Sentences with phrase «new coal development»

Supporting new coal development greatly undermines President Obama's much - touted climate legacy, including his commitment under the Climate Action Plan to restrict financing coal plants overseas and the recent formal U.S. commitment to the Paris agreement, which aspires to limit global temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius and thus rules out any question of U.S. investment in coal.

Using law and science, the Center challenges destructive new coal development in areas across the West.

Not exact matches

The new restrictions seek to further reduce the flow of money to North Korea's weapons development, which is partially financed by selling coal and other natural resources.

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

Unfortunately, around half of the new coal - fired generation capacity under development in the region still uses inefficient subcritical technologies.

Like fossil fuel development or not, the Kemper plant is at the center of U.S. EPA's plans to regulate carbon dioxide from new power plants and at the center of global emissions, considering that «low - rank» coals like Mississippi lignite constitute half the world's coal supply.

Most of that change will have to take place in the developing world, whether replacing China's new coal - fired power plants or building wind, solar or geothermal facilities to power development in African countries.

Further, Chinese officials have announced plans to explicitly cap China's total energy use at four billion metric tons of coal - equivalent by 2015; they also have drafted a «New Energy Industry Development Plan» that would invest amore than $ 750 billion in «new energy,» which includes nuclear, in the next decaNew Energy Industry Development Plan» that would invest amore than $ 750 billion in «new energy,» which includes nuclear, in the next decanew energy,» which includes nuclear, in the next decade.

In addition to stopping building new coal - to - gas projects, the policymaker also said in the media report that China will cool down the development of other forms of coal - to - chemicals projects, with a plan to produce 6.6 million tons of coal to oil and 15 million tons of coal to olefins by 2020.

Meanwhile, Trump has also said he would end the moratorium on new federal coal leases, revive the Keystone XL pipeline, and take other actions to promote energy development — all actions that would impact public lands.

The Northwestern development could lead to new thermoelectric devices with potential applications in the automobile industry, glass - and brick - making factories, refineries, coal - and gas - fired power plants, and places where large combustion engines operate continuously (such as in large ships and tankers).

Alberta is phasing out all pollution from coal - fired electricity generation (6,300 MW) by 2030 and renewable energy — mostly wind — will replace two thirds of it with renewable energy; expected to drive development of at least 4,000 MW of new wind energy capacity.

Still, we can invest our efforts in new development as wisely as possible, choosing solar over coal and biodiversity over factory farms.

Wearing my academic hat, I'm currently helping * the new Center for Energy Governance and Security at Korea's Hanyang University develop partnerships here to examine how to foster responsible development of shale gas in China as a near - term path away from coal.

If the U.S. keeps building new coal - fired power plants without CCS (a technology still in development that is intended to take carbon dioxide out of emissions), we can't very well ask or expect other countries (e.g., China) to care much about the issue, unless they decide to care for their own reasons.

What's required, energy experts agree, is not just a price for carbon, but also massive public investments to deploy clean energy technologies so we can achieve the performance and price breakthroughs needed for these new technologies to be picked up worldwide, including in places like China and India whose development is being fueled by cheap coal and oil.

Victorians do not have any right to veto new power lines, highways, coal mines or any other industrial or mining developments within similar distances of their homes.

In many cases, US coal companies relied upon the EIA Reference Case, which is a scenario projection of current business - as - usual trends over a 20 - 30 year period, assuming no new policies, regulatory interventions, or disruptive technological developments.

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Backing out fossil fuels begins with the electricity sector, where the development of 5,153 gigawatts of new renewable generating capacity by 2020, over half of it from wind, would be more than enough to replace all the coal and oil and 70 percent of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.

«Climate change is already having devastating impacts from Pakistan to the Philippines and each new coal plant brings us closer to the point of no return,» says Lidy Nacpil from the Asian People's Movement on Debt and Development.

India's huge development and energy challenges mean there are economic and development arguments for investing in new coal power plants for the...

No more new coal mines or gas developments.

There must be an immediate ban on new coal and gas developments and an emergency - speed transition to zero emissions.

Toward this end, Ramaco Development Corp. is investing $ 90 million in a new metallurgical coal mine in West Virginia, which will create around 400 jobs.

