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Standing for Clean Energy- Norway Divests from Coal
In the United States, approximately 20 percent of our energy consumption comes from coal. Additionally, most of the coal burning energy is found in industries. Clearly, this statistic needs to be decreased, but how can the United States collectively show big business that we want to move towards clean and sustainable energy sources? Norway sets a precedent and takes a step to stand against coal ...
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Kentucky Plant Emblematic Of Move from Coal to Gas
In the shadow of Paradise Fossil Plant's aging smokestacks, where white steam and carbon dioxide rise into the sky, outdated coal-fired generators are being replaced with one that runs on natural gas. The change in Muhlenberg County, once the nation's top producer of coal, is emblematic of what's been happening across the U.S. as natural gas becomes cheaper and electric utilities try to meet ...
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Tennessee Valley Authority to close 8 coal-powered units in Alabama and Kentucky
The nation's largest public utility is shuttering eight coal-fired boilers at plants in Alabama and Kentucky, and more reductions could be in store over the next few years. The Tennessee Valley Authority relied on coal to generate a majority of its electricity for decades, but at a Thursday board meeting in Oxford, Miss., CEO Bill Johnson said he hopes to reduce coal to just 20 percent of the ...
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Feds, Duke Energy settle on pollution at coal-burning plants
Duke Energy and the Obama Administration are settling a 15-year-old lawsuit over claims that the largest U.S. electric company violated federal clean air laws by modifying coal-fired power generators without required air pollution control equipment, company and administration officials said Thursday. The Charlotte-based energy company would pay a civil penalty of $975,000, shut down one ...
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How The Rice Husk Carbonization Furnace Can Make Waste Into Fuel
Agricultural waste is a big problem in the present day. Among the chief offenders is rice husks. Rice is amongst the most grown crops worldwide, and is a staple of your diet of huge amounts of people. However, growing rice creates plenty of waste. Rice husks would be the leftover aspects of rice plants right after the edible rice has been harvested. Each and every year, a great deal of rice husk ...
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Global decrease in coal burning leads to stalling of CO2 emissions in 2015
In 2015, after three years of slow growth, the growth of global CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel use and from steel and cement production was brought to a standstill. One of the main causes was the 2% global decrease in coal burning and cement production - the largest decrease over the past five decades, apart from recessions. The global decrease in CO2 emissions from coal use was offset by ...
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World coal-fired power plants capacity to grow by 35% in next 10 years
World coal-fired power plant capacity will grow from 1,759,000 MW in 2010 to 2,384,000 MW in 2020. Some 80,000 MW will be replaced. So there will be 705,000 MW of new coal-fired boilers built. The annual new boiler sales will average 70,000 MW. The annual investment will be $140 billion. These are the most recent forecasts in Coal-fired Boilers: World Analysis and Forecast published by the ...
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Lawsuits Seek to Stop Work at Mines in 3 States
Coal industry representatives say lawsuits against mines in three Western states could have consequences across the U.S. as environmentalists seek changes in how mining is approved on federally owned reserves. In civil cases unfolding in Colorado, New Mexico and Montana, the group WildEarth Guardians asserts coal companies benefited from lax oversight by federal regulators. The group says the ...
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NRDC Light Bulb Guide Updated in Time for Sunday’s Start of “Lighting Season”
Just in time for Sunday’s ritual changing of the clocks to prepare for shorter days, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today released an updated Light Bulb Buying Guide to help consumers choose their best options for saving money and energy. Sunday marks the end of Daylight Savings Time as we “fall back” one hour into Standard Time in preparation for the gradual ...
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Wyoming top in CO2 per person amid new regulations
Turns out the worst state for carbon dioxide emissions per person isn't smoggy California or bustling New York, but a place famous for its big, clear skies: Wyoming. But regulating greenhouse gases is a touchy subject in the least-populated state, which just recently received U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approval to do so. Wyoming also is the top coal-mining state by far, producing ...
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China’s carbon count is not as high as feared
Calculations on how much carbon dioxide China produces have been wrong for more than 10 years because the official bodies that calculate it have assumed the country’s power stations burn high-quality coal. In fact, the world’s biggest polluter uses coal with a lower carbon content than power stations in Europe and the US, and so produces less carbon dioxide per tonne − around ...
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Coal pollution costs Western Balkans dear
One dollar in three earned by the economy of Serbia is accounted for by those of its citizens who die early because of the country’s soaring air pollution. The finding, by the World Health Organisation (WHO), is contained in a report published by a campaign group thatargues for an end to coal-burning throughout Europe by 2040 to protect health and to reduce the carbon emissions that drive ...
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Beijing says pollution lessened in 2015 despite smog alerts
Environmental authorities in Beijing say the Chinese capital's air quality in 2015 was better than the year before despite the city's first two red alerts for pollution late in the year. China has been setting national and local targets to reduce its notorious air pollution as citizens have become increasingly aware of the health dangers. Beijing's municipal government has been replacing ...
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Energy Bill Caught Up in Keystone XL Dispute
Days after President Barack Obama touted executive actions aimed at increasing energy efficiency, a bill with similar goals is expected to fall victim to partisan gridlock in the Senate. A bipartisan bill to promote many of the same efficiency goals Obama touted Friday in California is expected to go down in defeat Monday amid a dispute over the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Co-sponsored by Sens. ...
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What Actually Is Fly Ash?
Worldwide, fly ash is produced in hard coal-fired power plants during the generation of electricity by burning hard coal. Dry fly ash is a cementitious material and is often used as a binder in the concrete industry. In the production of concrete and cement, fly ash offers material advantages as well as a reduction in the amount of CO2. ...
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Coal’s health bill reaches €43 billion a year
The health costs of coal-fired power stations add a financial burden to the European population of up to €42.8 billion a year. The assessment is published today in a major new report from the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) (1). The report, entitled ‘The unpaid health bill: How coal power plants make us sick’ (2), provides the first-ever calculation of the effects of ...
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New York governor encourages unique clean coal plant
New York Governor David Paterson Tuesday announced that the state would offer up to US$6 million in financial support for construction of a coal-fired power demonstration plant in Jamestown that will be the first of its kind in the world. The Jamestown coal plant would burn coal in pure oxygen instead of air. This process leaves water and the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, CO2, which can be ...
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Temporary rebound expected for coal mining in 2014
The U.S. coal mining industry will see a modest and short-lived rebound in 2014, driven by more production in Western states after two successive years of declines, according to a government forecast released Tuesday. The Energy Information Administration projected a 36 million ton increase in coal production for the year, to 1.04 billion tons. That's up 3.6 percent from 2013 figures. Low ...
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Coal continues to give way to alternative fuels in powering University of Missouri campus
Tom Hellauer reports in The Missourian on the continuing trend toward wood and natural gas and away from coal as fuel for the University of Missouri (MU) Power Plant. The University of Missouri is a member of the International District Energy Association (IDEA). The MU Power Plant continues to throttle back on its use of coal in the face of stiffening environmental regulations and the ...
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Hybrid system could cut coal-plant emissions in half
Original story at MIT News Most of the world’s nations have agreed to make substantial reductions in their greenhouse gas emissions, but achieving these goals is still a considerable technological, economic, and political challenge. The International Energy Agency has projected that, even with the new agreements in place, global coal-fired power generation will increase over the next few ...
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