Sentences with phrase «u.s. coal imports»

U.S. coal imports in fourth — quarter 2017 totaled 1.4 million short tons.

The average price of U.S. coal imports during the fourth quarter of 2017 was $ 86.54 per short ton.

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We referenced their numbers when we looked at the changing anatomy of U.S. oil imports, or when showing the decline in coal use over recent years.

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A big part of President Obama's climate legacy will be the U.S. Clean Power Plan, which will cut pollution from U.S. coal plants — and, importantly, allows imports of new Canadian clean power to help states meet their targets.

Currently, China supposedly has stopped coal imports from N. Korea in an arrangement by Trump for the U.S. to provide the coal to China, but this trade curtailment being honored is in question.

The point, again, is that the U.S. can use abundant domestic coal or repeat the flawed oil model and rely on global gas imports.»

The report describes how India, despite its poverty, has moved ahead with an initiative for raising money for energy research that the United States — thanks to a lack of leadership, congressional polarization and fear of anything remotely resembling a tax — has so far been unable to do: India has created a National Clean Energy Fund for research and innovation financed by a levy of $ 1.10 (U.S.) per metric ton of mined or imported coal.

Today, a fact finding team of five non-governmental organizations (NGOs)-- the Sierra Club, 350.org, Carbon Market Watch, Friends of the Earth U.S. and Pacific Environment — released a scathing report, The U.S. Export - Import Bank's Dirty Dollars, on the rampant human rights abuses at the U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im) financed Sasan coal - fired power plant and mine in Singrauli, India.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank), the U.S. export credit agency, last Thursday posted on its website that the application to finance the Long Phu 1 coal plant in Vietnam had been withdrawn.

Financing of coal plants by international lenders such as the World Bank and the U.S. Export - Import Bank has also been the focus of protests, including worldwide opposition to the Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project in India and the Medupi Power Station in South Africa.

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Moreover, it's something that can be mined and used within the U.S. Even though the country imports millions of short tons of coal per year, the rate has dropped dramatically in the last decade, from more than 34.5 million tons in 2006 to just 9.6 million tons in 2015.

Much like countries across the globe are doing today, Mexico began replacing coal plants with natural gas plants and importing as much fuel from the U.S. as possible.

Although the United States produces a large amount of coal (about 728 million short tons in 2016), some power plants along the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic Ocean sometimes find it cheaper to import coal from other countries than to obtain coal from U.S. coal - producing regions.

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Through the U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im), Trump is pushing developing countries toward dependence on coal for decades to come.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released a seminal report recommending that development of the Orion Khulna coal plant in Bangladesh — which the Export - Import Bank of the United States (U.S. Ex-Im Bank) is reportedly considering financing — should be halted due to concerns about the negative impacts the project poses to the World Heritage Sundarbans forest.

Fossil fuel giant PetroVietnam is in the process of building the Long Phu 1 coal power plant in southern Vietnam and asked for international financial support from the U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im).

In conjunction with the Save the Sundarbans protest today at the UN's headquarters in New York City, we're revealing in this EcoWatch exclusive that Friends of the Earth U.S. obtained documents that suggest the U.S. Export - Import Bank, Ex-Im Bank, which is supported by taxpayer dollars, is considering financing the Orion - Khulna coal plant near the Sundarbans in Bangladesh.

High natural gas prices in Europe have contributed to increased imports of U.S. steam coal.

Thus, U.S. primary energy consumption does include net imports of coal coke, but not the coal coke produced from domestic coal.)

China and the U.S. are the two largest emitters of greenhouse gases (GHG) in absolute terms on annual basis, both are heavily reliant coal for power and imported petroleum for transportation fuel and other non-transportation uses and both have had (and continue) to build continental - wide energy infrastructure to support a large population.

is carbon - neutral, challenging renewable energy investments in the U.S., Europe, and Asia where imported wood pellets are burned as a replacement for coal.