How To Use Coal-burning In A Sentence
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Here we did everything but lift up the old-fashioned coal-burning Aga cooker, which must have weighed a couple of tons at least.
A CONVICTION OF GUILT
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In December, KFTC and several ally organizations were successful in persuading a rural electric co-op to abandon its plans to build a coal-burning power plant and create a collaborative process to examine and recommend affordable clean energy solutions, including energy efficiency, wind, solar and hydro power.
Jeff Biggers: Roadmaps to New Power: Appalachian Transition Initiative Leads Coalfields into New Year--and New Era
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Encouraged by calls from former Vice President Al Gore and leading climate scientist James Hansen for civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal-fired power plants, thousands of individuals from across the United States converged on Washington, DC, on March 2, 2009, to protest the coal-burning Capitol Power Plant and to urge Congress to pass legislation to reduce carbon emissions.
Earth Policy Institute: The End of an Era — Closing the Door on Building New Coal-fired Power Plants in America
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These appliances include space heaters, gas ranges and ovens, furnaces, gas water heaters, gas clothes dryers, wood or coal-burning stoves, and fireplaces.
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They are immediately downwind of coal-burning electric plants in the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, and their high elevation makes them extremely susceptible to sulfates and nitrates moving through the atmosphere.
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Mercury is spewed into the air from coal-burning plants and facilities that incinerate medical waste.
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A terawatt is 1 billion watts, a quantity of energy that would otherwise require more than 500 nuclear reactors or thousands of coal-burning plants.
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They are immediately downwind of coal-burning electric plants in the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, and their high elevation makes them extremely susceptible to sulfates and nitrates moving through the atmosphere.
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Here we did everything but lift up the old-fashioned coal-burning Aga cooker, which must have weighed a couple of tons at least.
A CONVICTION OF GUILT
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Although nuclear energy power generation compared to coal-burning generating cost low 1/10, but the degree of hazard is big, the request condition is limited.
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Just as Mercury from our coal-burning plants has entered our food chain through ariel deposits onto the waters, so too plastics and all the chemicals that make them and adhere to them are entering our food chain as they are consumed by ocean life.
Lisa Kaas Boyle: Did You Just Eat a Plastic Bag? How Plastic Pollution Has Entered Our Food Chain
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While less polluting than many coal-burning power plants, the presence of such factories in China's densely populated cities has become a hot-button issue for educated Chinese.
China closes chemical plant targeted by protesters
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Proposals for a worldwide carbon tax and the phasing out of coal-burning generators appear to have been ruled out.
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Just as Mercury from our coal-burning plants has entered our food chain through ariel deposits onto the waters, so too plastics and all the chemicals that make them and adhere to them are entering our food chain as they are consumed by ocean life.
Lisa Kaas Boyle: Did You Just Eat a Plastic Bag? How Plastic Pollution Has Entered Our Food Chain
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Just as the name "Carbonari" was adopted from the charcoal-burners, so also in their secret intercourse they made use of many expressions taken from the occupation of charcoal-burning.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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All I remember in the air in 1977 was smog from all the coal-burning chimneys.
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Third, as individuals and as a society we are making long-term decisions today that will determine how much carbon dioxide we will emit in the future, such as whether to purchase energy efficient vehicles and appliances that will last for 10-20 years, or whether to build more coal-burning power plants that last for 50 years rather than investing more in energy efficiency and renewable energy.
Science
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As an example, only 27 percent of the people polled knew that coal-burning was the primary source of electricity in the United States; 40 percent thought that hydropower is the major source.
Bill Chameides: The Sorry State of Environmental Journalism
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As London grew from a rambling town into a crowded urban center, its city air grew ever more foul with smoke and unhealthy sulfur dioxide gases from wood-burning and coal-burning stoves.
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HOMER CITY, Pa. — The federal government on Thursday sued several companies over a coal-burning electricity generating plant, calling it "one of the largest air pollution sources in the nation" and asking the court to keep it from operating unless it meets Clean Air Act standards.
Feds Sue Coal Plant For Unlawful Pollution
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As reported by Environmental News Services, a new survey of voters conducted in the first week of September 2011 by Hart Research Associates and GS Strategy Group reveals that "by a wide margin, voters of both political parties and in all regions of the United States disagree with Congress' anti-Environmental Protection Agency agenda and support the EPA's new rules to limit air pollution from coal-burning power plants.
Wendy Gordon: Congress Attacks Breathtaking
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According to Hugh Murray, in his biography Dr Evelyn's York, he left London shrouded in ‘a pea soup fog, characteristic of the capital city with its myriads of sulphureous and coal-burning fires.’
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Most methods being studied to "clean" coal fall under the loose heading of "carbon capture and storage," or CCS, which involves stripping the CO2 out of the coal-burning or coal-gasifying process and piping it deep underground.
A Clean Coal Confrontation
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They centered around the tiled brasero, or hearth, where charcoal-burning stoves were set into long or horseshoe-shaped counters.
Mexican cocinas: the colonial kitchen
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Accordingly, this office recommends a new corporate strategy: Whatever Mr. Obama says, GE should do the opposite, starting with investing in coal-burning power-plants and health care reprivatization.
What GE Was Thinking in 2011
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An amendment sponsored by Rep. David McKinley, R-WV, blocks the EPA from preventing coal-burning utilities from dumping certain types of toxic slurry into rivers and streams.
Peter Lehner: A Republican Rampage
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According to Hugh Murray, in his biography Dr Evelyn's York, he left London shrouded in ‘a pea soup fog, characteristic of the capital city with its myriads of sulphureous and coal-burning fires.’
