Sentences with phrase «by coal industry»

People attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week are the target of a $ 2 million advertising and PR blitz by a coal industry - funded front group called the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) whose goal is to sell the idea that coal is somehow clean.

The $ 35 million «clean coal» campaign, spearheaded by a coal industry front group called American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (formerly known as Americans for BalancedEnergy Choices), is nothing less than a nationwide effort to paint coal white.

Accounting for all the delay, Holmstead's interference has blocked serious reductions in power plant mercury pollution for eight years, assuming no further delays by the coal industry.

Coal ash is claimed to be pretty safe by the coal industry, but it still contains some pretty nasty stuff.

CCS has been championed by the coal industry as a get - out - of - jail - free card, meaning that we can keep burning coal and battle climate change.

While most college students spend their spring break hungover on the beaches of Cancun, West Virginia University student Ivan Stiefel took a different route: He founded West Virginia Mountain Justice Spring Break (MJSB), an organization of students that spend their vacation week working toward environmental change and social justice for Appalachian communities harmed by the coal industry.

Also, at one point, Phillip Foster, an English minister who seemed to be the event organiser, suggested they say they aren't funded by the coal industry.

«Litigation Seeking Climate Scientists» Emails for «Transparency» Has Been Secretly Paid for by the Coal Industry,» Climate Law Blog, September 9, 2015.

In and around Cottbus, an industrial town about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Atterwasch, thousands of people are employed by the coal industry.

However, experts in industry and environmental groups say that won't be enough, and the situation can provide insight into challenges faced by the coal industry in Ohio and other Midwest states.

«Attorney Hounding Climate Scientists Is Covertly Funded By Coal Industry,» The Intercept, August 25, 2015.

Yet our country has continually improved public health and environmental protections without the economic disasters hyped by the coal industry.

ExxonMobil has become a major funder of the most visible «greenhouse skeptics», most of whom who have traditionally been funded by the coal industry — including S. Fred Singer, Patrick Michaels, Robert Balling and Sherwood Idso.

The origins of truth spinning by the coal industry dates back to the birth of public relations in the first part of the twentieth century.

For myself (as an example) I decided that the best I could do, under the circumstances, is to continue to try to dispel the myths about wind power and contrast it to the proven harm done by the coal industry.

This dwarfed the public support for research and demonstration projects for low emissions coal technologies being conducted by the CSIRO and other research bodies (and matched by the coal industry).

The Last Mountain, a scathing documentary about mountaintop removal mining, details the many injustices bestowed by the coal industry upon the very people it claims to support.

The Obama administration on Thursday offered nearly $ 66 million to boost communities battered by the coal industry's downturn and a string of recent mining bankruptcies.

Synapse's work related to coal power also includes evaluating coal plant emissions, markets for domestic coal, subsidies received by the coal industry, and the lifecycle costs and impacts of coal power compared to other energy sources.

The film was produced by a company headed by Idso's wife and funded by the coal industry.

Greens leader Senator Bob Brown's assertion that the floods in Queensland were caused in part by the coal industry is a classic case in point.

The People's Communique comes in contrast to the communique produced by a coal industry conference supported by the Polish government and attended by Christiana Figueres, the UN's highest ranking official on climate change.

Gillard has been bloodied by an ongoing revolt led by the coal industry, and faces an uphill battle to win re-election in 2013.

She seems to have no concern for anything (such as the future of the planet with climate change damage or the huge environmental and health problems caused by the coal industry) other than getting her way;

Ross Gelbspan, as a self - described reporter who was angered by the discovery of skeptic climate scientists being «paid sort of under the table by the coal industry» to spread «false information,» has had entire second career promoting the idea that we could be making better headway in stopping man - caused global warming it it weren't for the industry funded coordinated misinformation campaign.

I was fortunate enough to find out that these greenhouse skeptics were getting paid sort of under the table by the coal industry.

The World Coal Association welcomes the publication of the report «An International Commitment to CCS: Policies and Incentives to Enable a Low - Carbon Energy Future» by the Coal Industry Advisory...

The film lays out in disturbing detail the damage caused by the coal industry to Appalachia over the past decades: a million acres of forest destroyed, 2,000 miles of streams buried and 300 million gallons of toxic sludge spilled.

It's the attorney, not the climate scientists, that's funded by the coal industry.

Keep Fighting: The Last Mountain (A Film Review) The Last Mountain, a scathing documentary about mountaintop removal mining, details the many injustices bestowed by the coal industry upon the very people it claims to support.

The mention of «clean coal» technology repeats rhetoric introduced by the coal industry to describe a host of technologies.

But I found the headline really confusing: I took it to mean «Attorney * Is * Hounding Climate Scientists Covertly Funded By Coal Industry» (sure, why shouldn't he?)

It could have been written by the coal industry.

The source you quoted is very probably sponsored by the coal industry.

Using the so - called «clean - coal», a term created by the coal industry's PR firms, will still leave us with the dirtiest energy source in the nation.

The «gift of liquid fuel» by the coal industry is one of these false promises.

A coup [le of specific questions I have realte to the timing relative to the election and the contemporaneous PR push by the coal industry.

A search of the New York Times archives just pulled up this excellent op - ed piece from 2006 showing that «clean coal» is a misnomer created by the coal industry to greenwash the massive harm inflicted on human beings and the environment by the coal.

It is entirely possible that thousands - even tens of thousands - of workers are indirectly supported entirely by the coal industry.

With financial backing from the Appalachian Regional Commission, Southern Research formed The Prosperity Fund in 2017 to accelerate small business growth and job creation in four Alabama counties hurt by the coal industry's downward spiral.

Genuine opposition to nuclear power, as opposed to astroturfing by the coal industry, best explains the current situation.

Surrounded by coal industry workers, donned in khaki pants and polo shirts, President Trump signed an executive order in March pulling the plug on his predecessor's plan to close hundreds of coal - fired power plants to reduce carbon emissions.

Not exact matches

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

It is hard to find a winner in the coal - mining industry these days but some investors were quick to spot a Perth - based winner yesterday in the form of Wesfarmers, which saw the value of its coal assets boosted by a deal in the Hunter Valley of NSW.

By comparison, the coal industry employs about 66,000 people, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics's (BLS) recent finalized data from October 2015.

Layoffs topped out in 2016, when the state's coal industry slumped to its lowest point in 118 years, according to a report by the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet.

U.S. Coal Receipts at Manufacturing Plants by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code

Although Swensen did not release the names of the investment managers or companies involved, he said that by the end of Fiscal Year 2015, Yale's $ 25.6 billion endowment had only minor exposure to the oil and coal industries.

U.S. Coal Consumption at Manufacturing Plants by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code

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