Sentences with phrase «coal companies who»

Future Gen clean coal will get funded as a sop to the coal companies who will get hounded by Hansen and friends.

But there was a much discussed recommendation in both his oral presentation and a written statement he prepared beforehand: that the heads of oil and coal companies who knowingly delayed action on curbing greenhouse gas emissions were committing a crime.

The utilities and coal companies who created the outrageous ad are motivated purely by financial interest.

«The «best practice»... is a clear exclusion policy on commercial lending and investment banking services for all coal companies who practice mountaintop removal coal extraction,» says RAN.

Not exact matches

«The future is foreign markets, so the last thing you want to do if you are a coal company is to give up a U.S. seat in the international climate discussions and let the Europeans control the agenda,» said the official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

Wells Fargo analyst David Maris, who has a market perform rating on the company, said he believes that, from an investor standpoint, the coal transactions adds unnecessary complexity.

Mylan Chief Executive Heather Bresch, who has led the company since 2012, has coal country roots: she is the daughter of U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the second largest coal - producing state in the country.

Jim Cramer checks in with Vistra Energy CEO Curtis Morgan, who says coal is on its way out as his company looks for other renewable energy sources.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Those who would fight them in court can find precious few lawyers in the region not already employed by the coal companies.

In the Battle of Matewan, union coal miners fought Baldwin - Felts «private detectives» who had been hired to evict union miners from company housing.

Yet the loudest applause was reserved for Henri de Castries, chairman of Axa, who announced the withdrawal of the company's investments in coal by the end of the year.

Coal companies, oil companies, gas companies, people who don't have a great huge incentive for moving to a new system.

In the UK, carbon pricing — charging those who emit carbon dioxide — has become much stronger in recent years, making it more profitable for power companies to use natural gas generation rather than coal.

The Carbon Tracker Initiative — led by James Leaton, an environmentalist who served as an adviser at the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers — combed through proprietary databases to figure out how much oil, gas and coal the world's major energy companies hold in reserve.

In 1936, Manifest is a town worn down by sadness, drought, and the Depression, but it is more welcoming to newcomers than it was in 1918, when it was a conglomeration of coal - mining immigrants who were kept apart by habit, company practice, and prejudice.

Longyearbyen, the «capital» of Svalbard and its main town, is named after John Munro Longyear, an American who owned the Arctic Coal Company which surveyed and mined on Svalbard (the islands have a rich mining history) at the turn of the 20th century.

As I stated last week, even if Nintendo was will within their rights as an employer to dismiss someone who they felt no longer properly represented the company's image, its handling of the entire situation was nothing short of abysmal and they should be raked over the coals for it.

Who has the most to gain from the decision — either Chesapeake Energy — An Oklahoma Gas Supplier (and the other companies that run the pipelines), or Peabody Energy — A National coal miner (and the railroads who would move it to HolcoWho has the most to gain from the decision — either Chesapeake Energy — An Oklahoma Gas Supplier (and the other companies that run the pipelines), or Peabody Energy — A National coal miner (and the railroads who would move it to Holcowho would move it to Holcomb)

A president who easily folds to «oil, coal, and car companies» isn't the kind of leader anyone wants.

The BEST way to reduce Global Warming is to reject the PR spin from the entrenched energy companies, and by electing legislators who are not in the pocket of big - coal so we can get on with the job.

The oil and coal companies are, after all, steering us to hell on earth, and you are the ones who are going to have to fight them.

So if the world moves toward a system for tracking emissions, who is responsible for a particular batch of carbon dioxide — the company that mined and sold the coal, the power plant that burned it, the consumer who buys the exported widget made with the electricity generated by that combustion, or...?

I am sure the people who complain about oil and coal company - funded research would be equally outraged to learn of these «conflicts of interest».

Regardless of what the Heritage Foundation thinks, the government can and does have a role to play... cut taxes on businesses and individuals who help us build a green future, conduct research or provide subsidies for private companies to do it, help people make their homes energy efficient, and educate, educate, educate the American people as to what's at stake if we don't pry ourselves away from the oil / coal / gas faucet.

I suggest that all of the environmental organizations get together to defeat lawmakers who are in thrall to the oil and coal companies.

In 2006 a pattern emerged at NASA in which political appointees repeatedly acted in ways that the agency administrator concluded were inappropriate, including telling public affairs officers to issue fewer press releases on global warming in 2004 in the runup to the presidential election and trying to crack down on James Hansen, the agency scientist who had become a vocal proponent of prompt cuts in heat - trapping emissions and critic of big coal companies.

