Sentences with phrase «coal industry in»

In this series of short articles, some of AirClim's partner organisations provide an insight into the domestic situation of the coal industry in Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.

Recently, West Virginia Democratic senator John D. Rockefeller IV, who has championed the coal industry in his state for 30 years, teamed up with Maine Republican senator Olympia Snowe to write a quietly impassioned letter to ExxonMobil's new chairman and C.E.O., Rex W. Tillerson.

As it is in Ohio and elsewhere in the United States, the coal industry in Poland is declining amid economic and environmental pressures.

Local power - plants are legal and now necessary given the success of the coal industry in watering down and delaying real action on coal pollution in Congress.

Joffan, despite what you think I know for a fact that if the coal industry in Gillette, Wyoming dried up the place would become a ghost town in no time flat.

This shows the stupidity of the Liberal Queensland Government's plan of bailing out the coal industry in that state — with the aim of exporting coal to India.

However, experts in industry and environmental groups say that won't be enough, and the situation can provide insight into challenges faced by the coal industry in Ohio and other Midwest states.

The wind and solar industries have created far more growth than the coal industry in the last several years, and this is expected to continue.

The coal industry in the United States has unjustified pull on the levers of democracy.

This enabled us to create more community organizers to fight the coal industry in their back yards.

We want to strengthen the dialogue between governments and the global coal industry in order to increase the awareness of the role low emissions coal plays in providing access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy for all.

As Wendy and I talked about her struggle against the powerful coal industry in the Hunter Valley, I thought that Wendy and Edward Loure, the 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize winner from Africa, would have a lot to talk about.

«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.»

R your right, climate change is political though, the iron lady» maggi thatcher» pork barreled the the science that rubbished the coal industry in favour of north sea natural gass & it was no secret that money was on the table for earth warming / climate change leaning recearch.

He went to work for the coal industry in 1998 and has been with it ever since.

«If you take the lifeline sent to the coal industry in this bill, the industry will have a future.

After WW2 and the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, coal was sold below cost.

Our trainings foster local leadership and steep learning in local traditions to yield powerful activism, such as the Pacific Warrior Training Program, which has mobilized hundreds of Indigenous activists across many Pacific islands to engage their communities on the impacts of climate change and participate in mass actions confronting the coal industry in Australia.

Since electric utilities were required to pay above world prices for British - produced coal, electricity prices became excessively high, and the British coal industry in essence became dependent on the electricity industry for its survival.

Insurance giant Allianz has announced it will no longer support the coal industry in a move designed to support the transition to a low - carbon economy.

it's election season and there are a lot of people who work in the coal industry in swing states.

Much has been said about the declining coal industry in Utah.

But EPA also recently approved 42 permits for Appalachian mining operations, including some mountaintop mines, and sided with the coal industry in opposing the rehearing of an appeals court case that could have decided whether the Army Corps has been improperly handling mountaintop permits.

Inner Mongolia has become the center of the coal industry in China — the nation that burns the most coal and, as a result, emits the most greenhouse gases in the world

Researcher Clark Williams - Derry said it is difficult to underestimate the impact a ban on thermal coal exports would have for the coal industry in the western U.S.

Bowling's story is emblematic of the boom - and - bust history of the coal industry in Appalachia, a largely rural 13 - state swath that runs from southern New York to northeastern Mississippi.

In his first State of the Union address late Tuesday, President Donald Trump touted the country's job growth in his first year, the strengthening economy, and — a key part of his campaign — the surprising pop in the coal industry in 2017.

Far easier to get some progress on cleaning up residential biomass, residential coal, «back yard» coal industries in China, India and elsewhere, than to stop China and India from building more coal fired power plants when they need more power to provide jobs, industry, and taxes.

Not exact matches

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.

Today, solar jobs vastly outnumber those in coal, and those numbers continue to grow — a recent report from the International Renewably Energy Agency estimated that employment in the solar industry expanded 17 times as fast as the US economy overall in 2016.

This is, in a nutshell, McConnell's case for reelection: that as Kentucky's heavyweight in Washington, he'll thwart the assault liberals are waging not just on the health care system and the coal industry but, more broadly, on the state's way of life.

In Australia, a clear link exists between climate denialism and the coal industry.

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to reverse the coal industry's declining fortunes and supported opening up offshore drilling in the Atlantic.

A housing and construction rebound has boosted industries including steel and coal, and while many sectors continue to struggle with overproduction, domestic demand has held up reasonably well, with trade data on Thursday showing a surprising improvement in imports.

Andrew Mellon was a successful financier who provided capital for corporations in industries including aluminum, steel, oil, coal, and coke.

It is hard to find a winner in the coal - mining industry these days but some investors were quick to spot a Perth - based winner yesterday in the form of Wesfarmers, which saw the value of its coal assets boosted by a deal in the Hunter Valley of NSW.

The coal industry was interested in ensuring that the Paris deal provides a role for low - emission coal - fired power plants and financial support for carbon capture and storage technology, the officials said.

Many of its citizens, after long careers in coal mining industry, struggle with chronic pain (some of which have since become hooked on opioids).

It's not solar or wind power that is cutting into the coal industry — but the explosion in natural gas as a result of fracking.

Responding to public outrage, the government has recently introduced a series of measures like making public the level of air pollution in Beijing and also plans to impose emission restrictions on the steel, coal and petrochemicals industries, among others.

President Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris deal in June, saying the accord would have cost America trillions of dollars, killed jobs, and hindered the oil, gas, coal and manufacturing industries.

The petroleum and coal product industry dropped 4.1 per cent to $ 5.7 billion in December, after five consecutive increases, Statistics Canada reported.

Heavy - equipment operators, truck drivers, mechanics and engineers from the coal industry may be able use their know - how in a variety of businesses, including the fledgling drone industry that's emerging in Hazard.

Given aging coal plants and the long, steady decline of the industry, putting coal miners to work in less - hazardous jobs seems both practical and appealing.

«We're still dealing with the aftermath of layoffs in the coal industry,» said Michael Cornett, director of agency expansion and public relations of the Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program, a nonprofit, federally funded workforce development organization established in 1968 and headquartered in Hazard.

But in the long run, the movement hopes to «start a conversation» about all aspects of the B.C. coal industry, from production to use and everything in between, says the Dogwood Initiative's Laura Benson.

Layoffs topped out in 2016, when the state's coal industry slumped to its lowest point in 118 years, according to a report by the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet.

But like so many miners in Hazard, surrounding Perry County and throughout eastern Kentucky, Bowling was laid off, another victim of the coal industry's steady decline nationwide, especially over the past decade.

Critics say the plan will make electricity more expensive and will reduce jobs in industries like coal.