Sentences with phrase «big coal company»

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

This enduring notion — that the world can have its coal and climate, too, by pumping the carbon dioxide from combustion into the earth — has been promoted by institutions including Peabody Energy, the world's biggest coal company (see its coal - sales ticker here), and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

In 2006 a pattern emerged at NASA in which political appointees repeatedly acted in ways that the agency administrator concluded were inappropriate, including telling public affairs officers to issue fewer press releases on global warming in 2004 in the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companies.

Addressing potential investors in Manhattan on Thursday, Gregory Boyce, the chairman and chief executive officer of the world's biggest coal company, Peabody Energy, simply gushed as he described how the company is ideally positioned to take advantage of «a long - term supercycle for coal,» driven by rapidly growing demand in Asia.

The leases were at Arch Coal's Black Thunder mine and Peabody Energy's North Antelope - Rochelle mine, among the biggest operations of two of the world's biggest coal companies.

Biggest coal company wants more time to implement EU pollution standards as pressure for energy transition grows.

The Center for American Progress recently released a report showing that the country's biggest coal companies have spent only a fraction of their multibillion - dollar profits developing technologies to curb carbon emissions from coal - fired power plants.

They're the biggest coal company in the United States for underground mining.

The world's biggest coal companies want to ship 100 million tons of coal each year to Asia through Northwest ports — spreading toxic coal dust in dozens of our rail communities, clogging our railroads and ports, risking our families» health, and polluting our air and water.

In addition to the local impact on marine life and coastlines in the Northwest, building the Bellingham coal terminal and others like it would provide access to the vast Asian market for big coal companies in the U.S. that are losing domestic market share to cleaner - burning natural gas and green energy.

Earlier this year, bankruptcy filings from the country's second - biggest coal company, Arch Coal Inc, revealed funding to a group known mainly for its unsuccessful lawsuit against the climate scientist Michael Mann.

Further expose the power of big coal companies, and the manipulation they've engaged in to protect their interests

Not exact matches

The big issue around climate change that «nobody's talking about» is whether oil and coal companies are prepared to write down 80 % of their reserves.

In addition to dabbling in coal, real estate and oil and gas through their primary company, the Mancal Group, brothers Fred and Ron are also the biggest shareholders in mining junior Infinito Gold.

Some big American coal companies have advised President Donald Trump's administration to break his promise to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement — arguing that the accord could provide their best forum for protecting their global interests.

Renewable energy companies are expected to see big upticks in investments to develop new technologies, while coal and oil companies may see tougher regulations.

While steelmaking coal is Teck Resources» biggest moneymaker, the company doesn't currently have any plans to grow the business.

Legislation introduced in the state Senate and Assembly would prohibit the state's pension fund from investing in big oil, gas or coal companies.

FuelCell Energy is one of a handful of companies investigating how to address one of the biggest barriers in trying to capture carbon dioxide from coal plants for later storage underground, an unproved concept.

Residents there do not know what is owed them by the government, as it takes away land and awards it to India's biggest energy companies to generate coal - fired electricity and power distant megacities, advocates say.

Not only did Big Oil punt hundreds of thousands of dollars to Soon, but Big Coal as well — specifically, the Southern Company, one of the largest coal burning electric utilities in the U.S. and in the woCoal as well — specifically, the Southern Company, one of the largest coal burning electric utilities in the U.S. and in the wocoal burning electric utilities in the U.S. and in the world.

In the last year, tons of big - cap companies, many with dividends, have hit temporary rough spots... Coal, gold and copper miners, natural gas drillers, utilities, the list goes on and on.

> Peabody Energy (world's biggest private coal company) dug 243 megatons in a bad year -LRB-» 09): / / j.mp / BigCoal.

Smoky Thanksgiving from Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private coal company, providing Americans with an ample dose of mercury, smog, acid rain, polluted drinking water, ocean acidification, fouled landscapes and global warming every day.

The BEST way to reduce Global Warming is to reject the PR spin from the entrenched energy companies, and by electing legislators who are not in the pocket of big - coal so we can get on with the job.

