Sentences with phrase «moratorium on coal plants»

The fake press release was picked up by several media outlets, including the Dallas Morning News, UK Hemscott and several blogs before journalists realized that USCAP members would never agree to such progressive reductions in carbon emissions or a moratorium on coal plants.

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In my view, if the coal industry does not proactively agree to, and indeed volunteer for, a prompt moratorium on the construction of new coal - fired power plants until carbon capture and storage are proven and viable, and included in commercial plants, we should get out the literature, the musical lyrics, the poetry, the ethical codes, and so forth and create a collection of material that brings to vivid life the «problems» (to put it mildly) that Shakespeare illuminates, as they will then apply to the coal industry.

Until technology is ready, there should be a moratorium on construction of new coal - fired power plants in developed countries.

That said, if Action # 1 is to put a complete moratorium on new coal - fired power plants until carbon storage works, then we can decide what it means for carbon storage to «work» in due course, and people may decide that it's not a good, safe, solution at all?

, like when mom wanted you to clean your room, is if a moratorium is placed on the building of new coal - fired power plants until carbon capture and storage technology can be built into such plants.

If a new administration immediately places a moratorium on new coal - fired plants until CCS works, and if it begins a carbon cap - and - trade system or carbon tax, and if it's serious about the problem, then we will finally see (I hope) the coal and utility industries begin to act much more quickly to develop CCS and work to address the problem in all ways possible.

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

I'm all for a moratorium on coal fired power plants.

Short term moratorium on coal fired power plants.

Isn't this paper confirming that Jim Hansen and others are correct in saying that we are already way above the acceptable level, and that we have to do whatever is possible to immediately put a moratorium on coal fired power plants — at least in the industrialized countries that can afford to do so?

His critics show few signs of ever accommodating the ideas he now presses, which include a prompt moratorium on new coal - burning power plants until they can capture and store carbon dioxide and a rising tax on fuels contributing greenhouse - gas emissions, with the revenue passed back directly to citizens, avoiding the complexities of «cap and trade» bills.

In addition, the spoof release called for an immediate moratorium on the construction of all new coal - fired power plants.

It would not seem to be that difficult to establish a global moratorium on new coal power plants.

My point is this: In my view, the Times should find out, and convey to the public (in one place and in organized fashion), the views of each and every Congressperson, and person running for Congress, regarding a moratorium on coal - fired power plants (until their carbon dioxide emissions can be eliminated), a carbon «cap - and - auction» or «cap - and - trade» system, or carbon tax, and related matters having to do with global warming.

Step It Up called for political leadership on three aims to help stabilize the climate: cut carbon emissions 80 % by 2050, a moratorium on new coal power plants, and grow green jobs in support of a renewable energy economy.

Do you support, and will you implement, a moratorium on the building of new coal - fired power plants until an approach is working that will effectively strip carbon dioxide from plant emissions?

Rising Tide North America, a loose - knit group of students and workers for nonprofit organizations, posed as phony public relations officials and targeted energy reporters around the world on Monday with e-mails and telephone calls claiming that a legitimate group of 33 businesses and environmental groups, the United States Climate Action Partnership, had agreed to slash emissions, blamed for warming the earth, by 90 percent by 2050 and had called for a moratorium on new coal plants, Reuters reports.

Now that the United States has, in effect, a near de facto moratorium on the licensing of new coal - fired power plants, several environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, are starting to focus on closing existing coal plants.

EPA officials, the emails showed, helped those groups gather petition signatures in support of regulations that critics say impose huge costs on coal - fired power plants and amount to a de facto moratorium on the construction of such plants.

There should be a moratorium on construction of old technology coal - fired power plants.

Meaning, initiatives like President Obama's Climate Action Plan — the motivation for such things as the EPA's just - announced effective moratorium on future coal - fired power plants — would be even more unnecessary and ineffective than they are already.

The order will require the Interior Department to lift a moratorium on the sale of new coal leases on federal land, and compel a review of regulations designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

A year ago, I wrote to Gordon Brown asking him to place a moratorium on new coal - fired power plants in Britain.

Consequently, the research report calls for action: (1) to reform electricity markets so that low cost renewables are dispatched first; (2) to extend robust moratoriums on new coal power plants; (3) to cap longer - term coal consumption and emissions in the power sector in the context of carbon markets.

Progress Energy, an energy company serving approximately 3.1 million customers in the Southeast, announces a two - year moratorium on the construction of new coal - fired power plants.

Washington Governor Christine Gregoire signs a bill that prevents new power plants from exceeding 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour of electricity generated, creating a de facto moratorium on building new coal - fired power plants in the state.

And the draft climate legislation by Waxman and Markey — who only a year ago pushed for a moratorium on new coal plants — offers the industry a pathway forward and provides billions for clean coal research.

In 2007, then - Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) championed and ultimately signed the Next Generation Act, which effectively imposed a moratorium on coal - fired power plants in the State.

In addition to overseeing Sierra Club's climate docket, he represented the environmental community (including as trial counsel) in the thicket of litigation over California's greenhouse gas vehicle standards, and brought In re Deseret Power, which effectively imposed a moratorium on new coal - fired power plants.

We need a global moratorium on coal, then we need to phase out all dirty coal plants.

Since this technology is at least a decade away from commercial viability, if this bill passes it would essentially place a near - term moratorium on new coal - fired power plants.

place a «moratorium on building any more coal - fired power plants until we have the technology to capture and sequester the CO2»;