Word: coal
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...Poland, eight poorer Eastern European countries quietly but firmly said the emission cutting plans were too expensive. The eight are heavily reliant on coal and argue that they have achieved "the vast majority" of the E.U.'s CO2 reductions by shutting down heavily polluting old industrial plants in the 1990s...
Indoor air pollution poses an exceptionally high risk in China, where more than 70 percent of households use solid fuels such as wood, biomass, and coal for heating and cooking. China, where over half of all men smoke, is also a leading market both for world tobacco production and for cigarette consumption...
...company commits less that 0.2 percent of its assets per year to environmental sustainability, while spending nearly 100 times as much money on “dirty energy.” “Bank of America is guilty of being one of the biggest funders of the coal industry,” said Alysha Suley, a representative from Rising Tide Boston. “In the Appalachian mountains, these coal companies are contaminating the water supplies in mountain communities, filling them with all kinds of carcinogens and toxic waste.” While protesters decried Bank of America...
There are five key components to Exelon’s plan: enact mandatory climate legislation in the form of a cap and trade policy very soon, enhance energy efficiency, encourage renewables with tax credits, fund research and development in coal and carbon recapture, and stay true to competitive markets...
...particular, Rowe said he strongly favored expansion of nuclear and energy efficiency technologies berating other utility companies’ unrelenting commitment to coal as “low-class...