Sentences with phrase «coal lobby»

Rick brought up an issue that the clean coal lobby usually mentions when we got to talking about the livelihood that so many families depend on the coal industry for.

This last minute change of heart from Estonia is indefensible and biased towards coal lobby interests,» said Joanna Flisowska, Coal Policy Coordinator with Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe.»

The two - decade history of this long - developing rule is a frustrating anecdote of the success of the anti-public health coal lobby.

Basically, the WEO data suggests, there are a trillion reasons for the global coal lobby to resist change.

Europe's coal lobby association EURACOAL paid for climate science denier Patrick Moore to speak to members of the European Parliament (MEP) and EU officials at an intimate dinner - debate last month, DeSmog UK can reveal.

I had no idea discussing the science was so invidious to the German coal lobby.

As industry - wide employment and production decline, Kentucky's coal lobby wants to end state safety inspections.

The main coal lobby, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, last January released a report demanding the Environmental Protection Agency take into account the positive benefits of increased greenhouse gas emissions.

The $ 40 million clean coal lobby has been very effective in creating a false sense of security that someday all coal fired electrical plants will be able to capture greenhouse gases and store them underground.

Pressure from the coal lobby and energy - intensive industries, such as transport and mineral processing, pose a real political obstacle.

Carbon capture is for the coal lobby what filter cigarettes were for the tobacco industry — a deceptive diversion.

Ummm the coal lobby is amazinly rich.

What a disaster to climate realists, and what a tribute to the coal lobby and it's many funders.

This latest publicity stunt is absolutely absurd and shows just how far the coal lobby is willing to go to market their dirty product as somehow being clean.

But one little fly in the ointment about «following the money»: don't you think the oil and coal lobbies have pockets one HELL of a lot deeper than environmental organizations supported by well intentioned college profs, high school teachers and housewives??

Back to the National Journal piece, Davenport explains what the coal lobby has planned, including potentially reframing the debate away from a war on coal:

Because it is such a big industry and there are so many different parties, from mining companies to the utilities and power companies, it's too difficult to predict exactly what the coal lobby will do.

In what could be seen as a desperate move, the coal lobby created the «War on Coal» slogan to try and rally support for both President Romney and their diminishing industry.

While they originated the term, now it isn't just the coal lobby that is using the «War on Coal» language.

The Case For a Serious War on Coal So the coal lobby, naturally, says there is a War on Coal and the administration, or at least the Energy Secretary, wants to continue saying there is not, but Matthew Yglesias explains why a War on coal would be «a pretty good idea.»

Below I'll highlight some excellent reporting that tells the story of how the coal lobby created the «War on Coal» slogan to advance their industry interests, as well as point to some good arguments for why this shouldn't just be left as an example of faux - outrage, but should rather be turned into a real sustained campaign.

Davenport explains how the coal lobby used the 2012 presidential campaign as a launch for the «War on Coal» narrative:

Privately, many people working for the coal lobby concede that time has finally come for coal to face up to climate change.

I encourage you to check out ACCCE's Clean Coal Carolers - I really don't mind sending a bunch of traffic their way because this latest publicity stunt is absolutely absurd and shows just how far the coal lobby is willing to go to market their dirty product as somehow being clean.

The quote appeared so prominently in ads taken out by the coal lobby group Western Fuels Association in the Washington Post and elsewhere that Santer complained in an open letter that his views were being mischaracterized.

Nothing like a Christmassy marketing campaign from the coal lobby to get you in the holiday... Swarovski steine

America's Power Army, the sister organization to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), sent an email this week to its Astroturf «army» laying out the coal lobby's plans to barrage key Democratic targets in the coming weeks to ensure that energy and climate legislation provides sufficient loopholes to maintain the Dirty Coal status quo.

This position is a defense of the status quo and is the same one argued by those who have resisted all climate protection legislation that would disrupt the structure of power, not least in the coal lobby's appeal to the pipe dream of «clean coal.»

The pro-Gore faction insists the anthropogenic debate has been «settled,» that no additional discussion is needed, and that anyone who questions the IPCC or Gore must be employed by Exxon Mobil Corp. or the coal lobby.

Rather than confront the coal lobby, we craft carbon bills with escape hatches and allowances to buy off the biggest carbon sources.

We dream of a low - carbon world, but canâ $ ™ t quite fathom how to get around the massive lobbying clout (and inertia) of the coal lobby.

«Instead, the coal lobby has sought an urgent interdict to delay the conclusion of power purchase agreements, citing already - debunked arguments relating to job losses, coal power station closures and rising electricity prices.»

In fact, South Australia's adoption of renewable energy has been a great success, contrary to the lies from the coal lobby.

The coal lobby and its allies, like Manchin, argue their plant retirements constitute a national security issue because the grid could not remain reliable if all of their generators went offline.

Many thanks to Senators Howell, Ebbin, Favola, Locke, McEachin, McPike and Surovell for seeing through the propaganda of the coal lobby and voting no.

The ultimate impact of the clean coal lobby will be measured by its influence on Capitol Hill and the corresponding outcome of pending legislation.

The legislation's prominent defenders, like CAP's Joseph Romm, labeled green critics of the bill «global warming deniers» and told anyone who would listen that Waxman and Markey had pulled a fast one on the coal lobby.

If you don't know, America's Power is the newest multi-million dollar ad campaign initiated by the coal lobbies.

The coal lobbies in the US would have us believe that we can utilize «clean coal» applications to continue satisfying our enormous energy appetite.

Governments like the United States, at the behest of the coal lobby, have pumped billions into CCS technology experiments, yet it continues to fail as a commercially viable option.

It might also create a false sense of security about climate change, while depriving potentially cheaper methods of cutting emissions of cash and attention — all for the sake of placating the coal lobby.

US President Barack Obama's public endorsement of «clean coal» was featured in PR videos made by the coal lobby.

Bt if you have any fresher information on how much the coal lobby is paying Lindzen (or anyone else) in consulting fees, please feel free to file it here at your leisure.