Not exact matches
Youths pack the
coal into sacks and carry it
out of the mine on their
backs, or to a small cable car for the trip upward.
«To
coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes - washing, and window - washing, to road - building and tunnel - making, to foundries and stoke - holes, and to the frames
of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked
out of them, and to come
back into society with healthier sympathies and more sober ideas.
Since taking office last January, the Trump administration has rolled
back a number
of Obama - era initiatives, including pulling the U.S.
out of the Paris Accord and repealing the Clean Power Plan, a policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions from
coal - fired power plants.
Scientists drilling ice cores
out of Greenland have found lead from fly ash, a byproduct
of coal combustion, dating
back to the era.
We shall not bring
back a single bit
of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any
coal or iron... If you can not understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge
of this mountain and goes
out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle
of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.
After learning the location
of the
coal deposits, Fernie
backed out of the deal.
Long life
of c02 going to have additional c02... phase
out coal by 2030 because
of finite volume
of gas we could get
back to 350ppm.
If you make charcoal
out of it, that would still release some CO2,
of course — but the carbon that ends up as char
coal is held
back: Char
coal does not decay that quickly (> 1000y) so if you put it into soil instead
of burning it, you got THE ONLY CARBON SEQUESTRATION METHOD CURRENTLY KNOWN DOABLE.
While the United States is shutting down old
coal - fired power plants and not building new ones, Europe — also because
of the commitment in Germany to get
out of nuclear power — is moving
back to
coal.
The price
of gasoline, and
of liquid fuel made from
coal, would reflect the carbon tax, which would pay the cost
of taking that carbon
back out of the atmosphere.
In 1991, it was nothing more than a suggestion to invite science - based rebuttal
back into an issue Al Gore and his friends hijacked with assertions that catastrophic man - caused global warming was settled science; a suggestion which came
out of a leaked non-profit
coal association's public relations test market campaign which was so obscure that practically no one ever saw or heard about it.
Backing out fossil fuels begins with the electricity sector, where the development
of 5,153 gigawatts
of new renewable generating capacity by 2020, over half
of it from wind, would be more than enough to replace all the
coal and oil and 70 percent
of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.
President Trump campaigned on «bringing
back coal» and has attempted to follow up on this promise by thwarting the Clean Power Plan and pulling
out of the Paris Agreement in an attempt to keep fossil fuels up and running.
When the networks did include other viewpoints, the experts were dismissed as «
out of the scientific mainstream» or
backed by «oil and
coal companies.»
Fog forms around airborne particles, including pollutants, Dave Britton
of the UK Met Office explains to the Guardian: «Go
back to the 1950s and the big pea - soupers in London came from the amount
of crap that people were putting
out of their chimneys from
coal fires.»
Soon he'll be
back home with President Aquino, who defended new generation
coal power as the most affordable option available to help bring many people
out of poverty.
On top
of that, it turns
out that in recent days, Republicans in Congress (with the
backing of the
coal industry), have been successfully blocking mine safety measures that would help address this problem.
However, there are times when
coal generation, which provides over 50 percent
of PSCO's base - load generation, is
backed out to make room for the wind generation.
A big oil /
coal backed governor wants to keep «politics
out of education».
An industry group that represents
coal producers and suppliers has been carrying
out an ambitious strategy for defeating or scaling
back a host
of ongoing congressional and state initiatives to limit greenhouse gases, mercury and other air pollutants, according to a recent internal letter obtained by the newsletter Inside EPA.
The emails were obtained by the Energy and Policy Institute via a series
of public records requests to Ohio House Majority Floor Leader Bill Seitz and other state legislators involved in campaigns to roll
back Ohio's renewable energy and energy efficiency standards, as well as bail
out failing
coal and nuclear power plants.
Back in June there was a discussion
of Coal and Climate Change by Dave Rutledge http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2697#more What I got from that discussion was that «global warming» won't happen because the world will run
out of fossil fuels before CO2 level rises enough for any
of the IPCC scenarios to happen.
Holmstead's
coal clients have doled
out over $ 10.7 million dollars (UPDATE June 2017: $ 23.5 million) to his firm since he joined in 2007, and a primary undertaking
of Holmstead's has been to block and weaken laws that cut
back on mercury pollution from power plants.
And even if he could, he can't bring
back the jobs because its the
coal industry itself that wiped
out most
of those jobs through productivity gains from «strip mines and machinery,» as Nobel Prize - winning economist Paul Krugman explained in 2014.