Sentences with phrase «u.s. coal companies»

3 January 2008 - Merrill Lynch downgrades the investment ratings of Consol Energy Inc. and Peabody Energy Corp., two leading U.S. coal companies.

18 July 2007 - Citigroup downgrades the stocks of Peabody Energy Corp., Arch Coal Inc., and Foundation Coal Holdings Inc., prominent U.S. coal companies.

Alpha Natural Resources, Peabody Energy Corp., and Arch Coal, Inc. — three of the four largest U.S. coal companies by annual sales volume — have gone bankrupt.

Merrill Lynch downgrades the investment ratings of Consol Energy Inc. and Peabody Energy Corp., two leading U.S. coal companies.

Citigroup downgrades the stocks of Peabody Energy Corp., Arch Coal Inc., and Foundation Coal Holdings Inc., prominent U.S. coal companies.

Consider the bankruptcy of Peabody, the largest private - sector coal company in the world, as well as dozens of other U.S. coal companies.

That's because U.S. coal companies including Peabody Energy Corp. won't be looking to secure new reserves of the fossil fuel on federal land for years, especially as mining slows amid the sector's worst downturn in generations.

That's a reality that U.S. coal companies are starting to contemplate.

He noted that U.S. coal companies are already positioning themselves to boost exports, especially to energy - consumptive countries like China, as domestic demand for coal continues to drop off.

At the same time, they are letting U.S. coal companies ship their coal through B.C. ports to China, Japan and Korea for that exact purpose.

Another major U.S. coal company, Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR) hit a new all - time low yesterday at just 27 cents per share, and sank as low as 24 cents that morning.

Not exact matches

U.S. coal exports to Asia have also risen in recent months as ailing U.S. mining companies search for alternatives to the weak domestic market.

U.S. authorities have repeatedly targeted companies and individuals from the Chinese city of Dandong, which borders North Korea, in a bid to cut off Pyongyang's major export revenue from selling natural resources, such as coal.

«The future is foreign markets, so the last thing you want to do if you are a coal company is to give up a U.S. seat in the international climate discussions and let the Europeans control the agenda,» said the official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

Mylan Chief Executive Heather Bresch, who has led the company since 2012, has coal country roots: she is the daughter of U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the second largest coal - producing state in the country.

The company, one of the largest metallurgical coal producers in the U.S., had nearly as much in debt as it had assets and, thanks to plummeting prices, its balance sheet was simply under too much pressure.

You can buy U.S. - listed Chinese companies, and there are Australian coal producers, but the factors that affect prices in those countries are different from the fundamentals here.

The United Nations Security Council blacklisted dozens of ships and shipping companies on Friday over oil and coal smuggling by North Korea, boosting pressure on Pyongyang as leader Kim Jong Un plans to meet with his South Korean and U.S. counterparts.

A Donald Trump presidency, others say, should be a windfall for coal miners, small - cap U.S. companies (because their sales are mostly in the U.S.), and, of course, construction companies that might benefit from a massive government wall - building contract.

Westshore Terminals (TSX: WTE), the company that handles the shipping of a large portion of the U.S. coal, issued an open letter asking the prime minister to reject Clark's call for a ban.

But the struggle continues as U.S. thermal coal companies become increasingly desperate to send their product to power plants in Asia.

Cloud Peak Energy Inc. (NYSE: CLD) is headquartered in Wyoming and is one of the largest U.S. coal producers and the only pure - play Powder River Basin (PRB) coal company.

U.S. coal production hit its lowest level in 40 years in 2016, and the size of the coal mining work force has been cut nearly in half, to stand at just 77,000 workers (roughly the employee size of Delta Airlines or Whole Foods), spread out over a few dozen companies.

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This pattern is already taking shape around the globe with U.S. and Australian coal companies coping with shrinking domestic markets by planning to export huge amounts of coal to India and China.

That sulfur dioxide market, run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has reduced sulfur dioxide levels by 40 percent since 1992 by allowing companies to buy and sell the right to emit the acid - rain forming pollution from coal - burning plants, which has increased the acidity of lake waters throughout the region.

