Sentences with phrase «coal sector»

The mass turnover of the Australian coal sector may appear to have run its course, but there's plenty more deal - making to be done if US coal...
In June 2014, President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a set of proposed new regulations that would see the U.S. coal sector reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2030.
«The collapse in the share prices of the US coal sector 2011 - 14 is an illustration of how markets can punish investors in a climate - constrained world where lower carbon technology is developing rapidly,» said Mark Fulton research advisor to Carbon Tracker and formerly head of research at Deutsche Bank on climate.
The long - anticipated study could rankle renewable energy advocates who fear the administration of President Donald Trump will undermine government support for the wind and solar industries as part of its broader drive to revive the ailing coal sector.
Living in Germany, Mr Teske has witnessed first hand the decline in employment in the German coal sector in the 1990s and, as a result of some of the most progressive renewable energy industry development policies in the world, seen the German renewable energy workforce grow to 250,000 employees.
A review of the Ukrainian coal sector in the context of the Donbass crisis».
The layoffs come as the nation's coal sector struggles with weakening demand at home and declining exports to China.
But keep in mind that the majority of people in the Lausitz region stand behind the tradition - rich coal sector
Investor appetite for the Indonesian coal sector is currently strong, and with some Indonesian miners posting an impressive return on equity exceeding 20 % it is clear to see why.
The mass turnover of the Australian coal sector may appear to have run its course, but there's plenty more deal - making to be done if US coal entrepreneur Ernie Thrasher's plans are any guide.
(07/30/2009) The U.S. coal sector will need to cut production 50 million tons this year due to falling demand, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Coal's problems appear to be structural rather than cyclical; accordingly, rather than betting on a cyclical upturn, investors should resist the urge to get back into the US coal sector.
EPA chief Scott Pruitt, crediting Trump with creating almost 50,000 jobs «in the coal sector» since the fourth quarter of last year.
The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.
«Since the fourth quarter of last year until most recently, we've added almost 50,000 jobs in the coal sector,» Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said...
USURPER Mozambique's coal prospects are attracting significant foreign investment and its coal sector may outstrip South Africa's in the near future
In sharp contrast, one of President Trump's recent executive orders attempts to support the coal sector by undoing his predecessor's Clean Power Plan.
A global campaign to force banks and fund managers to withdraw capital from the coal sector has so far fallen on determinedly deaf ears in Australia.
While some growing powers like China and India invest billions to make their exploding energy sectors cleaner, other developing nations are climbing up the economic ladder with few or no plans for improving their coal sectors, a new study finds.
«Otherwise, the 12th five - year plan [2011 - 2015] for the coal sector would merely, again, fall into the trap of playing number games among different tiers of the government.»
While industry executives said they would continue to adjust to challenging market conditions, independent experts following the coal sector saw little in the recent news to suggest a rebound, especially as competing fuels from natural gas to renewables like solar and wind power continue to dominate the market for new generation.
In the coal sector, there are two ways to go.
But Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU), considered to be the best company in the coal sector, is off nearly 27 %.
Although the South African economy is more diversified than that of Saudi Arabia, it is still highly dependent on the coal sector.
The collapse in the oil price to 12 - year lows and bankruptcies in the coal sector underscore the risk of «financial stranding» and signals that fossil fuel companies need to accept that they are ex-growth stocks and must urgently re-assess their business models accordingly.
In the United States alone solar jobs grew 25 % last year, more than in the oil, gas and coal sectors.
«The impact of these unsustainable costs is particularly severe for the coal sector, causing projects to be cut, job losses and carbon leakage.»
While all large commercial banks have, of course, also increased their renewables finance over the past few years, our study finds that this pales in comparison to their finance for the coal sector, which has grown by almost 400 % since 2005, the year the Kyoto Protocol came into force.
And both the Left and the Right have a stated interest in minimizing the damage to communities that will be negatively affected by a collapse of the coal sector.
The analysis outlines tax incentives, credits, low royalty rates, and other government measures benefiting the oil, gas, and coal sectors.
Even though discussions and debates about the gravity of climate change were already taking place, BNP Paribas has progressively growing investments in the coal sector.
One of the unresolved questions haunting the coal sector is what to do with the coal ash — the remnant of burning coal — that is accumulating in 194 landfills and 161 holding ponds in 47 states.
This week, we talk with Trevor Houser, a partner with the Rhodium Group, about where things stand in America's coal sector.
The implications for the Australian coal sector, and its massive expansion plans in ports, mines and rail infrastructure in Queensland and NSW — led by the likes of Gina Rinehart and Clive Palmer — is that the long term price of thermal coal will not be sufficient to make these investments profitable.
Known as the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule, it is expected to dramatically increase financial pressure on the coal sector.
The industry acknowledges the role that low natural gas prices have played in the decline of the coal sector, but insists that EPA regulations, especially the MATS rule, are the primary culprits.
The new restrictions were followed a period of rapid expansion of the coal sector in China from 2016 to 2017 when it commissioned 692 GW of coal - fired capacity — more than twice the amount in the rest of the world combined.
Yet companies in the oil, gas and coal sectors are seeking to develop further resources which could double the level of potential CO2 emissions on the world's stock exchanges to 1,541 billion tonnes.
Over five years with LBL, Nate's projects were focused on energy efficiency policy, assessment of Chinese urban form energy use and emissions, Chinese energy data, transport electrification and renewable electricity scenario analysis, the coal sector, and the steel sector.
Whereas policies to maintain profitability of the coal sector in China — together with improving mine safety — have been recent priorities, the sector's competitiveness is another medium - term objective to avoid burdening the Chinese economy.
The landmark deal that marked their arrival was of course lost amidst the coverage of the blackout and the continued death spiral the coal sector finds itself in.
The court did not explain its action, but one of the central arguments for the stay was that the rule would impose large, immediate, and irreparable costs to the coal sector.
However, the conditions supporting a stay based on economic harms to the coal sector are not met.
The report says: «It is the end of the road for expansion of the coal sector
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