Sentences with phrase «coal mining operations on»

The legislation addressed the productivity of mining operation sites and environmental impacts of surface coal mining operations on surface and groundwater.

addressed the productivity of mining operation sites and environmental impacts of surface coal mining operations on surface and groundwater.

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BHP Billiton said on Thursday jobs could go at its Australian coal mines as the company faces a deteriorating market, the latest sign of global miners scaling back operations due to slowing industrial activity in China.

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.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fraccing, for coal seam gas uses a host of chemicals; however this type of mining operation has operated on organic farms where the farmer and company have been able to negotiate suitable arrangements and not compromised the organic integrity of the property.

On September 30, 2010, a coalition of Native American and conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining (OSM) for withholding records relating to Peabody Energy's coal - mining operations on tribal lands in northeast ArizonOn September 30, 2010, a coalition of Native American and conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining (OSM) for withholding records relating to Peabody Energy's coal - mining operations on tribal lands in northeast ArMining (OSM) for withholding records relating to Peabody Energy's coal - mining operations on tribal lands in northeast Armining operations on tribal lands in northeast Arizonon tribal lands in northeast Arizona.

It is also barred from obtaining planning permission or any other authorisations required for carrying on coal mining operations.

«[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.»

In September 2010 the Rainforest Action Network dumped 1,000 pounds of Appalachia dirt on the sidewalk of EPA headquarters in Washington DC in protest of Arch Coal's mountaintop removal operation, the Spruce 1 Mine.

Arch Coal's West Virginia mining operations in the Appalachian Mountains were the subject of a critical documentary in 2002 on Now with Bill Moyers on PBS.

On March 1, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Justice Department announced that Arch Coal had agreed to pay a $ 4 million dollar penalty for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act in Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky, and will implement changes to its mining operations to ensure compliance.

In Oregon, for example, Governor Kate Brown signed a bill that will move the state to 50 percent renewable energy production by 2040 and end the state's use of coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year ago.

Dirty energy lobbyists, including those of Chevron, could effectively use hypothetical arguments of TTIP illegality to chill government action on both sides of the Atlantic to curtail hydraulic «fracking» for natural gas, deny permits for liquefied natural gas export terminals, close coal - fired power plants, and prohibit new coal mining, oil drilling, and oil / gas pipeline operations, among others.

Yesterday afternoon the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it had found «a path forward on two coal mining operations in West Virginia.»

It does so by going beyond the now classic Carbon Tracker analysis (the foundation of McKibben's 2012 article), updating it by focusing not on the entire body of fossil - fuel reserves, but on the smaller set (roughly 30 % of the «proven» reserves) of reserves that have already been «developed» — the «oil fields, gas fields, and coal mines that are already in operation or under construction.»

Through our regional presence and strength in Asian markets, we have played an integral part in the increase in demand for power in the region, advising our clients on investments in exploration and mining operations (predominantly iron ore and coal mines).

The entire operation runs on electricity produced with coal, as do a growing number of cryptocurrency «mines» popping up in China.