Sentences with phrase «coal baron»

Nearby, visit the Craigdarroch Castle Historic House Museum, the opulent mansion of coal baron Robert Dunsmuir.

In 2011, it had bought out the mountaintop removal mining company Massey Coal from under coal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standards).

According to its Certificate of Formation [2], the group's directors are spokesman (and EOG Resources Director) H. Leighton Steward, Wyatt Hogan, and coal baron Corbin J. Robertson, Jr., who «is said to own more coal through his various ventures than anyone outside of the U.S. government.»

With a deadpan delivery and a defiant attitude that has become his trademark, the former coal baron focused his onslaught on the family of McConnell's wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, which owns an international shipping business.

In the U.S., activist and journalist Mike Stark is being sued for defamation after writing a strongly opinionated article about coal baron Robert Murray.

One group was dressed as coal barons, another as spoons (I really have no idea).

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).

So Donald Trump's coal baron donors can squeeze the last profits from their dying industry.

-- A new poll out Monday evening shows recently imprisoned coal baron and Senate hopeful Don Blankenship fading in the Republican primary, amid an avalanche of establishment attacks aimed at stopping him from winning the nomination.

He advocated for propping up coal, a dirty fossil fuel that has been displaced by natural gas as the top source of energy in the U.S. Not only that, he got the idea (or at least had it reinforced) courtesy of coal baron Bob Murray.

And, except for two congressmen who didn't take any energy industry money, the signatories received sizable contributions from a number of other corporations that compete with wind, including coal barons Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources; and oil and gas giants Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy.

British climate denier and coal baron Matt Ridley is the most cited individual in coal giant Peabody Energy's official submission to the White House addressing the company's concerns regarding new policies proposed by the US Government around greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

I refer to network video of him shaking the hand of coal baron David Koch.

Coal baron Don Blankenship has gone after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in startlingly personal ways.

From The Late Show with Steven Colbert: Former coal baron and convicted felon Don Blankenship is running for the U.S. Senate.

They will ask for as many loopholes and subsidies for the coal industry as possible, and probably still end up unhappy with the bill because it doesn't do enough to protect the profits of coal barons.

(CNN)-- President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. urged West Virginia Republicans on Thursday to reject Don Blankenship in next week's primary, comparing the coal baron to failed Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.

President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. urged West Virginia Republicans on Thursday to reject Don Blankenship in next week's primary, comparing the coal baron to failed Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.

National Republicans have scrambled to intervene in the contest, fearing that a coal baron Don Blankenship primary win would destroy their prospects of winning in November.

Donald Trump Jr. politely requested that the people of West Virginia reject ex-con, coal baron Don Blankenship during the Republican Senate primary.

Want to be the hero here, coal barons?

«Matt Ridley is a coal baron who profits directly from the sale of fossil fuel reserves while the rest of us suffer the consequences.

Even the most zealous of the coal barons, Bob Murray of Murray Energy, has tried to talk him down from this one.

Balling was a trendsetter among climate - change deniers for hire, working as early as the late 1990s for the coal barons of the Western Fuels Association on its Greening Earth Society project.

It is not known if Jeb Bush attended the previous events because the organizers bar the press from hearing what policymakers promise the coal barons who attend the event.

George W. Bush's brother Jeb is the highest profile speaker at a secretive three - day retreat in Bristol, Virginia, hosted by six coal barons.

But that hasn't stopped the coal barons from trying to sell their dangerous product elsewhere.

An entire industry is slowly dying, so, of course, the coal barons that see their power fading are not going to just sit idly by on their fortunes and watch their demise.

And once you've built the pipelines and gas - fired power plants, the sunk investment makes it that much harder to switch: Suddenly you have a bunch of gas barons who will fight as hard as the coal barons Obama is now trying to subdue.

The 501 (c)(3) is backed by the coal baron Corbin Robertson.

West Virginia voter who says he lost three cousins in mine disaster tied to Don Blankenship tells @TomLlamasABC he's voting for the coal baron anyway.