According to Obama's Web site, the U.S. Department of Energy under his control would work with private companies to design five clean - coal plants that take advantage of carbon capture and sequestration.

Chinese utility company Huaneng and U.S. company Duke Energy Corp. signed a cooperation agreement this year calling for a study to determine the feasibility of applying Huaneng's carbon capture process at Duke Energy's coal - fired power plant in Indiana.

As electricity use spikes across the country in the summertime when more people use air conditioning, electric power companies turn to more coal and natural gas power plants to help meet the demand, reducing renewables» share of total U.S. power generation, Comstock said.

The infant solar power companies, however, must gain their foothold by taking business away from the incumbent and politically powerful coal, natural gas and nuclear power providers, at a time when overall growth in U.S. electricity demand is still slowed by an underperforming economy.

The challengers — an alliance of energy and fossil fuel companies and coal - producing states — wanted the court «to do something that they candidly acknowledge we have never done before: review the legality of a proposed rule,» wrote Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in an opinion unanimously backed by a three - judge panel.

Though he hasn't provided many specifics, Trump has publicly said he is eager to streamline the process and make it as easy as possible for energy companies to extract fossil fuels from public lands, which are the source of about 24 percent of America's fossil fuels, including about 40 percent of all the coal produced in the U.S.

West Virginia and more than a dozen other states and coal company Murray Energy Corp had urged the court to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposed Clean Power Plan.

Not only did Big Oil punt hundreds of thousands of dollars to Soon, but Big Coal as well — specifically, the Southern Company, one of the largest coal burning electric utilities in the U.S. and in the woCoal as well — specifically, the Southern Company, one of the largest coal burning electric utilities in the U.S. and in the wocoal burning electric utilities in the U.S. and in the world.

None of the numbers regarding openings and closings are likely to matter in the long run because electric power companies are using less and less coal to generate electricity — the primary use of coal in the U.S.

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissiCoal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

One of those liabilities could be Murray Energy, the largest privately owned coal mining company in the U.S. Robert Murray, the company's CEO has said that if FirstEnergy goes under, it could take Murray Energy with it.

Chinese Coal Company Invests in U.S. Shale.

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.»

On February 18, 2010, GreatPoint and Peabody announced that the companies would work together to develop coal - to - gas and coal - to - hydrogen plants in and beyond the U.S. [66] The hydrogen could be both used for electricity and sold to industries [66].

In August 2010, the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) announced that several leading U.S. investment banks, including Bank of America and J.P. Morgan, had ceased lending to companies involved in mountaintop removal coal mining.

Despite this, the U.S. government has a long history of giving away our public land to coal companies — so much that today,

Despite this, the U.S. government has a long history of giving away our public land to coal companies — so much that today, 40 percent of the coal mined in the United States belongs to taxpayers.

The company has been a major player in coal regions across the U.S., including Appalachia and the Powder River Basin.

TEF itself also weighed in, funding a study which predictably concluded that U.S. renewable energy industries would «eventually» create 74,000 new jobs «from the ashes» of coal - related companies.

If he were to aggressively help U.S. oil, natural gas and coal companies to extract our mineral wealth for either internal or overseas sales, would that increase jobs in America?

By the early 20th century, coal made the United Mine Workers the largest union in the U.S.. Its battles with mining companies were among the nation's bloodiest.

On Friday, April 8, 2011 the U.S. Dept. of Justice sued Arch Coal along with three other companies for being allegedly responsible the contamination at the Cape Girardeau site because the company arranged for disposal of transformers and other electrical equipment that contained cancer - causing PCBs.

This new technology is not readily available in China, but it is available to utilities in the U.S. Which brings us to the second article — an announcement by TXU, a giant Texas energy company, that it intends to build 11 new coal - fired power plants in Texas, plus another dozen or so elsewhere in the country.

Arch stated that the combined company would be «the second largest U.S. metallurgical coal supplier and a top - five overall global coal producer and marketer».