Sentences with phrase «from coal country»

Many are men and women from coal country and oil patch states who built their platforms on promises to encourage the use of fossil fuels.

On the surface, they might not have much in common — a Maasai man from the northern Tanzania rangelands and a white Australian woman from coal country.

I stumbled on this true tale about seven years ago, when Jerry Krenach, a friend and Uncle Wade bandmate, mentioned in passing that a great grandfather of his from coal country in Pennsylvania, John Zalabonich, had died in a mining accident.

Much of her work has evolved based on her observations from living in white - dominated communities from coal country to wine country.

Not exact matches

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.

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?»

Moreover, with China's economic profile weakening and likely to keep waning due to demographic issues, it is not likely that the country is going to become a big coal importer from the U.S. in the future.

We know that fast - growing countries such as China are planning to transition from coal to natural gas over the next four to five years, and we need to position ourselves to capitalize on these long - term opportunities.»

China's natural gas demand has been boosted by price cuts aimed at switching users from coal to the cleaner - burning fuel, according to one of the country's biggest gas distributors.

The region's product also competes with cheaper coal from elsewhere in the country.

Clinton's plan for coal country was not to make it easier to mine, but to pump $ 30 billion into the region for economic revitalization to move them away from coal.

He challenged lawmakers to drink from it and said the stream rule was one of the only safety measures protecting people in coal country.

Some environmental groups are worried over the rise in coal exports from multiple countries (including the United States and Australia) to China, which burns half of the six billion tons the world burns annually.

That deal allows Stanbroke to take control of 40 QGC properties spread across the heart of Queensland's coal seam gas country, from west of Chinchilla to south - west of Dalby and help it secure supply of cattle for its processing business.

As we roll through coal country hollows long since tapped out, Bobcats coach Larry Hunter explains how the MAC hopes to model itself after the Atlantic 10, which grew from mid-major shoot into big - time flytrap during the 1990s despite being in the shadow of the Big East.

The legacy that has occurred because of Thatcher's closure of the pits and the privatisation of the industry means we are importing about 54 million tonnes of coal from countries that we can't even trust to deliver.

Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club commented: «Mike Bloomberg's partnership with the Sierra Club and our more than 3 million members and supporters has put our country on a path to cleaner air and cleaner water, good - paying clean energy jobs, and healthier communities that are safe from toxic coal pollution».

Cooper passed along a long list of events Paul has held in the state in recent months, ranging from visiting a summer camp in Louisville's impoverished West End to a roundtable with local elected officials in Corbin about how to battle a opioid epidemic in Eastern Kentucky's coal country.

Instead, with the imposition of a cap - and - trade program, O'Connor said, people looked at the sources of coal and realized they could obtain it from different parts of the country with lower sulfur, cutting emissions at less cost.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

The Amsterdam - based InterAcademy Council — a group that represents 150 national scientific and engineering academies — released a report this week detailing how countries can shift from burning coal and other greenhouse - gas emitting fuels to cleaner energy while also introducing modern forms of energy to the billions worldwide who rely on charcoal, firewood or even dung as their fuel.

The biggest challenge to keeping the lights on is transporting coal across the country from the mineral - rich northwest to the highly populated nine provinces of the southeast coastline.

The Greens want to shut down the country's dirtiest coal power plants, and support a climate - protection law to help Germany meet its plans to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions by 80 — 95 % from 1990 levels by 2050.

That said, whereas CO2 emissions from coal - fired power plants in the U.S. have declined, greenhouse gas emissions from oil sands have doubled since the turn of the century and look set to double again by the end of this decade — the primary source of emissions growth for the entire country of Canada.

Special rules in coal country and tacit cooperation from some environmentalists has allowed mountaintop removal and other destructive practices to proceed

Rather, he argues, climate - concerned governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) should pool their resources and buy up the extraction rights to coal and other fossil fuels from so - called «third countries» that choose not to participate in greenhouse gas - reducing collectives.

