Sentences with phrase «school coal power plants»

This is unfortunate, as neither institution makes the distinction between financing old - school coal power plants and CCS projects.

Not exact matches

«If all the coal - burning power plants that are scheduled to be built over the next 25 years are built, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions from those power plants will equal all the emissions from coal burning in all of human history to date,» says John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

«The new study adds to the evidence that closing this coal - burning power plant was beneficial to the health and future well - being of newborns there,» says Perera, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health and professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health.

My first power plant job assignment out of school was at a major coal plant.

In 1983, Graham Allison, then dean of the Kennedy School of Government, and Albert Carnesale, then professor of public policy there, wrote an essay describing the dilemma faced by a utility director weighing whether to build a coal or a nuclear power plant.

Earth scientist Bill Chameides, dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and a former chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, urges the administration to use its Clean Air Act authority to promulgate carbon regulations for existing power plants like it has for new ones: «Doing that will force fuel switching from coal to natural gas.»

They feature an image that is arresting — smoke spewing from a coal plant, a massive power plant behind a school, or the hulking industrial frame of an oil refinery — and a simple question written in plain letters.