Sentences with phrase «large coal facilities»

In June 2014, under authority from the Clean Air Act (CAA) section 111 (d), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published their draft Clean Power Plan, a proposed rule to limit carbon emissions from existing large coal facilities across the country.

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DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan regulators on Friday cleared DTE Energy's request to build a near - $ 1 billion natural gas power plant, the first approval of such a large facility for a regulated utility in decades and a move that coincides with the retirement of coal - fired plants.

Canada's largest wind farm entered service in 2009, one of many facilities that cropped up as the province looked to replace its dirty coal fleet.

Alberta prides itself on being the only jurisdiction in North America that demands coal - fired power plants, oilsands upgraders and other large industrial facilities reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

«People tend to feel uncomfortable with all large generating facilities, whether they be coal or nuclear,» he says.

Factories have been shifted to industrial parks on the outskirts of town and small, inefficient coal power plants closed in favor of larger, higher heat facilities in an effort to clear the air for visiting athletes and tourists.

Meanwhile, the FutureGen Alliance — a consortium of 14 of the world's largest coal producers and coal burners behind the proposed plant — plans to continue to pursue the facility, but not without some form of government assistance.

Lovstedt had ambitious plans for a new facility twice as large — one that boasted a gym instead of a coal cellar.

Wollongong has a proud association with industry including coal mining and steel manufacture and is home to a large industrial port facility.

Most boiler - based emissions come from a small handful of very large industrial and commercial facilities that operate coal, oil, and biomass - fired boilers.

It is also looking at building a large coal export facility in Oregon.

Lighthouse Resources, the owner of a massive coal strip mine in Montana, wants to open North America's largest coal export facility in Washington State.

Walking down East Patapsco, she pointed out the facilities as they came into view: the nation's largest medical waste facility along with coal export terminals, oil tank farms, animal rendering facilities, chemical factories and Baltimore City's main landfill — among others.

In addition to regulating fuel economy, EPA is applying Clean Air Act permitting requirements to large stationary sources of greenhouse gases: power plants, refineries, steel mills, pulp and paper factories, and cement production facilities.63 EPA will soon establish greenhouse gas New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for coal - fired power plants and petroleum refineries.64 If these go unchallenged, it is likely that EPA will develop greenhouse gas performance standards for numerous other industrial source categories.

IEA and industry experts described the current status of coal - fired power generation in general in India and the overall need to ensure that the facilities are modernised and that least - efficient plant be phased out, given the expected large role that coal will continue to play in power supply.

Norfolk has consistently remained the largest export facility, servicing approximately one - third to one - half of U.S. coal exports since 2000.

A year ago, the world's largest coal - fuelled CCS facility came online at the Petra Nova plant in Texas and it's already captured more than a million tonnes of CO2.

MATS requires large coal - and oil - fired electric generators to meet stricter emissions standards by incorporating emissions control technologies in existing generating facilities.

In cooperation with AEP, the French company Alstom unveiled the world's largest carbon capture facility at a coal plant, so called «clean coal,» which will store around 100,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide a year 2,1 kilometers (7,200 feet) underground.

Denis Horgan, Vice President of Westshore Terminal at Roberts Bank in Delta — the largest coal export facility on the Pacific coast — said the $ 230 million project is more about «staying efficient,» and carefully used the words «stockpile expansion.»

Westshore coal export terminal at Roberts Bank, in Delta, is the largest export facility on the Pacific coast and there are plans to make it larger.