Sentences with phrase «for coal industry»

Still, this is not a good sign for the coal industry.

Likely much of the same thing he has been doing — advocate for his coal industry and peddle climate denial.

One of its subsidiaries, Reiss Viking, now owned by Quality Magnetite, LLC, is one of the largest suppliers of magnetite for the coal industry.

In fact: The hope that coal plants» carbon emissions can be drastically reduced — either through technology that captures and sequesters the emissions or that converts coal to synthetic gas — burns eternal for the coal industry's cheerleaders.

These forecasts are included in Bloomberg New Energy Finance's Market 2030 outlook, which includes detailed forecasts for Australia and Asia, both of which have major implications for the coal industry — exporters and local generators.

WCA is the global network for the coal industry.

The report also takes care to offset certain cost elements that have inappropriately been internalized into the existing price of coal, such as the high social burden of coal enterprises to provide a broad array of social benefits for its employees (which is not in itself a bad thing, but is done in a very wasteful manner), and what the researchers consider to be excessive mandatory contributions by coal enterprises to the Railway Construction Fund (RMB 22 billion in 2006 alone, amounting to 33 % of total profits for the coal industry).

In meetings this week with State Department officials, lobbyists for the coal industry, electric utilities, and automakers joined ExxonMobil's call to replace Watson.

So what goes for the coal industry goes for the entire fossil industry, also oil and gas.

This week's news about Peabody Energy becoming the latest and final publicly - traded coal company to declare bankruptcy put an exclamation point on this devastating era for the coal industry.

In the latest sign of struggles for the coal industry, the world's largest private - sector coal company announced plans to eliminate 250 corporate and regional positions across the United States.

Proponents of the proposed rule say it's necessary to ensure the reliability and resiliency of the nation's power grid; opponents call it a bailout for the coal industry.

Kumi Naidoo, director of Greenpeace International, said that «The Polish government has done its best to turn these talks into a showcase for the coal industry», and that «backsliding by Japan, Australia and Canada» was a «slap in the face to those suffering as a result of dangerous climate change» (i.e. nobody).

To achieve this lower level, there must no net increase in emissions in the second half of this century — effectively spelling the end for the coal industry, and major reductions in the use of all fossil fuels.

He went to work for the coal industry in 1998 and has been with it ever since.

It's more often the beneficiary of implicit or explicit government subsidies to make it more affordable for the coal industry to operate (the land is practically given to them for free, they get tax expenditures hand over fist, their roads are most often built for them by the state, they're exempted from waste - disposal regulations, allowed to dump and run, and use some of the most tyrannical and abject labor standards in the world).

That's one trillion dollars each and every year — the loss in annual revenue for the coal industry if the world takes serious action to prevent global warming, rather than just continuing on in business - as - usual.

He is also the president and CEO of the American Coallition for Clean Coal electricity (ACCCE), a front group for the coal industry.

In a public relations coup for the coal industry, its chief lobby group will join forces with two prominent environment groups, WWF and the Climate Institute, and the miners» union, to call on the Rudd Government to set up a national task force to develop «clean coal».

Let me see; so far you «We're all going to be roasted / drowned» Chicken Littles have called me in the pay of the oil industry, a propagandist for the coal industry, and also for the Republicans.

Peabody Energy, a longtime leader and big financial supporter of ALEC, was a top conference sponsor, along with the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a trade association group for the coal industry.

In an analysis of the future of coal, Wood Mackenzie, a leading energy consulting and research firm, describes these closings as a harbinger of things to come for the coal industry.

Moreover, it is a call to dry up all financial funding for the coal industry and take serious steps for climate protection.

The bottom line is that Trump may talk a good game when it comes to coal, but dirt - cheap natural gas has destroyed any meaningful prospects for the coal industry.

Last I looked Courtney worked with the Heritage Foundation and Aruda works for the Coal industry.

'' I believe you will find that your perspectives are treated with a great deal more professionalism on the Skeptical Science blog that anyone here gives to an opposing perspective...» «Last I looked Courtney worked with the Heritage Foundation and Aruda works for the Coal industry.

While this might not be great news for the coal industry, the decrease in coal usage takes a load off the environment.

The financial landscape for the coal industry has changed dramatically in the last several years.

In your prior role as planning consultant for AES — which has an abysmal and very public record on social and environmental responsibility and is a major lobby for the coal industry — how did you view yourself?

Following a tumultuous year for the coal industry, including the disastrous coal - chemical spill that left 300,000 without access to clean water in West Virginia, and increasing layoffs as coal mining continues to decline, a coalition of Appalachian citizen groups are demanding increased action from the Obama Administration.

The Good, Not the Perfect For the coal industry, Clemente said, CCS is not a technology, it's the technology, and the industry has to start urgently treating it as such.

How about turning the most famous song in English about the birth of Jesus into a commercial for the coal industry... OK, you guys know what that song was about before you changed the words, right?

For the coal industry to try and thwart solar and other methods for the sake of digging and burning more coal is a mentality problem.

A nice trade - off for the coal industry I think.

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

The exchange - traded fund for the coal industry, Market Vectors - Coal (NYSE: KOL), has fallen more than 25 % for 2013 as the Dow Jones Industrial Average has surged more than 16 % for the same period.

So it was not a bullish time segment for the coal industry.

Indian coal plants under the CDM received financial backing from the World Bank, sparking an outcry against that organization by groups that argue that the bank's support for the coal industry is inconsistent with its other efforts to tackle climate change.

It's important to understand that not all of the bad news for the coal industry is coming by way of the EPA.

In recent years, top U.S. and European banks, including Barclays PLC and BNP Paribas SA, have slashed financing for the coal industry and adopted new lending policies.

He has also served as President of Vincennes University, worked for the coal industry and the law firm of Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP.

They note that he's lowered the state's deficit, showed compassion for the state's coal miners, and fought for the coal industry.

The miners strike was a disaster for the coal industry and was scarred by violence and intimidation as the leadership sought to defy the laws of the land and the laws of economics.

McCain would be more favorable for the coal industry.

Researcher Clark Williams - Derry said it is difficult to underestimate the impact a ban on thermal coal exports would have for the coal industry in the western U.S.

Not exact matches

This is, in a nutshell, McConnell's case for reelection: that as Kentucky's heavyweight in Washington, he'll thwart the assault liberals are waging not just on the health care system and the coal industry but, more broadly, on the state's way of life.

The defeat is a setback for the president, who vowed on the campaign trail to revive the battered coal industry and put miners back to work.

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.

President Trump has called the Paris climate accord «very unfair» for the United States, especially the coal industry, and pledged to restore coal miners» jobs.

Announcing that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris climate accord, President Donald Trump misplaced the blame for what ails the coal industry and laid a shaky factual foundation for his decision.