These resources are a potential win for America's politicians too — allowing them to reduce dependence on foreign oil-producing countries while cutting carbon emissions from dirty coal.
"The Midwestern states had never, until then, admitted that their emissions from dirty, coal-fired power plants were causing the pollution and health problems that we experienced in New Jersey, New York and New England," Mr. Sullivan said.
The Trump administration just announced plans to repeal the Clean Power Plan, the landmark policy designed to reduce carbon emissions from dirty power plants and put our country on track to addressing climate change.
I wrote previously on the greenhouse gas emissions from dirty palm oil and since that time of writing in October 2013, many corporations have made pledges to use only sustainable palm oil.
The pollution is a combination of dirty emissions produced in the states themselves and contaminants that float in on air coming from the Midwest and central Canada.
The state-of-the-art euro1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) plant boasts the world's biggest boiler, which will combine with the biggest-ever generator to produce up to 1,000MW of electricity, enough for 4.7m people at the same time raising the efficiency of extracting energy from lignite to 43%, cutting carbon emissions from the dirty fuel by almost one-third.E.ON's response?
This is much like the way in which rich countries in the West have long turned to China to produce cheap goods, thereby outsourcing dirty emissions.
Sure, coal does its worst over the long term: The dirty emissions coal plants pump out cause respiratory illness, asthma, even cancer, and they're the leading cause of climate change.
Life gets better, cleaner, healthier, and more efficient as we embrace a clean energy future, work to eliminate dirty emissions, and put people -- not fossil fuels -- at the center of our economies.
The government is working hard to reduce it – tightening auto-emissions standards, closing dirty factories – and the official count of "blue sky days" is rising.
