Sentences with phrase «sulfur coal mined»

Faced with a choice between installing expensive pollution - control equipment or switching to low - sulfur coal mined outside Illinois, power companies overwhelmingly chose the latter.

Not exact matches

Times were best when mining wide veins of high - sulfur, bituminous coal close to the surface was cheap and demand was high, and worst once miners had to dig deeper and demand dropped.

Wyoming, with rich reserves of low - sulfur coal near the surface, is the largest coal - producing - state and has the most coal still in the ground at producing mines.

Instead, the company will use high - sulfur coal — mined mostly in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia — and will then pull the sulfur out as part of the CCS process.

(Don't take that as good news, because it has correspondingly lower energy content so you burn more of it as compared to higher carbon coal like Anthracite; Powder River coal is mined largely because of its low sulfur content).

The company mines, processes, and markets bituminous and sub-bituminous coal with low sulfur content in the United States.

They argued that much of the EPA program's apparent success in reducing SO2 emissions from power plants was due to simultaneous railroad deregulation which reduced the cost of delivering low sulfur coal strip - mined in the west.

Coal mining and power production release toxic heavy metals like mercury, respiratory irritants like sulfur dioxide and particulates, and large volumes of heat - trapping gases like carbon dioxide and methane.