Yet, coal and oil fired power plants, the single-largest source of mercury emissions, were never included in the limits until now.
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To tempt countries such as Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, which also has visions of oil-fired prosperity, the Americans have been promoting a rival route for Caspian oil.
Fifty years ago, Japanese electricity was generated by smaller, discrete coal- and oil-fired plants.
Nearly all the unused, and thus available installed capacity that could be ramped up quickly is oil-fired.
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Existing coal- and oil-fired power plants must reduce average emission levels of the least 12% of current plants.
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After a decade of oil-fired growth, GDP will shrink by 8% this year.
Particularly damaging was an EPA rule finalized in February 2012 that created new emissions standards for coal- and oil-fired electric utilities.
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But its fleet of oil-fired power stations will keep going for years.
That change, called the Maximum Achievable Control Technology, or MACT, rule requires that coal- and oil-fired power plants reduce pollutant emission rates significantly.
The 360-tonne oil-fired generator was due to come on line last month but problems were identified while it was tested for 30 days.
The EPA estimates that of the roughly 1, 400 coal-and-oil-fired generators, 60 percent have implemented new technologies while 40 percent, or 600 of them have not.
So long as the oil-fired band keeps playing, most Russian banks are cheerfully sticking to their core competences: asset shuffling, kickback lending, capital flight and money laundering.
Though, to be fair, why not display in plain sight the lungs and other affected organs of those people whose lives have been shortened by coal- and oil-fired plants?
Households with oil-fired central heating, and those using solid fuel or liquid petroleum gas to heat their homes, are much more likely to be in fuel poverty than "on-grid" households.
According to the World Policy Institute, coal-and-oil-fired power plants consume roughly twice the water than that of gas-fired facilities while nuclear generation needs three times that of natural gas.
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That coal- and oil-fired electricity powers our computers, enables the transmission of data between networks and, increasingly supplies the energy to servers that store and process an ever growing mountain of information.
During his time at Unicom predecessor Commonwealth Edison, Rowe changed the course of the company's future to focus on nuclear power instead of dirtier coal and oil-fired plants. (See "Exelon's Carbon Advantage").
For 13 years they have been happy to give carte blanche to Ralph Klein, their rumpled, tough-talking premier, granting his Conservative government four whopping majorities as he led his province from hard times to oil-fired prosperity.
Should the U.S. attempt to buy-off the North Koreans with a package of financial and technical support that ultimately will give them a major nuclear reactor complex -- particularly when oil-fired power-generators make more sense, assuming the stated purpose of generating electricity is really Pyongyang's goal?
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 administration estimates the savings will be equal to 1.8 billion barrels of oil and shutting down 194 coal-fired power plants.
Ironically, given its far greater effort to tackle climate change, the European Union has seen its emissions rise, partly because its higher gas prices (linked to oil) have led to an increase in coal-fired power generation.
They include a new sea port at Hambantota, in the president's constituency in the south, an oil-storage facility, a new airport, a coal-fired power plant and an expressway.
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It designs and builds oil refineries, petrochemical plants, liquefied natural gas terminals and boilers for coal-fired power plants.
The greens may not be able to stop the Canadians from extracting oil from the Alberta tar sands, but they would succeed in wiping out American coal-fired power.
Alberto Quimper, who is a board member of the state energy agency, PeruPetro, and who has responsibilities for overall regulation and licensing of the oil and gas industries as well as negotiating contracts with private companies for exploration and production was fired.
There have been reports that when North Korea test-fired a missile into the sea towards Japan last month, China briefly shut off its supply of oil to the country.
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