Sentences with phrase «coal program in»

Green Chip editor Jeff Siegel offers his analysis of FutureGen's Clean Coal program in the context of proven renewable energy technologies.

The Obama administration took a step in the right direction when it announced a major overhaul of the federal coal program in 2016, a change that includes a moratorium on new coal leases on public land.

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He added: «One of the questions we asked was «Can we really continue to ask a coal miner in West Virginia or a single mom in Detroit to pay for these programs?»

The temporary foreign worker program was first under fire in the fall of 2012, when it came to light that approval was granted to Chinese - owned HD Mining International to bring more than 200 people from China to work at its coal mine near Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

The U.N. Security Council has unanimously boosted sanctions on North Korea since 2006 in a bid to choke off funding for Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, banning exports including coal, iron, lead, textiles and seafood, and capping imports of crude oil and refined petroleum products.

«We're still dealing with the aftermath of layoffs in the coal industry,» said Michael Cornett, director of agency expansion and public relations of the Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program, a nonprofit, federally funded workforce development organization established in 1968 and headquartered in Hazard.

Hart said a key question next week would be how the program would seek to avoid advantaging provinces with substantial renewable energy resources over those that are more dependent on coal - fired power, like Liaoning in northeastern China, which is known as the country's Rust Belt.

, who called on the Government Accountability Office to look into the federal coal leasing program in 2012, said, «Leading on climate change means leading by example in how we manage the oil, gas and coal resources that belong to the American people.»

Promising coal communities a return of their jobs has the potential to fill them with false hope, which can threaten the very progress that has been made in launching job training programs and other transition steps.

The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

A new analysis by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C., found that since the inception of clean coal programs aimed at capturing CO2 earlier this decade, $ 3.5 billion has been spent by private companies to develop the technology via 18 projects — just a fraction (1/17) of their profits in 2007 alone, according to researcher Daniel Weiss.

«The aspirational 2015 target for an integrated commercial - scale project now proves unrealistic,» Ralph Hillman, president of the Australian Coal Association, told researchers and CCS program directors meeting in Melbourne in late November.

«This is old news,» says Ranping Song, an official with the Global Climate Program of the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington, D.C. Song says that last February, the National Bureau of Statistics of China released preliminary revised estimates of coal consumption for 2013 and 2014 along with indications that data for prior years might also be low.

In the simulation, half of all coal power plants were shut down and switched to natural gas based on midrange trend estimates from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.

As Montana's only representative in the House, Zinke has also been a strong supporter of Montana coal and has expressed concern over a three - year leasing moratorium and programmatic review of the federal coal program undertaken this year by Interior.

We've reduced those emissions by about 40 % since then despite growth in the coal sector, which, if we assume that reduction is all due to CMM programs, implies about 0.1 trillion cubic feet of methane, so not your «trillions» but not insignificant.

A Dec. 11 article in The New York Times, «China's Emissions Pledges Are Undercut by Boom in Coal Projects Abroad,» cited the research of Phillip Hannam MPA «15, a doctoral candidate in the Woodrow Wilson School's Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP).

Interview (starts at 13:29)-- I spoke on November 28th by phone and Skype with Russ Grandinetti, Amazon's vice president of Kindle content, about dramatic growth in the Kindle Owners» Lending Library (KOLL, pronounced «coal») and KDP Select, programs that were launched on November 3, 2011, and December 8, 2011, respectively.

A public friendly program carried out at UC Santa Barbara's Coal Oil Point Reserve sandy beach by volunteers has been instrumental in changing the beach from one abandoned by Western Snowy Plovers as a breeding site to one where eggs are now being laid once again.

On Saturday evening at the Watermill Center, a dreamy home for performance art in the midst of lulling Hamptons luxury on Long Island, New York, Vesna Mačković — a Croatian artist participating in the center's intensive summer residency program — was seething and heaving beneath a yellow coal miner's helmet in a pair of bright red overalls.

There is not a single similar institution in the U.S. — oh, you might point to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, managed jointly by Bechtel and Battelle (oil pipelines and «clean coal» - FutureGen projects), but they get their funding slashed every year, more or less — and they cancelled their most promising biofuel program, algal biofuel, back in 1997 — good luck with that.

If the USA had taken Hansen's advice back in the late 1980's and gone on a crash program of building next generation nukes there was probably a chance we could be exporting that technology now to China and India and it might have prevented the commissioning of many of the new coal power plants they are building.

-- Matt Wald had a news article describing a big change in direction for the long - planned, and delayed, federal FutureGen program aimed at building the country's first coal - burning power plant capturing and storing carbon dioxide.

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Among other initiatives, we're proud to have reduced our greenhouse gas emissions intensity by more than 30 % since 1990; to be the initial developer of a supercritical coal plant that will emit 15 % lower carbon dioxide than existing plants; to be a founding member of the FutureGen Alliance; to be a part of Australia's low - carbon Coal 21 program; and to be the only non-Chinese partner in China's zero - emissions GreenGen projcoal plant that will emit 15 % lower carbon dioxide than existing plants; to be a founding member of the FutureGen Alliance; to be a part of Australia's low - carbon Coal 21 program; and to be the only non-Chinese partner in China's zero - emissions GreenGen projCoal 21 program; and to be the only non-Chinese partner in China's zero - emissions GreenGen project.

Through the new U.S. - China Clean Energy Research Center, the two countries are launching a program of technical cooperation to bring teams of U.S. and Chinese scientists and engineers together in developing clean coal and C.C.S. technologies.

This deal complements the existing GreenGen program in China, and cements China as the frontrunner of cleaner coal R&D.

«We have a responsibility to ensure the public... get a fair return from the sale of America's coal, operate the program efficiently and in a way that meets the needs of our neighbors in coal communities, and minimize the impact coal production has on the planet that our children and grandchildren will inherit.»

