Sentences with phrase «coal country of»

Ken grew up in the coal country of southwestern Virginia before receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Virginia Tech and a Law Degree from Washington and Lee University.

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, «Matewan» celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage.

• In the hard - scrabble coal country of Pennsylvania, employment is hard to come by.

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The emergence of low - cost natural gas in the U.S., largely uncovered through fracking techniques, is one of the major reasons that the country has been able to lower its carbon emissions and has started to ween itself off of coal use.

As a whole, those counties were about 1 - in - 5 votes cast in the state and are a mix of the factories around Youngstown, the farms down the Ohio River Valley, former coal country in the south and into the Cincinnati suburbs.

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions against 13 Chinese and North Korean organizations Washington accused of helping evade nuclear restrictions against Pyongyang and supporting the country through trade of commodities like coal.

Kansas is still largely dependent on coal, however, and is one of the country's top hubs for crude oil and natural gas production.

In his first State of the Union address late Tuesday, President Donald Trump touted the country's job growth in his first year, the strengthening economy, and — a key part of his campaign — the surprising pop in the coal industry in 2017.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis travels to the middle of coal country to get some answers.

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.

The Taiwanese man, Tsang Yung Yuan, is accused of coordinating «North Korean coal exports with a North Korean broker operating in a third country, and he has a history of other sanctions evasion activities,» according to the U.N. listing.

With the Chinese market a major driver of coal demand in Asia, any policy changes in the country will affect prices, contributing to the likelihood of continued price volatility in the seaborne coal market, wrote Wood Mackenzie's principal analyst for mining and metals fundamentals research, Rory Simington in a Nov. 16 report.

He was born, raised and still lives in Hazard, Kentucky, a small town in the southeastern corner of the state, deep in the heart of Appalachia's coal country.

Clinton said she had a policy to help coal country benefit from creating renewable energy «because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?»

China has already hit peak coal, but the fossil fuel does still account for 65 % of the country's power generated by source.

Europe saw a record 10 gigawatts of coal plant closures in 2016, and countries including Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, and Portugal are working toward aggressive coal retirement schedules or, in the case of the UK, complete phase - out plans.

Since the bulk of the United States» coking coal is sold to other countries, tariffs on foreign steel would shrink the international market for coal and may break Trump's promise to resuscitate the US coal industry.

And much of the country's so - called war on pollution is centred on coal where the change in direction is just as startling.

A skeptic might argue that this does not necessitate peak coal, because other developing countries home to billions of people are still nowhere near the level of electricity use of the Western world.

China's natural gas demand has been boosted by price cuts aimed at switching users from coal to the cleaner - burning fuel, according to one of the country's biggest gas distributors.

To support locally - driven efforts in coal country to spur job growth, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross today announced that the Department's Economic Development...

Trump made coal country's plight a major focus of his campaign.

An article in Scientific American last year titled «Inside a Western Town That Refuses to Quit Coal» said the plant emits nearly 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, earning a spot among the top 20 carbon - producing power plants in the country.

Eighty per cent of Canadian exports to these countries are raw or semi-processed goods (e.g. beef, coal, lumber) while 80 % of imports are high value - added goods (e.g. autos, machinery, computer and electrical components).

That statement may come as a surprise to non-UK readers, many of whom might well be forgiven for thinking the country's steel mills had gone the way of other legacy industries such as coal mining and shipbuilding.

He challenged lawmakers to drink from it and said the stream rule was one of the only safety measures protecting people in coal country.

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If coal is to Australian politics as pipelines are to Canada's, the head of the country's largest coal - fueled energy company has just done the...

Calling the United States «the biggest polluter and the biggest energy user in the world,» Turner said the country needs to take the lead in ridding itself of coal and oil dependence.

The country plans to stop using nuclear energy by 2022, but Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has resisted calls to set a deadline for ending the use of coal.

In India, for example, the average life expectancy is 301/2 years, compared to 681/2 years in the United States; the average annual income is less than $ 40, compared to $ 1,469 in the U.S. Energy utilized annually per capita, which is a rough index of living standard, is in some countries equivalent to.02 tons of coal, compared to 8 tons, or 400 times as much, in the U.S.. Two thirds of the world usually goes to bed hungry at night.

Since the ACLU protects the KKK and other disliked groups, how about a little support for this atheist, who is simply the canary in the coal mine when it comes to warning us of the creeping descent into Shariah law in this country.

Some environmental groups are worried over the rise in coal exports from multiple countries (including the United States and Australia) to China, which burns half of the six billion tons the world burns annually.

That deal allows Stanbroke to take control of 40 QGC properties spread across the heart of Queensland's coal seam gas country, from west of Chinchilla to south - west of Dalby and help it secure supply of cattle for its processing business.

Arnold Palmer is the son of Milfred (Deacon) Palmer, a no - nonsense kind of native of the Pennsylvania coal and steel valleys, who in 1921 became the green keeper at the new nine - hole Latrobe Country Club some 30 miles east of Pittsburgh.

As we roll through coal country hollows long since tapped out, Bobcats coach Larry Hunter explains how the MAC hopes to model itself after the Atlantic 10, which grew from mid-major shoot into big - time flytrap during the 1990s despite being in the shadow of the Big East.

The legacy that has occurred because of Thatcher's closure of the pits and the privatisation of the industry means we are importing about 54 million tonnes of coal from countries that we can't even trust to deliver.

Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club commented: «Mike Bloomberg's partnership with the Sierra Club and our more than 3 million members and supporters has put our country on a path to cleaner air and cleaner water, good - paying clean energy jobs, and healthier communities that are safe from toxic coal pollution».

Cooper passed along a long list of events Paul has held in the state in recent months, ranging from visiting a summer camp in Louisville's impoverished West End to a roundtable with local elected officials in Corbin about how to battle a opioid epidemic in Eastern Kentucky's coal country.

The energy and climate change secretary said the moves ensuring no new coal energy is permitted without CCS made the UK one of the most «environmentally ambitious» countries in the world.

Indeed, the last time that so few of us highlighted crime as one of the key national issues, the country was just edging its way out of the last recession whilst the PM John Major was announcing plans to close coal mines and the Queen was about to famously surmise the year as Annus Horribilis.

«Theresa May can wring her hands at the inequality that scars our country,» he told an audience on site of the former Orgreave coal mine in Rotherham, south Yorkshire, today.

Meanwhile, Eastern Kentucky is coal country, and if Trump crushes Clinton by landslide proportions there, he could be on his way to exceeding expectations in the mining and mill towns of southern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, too.

If Rockland County is the «canary in the coal mine» for the rest of the country, then at this rate the canary isn't going to make it.

And there has been plenty of coal burning in countries such as China, which now burns some 3 billion metric tons of the fuel rock per year, largely without the pollution controls that would scrub out the SO2, as is sometimes done in the U.S..

In the developing countries, this source is likely to be associated with cooking, while in Eastern Europe the use of coal for heating seems to be the most probable reason.

Yet John Thompson, director of the fossil transition project at the Clean Air Task Force, said Kemper still could open the door for CO2 capture with countries like Poland and India with low - rank coals, by lowering costs for the second generation of plants.

Instead, with the imposition of a cap - and - trade program, O'Connor said, people looked at the sources of coal and realized they could obtain it from different parts of the country with lower sulfur, cutting emissions at less cost.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

The glut of cheap gas and tightening regulations on air pollutants have prompted the planned closure of 175 coal - fired power plants by 2016, representing 8.5 percent of all coal - fueled electricity capacity in the country.