Sentences with phrase «plant emissions account»

The agency acknowledges that U.S. mercury (Hg) emissions constitute only 5 % of global anthropogenic Hg emissions and only 2 % of the total global Hg pool, and that U.S. power plant emissions account for only 0.6 % of the global pool.

Not exact matches

The plant's emissions, which include two carcinogenic chemicals, account for nearly half the county's risk score.

By accounting for both CO2 and oxygen levels in the atmosphere, scientists have calculated that oceans and plants each absorb roughly one - quarter of humanity's CO2 emissions, leaving half to build up in the atmosphere.

According to Princeton University scientists Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow's «wedge» strategy of climate change mitigation — which quantifies as a wedge on a time series graph various sets of efforts to maintain flat global carbon emissions between now and 2055 — at least two million megawatts of new renewable energy will have to be built in the next 40 years, effectively replacing completely all existing coal - fired power plants as well as accounting for increases in energy use between now and mid-century.

Coal - burning power plants accounted for another 38 percent of Chinese mercury emissions, and that percentage may be going up.

Coal - power plants account for about 25 percent of that carbon dioxide, so it's 320 years of coal - power emissions.»

Burning coal accounts for about 40 percent of all carbon emissions worldwide, but this plant would emit essentially no carbon at all.

For example, the BECCS idea of taking carbon from power plants does not account for the massive emissions from all other sources — such as the tailpipes of our cars.

A new study found China's power plants will account for 42 percent of the world's future greenhouse gas emissions.

Agriculture — including both animals and plant crops — account for one - third of all global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Scientists say electricity generation is responsible for one - quarter of the world's total CO2 emissions — the main cause of global warming — and U.S. power plants account for fully 25 percent of the emissions generated by the power sector worldwide.

Our paper demonstrates the concept of this commitment accounting by quantifying the CO2 emissions that are expected to come from now - existing power plants.

Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine, and Robert Socolow of Princeton (best known for his work dividing the climate challenge into carbon «wedges») have written «Commitment accounting of CO2 emissions,» a valuable new paper in Environmental Research Letters showing the value of shifting from tracking annual emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants to weighing the full amount of carbon dioxide that such plants, burning coal or gas, could emit during their time in service.

When implemented, the Clean Power Plan (CPP) will reduce emissions from power plants by 32 % by 2030 from 2005 levels, accounting for about 10 % of reductions of from total US emissions in 2005.

Bookbinder estimates that there could be regulation of at least the two biggest sources of greenhouse - gas emissions — coal - fired power plants and automobiles, which together account for more than half of all emissions — by early 2010.

The burden of any plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions would have fallen most heavily on coal - burning power plants, which still account for more than 50 percent of the electricity generated in the United States.

While these sections are relatively clear in describing how generation from nuclear plants is accounted for in the emission rate goals, other parts of the EPA proposal suggest the possibility that «new» nuclear plants beyond those currently under construction may play a role in state compliance planning.

States could allow generation from new, not - under - construction plants to displace generation (and emissions) from existing coal or natural gas plants that were accounted for in the emission rate computation.

But even when you account for that, the IPCC figured that staying below 2 °C would depend on a series of long - shot maneuvers: all nations would need to act right this second, ramp up wind and solar and nuclear power massively, and figure out still - nascent technologies to capture and bury emissions from coal plants.

But new rules for emissions from existing plants — which account for 39 percent of energy - related U.S. emissions — could have a much greater impact.

The study linked to in your point # 5 points out that there is increased CO2 when modulating coal fired plants to account for gaps in wind generation, and that offsets any CO2 emissions saved with wind power.

Even more, according to the Environmental Projection Agency, the Meramec Coal Plant accounts for over 95 % of the fixed source greenhouse gas emissions for St. Louis County.

Energy - gobbling buildings, air - polluting cars, sprawling suburbs, carbon - spewing power plants — cities account for more than 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and two - thirds of the world's energy use.

Power plants are the largest source of greenhouse gases in the U.S., accounting for about a third of the annual emissions that make the U.S. the second largest contributor to global warming on the planet.

Power plants like this coal - fired facility in England are already committing the globe to future carbon emissions that haven't previously been accounted for in climate models, say the authors of a new study.

