Sentences with phrase «coal executives on»

Where has he been the past decade when the Bush White House essentially had oil and coal executives on speed dial?

Not exact matches

Prior to HM3, he was an engineer, executive, and serial investor, starting with 21 years in the R&D function of Union Carbide, where he worked on converting coal into gasoline.

Surrounded by coal industry workers, donned in khaki pants and polo shirts, President Trump signed an executive order in March pulling the plug on his predecessor's plan to close hundreds of coal - fired power plants to reduce carbon emissions.

On Tuesday the President spoke at Georgetown University and promised a package of executive orders and administrative rulings that aim, pretty much, to shut down the use of coal.

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».

Noted the National Republican Congressional Committee in its take on Hein's passing of the cup, «Ulster County executive Mike Hein just dropped a huge load of coal into the stockings of local and national Democrats this afternoon by announcing that he would not run for Congress in NY - 19.»

Regulations on the coal industry are driving massive layoffs and the shuttering of coal plants in Pennsylvania, injecting environmental issues into that state's hotly contested Senate race between incumbent Democrat Bob Casey Jr. and Republican challenger and coal mining executive Tom Smith.

«My administration is putting an end to the war on coal,» President Donald Trump said March 28, before he signed an executive order that lifted the ban on coal leases on federal land.

Differences on renewable portfolio standard Brendon Cechovic, executive director of Washington Conservation Voters, said the differences between the candidates on coal likely would become clearer after the election.

«Australia is the canary in the coal mine when it comes to the impact of climate change on water resources,» says Ross Young, executive director of the Water Services Association of Australia.

Scott Segal, executive director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which represents utility interests in Washington, said Bloomberg's findings about the effect of the new EPA rule on coal plants are «very consistent» with what his group concluded in its own review of the regulation.

But a vote by the Executive Board in favor of the methodology panel's recommendation would immediately freeze all outstanding issuance requests and put on hold applications by new coal plants requesting admission to the CDM.

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.

March 28, 2017 • The president on Tuesday signed an executive order with the intention of helping bring back coal jobs.

Calvin Coolidge In 1923, President Coolidge issued an executive order eliminating 10 acres of land from the monument to allow for coal mining on the west side of Amalik Bay.

As alternatives to Big Oil and Big Coal emerge, it would be a mistake for executives to rely on loyalty or love from the public.

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.

Speech of Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at the World Coal Association International Coal & Climate Summit Warsaw, 18 November 2013 Read more...

Fredrick D. Palmer, executive vice president for legal and external affairs at Peabody Energy of St. Louis, one of the world's largest coal producers, said it was not really necessary to lobby the Bush administration on the issue, because Big Coal's interests and the administration's views were in sync from the stcoal producers, said it was not really necessary to lobby the Bush administration on the issue, because Big Coal's interests and the administration's views were in sync from the stCoal's interests and the administration's views were in sync from the start.

Leading executives from the solar and wind industries went on the offensive this week at a climate conference in Paris, telling coal executives that renewable energy is the future, and that they had better get used to it.

Addressing potential investors in Manhattan on June 17, 2010 Peabody's chairman and chief executive, Gregory Boyce, stated that «a long - term supercycle for coal,» driven by rapidly growing demand in Asia, would be extremely profitable.

