Sentences with phrase «near coal plants»

Focus on the health impacts; better inform the public about the severe health problems that plague communities near coal plants.

The analysis identifies which units are no longer economic and may face retirement, features four snapshots of communities located near coal plants, and cautions states against a potentially risky wholesale shift away from coal to natural gas.

UCS conducted a three - part analysis on the transition away from coal - fired electricity: (1) a look at what happened to the nation's coal - fired generating units between 2008 and 2016; (2) an evaluation of the economic viability of the current coal fleet using an updated «economic stress test»; and (3) an assessment of the demographics of communities living near coal plants.

Banta imagines siting bacteria farms near coal plants to convert troublesome carbon emissions into valuable fuel.

He analyzed power production, particle pollution and medical records of babies born near coal plants.

Growing up near a coal plant, she experienced firsthand the pollution and dust from coal operations and witnessed many people in her community develop cancer.

Not exact matches

At the signing ceremony in July that finalized plans for Dubai's 2,400 - megawatt Hassyan coal project, the Chinese group set to build the plant and the Saudis who will operate it were joined by a partner: an executive from General Electric ge, standing proudly near a backdrop boasting the familiar blue GE logo.

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.

Jeff Brooks, a spokesman for the company, contends water quality near the coal - burning plant is good and local agriculture and wildlife weren't affected by the spill.

America's biggest coal burning plant is in striking distance of my air, actually, near Macon, Georgia.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The power plant is one of the largest employers in Colstrip and is located near a coal mine, which supplies it with fuel.

The park's entrance is near the intersection of Scott and Columbia Streets, where Union Coal, Iron and Transportation Co. opened a plant in the 1860s to produce railroad equipment.

The former coal plant is owned by ReEnergy Holdings, headquartered near Albany.

The agreement followed serious health and environmental violations by two of Niagara Mohawk's coal - fired power plants in the western part of the state - the Huntley Station near Tonawanda, and the Dunkirk Station in Dunkirk.

Essentially, sulfur dioxide gets emitted near the surface, either by a coal - fired power plant's smokestack or a volcano.

Additional moisture near coal - burning power plants accelerates the conversion of sulfur dioxide fumes into sulfuric acid, increasing acid rain in the area.

Natural gas combined - cycle power plants are already heavily favored by utilities to the near exclusion of coal, said Joost de Gouw, an atmospheric scientist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

The only other CCS coal plant with capture near Kemper's construction status is SaskPower's Boundary Dam in Canada.

«A specific difference is that in the near future, the United States can replace its traditional coal [use] by power generation plants using gas, but China can not.

In the impoverished communities near Georgia's coal plants, as in many communities around the country, the health benefits of nixing coal aren't as obvious as the lost economic opportunities.

Dubbed carbon capture and storage (or carbon sequestration), such technology will be fully demonstrated for the first time near Mattoon in southeastern Illinois, the FutureGen Alliance (a public — private partnership to build a prototype clean - coal plant) announced.

Near Plant Branch, ranked as the 10th dirtiest coal plant in the nation in 2011 by the National Natural Resources Defense Council, the average income within three miles is $ 22Plant Branch, ranked as the 10th dirtiest coal plant in the nation in 2011 by the National Natural Resources Defense Council, the average income within three miles is $ 22plant in the nation in 2011 by the National Natural Resources Defense Council, the average income within three miles is $ 22,702.

A new report from a non-profit advocacy organization called the Environmental Integrity Project shows that the groundwater near TVA coal - fired power plants is contaminated with a toxic stew of elements.

Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed

Analysts say ADM's project is significant for studying how a large amount of human - generated CO2 will behave underground in the Illinois Basin, a rock formation stretching across three states and sitting near some of the nation's highest - polluting coal plants and industrial factories.

The transition of the Widows Creek Fossil Plant near Stevenson, Ala., into Google's 14th global data center marks the end of an era for what was one of the nation's largest coal - fired power plants and one of the Tennessee Valley's largest emitters of carbon dioxide and other air pollution.

«Delaying action encourages utilities to build more coal - fired power plants in the near - term.

Does it makes sense to replace old coal - fired power plants with new natural gas power plants today, as a bridge to a longer - term transition toward near zero - emission energy generation technologies such as solar, wind, or nuclear power?

True, it had the potential to clean up California's air, although that may be of little consolation to people living near coal - fired power plants, which supply more than 50 percent of America's electricity.

«If there is substantial natural gas leakage, then building new natural gas plants would lead to more near term climate damage than using the old dirty coal plants,» explained Caldeira.

This week the world's first carbon capture and storage at an actual power plant burning coal fired up near New Haven, W. Va..

In the United States, there have been environmental protests in states like New Jersey, where a company is planning to pipe CO2 from a coal plant to a storage spot in the ocean near Atlantic City.

If a coal - burning power plant has several choices in buying coal from many nearby mines, it can easily avoid contract disputes with its nearest coal supplier by reaching out to alternative mines.

For instance, people living near refineries are exposed to more nickel and vanadium, while those near coal - fired power plants breathe particles with higher sulfate content.

Extending a relationship of more than a decade, the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International will collaborate on a project designed to advance the development of coal power plants with near - zero emissions by reducing the cost... Read more →

Just recently, Duke was given authority by Bush's former OMB Director, Mitch Daniels to force their customers to assume the risk for the plant even though the utility commission did not require Duke to file anything near a current construction cost estimate for the 630 Megawatt plant they are seeking to build in what is already the largest concentration of coal fired capacity in the world, SW Indiana.

It would mean that DOE has given up on addressing the challenge of climate change and instead is just focused on the near term goal of reducing oil imports and modestly reducing the expansion the coal fired power plants.

Given the near - term and enduring benefits of electric power expansion in developing countries, the other long - term effect of expanded coal - powered generation is accrued wealth and economic growth (along with health costs if they are dirty plants, of course).

Implementing such a system, however, is secondary to adopting a national and global strategy to stop building new traditional coal - fired plants while starting to deploy existing and near - term low - carbon technologies as fast as is humanly possible.

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissiCoal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

While adding carbon capture to older U.S. coal plants may remain relatively uneconomic, countries like South Africa, China and Indonesia have a fleet of young, critical coal plants unlikely to retire in the near term.

The announcement follows other news, including that the Chinese government has recently scrapped a massive 2,000 megawatt coal plant project near the cities of Hong Kong and Shenzhen.

This decision puts the communities near Long Phu 1 one step closer to stopping this coal plant that would leave their land, water, and public health in ruin.

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While millions of us were touched by the effects of coal pollution — from contaminated waterways in Appalachia, to kids struggling with asthma near coal - fired power plants, to hurricanes and droughts and wildfires made worse by climate disruption — thanks to the huge strides made by the grassroots movement that is moving America beyond coal, we have a fighting chance of turning the corner on all of these problems.

That's why concern is mounting over the construction of a new coal - fired power plant just upstream in Bangladesh, near the town of Rampal.

[64][65] The two companies will collaborate on building coal gasification plants near Peabody's mines in the Powder River Basin.

In January 2011, Peabody Energy announced two partnerships with Chinese energy companies to build coal mines near newly planned power plants in China.

They all came to say that they and their families deserve clean water, and that they would like the EPA to stop allowing pollutants from coal fired power plants to flow into the waters near where they fish, swim and live.