Sentences with phrase «regulations on coal plants»

In addition, EPA is issuing more stringent regulations on coal plant emissions to reduce chronic respiratory illnesses and deaths caused by coal - fired power plant emissions.

Not exact matches

Obama had introduced a raft of regulations intended to slash emissions of carbon dioxide blamed for climate change, a policy course that accelerated the retirement of older coal - fired power plants and bolstered the nascent solar and wind sectors, which depend heavily on weather conditions for their power output.

Regulations that affect proposed new coal plants in the U.S. are therefore likely to have a larger overall impact on GHG emissions than Canadian rRegulations that affect proposed new coal plants in the U.S. are therefore likely to have a larger overall impact on GHG emissions than Canadian regulationsregulations.

Canadian regulations only affect existing coal plants once they have been producing for approximately 50 years or plants undergoing major refurbishment: Their effect will not be felt on a large scale for decades.

Rolling back power plant regulations on coal and rolling back coal mining regulations should reduce both the cost to use coal and the cost to mine it.

He said that from the 1970s into the 1990s regulation of smokestacks focused largely on the stench and opacity of the plumes because of concerns about coal - fired plants and steel mills, and less attention was paid to the chemical plants.

Regulations on the coal industry are driving massive layoffs and the shuttering of coal plants in Pennsylvania, injecting environmental issues into that state's hotly contested Senate race between incumbent Democrat Bob Casey Jr. and Republican challenger and coal mining executive Tom Smith.

The glut of cheap gas and tightening regulations on air pollutants have prompted the planned closure of 175 coal - fired power plants by 2016, representing 8.5 percent of all coal - fueled electricity capacity in the country.

EPA's forthcoming regulations on new and existing power plants are no exception, especially in regions dependent on coal - fired electricity.

Scott Segal, executive director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which represents utility interests in Washington, said Bloomberg's findings about the effect of the new EPA rule on coal plants are «very consistent» with what his group concluded in its own review of the regulation.

Based on its research, EPRI concludes that capture and sequestration of carbon emissions from coal plants would be technically feasible by 2020, and it assumes that new regulations would be in place to support that strategy.

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 Obama regulations would have the biggest impact on whether existing coal plants are shut down, and that wasn't included in the model.

Moreover, the Senate bill that would fund DOE — the so - called energy and water bill — hangs in limbo, thanks to the political battle over the Obama administration's plan to use Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations to set new limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, especially those that burn coal.

«In addition to identifying the impacts of the emissions from this particular coal - fired power plant on fetal health, the usefulness of this study's identification strategy is its potential application to other studies examining the impact of upwind states» power plant emissions, which have been the target of a series of environmental regulations, such as the EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule,» adds Yang.

Worse than that, in related «horse trading» that the industry insisted on before it would allow the regulations to happen, they managed to grandfather old coal plants — so today we are still stuck with emissions from old coal plants — most of the electricity form coal is from plants that were built before 1970, indeed, most built before 1950, I believe....

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

Wood burning is subsidized as renewable energy and also favored for use in dirty older coal plants that must meet new regulations on sulphur dioxide emissions.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued the first - ever limits on heat - trapping pollution from new power plants in March, ignoring protests from the energy industry and Republicans who fear regulation will raise electricity prices and kill off coal as an energy source.

Not allowing facts to get in the way of its agenda, the Obama EPA just released its new power plant regulations, which will effectively end the use of coal in new power plants and force consumers to pay higher electricity rates, predicated on coal's contribution to climate change.

In emerging ASEAN, additional capacity of coal - fired generation is likely to be built using both high efficiency and low efficiency of coal - fired power plants depending on countries» environmental regulations and economic conditions.

The narrower rule would focus on obtaining efficiency improvements through better heat rates at coal plants — an «inside the fenceline» regulation, rather than a sweeping change to the national power mix.

The EPA and the Obama White House have denied that the real objective of new regulations on carbon and mercury emission is to shut down coal plants.

A key factor in those retirements is a new Environmental Protection Agency regulation on emissions of toxins from coal - fired power plants.

EPA officials, the emails showed, helped those groups gather petition signatures in support of regulations that critics say impose huge costs on coal - fired power plants and amount to a de facto moratorium on the construction of such plants.

