 2002, a state law that mandated significant reductions in emissions from coal - fired power plants.

Several GOP lawmakers contacted by ClimateWire blasted the work on new targets as another example of the Obama administration's «go it alone» approach that, like the current U.S. EPA effort to rein in emissions from coal - fired power plants, will face fierce opposition from Congress.

Not exact matches

Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

CHARLESTON, W. Va., Nov 28 (Reuters)- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hear testimony from coal miners, lobbyists, environmentalists and others on Tuesday at a public meeting in West Virginia on the EPA's proposal to dismantle an Obama - era plan to slash carbon emissions from power plants.

Environmentalists and health workers in favor of the CPP will emphasize how the plan would lead to billions of dollars in savings on hospital bills because it also would slash emissions from coal plants.

At least one fifth of the coal plants in the U.S. have been closed, or are in the process of closing, over the past several years due to their inability to economically meet emissions standards from the EPA.

with carbon pricing and other measures, including eliminating coal - fired power plants, cutting methane emissions from the oil industry, and making cleaner fuels, Canada will still be 90 million tonnes shy of its international emissions targets set in 2015 under the Paris agreement

Environmental groups have lauded the Obama administration for its work in slashing emissions from dirty coal - fired power plants in the US.

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 energyEmissions 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 energyemissions 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 energyemissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energy markets.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

In cases where a regulatory proposal deals with carbon emissions (e.g. regulation of emissions from vehicles or coal - fired power plants), SCC is used to express the monetary value of changes in emission amountIn cases where a regulatory proposal deals with carbon emissions (e.g. regulation of emissions from vehicles or coal - fired power plants), SCC is used to express the monetary value of changes in emission amountin emission amounts.

Renewable energy: Commit to 100 percent renewable power The Climate Collaborative states that about one - third of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas to produce electricity.

With that said, I am an environmental engineer who specializes in reducing greenhouse gas and particulate emissions from coal fired power plants, natural gas fracking sites, and landfills.

The main cause of climate change is greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), which trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the planet.

Electricity has historically been the chief source of CO2 emissions, but shifts from coal to lower - carbon fuels, especially natural gas, have shrunk its share of the total carbon dioxide pie in recent years.

But blue states in the Northeast and along the West Coast have few coal plants left to close, meaning emission reductions will increasingly need to be wrung from other sectors of the economy.

A report refutes a recent finding that extracting gas from deep shale basins results in at least as big a greenhouse gas emissions footprint as that of coal

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

Second, analysis of isotopes, which can distinguish among sources of emissions, demonstrates that the majority of the increase in carbon dioxide comes from combustion of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas).

As a result, tackling emissions from coal - fired power plants represents our best opportunity to make sharp reductions in greenhouse gases.

In fact, it would take 3,600 projects of Sleipner's scale — which is the largest such project underway — to reduce current carbon dioxide emissions from coal by less than half, the report says.

Company fuel cells have a naturally high concentration of CO2 in their fuel stream — about 75 percent concentration of CO2, compared to 10 percent or so from a typical coal plant emissions stream.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

That said, whereas CO2 emissions from coal - fired power plants in the U.S. have declined, greenhouse gas emissions from oil sands have doubled since the turn of the century and look set to double again by the end of this decade — the primary source of emissions growth for the entire country of Canada.

Even the oil sands ultimate consumption in a gasoline, diesel or jet engine only results in 500 kilograms of CO2 - equivalent per barrel of refined petroleum products, meaning total oil sands emissions from well to wheel are considerably lower than those of this nation's more than 500 power plants burning coal to generate electricity.

Based on its research, EPRI concludes that capture and sequestration of carbon emissions from coal plants would be technically feasible by 2020, and it assumes that new regulations would be in place to support that strategy.

At least three coal - fired power plants are under construction in the U.S. that are designed to have their CO2 emissions captured and sent to an oil field for enhanced oil recovery, including the Kemper County Energy Facility up the road from here.

And energy trends may help: Solar and wind power costs have plummeted, and carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. have dropped amid shifts from coal to natural gas.

A company in Poland is manufacturing coal - based pellets that it says could significantly reduce carbon emissions from the country's power - generating plants.

These findings, published today in the journal Nature Communications, demonstrate the viability of a process called carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a solution to reducing carbon emissions from coal and gas - fired power stations, say researchers.

«As the Clean Air Act and amendments have taken effect there has been a reduction in sulfur emissions from coal combustion, so that the amount of atmospheric sulfur deposited each year is only 25 percent of what it used to be.

The report showed that emissions dropped 3.4 percent from 2012 to 2011, mostly due to a decrease in energy consumption and fuel switching from coal to natural gas.

While new data may come from FutureGen, a $ 1.8 billion prototype «zero emissions» coal - fired plant funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, it is not likely to open before 2012.

At the same time, Senator Barack Obama, from coal - rich Illinois, abruptly shifted his support for subsidizing coal - derived fuel production to concentrate on another bill he had been sponsoring that would cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce carbon content in transport fuel.

This stability in methane levels had led scientists to believe that emissions of the gas from natural sources like livestock and wetlands, as well as from human activities like coal and gas production, were balanced by the rate of destruction of methane in the atmosphere.

They also must control mercury air emissions from coal - fired power plants, waste incineration and related industrial processes, and reduce or eliminate mercury use in small - scale gold mining and chemical manufacturing.

Another particulate, secondary sulfates (formed in the atmosphere from emissions, such as those from coal - fired power plants), had the highest concentration (between 30 and 44 percent) of all pollutants at urban and rural sites, with readings being mostly uniform across locations.

Carbon capture has never been proved at scale in the power sector but is considered the chief way to control heat - trapping emissions from coal, gas and other fossil fuels.

They are plugged into equations to estimate total emissions from industrial activities, such as the burning of coal in boilers.

Some want to emulate the success of the United States in bringing down energy prices via shale gas - a fossil fuel that can help cut greenhouse emissions if it replaces coal but at the same time can divert investments from cleaner energy.

Air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from two coal - fired power plants in the Four Corners area of northwest New Mexico, the largest point source of pollution in America, were measured remotely by a Los Alamos National Laboratory team.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

Finally, taking a more worldly view, they estimated replacing coal - fired power plants in Japan with liquid - natural - gas plants that burn fuel imported from the United States would also be a net - plus for the environment, with a 15 percent emissions savings.

Using executive authority, the President will issue a new rule to limit carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants in the United States.

«If all the coal - burning power plants that are scheduled to be built over the next 25 years are built, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions from those power plants will equal all the emissions from coal burning in all of human history to date,» says John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.