Sentences with phrase «on coal pollution»

Coal companies know this — utilities that burn the fossil fuel are willing to spend millions of dollars each year to undermine laws that cut back on coal pollution and protect public health.

And they essentially translate into the following: Romney will do his best to remove restrictions on coal pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, and does not believe the government has a role in addressing climate change.

Local power - plants are legal and now necessary given the success of the coal industry in watering down and delaying real action on coal pollution in Congress.

Not exact matches

Responding to public outrage, the government has recently introduced a series of measures like making public the level of air pollution in Beijing and also plans to impose emission restrictions on the steel, coal and petrochemicals industries, among others.

«Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on ThursCoal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thurscoal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thursday.

To beat the cold, China has temporarily eased restrictions on coal production until the end of the year as Premier Li Keqiang said there was a need to balance demand to ramp up power output against pollution control.

The package includes a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity generation by 2030, a commitment to generate 30 per cent of Alberta's electricity from renewable sources by 2030, new financing for energy efficiency, and an economy - wide price on carbon pollution.

Moreover the findings proved the efficacy of stringent air pollution controls on mercury spewing coal - fired plants.

And much of the country's so - called war on pollution is centred on coal where the change in direction is just as startling.

Beijing's new war on pollution will see carbon - belching coal plants shuttered and millions of cars taken off the road.

Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club commented: «Mike Bloomberg's partnership with the Sierra Club and our more than 3 million members and supporters has put our country on a path to cleaner air and cleaner water, good - paying clean energy jobs, and healthier communities that are safe from toxic coal pollution».

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

In combination with the data on when the specimen was collected, the results tell the tale of coal use in the United States; rising from the late 1800s and falling during the Great Recession; then increasing again through the middle of the century until legislation in the»50s,»60s, and»70s set limits on air pollution, The Washington Post reports.

All to reduce the dependence on — and the pollution from — burning coal.

Last week President Obama announced plans to limit carbon pollution from new and existing power plants, a measure likely to have even more impacts on coal - fired plants, including Georgia Power's eight.

Around the country, about 600 power plants must be closed or retooled in the next two years, the result of EPA rules issued in 2011 that clamped down on coal - fired pollution.

Indeed, the Clean Power Plan proposed by the Obama administration to clean up CO2 emissions from power plants relies on capture and storage to allow coal - fired power plants to continue to produce electricity, but with less climate - changing pollution.

Despite its efforts to go green, China still depends on coal, but critics say blaming China for its rampant pollution is unfair, given all the manufacturing the world's developed countries outsource to Chinese companies

Beijing has closed the first of four large coal - fired power plants set to be de-commissioned as part of the city's efforts to cut air pollution, official news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday, citing the local planning agency.

Further steps could include pushing for more renewable energy; an aggressive cut in the use of coal and natural gas to make electricity; wider use of electric cars, biofuel, and hydrogen fuel; changes in farming practices; and putting a price on carbon pollution.

By examining rates of mortality and respiratory - related illnesses on both sides of the river, Greenstone's team identified a difference: life expectancies are lower and pollution concentrations are higher north of the Huai, where coal burning was widespread.

Another measure, the federal Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, will require still more expensive controls on coal plants in the Midwest and South to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions that travel across state lines, creating ozone and fine particle pollution downwind.

The paper, published in PNAS on Monday, examined pollution data and death records to see whether coal burning, long a source of air pollution, could have damaged public health across northern China in the 1990s.

The world's largest consumer of coal has announced radical restrictions on the importing and use of the stuff, in a bid to curb air pollution.

Whether it's physical shipments of the fossil fuel or the buying and selling of the permits for the pollution that burning it causes — Evolution's first trade was a sulfur dioxide allowance between Enron and Dynegy in February of 2000 — the brokerage makes its living on coal.

Research on coal burning in China offers powerful evidence of air pollution's effect on public health

But campaigners have expressed concern that the burden of pollution is likely to be shifted to other regions, with high - emission sectors like thermal power still on course to expand rapidly in big, coal - rich regions like Inner Mongolia, Ningxia or Xinjiang.

U.S. Supreme Court justices offered President Barack Obama's administration some encouragement on Tuesday as they weighed the lawfulness of a federal regulation limiting air pollution that crosses state lines, mostly emissions from coal - fired power plants.

