Sentences with phrase «regulating emissions from coal»

Those actions would follow the Obama administration's policies, which include regulating emissions from coal - fired power plants and increasing renewable energy use.

Regulated emissions from coal - based electric generation have decreased by 40 percent since the 1970s, the NMA says, even as coal use has tripled during that time.

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Carbon capture is required To ensure CCS development by 2050, EPA needs to regulate emissions from all fossil fuels — not just coal — today, Allen said.

Like fossil fuel development or not, the Kemper plant is at the center of U.S. EPA's plans to regulate carbon dioxide from new power plants and at the center of global emissions, considering that «low - rank» coals like Mississippi lignite constitute half the world's coal supply.

The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to prevent a sudden leap in average global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the climates ability to regulate itself and lead to catastrophic changes on the land and sea.

Feb. 8, 2008), as the Act removed oil and coal - fired electric utility steam generating units (EGUs) from the list of sources of hazardous air pollutants and instead regulated the emissions through a cap - and - trade program.

According to McConnell, he feels a «deep responsibility» to stop the EPA from regulating carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants, as it plans to do in January.

The Obama Administration's recent announcement that it plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal - fired power plants evoked cries of protest and warnings of economic doom from the political right, and praise from the center and the left.

In this case, going to work behind the scenes after Obama's 2012 re-election, the Natural Resources Defense Council has strongly shaped the EPA's proposed rules to regulate greenhouse emissions from existing coal - fired power plants.

After less than two months in office, the new president, George W. Bush, had announced that he would abandon a campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide from coal - burning power plants, our greatest contributors to the greenhouse effect, and then swiftly pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol, the first binding international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

The proposed rule will regulate carbon emissions from hundreds of fossil - fuel power plants across the U.S., including about 600 coal plants, which will be hit hardest by the standard.

The states suing assert these claims irrespective of the fact that the Clean Power Plan is still in draft form and EPA hasn't actually begun regulating carbon emissions from existing coal plants.

Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a far - reaching rule that would, for the first time ever, regulate carbon dioxide emissions from America's existing coal - and gas - fired power plants — one of the biggest sources of climate pollution around.

By regulating carbon emissions from existing coal plants, Obama is essentially forcing utilities to take the cost of pollution into consideration for generation fleets.

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.

Second, we have seen continued pressure, more veiled than overt, on the coal industry by the EPA as the agency weighs whether to use its legal authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

Following the EPA's stance on coal - fired power plants during the final months of the Bush Administration was enough to make you dizzy: first, it stated in November that emissions from plants should indeed be regulated.