Sentences with phrase «stop coal fired power plants»

But your comment does highlight an important point: it isn't enough to stop coal fired power plants if you don't at the same time stop the coal mines.

Need to stop coal fired power plants.

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(Reuters)- A North Carolina judge ruled on Thursday that Duke Energy Corp must immediately stop the sources of groundwater pollution at its 14 coal - fired power plants in the state.

Greenpeace's goal in India is to stop all new coal - fired power plants because the resulting carbon emissions would contribute to global warming, even though scientists caution that renewable energy has not yet matured enough to supplant future coal - fired generation.

Europe's pollution laws will stop most old - style coal - fired power plants operating at full power next century.

Whether it's turning off a light when leaving a room or building windmills to replace coal - fired power plants, stopping global warming could be a matter of survival.

«If we can not stop the building of more coal - fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains — no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.»

For example, if we stop building new coal - fired power plants without CCS, and if we quickly develop CCS technology, we can help the entire world avoid generating huge amounts of emissions from coal.

We are not going to get the inertia of combined Asia, India, Europe, UK, USA, Arabia, Africa and Australia to stop commissioning a 500MW coal fired power plant every three days for the foreseeable future.

Among their suggestions were the following: expand conservation tillage to 100 percent of cropland, stop all deforestation, drive two billion cars on ethanol, increase wind power 80-fold to make hydrogen for cars, replace 1,400 large coal - fired power plants with gas - fired ones, and cut electricity use in buildings by 25 percent.

They all came to say that they and their families deserve clean water, and that they would like the EPA to stop allowing pollutants from coal fired power plants to flow into the waters near where they fish, swim and live.

According to McConnell, he feels a «deep responsibility» to stop the EPA from regulating carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants, as it plans to do in January.

While testifying in front of the Iowa Utilities Board, Hansen said, «If we can not stop the building of more coal - fired power plants, those coal trains will be death trains — no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species.»

EPA's Clean Power Plan assumes shutting down U.S. coal - fired power plants will stop climate change, even if China, India, and other countries build thousands of new coal - fueled generators over the next 20 yPower Plan assumes shutting down U.S. coal - fired power plants will stop climate change, even if China, India, and other countries build thousands of new coal - fueled generators over the next 20 ypower plants will stop climate change, even if China, India, and other countries build thousands of new coal - fueled generators over the next 20 years.

It also said that it has stopped financing greenfield thermal coal mining or new coal - fired power plant construction and will continue to lower its exposure to fossil fuels.

By doing so we not only effectively rein in coal - fired power plant pollution, we also stop export plans before they even start.

Far easier to get some progress on cleaning up residential biomass, residential coal, «back yard» coal industries in China, India and elsewhere, than to stop China and India from building more coal fired power plants when they need more power to provide jobs, industry, and taxes.

Meanwhile, the Sierra Club and WWF America lobbies against energy development in Africa, an American foundation with ties to Hilary Clinton funds serial, frivolous legal actions against an Indian power company in Australian courts and the World Bank is in a «race against time to stop construction of new coal - fired power plants across the globe».

In addition to calling on high income countries to stop building new, unabated coal - fired power plants immediately and accelerate the retirement of their existing plants, the report also calls on middle income countries to limit new coal - fired power plants and begin retiring their existing fleet by 2025.

Stop us if you've heard this one before: massively subsidised, unreliable and intermittent wind power undercuts reliable coal - fired power plants; some of those plants close; power prices rocket; and grid managers suffer conniptions as they -LSB-...]

Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute, repeated the widely - held opinion that there is no way China will stop building coal - fired power plants, so the technology «had better work or we're in such a big mess we're not going to get out of it.»

Let's say we shut down and decommissioned coal mines and coal - fired power plants, stopped new offshore drilling for oil and gas plus the development of shale oil and gas, moved away from nuclear power as too risky, spent trillions to subsidize non-viable windmills and solar panels to squeak by in avoiding a total blackout by imposing exorbitant taxes on energy in order to force people to cut back its use.

Specifically, McConnell said that he plans to go after the agency's plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plants, saying he feels a «deep responsibility» to stop it from being implemented — a plan also known as the absolute worst - case scenario for U.S. climate action.

Event organizers Stop Cliffside have declared to protest a success: Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers has publicly said that all of Duke's coal power plants will be shut down by 2050, but considering that many climate change scientists consider shutting down coal - fired power plants to be the single greatest thing that can be done to curb emissions, Rogers» promises have been received with little fanfare.