Sentences with phrase «from coal companies»

The report expects the Obama administration's proposed Clean Power Plan to reinforce this trend, despite the threat of lawsuits from coal companies and heavily coal - reliant states.

15 insurance companies have already taken steps, and are collectively divesting about $ 20 billion in equities and bonds from coal companies or are ceasing to underwrite coal projects.

And after lobbying from coal companies, Ferguson was responsible for intensifying police and ASIO spying on environmental groups.

As I've written repeatedly, it's tough to sustain a focus on long - term needs, like sustained research on the frontiers of photovoltaics and energy storage, when congressional politics is about building short - term coalitions by satisfying demands presented by influential players, from coal companies to unions.

About $ 190 million has been invested so far, about $ 90 million of which comes from coal companies contributing to a CCS fund.

The measure would require the pension fund to stop investing in the world's top 200 fossil fuel companies in the next five years, and divest from coal companies within one year from when the law is passed.

[19], [20] The Energy & Environment Legal Institute also received funding from the coal company.

Funny how Gelbspan's 1997 book attributes that strategy phrase and targeting phrases to Western Fuels, while Gore said in 2008 that it was an Exxon strategy, despite his own acknowledgement in his 1992 book that the memos came from a coal company.

The bankruptcy filings for Alpha Natural Resources, revealed by The Intercept, showed direct support from that coal company to Chris Horner personally, as well as to the Free Market Law Clinic.

Not exact matches

In coal, many of the largest companies, including Peabody Energy Corp. and Arch Coal Inc., won't benefit from the rate cut because they have large net operating losses, according to Daniel Scott, an analyst at MKM Partners coal, many of the largest companies, including Peabody Energy Corp. and Arch Coal Inc., won't benefit from the rate cut because they have large net operating losses, according to Daniel Scott, an analyst at MKM Partners Coal Inc., won't benefit from the rate cut because they have large net operating losses, according to Daniel Scott, an analyst at MKM Partners LLC.

North Korea generates about $ 1 billion a year from the coal trade, according to the Treasury, which singled out three Chinese coal companies it said was responsible for importing almost a half - billion dollars in North Korean coal between 2013 and 2016.

Local company Prairie Mining has raised $ 15 million from UK - based CD Capital for the development of its Lublin coal project, with the potential for the private equity fund to invest a further $ 68 million.

U.S. authorities have repeatedly targeted companies and individuals from the Chinese city of Dandong, which borders North Korea, in a bid to cut off Pyongyang's major export revenue from selling natural resources, such as coal.

For instance, in 2002, around 45 - 50 percent of the company's energy mix — what is used by its customers — came from coal, according to spokesman Rayhan Daudani.

Wells Fargo analyst David Maris, who has a market perform rating on the company, said he believes that, from an investor standpoint, the coal transactions adds unnecessary complexity.

You can buy U.S. - listed Chinese companies, and there are Australian coal producers, but the factors that affect prices in those countries are different from the fundamentals here.

A Donald Trump presidency, others say, should be a windfall for coal miners, small - cap U.S. companies (because their sales are mostly in the U.S.), and, of course, construction companies that might benefit from a massive government wall - building contract.

Base load power, the residual power that has to be generated day - in, day - out, came primarily from burning coal, typically in a plant located right at a mine site owned by the power company.

Clinton said she had a policy to help coal country benefit from creating renewable energy «because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?»

Notably absent from the list are oil and coal companies that have built their businesses on fossil fuels.

But since Trump has been in office, the GOP has used the CRA more than a dozen times to roll back Obama - era rules and regulations, including one to protect broadband consumer privacy, one to curb bribery and corruption in the energy industry, and one to stop coal companies from dumping waste into streams and waterways.

Mining companies in the Powder River Basin couldn't be happier about this development, since most of the coal that will be passing through Canada will be coming straight from Wyoming.

There was also good news from the company's metallurgical coal division, where production from its Queensland mines rose 2 per cent during the March quarter year - on - year and 7 per cent on the December quarter.

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.

