Sentences with phrase «coal communities»

Despite major shifts in the industry and serious worries in coal communities, today coal still supplies nearly 40 % of our electricity.

This would represent a win - win for coal communities suffering from the downturn in the industry.

The area was once a booming coal community, with over 100,000 residents.

The makers of a new documentary are fundraising for coal communities as they seek a just transition.

As well as $ 645 million will be directed towards the new provincial agency Energy Efficiency Alberta and $ 195 million to assist coal communities, which will be impacted by the phase out of coal - fired power plants by 2030.

Promising coal communities a return of their jobs has the potential to fill them with false hope, which can threaten the very progress that has been made in launching job training programs and other transition steps.

«We found substantial evidence that Appalachian coal communities are working to shed the culture of coal and develop new opportunities and an evolving conception of identity based on these opportunities,» said researcher Sanya Carley of IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

One of the biggest challenges confronting coal communities, besides the need to develop new economic opportunities, is overcoming the deeply rooted culture of coal that has defined the lives of residents and full communities for generations.

Ken Ward at the West Virgina Coal Tattoo blog thinks coal communities should be planning for the future instead of fighting this battle to hang on to the past:

Certainly helping coal communities is never prioritized over, say, high - end tax cuts.

President Obama also pushed hard to create the Reclaim Act and the Power Initiative, two federal programs designed to reinvest money into coal communities and fund the reclamation of abandoned mine sites.

Two redevelopment proposals in Europe and North America are portending a possible renewable energy transition for hard - hit coal communities facing dislocation from the decline of the fossil fuel resource.

«Sierra Club's definition of «victory» is nothing but a «loss» for the thousands of coal communities that continue to reel from plant and mine shutdowns, and for America's energy future,» Sheehan added.

The bus is mostly traveling in coal communities throughout West Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana, winding its way through university campuses and community gatherings.

«We have a responsibility to ensure the public... get a fair return from the sale of America's coal, operate the program efficiently and in a way that meets the needs of our neighbors in coal communities, and minimize the impact coal production has on the planet that our children and grandchildren will inherit.»

New WRI research shows that a carbon price could provide billions of dollars a year for coal communities in West Virginia and other states, while also curbing air pollution and climate change.

«Based on evidence gathered from focus groups and interviews conducted in U.S. coal communities, we argue that coal communities that have experienced mine closures have already begun an economic and social transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity,» wrote professors of Indiana University in a paper published in the March issue of Energy Research and Social Science.

Coal communities in the Appalachian region — where most of the mountaintop removal mining is taking place — have high rates of lung cancer, mortality, and chronic heart, lung, and kidney disease.

To make this a just transition towards a cleaner, healthier and more prosperous economy for all, Alberta has also created a Coal Community Transition Fund, to support municipalities and First Nations impacted by the phase - out of coal in the province.

In exchange for the economic losses coal communities will suffer through the «green economy she envisions,» the WSJ says her «programs are a mix of federal support to rebuild coal communities and aid to workers affected by the shifting energy economy.»