... «Today's coal ash proposal embodies EPA's commitment to our state partners by providing them with the ability to incorporate flexibilities into their coal ash permit programs based on the needs of their states,» Pruitt said in a statement.

In exchange for the economic losses coal communities will suffer through the «green economy she envisions,» the WSJ says her «programs are a mix of federal support to rebuild coal communities and aid to workers affected by the shifting energy economy.»

Biomass gasification could be used either to produce electricity (e.g., use biomass instead of coal in a power plant application) or as the first step in a liquid - fuels program.

And she listened — in March 2015, she called for an «open and honest conversation to modernize the federal coal leasing program.»

In 2006, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democratic legislative majority embarked on a program to double renewable electric generation to 20 percent while phasing out coal.

By encouraging the development of renewable energy in Ontario, the FIT Program will help Ontario phase out coal - fired electricity generation by 2014 - the largest climate change initiative in North America.

The company also states that it is also «engaged» in CCS technology development through the U.S. - China Energy Cooperation Program, the Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization and the National Carbon Capture Center.»

In a media release Peabody stated that the grant «will focus on economic and energy analysis and will support the Technology Center's work in advanced coal utilization research and interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate programs for energy - related careerIn a media release Peabody stated that the grant «will focus on economic and energy analysis and will support the Technology Center's work in advanced coal utilization research and interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate programs for energy - related careerin advanced coal utilization research and interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate programs for energy - related careers.

In recent months, the House has voted to stop funding for the EPA's coal permitting program and passed a bill limiting the EPA's use of science.

«BLM's federal coal leasing program has a massive impact on our climate and public health, affecting the waters we use, the air we breathe, and the wild areas we enjoy,» said Roger Singer, Senior Organizing Manager with the Sierra Club in Colorado.

Colin Marshall, president and CEO of Cloud Peak, in a statement said «This legislation is critical to creating the programs, incentives, and tools necessary to ensure the development and deployment of technology vital to the future of coal in a society where there are serious concerns about CO2 and climate.»

«I think of Bloomberg's millions the same way I do the millions Steyer flushed down the toilet last year — flotsam,» Laura Sheehan of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity said, referring to the millions San Francisco billionaire and environmentalist crusader Tom Steyer spent last year in mostly unsuccessful efforts to elect candidates committed to government programs to combat alleged man - made climate change.

Platts Coal Trader summarized Nisbet's work: «According to the report, in 2009, national environmental groups working on climate change generated $ 1.7 billion in revenue, spent $ 1.4 billion on program activities and spent $ 394 million on climate change and energy - specific activities.

Billions of public dollars per year prop up coal through fuel use requirements, pricing provisions, programs in fossil energy research and development, and government «cost - sharing» for clean coal plants.

The World Bank's infrastructure program in Indonesia stipulates policies and government subsidies that promote the accelerated development of over 16 GW of coal power projects in the country ahead of developing feasible renewable alternatives.

Our trainings foster local leadership and steep learning in local traditions to yield powerful activism, such as the Pacific Warrior Training Program, which has mobilized hundreds of Indigenous activists across many Pacific islands to engage their communities on the impacts of climate change and participate in mass actions confronting the coal industry in Australia.

After you take out the occasional embarrassment like the citizens assembly on delaying action against climate change as long as electorally convenient, the climate achievements of those governments come down to remarkably low proposed emission reductions, increases in MRET, a series of on again off again focus group - driven programs like Green Loans and the solar feed - in tariff, and shovelling as much coal as possible out of the ground and exporting it.

Those include not only the EPA's greenhouse gas regulations but also the Renewable Fuel Standard, sub-rosa carbon regulations like the Utility MACT Rule (which effectively bans the construction of new coal power plants), California's EPA - awarded power to meddle in fuel - economy regulation, California's cap - and - trade program and low - carbon fuel standard, the Northeast States» regional greenhouse gas regulatory compact (RGGI), and State renewable portfolio standards (RPS).

In 1991, the large coal operation called Western Fuels was very candid in its annual report, and it said it was going to attack mainstream science, it hired three so called greenhouse skeptics, scientists who didn't believe that this was happening, and they mounted a number of public relations campaigns, one in particular is quite interesting, this was a program that called for interviews by these three scientists, radio, newspaper, and TV interviews, in a campaign, and the strategy papers for the campaign said it was designed to quote «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact»..In 1991, the large coal operation called Western Fuels was very candid in its annual report, and it said it was going to attack mainstream science, it hired three so called greenhouse skeptics, scientists who didn't believe that this was happening, and they mounted a number of public relations campaigns, one in particular is quite interesting, this was a program that called for interviews by these three scientists, radio, newspaper, and TV interviews, in a campaign, and the strategy papers for the campaign said it was designed to quote «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact»..in its annual report, and it said it was going to attack mainstream science, it hired three so called greenhouse skeptics, scientists who didn't believe that this was happening, and they mounted a number of public relations campaigns, one in particular is quite interesting, this was a program that called for interviews by these three scientists, radio, newspaper, and TV interviews, in a campaign, and the strategy papers for the campaign said it was designed to quote «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact»..in particular is quite interesting, this was a program that called for interviews by these three scientists, radio, newspaper, and TV interviews, in a campaign, and the strategy papers for the campaign said it was designed to quote «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact»..in a campaign, and the strategy papers for the campaign said it was designed to quote «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact»....

Listen to WildEarth Guardians Climate and Energy Program Director, Jeremy Nichols, explain why a judge revoked the Arch Coal Lease in CO on KVNF radio.

In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should responIn a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should responin the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should responin the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.

Acquiescence in such an expensive and counter-productive corporate welfare program mostly reflects the influence of the Virginia coal industry.