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One has to wonder whether this deeply flawed and misleading study is part of the administration's continued attempts to prop up the coal industry at all costs, especially after FERC rejected the DOE's fact - free proposal to bail out coal and nuclear plants late last year.

Ironically, both the current PM, Kevin Rudd, and the previous PM, John Howard, are believers; yet both support the coal industry at the expense of the health of «God's creation».

This is obviously a debatable assumption as one could for instance argue that a more rapid growth in renewable energy could allow for less energy efficiency gains and growing demand for electricity, or perhaps a prolonging of the coal industry at the cost of natural gas.

«It also stands as a major reality check to President Trump and his attempts to use public lands and coal to prop up the dying coal industry at the expense of our climate.»

Buffett shared his sentiments on the coal industry at the 52nd annual shareholders meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway holding company...

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After stints at General Electric (GE), conglomerate Cooper Industries, and Fiskars, a Finnish gardening products manufacturer, Fritz in 2000 accepted an offer to run Union Pacific's coal division.

Donald Trump is focusing heavily on coal - industry jobs at the expense of cleaner forms of energy.

U.S. Coal Receipts at Manufacturing Plants by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code

U.S. Coal Consumption at Manufacturing Plants by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code

-- Here's a closer look at why Trump will struggle to save the US coal industry even if he manages to repeal many of Obama's environmental policies.

Sixty - five percent of the world's coal production is unprofitable at today's prices, a new research report by Wood Mackenzie, a commercial intelligence company often cited by investment analysts and the coal industry itself, concluded.

Currently coal inventories are high in the electric power industry however recent data shows that inventories at eastern utilities is falling because of increasing domestic and international demand.

Another major Trump move aimed partly at helping the coal industry — repealing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan — also won't make that much of a difference for coal, said MIT's Knittel.

In his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump flicked at a lie about the US coal industry that he began telling early on the campaign trail: that there was a «war on coal,» that coal's jobs will return, that regulations by the Obama administration are responsible for its ills, and that the measures he has taken in office can reverse its fortunes.

A Fair Work Commission decision to scrap a workplace agreement at a NSW coal terminal sends ripples through the mining industry, with the issue of workers» entitlements tipped to become an election issue.

Additionally, Trump has vowed to revitalise the coal industry, but with abundant natural gas replacing coal in electricity markets, it is difficult to see how he can accomplish this, without heavily subsidizing coal --- a move that he would be at pains to justify.

(CNN)- Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democratic Senate nominee in Kentucky, released a radio ad Wednesday slamming President Barack Obama for «pie in the sky regulations» aimed at her state's coal industry.

When you look at the number of people who are dying on the job, when you look at the health of communities, when you look at the bp oil spill, the death of coal miners, we are paying in a different way for industries that are dirty.

The cost of one project can run at the $ 1 billion level or higher, causing critics to say that full use of CCS on most of the world's coal plants would bankrupt the energy industry and possibly spur earthquakes (ClimateWire, June 19).

«These significant alterations are likely to lead to saltier and more perennial streamflows throughout Appalachia, where at least 7 percent of the land has already been disturbed by mountaintop - removal mining,» says Nippgen, who notes that mountaintop removal is not part of Wyoming's coal industry.

In an attempt to polish coal's tarnished image, the industry has launched a series of ads and other PR efforts (to the tune of «Jingle Bells»): Frosty the coal man is a jolly happy soul He's abundant here in America and he helps our economy roll Frosty the coal man's getting cleaner every day He's affordable and adorable and helps workers keep their pay Beyond caroling coal available online (isn't a lump of coal at Christmas traditionally a bad thing?)

This figure has halved over the last decade, as the industry has improved its manufacturing processes, and it is only a fraction of that emitted by coal, at over 300g / kWh.

That's what Richard Reavey, vice president of public affairs of Cloud Peak Energy Inc., a major coal miner in the western United States, appears to have done on June 29, 2015, when he presented a 24 - page slideshow at an industry conference organized by the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute in Snowmass, Cocoal miner in the western United States, appears to have done on June 29, 2015, when he presented a 24 - page slideshow at an industry conference organized by the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute in Snowmass, CoCoal Mining Institute in Snowmass, Colo..

And action is going to take money: the IEA estimates at least $ 20 billion over the next decade, whereas the industry group American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity says it will cost $ 17 billion for CCS to be available by 2025.

Similar examples of the federal government at work range from the creation of an industry for producing natural gas from coal seams to the ongoing Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA - E), a small - scale funding agency with outsized ambitions.

With the Calvert Cliff's project at a critical juncture this summer, Constellation signaled that it might compel EDF to purchase some coal - fired power plants, an option EDF's purchase agreement provided — a provision EDF hadn't expected to have to meet, industry officials said.

Solar panels could produce electricity at the same price as coal - and natural gas - burning power plants by the end of this decade if countries direct resources at this rapidly advancing corner of the energy industry, according to the Paris - based International Energy Agency.

