Sentences with phrase «coal utility companies»

Chris Horner is a senior fellow at CEI and the lead lawyer at ATI, a close CEI affiliate known for its litigious harassment of climate scientist Michael Mann alongside Virginia attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who just worked with coal utility companies to kill Virginia's renewable energy law.

Not exact matches

Many utilities can generate power using either coal or natural gas, so if the latter's price gets cheap enough — typically below $ 4.50 per MCF — power companies will make the switch.

Berkshire has pledged to reduce coal - power generation by 76 % in its Nevada utility company.

Former Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, now the governor, investigated five coal - burning utility companies using it, arguing that they failed to provide a complete picture of climate risks in their regulatory filings.

These companies are either utilities that significantly use fossil fuels to generate electricity, or are coal and natural gas suppliers.

According to the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan, utilities operate 16 power plants that rely either fully or partly on coal - fired boilers.

The coal companies and utilities are not alone in advertising: corporations from Shell to Sharp are advertising their clean energy efforts.

Though coal still accounts for about a third of US electricity generation, utility companies are pivoting to cleaner natural gas to replace decommissioned coal plants.

Leading the cheers to kill the rule are Republicans, coal companies and utilities.

Chinese utility company Huaneng and U.S. company Duke Energy Corp. signed a cooperation agreement this year calling for a study to determine the feasibility of applying Huaneng's carbon capture process at Duke Energy's coal - fired power plant in Indiana.

Since 1998, the company has provided our utility customers with more than 1,750 reactor years of fuel, which is equivalent to 7 billion tons of coal.

Not only did Big Oil punt hundreds of thousands of dollars to Soon, but Big Coal as well — specifically, the Southern Company, one of the largest coal burning electric utilities in the U.S. and in the woCoal as well — specifically, the Southern Company, one of the largest coal burning electric utilities in the U.S. and in the wocoal burning electric utilities in the U.S. and in the world.

Read all about climate denial scientist Willie Soon's dirty money from petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch, coal utility Southern Company, oil giant ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies to deny the science of climate change!

Dr. Willie Soon is a Smithsonian Institution astrophysicist paid by Charles Koch, ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute and coal utility Southern Company to write papers dismissing climate change, publish op - eds saying coal pollution won't affect our health, refute the seriousness of ocean acidification, and apparently anything else he can be paid to deny.

See, not only is Southern Co one of the nation's largest coal - burning utilities, but it creates more carbon pollution than any other utility in the country and ranks # 7 in global power company carbon emissions.

Oddly, as I pointed out earlier, the Friends of Coal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utilitiCoal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal - fired utilities).

Since 1998, the company has provided its utility customers with more than 1750 reactor years of fuel — equivalent to 7 billion tons of coal.

In the last year, tons of big - cap companies, many with dividends, have hit temporary rough spots... Coal, gold and copper miners, natural gas drillers, utilities, the list goes on and on.

Southern Company, an electric utility company, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity through coal, nuclear, oil and gas, and hydro resCompany, an electric utility company, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity through coal, nuclear, oil and gas, and hydro rescompany, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity through coal, nuclear, oil and gas, and hydro resources.

The company's regulated utilities primarily rely on coal and oil (34 %), nuclear (34 %), and natural gas (28 %) for its generation of electricity.

It seems that the coal companies, the oil companies, and some of the utilities (as well as many politicians) don't want you to see this distinction.

Coal companies and utilities have tried a new approach in defending black combustible rock as the fuel of the future, at least in Kansas.

The opinion editors and writers of The Wichita Eagle have chosen a novel format — Web video — to strike back at the coal company and utility that paid for ads in The Eagle and other Kansas newspapers this week attacking Gov. Kathleen Sebelius for denying permits for two coal - burning power plants.

Unfortunately, there don't seem to be legions of lobbyists out there for innovation (and energy efficiency, for that matter), while there are potent forces fighting on the side of coal companies and utilities, financial institutions eager to trade carbon credits, manufacturers and retailers of today's consumer products.

Any carbon tax paid by a utility, oil company, coal company etc. comes right back as a higher price on the consumer.

