Sentences with phrase «against coal by»
To read about this inspiring movement see Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal by Ted Nace.
http://www.earthpolicy.org/ Not exact matches
After all, the Federal Liberals had already stepped on the scale to try to support Clark, when, in mid-campaign, they sent out a public letter suggesting they would consider her suggestion of retaliating against the U.S. by slapping counter tariff on American thermal coal.
For instance regulations that are going to cripple the coal industry were voted against by Democrats from coal mining areas, despite their party's significant support for the measure.
This first document from 1977 was written by Nicholas Ridley and explains how they would denationalise the state, subvert the Unions, use the security services of the state against organised Labour, and build up stocks of coal to take on the miners.
Indian coal plants under the CDM received financial backing from the World Bank, sparking an outcry against that organization by groups that argue that the bank's support for the coal industry is inconsistent with its other efforts to tackle climate change.
A study by the World Resources Institute last October showed 51 percent of planned coal - power plants in China were in regions with severe water shortages, potentially pitting energy production against agriculture and basic needs for clean water.
Among priorities in 2011, the government intends to make headway against two diseases that hit China hard: hepatitis B and skeletal fluorosis, which is caused by inhalation of fluorine given off by home coal stoves.
Holmstead was dismissed by a federal judge as an expert witness in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency against Ameren Missouri, a coal burning utility.
For this reason many Modernists of the postwar generation felt that they were the most important bulwark against totalitarianism, the «canary in the coal mine», whose repression by a government or other group with supposed authority represented a warning that individual liberties were being threatened.
For those who have lived in China recently, choking on the world's most notorious coal - produced pollution, the gauze invokes the frail barrier offered by masks against the toxins.
A clear focus is the research center run by the agency's star climatologist, James E. Hansen, who has variously been hailed and attacked for becoming a prominent campaigner against coal and oil use.
by Mark Krebs, Spire Energy, and E&E Legal's Tom Tanton As Appearing in MasterResource «What Secretary Perry has yet to recognize is that the same hostile forces behind the «war against coal» are now focused on eliminating the direct use of natural gas....
As a longtime fighter against the oil and coal interests that bankroll climate skeptics, I am delighted by Desmogblog's posting of the Heartland disinformation documents.
As these alternative ways are competing against a set of products — in essence, two: petrochemical fuels and coal — that are subsidized by being allowed to use up the scarce resource of the carbon cycle's ability to cope with waste CO2E, the Market is not fair, and does not run according to Capitalist precepts, without such a carbon price.
[1] They are up against a formidable array of political, corporate, and cultural forces that is reminiscent of what the miners were up against 90 years ago — with the added threats of global climatic disruption from coal - burning and the devastating assault on the mountains and environment of Appalachia by destructive modern technology.
On June 8, supporters of the March on Blair Mountain against mountaintop removal coal mining rallied outside the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, DC, praising EPA for recent actions while skewering, by name, high - level pro-industry elected officials from Appalachia.
[2] The proposed coal terminal is being opposed by environmental groups, which have filed legal challenges against the county permit approving the project.
«I'd let them stand on their own and compete against coal and natural gas and other sources, and let utilities make real - time market decisions on those types of things as opposed to being propped up by tax incentives and other types of credits that occur, both in the federal level and state level.»
The National Mining Association has argued against limiting mercury emissions by stating (34) «Regulations designed to further reduce mercury emissions must not jeopardize the nation's ability to utilize this domestic strategic energy resource and must not disadvantage any specific coal rank in the marketplace.»
Bonner had been hired by a PR firm, the Hawthorn Group, to lobby against the bill by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.
So CAGW + greenhouse gasses is an invention funded by the oil / nuclear interests who were plotting against coal is it?
Your Keitho tactic is no different than that used by coal companies against the nuclear industry in the 70's and 80's — except rather than being a coal lobbyist, you are a political ideologue.
The Bureau of Land Management has leased to the coal industry 400 million tons of coal on federal land in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, and the administration has defended the decision against a court challenge by environmental groups.
A coalition of groups, including some that were impersonated by coal lobbyists fighting against U.S. climate change legislation, have banded together in search of further evidence of wrongdoing in the ballooning fraudulent letter scandal.
They knew it would be decades until they could harvest olives again, but their field is now covered by the same type of tree that sustained generations — and now marks the power of people against coal.
In some underground mines, by design a portion of the coal is left intact as pillars to protect against surface collapse.
On March 2, 2010 the EPA announced that it had granted a Clean Water Act permit for the Hobet 45 mine in Lincoln County, West Virginia after Hobet Mining LLC, a company owned by Patriot Coal, had agreed to additional «significant protections» against environmental impacts.
