Sentences with phrase «smokestack emissions from coal»

Smokestack emissions from coal - fired power plants are the primary source of mercury pollution in the U.S.

A feisty Obama — «We don't have time for a meeting of the flat earth society» — cited a list of projects to address climate change, but the centerpiece is crimping smokestack emissions from coal - fired power plants.

Not exact matches

The findings from that multi-state, multi-partner study, along with other factors, led to the enactment of the Clean Smokestacks Act in 2002, a state law that mandated significant reductions in emissions from coal - fired power plants.

Even ignoring the impacts on forests, harvest and transportation and looking only at the emissions coming from smokestacks, wood releases around 50 % more CO2 per megawatt of electricity generation than coal!

Toxic emissions from the smokestacks — unwittingly called «cloud factories» by local kids — would waft over the sky in Little Village, while coal dust from the plants» stockpile settled onto houses and school grounds.

Global warming emissions from burning coal could be reduced by planting trees and using technology still in development to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks, he said in the report.

At the heart of it all is whether you just consider smokestack emissions — on which basis natural gas is about 50 % cleaner than coal — or include all the emissions from the entire national gas production and distribution process.