Sentences with phrase «coal interests gave»

In this 112th Congress alone, oil, gas and coal interests gave over $ 20 million of this «dirty energy money» to our Senators and Representatives, to influence their votes around industry - friendly measures from dismantling the power of regulatory bodies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to approving the Keystone pipeline, to opening up the outer - continental shelf to drilling.

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Many seasoned observers of climate science and policy feel it's hard to see how they will, given the pressures on political figures to focus on the here and now, and the variegated interests arrayed at the ranks of tables — from shrinking island states to oil monarchies to established and emerging powers sitting on mountains of coal — and the tough time our species has recognizing slow but consequential changes.

[54][55] Another factor was that in January 2011 Arch Coal acquired a 38 percent interest in the proposed terminal which gave it the right to guarantee «38 percent of the terminal's throughput and storage capacity».

With cap - and - trade Congress is giving away the money to its favorite special interests, especially such boondoggles as «clean coal».

Senator and Presidential Candidate Barack Obama recently voted against his own proposal, once it was seen that environmentalists were against giving millions of taxpayer dollars to coal interests: «Obama Refines His Position on Coal&racoal interests: «Obama Refines His Position on Coal&raCoal»

Given the costs and the lack of investor interest within the coal community itself, this technology is not likely to be economically viable on a meaningful scale by 2020.