«The effects of alpha - synuclein on mitochondria are like making a perfectly good coal - fueled power plant extremely inefficient, so it not only fails to make enough electricity, but also creates too much toxic pollution,» said Dr. Greenamyre.

«Here, we have solid numbers on how many people die from air pollution and what fraction of that is due to coal - powered plants in each state.»

But according to the U.S. Department of Energy, pollution is on the rise in the U.S. and world energy use is expected to grow 57 percent by 2030, with coal being the fastest growing energy source.

(Reuters)- A North Carolina judge ruled on Thursday that Duke Energy Corp must immediately stop the sources of groundwater pollution at its 14 coal - fired power plants in the state.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

And if the coal plant lacks pollution controls — or fails to turn them on — it can amplify the extent of smog, acid rain, lung - damaging microscopic soot and other ills that arise from burning fossil fuels.

And industry leaders have focused recently on ways to impose cleaner coal technologies, including at a major conference in Delhi earlier this month featuring high - level government and industry leaders focusing on coal gasification, carbon capture and storage, upgrades and other measures to improve efficiency and reduce pollution.

Despite the ads» claims, an analysis by the Center of American Progress determined that ACCCE's companies spend relatively few dollars conducting research on carbon capture and storage, the most promising clean coal technology to reduce global warming pollution from coal - fired power plants.

4) Willie Soon states «I don't like to claim that I am an expert on anything,» despite listing himself as an «expert in mercury and public health» for a discredited Wall Street Journal op - ed dismissing health concerns over mercury pollution from coal plants.

A Supreme Court case could undo a key piece of the Obama's environmental agenda, which hinges on whether the EPA should consider the costs of air pollution controls from coal plants.

In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, 72 percent of all toxic water pollution in the country comes from coal - fired power plants, making coal plants the number one source of toxic water pollution in the U.S. (1) What's more, four out of five coal plants in the U.S. have no limits on the amount of toxics they are allowed to dump into our water.

Mercury — studies show that mercury from pollution (coal burning plants are the biggest source of mercury pollution to air and water) and from fish that are high on the food chain such as tuna, shark, swordfish, tilefish, etc can possibly cause long term negative effects on your brain.

There were many environmental issues — deforestation rates that were higher than Brazil, many communities losing their land to palm oil plantations, and massive pollution and congestion in the main cities and reliance on coal rather than on clean renewable energy like solar.

For those who have lived in China recently, choking on the world's most notorious coal - produced pollution, the gauze invokes the frail barrier offered by masks against the toxins.

I also note that if Asia (particularly China) converts its many existing coal - fired power plants to methane (from hydrofracking) over the next few decades, then the air pollution in this part of the world will likely be reduced, which would further increase radiative forcing on the Earth.

my conclusion: as far as coal is concerned, we should be focusing on continuing to reduce so2 and particulate pollution — and ignoring co2 completely.

In a way, it makes sense that GOP politicians would be so cavalier about dismantling those Clean Air Act rules that would require better pollution controls on coal plants — after all, as a group largely comprised of affluent white men, they've probably never had to live next door to one.

«Given that coal supply is widely available from many sources, our time is better spent working on leading toward a global commitment to cut carbon pollution on the demand side.»

Most importantly, as long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping points which scientists have repeatedly warned — again just yesterday — will threaten to make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable destruction of the conditions that make human civilization possible on this planet.

If someone in India dies from air pollution related diseases because India insists on cheap energy, so passes on the need for cleaning up coal combustion.

I honestly think she's too young to be listening to me going on and on about such confusing stuff as oil, gas, coal, greenhouse effect, global warming, manmade climate change, population explosion (she knows about it), deforestation, desertification, rapid extinction of other species, pollution, problems, overconsumption, overindustrialization, problems, politics, economics, consumerism, and problems, religion, war, etc., etc., etc..

My sense is that a better approach is to recognize, from the start, the reality that shifting energy norms, even as coal remains a core energy source, will be a process unfolding over decades, and making sure that legislation, while pushing standards for cutting energy waste and pollution, also focuses on support in all the arenas that matter to building a sustained energy quest — including education to create the intellectual capacity for such an undertaking and sustained and increased direct support for basic inquiry in science and technology — an area where there's been bipartisan disinterest in federal investment for decades.