At the same time, the world's biggest energy companies, according to a report from Carbon Tracker, are sitting on a virtual mountain of coal, oil, and gas.

Big Coal and its allies in the Bush administration had spent years fighting a rule that required mining companies to obtain permits before dumping waste into rivers.

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.

A newly announced partnership between the world's biggest private coal mining company and coal - burning country cuts against recent efforts to paint China green because of its push on manufacturing wind turbines and solar panels.

The big question is how long will our elected officials refuse to free the country and the climate from the stranglehold of oil and coal companies?

The ads were sponsored by a local group but paid for with contributions from Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private coal company, and a Kansas utility, Sunflower Electric Power.

Big Coal is firing back at James Hansen, NASA's top climate expert, who on Monday told a House committee on energy and climate that he thought top executives of coal and oil companies should be tried for «crimes against humanity and nature.&raCoal is firing back at James Hansen, NASA's top climate expert, who on Monday told a House committee on energy and climate that he thought top executives of coal and oil companies should be tried for «crimes against humanity and nature.&racoal and oil companies should be tried for «crimes against humanity and nature.»

For example, Lucia Graves at Huffington Post compiled statements from Ohio and Texas's biggest providers of coal energy, which show some of the energy companies themselves seem to welcome the President's plan:

Meanwhile, Big Polluters like oil and coal companies aren't going down without a fight.

A coalition of coal companies, big polluters in the power industry, and their political allies in mostly red states are trying everything to block the Clean Power Plan.

When Hillary stands in front of a crowd of people during her campain and says with a big smile on her face «We are going to put a lot of coal companies out of business and coal miners out of work.»

This explains why most big oil companies support a carbon tax, which will hurt coal much more than oil.

Major investors such as Norway's sovereign wealth fund — the world's biggest — have already begun selling off high - carbon stocks such as coal companies.

Get ready for assertions that the NIPCC study was paid for by big oil, the coal industry, or power companies (it wasn't), or that the people who wrote the study aren't scientists (but they are).

Activists of the environmental organisation Greenpeace project a slogan that reads «No Future in Fossil Fuels» on the cooling tower of RWE coal power plant, one of Europe's biggest electricity companies in Neurath, north - west of Cologne, Germany, November 10, 2017.

According to Al Jazeera America, «A 2010 donor list from the IRS shows the Texas Public Policy Foundation receives funding from groups long associated with big oil, gas, and coal, such as Koch Industries, the electric utility Luminant, and the oil and gas investment company the Permian Basin Acquisition Fund.»

The report's findings are in stark contrast to the views of the global coal industry, whose biggest publicly traded company Peabody Energy Corp, maintains coal is «essential to meet the scale of Africa's desperate need for electricity.»

Some big oil companies are betting big that the stroll away from coal will parlay into a dash for gas.

There was a group there that was particularly interested in mountaintop removal coal mining and getting the college to stop investing in coal companies, and the activist organization 350.org, which is probably the biggest grassroots climate - action organization, noticed this movement and were interested to see if they could scale it up.

Certainly all three Big Oil companies are keenly aware of what carbon pricing will do to King Coal.

In December 2011 Kentucky Power, owned by American Electric Power (AEP), one of the country's largest electric holding companies, requested approval for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) and associated cost recovery to invest approximately $ 950 million on environmental compliance measures at its Big Sandy Unit 2, an 800 MW coal unit approximately 40 years old.

This also means coal companies just lost a big customer, and will have to look elsewhere to expand their market.

The chief of the world's biggest private coal company has attacked climate science in defence of his polluting product.

If the world moves towards low - carbon energy, as it should — and the big integrated fossil fuel companies fail to adapt — then divesting from oil, gas and coal investments could turn out to be smart business, as well as a good, albeit symbolic, politics.

Last week we brought you the story of how the nation's largest utility holding company — and historically one of the industry's biggest coal consumers — is pivoting away from the dirtiest carbon - based fuel and focusing more on renewable generation at its regulated utilities.