Sentences with phrase «coal giant»

In an official submission to the White House earlier this year, U.S. coal giant Peabody Energy claims that greenhouse gas is a «non-existent harm» and a «benign gas that is essential to all life.»
«It may well be in this environment where oil is above $ 100 a barrel that it is economically viable and valuable for nations that are rich in coal, like China, to use that coal and to sequester the CO2 for purposes of producing more oil,» says Vic Svec, senior vice president of investor relations and communications at U.S. coal giant Peabody, which is also a part owner of GreenGen.
Pulling the same legal levers as those involved in its climate change investigation of ExxonMobil, the New York state attorney general's office obtained an agreement from coal giant Peabody Energy to end misleading statements and disclose risks associated with global warming.
Peabody Energy follows rival U.S. coal giant Arch Coal in filing for bankruptcy this year, and according to Reuters, producers covering around 45 percent of U.S. coal output have filed for bankruptcy in recent years.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the agreement reached with coal giant Peabody Energy over its misleading conduct on climate risk disclosure «represents an unprecedented first step in the absolutely critical work of forcing coal and other fossil fuel companies to start being honest about the damage they are doing to our planet.»
On 2011/12/22 the Wall Street Journal published online the following «Guohua, a unit of China's state - owned coal giant Shenhua Group, is acquiring interests in the 65 - megawatt Bluff Point and 75 - megawatt Studland Bay wind farms.»
In June, Robert Murray, the chief executive of coal giant Murray Energy Corp., told E&E News that Pruitt assured him the agency would review the endangerment finding in the coming months.
British climate denier and coal baron Matt Ridley is the most cited individual in coal giant Peabody Energy's official submission to the White House addressing the company's concerns regarding new policies proposed by the US Government around greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
Don Curtis, a manager at coal giant Peabody Energy, said his family was lucky.
«We capture impurities» While Huaneng is leading the way in capturing carbon for coal - fired power plants, an industry that is traditionally tied with CCUS, the Chinese coal giant Shenhua is trying to adopt CCUS technology in a new sector: factories that produce chemicals out of coal.
Coastal communities in the US state are suing oil, gas and coal giants for the cost of dealing with sea level rise.
Robert Murray, owner of the Ohio - based coal giant, Murray Energy Corporation, filed a defamation lawsuit against a prominent liberal blogger and The Huffington Post.
Indeed, the contours of compromise legislation are already visible from the cap and trade proposal that green giants Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense Fund announced along with coal giant Duke Energy late last year.
While it avoided overtly challenging climate science, Anglo - Swiss coal giant Glencore also dismissed the risk of stranded assets in its sustainability report this week.
Although this language comes from a 1970s advertisement from coal giant American Electric Power, this claim would be right at home with today's «clean coal» advertising.
«Court Documents Show Coal Giant Peabody Energy Funded Dozens Of Climate Denial Groups,» DeSmogBlog, June 13, 2016.
While it still sends more coal to its longtime customers Japan and Korea, that balance could shift as Australian coal giants sink billions into new projects like China First.
Since Paris, U.S. coal giant Arch Coal filed for bankruptcy and Peabody Energy warned it may have to do the same.
Speakers from coal giant Peabody Energy, among others, will make a presentation to highlight the role that coal and other fuels can play in curbing the...
Just look at value of coal giant Peabody Energy.
«Canadian Climate Denial Group, Friends of Science, Named as Creditor in Coal Giant's Bankruptcy Files,» DeSmogBlog, June 20, 2016.
Peabody would become the latest U.S. coal giant to fall victim to gloomy coal market conditions.
Our recent «Energy Access» report found that coal giant Peabody Energy Corp's assertion that coal can help to alleviate energy poverty in Africa and India is totally unfounded and smacks of desperation.
U.S. coal giants» exports to Europe and Asia are up, and with that global greenhouse gas emissions rise, even if U.S. emissions are falling
ERDOS, China — Shenhua Group Corp., one of China's coal giants, has built much of its success at the cost of climate change.
And given that Toyota is by no means the only corporation aiming for 100 % renewable energy in its manufacturing operations, the coal giants are likely fretting too.
David W. Schnare, director of the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic, subsequently emailed a response neither confirming nor denying that Horner or his organizations have received funding from the coal giant.
In July 2011, billionaire Forrest E. Mars, Jr. reached an agreement with BNSF Railway and coal giant Arch Coal to buy one - third of the Tongue River Railroad.
The origins of the prominence of most of these greenhouse skeptics are spelled out, remarkably enough in several annual reports of the $ 400 million coal giant, the Western Fuels Association.
David Schnare declined to give any additional details on ANR funding, and sent an email «neither confirming nor denying that Horner or his organizations have received funding from the coal giant
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