Sentences with phrase «of coal»

That move alone will keep billions of tons of coal in the ground.

The use of coal for power generation is not exempt from these impacts and has been associated with a number of environmental challenges, primarily associated with air emissions.

The problem of air pollution started with the burning of coal in homes and factories.

The situation the company finds itself in now is a significant amount of uncertainty about what climate change regulation might do to the cost of coal plants.

The number of tons of coal mined increased by 85 percent, but the number of miners fell by half.

They found that the carbon dioxide - caused warming exceeds the amount of heat released by a lump of coal in just 34 days.

There are two pretty obvious things we could do right away: halt construction of coal power plants, and reduce deforestation.

Phase out of coal use except where the carbon is captured and stored below ground is the primary requirement for solving global warming.

However, you might notice that in 2011 and 2012 there is a significant amount of coal capacity being built.

The research showed that air pollution from the burning of coal for electricity generation was something like five times as damaging to our hearts as was general air pollution.

Let's hope that the study that claimed that world reserves of coal are actually much smaller than previously thought is right.

The effort succeeded, buying time to ramp up a public relations campaign touting the «beneficial» uses of coal ash and pushing the familiar dire economic implications of federal oversight.

And based on the map, it sure looks like there's a lot of coal out there.

There is a huge surge in coal mining and the number of coal fired power plants in the guise of meeting electricity demands and development for the country.

I hope everyone clicked on the link showing the lack of correlation in the price of coal from region to region.

Do you really think it is going to affect the price of coal on a massive scale?

In order to enact change on that magnitude, new controls and regulations on exports of coal, oil and natural gas should be adopted at the local, national, and international levels.

It was considered a model of successful recycling of coal combustion waste until tests of nearby groundwater wells discovered arsenic and lead levels exceeding drinking water standards, according to city water tests.

Now, all of a sudden, we start getting only 1,500 tonnes of coal.

Another area of research and activism is the disproportionate impact of coal on low - income and minority communities.

One of its top recommendations was for rich countries to get out of coal as quickly as possible.

But if methane leakage would be greater than 2 percent, there would be less warming in the near term if the natural gas plant were shut down instead of the coal plant.

Our coal campaign highlights the impacts of coal in our energy mix, on the people and environment.

How long will an ever - dwindling supply of coal remain the dominant source of global energy, and at what cost?

The amount of coal capacity retired in 2015 was about 4.6 % of the nation's coal capacity at the beginning of that year.

Because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?

Membership is open to companies and not - for - profit organisations with a stake in the future of coal from anywhere in the world.

The number of coal mining jobs have been on a steady and steep decline over the last 30 years.

The increase is mainly fueled by a 3 percent surge of coal consumption.

The scale of the climate challenge is way beyond the simple replacement of coal with gas; the energy transition will have to affect all fossil fuels, including oil.

We have 200 years of coal at present consumption, so even if we doubled that we would have 100 years.

Generation from natural gas and renewables has accelerated to replace the rapid and unprecedented retirement of coal - fired generators.

Approximately 40 percent of coal - fired plants must add emissions - control technology in order to comply, which will make coal an even more expensive energy source.

Natural gas is used by both the transportation and electricity sectors, releasing about half the carbon dioxide emissions of coal when burned.

This would halt any new construction of coal - fired facilities, they said.

The share of coal in the global energy mix is forecast to decline to 26 % in 2022, from 27 % in 2016 because of sluggish demand compared with other fuels.

One ton of coal produces only two barrels of fuel.

A half - million - ton pile of coal is already mined and waiting.

While it is showing signs of pulling back on domestic coal power expansion, numerous media reports have documented its support for the development of coal power overseas.

Their numbers vary, based on age of facilities and types of coal used.

That means that most of the coal reserves can not be used.