Sentences with phrase «as coal jobs»

In practice, the subsidies meant some coal companies paid no state taxes, and actually received significant cash handouts, even as coal jobs declined.

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Today, solar jobs vastly outnumber those in coal, and those numbers continue to grow — a recent report from the International Renewably Energy Agency estimated that employment in the solar industry expanded 17 times as fast as the US economy overall in 2016.

In addition to tax changes (more on that below), Trump's plan to grow the economy focuses largely on generating more jobs in the fossil fuel economy (in coal and onshore and offshore drilling for oil and gas) and as a result of new infrastructure projects.

Born in Ireland, George Taylor arrived in the New World «entirely destitute,» according to Goodrich, and went to work as a manual laborer, starting with the job of feeding a coal furnace.

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.

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.

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.

Solar power might be an undeniable part of our future — the industry created double the amount of jobs as coal did last year and accounts for nearly 40 % of new electric capacity added to the grid, more than wind or even natural gas — but SolarCity itself isn't.

BHP Billiton said on Thursday jobs could go at its Australian coal mines as the company faces a deteriorating market, the latest sign of global miners scaling back operations due to slowing industrial activity in China.

Interior officials said the rule would cause only modest job losses in coal country and could even create jobs as companies hire construction crews to haul and store debris.

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Insofar as it replaces carbon - intensive coal and oil power, natural gas is a huge gain in cutting the country's carbon footprint, all while creating new jobs and bringing power to isolated parts of the country.

This means developing more of America's own energy resources, including wind, solar, clean coal, biofuels, nuclear energy, as well as oil and natural gas — which will reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern oil and create thousands of jobs here at home.

No jobs will be lost as the company weans itself off coal, Georgia Power spokesman Mark Williams said.

The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

Imagine a man or woman being so arrogant, and selfish, that they'd take a job driving a CO2 belching truck, or dig for coal in a mine, or fish for salmon in the ocean, or fly a CO2 belching airliner, or flip beef patties that came from CH4 exhausting cows, or teaching a classroom of students all of whom belch CO2 and exhaust CH4 and whom will have offspring that produces even more of those evil gases, or working as a climate scientist in an office heated by CO2 belching FFs and occasionally traveling around the world by CO2 belching airliner — all the while using computers made from FFs and powered by CO2 belching FF power plants, or working as a Senator from Tennessee who was President of the USA for a few hours and who travels all over the world in CO2 belching airliners, or one of the millions of people who mine, process, manufacture and transport every product you have ever seen in your life and all the ones you haven't seen as well.

(One phrase that reverberates almost as much as green jobs these days in climate - energy discussions, with far less credibility, is «clean coal.»)

Mr. Chu backed away slightly from statements made in his last job, as director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, that gasoline prices should be higher, and that coal was his «nightmare.»

Krugman sees any «war on coal» as a boon to Keynesian - style stimulus that would help create jobs through power companies spending to clean up their power sources:

We know that every dollar invested, clean energy creates over twice as many jobs in the U.S. as coal.

If reliance upon coal - fired generation were to diminish by a third as a result of EPA regulatory programs, GDP would be reduced by about $ 166 billion, household incomes by $ 64 billion, and employment by 1.2 million jobs.

I'd quibble with you about lost coal jobs; that isn't so much due to the rise of renewables as to the regulation of coal in general; and I suspect that in fact, more coal jobs have been lost to natural gas than to renewables.

Donald Trump's promise to bring back coal jobs is about as solid as his promise to force American companies to bring jobs back from China.

As an example of anticipated displacement, she mentioned coal industry workers who will lose their jobs due to restrictions on coal power.

As the coal industry drastically cuts its workforce in the shift towards heavily mechanized mountaintop removal, it tries to lay the blame for those job cuts on the people fighting to protect their mountains.

As nuclear and coal operations shut down, some jobs may be lost in those sectors.

The industry has shed jobs as coal power has declined as a share of U.S. electricity generation: from more than 50 percent in 2000 to 37 percent in 2010.

