Sentences with phrase «action on coal»

Local power - plants are legal and now necessary given the success of the coal industry in watering down and delaying real action on coal pollution in Congress.

While there have been some relatively minor pushes for alternative energy production and reduction in pollution from other sources (such as cars and other vehicles), there has been no action on coal plant pollution for decades.

@Shut it down — climate direct action / @Front Line Action on Coal / @Lock the Gate Alliance / Ende Gelaende / 350.

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National Mining Association President Hal Quinn said the commission's «disappointing lack of action» comes on the heels of a cold snap that demonstrated the value that coal provides to power grids.

While coal jobs are unlikely to come back in droves with this or other actions the administration is taking, the move would make good on Trump's promise to rescind regulations that «unduly burden the development of domestic energy resources.»

The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Friday to fund the government through April and President Barack Obama promptly signed it into law, after Democrats who had sought more generous healthcare benefits for coal miners stopped delaying action on the measure.

The Canadian Labour Congress and the Climate Action Network of Canada co-hosted a discussion event on Thursday night that focused on job creation and facilitating a transition for the coal, oil and gas sectors — all of which will gradually be phased out as the world moves to a clean energy economy.

Our partner groups Voters Taking Action on Climate Change and Communities and Coal are in court this week, arguing bias in the Port of Vancouver's decision to approve the controversial Fraser Surrey Docks coal projCoal are in court this week, arguing bias in the Port of Vancouver's decision to approve the controversial Fraser Surrey Docks coal projcoal project.

Thank you to Voters Taking Action on Climate Change, Communities and Coal, Ecojustice, and the Cities of Surrey and New Westminster for fighting for what's right.

Kingsnorth Climate Action and Dartford Liberal Democrat campaigner James Willis called the decision «a local victory for people power which has today forced a multinational power company to shelve plans to bring on stream this huge old fashion Coal Dinosaur.»

Meanwhile, Trump has also said he would end the moratorium on new federal coal leases, revive the Keystone XL pipeline, and take other actions to promote energy development — all actions that would impact public lands.

However, as the UK has shifted focus from coal - and oil - fired electricity generation to being more reliant on natural gas as the fuel of choice (irrespective of wind, solar, nuclear and other alternatives), this makes the electricity grid somewhat vulnerable to accidental and incidental problems with the flow of data and to malicious manipulation for the sake of sabotage, criminal or online military / terrorist action.

This action, announced in advance, provided a unique opportunity to compare data on ambient PAH levels, biomarkers, and health outcomes in two successive cohorts of children, with and without prenatal exposure to emissions from the coal - fired power plant.

Some have even termed the actions of the Obama Administration to be a «war on coal.»

Her online artist statement doesn't try to aestheticise this ugly reality but on the contrary includes Lock The Gate's web site which states: «The residents of the Bylong Valley, like communities all around NSW, want action to protect land and water resources from coal mining.

That said, if Action # 1 is to put a complete moratorium on new coal - fired power plants until carbon storage works, then we can decide what it means for carbon storage to «work» in due course, and people may decide that it's not a good, safe, solution at all?

My own take on this is that people will take the short - term most efficiently expedient actions, which is also the worst thing they can do — they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create radioactive waste that can't be disposed of....

One could argue backlash is already upon us when we look to Europe, which on the one hand is way ahead of us by your way of looking at things, but whose latest actions (Enel in Italy and elsewhere) are to build new coal plants.

Once the nation is committed to action, the government and private sector could concentrate their thinking on whether very large - scale infrastructure investments would need to be supported with public funds ---- projects such as solarization of the grid, new coal power plants with carbon capture and sequestration, etc..

In North Carolina, Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign Director Mary Anne Hitt joined Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, along with representatives from Earthjustice and Clean Water Action, for a press conference in Charlotte that emphasized Duke Energy's poor record on coal water pollutCoal Campaign Director Mary Anne Hitt joined Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, along with representatives from Earthjustice and Clean Water Action, for a press conference in Charlotte that emphasized Duke Energy's poor record on coal water pollutcoal water pollution.

Svec totally avoided answering Hansen's assertions: that big coal has been trying to muddy the debate on climate change with spurious, specious arguments to delay action.

Rudolph W. Giuliani called for moving from energy rhetoric to action, using the popular Republican phrasing «clean coal,» a phrase with no meaning in the climate context until someone comes up with a cheap way to capture and store carbon dioxide emitted by power plants on the scale of billions of tons a year.

Can scientists or anyone else find new words sufficiently potent to inspire action on long - term challenges, like shifting from unfettered use of coal and oil to limit the odds of climate surprises?

But there was a much discussed recommendation in both his oral presentation and a written statement he prepared beforehand: that the heads of oil and coal companies who knowingly delayed action on curbing greenhouse gas emissions were committing a crime.

President Obama's highly anticipated Climate Action Plan was released earlier this week, the centerpiece of which focuses on cutting carbon emissions from new and existing coal fired power plants.

No / Low Regrets Actions: (1) Fast Mitigation; (2) Renewables following sound engineering economics; (3) Increased use of Natural Gas internationally; (4) ABB's view on Energy Efficiency (supercritical coal); (5) Land / Agricultural Practices; (6) Win / Win Foreign Trade with Developing Countries; (7) Greater R&D.

