Sentences with phrase «said the plant emits»

An article in Scientific American last year titled «Inside a Western Town That Refuses to Quit Coal» said the plant emits nearly 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, earning a spot among the top 20 carbon - producing power plants in the country.

Not exact matches

Asked on Sunday to clarify a statement he made last month that carbon dioxide — emitted from fossil fuel power plants — is not a primary contributor to climate change, Pruitt said «human activities contribute to that change in some measure.»

Its organisers say the plant will emit up to eight million tonnes of CO2 every year and that six other similar power stations are also planned by the government.

For those countries, Ummel said, emissions information is based on both back - channel information gathering and modeling to predict the amount a particular plant would likely emit based on its size and other factors like the type of coal it uses.

If all nine plants planned by the Chinese government were built, they would emit 21 billion tons of carbon dioxide over a typical 40 - year lifetime, seven times the greenhouse gas that would be emitted by traditional natural gas plants,» Jackson said.

The Chernobyl accident emitted much more radioactivity and a wider diversity of radioactive elements than Fukushima Daiichi has so far, but it was iodine and caesium that caused most of the health risk — especially outside the immediate area of the Chernobyl plant, says Malcolm Crick, secretary of a United Nations body that has just reviewed the health effects of Chernobyl.

The researchers say that the first of the two NJDEP's petitions shows that the 30,465 tons of sulfur dioxide emitted by the plant in 2009 was more than double the sulfur dioxide emissions from all power - generating facilities in New Jersey combined.

Study lead author Michael Raupach, GCP co-chair and atmospheric physicist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, says it will take economic, policy and social changes to reverse the trend, such as capturing the CO2 emitted by coal - fired power plants and increased international cooperation.

«Half of all the CO2 we emit is taken up by land plants and oceans,» he said.

However, to make climate models more accurate, we are focused on developing a better understanding of the dynamics of organic aerosols formed from plant - based organic vapors and their interaction with aerosols emitted from human activities,» said Dr. Chen Song, a PNNL atmospheric scientist.

First, given the events of the past weeks in financial markets, I'm not sure how these groups intend to build confidence in a market trading a ton of carbon that is avoided by protecting a forest acre in, say, Borneo, for a ton emitted by a coal - burning power plant in Boston.

That said I find it amusing to read all the comments that equate pooping with emitting CO2... which is what plants need to make the food we eat!

Fifty US power plants emit more greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels than all but six nations, says a new report.

And the more CO2 we emit, up to say 1500 ppmv, the better the plants grow with less water.

What's more, wind and solar plants don't even fall under the domain of the Clean Air Act, he said, as the law only regulates «sources» which emit air pollutants.

But to capture from the air the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by, say, a 1,000 - megawatt coal power plant, it would require air - sucking machinery about 30 feet in height and 18 miles in length, according to a study by the American Physical Society, as well as huge collection facilities and a network of equipment to transport and store the waste underground.

What I» ve said is that we would put a cap - and - trade system in place that is more — that is as aggressive if not more aggressive than anybody else» s out there, so if somebody wants to build a coal - powered plant, they can, it» s just that it will bankrupt them because they» re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that» s being emitted.

«If the cap is above what power plants are emitting, we won't see any change in their behavior,» said Derek K. Murrow, director of policy analysis for Environment Northeast, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

He says controlling ozone is more complicated than many other pollutants, because it is not directly emitted by power plants or other sources.

Scientists say buried volcanic rocks along the heavily populated coasts of New York, New Jersey and New England, as well as further south, might be ideal reservoirs to lock away carbon dioxide emitted by power plants and other industrial sources.

«Biomass power plants tend to emit more CO2 than fossil fueled plants per MWh, and as shown by a number of studies, net emissions from bioenergy can exceed emissions from fossil fuels for decades,» Booth says.

Industry groups say EPA's calculations may inadvertently harm nuclear plants, which emit zero carbon, and in some cases call on shuttered natural - gas plants to replace coal.

David Cameron, the leader of the conservative party and possibly the next primer minister of the UK, said today that a Conservative government would put a tax on the carbon emitted by coal and natural gas power plants.

Fiorino said even a call for a national cap - and - trade plan, where power plants and other emitters can buy and sell permits to emit carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, would be labeled a tax by opponents.

Utilities should consider extending the licenses of power plants, which unlike coal and natural gas plants, do not emit any major air pollutants as identified in the Clean Air Act,» said Roy Schwitters, chair of the APS report.

Let's just make that clear again: Cut down tropical rainforest (say in Indonesia and Malaysia), plant the land with a biofuel crop (perhaps oil palms) and because of the soil on which that forest used to grow it would take 600 hundred years for the carbon emitted from that land conversion to be balanced out by carbon savings by using that biofuel for transport.

«Human actions not only are emitting greenhouse gases based on our own activities, but also are causing plants and animals and microbes to be net emitters of greenhouse gases as well,» said Anna Michalak, a co-author of the study with the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, Calif..

Industry officials say the average advanced coal plant currently emits about 1,800 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour.

«Power plants directly emit a long list of harmful pollutants,» the campaign's website says, «and electric utilities also remain the nation's largest industrial source of carbon dioxide, a significant contributor to global warming.»

The CEO of Hybrit, a joint venture between Swedish steel maker SSAB, power utility Vattenfall, and LKAB, Europe's largest iron ore producer, said, «Our pilot plant will only emit water vapor.»

Apple said today that it would give $ 390 million to Finisar, one of its suppliers, to build a plant in Texas for a part called «vertical - cavity surface - emitting lasers,» or VCSELs.