Despite Michael Bloomberg's best efforts, and the market economics working against it, coal could still make a small come back, though, especially if Trump rigs the rules of the game in favour of coal by re-writing US domestic power rules and slashing solar tariffs.
With a scrubber in place, a plant using high - sulfur coal can reduce its need to buy and surrender SO2 emissions permits by 90 % or more compared to a plant using the same fuel without a scrubber, making Illinois Basin coal much more competitive, especially against Central Appalachia which previously could rely on its low sulfur content as a competitive advantage.
The lawsuit, filed with with ATP's sister organization, the American Tradition Institute (ATI), argues that the RPS unconstitutionally discriminates against coal power by regulating commerce outside state borders — which makes it tough for utilities to import electricity from out - of - state coal plants.
Lots of Washington voters, primed by years of activist campaigns against oil trains and coal terminals in the Pacific Northwest, were ready for climate action.
Earthjustice is litigating in Ohio against proposals by two major utilities to force customers to prop up eight outdated power plants — seven coal and one nuclear — for the next 15 to 35 years.
Critics will say that some of the market forces acting in favor of gas against coal for EPG are market distortions brought to you by an overeager EPA — that the new air quality standards are unnecessary and if removed will level the playing field back toward coal.
As can be seen, the 58 % - efficient CCGT is already running ahead of a 43 % - efficient lignite plant from a carbon price of $ 40 / t, while by contrast the 45 % - efficient CCGT is still uncompetitive against both 43 % - lignite and 46 % coal even at a price of $ 60 / t.
And it leaves no backstop to protect against moves by a Republican president to prop up the coal industry.
A protest against a coal plant project two years ago in Sompeta in the eastern coastal state of Andhra Pradesh turned violent, with two farmers killed by police and several others wounded.
Holmstead was dismissed by a federal judge as an expert witness in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency against Ameren Missouri, a coal burning utility.
Given all that I've dug up on the origins of the «industry - corrupted skeptic climate scientists» accusation, I'd call it a can't - lose wager if you bet that the «e-mail message circulated at a U.S. climate research lab» which Myanna Lahsen referred to owes its «funded by the oil and coal industry» accusation against skeptic climate scientists to Gelbspan / Ozone Action.
And all this brings increasing recognition by investors that the carbon bubble and stranded assets are serious financial risks, which in turn reinforces the growing power of NGO campaigns against coal and CSG along with their fossil fuel divestment campaign.
The first link in my article takes readers to a prior one where I show how the very same Sheldon Rampton appeared before a US House hearing and regurgitated an accusation phrase against skeptic scientists that was made famous by anti-skeptic book author Ross Gelbspan and the enviro - advocacy group Ozone Action in 1996 - 7 — these people have every appearance of being the epicenter of the accusation that skeptic scientists operate under a coal / oil industry directive to fabricate false assessments in exchange for mega-millions...... an accusation that has no evidence to support it that I can find, and its central piece of evidence is a 1991 coal industry memo that no one is allowed to see in its complete context.
He expressed the sentiment in a media briefing organized by clean energy group RE-AMP, arguing against a proposed coal plant in Marshalltown, Iowa.
In what turned out to be a whirlwind year, our activities ranged from bursting the gigantic balloon of 13 gigatonnes CO2 - equivalent of «hot air», to achieving a major victory against coal power projects in the CDM, to helping local communities negatively affected by CDM projects to be heard at international level.
by Tim Ryan Courthouse News Service WASHINGTON (CN)-- Missing statutory deadlines drew federal complaints Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency both from conservationists and a coal - funded right - wing think tank... In the same court Monday, the EPA was hit with a federal complaint by... the Energy and Environment Legal Institute.
The high efficiency, modular capability and low capital cost reduces cost over conventional nuclear by 30 % making it competitive against gas and coal fired plants.
«At best, you're going to tread water on the carbon issue, and you're probably going to do worse,» said Howard Herzog, a principal research engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-author of «The Future of Coal,» a voluminous study published in March by M.I.T. «It goes against the whole grain of reducing carbon.»
Hundreds of people turned out to support EPA and these safeguards against the toxins spewed out by coal plants — toxins that adversely affect public health.
He railed against a political «war on coal» supposedly waged by President Obama, one Trump claimed was «killing American jobs.»
And while the President lectures us about our sins against the planet, his EPA and other agencies embark on the project to impose penance on us by forcing the closure of coal and other fossil fuel power plants, blocking pipelines, bankrupting the coal mining industry, subsidizing intermittent power sources that can't possibly run a fully operational electrical grid at reasonable cost, and multiplying our cost of electricity by an order of magnitude or so.
Represented Canadian utility in coal supply dispute against its supplier who claimed force majeure based on expropriation by Latin American country
Defense of a leading specialty chemical manufacturer against medical monitoring claims brought by coal workers allegedly exposed to polyacrylamide