Sentences with phrase «coal mining companies»

But the responsible agencies failed to enforce this rule and instead allowed coal mining companies to bury streams in violation of the rule for many years.

Arch Coal, the second largest coal mining company in the United States, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today.

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Norway's largest sovereign wealth fund, Norges Bank Investment Management, has reduced its holdings in coal mining companies from $ 350 million to $ 66 million.

Murray, 77, founder of the largest privately held coal mining company in the U.S., told Monday's Guardian he is confident the president will follow through on promises to scrap the clean power plan, former President Barack Obama's signature climate change plan, which was designed to cut carbon emissions from the power sector by 32 percent by 2030.

Prior to 1996, Mr. Krivokuca held a variety of positions with coal mining companies in the eastern United States.

Like Scaife and Gulf Oil, Olin made his bucks in part from the fossil fuel industry via the Olin Corporation, which manufactured blasting powder for coal mining companies.

As coal mining companies rush to extract this coal to meet India's huge energy demands, conflicts between local villagers and the coal companies have become more common, especially since traditional agricultural communities are rarely given a say in whether and where mining projects will occur.

Notably, Stanford University earlier this year announced it will divest publicly listed coal mining companies from its $ 19bn endowment, citing, like other fiduciaries as of late, the substantial environmental and social injury caused by coal as the justification for its decision.

In other words, coal mining companies own the coal they extract but not the methane that mingles with it and is released into the atmosphere during production.

Just recently, the United States» largest private coal mining company was forced to lay off 80 % of its workforce.

Walker listed potential funders: the -LSB-[American Petroleum Institute] and oil companies with API membership, the Business Roundtable and its respective corporate executive members, the Edison Electric Institute and members that include coal - burning utilities, the Independent Petroleum Association of America and its oil refining member companies, and the National Mining Association and members including coal mining companies.

With many coal mining companies seeking for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Arch Coal may also join the list considering its current debt and coal market conditions The fall in coal prices has caused many mining companies including Walter Energy, Inc. (OTCMKTS: WLTGQ), Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (OTCMKTS: ANRZQ), Patriot Coal Corporation (OTCMKTS: PCXCQ) and others to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy.

But it's just a small slice of the money the industry has amassed; amidst the punishing economy of 2008, the top five U.S. coal mining companies saw their profits more than double to $ 1.9 billion last year, the Center reports.

Coal mining companies such as Peabody Energy are trying to boost exports of publicly owned coal to Asia

The corporate watchdog has moved to have McGrathNicol appointed as liquidator to Peter Landau's troubled listed coal mining company Continental Coal.

Alpha Natural Resources and other American coal mining companies have filed for bankruptcy protection.

In fact, as I explain in my book, the idea to host the Scopes Trial in Dayton came from local politicians and businessmen who hoped a high - publicity test trial might bring some much - needed attention to the town in the 1920s, when the local coal mining companies were really struggling.

DSM, founded more than a century ago as the Netherlands» national coal mining company (Dutch State Mines), has over time divested its fossil fuel holdings and is now committed to a future in technologies that aid the so - called «bio-based economy.»

«The reason is because some local government officials are investing in those small coal mining companies,» he said, adding that the collusion of the local government and small coal miners thwarts Beijing's efforts to shut down the low - tech coal companies whose operations often harm the environment.

Banks suggests that reconciling those rights agreements could lead to a shift in the way coal mining companies view methane gas, treating it as a potential source of revenue rather than a fugitive gas to be dealt with as a safety or environmental concern.

London - The only body acting internationally on behalf of coal, the World Coal Association (WCA), announced today that Indonesian coal mining company, Berau Coal Energy, has joined its...

Coal Mining Companies Want to Mine 215 Million Tons of Coal in Montana, Equivalent to The Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Over 92 million Passenger Vehicles Driven for One Year.

«We did not have coal mining companies involved.

Individuals tied to oil, gas, and coal mining companies who donated $ 100,000 or more to super PACs supporting 2016 presidential candidates combined for $ 107 million in donations from January 2015 through January of this year.

Headquartered in St. Clairsville, Ohio, Murray Energy's website describes itself as the country's largest underground coal mining company.

Jay Lehr is now the «science director» at a climate chance science denying organization called The Heartland Institute, which has received money from coal mining company Murray Energy.

Swiss coal mining company Xstrata succeeded in defeating a challenge from the environmental NGO Friends of the Earth and local farmers, which argued that the mine should be halted due to its resulting carbon emissions.

CNN: Stanford University has already decided it will no longer directly invest in coal mining companies because it has a responsibility to consider «corporate policies or practices (that) create substantial social injury.»

While it's impossible to know precisely, since coal mining companies can adjust the amount of coal they extract as market conditions change, we will base our calculations on an assumption that this coal will be mined and burned during a period beginning in 2015 and ending in 2030.

Across the Atlantic, eastern Kentucky coal mining company Berkeley Energy Group has teamed up with EDF Renewable Energy to develop what could become the largest solar farm in the state on top of two former mountaintop removal mining sites.

It's clear that the BLM's coal - leasing program is deliberately designed to benefit a few coal mining companies like Peabody and Arch at the expense of U.S. taxpayers.

Yet the Turnbull Government is still opposing the change to renewable energy and considering giving a billion dollars of taxpayers» money to shonky coal mining company Adani so that they can increase the pollution of the atmosphere we all share.

A newly announced partnership between the world's biggest private coal mining company and coal - burning country cuts against recent efforts to paint China green because of its push on manufacturing wind turbines and solar panels.

ACCCE members include coal mining companies, railroad companies, along with electric cooperatives and two of the largest utility companies, American Electric Power and Southern Company.

As a result, Kentucky's leading employers include food processing firms, many coal mining companies and several local firms which cater to the horse racing industry.

The switch to cleaner energy has slammed U.S. coal mining companies in recent years.

This filing is from a coalition of states and follows a similar lawsuit brought six weeks ago by the country's largest privately held coal mining company, Murray Energy Corp..

Most recently, a report from The Carbon Tracker with a forward by Lord Stern of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change (London School of Economics), argued that serious risks are accumulating for investors in high carbon assets, such as coal mining companies and the oil and gas industry.

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The latest in a flurry of environmentally - devastating, last - minute rule changes from the Bush administration will give the go ahead for coal mining companies to fill valleys with the mining debris left over from lobbing - off mountaintops

One of those liabilities could be Murray Energy, the largest privately owned coal mining company in the U.S. Robert Murray, the company's CEO has said that if FirstEnergy goes under, it could take Murray Energy with it.

Coal Story is a result of an extensive photographic engagement with the two largest coal mining companies in the European Union located in Silesia, the most industrialised part of Poland.

Transport infrastructure is generally operated not by the coal mining companies, but by public or privately owned third parties who are responsible for new investment, some of which are subject to regulatory control owing to the monopolistic nature of the assets.

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