Sentences with phrase «focus on coal»

The focus on coal in climate legislation is directly linked to its abundance.

With the election of Donald Trump as president, there's a renewed focus on coal as a source of energy, and the promotion of so - called «clean coal.»

The business press meanwhile is raising the risks such a focus on coal poses to investors if strong carbon pricing is put in place, quoting analysts views on the subject.

I love the article's focus on coal as it seems to be the silent export these days.

All of the focus on coal exports comes at a time of flagging trends in U.S. coal consumption.

To do so, we must first determine the amount of carbon pollution that will be released from BLM's recent coal leases; this analysis will focus on coal that has been leased during the Obama administration.

The World Coal Association (WCA) continues with its focus on coal in key economies with a new fact sheet on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)[1] region.

The first, is a major focus on mapping out the implications of the energy transition involved for key stakeholders, with a focus on coal, oil and gas sectors, on capital expenditure by companies and scenario planning around demand and supply.

A focus on coal doesn't mean forgetting about the Paris Agreement or environmental concerns, however.

It's another in a list of protests and arrests directed against CO2 from fossil fuels, with a special focus on coal.

The Trump administration's focus on coal over renewables will also allow China to further consolidate its leadership of the global clean energy transition, the report adds.

Instead, it's focused on coal coming up from the United States, primarily from Wyoming and Montana.

Natural Resource Partners focuses on coal production, and for much of the year, prospects for coal looked dire.

At [the Department of Energy], Columbia University physicist Peter Eisenberger's proposed demonstration of a carbon sucking machine fared poorly since the department's carbon - capture program focuses on coal, he says.

And industry leaders have focused recently on ways to impose cleaner coal technologies, including at a major conference in Delhi earlier this month featuring high - level government and industry leaders focusing on coal gasification, carbon capture and storage, upgrades and other measures to improve efficiency and reduce pollution.

To date, most CCS investment has focused on coal on the assumption that coal is cheap and that the technologies needed for CCS on gas are too expensive.

I'd like to repeat my thought from the other day that Dot Earth should do a thread focused on the oil industry, another focused on the coal industry, and another focused on the utility industry.

This pattern is spreading across the globe, and poses an existential threat to the business models of companies focused on coal.

The report of a major European study of the external costs of various fuel cycles, focusing on coal and nuclear, was released in mid 2001 — ExternE.

Our Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources fosters education excellence, as well as research focusing on coal, oil and natural gas, electrical power management, engine efficiency, and energy materials, among others.

«With regard to coal, over the past several years we have been gradually and consistently reducing our credit exposure to companies focused on coal mining.

Not exact matches

President Trump is focusing not just on energy independence, but what he calls «energy dominance,» vowing to «unleash» American natural gas and coal exports on the world.

Fox Resources has announced plans to sell its Bundaberg coking coal project in Queensland, while shifting focus on developing its Western Australian projects.

«Based on evidence gathered from focus groups and interviews conducted in U.S. coal communities, we argue that coal communities that have experienced mine closures have already begun an economic and social transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity,» wrote professors of Indiana University in a paper published in the March issue of Energy Research and Social Science.

In addition to tax changes (more on that below), Trump's plan to grow the economy focuses largely on generating more jobs in the fossil fuel economy (in coal and onshore and offshore drilling for oil and gas) and as a result of new infrastructure projects.

The EPA is reportedly drafting a far less ambitious rule that would focus on improving efficiency at coal plants.

Donald Trump is focusing heavily on coal - industry jobs at the expense of cleaner forms of energy.

Disclosing the Facts: Transparency and Risk in Methane Emissions focuses on the critical risk of methane emissions and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energy markets.

Unlike Prime Minister Stephen Harper's laser - like focus on Alberta's oil sands, though, Abbott's fixation is coal.

Mining and mineral development company, Teck Resources focuses on copper, metallurgical coal, zinc, and energy.

The Canadian Labour Congress and the Climate Action Network of Canada co-hosted a discussion event on Thursday night that focused on job creation and facilitating a transition for the coal, oil and gas sectors — all of which will gradually be phased out as the world moves to a clean energy economy.

For the time being, much of the analysis on the financial losses focuses on the plunge in oil and coal prices, and the potential that a huge portion of the global reserves of oil, gas, and coal will be «stranded» in the ground to curb climate change.

Two coal explorers and one gold explorer transitioned to production during the quarter and one company changed operations to focus on resource recovery.

With a deadpan delivery and a defiant attitude that has become his trademark, the former coal baron focused his onslaught on the family of McConnell's wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, which owns an international shipping business.

His research focus is on unconventional fuels, primarily shale gas and tight oil, but also coalbed methane and other unconventional sources, including oil sands, coal gasification and gas hydrates.

I would like to share with you the work of our senior economist Marc Lee, who heads up our Climate Justice Project, as well as the work of one of our research associates, veteran earth scientist David Hughes (who spent 32 years working for the Geological Survey of Canada, where he focused on unconventional gas, coal and oil research).

In a back to the future moment reminiscent of the 1990s tech boom, Chinese coal miner Yankuang Group is establishing an e-commerce platform focused entirely on selling high - end Australian products into fast - growing markets on the mainland.

In spite of my temptation to lord that mythic piece of coal over T's head, we're eschewing the naughty / nice concept and focusing instead on the sled / reindeer / fat guy in a red suit stuff.

He said that from the 1970s into the 1990s regulation of smokestacks focused largely on the stench and opacity of the plumes because of concerns about coal - fired plants and steel mills, and less attention was paid to the chemical plants.

We must focus on bringing together wind, solar, natural gas, biofuels, hydroelectric, geothermal and advanced clean coal as part of a diversified energy portfolio since there is no single solution.

Yang, who focuses on emerging economies, said her research also has shown that many other fast - growing developing countries have lower coal plant standards than India and China, and few incentives to build cleaner plants.

While the project is focused on ethanol, the company says it is optimistic that its efforts will pave the way to try similar emission controls for fossil fuels like coal.

Ian Dunlop, who used to chair the Australian Coal Association but now campaigns to leave coal in the ground, says this will force the industry to focus on cleaner cCoal Association but now campaigns to leave coal in the ground, says this will force the industry to focus on cleaner ccoal in the ground, says this will force the industry to focus on cleaner coalcoal.

Citizen opposition to new coal - fired power plants in places like Nevada and Montana has focused as much on water concerns as greenhouse gas emissions.

Many current energy debates have focused on the massive carbon footprint of fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas.

However, as the UK has shifted focus from coal - and oil - fired electricity generation to being more reliant on natural gas as the fuel of choice (irrespective of wind, solar, nuclear and other alternatives), this makes the electricity grid somewhat vulnerable to accidental and incidental problems with the flow of data and to malicious manipulation for the sake of sabotage, criminal or online military / terrorist action.

Three weeks later a second spill occurred in Alabama, further focusing the nation's attention on the potential dangers of coal waste disposal.

The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of coal to generate electricity, said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.

«Activists have focused on ways to create obstacles in India's coal - based energy plans and methods to pressure India to use only renewable energy.»

The USA is gradually switching from coal to gas as low gas prices make it favourable to burn, and it could make stronger use of particularly cheap gas since a great deal is produced within the country, but political will at present is still focused on retaining the use of coal.