Sentences with phrase «coal companies like»

To deal with this decline in revenue, some coal companies like Peabody Energy are spending millions on advertising, public relations and lobbyists to convince politicians that coal is the answer to the issue of energy poverty in developing nations in Africa, Asia and other parts of the world.

With cheap natural gas substituting coal for electricity production, a sustained downturn in coal demand in China, and tough new regulations on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, pure play coal companies like Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) and Arch Coal (NYSE: ACI), are having a horrible run of it.

Industry officials insist that safety will improve as large Chinese coal companies like the Shenhua Group buy out smaller mines, and new technologies develop that can detect dangerous methane gas and automatically shut down mines.

While ALEC is secretive in its operations, leaked internal documents show that coal companies like Peabody Energy and their trade associations are bankrolling the group.

Not exact matches

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

Plaintiffs would go after easy targets and companies like Whitehaven Coal — which are already in the sights of climate activists — and other companies that resisted the need to change the way they do business to help slow man - made global warming or funded climate sceptics could be vulnerable.

The government manages several natural resources like Gas, Coal, Iron, Gold, Oil, Sea, Water, Mass Transport Services (subway), Trains, Sea transport, Electricity, and has a company in the telecommunications sector.

He noted that U.S. coal companies are already positioning themselves to boost exports, especially to energy - consumptive countries like China, as domestic demand for coal continues to drop off.

While the project is focused on ethanol, the company says it is optimistic that its efforts will pave the way to try similar emission controls for fossil fuels like coal.

Mountaintop removal is just what it sounds like: Explosives are used to blast away the tops of mountains to get at the coal reserves that power companies want for producing electricity.

In the United States, there have been environmental protests in states like New Jersey, where a company is planning to pipe CO2 from a coal plant to a storage spot in the ocean near Atlantic City.

Last year Greenpeace revealed that Willie Soon is exclusively funded by fossil fuel interests like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil and Southern Company, a major contributor to mercury air pollution from its coal plants.

Includes stocks of companies involved in exploring and producing energy products like oil, natural gas, and coal.

Here S&P BSE Metal consists of companies like Hind Zinc, Coal India, Hindalco, Jindal Steel, JSW Steel, NALCO, SAIL, etc..

One company it likes is South32, the alumina, silver, nickel and coking coal miner that was recently spun out of resources giant BHP Billiton.

One grand, overarching myth not discussed by Plumer is that the kind of solar technology produced by companies like Solyndra can play a substantial role in blunting the buildup of greenhouse gases driven largely by burning coal and oil.

«The coal companies won't like us if we clarify the problem to readers.»

Plug a word like «coal» or «solar» into the search box on the group's Web site to see what companies or industry groups show up.

As I've written repeatedly, it's tough to sustain a focus on long - term needs, like sustained research on the frontiers of photovoltaics and energy storage, when congressional politics is about building short - term coalitions by satisfying demands presented by influential players, from coal companies to unions.

[Andy Revkin — Here, Mr. Obama faces the hard reality that coal is not going away, and he — like coal companies, many environmental groups, and almost all politicians — embraces the prospect of having your coal and climate, too — by capturing the CO2 and pumping it into the earth.

Everywhere you look, companies and power generators like the Tennessee Valley Authority are announcing plans to shutter coal - fired plants and replace them with wind, solar, and plants that use cleaner - burning natural gas.

Meanwhile, Big Polluters like oil and coal companies aren't going down without a fight.

A «pre-pay» carbon policy might work something like this: before a company extracts a ton of carbon from the ground (be it in the form of oil, natural gas, coal, trees, soil, etc.), it would have to «pre-pay» for a credit demonstrating that the organization (or a third - party) had already removed and sequestered an equivalent ton of carbon from the atmosphere.

Five companies in this guide are listed in the latest report looking at who funds extreme fossil fuels, like tar sands, Arctic oil and coal mining:

This is particularly so for resource companies that are heavily or exclusively reliant on coal like Peabody.

Despite executives» claims to the contrary, many oil and coal companies continue to support groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which spreads misinformation about climate science to state legislators, but denies that it denies climate science.

Like Scaife and Gulf Oil, Olin made his bucks in part from the fossil fuel industry via the Olin Corporation, which manufactured blasting powder for coal mining companies.

