Sentences with phrase «coal country went»

I knew then why we used that word, that time's handle for those like them brought be - neath ticking toward Thanksgiving dour squat suns in coal country gone sour

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Clinton said she had a policy to help coal country benefit from creating renewable energy «because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?»

Moreover, with China's economic profile weakening and likely to keep waning due to demographic issues, it is not likely that the country is going to become a big coal importer from the U.S. in the future.

That statement may come as a surprise to non-UK readers, many of whom might well be forgiven for thinking the country's steel mills had gone the way of other legacy industries such as coal mining and shipbuilding.

In India, for example, the average life expectancy is 301/2 years, compared to 681/2 years in the United States; the average annual income is less than $ 40, compared to $ 1,469 in the U.S. Energy utilized annually per capita, which is a rough index of living standard, is in some countries equivalent to.02 tons of coal, compared to 8 tons, or 400 times as much, in the U.S.. Two thirds of the world usually goes to bed hungry at night.

If Rockland County is the «canary in the coal mine» for the rest of the country, then at this rate the canary isn't going to make it.

Despite its efforts to go green, China still depends on coal, but critics say blaming China for its rampant pollution is unfair, given all the manufacturing the world's developed countries outsource to Chinese companies

Certainly, it is going to be needed to some degree, we have substantial amounts of coal and nuclear and natural gas — central generation currently in this country — but because of the distributed generation from wind, solar, geothermal and hydrokinetic, I think we are going to have to develop a different grid that can accommodate that in a much more efficient way.

David Streets, a senior scientist who studies historic mercury emissions at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, said mercury emissions have gone down in the United States and Europe, but a rush in coal use in some fast - growing countries like China, and a resurgence of artisanal gold mining in places like Africa, is offsetting the reductions.

Nellie Bly was a scrappy, hard - driving, ambitious reporter from Pennsylvania coal country who sought out the most sensational news stories, often going undercover to expose social injustice.

The unconstrained burning of highly polluting coal throughout Asia did not begin, «now,» CC, but has been going on ever since so many of these countries first became industrialized.

The trajectories for emissions of carbon dioxide as the world's industrial and industrializing countries boost coal burning are clearly going to be tough to turn around, whether through caps on emissions or efforts to improve non-polluting energy technologies.

Speaking before a crowd in Scranton, McCain said, «My friends, I've been a coal booster, and it's going to create jobs, and we're going to export coal to other countries and we are going to create hundreds of thousands of jobs.»

As the market for coal goes global (see our piece in Boston Review on this issue, September 2009) the future of global warming will depend on the interests in the countries that are least interested in slowing global warming.

The ad went on to say that the United States has 250 years» worth of coal in the ground at current rates of use, and that only imports of liquefied natural gas, much of it from hostile countries, would be able to supply power if coal is off limits.

Now Cleantechnica reports that the entire country is committed to going coal - free by 2025.

Where the idea of going nuclear remains unpalatable we see for example that Germany may be the first of the EU countries to begin the abandonment of the global warming house of cards in favor of coal and gas - fired power plants.

In the case of coal that is exported, the tax could be refunded when the coal left the country, so long as it was going to a nation that had an effective greenhouse emissions reduction scheme in place.

What's more, it would set Kenya and other African countries a precedent to start developing more coal — a path we simply can not afford to go down.

But are you sure coal demand will continue to really go down on a global basis - I read that global demand is going up because certain countries are builging alot of coal fired facilities.

The idea that many other world countries that desire high energy growth using coal fuel regardless of the greenhouse gas emission levels are going to abandon their enormous existing use and future growth of coal fuel because of California's ridiculous climate alarmist driven schemes is totally absurd.

It seems hardly any country in the world has moved the decarbonization rate upwards by 1.3 % over a sustained period of time, and the one major economy that may have done so (the UK) has gone through a coal - to - gas transition that can't be repeated, while de-industrializing at the same time.

Hard to believe that many of the countries that burn less than 2 %, the other 17.6 % are going to ramp up and import a lot of coal.

To more quickly speed up the on - going transition to renewable energy, China can, for example, work to peak its coal consumption by 2020, while the US can put money on the table at the Green Climate Fund pledging conference next week, allowing developing countries to boost their own action.

«If you don't do anything on carbon and you don't have renewable energy standards or investment tax credit, every utility company would go out tomorrow and build coal,» Eric Spiegel, the new CEO of Siemens USA, which is one of the country's top companies for engineering and producing machinery for the new green economy.

You go to other countries where there are problems going on as well and you find that the economics are stacking up more and more in favour of clean alternatives and governments are having to invest political capital and excess economic resources in more coal.

Perhaps the magnificence in his logic comes from the hope that the thermal coal is going to country where they don't have a price on carbon?

To abandon coal all together would strip a life and source of income away from countless thousands of people in our country, leaving them with nothing to do and nowhere to go.

We need to go fossil free, there should be no future for coal in our country.»

Citizens in the Czech Republic have been spared the worst of plans for new coal this week, although the Czech government went back on its word to block the outright expansion of two mines in the north of the country.

«Given the dramatic fall in coal consumption, robust renewable energy uptake, and the urgent need to address air pollution, we believe the country can go well beyond what it has proposed today.»

The official treaty to curb greenhouse - gas emissions hasn't gone into effect yet and already three countries are planning to build nearly 850 new coal - fired plants, which would pump up to five times as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the Kyoto Protocol aims to reduce.

The point Jason and I are making is simple, you could stop all the exports from Canada and the US and it won't make it damn difference how much coal the asian countries are going to burn.

A number of countries are heavily invested in fossil fuel electricity, and a smaller number of countries, from China to Germany, are adding coal plants at a rapid rate, and will likely be reluctant to let expensive capital investments go unused.

But building retrofits can go only so far in a country where coal fuels 70 percent of the energy consumption.

Around $ 1 billion that Japan has pledged under a U.N. initiative to help developing countries fight global warming has actually gone to support Japanese coal - fired power plants in Indonesia, despite the fact that coal is the most carbon intensive fuel in the world.

tl; dr — We're not going back into that mess — «Over all, 1,600 coal plants are planned or under construction in 62 countries...»

«We understand that if we can delay things like the proposed expansion of coal mines in this country for two, three or four years, then it's never going to get built,» he told the briefing, hosted at the offices of global investment bank Goldman Sachs, a venue which indicates where this debate is shifting.

The Washington Post reports that the donation will be spread out over four years, and will go straight toward the «Beyond Coal» campaign that has «helped block the construction of 153 new coal - fired power plants across the country since 2002.&raCoal» campaign that has «helped block the construction of 153 new coal - fired power plants across the country since 2002.&racoal - fired power plants across the country since 2002.»

For instance, the bulk of the 580 billion yuan ($ 85 billion) to be invested in expanding the country's slowed energy industry in 2009 will go towards coal - fired generation, with nuclear and wind - powered generating capacity making up a smaller percentage.

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).

solar, nuclear or greatly expand pumped hydro so that no FF would need to be used and for some countries such as China that don't have very much NG but are developing good hydro resources that may be the way they go once all coal is replaced.

Once that is inplace countries that have a Nuclear blind spot have a few hundred years before they exhaust their coal supplies or run out of CO2 storage sites and have to go nuke regardless.

In the case of some OECD countries, the same ODA that was classified as climate finance was going toward development projects in oil, gas, and coal fired power plants, over 114 million in the past 5 years.

Both yield a phase - out of coal by 2030, but the date each specific plant goes offline differs significantly between the two approaches, with different potential impacts on regions within a given country.

Coal makes up one - quarter of the country's exports, which go off to countries like China and are a major contributor to climate change.