But some researchers at the Chinese coal industry simply do not believe that the glory days are over.

Further, Chinese officials have announced plans to explicitly cap China's total energy use at four billion metric tons of coal - equivalent by 2015; they also have drafted a «New Energy Industry Development Plan» that would invest amore than $ 750 billion in «new energy,» which includes nuclear, in the next decade.

Keeping in mind the enormous stake that panel members ExxonMobil and Shell have in the oil, natural gas and coal industries, here is a look at the panel's take on why oil and coal have been so difficult to replace by the following alternative energy sources: Natural gas ExxonMobil favors boosting the U.S.'s consumption of natural gas, in part, because it produces at least 50 percent less greenhouse gas per hour when burned compared with coal, Nazeer Bhore, ExxonMobil senior technology advisor, said during the panel.

Many of the representatives at COP 22 are worried about a Trump presidency because he has called climate change a «hoax,» pledged to «cancel» the Paris agreement, repeal many of Pres. Barack Obama's climate initiatives and has promised to revive the U.S. coal industry.

Industry advocates brag that the United States, which has 27 percent of all known coal reserves, is «the Saudi Arabia of coal,» with enough to burn for the next 180 years at the current rate of use.

Environmentalists say that CCS is at a point of development similar to the point scrubbers were at in the 1990s, but backers of the coal industry say it's nowhere close.

Ankney worked in the Montana coal industry for over 30 years, arriving in Colstrip in the early 1980s to build the massive draglines used at the mine.

«The U.S. coal industry does not have a bright future — and quite possibly no future at all in the long term — unless there are reversals in the factors that have brought this about,» said Robert Stavins, a professor of business and government at Harvard University.

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And industry leaders have focused recently on ways to impose cleaner coal technologies, including at a major conference in Delhi earlier this month featuring high - level government and industry leaders focusing on coal gasification, carbon capture and storage, upgrades and other measures to improve efficiency and reduce pollution.

«The coal industry is desperately looking for positives, but most appear to come from their own PR campaigns claiming that coal is the solution to energy poverty or that coal is amazing,» James Leaton, head of research at the nonprofit Carbon Tracker Initiative, said of the industry's ongoing slide in the online journal World Finance.

Industries that use coal as a feedstock for manufacturing plastics, fertilizers, and other chemicals need such materials, and scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are working to oblige.

Schnare was also General Counsel at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute which has reportedly taken money from the coal industry.

In raw numbers, here's what the electric power industry's abandonment of coal looks like: This year, 24 coal - fired electricity generators at 14 power plants in 11 states are expected to shut down, followed by another 22 coal generators in 2018, according to

The coal industry will have to innovate in order to stage a return to its former status as America's primary source of electricity, said James Van Nostrand, a law professor and director of the Center for Energy and Sustainable Development at West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.Va.

In a speech before the World Coal Association, which also held a conference in Warsaw this week, Figueres did take a hard line that squares with the IPCC's carbon budget when she told coal industry representatives that they will need to leave most coal reserves in the ground unless the industry comes up with ways to capture and store CO2 at every operational plCoal Association, which also held a conference in Warsaw this week, Figueres did take a hard line that squares with the IPCC's carbon budget when she told coal industry representatives that they will need to leave most coal reserves in the ground unless the industry comes up with ways to capture and store CO2 at every operational plcoal industry representatives that they will need to leave most coal reserves in the ground unless the industry comes up with ways to capture and store CO2 at every operational plcoal reserves in the ground unless the industry comes up with ways to capture and store CO2 at every operational plant.

Galuszka investigates the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in this bracing inquiry into the corporate culture at Massey Energy and how the coal industry conquered a landscape's body and soul.

The coal industry is certainly suffering at this stage, with the natural gas energy benefiting.

While most of your points regarding the coal industry are spot on, I do believe some of the thermal coal players offer some value at current prices.

«The Develop Industry Excellence Awards marks the time of year when the people who are at the creative coal - face of the business are recognised for just how remarkable they are,» Stuart Dinsey, publisher of Develop and MD of Intent Media.

This is an important discussion you've started here because the coal industry (with a $ 35 million clean» coal campaign) and DOE (with its recent announcement about FutureGen being «restructured») are already hard at work telling partial truths and raising impossible hopes.

As I wrote then: A folk singer — in this case Pete Seeger — has just as legitimate a place at the table as a first grader, a retiree, a coal - industry lobbyist, a climate scientist or one of the diplomats negotiating in Bali over how to revive an ailing climate treaty.

Since a big recession might hit coal - burning utilities» customers more than other utility customers (to name one example) or hit coal - using industries like cement and steel more than others, one has to look carefully not only at CO2 emissions changes but at underlying economic activity or personal activity changes and how those are tied to emissions in a disaggregated way.