Sentences with phrase «coal regions»

This is 1 to 3 percent lower than the emission factors for lignite in the Fort Union Coal Region in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana and for lignite in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.

Author Joan Quigley, a former business reporter for the Miami Herald, and a descendant of coal miners, uses her own family history to illustrate the stubborn determination of those who have toiled in the anthracite coal region of Appalachia.

She lives in the Pennsylvania coal region with her musician husband, their 4 young children and 3 rescued cats.

A map from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection shows over thirty of them speckled across the state's northeast anthracite and southwest bituminous coal regions.

Without too much reading between the lines it seems reasonable to conclude that the discussion on coal phase - out in the years to come, both within the coal commission and the ensuing political debate, will revolve around a) the timeline (how fast / ambitious) and b) the support schemes to be put in place to compensate coal regions and to train / re-educate miners to change to different professions.

The company has been a major player in coal regions across the U.S., including Appalachia and the Powder River Basin.

The EU Platform for Coal Regions in Transition was launched by the European Commission in December last year to support Member States and regions as they shift away from coal towards renewable energy, in order to «leave no region behind».

The emission factor for lignite from the Gulf Coast Coal Region in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas is 213.5 pounds of carbon dioxide per million Btu.

The city, approximately halfway between Philadelphia and the state capital at Harrisburg, is strategically situated along a major transportation route from Central to Eastern Pennsylvania, and lent its name to the now - defunct Reading Railroad, which transported anthracite coal from the Pennsylvania Coal Region to the eastern United States via the Port of Philadelphia.

Linfen, China — a city in the heart of China's coal region in Shanxi Province, its three million inhabitants choke on dust and drink arsenic that leaches from the fossil fuel.

Mine fires extend beyond Pennsylvania's borders; they are common in the United States» coal regions and other coalmining industrial nations including India, China, Russia, and Australia.