Sentences with phrase «plant emission control»

Most of that money went toward new and existing coal - fired power plants, though some helped back coal mines and power plant emission control operations.

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Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

While the PSC views the subsidies as a way to control carbon emissions as the state moves toward more renewable energy sources, critics believe the Cuomo administration, which supported the plan, was intent on avoiding the job losses that would have come with plant closures in the hard - pressed region where the plants operate.

Enck also called Attorney General Eric Schneiderman a «legal firewall» for spearheading several multi-state legal challenges to Trump, including threats to sue the President over his attempted roll - back of the Obama'administration's Clean Power Plan aimed at controlling power plant emissions in the U.S.

But that is because there are no pollution controls whatsoever on the old plant, whose emissions are detectable, if at all, as a faint haze.

Another aspect of the plan that is likely to see significant airing in future hearings is the rule's «outside the fence line» approach, which allows states to look beyond power plant modifications to demand - side efficiency and the adoption of renewable energy when controlling greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

They also must control mercury air emissions from coal - fired power plants, waste incineration and related industrial processes, and reduce or eliminate mercury use in small - scale gold mining and chemical manufacturing.

And unlike power plant emissions, coal fire emissions can not be regulated or controlled.

The remaining E.U. sources — defined as producers of «industrial emissions,» including power plants — are fewer and larger, and thus easier to control.

This technique may be a model for other power plants and factories to control their emissions, creating a climate change solution literally set in stone.

The study, led by researchers at Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), highlights the importance of maintaining domestic emission controls on motor vehicles, power plants and other industries at a time when pollution is increasingly global.

Controls on emissions from power plants that are expected from the US Environmental Protection Agency make up the rest (see diagram).

Emissions controls on coal - fired power plants are making a difference in reducing exposure of mercury to people, especially in the western Maryland community.

Emissions controls on coal - fired power plants are making a difference in reducing exposure of mercury to people.

Human emissions however are on the decline in many countries due to more strict pollution controls on power plants like burning low - sulfur fuel and technological advances to remove it during and after combustion.

Accordingly, it is possible that in the future, U.S. EPA or individual states may seek (or be required) to regulate carbon dioxide or other GHG emissions from biomass - fired power plants, including requiring such plants to retroactively obtain permits or install pollution control technology.

Guenther is a world - leading expert on the processes controlling chemical emissions from plants and how these emissions affect air quality and regional and global climate.

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EPA Rules Controlling Greenhouse - gas Emissions — The big day for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy should come sometime in June, when her agency is scheduled to unveil historic standards controlling carbon emissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natEmissions — The big day for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy should come sometime in June, when her agency is scheduled to unveil historic standards controlling carbon emissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natemissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natural gas.

For the past ten years the plant has been operating without the level of emissions controls to limit sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions as stipulated in the Clean Air Act.

The «emissions reductions» approach, including cap - and - trade systems and other economic incentive mechanisms as well as direct regulatory controls, will require power plants, cars, and many other GHG sources to become more «efficient» by cutting their discharges.

Of course, the plant that was closed in Tongliang lacked basic pollution control equipment to limit the emission of pollutants like carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter.

But they are trying to control power plant emissions before Delhi again disappears beneath the smog of industry.

The coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit climate change - causing carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statement.

Faced with expensive requirements to upgrade its pollution controls and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Midwest announced it would shut down the Crawford and Fisk plants.

But the president's move to expand such controls to existing plants can, all by itself, get Obama a long way toward his goal of a 17 percent reduction in US greenhouse gas emissions — from 2005 levels — by 2020.

For example, the EPA pretends that natural gas combined cycle — a type of power plant — is a «control option» and «system of emission reduction» that has been «adequately demonstrated» for coal - fired power plants.

But «there are currently no demonstrated technologies to control CO2 emissions from large coal - fired power plants such as Scherer,» Mr. Williams notes.

However, clean coal technology known as high efficiency low emission (HELE) coal - fired plant could be a solution for pollution control during the burning of coal.

Next week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to finalize new rules to reduce mercury and other toxic air emissions that will affect dozens of antiquated power plants currently operating without pollution controls.

The lawsuit claims that Allegheny undertook many construction projects over the years to extend the operational lifespan of these plants without complying with federal standards that require implementation of best available control technology standards to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions when new sources of power are constructed.

The plaintiff states are seeking an injunction to require Allegheny to reduce its harmful emissions by installing state - of - the - art pollution controls at each of the three plants.

At power plants, combustion of coal produces a medley of air pollutants, especially in older plants that lack modern emissions control equipment.

In fact, APS» 2012 purchase of Southern California Edison's share of the Four Corners coal plant — adding 179 megawatts (MW) to APS» owned coal capacity — was a step in the opposite direction from clean energy and for protecting ratepayers, since APS has had to spend over $ 400 million for emissions control of these units.

In some cases their closing is a question of economics: If a plant is already reaching the end of its useful life, no sensible utility is going to spend millions upgrading its emissions - control equipment.

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None of these power plants have still been equipped with the modern emission control systems that many other major economies have made a routine requirement for.

Increasingly strict controls on total coal capacity and power plant emissions are expected to prompt the retirement of up to 20 GW of older plants and spur technological upgrades to China's remaining 1,000 GW of coal power.

If the government balks at requiring a few hundred power plants to install rudimentary emission controls, how can thousands of farms or crores of motorists be expected to accept new regulations?

In December 2015, the Indian Government came out with a strict emission notification to control emissions from thermal power plants.

According to the rules, all power plants are required to install emission control equipments by the end of 2017.

The most economical (or least uneconomical) CCS power plants — those generating revenue from EOR operations — would be counter-productive as an emission - control strategy.

After all, it only controls emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), which is simply plant food.

With the power sector expanding rapidly, China and India will fall further behind in controlling greenhouse gas emissions unless new coal plants adopt emission controls.

that «legally» pollute at rates three to seven times higher than new plants with modern emission controls.»

A 6 - 2 majority of justices issued a decision upholding federal agency rules to control coal - fired power plant emissions from 28 states.

Most of these emissions can be reduced through pollution controls — sometimes by a significant amount — though many plants don't have adequate controls installed.

At or near the top of most lists is the contention that the EPA's authority is strictly limited to controlling the emissions from the power plants themselves.

This is because plant owners are not required to control greenhouse gas emissions and CCS systems are unnecessary for the production of power.