In the United States, power plants (mostly coal - fired) burn an enormous 2.2 billion tons of CO2 every year, accounting for around 40 percent of the nation's total emissions.

The researchers suggest that current United Nations accounting methods, which chart annual carbon dioxide discharge, should also tally the projected lifetime emissions of power plants to provide a more accurate picture of their impact on global warming.

The world's existing power plants are on track to pour more than 300 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and current monitoring standards often fail to take these long - term emissions into account, according to new research from scientists at UC Irvine and Princeton University.

These flexibility needs are rapidly expanding as a result of numerous industry trends: (a) recognition by policymakers that renewable energy resources are needed to meet long - term emissions reductions goals; (b) customers» increasing desire to voluntarily procure renewable energy or generate electricity on - site; and (c) substantial technological improvements that have driven down the cost of renewable resources to the point where, even before accounting for tax incentives, they are the lowest - cost option for new generating plants in some regions of the country.

So China built many hundreds of coal plants in the last 15 years, and they lead the world in fossil fuel burned and CO2 emissions (accounting for 30 % of total world emissions), but this does not mean that the increase in capacity in China even correlates with fossil fuel burned?

Banning new coal - fired power plants — Coal accounts for over 70 percent of the CO2 emissions from electricity generation.

Coal accounts for nearly 75 percent of CO ₂ emissions by power plants, according to the Energy Information Administration, yet produces 37 percent of the nation's electricity.

While far from perfect, the proposal is one of the most significant environmental rules proposed by the United States in recent history and is seen by many as a step in the right direction, as coal - fired power plants account for nearly 40 % of all US carbon emissions.

Yet the plan will set the first national limits on carbon pollution from power plants, which account for 37 percent of total U.S. carbon emissions.

Coal plants, which account for more than a third of U.S. electricity generation, stand to face retrofits or shutdowns in the wake of emission rules to be proposed by the Obama Administration Monday.

The former coal plants accounted for the bulk of the negative health impacts, due for example to their much greater size and higher levels of sulphur dioxide emissions, which were largely linked to continued coal burning at co-fired sites.

EPA's Science Advisory Board has been studying the issue for years as part of the agency's effort to decide how to account for greenhouse gas emissions from wood burning, and regulate wood - fired power plants.

The 50 dirtiest coal plants in the U.S. — just 1 percent of the nation's electricity - generating fleet — account for 12 percent of the country's carbon emissions.

Owners of polluting power plants purchase the allowances, or trade for them in the market, to account for their emissions.

Many of these damages vary with the location of air - emission releases, so it is important to account for the existing and potential future locations of vehicle tailpipes, power plants, oil refineries, vehicle and battery production facilities, and upstream supply chain entities, such as mines for raw material extraction.

The oldest, smallest coal plants with few emissions controls make up an «at - risk» of closure portion that account for about 20 percent of total US coal - fired generating capacity, or 69,000 megawatts.

In the United States, the Clean Power Plan, announced by former President Barack Obama in 2015, has been called a «climate game changer» because of its potential to reduce carbon emissions from the largest single source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions — power plants, which account for over 1/3 of the U.S.'s carbon dioxide emissions.

Power plants account for about 35 percent of US carbon dioxide emissions.

As I understand it, the cap and trade still allows coal plants and other CO2 sources to operate, just that there is a price associated with their emissions, thus taking into account the externalities of those emissions.

Power plants account for about a third of the annual emissions and contribute to the United States» rank as the second largest contributor to global warming on the planet.

Reality: Another 200 nuclear power plants (plus replacements) probably would handle our base demand for electricity, which accounts for perhaps 25 % of current US emissions.

He added that even if the EPA were forced to regulate greenhouse gases, it would target emissions from coal - fired power plants and then vehicles — which combined account for about half of the nation's global - warming pollution — before requiring smaller operations to apply for new emissions permits.

Even though lignite - burning plants accounted for 16 % of SO2 emissions from scrubbed plants in 2010, they generated only 8 % of the electricity from scrubbed plants.

Their emissions would have to be taken into account in the approval process for new coal plants, and some considered it coal's darkest hour.

And now that the new EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has announced the reconsideration, hopes are high that a stricter set of rules will be imposed for the approval of new coal plants that takes into account carbon emissions.