Sentences with phrase «american coal country»

The presumptive Republican nominee has claimed he will revive mining jobs and boost heavy industry in this downtrodden slice of American coal country.

Not exact matches

One silver lining: recent data shows that Americans who live in coal country, like the Appalachian region, aren't resting on their laurels.

An article in Scientific American last year titled «Inside a Western Town That Refuses to Quit Coal» said the plant emits nearly 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, earning a spot among the top 20 carbon - producing power plants in the country.

But at the time the newspapers were full of reports from Mr. Palmer's office that new evidence of a gigantic plot against the safety of the country had been unearthed; and although the steel strike was failing, the coal strike was failing, and any danger of a socialist régime, to say nothing of a revolution, was daily fading, nevertheless to the great mass of the American people the Bolshevist bogey became more terrifying than ever.

Eternal thanks to The Clean Coal Carolers from The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity for creating this grand Christmas tradition that will warm hearts across the country.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

The American Lung Association supports more stringent controls on air emissions from electricity production, and in particular the phase out on coal - fired generation to enable electric vehicles used across the country to contribute to overall reductions in air emissions.

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, on the other hand, said that Obama's plans are «threatening to tip our country over the edge» economically.

Because of reporting on Clinton's (non) gaffe on coal and her (campaign's) reaction to it, few Americans — and few in coal country ---LSB-...]

EIA also reports that U.S. coal production will continue to decline for the remainder of the Obama administration, a fact that offers little hope to the hardworking Americans in coal country who depend on this affordable and reliable energy resource for jobs.»

When the Clean Air Act was passed decades ago, coal plants received special treatment that effectively exempted them from controlling their pollution and safely disposing of their waste, a gift that has allowed them to keep operating and profiting at the expense of Americans around the country who are getting sick and dying prematurely from exposure to coal plant pollution.

WASHINGTON — Ten moderate Senate Democrats from states dependent on coal and manufacturing sent a letter to President Obama on Thursday saying they would not support any climate change bill that did not protect American industries from competition from countries that did not impose similar restraints on climate - altering gases.

The Center for American Progress recently released a report showing that the country's biggest coal companies have spent only a fraction of their multibillion - dollar profits developing technologies to curb carbon emissions from coal - fired power plants.

«The administration is gambling with the livelihoods of hardworking Americans and is threatening to tip our country over the edge in costly and unreliable energy policies,» said Laura Sheehan, senior vice president of communications for American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, in a statement.

American coal companies badly want to export coal from the country's most productive mines in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana, but there is no way to send the coal out.

In December 2011 Kentucky Power, owned by American Electric Power (AEP), one of the country's largest electric holding companies, requested approval for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) and associated cost recovery to invest approximately $ 950 million on environmental compliance measures at its Big Sandy Unit 2, an 800 MW coal unit approximately 40 years old.

The lobbying campaign was initiated by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), whose membership includes electric utilities such as Southern Company and American Electric Power, two of largest air - borne mercury polluters in the country.

In 2008, ABEC morphed into the «American Coalition of Clean Coal Electricity» (ACCCE) that mobilized industry supporters across the country before the elections.

These guidelines represent a complete disregard for our country's most vital fuel sources, like American coal.»

Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind 2008 Report (Brussels: 2009), pp. 3, 56; Erik Shuster, Tracking New Coal - Fired Power Plants (Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory, January 2009); «Nuclear Dips in 2008,» World Nuclear News, 29 May 2009; 1 megawatt of installed wind capacity produces enough electricity to supply 300 homes from American Wind Energy Association, «U.S. Wind Energy Installations Reach New Milestone,» press release (Washington, DC: 14 August 2006); number of homes calculated using average U.S. household size from U.S. Census Bureau, «2005 — 2007 American Community Survey 3 - Year Estimates — Data Profile Highlights,» at factfinder.census.gov / servlet / ACSSAFFFacts, viewed 9 April 2009, and population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & Country QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.

China and other developing countries aren't going to stop building coal burning power plants, and their middle classes are going to keep buying cars (bad for their health, too, as they become as fat and lazy as Americans).

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), whose mission is to ensure the reliability of the bulk power system for the continent, finds in its 2017 Long - Term Reliability Assessment, that (contrary to NETL raising potential reliability issues from future coal and nuclear retirements) most regions of the country have sufficient reserve margins through 2022, as new additions more than offset expected retirements.

Represented Canadian utility in coal supply dispute against its supplier who claimed force majeure based on expropriation by Latin American country