Sentences with phrase «coal dust»

He remembers seeing the snow often turn black from coal dust and pollution within a day or two after falling on the ground.

Coal dust settles onto houses, farmland, and water sources.

Coal dust blows from the yard into neighboring communities.

This operation was depositing a black plume of coal dust in the water.

One forgets that the 19th - century worshipers came in from streets redolent of horse manure, to a building whose heating plant left coal dust on the higher reaches of the furniture.

MacInnis's father, Alex, was a miner at first, and Al can remember seeing him come home for dinner with coal dust all over his face, two eyes shining through the dirt.

The community of Curtis Bay in Baltimore's South Side is suffering from coal dust pollution from the CSX coal export terminal nearby.

The world's biggest coal companies want to ship 100 million tons of coal each year to Asia through Northwest ports — spreading toxic coal dust in dozens of our rail communities, clogging our railroads and ports, risking our families» health, and polluting our air and water.

Ending coal mining has health benefits — no more coal dust around mine sites, rail lines, dockyards.

Millions of tons of coal dust spewed from the Bellingham terminal would be the «nail in the coffin» for the Cherry Point Pacific herring, according to Fred, and would endanger animals higher up on the food chain such as Chinook salmon, migratory seabirds and orcas.

They've argued that coal dust coming off the trains would harm local air quality and that exporting the coal negates U.S. reductions in carbon emissions.

Coal dust billowing off the American coal trains careening through our towns is coating the homes and lungs of children in British Columbia.

The governor could determine whether the upcoming environmental review of Gateway Pacific Terminal in Cherry Point, Wash., for example, considers the effect of global greenhouse gas emissions from shipping coal overseas from the project, and not just local effects such as coal dust from trains, explained Macfarlane.

Flea droppings resemble coal dust, after a short time if this turns reddish brown then this is dried blood, proving that your dog has fleas.

Instead he's making sculptures that echo the themes of his performances and videos, such as a bicycle carved out of soap and a gold - plated shovel in a pile of coal dust meant to evoke South Africa's gold mines.

In front of Jannis Kounellis's Untitled, 1979, the narrator draws our attention to Kounellis's use of industrial - strength coal dust, and then traces BP's pre-history as the Anglo - Persian Oil Company responsible for tapping Iranian oil reserves — offering the country a paltry 16 % of profits.

Also at the Serpentine, German artist Reiner Ruthenbeck plays with perception, though his sculptures made from piles of crumpled paper or coal dust bristling with hedgehog - like iron spikes and his overturned chairs and tables strike a different note.

At Thomas Dane, Glen Ligon's velvety - textured black smudged stenciled and coal dust drawings were inspired by the books of the African - American author James Baldwin.

They include Stranger # 23, a large black on black painting featuring a stenciled passage from James Baldwin's Stranger in the Village, the letters picked out in sparkling coal dust.

Skaer's entry included sculptures made from compressed coal dust and a work that features the skull of a sperm whale.

She's the artist who carved coal dust and brought us the skull of a giant whale, Leo Benedictus gives us the lowdown on Lucy Skaer

Out of Work Men Searching for Coal Dust to Sell, West Hartlepool Gelatin silver print 15 3/4 x 24 in.

Since 1996, Ligon has used the essay as the basis of his «Stranger» series, including prints, drawings, and dense paintings made with oil stick and often coal dust that oscillate between legibility and obscurity.

Toxic emissions from the smokestacks — unwittingly called «cloud factories» by local kids — would waft over the sky in Little Village, while coal dust from the plants» stockpile settled onto houses and school grounds.

Another side effect of heat is that the normal solution of covering ones eyelashes with Vaseline did not stop coal dust accumulating there.

Jacobson and Masters also cite statistics from the Centers for Disease Control showing that coal dust kills some 2,000 U.S. mineworkers each year and has cost taxpayers about $ 35 billion in monetary and medical benefits to former miners since 1973.

In October 2010, Massey management stated that coal dust did not play a role in the disaster, as government investigators previously stated.

First, wind blowing over uncovered coal stockpiles results in fugitive coal dust emissions that are a source of PM2.5.

And which would be built — if everything went according to the plans then circulating — just north of town, meaning trains spewing coal dust chugging through the streets she knew and carrying coal destined for Asia.

On the day I arrived, the once white snow was now covered in a layer of black coal dust and grime.

signed, titled and dated «Glenn Ligon «Stranger Study # 11» 2012» on the reverse; further signed titled and dated «Glenn Ligon «Stranger Study # 11» 2012» on the overlap oilstick, acrylic and coal dust on linen 101.6 x 76.2 cm (40 x 30 in.)

The Governor said that coal exports could clog barge and train routes, increase diesel and coal dust pollution and boost amounts of toxic mercury drifting back to Oregon when Asian countries burn the coal.

Her works include tall, black, skittle - like sculptures made with coal dust and arranged in rows and in a pile on the floor.

Do you think Washington State should give coal companies permission to pollute the Columbia River with toxic coal dust and worsen the climate crisis?

We take a hard look at the scientific literature on the health impacts of coal dust, and we draw some lessons from existing coal export facilities elsewhere in North America.

At the bottom of the shaft I waded through some coal - black puddles, hitting my head occasionally on the low ceiling, breathing in coal dust and hot air, and sweating profusely.

«Alphabet 2008» a series of 26 sculptures made from Coal dust.

Alan Fryer, a spokesman for the Coal Alliance, an industry lobby, says any risk from coal dust is exaggerated.

Paul has been involved in winemaking for more than 35 years, and in that time he has demonstrated a passion for his craft in many of Australia's premium winegrowing regions.He started in the Hunter Valley, «best place in the world for semillon, medium bodied shiraz and coal dust, and it's close to Sydney where I grew up, (though my place of birth is Hong Kong, I'm sure my entry into wine was the conditioning I experienced by smelling the «fragrant harbour»).

The coal dust exploded, and Cyril came out singed, a Wile E. Coyote in Wellies.

Scrubbed of coal dust, cooled and compressed on site, the gases are then sent down a pipeline that snakes across the countryside to a sprawling power station on the outskirts of the industrial town of Angren, where they are burned to generate electricity.

Miners are at risk of silicosis, pneumoconiosis (black lung) and other diseases from coal dust.

The air is dense with coal dust and other particulates.

In addition to pneumoconiosis (scarring of the lung from exposure to coal dust or silica), COPD can occur because of dust exposure.

You believe the coal dust on these people; you grieve for their secrets.

Going from rags to riches is the American Dream, but this biopic of country - music legend Loretta Lynn (starring a spunky, radiant Sissy Spacek) emphasizes that hers is a Kentucky story — she's a honky - tonk honeysuckle rose born in coal dust and bred by the state's hardscrabble rural beauty.

GM's turbine program continued into the 1980s, with one of their last visible projects being a 1979 Cadillac Eldorado turbine car that ran on coal dust.