As the owners of older coal plants consider whether to retire them or upgrade them to meet new and emerging environmental standards, the threat of greenhouse gas regulation will be an overlay of uncertainty and possible large expense, on top of the burdens imposed by other new and proposed environmental regulations and the competition from natural gas.

We combine action on shutting down coal plants and other toxic facilities at the local level, as well as building of new toxic facilities, with advocacy to strengthen development, monitoring, and enforcement of regulations at federal, state, and local levels.

But Southern, which relies heavily on coal at its other power plants in the south - east, has been outspoken in its opposition to the EPA's new regulations — and the use of its plant to sell them to a skeptical industry and public.

Even if the regulation reduces the emissions by coal plants by 15 %, the impact on the total carbon cycle will be 0.03 % of natural emissions.

Nick Mullins stood out when he joined activists, concerned citizens and members of congress at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public hearings on proposed carbon - emission regulations for new power plants, including coal and natural gas.

Regulation of carbon emissions from the power sector under provisions of the Clean Air Act depends almost entirely on the Environmental Protection Agency's determination that cheap natural gas generation is the «best available» alternative to coal power plants.

A good example is regulations on coal power plants — regulations that force utilities to either eliminate emissions or shut the plants down.

The order will require the Interior Department to lift a moratorium on the sale of new coal leases on federal land, and compel a review of regulations designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

Regulation of carbon emissions from power plants will accelerate the shift from coal to gas and new fuel economy standards on heavy trucks will help further decarbonize the transportation fleet.

Bush made changes to coal fired power plant regulations by going to congress based on what modern technology.

They should never be used to set or justify policies, laws or regulations — such as what the Environmental Protection Agency is about to impose on CO2 emissions from coal - fired power plants.

Synapse evaluates the impact of existing and expected environmental regulations on coal - fired power plants, both at the individual plant and fleet levels.

Faced with concerns over how quickly new nuclear will progress through the planning and licensing system, and the possibility that even coal plants that are compliant with existing EU environmental regulation may be forced to close early by the proposed Industrial Emissions Directive, generators have little choice but to prepare to build a second wave of gas - fired plants (ie in addition to the 8GW currently under construction) to keep the lights on before new nuclear and some CCS coal plants start to come onto the system in the 2020s.

Given that EPA has extended the comment period on its coal plant attack regulations, my blog post on how to comment seems timely: http://www.coalblog.org/2014/07/30/how-to-comment-on-epas-proposed-coal-killing-co2-control-rules/

On March 11, 2008, Representatives Henry Waxman of California and Edward Markey of Massachusetts introduced a bill to ban new coal - fired power plants without carbon emissions controls nationwide until federal regulations are put in place to address greenhouse gas emissions.

At that time environmentalists were making strides in shutting coal plants and tightening federal regulations on acid rain and smog - forming chemicals.

The Trump administration is waging war on the laws meant to protect Americans from air pollution, arguing that rolling back regulations on coal - fired power plants, cars and trucks, and other sources of fossil fuel emissions is necessary to ensure a healthy economy.

As Grist readers know, a wave of new and upcoming EPA regulations puts financial pressure on old coal plants anyway.

On September 27, 2016, the entire United States District Court for the District of Columbia will hear oral arguments in West Virginia, et al. v EPA, to which E&E Legal is party, challenging the EPA's «Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units» rule under section 111 (d) of the Clean Air Act, over the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) regulation that will cripple, and in many cases, shut down coal - fired power plants.

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) forthcoming climate change regulations for new and existing electricity generating units have been appropriately labeled the «war on coal,» [1] because the proposed limits for carbon dioxide emissions would essentially prohibit the construction of new coal - fired power plants and force existing ones into early retirement.

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But those coal plants are closing down faster than American Airlines terminals, thanks to the plunging cost of natural gas, boots - on - the - ground campaigns from anti-coal activists, and, to a lesser degree, the ambiguous specter of EPA pollution regulations.

The proposed regulation is the centerpiece of President Obama's Climate Action Plan, which focuses on cutting carbon emissions from new and existing coal fired power plants, the source of nearly 40 % of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

Two new federal air pollution regulations are expected to spur the closure of up to 69 aging, inefficient, coal - fired power plants, reducing both harmful air pollutants and emissions of the climate destabilizing greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), according to an AP survey of US power plant operators and a preliminary Breakthrough Institute analysis of the likely impacts on CO2 emissions.

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