By far the most frequent arguments made in opposition to climate change policies are economic predictions of various kinds such as claims that proposed climate change legislation will destroy jobs, reduce GDP, damage US businesses such as the coal and petroleum industries, or increase the cost of fuel.

Participants also voiced concerns about the job implications of the energy transition, and the need for measures to shield regions that rely on the production of fossil fuel such as coal and shale from the adverse consequences of the energy transition.

(Brown, 2012b, p57) These arguments have included that proposed policies would destroy jobs, reduce US GDP, damage specific industries such as the coal and petroleum industries, increase the cost of fuel, or simply that proposed climate policies and legislation are unaffordable.

Solar jobs now outnumber coal mining jobs two - to - one and are quickly catching up to jobs in oil and gas extraction, as well.

And while the acceleration in the transformation of our energy system that we desperately need is a dead letter for at least four years, the idea that coal will be an energy source for 1,000 years, as Trump has said — and that those coal jobs are coming back — is a pipe dream.

The PWU doesn't like that — the fact that jobs at coal - fired power plants are being phased out and there is a significant threat to nuclear jobs as well.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) has increased quite significantly during this time, as developing countries built coal - fired power plants, created jobs, lifted people out of abject poverty, dramatically improved the living standards for billions, built roads and highways, and put millions of cars and trucks on them.

And mining jobs have been in decline for decades as automated equipment increasingly unearths coal, doing the work that once required pick axes and mules.

But, protecting and preserving the coal industry is a human issue to me, as I know the names of many of the Americans whose jobs and family livelihoods have been destroyed by the federal government's failed anti-coal policies and senseless regulations.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt promoted the long - awaited executive order during his appearance on ABC's This Week Sunday, as he promised that the order would «bring back manufacturing jobs across the country, coal jobs across the country» and shilled a «a pro-growth and pro-environment approach» from the White House.

While coal and electric utility industry officials and their supporters in Congress charge the president with fighting a «war on coal» that will cost coal states jobs and raise electric rates, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy defended the proposed rules as affordable and reasonable.

Of course, any change in the electricity generation mix will result in job losses in some areas, such as the closure of existing coal plants, and gains in other areas, such as new renewable energy resources and energy efficiency.

Do I have a green job if I move as a maintenance engineer from a coal power station to a gas power station?

Heck, the very first line of the entire SourceWatch entry lists being said Technical Editor as your job, with the first paragraph making clear how you are a bought and paid for lapdog servant of Big Coal.

Because a solar thermal power station operates like a conventional coal or gas power station, many of the jobs require the same skill sets as conventional energy jobs — from its construction phase through to operations.

As two Republicans wrote in a Sept 20th op - ed, «President Obama and his extreme EPA have issued new rules and regulations that are crippling the coal industry» and «this «Train Wreck» of new EPA regulations is already... costing jobs in places where unemployment is staggering.»

And climate change, despite gathering momentum on the Hill, faces deep skepticism from coal - state and rust - belt Democrats who see it as a job killer.

In Missouri, there are about as many jobs in coal - fired power as in wind and solar.

He can reverse Obama's clean air and water initiatives that the coal industry views as job killers.

While Stilley characterized the delay in approved mining permits as «unilateral and unjustifiable regulatory actions,» Mackell echoed Rep. Capito in accusing the Obama Administration of declaring a «War on Coal» that is largely responsible for the loss of jobs across Appalachia.

One such project, called FutureGen, has been reinstated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and is dedicated to advancing clean coal technologies as part of President Obama's overarching plan to create jobs, develop clean energy and act on climate change.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, a Republican, once wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal calling them out for trying to politicize the PTC, when in reality, he argued, the wind industry is «an American success story that is helping us build our manufacturing base, create jobs, lower energy costs and strengthen our energy security» — not, as the AEA letter reads, «an attack on affordable energy from gas, coal and nuclear.»

For example, even though Trump has vowed to bring back coal mining jobs, the coal extraction industry is on its last breaths, primarily as a result of energy market forces.