Sentences with phrase «coal mining companies from»

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.

Not exact matches

Local company Prairie Mining has raised $ 15 million from UK - based CD Capital for the development of its Lublin coal project, with the potential for the private equity fund to invest a further $ 68 million.

Base load power, the residual power that has to be generated day - in, day - out, came primarily from burning coal, typically in a plant located right at a mine site owned by the power company.

Mining companies in the Powder River Basin couldn't be happier about this development, since most of the coal that will be passing through Canada will be coming straight from Wyoming.

There was also good news from the company's metallurgical coal division, where production from its Queensland mines rose 2 per cent during the March quarter year - on - year and 7 per cent on the December quarter.

Cele notes that, «the demand from China for iron - ore continues to grow, but at a declining pace, further exacerbating pricing pressure,» meaning that Vale's considerable investment in nickel, coal, fertilisers and copper will only partially mitigate the impact of the increase in iron - ore mining capacity globally on the company.

The company's unchanged coal production guidance includes the largely offsetting impacts of Glencore's acquisition of Rio Tinto's 82 % interest in the Hail Creek mine, in Australia, and lower production from Prodeco in 2018, before returning to higher levels in 2019.

In addition to the Company's mining operations, the Company markets and broker coals from its operations and other coal producers, both as principal and agent, and trade coal and freight - related contracts through trading and business offices.

In 2011, it had bought out the mountaintop removal mining company Massey Coal from under coal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standarCoal from under coal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standarcoal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standards).

It is that aspect of the law that frightens environmental groups that have fought for years for the coal - mining rule and another rule to restrict energy companies from burning off natural gas during drilling operations on public lands.

This merger created the largest single MTR company in the country, now responsible for some 25 percent of coal production from MTR mines.

Finally, you should work to halt the significant damage to western aquifers from coal and uranium mining companies.

The Obama administration did indeed place a federal moratorium on all new coal mining leases on public lands across the country in June — but but only out of concern from environmentalists, Congress, and the Department of the Interior that coal companies have spent 30 years cheating taxpayers out of $ 30 billion in royalties.

Here's an excerpt making his prime point, followed by more from Schendler on a climate - friendly energy deal he just helped broker between his employer, which runs four of the region's marquee * ski resorts, and a coal mine owner whose company is a member of a group promoting the myth that global warming is a «great delusion.»

The latest evidence comes in an Earth Day news release from Peabody Energy, the largest private coal company, which is thriving both domestically and through rapidly growing coal exports from its worldwide mining operations to China, India and other developing countries.

By preventing private companies from mining and burning coal from federal lands, BLM can better protect our climate and public health, the waters we use, the air we breathe, and the wild places we enjoy.

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissiCoal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

American Indian Coal Lease: A lease granted to a mining company to produce coal from land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans, Native American tribes, and Alaska Natives in exchange for royalties and other revenCoal Lease: A lease granted to a mining company to produce coal from land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans, Native American tribes, and Alaska Natives in exchange for royalties and other revencoal from land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans, Native American tribes, and Alaska Natives in exchange for royalties and other revenues.

[31] The company bought coal from established mines and sold it to homes and businesses in the Chicago area.

Peabody has contracted 90 % of its 2011 production from the Powder River Basin mines, but the company stated that it has coal volumes available for 2012 and 2013.

The story of the fight to protect Coal River Mountain from the mining companies who seek to exploit it, and the plan to instead build a wind farm on its ridges.

While most coal databases used by the finance industry only cover around 100 companies, the GCEL provides key statistics on over 770 companies whose activities range from coal exploration and mining, coal trading and transport, to coal power generation and manufacturing of coal plants.

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.

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.

Specific incidences include significant levels of funding since 1989 from the Kuwaiti government, foreign coal and mining corporations and Cyprus Minerals Company (totalling $ 72,554).

«[Norway's] Finance Committee recommends the exclusion of «coal power companies and mining companies, who themselves or through operations they control, base 30 % or more of their activities on coal, and / or derive 30 % of their revenues from coal.»

On Oct. 3, 2011, a coalition of conservation and environmental groups announced completion of a legal settlement with Arch Coal and its subsidiaries, which will require the coal mining company to clean up toxic run off from six coal mines in Logan County, West VirgiCoal and its subsidiaries, which will require the coal mining company to clean up toxic run off from six coal mines in Logan County, West Virgicoal mining company to clean up toxic run off from six coal mines in Logan County, West Virgicoal mines in Logan County, West Virginia.