Southern Company has been making a lot of the right moves in my opinion from abandoning the Clean Coal Project to looking to position themselves as a clean energy cCompany has been making a lot of the right moves in my opinion from abandoning the Clean Coal Project to looking to position themselves as a clean energy companycompany.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Cele notes that, «the demand from China for iron - ore continues to grow, but at a declining pace, further exacerbating pricing pressure,» meaning that Vale's considerable investment in nickel, coal, fertilisers and copper will only partially mitigate the impact of the increase in iron - ore mining capacity globally on the company.

The company's unchanged coal production guidance includes the largely offsetting impacts of Glencore's acquisition of Rio Tinto's 82 % interest in the Hail Creek mine, in Australia, and lower production from Prodeco in 2018, before returning to higher levels in 2019.

In addition to the Company's mining operations, the Company markets and broker coals from its operations and other coal producers, both as principal and agent, and trade coal and freight - related contracts through trading and business offices.

In 2011, it had bought out the mountaintop removal mining company Massey Coal from under coal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standarCoal from under coal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standarcoal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standards).

By: Ajoy K Das 23rd April 2018 India's Coal Ministry has requested thermal power generation companies to increase plant level coal stocks to about 30 - million tons, from 16.5 - million tons at present, ahead of the monsoon season starting in JCoal Ministry has requested thermal power generation companies to increase plant level coal stocks to about 30 - million tons, from 16.5 - million tons at present, ahead of the monsoon season starting in Jcoal stocks to about 30 - million tons, from 16.5 - million tons at present, ahead of the monsoon season starting in June.

It is that aspect of the law that frightens environmental groups that have fought for years for the coal - mining rule and another rule to restrict energy companies from burning off natural gas during drilling operations on public lands.

A shift away from coal might be challenging for the province's longtime coal power companies, but that industry is undergoing change across North American, said Smith.

In our nation's rush to get «cheap» energy in the form of coal from the ground, energy companies have begun to blow up the mountains.

Presumably that means divesting from companies that are engaged directly in coal, gas, and oil exploration and production, though not their use.

In the Battle of Matewan, union coal miners fought Baldwin - Felts «private detectives» who had been hired to evict union miners from company housing.

The first seed of the European Economic Community, i.e., the 1954 European Coal and Steel Company, was not sown for economic reasons only, but» and this was very conscious on the mind of its father, another Christian, Jean Monnet» in order to prevent competition about the possession of these basic industrial goods from becoming once again the cause of wars.

Because the companies are not under any obligations to reveal what is contained in the fragrance, most of them are derived from petroleum and coal derived synthetic chemicals.

Legislation introduced in the state Senate and Assembly would prohibit the state's pension fund from investing in big oil, gas or coal companies.

Wilson criticized Stefanik's environmental record, including for what she said was a vote to nullify the Stream Protection Rule, an Obama - era rule that sought to restrict coal companies from dumping waste into waterways.

FuelCell Energy is one of a handful of companies investigating how to address one of the biggest barriers in trying to capture carbon dioxide from coal plants for later storage underground, an unproved concept.

Company fuel cells have a naturally high concentration of CO2 in their fuel stream — about 75 percent concentration of CO2, compared to 10 percent or so from a typical coal plant emissions stream.

This merger created the largest single MTR company in the country, now responsible for some 25 percent of coal production from MTR mines.

A company in Poland is manufacturing coal - based pellets that it says could significantly reduce carbon emissions from the country's power - generating plants.

That sulfur dioxide market, run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has reduced sulfur dioxide levels by 40 percent since 1992 by allowing companies to buy and sell the right to emit the acid - rain forming pollution from coal - burning plants, which has increased the acidity of lake waters throughout the region.

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

Statistics from the China Coal Industry Association show that in 2014, 7 out of 10 Chinese coal companies failed to make ends mCoal Industry Association show that in 2014, 7 out of 10 Chinese coal companies failed to make ends mcoal companies failed to make ends meet.

«Right from the start, the goal of the company was «solar at the cost of coal.»

In the United States, there have been environmental protests in states like New Jersey, where a company is planning to pipe CO2 from a coal plant to a storage spot in the ocean near Atlantic City.