Sentences with phrase «former coal country»

As a whole, those counties were about 1 - in - 5 votes cast in the state and are a mix of the factories around Youngstown, the farms down the Ohio River Valley, former coal country in the south and into the Cincinnati suburbs.

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«Theresa May can wring her hands at the inequality that scars our country,» he told an audience on site of the former Orgreave coal mine in Rotherham, south Yorkshire, today.

This analysis reveals that global coal production may still increase over the next 10 to 15 years by about 30 percent, mainly driven by Australia, China, the Former Soviet Union countries (Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan) and South Africa.

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg (shown) pledged $ 30 million Wednesday to the Sierra Club's war on coal, boosting to $ 110 million the amount the former New York mayor and his allies are contributing to the environmentalist group's efforts to shut down coal plants all across the country.

Zhou Fengqi, a former energy official, said it was impossible for the country to radically slash coal consumption in the coming decades.

«It's true that governments by and large have been politically paralyzed because the energy companies, the coal companies, the oil companies, the coal - burning utilities, they have spent enormous amounts of money and they have succeeded in many countries in paralyzing the political process,» the former vice president said.

Subsequently, coal production in the countries of the former Soviet Union (now Eurasia) has begun a slow, steady rebound.