American coal companies badly want to export coal from the country's most productive mines in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana, but there is no way to send the coal out.

After the coal company's formation it began to find ways to make money from coal mining.

Once Peabody was done mining a section of coal seam at Vermilion Grove, the company put wire fencing against the ceiling to keep loose pieces of the shale roof from falling to the tunnel floor.

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..

Wendy Bowman, Australia: In the midst of an onslaught of coal development in Australia, octogenarian Wendy Bowman stopped a powerful multinational mining company from taking her family farm and protected her community in Hunter Valley from further pollution and environmental destruction.

The answer lies in whether the University of Kentucky, Virginia Tech and West Virginia University, working with federal energy laboratories, a few coal companies and large manufacturers, can identify ways and locations to economically extract and process rare earth elements from the waste streams left over from mining coal throughout Appalachia and Western Kentucky.

Increasingly, Indian and Chinese companies are not only buying increased amounts of coal from overseas, but are also investing in mines or buying mines outright in Australia, Indonesia, Mongolia, Russia, South Africa, the United States, Tanzania, Zambia.

In December 2008, the Bush Administration approved a final rule that made it easier for coal companies to dump rock and other mine waste from mountaintop removal mining operations into nearby streams and valleys.

They include those increasing coal taxes in India (and Korea, where the levy increased to US$ 21 / t in 2015 from US$ 15 / t in 2014); moves being made to a national emissions - trading scheme like those being undertaken in China and Korea» tightening emissions requirements on coal - fired power generation in the U.S. and India; greater regulation of mine waste disposal ponds in Brazil and the U.S; and greater scrutiny of coal mine rehabilitation subsidies and coal company leasing schemes in the U.S.

Ebell, whose work has been funded by some of the nation's worst polluters, like Murray Energy, the nation's largest coal mining company, said, «I would like to have more funding [from big coal] so that I can combat the nonsense put out by the environmental movement.»

A Greenpeace investigation released last week highlights the recurring themes of Big Coal advertising, with decades of ads from coal mining companies, coal - burning utilities, and industry front groCoal advertising, with decades of ads from coal mining companies, coal - burning utilities, and industry front grocoal mining companies, coal - burning utilities, and industry front grocoal - burning utilities, and industry front groups.

«Over the past two years, Norges Bank, following upon its investment mandates from the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) and the Minister of Finance, divested the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG)'s of its holdings in at least 49 companies with substantial operations related to mining and burning of coal.

Dr. Singer is joined by: Dr. Robert Balling who has received over $ 300,000 from US fossil fuel interests, British and German coal companies and the Kuwaiti government; and Dr. Patrick Michaels who has received at least $ 167,000 from fossil fuel interests including the German Coal Mining Associatcoal companies and the Kuwaiti government; and Dr. Patrick Michaels who has received at least $ 167,000 from fossil fuel interests including the German Coal Mining AssociatCoal Mining Association.

His principal goals are to encourage asset managers to sell their investments in thermal coal companies, and to dissuade financiers from supporting the expansion of coal mining activities, particularly in Queensland's Galilee Basin.

(It was a more streamlined bill that limited pollution from big «upstream» energy companies — think coal mining and oil production — and didn't allow a freewheeling market in carbon - pollution credits.)

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.

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.

Allianz will no longer invest in companies if more than 30 per cent of sales come from coal mining or if coal generates more than 30 per cent of electricity.

AXA divested from all coal holdings (mining companies and electric utilities deriving over 50 per cent of their turnover from coal) in 2015 and committed to triple its green investments by 2020.

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

In October 2012 I wrote an entry about the General Court judgment that annulled the Commission decision in the Greek Lignite - saga, concerning the Greek state - owned electricity company DEI that benefitted from the exclusive right to mine for lignite (brown coal) which, according to the Commission, distorted competition.

As a result of the recent full or partial exits by a number of major mining companies from the Australian coal industry, a number of minority participants have also considered how the sell part or all of their interest.

In May 2016, as part of a worldwide outcry against fossil fuel expansion, citizens from across Europe gathered in the Welsh countryside and closed down the coal company's existing coal mine for 24 hours.