Sentences with phrase «coal industry supporters»

That market forces are driving a rapid decarbonization of the electricity sector that parallels the goals of the CPP is an inconvenient reality that the president, Pruitt, and their coal industry supporters simply ignore.

In February 2012, long time coal industry supporter, Senator James Inhofe (R - OK) introduced a Congressional Review Act resolution proposing the elimination of the EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for power plants.

Not exact matches

The president - elect is a vocal supporter of the U.S. coal industry, but Trump is secondary to the China - driven bullish trend already in place for the ETF.

But several hundred miners and relatives, along with supporters of the coal industry, blocked the entrance, according to the Charleston Gazette.

Peabody Energy, a longtime leader and big financial supporter of ALEC, was a top conference sponsor, along with the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a trade association group for the coal indusCoal Electricity, a trade association group for the coal induscoal industry.

Congressman Levin, for his part, has been a strong supporter of the coal industry on energy bills.

He's presenting faulty arguments yet again, because he is AGAINST COAL, he is a huge supporter of the nuclear industry and the nuclear industry helped set up CRU to alter temperature records worldwide.

While floor time was dominated by political supporters of the coal mining industry, environmental activists Maria Gunnoe and Bo Webb got a chance to represent the real voices of families who have to live with mountaintop removal coal mining every day.

As a supporter of the coal industry and booster of domestic manufacturing, it is probable that the president will support imposition of steep tariffs.

While coal and electric utility industry officials and their supporters in Congress charge the president with fighting a «war on coal» that will cost coal states jobs and raise electric rates, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy defended the proposed rules as affordable and reasonable.

From the 1991 «Ice Campaign» run by the coal and utility industries to the Marshall Institute's bogus «Study» of 1998 (which was designed to resemble a National Academy of Sciences document) to the recent efforts of ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy to eviscerate efforts to address the climate crisis, in tandem with the Bush White House, the fossil fuel lobby and its ideological supporters have waged a relentless campaign of deception and disinformation to confuse people about the reality of warming - driven climate change.

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

Supporters from both industry and environmental groups say the technology offers one of the best chances to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at a time when the global economy is still too heavily dependent upon coal to stop using the fossil fuel altogether.

Supporters of the plan argued that climate change is real and that coal is a dying industry that exacerbates global warming.

To Pruitt's supporters in the coal power industry, the EPA chief is restoring balance after the regulatory onslaught of Obama years.

His claim served as a rallying cry for his base supporters — many of whom believed that rejecting limits on carbon emissions would lead to a resurgence of US jobs in the coal industry.