Once the nation commits to a rapid timetable for requiring CCS systems at all new coal plants under an emission performance standard, then all of our regulatory and research and development efforts should be focused on implementing CCS technology as effectively as possible.

We combine action on shutting down coal plants and other toxic facilities at the local level, as well as building of new toxic facilities, with advocacy to strengthen development, monitoring, and enforcement of regulations at federal, state, and local levels.

The new administration in Washington, D.C., has a sharply different vision for the development and use of our nation's abundant energy resources, including coal.

China continues to lead the world in the amount of coal power capacity under development, despite tightening restrictions on new coal plant projects by the Chinese authorities.

Bush, a strong proponent of fossil fuels, included millions of dollars of incentives for new coal, oil and natural gas development in his long range national energy plan, proposed in May.

The study also revealed Asia to be the world's biggest coal - producing region; 85 per cent of new coal power in development in the top 20 coal - producing countries is in Asia, according to the report.

In January 2016, the government announced that it intended to review development plans for all new coal plants and affirmed Vietnam's commitment to responsibly implement international commitments for reducing greenhouse gases.

This new report, carried out by Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and Green Budget Germany (GBG) monitors the different types of subsidies spent by 11 European governments and the EU from 2014 to 2016 in oil, gas and coal projects in Europe.

Under the deal, Arch Coal agreed to install new equipment to control discharges, and agreed to pay the citizen groups» legal expenses, pay a $ 200,000 fine to the federal government, and contribute $ 1.8 million to the Land Use and Sustainable Development Clinic at West Virginia University's College of Law.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

Figueres acknowledged coal's role in past economic development, but said the industry must find a new way forward.

The Electric Power Development Company of Tokyo announced last week that it is abandoning plans for two new 600 - megawatt coal plants near Kobe.

Meanwhile, the Sierra Club and WWF America lobbies against energy development in Africa, an American foundation with ties to Hilary Clinton funds serial, frivolous legal actions against an Indian power company in Australian courts and the World Bank is in a «race against time to stop construction of new coal - fired power plants across the globe».

Meanwhile, the World Bank, the European Investment Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have also committed to end financing for new coal plants.

A shift away from coal, which has long supplied half of U.S. power, is a triumph for environmental groups like the Sierra Club, which has led a campaign against the development of new coal - fired power plants in the United States.

Asking the Development Bank of Southern Africa to publicly commit to not funding a new coal fired power plant in South Africa, called Thabametsi.

Let's say we shut down and decommissioned coal mines and coal - fired power plants, stopped new offshore drilling for oil and gas plus the development of shale oil and gas, moved away from nuclear power as too risky, spent trillions to subsidize non-viable windmills and solar panels to squeak by in avoiding a total blackout by imposing exorbitant taxes on energy in order to force people to cut back its use.

Increasing funding for ARPA - E, said Rafe Pomerance, former deputy assistant secretary of state for environment and development and currently an environmental consultant, «you get new technologies that undercut coal, oil, and gas.»

WRI's Global Coal Risk Assessment found that there are nearly 1,200 new coal - fired power plants slated for development worldwCoal Risk Assessment found that there are nearly 1,200 new coal - fired power plants slated for development worldwcoal - fired power plants slated for development worldwide.

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality rules that Bull Mountain Development can not reuse its original permit for the proposed Roundup Coal - to - Liquids project, but rather must begin a new permitting process.

Asia accounts for 85 per cent of new coal power development in the world's top 20 coal producing countries, with China as the leader of the pack.

New analysis, compiled by power and energy sector specialists GHD and Solstice Development Services, reveals it would cost $ 2.2 bn to build a 1000MW ultra-supercritical (USC) coal - power plant and that it would deliver the cheapest electricity on the market.

On the supply side we had, up until a month ago, about 151 new coal plants in various stages of development in the U.S.; conventional dirty coal plants.

One interesting debate was in Newcastle (NSW) where wine growers are against further coal development as the drought is damaging their vineyards and threatening jobs - but with the coal producers saying new mines are needed for local jobs.

Via email, McCabe tells me that the most important factor in the IEA model is crowding out: Cheap shale gas will reduce coal usage (good) but will also reduce development of new nuclear, wind, and solar power (bad).