Collectively, a total of 2,011 megawatts (MW) of coal - fired power will retire as part of the settlement, removing almost 12 million tons of climate - disrupting carbon pollution and nearly 84,000
tons of sulfur dioxide pollution that the three coal - fired power plants spew into the air each year.
An estimated 20 million
tons of sulfur dioxide were let loose into the stratosphere, where they turned into droplets of sulfuric acid that scattered the sun's light.
In 1783, another Icelandic volcano, Laki, erupted and kept spitting out ash and 120
tons of sulfur dioxide (equal to 3 times the annual industrial output of Europe) and 8 million tons of hydrogen fluoride.
300,000
Tons of Sulfur Dioxide In the southwest city of Yatağan, a coal - fired power plant has spewed more than 300,000
tons of sulfur dioxide into the air since it opened in 1982.
In 2016 alone, ENERGY STAR helped Americans save approximately 400 billion kWh of electricity with associated emission reductions of 320 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, 300,000 short
tons of sulfur dioxide, 220,000 short tons of nitrogen oxides, and 23,000 short tons of fine particulate matter (PM2.5).
The idea gained momentum recently when over 1,000,000
tons of sulfur dioxide was released into the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.
Better air quality: If the same amount of electricity as that generated by America's 10,000 - MW wind turbine fleet were instead produced using the average utility fuel mix, it would emit 73,000
tons of sulfur dioxide and 27,000 tons of nitrogen oxide per year, as well as other pollutants such as mercury.
That Ludlum-esque moniker derives from the 1991 volcanic eruption that spewed 20 million
tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, blocking out a fraction of the sun's rays and cooling the planet by 1 degree Fahrenheit.
An analysis of emissions prepared for the lawsuit shows that the three plants emit nearly 200,000
tons of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide every year.
Re the Chaiten eruption, from what I've read, a volcano needs to emit at least 1 million
tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to have an effect on global temperature.
How about 290
tons of sulfur dioxide?
The researchers estimate that, over tens of thousands of years, the floods put out between 242 and 305 billion
tons of sulfur dioxide.
Re the Chaiten eruption, from what I've read, a volcano needs to emit at least 1 million
tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to have an effect on global temperature.
Carn and his team found that each year volcanoes collectively emit 20 to 25 million
tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere.
The researchers say that the first of the two NJDEP's petitions shows that the 30,465
tons of sulfur dioxide emitted by the plant in 2009 was more than double the sulfur dioxide emissions from all power - generating facilities in New Jersey combined.
It ejected about 20 million
tons of sulfur dioxide, Robock said.
Pinatubo also threw 20 million
tons of sulfur dioxide into the air, which scientists say was a result of volcanic rock soaking up excess sulfur and other elements underground prior to the actual eruption.
For example, in 1991 the volcano Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines spewed 20 million
tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, which spans altitudes from 10 to 50 kilometers.
If engineers were to spray about 10 million metric
tons of sulfur dioxide droplets into the stratosphere each year between 2020 and 2070, the number of storm surge inundations produced by large hurricanes each year after 2070 drops by about half, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
It also emitted 33,400
tons of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, which are linked to asthma attacks and other respiratory problems.
Its coke facility emitted another 1,900
tons of sulfur dioxide and 500 tons of particulates.
The Dynegy Midwest Generation plant, a coal - burning power plant, had nearly 10,000
tons of sulfur dioxide emissions in 2010.
The ConocoPhillips Wood River refinery also released nearly 5,000
tons of sulfur dioxide, 4,000 tons of nitrogen oxides and 2,000 tons of volatile organic matter, according to data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
For
each ton of sulfur dioxide pollution, or SOx, the health damage ranges from $ 6,000 to $ 50,000 per ton, with a median rate of $ 19,000.
Not exact matches
South
of East St. Louis, the industrial plants in Sauget release hundreds
of tons of volatile organic matter,
sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides each year.
Scientists estimate that one - third
of the world's acid rain falls near the coasts, carrying some 100 million
tons of nitrogen oxide, ammonia, and
sulfur dioxide into the ocean each year.
The average drop in global temperatures after Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines blew its top in 1991, spewing 20 million
tons of sun - blocking
sulfur dioxide.
In addition to millions
of tons of ash, the force
of the eruption threw 55 million
tons of sulfur -
dioxide gas more than twenty miles into the air, into the stratosphere.
There, the
sulfur dioxide rapidly combined with readily available hydroxide gas — which, in liquid form, is commonly known as hydrogen peroxide — to form more than 100 million
tons of sulfuric acid.
Norilsk factories also emit 2 million
tons of acid rain — causing
sulfur dioxide per year, roughly 1 percent
of all that is emitted worldwide.
An analysis
of 27 states found that, on average, summer emissions
of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and carbon
dioxide (CO2) go up by hundreds to thousands
of metric
tons per degree Celsius increase.
The Chicxulub impact spewed about 325 billion
tons of sulfur and 425 billion
tons of carbon
dioxide into the air, researchers report October 31 in Geophysical Research Letters.
In fact, however, total emissions
of sulfur dioxide were slightly lower in 1970 (15.8 million
tons) than in 1980, and total emissions
of nitrogen oxides were much lower (3.9 million
tons).
I criticized this statement, noting that the actual emissions from U.S. coal - burning power plants declined only from 16.1 million
tons to 12.4 million
tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case
of sulfur dioxide and from 6.1 million
tons to 5.4 million
tons between 1980 and 1998 in the case
of nitrogen oxides (mostly emitted as NO, not NO2, but by convention measured as
tons of NO2 - equivalent).
It has also prevented more than 73
tons of carbon
dioxide, 54 pounds
of nitrogen oxide, 136 pounds
of sulfur dioxide, and 700 milligrams
of mercury from being released into the air.
By studying the climate's response to the 1991 eruption
of the Mount Pinatubo volcano he estimated that we could counteract even a doubling
of the amount
of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere if we could put 5 million
tons of sunlight - blocking
sulfur in the stratosphere every year.
Heating systems in the United States spew over a billion
tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year and about 12 %
of the nation's
sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
Each day almost 50,000
tons of unpleasant, and sometimes poisonous,
sulfur dioxide are added to the atmosphere, and our automobiles produce almost 300,000
tons of other pollutants.
The project will provide enough energy to power 4,500 Long Island home and abate 30,000
tons of carbon
dioxide as well as
sulfur and nitrogen
dioxide emis
They built models showing what would happen if they were to inject
sulfur dioxide into the lower stratosphere above either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, at a rate
of 5 million metric
tons per year.
The Environmental Protection Agency plan would clear the air in the Big Sky State
of about 15,000
tons annually
of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
Alternet recently covered the subject, discussing an Archer Midland Daniels plant's effect on the environment: «A single ADM corn processing plant in Clinton, Iowa generated nearly 20,000
tons of pollutants including
sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and volatile organic compounds in 2004, according to federal records.