Sentences with phrase «more war on coal»

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What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

Republicans are scurrying to label the move a hidden «national energy tax» and «war on coal» (see the fine NBC online piece titled «Carbon Combat» for more).

Policies driving technological innovation — in what critics have dubbed the «war on coal» — are helping the United States transition its energy system to one that is cleaner and more efficient.

Pruitt cited «the war on coal» in a speech to Kentucky coal miners Monday, but the Clean Power Plan is about more than energy — it's about clean air and public health.

What she calls «claims» from those expressing concerns with the President's plan — that regulating carbon will increase energy prices, hurt the economy, destroy jobs, and wage war on coal — more accurately reflect the facts.

It is far from clear whether Trump can do much more for coal than remove most or even all the climate - related regulations discouraging the use of coal, and this may not have a huge effect since to date the major adverse effects of the «war on coal» on raising electricity prices have not yet occurred because of the Supreme Court's stay on the so - called Clean Power Plan.

Better yet would be to debate an energy policy for the USA, including opening up exploratory oil and gas drilling including shale deposits, limiting the exponential growth of regulations currently stifling new exploration, ending the EPA regulatory war on coal, reactivating the Keystone pipeline, etc.; these issues have direct impact on American jobs and future energy independence, both of which are more important issues for US voters (and presidential candidates) than any «climate» debate.

Without serious action, the administration's accelerating wars on coal, guns, the Constitution, state sovereignty, the economy, jobs, and more will continue to wreak real havoc on Americans and the world.

The EPA is supposed to enforce the Clean Water Act, and the more aggressive posture is part of the «War on Coal» that energy companies furiously denounce.