Sentences with phrase «more coal plant closures»

«Europe will need to see a lot more coal plant closures to protect its citizens» health and to respect the UN Climate Agreement struck in Paris.

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«But worldwide we've built more coal - burning power plants in the past decade than in any previous decade, and closures of old plants aren't keeping pace with this expansion.

5 Aug: Australian: Sid Maher: Land for carbon reforestation to take big cut But if the carbon price started at $ 47 a tonne, under a more ambitious scenario, the report estimates more than 60 million tonnes of carbon could be shed through plantation forests and carbon plantings by 2021... The modelling was released as Resources Minister Martin Ferguson named three leading corporate advisory firms to help the Gillard government negotiate a billion - dollar closure of a brown - coal electricity generator as it seeks to cut carbon emissions.

I decided to become more vocal about my climate skepticism after an Excel letter came to my house informing me of a a rate increase due to the closure of coal plants.

COAL: More coal - plant closures will occur in the coming years than originally thought as wind, solar and natural gas make up the difference, analysts say at a conference in ChicCOAL: More coal - plant closures will occur in the coming years than originally thought as wind, solar and natural gas make up the difference, analysts say at a conference in Chiccoal - plant closures will occur in the coming years than originally thought as wind, solar and natural gas make up the difference, analysts say at a conference in Chicago.

The rule is designed to speed up the retirement of the nation's fleet of coal - fired power plants — the most carbon - intensive way of creating electricity — and could more than double the rate of coal plant closures by 2040.

Coal - fired generation in the UK is in freefall, and more plant closures — as expected by the government — will see this continue.

On June 28, 2010 the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality laid out three alternative options for shutting down its Boardman coal - fired power plant, all of which involved an earlier closure date or significantly more expensive pollution controls.

Nationwide, more than 230 coal - fired plants have been closed or are slated for closure — or 44 percent of the 523 U.S. coal plants that were in operation just six years ago, by the environmental group Sierra Club's count.