Sentences with phrase «from coal interests»

Also last month, insurer Axa said it's pulling $ 2.8 billion from coal interests, nixing investment in oil sands operations and ceasing to insure these projects.

Not exact matches

The Warsaw Conference has put the interests of dirty energy industries over that of global citizens — with a «Coal & Climate Summit» being held in conjunction; corporate sponsorship from big polluters plastered all over the venue; and a Presidency (Poland) that is beholden to the coal and fracking indusCoal & Climate Summit» being held in conjunction; corporate sponsorship from big polluters plastered all over the venue; and a Presidency (Poland) that is beholden to the coal and fracking induscoal and fracking industry.

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.

MOSCOW, Jan 17 Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska is interested in buying Russia's largest coal - fired power station from Enel Russia, three sources familiar with the plans told Reuters on Wednesday.

(b) It is further in the national interest to ensure that the Nation's electricity is affordable, reliable, safe, secure, and clean, and that it can be produced from coal, natural gas, nuclear material, flowing water, and other domestic sources, including renewable sources.

The committee of Coal & Allied directors formed to consider the initial proposal from Rio Tinto unanimously recommends that Coal & Allied shareholders vote in favour of the proposed Scheme, subject to an independent expert concluding that the Scheme is in the best interests of Coal & Allied minority shareholders and there being no superior proposal.

ALBANY — Two of the state's four remaining coal plants, struggling financially and facing closure, have drawn interest from an outside investor.

Oil Change International, another environmental organization, said that as the bank shifts away from coal, it is taking a larger and troubling interest in natural gas and big hydropower projects.

Oil and coal interests have promoted the idea that cutting carbon emissions is costly, he said, while the long - term damage from warming «is far greater.»

He declares a relevant interest in income derived from leasing land for farming, coal mining and wind power.

Neither Christy nor Spencer receives any research support or funding from oil, coal or industrial companies or organizations, or from any private or special interest groups.

Interest in biofuels — fuel derived from living organisms including biomass or their metabolic byproducts, such as manure from cows — grew throughout the end of the twentieth century as these are renewable energy sources, unlike other natural resources such as petroleum, coal, and nuclear fuels.

Last year Greenpeace revealed that Willie Soon is exclusively funded by fossil fuel interests like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil and Southern Company, a major contributor to mercury air pollution from its coal plants.

While the diesel engine is an interesting move, considering the recent scrutiny coal - rollers are facing from the government, the extra safety tech is a welcome addition.

While the major artists of the movement produced different kinds of work, they were united by an interest in unconventional — typically everyday — materials, evidenced in Mario Merz's Cone (1967), made from willow, and Mario Ceroli's Io (1968), an iron and coal sphere.

There are also entrenched interests who have a lot to gain from increased reliance on coal.

The climate science also sure is subject to severe political pressures from varying lobbyist groups, first and foremost the oil an coal interests which are huge financial powerhouses especially in the US Senate — a body which in reality dictates the whole global «climate policy» or rather the absence of any such — serious climate politicans round the globe in reality have — as we now have seen — no chance at all against the denying forces and their huge media apparatus, as long as the public don't see some very serious consequences of climate change, fx.

Many seasoned observers of climate science and policy feel it's hard to see how they will, given the pressures on political figures to focus on the here and now, and the variegated interests arrayed at the ranks of tables — from shrinking island states to oil monarchies to established and emerging powers sitting on mountains of coal — and the tough time our species has recognizing slow but consequential changes.

The class split into teams mirroring the blocs of countries and interest groups hunkered in Paris — from the United States to the «climate vulnerable» nations, from Greenpeace to the World Coal Association.

Federal regulators have denied requests from a multitude of energy interest groups seeking to slow down a 60 - day review of an Energy Department proposal that could upend the country's wholesale energy markets, by propping up coal and nuclear plants in the name of grid resiliency.

In reality, the lack of interest stems chiefly from the fact that this denial - a-palooza fest is dripping with oil money and represents a blatant industry effort to greenwash oil and coal while simultaneously attacking the credibility of climate scientists.

Fredrick D. Palmer, executive vice president for legal and external affairs at Peabody Energy of St. Louis, one of the world's largest coal producers, said it was not really necessary to lobby the Bush administration on the issue, because Big Coal's interests and the administration's views were in sync from the stcoal producers, said it was not really necessary to lobby the Bush administration on the issue, because Big Coal's interests and the administration's views were in sync from the stCoal's interests and the administration's views were in sync from the start.

Average Annual Percent Change (Coal): The average annual percent change over a period of several years that is calculated by taking the nth root [where n is the number of years in the period of interest] of the result of the current year's value divided by the value of the first year of the period; this result then has 1 (one) subtracted from it and that result is then multiplied by 100.