Big Coal is firing back at James Hansen, NASA's top climate expert, who on Monday told a House committee on energy and climate that he thought top executives of coal and oil companies should be tried for «crimes against humanity and nature.&raCoal is firing back at James Hansen, NASA's top climate expert, who on Monday told a House committee on energy and climate that he thought top executives of coal and oil companies should be tried for «crimes against humanity and nature.&racoal and oil companies should be tried for «crimes against humanity and nature.»

Behind the scenes, however, the coal companies and the consultants who represent them in Washington are often at loggerheads.

A tenured, salaried climatology professor (who gets paid either way), or a coal / oil company executive?

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:

Who knows what they were thinking, but I can't imagine that even the coal companies footing ACCCE's multi-million dollar lobbying campaign will think that this latest stunt is anything but blatant over-the-top marketing blather.

In addition to the re-branded inhalers, which promised to make asthmatic kids «show others who's cool at school,» the website also stated that the company would pledge $ 10 towards medication as a part of its Coal Cares campaign.

Go after mountaintop removal, coal mining, coal - fired power plants, the coal companies, and the elected officials who take their campaign contributions and carry water for them politically.

The lobbyists that attended these meetings include Bill Tyndall of Duke Energy, John Pemberton of Southern Company, Anthony Kavanagh of American Electric Power, and Patrick Quinn, who represents several coal clients through his firm, the Accord Group.

These costs are real, but it is the American people, not the coal companies, who shoulder the burden.

Get ready for assertions that the NIPCC study was paid for by big oil, the coal industry, or power companies (it wasn't), or that the people who wrote the study aren't scientists (but they are).

Utilities and energy companies are realizing that coal is an increasingly bad investment — that was definitely the case with Brayton Point, which had just been purchased by new owners who quickly determined that keeping the plant running didn't make economic sense.

The story of the fight to protect Coal River Mountain from the mining companies who seek to exploit it, and the plan to instead build a wind farm on its ridges.

Later in the interview, Harris spoke with Kert Davies, a Greenpeace environmental activist, who alleged that Singer is connected to «oil and coal companies» whose opposition to a global warming consensus will «cost lives.»

Individuals tied to oil, gas, and coal mining companies who donated $ 100,000 or more to super PACs supporting 2016 presidential candidates combined for $ 107 million in donations from January 2015 through January of this year.

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.

-- Instruct the new Energy Secretary to work with oil and gas industry to put together and implement an energy independence plan, with the clear goal of making the USA a net exporter of energy products within four years, at the same time creating millions of new jobs — Instruct the EPA Director to work with coal burning companies to encourage «clean coal» projects (eliminating pollution), by offering tax incentives for those who invest in these projects — Instruct the new Energy Secretary to set up a special task force to encourage the expansion of nuclear power and ease the permit procedure for new or expanded plants, with the goal of increasing nuclear power generation from 20 % to 25 % within four years

Since she declared war on the coal companies, she's been assaulted, harassed and threatened (a few years ago, she was arrested for battery after shoving a six - foot - tall strip miner who pushed her at community meeting).

If we take the Politicians, Oil, Coal & Chemical companies out of the picture for a moment and just look at the people that they designed their Skeptical Anti-man induced Global Warming spins for... you clearly see a huge group of hateful and stupid people who don't care what the issue is about, as long as it deviates from what they consider a Liberal view... they're happy.

Jeremy Grantham, a billionaire fund manager who oversees $ 106bn of assets, said his company was on the verge of pulling out of all coal and unconventional fossil fuels, such as oil from tar sands.

«[Norway's] Finance Committee recommends the exclusion of «coal power companies and mining companies, who themselves or through operations they control, base 30 % or more of their activities on coal, and / or derive 30 % of their revenues from coal.»

Other individuals that Raney didn't highlight, but who also have connections with the utility and coal industry, include Brian McCormack (formerly of the Edison Electric Institute), David Banks (former lobbyist for Exelon), Mark Menezes (former lobbyist for Southern Company and other utilities), and Travis Fisher (formerly of the fossil fuel - funded Institute for Energy Research).

People who hate oil companies amaze me with their ingratitude, and their seeming incomprehension of how good their lives are thanks to the wonders of oil and coal.

Edgar Figueroa, a Guatemalan businessman who conceived and brokered the deal with his energy consulting company Simsa, is proud that the coal plant met strict US Environmental Protection Agency standards.