Cheap natural gas and environmental regulations are causing utilities to shut down coal-fired power plants.
But even operators of coal-fired power plants understand that this isn't the way of the future.
Even the company's well-meaning initiative to save the world from coal-fired power plants got tossed.
The country keeps adding new capacity: estimates run as high as two coal-fired power plants per week.
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It designs and builds oil refineries, petrochemical plants, liquefied natural gas terminals and boilers for coal-fired power plants.
Concerns about the effect of new coal-fired power plants on the destabilizing climate.
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As small heat-and-power units spread to homes and offices, the inefficiency of dirty coal-fired power plants would be exposed.
Coal-fired power plants are now generating just 36 percent of U.S. electricity, versus 44.6 percent just one year ago.
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Mr. BASKIND: We're talking about coal-fired power plants a lot right now because they emit a lot of carbon dioxide.
That's because they use less electricity and coal-fired power plants are the biggest source of mercury emissions in the air.
Provincial governments will also use the funds to build more efficient heating systems and to reduce pollution from coal-fired power plants.
The administration estimates the savings will be equal to 1.8 billion barrels of oil and shutting down 194 coal-fired power plants.
Figure 2 shows that electricity net generation from coal-fired power plants declined by an estimated 25 percent between 2007 and 2012.
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By reducing the need for coal-fired power plants, China Longyuan also earns carbon credits under the Kyoto protocol on global warming.
The Steel City ranks seventh on the list of most polluted, followed by another metro chock-full of coal-fired power plants: Birmingham, Ala.
Big news that the Tennessee Valley Authority is closing 18 of its oldest and dirtiest boilers at its coal-fired power plants.
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In IGCC, the coal is not burned directly as it is in normal coal-fired power plants, but is converted into synthesis gas.
Solid waste combustion, sewage treatment, stone quarrying, marinas, and oil and coal-fired power plants have air pollution damages larger than their value added.
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The adviser also says that the White House believes that economic conditions, namely the shale gas boom, make regulating coal-fired power plants more feasible.
The U.S. Department of Energy is working with private enterprise to develop the tools to make significant cuts in mercury from coal-fired power plants.
The new data rebut assertions that the United States needs to impose new restrictions on coal-fired power plants and other sources of carbon dioxide emissions.
It also shows the likely impact of proposed coal-fired power plants.
With 700 gigawatts of new coal-fired power plants planned for the next decade, world demand could surge by a third, or 2 billion tons per year.
Coal-fired power plants are a big source of particle pollution.
In June, American Electric Power announced it would have to shutter five coal-fired power plants, at a cost of 600 jobs, in order to comply with new EPA rules.
And 20 years ago, the utility industry, warnings of huge losses from the Clean Air Act, won concessions greatly reducing their obligations to install scrubbers on coal-fired power plants.
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Meanwhile, Governor Romney once supported a cap-and-trade mechanism to control carbon emissions but as the 2008 presidential race neared, he backed off and favored modest penalties for coal-fired power plants.
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Energy derived from natural gas and coal-fired power plants, for example, creates more than 10 times more hazardous waste than the same energy created by a solar panel, according to Mulvaney.
Coal-fired power plants and coal mines are being shuttered at an unprecedented pace mainly because the price of natural gas has dropped so far that it has made coal power uncompetitive.
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