1 Executive Summary 2 Scope of the Report 3 The Case for Hydrogen 3.1 The Drive for Clean Energy 3.2 The Uniqueness of Hydrogen 3.3 Hydrogen's Safety Record 4 Hydrogen Fuel Cells 4.1 Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell 4.2 Fuel Cells and Batteries 4.3 Fuel Cell Systems Durability 4.4 Fuel Cell Vehicles 5 Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure 5.1 Hydrogen Station Hardware 5.2 Hydrogen Compression and Storage 5.3 Hydrogen Fueling 5.4 Hydrogen Station Capacity 6 Hydrogen Fueling Station Types 6.1 Retail vs. Non-Retail Stations 6.1.1 Retail Hydrogen Stations 6.1.2 Non-Retail Hydrogen Stations 6.2 Mobile Hydrogen Stations 6.2.1 Honda's Smart Hydrogen Station 6.2.2 Nel Hydrogen's RotoLyzer 6.2.3 Others 7 Hydrogen Fueling Protocols 7.1 SAE J2601 7.2 Related Standards 7.3 Fueling Protocols vs. Vehicle Charging 7.4 SAE J2601 vs. SAE J1772 7.5 Ionic Compression 8 Hydrogen Station Rollout Strategy 8.1 Traditional Approaches 8.2 Current Approach 8.3 Factors Impacting Rollouts 8.4 Production and Distribution Scenarios 8.5 Reliability Issues 9 Sources of Hydrogen 9.1 Fossil Fuels 9.2 Renewable Sources 10 Methods of Hydrogen Production 10.1 Production from Non-Renewable Sources 10.1.1 Steam Reforming of Natural Gas 10.1.2 Coal Gasification 10.2 Production from Renewable Sources 10.2.1 Electrolysis 10.2.2 Biomass Gasification 11 Hydrogen Production Scenarios 11.1 Centralized Hydrogen Production 11.2 On - Site Hydrogen Production 11.2.1 On - site Electrolysis 11.2.2 On - Site Steam Methane Reforming 12 Hydrogen Delivery 12.1 Hydrogen Tube Trailers 12.2 Tanker Trucks 12.3 Pipeline Delivery 12.4 Railcars and Barges 13 Hydrogen Stations Cost Factors 13.1 Capital Expenditures 13.2 Operating Expenditures 14 Hydrogen Station Deployments 14.1 Asia - Pacific 14.1.1 Japan 14.1.2 Korea 14.1.3 China 14.1.4 Rest of Asia - Pacific 14.2 Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) 14.2.1 Germany 14.2.2 The U.K. 14.2.3 Nordic Region 14.2.4 Rest of EMEA 14.3 Americas 14.3.1 U.S. West Coast 14.3.2 U.S. East Coast 14.3.3 Canada 14.3.4 Latin America 15 Selected Vendors 15.1 Air Liquide 15.2 Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. 15.3 Ballard Power Systems 15.4 FirstElement Fuel Inc. 15.5 FuelCell Energy, Inc. 15.6 Hydrogenics Corporation 15.7 The Linde Group 15.8 Nel Hydrogen 15.9 Nuvera Fuel Cells 15.10 Praxair 15.11 Proton OnSite / SunHydro 15.11.1 Proton Onsite 15.11.2 SunHydro 16 Market Forecasts 16.1 Overview 16.2 Global Hydrogen Station Market 16.2.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.2.2 Hydrogen Stations Capacity 16.2.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.3 Asia - Pacific Hydrogen Station Market 16.3.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.3.2 Hydrogen Stations Capacity 16.3.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.4 Europe, Middle East and Africa 16.4.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.4.2 Hydrogen Station Capacity 16.4.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.5 Americas 16.5.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.5.2 Hydrogen Station Capacity 16.5.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 17 Conclusions 17.1 Hydrogen as a Fuel 17.2 Rollout of Fuel Cell Vehicles 17.3 Hydrogen Station Deployments 17.4 Funding Requirements 17.5 Customer Experience 17.6 Other Findings

May Boeve, 350.org's Executive Director, visited the region and our team on the ground to see the impacts of coal pollution.

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.»

«The fact that wind power is now cheaper than coal and gas in a country with some of the world's best fossil fuel resources shows that clean energy is a game changer which promises to turn the economics of power systems on its head,» Michael Liebreich, chief executive officer of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said in a statement today.

(It might work better if coal executives didn't sit on the board.)

«The executive order also demands the Department of the Interior lift its coal leasing moratorium on public lands.

John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace, said: «The EU needs to adopt a science - based cap on emissions, ditch plans for dirty new coal plants and nuclear power stations that will give tiny emission cuts at enormous and dangerous cost, end aviation expansion and ban wasteful products like incandescent lightbulbs.»

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.

Even as some utility executives are joining environmentalists in supporting controls on carbon emissions, TXU is betting $ 10 billion on 11 new coal power plants that will produce huge amounts of global warming gases for decades to come.

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.

Other technologies are right on the heels, clean renewable technology, that are going to continue to beat coal in the marketplace,» said Stephen Smith, executive director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, a non-profit that promotes clean energy.

Specifically, the executive order directs the EPA to not only rewrite the Clean Power Plan, but to also rewrite the new source performance standards (NSPS) for coal - fired power plants that required state of the art air pollution control technologies on any newly constructed coal plants.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt promoted the long - awaited executive order during his appearance on ABC's This Week Sunday, as he promised that the order would «bring back manufacturing jobs across the country, coal jobs across the country» and shilled a «a pro-growth and pro-environment approach» from the White House.

Reflecting on the submissions from the various speakers, and participants, Benjamin Sporton, Chief Executive of the World Coal Association (WCA) said, «There is no doubt that coal has a crucial role to play in the achievement of the SCoal Association (WCA) said, «There is no doubt that coal has a crucial role to play in the achievement of the Scoal has a crucial role to play in the achievement of the SDGs.

On Tuesday, President Trump signed a sweeping executive order to roll back a number of climate change policies, including plans to curb greenhouse pollution from coal - fired power plants.

President Trump visited the EPA headquarters on March 28 and before an audience of coalminers, signed an executive order to overturn the Clean Power Plan to curb carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants, and to allow coalmining leases on federal lands.

In statements and executive orders since taking office, he has instructed virtually every agency of his government to review its procedures, with an eye toward making things easier on coal mining and coal plants.

A long history of dependence on a coal - based energy system also leaves its signature: «Historically, coal - producing areas have had cheaper power prices and therefore less of a solar market,» pointed out Richard Lawrence, executive director of the North American Board of Certified Energy Professionals.