Sentences with phrase «big coal utility»

Scientist Willie Soon calls his papers «deliverables» to fossil fuel executives, and grants a big coal utility pre-publication review and anonymity.

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Big Rivers Electric Tuesday notified Kentucky regulators and the Henderson municipal utility that owns a 312 - MW coal - fired plant that it was terminating a long - term operating agreement at end - May 2019.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

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.

Since a big recession might hit coal - burning utilities» customers more than other utility customers (to name one example) or hit coal - using industries like cement and steel more than others, one has to look carefully not only at CO2 emissions changes but at underlying economic activity or personal activity changes and how those are tied to emissions in a disaggregated way.

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.

Just monitoring the science will be insufficient to avoid economic consequences over-riding the consequences of doing nothing as our elected representative seek to avoid economic consequences to big oil, big coal, transportation and utility campaign contributors.

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.»

Even Australia's biggest investor in green energy, AGL Energy, decided that buying a compensation - enriched brown coal utility, the most polluting in the country, was the best deal it could do for its shareholders.

In the fiscal year ended March 31, Japan's big utilities burned 18 % less oil — mostly opting for cheaper coal — after oil for power use hit a 16 - year high the previous year.

In 2016, the state passed a bill that requires its two big utilities to eliminate coal from their portfolios by 2030 and get 50 percent of their power from renewables by 2040.

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.

Part two of this report will look at what a big increase in coal exports could mean for global carbon emissions — and American utility bills.

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 groCoal advertising, with decades of ads from coal mining companies, coal - burning utilities, and industry front grocoal mining companies, coal - burning utilities, and industry front grocoal - burning utilities, and industry front groups.

This way, for instance, electricity customers in coal - heavy Indiana, say, get a bigger refund than those in hydropower - heavy Washington (so as to compensate for the fact that Indiana's utilities will get hit harder by the carbon price).

He said the bigger concern is his 130,000 customers, who want to keep rates low, so coal - dependent utilities need to prevent any taxes or programs that penalize fossil fuel use.

«The problem is that if Big Dirty Coal Generation can sell a MWH for even $ 0.01 less than Clean Solar Producers, the utility MUST buy from BDCG...»

Many of Jeff Holmstead's current clients were recently named among the top mercury polluters in the coal utility sector, the largest source of mercury pollution in the U.S. Of the 25 companies listed as 2010's biggest mercury polluters (see Environment America report [PDF]-RRB-, at least 9 are represented by Holmstead.

From Germany's largest utility E.On selling off its coal and gas assets to Australia's biggest carbon polluter moving to zero emissions by 2050, the ball is well and truly rolling in terms of a transition away from fossil fuels.

Minnesota's second biggest utility, Great River Energy, has begun to significantly ramp down the output of its largest coal plant as the market has shifted to wind power and natural gas production.