Showing posts with label IV Coal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IV Coal. Show all posts
Monday, April 8, 2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
India. What they found ... Coal's True Cost in India: 100000+ Deaths per Year. Energy Collective
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They
note that while there have been comprehensive investigations in the
United States and parts of Europe into the health impacts of particulate
air pollution attributed to coal power plants, similar data is hard to come by in India. What they found ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Coal plants kill 120000 people a year: Greenpeace
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India's
breakneck pace of industrialisation is causing a public health crisis
with 80-120,000 premature deaths and 20 million new asthma cases a year
due to air pollution from coal power plants, a Greenpeace report warns.
The first study of the health impact ...
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
US utilities seen burning more coal as prices decline. Reuters
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Energy traders however noted many coal plants
remain more expensive than gas units by about 25 to 50 cents per mmBtu
because gas plants are about 25 percent more efficient than coal plants, and it costs about $1 per mmBtu to transport coal from the ...
Friday, March 1, 2013
Way too little... Sierra Club Says 142 U.S. Coal-Fired Plants During Drive. Bloomberg
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With the agreement announced by American Electric Power Co. this week that it will shut three of its coal plants, the Sierra Club said its Beyond Coal campaign is more than halfway towards its goal of retiring 30 percent of the U.S.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Too slow to matter - Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Fall in U.S. Power Plants on Coal Cuts. Bloomberg
| Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Fall in U.S. Power Plants on Coal Cuts Bloomberg Greenhouse-gas emissions from U.S. power plants fell 4.5 percent in 2011 from the previous year as those facilities burned less coal, the most-intense source of carbon-dioxide pollution. In its second-annual accounting of greenhouse-gases, the U.S. ... See all stories on this topic » | |
| German Electricity for 2014 Advances as Carbon Emissions Recover Bloomberg Baseload German 2014 electricity, for supplies delivered around the clock, increased as much as 0.6 percent. Carbon permits gained as much as 5.1 percent on the ICE Futures Europe exchange in London after falling 6.7 percent. Power can track emissions, ... See all stories on this topic » | |
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China now burning as much coal as the rest of the world combined. Washington Post
China now burning as much coal as the rest of the world combined
Washington Post (blog)
Coal, of course, is the world's premier fossil fuel, a low-cost source of electricity that kicks a lot of carbon-dioxide up into the atmosphere. And China's growing appetite is a big reason why global greenhouse-gas emissions have soared in recent ...
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Washington Post (blog)
Coal, of course, is the world's premier fossil fuel, a low-cost source of electricity that kicks a lot of carbon-dioxide up into the atmosphere. And China's growing appetite is a big reason why global greenhouse-gas emissions have soared in recent ...
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
A Cleaner Way to Use Coal Kevin Bullis. MIT Technology Review
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In ordinary coal plants, coal is pulverized to make a fine powder and then burned in air to produce steam to drive turbines.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
US Moves Toward Near-Zero Emission Coal-Fired Power Plant. Yahoo
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The
U.S. Department of Energy announced this week that Phase II of an
agreement with FutureGen Industrial Alliance has begun, taking the
country one step closer to making commercial-scale carbon capture and
storage technology -- and dramatically ...
Minnesota Power to convert coal plant to gas. Duluth News Tribune
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Minnesota Power announced Wednesday it will convert its coal-fired power plant in Hoyt Lakes to natural gas and close one of three coal units at its Taconite Harbor plant on the North Shore as the utility continues a move away from carbon dioxode ...
US power plant emissions drop as coal loses favour. Sydney Morning Herald
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In
its second-annual accounting of greenhouse gases, the US Environmental
Protection Agency today released details of emissions from about 8,000
factories, power plants and refineries. Two Southern Co. coal-fired power facilities topped the list ...
NAACP Releases Coal Blooded Report and Toolkit. Clean Energy News
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Coal Blooded systematically studies 378 coal-fired power plants nationwide and evaluates each plant in terms of its environmental justice performance - how the plant affects low-income communities and communities of color. This same type of analysis is ...
Sunday, January 27, 2013
These 14 fossil-fuel projects could make our climate goals impossible Washington Post
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If
we want to avoid severe global warming, we'll have to stay within a
strict carbon budget in the decades ahead. That won't be easy.
Coal plants top list of mercury emitters
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Environmental Integrity Project officials in their report stated that some coal-burning plants have more work to do on reducing toxins emissions.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Due to Criminal US Apathy: China and Australia top list of 'carbon bomb' projects. Guardian
China and Australia top list of 'carbon bomb' projects.
China and Australia top a global list of
planned oil, gas and coal projects that will act as "carbon bombs" and
push the planet towards catastrophic climate change, a Greenpeace report
warned on Tuesday.
The Guardian
Australian coal mining #2 Threat of Ecocide.
Australian coal mining threatens CO2 target.
The forecast expansion of Australian coal
mining and exports would be the world's second-largest contributor of
new carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels if fully realised,
research by Greenpeace International has found.
Melbourne Age
Friday, January 25, 2013
Coal exporters hit local opposition in the Northwest.
Whether by river or rail, coal exporters hit local opposition in the Northwest.
Rainier town is one of a score of communities
that lie between the Powder River Basin, home to 40 percent of U.S. coal
reserves, and five proposed export terminals in Oregon and Washington.
Kinder Morgan's Port Westward project would send 12 coal-packed trains
per day through here.
ClimateWire
Five US Coal Export Facilities to Asia Proposed.
Coal's 'lifeline to Asia' emerges as new front in global warming fight.
Five proposed export terminals for U.S. coal
offer a lifeline to an industry being squeezed by low natural gas prices
and tougher environmental rules, a combination that has eaten into
domestic demand.
ClimateWire
Friday, January 18, 2013
Coal Export Resistance Solidarity Actions. Wild Idaho Rising
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Coal Export Resistance Solidarity Actionsby WIRT |
In
early May 2012, police arrested 13 concerned British Colombia residents
along with scientists, when they blocked four Wyoming coal export
trains (350.org photo).
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