Certainly, it is going to be needed to some degree, we have substantial amounts of coal and nuclear and natural gas — central generation currently in this country — but because of the distributed generation from wind, solar, geothermal and hydrokinetic, I think we are going to have to develop a different grid that can accommodate that in a much more efficient way.

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

Coal ash is the second largest source of industrial waste in the country, after mining, according to a joint report from the nonprofit environment law organization, Earthjustice, and the Physicians for Social Responsibility.

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

Nearly 50 percent of the electric power in this country comes from burning coal to create steam that drives electricity - generating turbines.

About 20 percent of U.S. electricity comes from nuclear power plants, making it the third - largest source of electricity in the country after coal (45 percent) and natural gas (23 percent).

China still draws 82 percent of energy from coal, but large dams are crucial to the country's climate change program, which aims to increase its proportion of electricity from renewable resources from the current 7.2 percent to 15 percent by 2020.

«There is the potential for the U.S. and other countries to continue to rely on coal as a source of energy while at the same time protecting the climate from the massive greenhouse gas emissions associated with coal,» says Steve Caldwell, coordinator for regional climate change policy at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, an Arlington, Va., think tank.

China will widen its gap with the United States as the world's largest coal - producing country by the end of the decade, riding continued strong demand from its electric power and steel - making sectors, according to a new analysis from New York - based GBI Research.

Domestic coal production in Japan saw a precipitous drop over the past 30 years, from an estimated 24 million tons in 1980 to 3.5 million tons in the early 2000s, as the country closed all its coal mines and chose to rely on coal imports to meet its needs.

And there's little doubt that it's needed, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: developing countries like China and India will burn their coal reserves to power industry and alleviate poverty so developing cleaner ways to use it will be a global imperative.

Despite a rise in clean, renewable energy supplies in certain countries, and a partial shift from coal to natural gas in others, global greenhouse gas pollution continues to rise — and at an increasing pace in the most recent years.

While country - specific effects would be varied, IMF projects that eliminating post-tax subsidies for the most - polluting energy fuels, such as coal and gasoline, could raise government revenue by $ 2.9 trillion, while also slashing premature deaths from pollution - related diseases by more than 50 percent.

Fracking to free more natural gas from shale can help displace even more polluting coal in more developed countries such as the U.S. but can only serve as a bridge — and a very short bridge — to the zero - greenhouse - gas pollution future, unless also outfitted with carbon capture and storage to eliminate pollution.

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.

The government agency said that the country's coal consumption also fell by 2.9 percent, or 118 million tons, in 2014 from the 2013 level, despite a growing overall energy demand.

While investment in China's power grid has risen substantially, the country still has some of the world's highest curtailment rates for renewable energy, meaning thousands of turbines are taken offline, even under optimum wind conditions, because grid operators lack the knowledge and skills to integrate the clean energy with other sources, including baseload power from coal plants.

There are now thousands of such fires around the world, in every country — from France to South Africa to Borneo to China — where mining exposes coal deposits.

As long as countries like China or the U.S. employ big grids to deliver electricity, there will be a need for generation from nuclear, coal or gas, the kinds of electricity generation that can be available at all times.

In September 2005, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations organization that includes scientists from nearly every country in the world, released a report estimating that 2 trillion tons of carbon dioxide could be stored in old coal mines, abandoned oil and gas fields, and in various other geologic formations around the world.

Plans to start mining and exporting coal from one of the country's biggest deposits — the Galilee basin — require the expansion of the Abbot Point shipping port in north Queensland, within the boundaries of the famous marine park.

«The administration continues to push an agenda of job - killing regulations that could strangle this country's energy industries, in particular coal,» said Rogers, who hails from a major coal - producing state.

The team was able to derive new emissions factors based on data from Chinese government programs that analyzed nearly 5000 coal samples taken throughout the country.

The introduction of the carbon tax, along with Australia's target of generating 41,000 gigawatt hours of renewable energy a year by 2020, up from 21,000 in 2013, has helped increase renewable energy use and reduce the country's heavy reliance on coal, Dargaville says.