Sentences with phrase «new fossil fuel plants»

The final agreement reached means the continued bankrolling of polluters, with billions of euros of taxpayers» money set to fund the building of new fossil fuel plants, and extended life support for existing ones.

Opposition likely to be fierce to Obama administration proposal, which would apply only to only new fossil fuel plants

«We can not claim to other states and the world that California is leading the charge against climate change while permitting huge new fossil fuel plants in our backyard.

This time it means closing coal plants, stopping fracking, placing tariffs on tar sands oil, and permitting new fossil fuel plants only after all externalities are accounted for.

But the returns, from not having to build new fossil fuel plants, for example, or from the reduced energy demands of well - designed cities, could be nearly as high — not to mention the fact that the costs «are almost certainly outweighed by the future economic damages associated with warming of more than [two degrees] that they would avoid.»

He is calling for single - payer health care for all, more school aid, a ban on new fossil fuel plants and pipelines, and «100 percent clean renewable energy within 15 years.»

That doesn't mean Rogers, whose former employer still operates 14 coal - fired power plants in the United States, thinks new fossil fuel plants should be off - limits in Africa.

«The retirement of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is a key opportunity to demonstrate how California can meet its future energy needs without new fossil fuels plants,» said Evan Gillespie, Director of the Sierra Club's My Generation campaign.

In fact, the lack of awareness among youth is a natural outcome of Turkey's recent so - called climate policies, which are designed to build up new fossil fuel plants by 2030.

New renewables are now cheaper than most of new fossil fuels plants and soon will be cheaper than old fossil fuels plants.

But the cost reductions I wrote about have continued, and renewables are now, broadly speaking, as cheap as, or cheaper than, new fossil fuel plants.

CPUC's guidance calls for an additional 9 GW of solar and 2 GW of battery storage as the standard against which to compare utility and CCA Integrated Resource plans, and says that new fossil fuel plants must prove a need.

Banning all new fossil fuel plants would surely help — try doing that.

It might have been better to keep Germany's existing nuclear power plants operational and do a thorough safety review so that they can be used until a transition to renewables can be done directly (without having to build a large amount of new fossil fuel plants).

During this action, we utilized the human microphone — those who were frozen repeated the words of speakers from frontline communities and from organizations that have been fighting directly to achieve the freeze of new fossil fuel plants, chanting «zero fossils» and «four years is too long to wait.»