Sentences with phrase «big coal»

One of Big Coal's main advertising themes since the 1970s has been abundance of coal and energy security.

But even his back big coal company changes it's mind, next two year we will get a goal, also, the president will change.

So if you've got big coal plants producing electricity, you're not getting anywhere.

The federal government's new moratorium on mining leases is just one of many setbacks for Big Coal.

That would be about the equivalent of 15 big coal power plants.

Even before the flood, getting Big Coal to clean up its act was like getting a child to clean up its bedroom.

As alternatives to Big Oil and Big Coal emerge, it would be a mistake for executives to rely on loyalty or love from the public.

Why can't Big Coal just be honest and address the problem itself?

Despite the setback, the world's biggest coal user claims it is still on a path towards clean energy.

If you still don't know what country this is, here is an other clue: this country is the 4th biggest coal investor in the world.

If these young people are leading the charge, then Big Coal, Oil, and Gas had better get out of the way.

Indeed, for Big Coal, the game now is not to prove that carbon capture and storage is a viable technology.

Australia is the world's second - biggest coal exporter and also the second - largest exporter of liquefied natural gas.

«The contradictory statements of a tiny handful of discredited scientists, funded by big coal and big oil, represent a deliberate — and extremely reckless — campaign of deception and disinformation.»

To my mind this reveals why the binding path under the Framework Convention on Climate Change was always bound to fail — as long as big coal markets grow bigger in countries excluded from obligations and prosperous countries are happy to provide.

A Greenpeace investigation released last week highlights the recurring themes of Big Coal advertising, with decades of ads from coal mining companies, coal - burning utilities, and industry front groups.

China, the second biggest coal importer in the world after the EU, would become a net exporter, tipping the balance in the global coal market.

Climatologist James Hansen also identifies campaign finance reform as one of the most necessary steps for producing effective climate change policies in the United States, by reducing the influence of status quo entities like big coal companies.

It's a blatant attempt to justify the need for big coal fired power plants, since in his memo Perry writes: «Baseload power is necessary to a well - functioning electric grid.»

An article in the latest issue of The Economist explores whether acknowledgement that some fossil fuel stocks are unburnable means companies with big coal or oil reserves are overvalued, at least on long time horizons.

These are still the two biggest coal divestment actions to date.

The Lummi's stand against Big Coal is not isolated.

In the high - stakes fisticuffs for the remaining carbon budget, a price on carbon quickly leaves King Coal flat on the mat in the world's second - biggest coal market.

It's exactly the same story for the two big coal port proposals in Washington.

President Barack Obama is bypassing Congress to take a big swing at Big Coal — with the EPA announcing a sweeping new cap - and - trade system to reduce carbon pollution from power plants.

China is the world's biggest coal consumer; it gets more than 70 percent of its power from coal.

Western Fuels selected the latter, so «Information Council for the Environment» was the only name the public ever saw for the «Big Coal Front Group.»

Thunder on the Mountain: Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets behind Big Coal.

Going back one step, how did Socci get the «secret Big Coal documents»?

It's expensive to turn most big coal - fired and nuclear plants on and off, so they can not be responsive to minute - by - minute changes in price and conditions on the grid, as newer technologies can.

More properaganda by big oil and big coal paid by there billion of dollars in profits, you know the call drill baby drill or is it spill baby spill.

America's biggest coal burning plant is in striking distance of my air, actually, near Macon, Georgia.

DALLAS (AP)-- Donald Trump says he would bring back lost coal - mining jobs, and he is positioning for the November election in big coal states by portraying Hillary Clinton as a job killer.

Audience question: Big oil and big coal argue that the transition from a fossil fuel — based economy to a clean - energy economy will come at a severe economic cost in the form of jobs.

He spent the next three years reporting and writing Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future (Houghton Mifflin, 2006).

Two separate developments reported elsewhere point to the enduring power of the status quo to trump environmental initiatives — the startup of China's first big coal - to - liquids refinery (nod to Environmental Capital) and strong signs that China's highly publicized eco-cities efforts are more facade than reality (nod to Treehugger).

Thousands of small generators, including rooftop solar panels and facilities that extract energy from garbage or sewage, could feed into the system, replacing or complementing big coal, nuclear or natural gas plants, they say.

Demonizing Big Coal or Big Oil in climate campaigns gives a pass to those of us filling up our gas tanks or relying on electricity at home.

Perhaps the filmmakers were simply highly - paid double agents for big oil and big coal trying to undercut the global effort of the similarly named 10-10-10 campaign kicking off on Oct. 10 (the 10:10 group is one of thousands of participants in the international climate «work party»).

We're seeing a confluence of interests that will — or at least should have — Big Oil and Big Coal worried.