That has left swaths of industry in China struggling with limited gas, including giants like German chemical company BASF SE and local producer Yunnan Yuntianhua Co., as supplies are diverted to households that had previously relied on coal for heating.»

The slump in coal prices has driven at least two dozen coal companies into bankruptcy in the last three years alone, including major producers like James River Coal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavcoal prices has driven at least two dozen coal companies into bankruptcy in the last three years alone, including major producers like James River Coal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavcoal companies into bankruptcy in the last three years alone, including major producers like James River Coal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavCoal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavCoal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavily.

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Yet a message of denial and confusion got the industry only so far, so the main backers of CEED, including Western Fuels and major coal producers like Peabody and Southern Company, formed Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) to promote clean coal.

Coking coal will be increasingly in demand in other steel centers like Brazil and India, pushing coal companies to scrounge for new reserves in places like Botswana, Mongolia and Mozambique.

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.

You can see why ALEC member companies like American Electric Power or Duke Energy may take issue with this, given their reliance on coal and gas electricity generation.

With this media attention he talks about coal cars being like death camp cars, talks about imprisoning oil company executives, etc..

In addition to the local impact on marine life and coastlines in the Northwest, building the Bellingham coal terminal and others like it would provide access to the vast Asian market for big coal companies in the U.S. that are losing domestic market share to cleaner - burning natural gas and green energy.

Dozens of U.S. mining companies, including giants like Peabody Energy Corp. and Arch Coal Inc., have filed for bankruptcy in recent months as their earnings declined and debt loads soared.

Wilmar is rated the least sustainable publicly traded company in the world by Newsweek, lagging behind companies like Monsanto, Coal India, Dow Chemical and ExxonMobil.

Thanks to the lobbying work of the coal and oil companies, and the vast army of thinktanks, PR consultants and astroturfers they have sponsored, thanks too to the domination of the airwaves by loony right shock jocks, the debate over issues like this has become so mad that any progress at all is little short of a miracle.

As I documented extensively in my book Heat, and as sites like DeSmogBlog and Exxonsecrets show, there is a large and well - funded campaign by oil, coal and electricity companies to insert their views into the media.

They include those increasing coal taxes in India (and Korea, where the levy increased to US$ 21 / t in 2015 from US$ 15 / t in 2014); moves being made to a national emissions - trading scheme like those being undertaken in China and Korea» tightening emissions requirements on coal - fired power generation in the U.S. and India; greater regulation of mine waste disposal ponds in Brazil and the U.S; and greater scrutiny of coal mine rehabilitation subsidies and coal company leasing schemes in the U.S.

Polluters like Duke Energy, Southern Company, and Arch coal are paying Holmstead's bills.

Severstal, the Russian mining giant, leads the list of coal companies, followed by firms like BHP Billiton and Peabody.

Ebell, whose work has been funded by some of the nation's worst polluters, like Murray Energy, the nation's largest coal mining company, said, «I would like to have more funding [from big coal] so that I can combat the nonsense put out by the environmental movement.»

Instead, companies like Tata are looking overseas for coal, and import prices have been rising steadily.

[1] The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Board of Directors, which it says «determine the U.S. Chamber's policy positions on business issues and advise the U.S. Chamber on appropriate strategies to pursue,» includes representation from the fossil fuel industry such as ConocoPhillips and Consol Energy (one of the biggest coal producers in the US), large pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Bayer, and the tobacco company Altria (formerly Philip Morris).

Because there are no good markets for these industrial negative emissions projects today, the only viable way for companies to develop and test the components for these solutions today is through CCS projects like Petra Nova (e.g. on a coal power plant with the CO2 utilized to drill for more oil).

billions of public pensions fund dollars in the oil, gas and coal companies that are causing storms like Sandy, Maria and Irma.

We demanded that New York stop investing billions of public pensions fund dollars in the oil, gas and coal companies that are causing storms like Sandy, Maria and Irma.

In addition, China has met its 2020 emissions reductions goal three years early (noting, though, that while coal use in China is declining, Chinese companies are working to build and finance the construction of coal - fired power plants elsewhere, like this project in Kenya.)