Coal Congress IDEA Pollution 
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 12, 2015
While its increased burning of coal was known to exacerbate mercury emissions and air pollution, the MIT-led team estimates that Asia produces more than double the mercury emissions previously estimated. Given the pollution in China and India and increased use of coal, it does make sense. It was higher than we expected.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. As legislation worked its way through Congress, Jenkins’s team provided elected officials, staffers, and stakeholders with a running tally of the possible trade-offs and payoffs in emissions, jobs, and economic growth.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 3, 2009
The basic idea behind ILUC is that biofuels use crops that might otherwise go to traditional uses, such as animal feed. Indirect effects analysis concludes that a new coal-burning power plant will supply the lost electricity, with a huge resulting GHG release. The polluter does not pay. Finally, let’s look at a policy example.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 23, 2013
Four teams of researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom recently were awarded more than $12 million to begin a program of novel research to revolutionize current farming methods by giving crops the ability to thrive without using costly, polluting artificial fertilizers. NSF solely awarded one of the four projects.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 2, 2011
Gasification is emerging as a core technology for the production of chemicals and cleaner power, and refers to a process for converting solid fuels, including coal, biomass, and wastes, into either fuel gas (containing CH 4 and some N 2 usually) or syngas (containing mainly H 2 and CO) for subsequent conversion into fuels and chemicals.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 1, 2011
Our model will give an idea of the big picture savings, and whether there are incentives that can be provided to make sure the savings are captured. For example, are the benefits of fuel cells the same in Washington state, which gets much of its power from hydroelectricity, as in West Virginia, which is dominated by coal?
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 30, 2009
As a result of their findings, published in the 30 October issue of the journal Science , the authors argue that assessments of multigas mitigation policies, as well as any separate efforts to mitigate warming from short-lived pollutants, should include gas-aerosol interactions. —Drew Shindell. —Drew Shindell.
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