Sentences with phrase «coal country who»

EIA also reports that U.S. coal production will continue to decline for the remainder of the Obama administration, a fact that offers little hope to the hardworking Americans in coal country who depend on this affordable and reliable energy resource for jobs.»

Nellie Bly was a scrappy, hard - driving, ambitious reporter from Pennsylvania coal country who sought out the most sensational news stories, often going undercover to expose social injustice.

Not exact matches

One silver lining: recent data shows that Americans who live in coal country, like the Appalachian region, aren't resting on their laurels.

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.

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.

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.

The Amsterdam - based InterAcademy Council — a group that represents 150 national scientific and engineering academies — released a report this week detailing how countries can shift from burning coal and other greenhouse - gas emitting fuels to cleaner energy while also introducing modern forms of energy to the billions worldwide who rely on charcoal, firewood or even dung as their fuel.

Yang, who focuses on emerging economies, said her research also has shown that many other fast - growing developing countries have lower coal plant standards than India and China, and few incentives to build cleaner plants.

David Streets, a senior scientist who studies historic mercury emissions at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, said mercury emissions have gone down in the United States and Europe, but a rush in coal use in some fast - growing countries like China, and a resurgence of artisanal gold mining in places like Africa, is offsetting the reductions.

«The administration continues to push an agenda of job - killing regulations that could strangle this country's energy industries, in particular coal,» said Rogers, who hails from a major coal - producing state.

In fact, the country is currently firing all of its thermal power plants — LNG, coal, diesel and fuel oil — said Sauer, who added that it's «quite unusual.»

And by placing their short sighted greed, ignorance, and stupidity first, the unholy polluting coalition of oil producers and coal burners has told the world that they don't care who else they hurt by continuing their dirty addiction, killing reefs and drowning islands and coasts, and imperiling millions in poor countries.

As was explored here before, one question is, «When coal flows between countries, who «owns» the CO2?»

The other group had to defend James E. Hansen, the NASA climatologist who had already become a strong advocate for particular climate policies at that time and, more recently, got himself arrested in coal country.

I know of quite a few economists who would say it's completely unrealistic to think a coal - producing country would constrain such commerce unless and until there's an economic cost in doing so.

Finally, here's Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, the University of Chicago climate scientist (and now also purveyor of the greenhouse blues) who in 2010 broached the issue of «who owns the CO2 emissions» when coal moves between countries:

It's been two years since the downturn's worst hit coal country, but for the people who live there the wound is tender.

The reason both countries, who have large readily available coal reserves are so heavily reliant on fossil fueled electricity generation is because, without carbon pricing, it's slightly cheaper than nuclear power.

Only 7 % of the people in sub-Saharan African countries who lack access to energy live in countries with producing coal assets.

And for those of you who aren't in Tennessee but who live reasonably close to a coal plant or know people who do, Environmental Health News has a list of over 100 news stories from around the country, a significant number of which are regional papers reporting on the risk of similar collapses in their communities.

Trump is handing our country over to fossil fuel corporations, who will desecrate our public lands and defile our oceans for dirty oil and coal.

Amber Whittington, who lives in the heart of Appalachia's coal country, is one of many who are working to end mountaintop removal mining.

When the Clean Air Act was passed decades ago, coal plants received special treatment that effectively exempted them from controlling their pollution and safely disposing of their waste, a gift that has allowed them to keep operating and profiting at the expense of Americans around the country who are getting sick and dying prematurely from exposure to coal plant pollution.

«This disclosure paints a different picture — of a peer who attacks clean energy whilst seeking to extend the lifetime of the coal industry in this country.»

Many are men and women from coal country and oil patch states who built their platforms on promises to encourage the use of fossil fuels.

COAL - fired power plant closures have become the order of the day for Australia's virtue - signalling and global warming theory - obsessed political class who think that destroying the country's industrial heartland, and imposing crippling energy - poverty on its citizens is a worthwhile price to pay for «saving the planet».

Giles Dickson, head of environmental policies and global advocacy for Alstom in Paris, said countries with no limits on coal plant financing would move in to replace those who can not provide export credits.

Represented Canadian utility in coal supply dispute against its supplier who claimed force majeure based on expropriation by Latin American country

His stories for The Times have taken him to Greece, where he wrote about the country's growing ranks of nurses who aren't really nurses; Ukraine, where he covered the economic devastation caused by war; and Poland, where he followed so - called rathole miners into illegal coal pits.