Sentences with phrase «employed in the coal»

This total does not include indirect employment - workers who are not directly employed in the coal industry, but whose jobs are supported by that industry.

The Yorkie's home region was a center of mining as well as textile making, and many Yorkies were employed in coal mines as exterminators.

A moratorium on federal coal leasing effectively hands a pink slip to the thousands of people in Wyoming and across the West employed in coal production.»

An economic transformation is taking place, with more Europeans now employed in well - paying and secure jobs in the renewables sector than are employed in the coal industry;

Not exact matches

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.

«On rooftops from Arizona to New York, solar is saving Americans tens of millions of dollars a year on their energy bills, and employs more Americans than coal — in jobs that pay better than average.»

Last December, EnerBlu, a California - based advanced battery maker, announced plans to erect a $ 412 - million gigafactory in Pikeville — on the site of a shuttered coal mine — slated to launch in 2020 and employ up to 875 workers.

The U.S. solar industry employs more than 260,000 workers - about five times more than the coal industry - with the vast majority involved in installation rather than panel manufacturing.

As of November 2015, the solar industry employed 208,859 solar workers, which is already larger than the roughly 150,000 jobs remaining in the domestic coal industry.

Solar created one out of every 50 new jobs in the U.S. last year, and the sector now employs more Americans than coal.

To put this all in perspective: «Solar employs slightly more workers than natural gas, over twice as many as coal, over three times that of wind energy, and almost five times the number employed in nuclear energy,» the report notes.

Those who would fight them in court can find precious few lawyers in the region not already employed by the coal companies.

The Maldon saltmakers who remained, in the 19th century, were chiefly employed as coal merchants.

It's a pairing of the technology that could be employed to clean up coal - fired power plants with green plants serving as fuel after sucking in CO2.

The USGS effort, including scientists from organizations around the country, was convened to employ new tools and expertise to measure greenhouse gases from coal fires, which have not been included in previous national and worldwide surveys.

Compare this with the coal industry, which peaked in jobs creation in the 1980's, before automation and cheap natural gas; coal now employs 160,000 people directly and indirectly (54,000 coal mining jobs).

Since 1901, when coal was discovered in the region, the amount of open space has dwindled, making way for industrial and community infrastructure to support the population employed by the mines.

That was the basic logic employed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in 2010 when it approved the new leases in the Powder River Basin that stretches across Wyoming and Montana, expanding projects that hold some 2 billion tons of coal, big enough to supply at least a fifth of the nation's needs.

The chairman of Repower Port Augusta, Gary Rowbottom, is a 17 year veteran of the coal plant which had employed 260 local workers and closed down in May of 2016.

In the U.S., more people were employed in generating electricity from solar last year than from coal, oil, and gas combined.&raquIn the U.S., more people were employed in generating electricity from solar last year than from coal, oil, and gas combined.&raquin generating electricity from solar last year than from coal, oil, and gas combined.»

Murray Energy Corporation and its Subsidiary Companies employ approximately 6,000 Americans and currently operate thirteen active coal mines, consisting of eleven underground longwall mining systems and forty - six continuous mining units in Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Utah, and West Virginia.

Between 2006 and 2011, the Denver - metro area saw a 35 % increase in direct employment growth in the clean energy sector; today more people are employed by the solar industry than the coal mining or steel manufacturing industries.

Moreover, many future coal jobs will likely be automated, rather than employ people in coal country, Robert Godby, an energy economist at the University of Wyoming, told The New York Times.

Plug - in hybrids or hydrogen - powered fuel cells would allow us to run our cars using renewable sources such as solar and wind, other clean and abundant sources like nuclear and even coal - preferably from power plants employing advanced clean coal technologies that I hope will soon be the norm.

As part of those international efforts, the United States has agreed to end financial support for construction of new coal - fired power plants overseas, except for those in the «world's poorest countries» and those that employ carbon capturing technologies.

Although the coal industry employed advertising that focused on this new of clean coal in support of current - generation plants, the Department of Energy's timeline for its Carbon Sequestration Technology Roadmap indicated that even under optimistic assumptions, carbon sequestration would remain primarily in the demonstration stage for at least the coming decade.

Murray Energy Corporation is the largest privately owned coal company in the United States, producing approximately seventy - six million tons of high quality bituminous coal each year, and employing over 6,000 people in six states.

To accomplish that, we employ people skilled in coal mining, power generation, and corporate support services.

The observation that «renewables continue to far outpace coal - fired power plant development» does not indicate whether coal will be employed for district heating in the future once present installations have been retired.

Murray Energy Corporation is the largest privately owned coal company in the United States, producing approximately 76 million tons of high quality bituminous coal each year, and employing over 6,000 people in six states.

It is an excellent window into the lying and exaggerations frequently employed by environmental extremists in order to demonize coal.

The energy efficiency sector alone employs more than two million people — double the number of people directly employed in the oil, coal, and gas industries in 2016, according to the Department of Energy.

The solar industry already employs more people than coal mining and wind energy is cheaper than coal power in many U.S. states.

Representatives Jason Altmire (D - PA) and Mark Critz (D - PA) might consider joining the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Caucus (SEEC) since in Pennsylvania there are twice as many people employed in wind and solar than in coal - fired electricity.

Meanwhile, Illinois employs triple the number of people in wind and solar power compared with coal - fired power plants.

More than 769,000 people were employed in renewable energy in the US in 2015, dwarfing the 187,000 employed in the oil and gas sector and the 68,000 in coal mining.

In and around Cottbus, an industrial town about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Atterwasch, thousands of people are employed by the coal industry.

Around half of our grid - based electricity could be supplied by means of a few very large power systems burning methane, either in the form of natural gas or the effluvium from underground coal gasification [the only way to employ coal cleanly, he argues], and burying the carbon dioxide they produce.

In addition to being used to simply produce cyclic carbonates, North believes it could also be retrofitted on coal - fired plants: «If our catalyst could be employed at the source of high - concentration CO2 production, for example in the exhaust stream of a fossil - fuel power station, we could take out the carbon dioxide, turn it into a commercially - valuable product and at the same time eliminate the need to store waste CO2.&raquIn addition to being used to simply produce cyclic carbonates, North believes it could also be retrofitted on coal - fired plants: «If our catalyst could be employed at the source of high - concentration CO2 production, for example in the exhaust stream of a fossil - fuel power station, we could take out the carbon dioxide, turn it into a commercially - valuable product and at the same time eliminate the need to store waste CO2.&raquin the exhaust stream of a fossil - fuel power station, we could take out the carbon dioxide, turn it into a commercially - valuable product and at the same time eliminate the need to store waste CO2.»

We must pay attention to the need to ensure that those who are employed in the fossil fuel industry are ready and able to transition into good - paying clean energy jobs - whether they are working now in the coal - fields or the oil fields.

The coal industry, directly or indirectly, employs about 800,000 people, generates 50 billion dollars in labor income, and contributes about 100 billion dollars to GDP.

The most commonly employed systems of classification are those based on analyses that can be performed relatively easily in the laboratory — for example, determining the percentage of volatile matter lost upon heating to about 950 °C (about 1,750 °F) or the amount of heat released during combustion of the coal under standard conditions.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration says the coal industry employed 98,505 people in 2015, down from 127,745 in 2008 and 250,000 in the 1970s.

Advising in relation to bargaining for a new enterprise agreement with the mining union and two other trade unions, involving approximately 3,000 mineworkers employed at seven BMA coal mines