Sentences with phrase «saying coal pollution»

Dr. Willie Soon is a Smithsonian Institution astrophysicist paid by Charles Koch, ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute and coal utility Southern Company to write papers dismissing climate change, publish op - eds saying coal pollution won't affect our health, refute the seriousness of ocean acidification, and apparently anything else he can be paid to deny.

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«Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on ThursCoal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thurscoal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thursday.

To beat the cold, China has temporarily eased restrictions on coal production until the end of the year as Premier Li Keqiang said there was a need to balance demand to ramp up power output against pollution control.

«Reducing carbon pollution from electric power plants is a good start, but the goal must be phasing out coal, oil, and natural gas as our energy sources,» said Howie Hawkins, Green candidate for Governor of New York (http://www.howiehawkins.org).

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

«Those communities and downwind areas have been suffering for a long time from the pollution from these plants,» said Jenna Garland, spokesperson for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign in the Southeast.

Despite its efforts to go green, China still depends on coal, but critics say blaming China for its rampant pollution is unfair, given all the manufacturing the world's developed countries outsource to Chinese companies

While the rules will limit pollution and force some coal ash pond closures, Evans says the new rules fail to address the problem of environmental injustice.

Coal industry groups said they hope that the DC Circuit and the Supreme Court, which heard another air pollution case Tuesday, strike down both laws, which they claim hurts jobs and the economy.

«The effects of alpha - synuclein on mitochondria are like making a perfectly good coal - fueled power plant extremely inefficient, so it not only fails to make enough electricity, but also creates too much toxic pollution,» said Dr. Greenamyre.

«There's roughly seven million people who die globally from air pollution every year, so getting rid of coal could take a big chunk out of that number as well,» Pearce says, adding that another goal of future research is to dig deeper into the life cycles of coal production as this study only looked at air pollution - related deaths.

Air pollution control devices called scrubbers use a sprayed slurry of ground limestone and water to remove sulfur dioxide from gases formed in coal combustion, said Tom Schmaltz, environmental director for Headwaters Resources, a world leader in coal combustion products.

The North Carolina court decision came a day after Alpha Natural Resources Inc said it would spend $ 200 million to settle a dispute with the U.S. government over pollution discharged by coal mines.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

Calling the findings «shocking,» the authors said the sickness and death related to coal emissions underscores the need to enact more stringent emissions standards, deploy advanced pollution control technologies and increase the use of cleaner energy options.

And if things don't change a lot, coal will still be the biggest pollution problem in 2030, she says.

These types of pollution are primarily from burning fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, the researchers said.

«India needs a three - pronged mitigation approach to address industrial coal burning, open burning for agriculture, and household air pollution sources,» said Chandra Venkataraman, professor of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, in Mumbai, India.

They say that the profits will go to the coal and railroad companies, while the pollution will effect us all and exacerbate climate change, and communities from Montana to the Pacific Northwest will be left to pay the price with damaged water, air, wildlife habitats, sacred cultural sites, landscapes, and livelihoods.

[v] CBC News, Closing Ontario coal plants didn't cut air pollution by much, says Fraser Institute.

Stern said that electricity from coal - fired power stations only appeared cheaper because the costs of air pollution and climate change were not included.

Opponents say the increase in coal train traffic, air pollution and damage to waterways and other ecosystems would outstrip any economic benefits.

Air pollution from Europe's 300 largest coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days, says a major study of the health impacts of burning coal to generate electricity.

... Cutting local air pollution from, say coal, can also reduce carbon emissions that cause warming.»

«The Closing the Floodgates» report says that toxic pollution from coal - fired power plants «dwarfs the pollution from any other industrial category in the United States and is more than the other top nine polluting industries combined.»

An APS press release from June 1, 2016 says it is requesting $ 3.6 billion in upgrades and maintenance for the grid; and then lists $ 500M for Ocotillo gas plant refurbishing, plus $ 400M for the 1,636 MW Four Corners coal plant, but rate case testimony by APS general manager of fossil fuel generation John Lucas states that APS will spend $ 435 million on pollution control (Selective Catalytic Reduction or SCR) for Four Corners.