The ads were sponsored by a local group but paid for with contributions from Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private coal company, and a Kansas utility, Sunflower Electric Power.

The utilities and coal companies who created the outrageous ad are motivated purely by financial interest.

asked the advertisement, which was paid for by Kansans for Affordable Energy, a group that has received financial backing from a local utility, Sunflower Electric Power, and the world's largest private coal company, Peabody Energy.

That power comes in part from the fact that so many swing states are coal states more than they are red or blue states, and from the potent lobbying and advertising muscle of coal companies and utilities.

FRANKFURT, Aug 6 (Reuters)- Germany utilities are heaping pressure on the government before September polls to soften green policies that are hurting their profits, with one company hinting it could even move gas or coal plants to countries where it can still make money.

CPP is loathed by most Republicans, some Democrats, industry associations and business groups, utilities, coal companies, and mining interests.

Add on to that the profits of the rest of the oil companies, the coal companies, electric utilities...

The Appalachian Power Company, a mostly coal subsidiary of utility American Electric Power, has contributed $ 10,000.

[4] In it, Hileman described «a systematic campaign of disinformation» being conducted by a small group of scientists calling themselves the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) whose work is funded by coal, oil, utility, automobile, and chemical companies — the corporations whose profits might decline if Congress took global warming seriously.

The Greening Earth Society (GES) was a group that was funded and controlled by the Western Fuels Association (WFA), an association of coal - burning utility companies.

Presumably, the push is all about boosting the market for utilities and coal companies; and burning more coal would obviou...

Coal - fired power plants would be required to curb their greenhouse gas emissions and over the long term, and utility companies that operate them would have to transition away from coal to wind, solar and other renewable energy sourCoal - fired power plants would be required to curb their greenhouse gas emissions and over the long term, and utility companies that operate them would have to transition away from coal to wind, solar and other renewable energy sourcoal to wind, solar and other renewable energy sources.

According to the notes, Michael Whatley, policy adviser of the fossil fuel lobby group Consumer Energy Alliance, which receives funding from Peabody Energy along with other coal, oil, and gas companies, underlined the industry's urgent need to mobilize state public officials, including legislators, attorneys general, environmental and public utility commissioners, and energy officials in many states.

Utilities and energy companies are realizing that coal is an increasingly bad investment — that was definitely the case with Brayton Point, which had just been purchased by new owners who quickly determined that keeping the plant running didn't make economic sense.

In contrast to most other coal databases, the GCEL is not limited to coal miners and coal - based utilities, but also lists over 200 so - called «service» companies.

According to Al Jazeera America, «A 2010 donor list from the IRS shows the Texas Public Policy Foundation receives funding from groups long associated with big oil, gas, and coal, such as Koch Industries, the electric utility Luminant, and the oil and gas investment company the Permian Basin Acquisition Fund.»

According to company officials, the hike is needed to «comply with EPA environmental improvements to reduce polluting emissions from coal - fired plants, make up for a decline in demand for electricity from commercial and industrial users, and cover rising costs of health care for the utility's employees.»

BHI's reports mirror ALEC's model legislation attacking the Clean Power Plan, which was discussed at fossil fuel - funded events attended by Berman's partners and representatives from coal, oil, gas, and utility companies with a financial interest in blocking the EPA's new regulations.

The supermajority send their money to essentially just a handful of super-rich people at the top of oil, coal, natural gas, and utility companies.

Between December 1998 [1] and September 2001 [2] she was listed as a «Scientific Adviser» to the Greening Earth Society, a group that was funded and controlled by the Western Fuels Association (WFA), an association of coal - burning utility companies.

From the very beginning, the story of utility giant Southern Company's Kemper clean coal plant is a long trail of broken promises, according to a New York Times investigation — and the project's numerous critics.

The reason I ask is that utility companies, including those reliant on coal plants, are allowed to recover capital costs, in the form of rate increases to their customers.

In the mid to late 1990 she also worked with the Global Climate Coalition, a special interest group of coal, oil and utility companies, set up to lobby against international action on climate change.

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.

That year, a group of utility and coal companies created the now - disbanded Information Council on the Environment and consulted a PR firm, which recommended that it «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.»