Carbon Tracker agree that action is needed on coal but believe oil is an easier target for efficiency.

It comes as the Trump administration is moving to reverse actions taken at the end of the Obama administration to review the coal leasing program on climate and economic grounds.

Activism on coal issues takes many forms, ranging from litigation to nonviolent direct action protests such as tree sits.

In addition, closer to New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie and Commissioner Martin have called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expedite action to reduce pollutants emitted by the Portland Generating Station, a coal - fired power plant operated by RRI Energy in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, directly across the Delaware River from Knowlton, New Jersey.

Earth Ministry provides numerous opportunities in the state legislature and Congress for our members to put their faith into action on issues such as climate change, toxics and children's health, coal export, and public lands, among many others.

If Environment Minister Hendriks» does announce a stringent, comprehensive limitation on overseas coal financing, in line with the international community, it would be exactly the kind of action that 100,000 environmental, labor, faith, and social justice activists will be marching for this Sunday in New York City at the People's Climate March, and its affiliated events worldwide.

In an effort to derail action on carbon emissions, coal - reliant states have also banded together to sue the EPA on the grounds that it lacks jurisdiction to impose carbon reductions.

Even utilities in our notoriously coal - dependent Southeast are getting in on the action.

And on May 25, Break Free, a day of coordinated action across Africa will show how the Lamu fight is emblematic of a larger movement brewing, rejecting coal and ensuring it's replaced by alternative, renewable solutions that can address energy and financial poverty and build more resilient communities.

Rising Tide North America, a loose - knit group of students and workers for nonprofit organizations, posed as phony public relations officials and targeted energy reporters around the world on Monday with e-mails and telephone calls claiming that a legitimate group of 33 businesses and environmental groups, the United States Climate Action Partnership, had agreed to slash emissions, blamed for warming the earth, by 90 percent by 2050 and had called for a moratorium on new coal plants, Reuters reports.

«On Sunday, Feb 19th, we will march through downtown Missoula to protest an increase in coal exports (this action is not officially endorsed by Power Shift in any way).

This toolkit serves as a plan of action for NAACP units who want to take action on the findings of the report, particularly on the failing coal fired power plants highlighted in the report.

Many of these top coal producers are not captured by the percentage criteria investors base divestment actions on.

On June 8, supporters of the March on Blair Mountain against mountaintop removal coal mining rallied outside the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, DC, praising EPA for recent actions while skewering, by name, high - level pro-industry elected officials from AppalachiOn June 8, supporters of the March on Blair Mountain against mountaintop removal coal mining rallied outside the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, DC, praising EPA for recent actions while skewering, by name, high - level pro-industry elected officials from Appalachion Blair Mountain against mountaintop removal coal mining rallied outside the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, DC, praising EPA for recent actions while skewering, by name, high - level pro-industry elected officials from Appalachia.

The Coal Blooded Action Toolkit is a step - by - step guide on how - to take action to address toxins from coal fired power plants that are polluting low - income communities and communities of coCoal Blooded Action Toolkit is a step - by - step guide on how - to take action to address toxins from coal fired power plants that are polluting low - income communities and communities of Action Toolkit is a step - by - step guide on how - to take action to address toxins from coal fired power plants that are polluting low - income communities and communities of action to address toxins from coal fired power plants that are polluting low - income communities and communities of cocoal fired power plants that are polluting low - income communities and communities of color.

Divestment actions must also be based on absolute thresholds that exclude all of the top coal producers and top coal plant operators,» says Schuecking.

I call on our polticians to take immediate action in reducing our green house gases by putting a moratorium on any new coal mine in Australia.

I accept a level of hypocrisy because to engage with every injustice all the time is not only to open ourselves up to way too much suffering but can lead to a form of self - disarmament (consider for example the committed climate activist who won't use fossil fuel transportation on principle and therefore can't get to the action to shut down the coal plant — who comes out losing?)

It is this spirit that has seen countries like Germany achieve a 59 % renewable energy peak last month, President Obama start to turn the tide on previous US inaction by launching a new Climate Action Plan that includes action to begin the phase down of coal power, and China's statement last week that it intends to usher in stronger emissions reductions in its next Five Year Plan, due inAction Plan that includes action to begin the phase down of coal power, and China's statement last week that it intends to usher in stronger emissions reductions in its next Five Year Plan, due inaction to begin the phase down of coal power, and China's statement last week that it intends to usher in stronger emissions reductions in its next Five Year Plan, due in 2015.

Paul Keating's government, faced with the prospect of international action on climate change, took steps to preserve the coal industry - a tactic that has been rebooted many times since.

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And in this episode of the nation's climate history, once again, the same industry that foresaw the ultimate end of coal as a main fuel for power generation later supported actions to cast doubt on the science and to stave off policies to address the problem, funding groups that deny the scientific consensus and joining the main industry group that opposed participation in the first climate treaty.

The focus of that administration's actions was on coal, but oil, gas and nuclear power generation were also under attack.

Meanwhile, the company is looking for opportunities to transition the coal plants to natural gas, whose methane emissions are also a potent greenhouse gas, but not yet in the crosshairs of those advocating action on climate change.