Sentences with phrase «called on the coal industry»

In November, she called on the coal industry to clean up.

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By calling for re-energizing CCS development, PCAST is making two judgments: 1) that the coal industry is highly likely to remain competitive even as it complies with EPA restrictions on emissions of SOx, NOx, Hg, and other toxics; and 2) that a substantial price on carbon is highly likely to arrive in a time frame of relevance for a CCS development effort.

The coal industry has such a stranglehold on every facet of life in Kentucky and West Virginia that that particular — which the EPA called the worst environmental disaster east of the Misissippi at that time — it was almost completely covered up.

In a public relations coup for the coal industry, its chief lobby group will join forces with two prominent environment groups, WWF and the Climate Institute, and the miners» union, to call on the Rudd Government to set up a national task force to develop «clean coal».

On a conference call discussing the plan, Vice President for Research Maria T. Zuber said they thought «a whole lot» about targeted divestment, particularly whether to divest only from coal, but ultimately concluded that any level of divestment would hinder the ability to work with the industry on future research initiativeOn a conference call discussing the plan, Vice President for Research Maria T. Zuber said they thought «a whole lot» about targeted divestment, particularly whether to divest only from coal, but ultimately concluded that any level of divestment would hinder the ability to work with the industry on future research initiativeon future research initiatives.

The coal industry recently spent US $ 250 million on a TV campaign for clean coal — which Al Gore promptly called an oxymoron.

Industry itself has called for a moratorium on coal sales until 2016.

Because of the tight limits on carbon pollution called for in the proposed rule, using CCS would become the only way to build any new coal - fired power plants, a restriction coal advocates have said will effectively kill the industry.

Friends of the Earth called the bill «dangerous,» saying it gives too many concessions to the nuclear and coal industries to gain support for a limit on carbon emissions.

Mitt Romney released new TV ads this week about Obama «ruining» the coal industry, conveniently timed with a sudden House Republican push for the so - called «Stop the War on Coal Act.&racoal industry, conveniently timed with a sudden House Republican push for the so - called «Stop the War on Coal Act.&raCoal Act.»

Industry groups say EPA's calculations may inadvertently harm nuclear plants, which emit zero carbon, and in some cases call on shuttered natural - gas plants to replace coal.

Given all that I've dug up on the origins of the «industry - corrupted skeptic climate scientists» accusation, I'd call it a can't - lose wager if you bet that the «e-mail message circulated at a U.S. climate research lab» which Myanna Lahsen referred to owes its «funded by the oil and coal industry» accusation against skeptic climate scientists to Gelbspan / Ozone Action.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, a Republican, once wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal calling them out for trying to politicize the PTC, when in reality, he argued, the wind industry is «an American success story that is helping us build our manufacturing base, create jobs, lower energy costs and strengthen our energy security» — not, as the AEA letter reads, «an attack on affordable energy from gas, coal and nuclear.»

When we were kids there was this playground taunt... when one kid called another a «name,» the response was he who says it, is it... that came to mind on reading of the name calling that surfaced at a recent coal industry conference.

Bernd and Vimana, Please don't call people that are critical on Wind power «Wankers» or «lovers of smoke stags» or think that we have a stake in the coal or oil industry.

The coal industry's efforts to export huge amounts of taxpayer - owned coal from Montana and Wyoming to Asia has generated unprecedented opposition in the Pacific Northwest - tens of thousands of people have rallied, attended public hearings, and called on their elected officials to oppose coal export terminals that would disrupt and pollute communities and pose one of the biggest threats to the climate of any fossil fuel project in the world.

The regulations are certain to be denounced by House Republicans and the industry as part of what they call the president's «war on coal.»