Sentences with phrase «caused plant closings»

However, there are challenges, like low aluminum prices, which have weighed on business and caused plant closings.

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It is also less - than - shocking that Kraft Heinz, the food giant caused by the merger of Kraft and Heinz earlier this year, is closing yet another plant.

They saw three possible scenarios: Harvester would reduce its capital commitment to SRC, causing the plant to deteriorate in an agonizing process of layoffs and cutbacks; the plant would be closed; or the plant would be sold.

Comprised of carbon and hydrogen, in closed growing environments, like on a spacecraft or in a terrestrial greenhouse or a land - base perishable cooler, ethylene builds up rapidly and causes plants to mature too quickly.

In more bad economic news for upstate, the once - largest industrial employer north of Syracuse, Alcoa, announced it would idle one Massena smelting plant and permanently close another, causing the loss of close to 500 jobs.

The coal mines are now long gone and in 2002 the Corus steel plant here closed, causing further economic hardship.

The study revealed that in plots where A. septentrionalis naturally occurs, warming caused precipitous declines in the abundance of both its seedlings and established plants at reproductive ages, driving population sizes close to zero.

The oil has potential to cause stress to plants, as it is buried and in close proximity with the roots.

At one time or another the ash clouds closed 11 airports, and ash that washed into the water intake of one major hydroelectric plant caused $ 6.5 million in damage.

Tall smokestacks, built to alleviate pollution close to power plants, may contribute to the regional air problem by causing emissions to stay suspended long enough to react and produce other, more harmful pollutants.

In April, 1967 pesticide waste injected by a chemical plant at Denver's Rocky Mountain Arsenal destabilized a seismic fault, causing a magnitude 5.0 earthquake — strong enough to shatter windows and close schools — and jolting scientists with newfound risks of injection, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Getting too close to angry Piranha Plants results in getting munched, and certain ramps cause a parachute to deploy for safe drifting over obstacles for a limited time.

Meanwhile, a subplot concerning the possible closing of the town's pencil factory causes more consternation, since both parents are employed at the plant.

Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman - Pines, and Christina Gibson - Davis show that local job losses such as those caused by plant closings can lower the test scores of students with low socioeconomic status, even students whose parents have not lost their jobs.

By Peter Gleick, President Emeritus and Chief Scientist June 24, 2016 The announcement that Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) will close the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant when its current operating licenses expire in 2025 has caused what can only be described as consternation mixed with occasional conniptions among the nuclear industry and some strongly

The announcement that Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) will close the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant when its current operating licenses expire in 2025 has caused what can only be described as consternation mixed with occasional conniptions among the nuclear industry and some strongly pro-nuclear groups.

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It is very interesting: public pressure from people who are suffering from polluted air has actually caused the response in the Chinese government, to the point where they have closed coal plants that are close to cities.

The sharp drop from 2012/13 was caused by the EU's Large Combustion Plant Directive forcing older coal (and a few gas) plants to close or limit their hours.

«Tuning» the combustion output of the boilers causes little loss in total efficiency, implying that the biomass - to - electricity combustion efficiency is close to the 33 — 37 % range of an unmodified coal plant, an efficiency that stand - alone biomass generating capacity has yet to demonstrate.

Alpha said its actions «are being triggered by persistent weakness in U.S. and overseas coal demand and depressed price levels, along with government regulations that are causing electric utilities to close coal - fired power plants and forgo new construction.»