Sentences with phrase «on coal plants agreed»
Friends of the Earth provided recommendations for how the restrictions on coal plants agreed to last year can be improved.
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In my view, if the coal industry does not proactively agree to, and indeed volunteer for, a prompt moratorium on the construction of new coal - fired power plants until carbon capture and storage are proven and viable, and included in commercial plants, we should get out the literature, the musical lyrics, the poetry, the ethical codes, and so forth and create a collection of material that brings to vivid life the «problems» (to put it mildly) that Shakespeare illuminates, as they will then apply to the coal industry.
If you got the the Chinese to agree to stop constructon on new coal power plants 3 years from now think of many will be finished between now and then and.
The fake press release was picked up by several media outlets, including the Dallas Morning News, UK Hemscott and several blogs before journalists realized that USCAP members would never agree to such progressive reductions in carbon emissions or a moratorium on coal plants.
Rising Tide North America, a loose - knit group of students and workers for nonprofit organizations, posed as phony public relations officials and targeted energy reporters around the world on Monday with e-mails and telephone calls claiming that a legitimate group of 33 businesses and environmental groups, the United States Climate Action Partnership, had agreed to slash emissions, blamed for warming the earth, by 90 percent by 2050 and had called for a moratorium on new coal plants, Reuters reports.
In an agreement announced on Feb. 26, 2007, TXU agreed to cancel 8 of its planned 11 new Texas coal - fired power plants as well as several new coal - fired plants in Pennsylvania and Virginia, back federal legislation to create a cap - and - trade system regulating CO2 emissions, and double spending on energy efficiency.
The UN fund to help developing countries fight climate change can be spent on coal - fired power plants — the most polluting form of electricity generation — under rules agreed at a board meeting.
Rules agreed a meeting of fund's board described by Friends of the Earth as «like a torture convention that does not forbid torture» The UN fund to help developing countries fight climate change can be spent on coal - fired power plants — the most polluting form of electricity generation — under rules agreed at a board meeting.
Under today's settlement AEP agreed to install pollution - curbing dry sorbent injection (DSI) technology on its massive Rockport coal - fired power plant in Southern Indiana.
AEP also agreed to replace a portion of these coal plants with new wind and solar investments in Indiana and Michigan, bringing more clean energy on line to meet the region's electricity needs.
As part of the estimated US$ 45 million buyout, Luminant settled a series of lawsuits with Environmental Defense and the Natural Resources Defense Council and agreed to cancel 8 of its planned 11 new Texas coal - fired power plants as well as several new coal - fired plants in Pennsylvania and Virginia, back federal legislation to create a cap - and - trade system regulating CO2 emissions, and double spending on energy efficiency.