Sentences with phrase «by coal mine»

In spite of a $ 2 million campaign by the coal lobby, the bill passed by overwhelming majorities in Colorado's Senate and House in a remarkably short 17 days.

In May 2017 alone, the states of Gujarat, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh canceled thermal energy plants — that is, those powered by coal — with a combined capacity of nearly 14GW of power.

Alex Epstein claimed, in a Forbes article, that health risks related to the release of mercury by coal fired power plants were a «myth» while the «truth» is that «Shutting down coal power will make electricity more expensive and threaten human health, while the impact on mercury exposure would be so small that it will have no observable effect.»

There needs to be another kind of thinking that centers neither on the profoundly dishonest denial promoted by the coal and oil industries, nor the misleading optimism of the environmental movement, nor the fatalistic indifference of the majority of people who just don't want to know.

If they were replaced by coal, the carbon emissions would more than double.»

Charles Dickens reminds me of the Victorian London made infamous for pea - soup smog brought on by coal burning and sensitivity to foggy conditions.

The air and water pollution emitted by coal and natural gas plants is linked with breathing problems, neurological damage, heart attacks, cancer, premature death, and a host of other serious problems.

New electricity generated by coal - fired plants will outstrip that which was retired in 2015 and 2016 by a factor of five.

China's six percent jump in electricity demand was met by coal, IEA reported.

Twice displaced by coal mining, Bowman was determined to stay and protect the community's health, land and water from further destruction.

According to Ayers, charging fossil - fuel companies under RICO «would effectively change the subject to the campaign of deception practiced by the coal, gas, and oil companies.»

Synapse's work related to coal power also includes evaluating coal plant emissions, markets for domestic coal, subsidies received by the coal industry, and the lifecycle costs and impacts of coal power compared to other energy sources.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 49 % of all homes and businesses are powered by coal — a drop from 60 % in 2007.

Meanwhile, Butler was quoted this morning as saying that moving more rapidly to a market price for carbon — which will effectively bring the Australian price down to European prices, where efforts to strengthen climate policy and the carbon price have been thwarted by coal - reliant Poland, would have an impact on the budget but would also be complex.

The old economy, fueled largely by coal and oil, is being replaced with one powered by solar and wind energy.

The industrial revolution began with wood being replaced by coal as the primary energy source.

Ignore the intense pollution caused by coal combustion in China because it doesn't fit into your agenda.

But such an action would effectively change the subject to the campaign of deception practiced by the coal, gas, and oil companies.»

That is over twice the national average of utility energy produced by coal.

This approach helps utilities refinance the costs of stranded coal generation assets and redirect savings toward cheaper renewable energy to replace generation capacity, while directing funds to communities or workers affected by coal closures.

Since the supply of coal is not as restricted as oil, an increase in the share of energy supplied by coal seems inevitable, notwithstanding environmental legislation.

Notably, Stanford University earlier this year announced it will divest publicly listed coal mining companies from its $ 19bn endowment, citing, like other fiduciaries as of late, the substantial environmental and social injury caused by coal as the justification for its decision.

In this case I wonder if he is acting as a paid advocate by the coal company (the article wasn't clear) or if he is just going off on his own hook about perceived executive - power abuses.

But such an action would effectively change the subject to the campaign of deception practiced by the coal, gas, and oil companies... We had the case where people said, «What if you screw up RICO?»

Hundreds of thousands of real human beings have been killed outright by coal barons or slowly by coal - fired electrical generating stations (death machines is a more accurate term).

And with US electricity generation dominated by coal, H2 from electrolysis — cracking water into its components using electricity — looked more like a way to shift, rather than reduce vehicle emissions.

Traditional grids invented by Thomas Edison draw supplies from a handful of generators fueled mostly by coal, nuclear and natural gas plants, which can run around the clock.

On the other hand, proponents of taking action to curb climate change charge that efforts at reform are being opposed by the coal, oil, and natural - gas industries and from oil - rich countries like Saudi Arabia.

Groups including the Sierra Club and Columbia Riverkeeper have vowed to stop the industry's expansion into Asia, a market currently dominated by coal from Australia and Indonesia.

The film was produced by a company headed by Idso's wife and funded by the coal industry.

A coalition of groups, including some that were impersonated by coal lobbyists fighting against U.S. climate change legislation, have banded together in search of further evidence of wrongdoing in the ballooning fraudulent letter scandal.

In a new article today in Energy and Environment Daily reports that the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) assumes nuclear plants would be replaced mostly by coal:

This is an important contribution to the mitigation of environmental pollution caused by coal mine methane.

The researchers found that wood pellets burned in European and UK power plants, such as the Drax facility in North Yorkshire — which has transitioned some of its coal power generation capacity to wood pellets with the support of UK government subsidies — actually emit more CO2 per kilowatt hour than that generated by coal.

If the coal binge continues, global climate targets will almost certainly be out of reach, and much of the good done by coal will be undone by the ravages of climate change.

«While Member States, such as the UK and Germany, are already setting renewable energy targets for 2020, the discussion at European level is being stalled by the coal and nuclear lobbies within the Transport and Environment Directorate General.

China's fast - growing nuclear industry has complained that vital uranium deposits might be contaminated by coal mining: others fear that uranium - contaminated coal could be being burned in power stations, showering radioactive dust on the surrounding countryside and its inhabitants.

Collecting liquid carbon dioxide by pipeline from large plants powered by coal is designed to allow steel, cement and chemical industries to continue to operate without making climate change worse.

Strong ETS reforms that might raise prices and seriously dent coal's prospects are opposed by coal - reliant states such as Poland, the EU's other major coal user.

His boss, GMU J.D. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has been well - funded by coal and utilities.

It has grown, since 2000, from a poverty - stricken backwater to the world's largest economy, mainly powered by coal.

Greens leader Senator Bob Brown's assertion that the floods in Queensland were caused in part by the coal industry is a classic case in point.

Ultimately, coal can not be considered «clean» when you factor in the air and water pollution generated by coal mining, preparation, transport and combustion.

So, using this estimate, how many trees per year would you have to plant to absorb all the CO2 created by coal combustion?

The rail capacity consumed by coal trains limit expansion of passenger trains and impairs trains ability to cost - effectively and quickly transport Washington's other products.

The gist of his case was that the recent short - term emergency that gave rise to price spikes was caused by coal - fired power station outages.

The People's Communique comes in contrast to the communique produced by a coal industry conference supported by the Polish government and attended by Christiana Figueres, the UN's highest ranking official on climate change.

Your Keitho tactic is no different than that used by coal companies against the nuclear industry in the 70's and 80's — except rather than being a coal lobbyist, you are a political ideologue.

The production of this waste can be minimised by coal cleaning prior to combustion.

Apart from the emissions factor, how could anyone support the damage done to our country by coal mining (as seen in this and the above photo) compared to benign wind farms and solar power stations?