The report says coal - fired power plants are the largest source of toxic water pollution in the country.

«Coal water pollution raises cancer risks, makes fish unsafe to eat, and can inflict lasting brain damage on our children,» the report says.

For example, the United States plans to cut coal pollution by 2030, while China says it will put a cap on greenhouse gas emissions altogether.

The Governor said that coal exports could clog barge and train routes, increase diesel and coal dust pollution and boost amounts of toxic mercury drifting back to Oregon when Asian countries burn the coal.

«Air pollution and climate change policies are pushing coal - fired electricity stations to the brink, says a new report.

China and India both have terrible air pollution problems and coal is one of the main causes of air pollution that the World Health Organisation says causes seven million deaths each year.

«Around 30 people testified about how OPPD's coal pollution impacts them and their families, and that it stands as a towering example of what holds the North Omaha community back,» said Holly Bender of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campacoal pollution impacts them and their families, and that it stands as a towering example of what holds the North Omaha community back,» said Holly Bender of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaCoal campaign.

The Sierra Club says it will sue a coal - fired power plant near Pittsburgh for excessive air pollution.

UBS analysts say utilities in Europe need to shut down 30 % of their gas, coal, and oil - fed power capacity by 2017, not to fight global warming, cut pollution, or cut fuel imports, but because renewable energy is pushing fossil fuels off the grid.

«Coal plants will have some sort of pollution control as compared to nothing at the farm level,» said Chandra Bhushan.

TXU also promised to cut emissions of pollutants including sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide and mercury by 20 percent, saying it would spend $ 500 million on equipment to control pollution at three of its existing coal - fired units in Texas.

Isabel Hilton, editor of China Dialogue, an independent website that publishes information and debate on the environment in China, said coal is the main cause of the country's air pollution problems.

Coal burning in China «produces heavy metal pollution and produces particulate pollution on a scale that is getting quite extraordinary,» she said.

«This study provides an unprecedentedly detailed picture of the health fallout from China's coal burning,» said Dr Andrew Gray, a US - based expert on air pollution, who conducted the research.

Analysts say this is the first time Beijing has put a ban on the opening of new mines: the move has been prompted both by falling demand for coal as a result of a slowing economy and by increasing public concern about hazardous levels of pollution, which have blanketed many cities across the country over recent months.

The American coal industry says Mr. Obama is waging a «war on coal» in response to his proposed regulation of air pollution and surface mining in mountain areas.

Steadily improving air pollution controls have sent sulfur dioxide emissions from U.S. coal - fired power plants tumbling by more than 40 % and particulate emissions (the alleged cause of asthma) by more than 90 % since 1970, says air quality expert Joel Schwartz, even as coal use tripled.

The latest International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report also highlights King Coal's surge and says that our failure to limit climate pollution has been giving coal the upper hCoal's surge and says that our failure to limit climate pollution has been giving coal the upper hcoal the upper hand:

The Shindell article is consistent with what I was saying in the first place, namely that all those coal fired power plants can give a short term negative forcing until the Chinese get tired of the pollution.

The ad said that according to the U.S. Department of Energy, «new coal - based power plants built beginning in about 2020 may well use technologies that are so advanced that they'll be virtually pollution - free.»

An analysis by Michael Shellenberger, president of an independent group called Environmental Progress, says that V.C. Summer reactors would reduce coal generation in South Carolina by 86 percent, an amount of coal that produces pollution equivalent to 3.8 million cars.

As urbanization progresses, vehicle ownership increases and overall coal consumption continues to rise, «the government must implement strict air pollution control measures» to protect people's health and the environment, the newspaper cited the ministry as saying.

The coal revival, they say, has alarming implications for air pollution and Japan's ability to meet its pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions, which account for 4 % of the world's total.

And all the children and tuna that normally get their mercury from coal pollution will be saying what a bargain the Clean Air Act has turned out to be.