Sentences with phrase «coal company executives»

Gore is entitled to put his money where his mouth is — just as oil and coal company executives are.

For «someone who believes in the rule of law,» Mr. Holmstead has found a lot of ways to protect coal company executives at the expense of other people, within the boundaries of law or outside of the boundaries of enforcement.

Not exact matches

The chief executive of mining giant Rio Tinto will hand the reins over to the leader of the company's copper and coal division later this year.

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.

South32 chief executive Graham Kerr says the mining company is dealing with a «long term cultural issue» at its Illawarra Metallurgical Coal...

The Group Executive Director of the company, Mr. Richpal Singh, accompanied by another director, Dr John Akanya, solicited government assistance to access coal energy which he pointed out would enable them to locally produce the raw materials.

The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of coal to generate electricity, said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.

The only survivor, Amos Jenkins (Boyd Holbrook), is under pressure from the miners» union to give testimony that one of the coal company's executives, Bill Doyle (Josh Lucas) had previously refused to reexamine the company's safety standards, despite his employees» objections.

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.»

Addressing potential investors in Manhattan on Thursday, Gregory Boyce, the chairman and chief executive officer of the world's biggest coal company, Peabody Energy, simply gushed as he described how the company is ideally positioned to take advantage of «a long - term supercycle for coal,» driven by rapidly growing demand in Asia.

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

John Eaves, chief executive officer of St. Louis, Missouri - based Arch Coal, which saw the bulk of its exports last year go to South Korea, told investors last month that the company would be proactive in working to gain greater port capacity.

When a coal company chief executive officer offers a decarbonization plan, it means one of two things.

The rule «reinforces what most power company executives and investors already understand — that if and when new coal plants make a comeback, they will need to be designed with carbon capture and storage,» said David Doniger, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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.

In an apparent first salvo in a public relations campaign to shift blame for the Kemper power plant boondoggle away from himself and corporate management and onto state regulators, Southern Company chief executive officer Tom Fanning admitted that the Kemper plant is not economically viable as a coal - burning power plant.

Usual investment criteria may not deliver the super low - cost, clean, renewable energy soon enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change,» said Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, «Google.org's hope is that by funding research on promising technologies, investing in promising new companies, and doing a lot of R&D ourselves, we may help spark a green electricity revolution that will deliver breakthrough technologies priced lower than coal.»

This morning we're learning that the Sierra Club received $ 30 million from a natural gas company to fight coal, until its incoming Executive Director got the Board to agree in Sept 2010 to stop accepting money from fossil fuel companies.

Ken Anderson, the company's executive vice president and general manager, said in statement, «Significant changes in the regulatory climate and economy impact development projects and have disproportionately affected the near - term outlook for coal - based resources.

Others named in the 2015 invitation included Tennessee Valley Authority president Bill Johns, Christopher C. Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Energy & Environment Legal Institute, and «the owners and chief executives of coalmining and energy companies» including Alliance Resource Partners, Alpha Natural Resources, Consol Energy, Drummond Company, and United Coal Company.

Arch Coal and other coal companies invited former Florida Governor and likely presidential candidate Jeb Bush to be the keynote speaker at the 2015 Coal and Investment Leadership Forum, an invitation - only retreat that brings together coal industry executives, Republican donors, and other «stakeholders,» according to an invitation obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy and reported on by The GuardCoal and other coal companies invited former Florida Governor and likely presidential candidate Jeb Bush to be the keynote speaker at the 2015 Coal and Investment Leadership Forum, an invitation - only retreat that brings together coal industry executives, Republican donors, and other «stakeholders,» according to an invitation obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy and reported on by The Guardcoal companies invited former Florida Governor and likely presidential candidate Jeb Bush to be the keynote speaker at the 2015 Coal and Investment Leadership Forum, an invitation - only retreat that brings together coal industry executives, Republican donors, and other «stakeholders,» according to an invitation obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy and reported on by The GuardCoal and Investment Leadership Forum, an invitation - only retreat that brings together coal industry executives, Republican donors, and other «stakeholders,» according to an invitation obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy and reported on by The Guardcoal industry executives, Republican donors, and other «stakeholders,» according to an invitation obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy and reported on by The Guardian.

In June, 2010 the company along with Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, toured Otter Creek where Arch Coal executives stated that they will aggressively pursue state permitting and hope to begin mining by the middle of the decade.

In this case I wonder if he is acting as a paid advocate by the coal company (the article wasn't clear) or if he is just going off on his own hook about perceived executive - power abuses.

To the relief of coal company barons and the chagrin of health advocates, the Energy Independence executive order, takes aim at the Clean Power Plan, our nation's first regulations to reduce the amount of climate pollution from coal - fired power plants, among other safeguards of our climate and public health.

Our company was founded in 1988 by Mr. Robert E. Murray, our Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, who mortgaged everything he owned to the purchase a single continuous mining operation, The Ohio Valley Coal Company's Powhatan No. 6 Mine, which at the time had an annual output of approximately 1.2 million tons per year and was being company was founded in 1988 by Mr. Robert E. Murray, our Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, who mortgaged everything he owned to the purchase a single continuous mining operation, The Ohio Valley Coal Company's Powhatan No. 6 Mine, which at the time had an annual output of approximately 1.2 million tons per year and was being Company's Powhatan No. 6 Mine, which at the time had an annual output of approximately 1.2 million tons per year and was being closed.

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

The Kentucky solar project, for instance, began in early 2016 when Ryan Johns, project development executive of Berkeley Energy, decided he wanted to help diversify the company's portfolio as the coal mining industry declines.

Nicholas Akins, chief executive of AEP, one of the nation's largest carbon dioxide emitters, said that his company is already producing 21 percent less CO2 than it did in 2005 and that it plans to retire another 6,600 megawatts of coal plants by late 2015 that will bring it to a level 25 percent below 2005.

Those named in the invitation included Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, Tennessee Valley Authority president Bill Johns, and «the owners and chief executives of coal mining and energy companies» including Alliance Resource Partners, Alpha Natural Resources, Consol Energy, Drummond Company, Arch Coal, and United Coal Compcoal mining and energy companies» including Alliance Resource Partners, Alpha Natural Resources, Consol Energy, Drummond Company, Arch Coal, and United Coal CompCoal, and United Coal CompCoal Company.

In an apparent first salvo in a public relations campaign to shift blame for the Kemper power plant boondoggle away from himself and corporate management and onto state regulators, Southern Company chief executive officer Tom Fanning admitted this week that Kemper plant is not economically viable as a coal - burning power plant.

In an apparent first salvo in a public relations campaign to shift blame for the Kemper power plant boondoggle away from himself and corporate management and onto state regulators, Southern Company chief executive officer Tom Fanning admitted this week that the Kemper plant is not economically viable as a coal - burning power plant.

Although he said in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that independent spending does «not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption,» Justice Kennedy authored a ruling in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. that mining company executive Don Blankenship's $ 3 million in independent spending for a West Virginia justice gave rise to an unconstitutional «risk of actual bias» in a lawsuit against the company.

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