Sentences with phrase «us coal industry»

This is, in a nutshell, McConnell's case for reelection: that as Kentucky's heavyweight in Washington, he'll thwart the assault liberals are waging not just on the health care system and the coal industry but, more broadly, on the state's way of life.

In Australia, a clear link exists between climate denialism and the coal industry.

The defeat is a setback for the president, who vowed on the campaign trail to revive the battered coal industry and put miners back to work.

President Trump has called the Paris climate accord «very unfair» for the United States, especially the coal industry, and pledged to restore coal miners» jobs.

Announcing that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris climate accord, President Donald Trump misplaced the blame for what ails the coal industry and laid a shaky factual foundation for his decision.

On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to reverse the coal industry's declining fortunes and supported opening up offshore drilling in the Atlantic.

The coal industry was interested in ensuring that the Paris deal provides a role for low - emission coal - fired power plants and financial support for carbon capture and storage technology, the officials said.

Notably, while Trump has been outwardly friendly to the coal industry, he's also taken a similar stance with the natural gas industry.

It's not solar or wind power that is cutting into the coal industry — but the explosion in natural gas as a result of fracking.

In his first State of the Union address late Tuesday, President Donald Trump touted the country's job growth in his first year, the strengthening economy, and — a key part of his campaign — the surprising pop in the coal industry in 2017.

Little can slow or reverse the coal industry's decline as consumers seek cheaper energy options such as natural gas.

Low oil prices, a retreat of the coal industry, solar and battery booms, and the return of nuclear are all trends you should watch next year.

By comparison, the coal industry employs about 66,000 people, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics's (BLS) recent finalized data from October 2015.

The solar industry really does employ more people than the coal industry does.

The coal industry is almost entirely non-Jewish.

Heavy - equipment operators, truck drivers, mechanics and engineers from the coal industry may be able use their know - how in a variety of businesses, including the fledgling drone industry that's emerging in Hazard.

It's no secret that the U.S. coal industry has been struggling for years.

Solar power currently employs more than twice as many people as the coal industry, and entry - level jobs pay a much higher wage than average.

«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.

But in the long run, the movement hopes to «start a conversation» about all aspects of the B.C. coal industry, from production to use and everything in between, says the Dogwood Initiative's Laura Benson.

Bowling's story is emblematic of the boom - and - bust history of the coal industry in Appalachia, a largely rural 13 - state swath that runs from southern New York to northeastern Mississippi.

Layoffs topped out in 2016, when the state's coal industry slumped to its lowest point in 118 years, according to a report by the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet.

«Everybody realizes that nothing we do can change where the coal industry stands,» Arnett said.

But like so many miners in Hazard, surrounding Perry County and throughout eastern Kentucky, Bowling was laid off, another victim of the coal industry's steady decline nationwide, especially over the past decade.

Researcher Clark Williams - Derry said it is difficult to underestimate the impact a ban on thermal coal exports would have for the coal industry in the western U.S.

Although Swensen did not release the names of the investment managers or companies involved, he said that by the end of Fiscal Year 2015, Yale's $ 25.6 billion endowment had only minor exposure to the oil and coal industries.

Trump, however, has yet to explain exactly how he will revitalize Appalachia's coal industry.

The coal industry, of course, is one of the major losers in the plan.

Posted by Jeff Rubin on September 8th, 2014 under SmallerWorldTags: British Columbia, Coal industry, keystone xl, Obama, Port Metro Vancouver, Surrey Fraser Dock, War on Coal • 2 Comments

As the coal industry is finding out, however, getting U.S. coal to Asia is becoming a taller order.

-- Here's a closer look at why Trump will struggle to save the US coal industry even if he manages to repeal many of Obama's environmental policies.

The coal industry has already collapsed, but the company stocks haven't yet.

The U.S. solar industry employs more than 260,000 workers - about five times more than the coal industry - with the vast majority involved in installation rather than panel manufacturing.

The Coal Alliance brings together leaders in British Columbia's coal industry — the mines, marine terminals, railways, industry associations, organized labour and others who support the mining and shipping of coal.

Since the bulk of the United States» coking coal is sold to other countries, tariffs on foreign steel would shrink the international market for coal and may break Trump's promise to resuscitate the US coal industry.

Australia recently took steps to make its fledgling carbon tax a thing of the past, a move designed to remove the shackles from its badly slumping coal industry.

Do you want to join the conversation on how the BC coal industry can continue to make a positive impact to our economy, communities and environment?

Market equilibrium for the U.S. coal industry will require further industry consolidation and more mine closures according to the group.

(Click to enlarge) President Trump can help the coal industry.

Trump said that, if elected, he would rescind Obama's «job - destroying» executive actions, «save» the coal industry, revive the Keystone XL pipeline project and cancel the Paris climate accords.

Against that backdrop, many coal industry participants and investors hoped that President Trump would be able to reverse those fortunes.

Yet the presidential election pointed to the potential for a rebirth in the coal industry.

The Trump administration may be internally divided about many things, but it is absolutely united around one goal: supporting the US coal industry.

Workers in any declining industry can learn from the coal industry.

As of November 2015, the solar industry employed 208,859 solar workers, which is already larger than the roughly 150,000 jobs remaining in the domestic coal industry.

First, some background on the coal industry: Profitability for U.S. coal - fired power plants has been declining and coal use has dropped radically since 2007 — a trend that is expected to continue.

However with Trump withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate change agreement, referring to climate change as a «hoax» and pledging to return the U.S. coal industry to its glory days, the White House and the Canadian government are pretty far apart on many environmental issues.

The coal industry also dumped thousands of tons of coal ash in Puerto Rican landfills for years, a common practice that has recently mushroomed into a disaster as local landfills overflow thanks to the territory's financial crisis.

Puerto Rico also has more contaminants to worry about thanks to the coal industry, which has been stockpiling coal ash in southern Puerto Rico.

Annual investment in the iron and steel industries dropped by 11 percent last year, with a 14 percent reduction in investment in the coal industry.