Far from revealing its contributors» financial interests, the film created the impression that they have taken no money from the coal or oil industry.

Of the estimated $ 6 billion spent on television ads on the Presidential, House, and Senate races, some $ 270 million was directed at the promotion of oil, gas, and coal interests just in the last two months, according to a Center for American analysis of data from Kantar Media.

Lindzen recieved $ 2500 a day from oil and coal interests for his services.

Will EU Commissioner Cañete side with the European Parliament, which has called for a conflict of interest policy for the UN talks, or will he stick to the line of the likes of US President Trump and the same big oil, gas and coal corporations who are profiting from destroying the climate?

From a purely pragmatic perspective, one could argue that the Republicans are simply looking out for taxpayer interests until you realize that their «don't buy it if it's more expensive» directive doesn't apply to synthetic fuels derived from coal and natural From a purely pragmatic perspective, one could argue that the Republicans are simply looking out for taxpayer interests until you realize that their «don't buy it if it's more expensive» directive doesn't apply to synthetic fuels derived from coal and natural from coal and natural gas.

The Greenpeace report, «Dr. Willie Soon: a Career Fueled by Big Oil and Coal,» reveals that $ 1.033 million of Dr. Soon's funding since 2001 has come from oil and coal intereCoal,» reveals that $ 1.033 million of Dr. Soon's funding since 2001 has come from oil and coal interecoal interests.

Some electric utilities continue to back special interest groups — including the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, American Legislative Exchange Council, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Utility Air Regulatory Group — that mislead on climate science and / or oppose legal limits on CO2 emissions from power plants.

Apparently more interested in protecting the coal - mining interests in his own state, Mr. McConnell ignores these settled facts and uses what he sees as the only remaining option: Secede from our «clean air» union.

BHI's reports mirror ALEC's model legislation attacking the Clean Power Plan, which was discussed at fossil fuel - funded events attended by Berman's partners and representatives from coal, oil, gas, and utility companies with a financial interest in blocking the EPA's new regulations.

Aside from economics, the strength of the coal unions in Poland, and government ownership interests in both coal mining and the power sector, mean that the industry is central to both political and social discourse.

China has expressed a strong interest in cleaner coal - based technologies like coal liquefaction and gasification, but the government appears to put official hope in renewable energy, setting a target of 12 % of its power generation capacity coming from renewables by 2020 — up from a mere 3 % in 2003.

There is the real situation that the «green (house) minority» has diminishing Public interest due its incessant platforming of non-SCIENCE and the attachment of equally vapid demands for «Wind Power» to replace Gas and Coal (which in REALITY is only creating the growing need and thus INTEREST in Uranium Fuelled power generation for wide spread use) and other platforming from «alternate lobby interestsinterest due its incessant platforming of non-SCIENCE and the attachment of equally vapid demands for «Wind Power» to replace Gas and Coal (which in REALITY is only creating the growing need and thus INTEREST in Uranium Fuelled power generation for wide spread use) and other platforming from «alternate lobby interestsINTEREST in Uranium Fuelled power generation for wide spread use) and other platforming from «alternate lobby interests».

According to Harper's, Balling has recieved more than $ 200,000 from coal and oil interests over the past six years.

Compare that to the estimated 9.3 cents / kWh cost of power from Dominion Virginia Power's newest and most up - to - date coal plant, the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Plant, and you'll understand why Dominion has suddenly taken an interest in solar projects.

The about - to - retire Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, Phil Radford, unabashedly points to Ross Gelbspan as «the lone voice, the moral compass, the beacon that has inspired countless people, me included, to demand our country and our future back from the coal and oil interests behind global warming» (full text here).

Anyway, it is interesting that you can wrap your head around a statement like this (basically, electricity produced by gas / nuclear prevents production from coal and thus saved emissions), but are unable to understand that renewables do exactly the same (replacing emissions from coal) and they even do it more effectively than gas and way cheaper than nuclear.

On the charge of dormant Commerce Clause breach, the judges found the plaintiffs» argument failed to show how out - of - state nuclear plants were suffering from ZEC implementation and that coal and gas - fired generators» interests are not protected under the Clause as non-nuclear entities.

Under long - standing regulations, they said, it would be «in the public interest,» even though science has recently made it clear that the methane leaking from the fracked gas the pipeline will carry is worse than the burning of coal.

The interest in natural gas combustion as a potential solution to climate change has been gaining because US ghg emissions have fallen somewhat as natural gas from hydraulic fracturing technologies has been rapidly replacing coal in electricity sector generation.

The details are commercially confidential, but I have always been careful to disclose that I have this interest in my writing when it is relevant; I am proud that the coal mining on my land contributes to the local and national economy; and that my income from coal is not subsidized and not a drain on the economy through raising energy prices.

In the interest of preventing federal regulation of coal ash, which AEP stores in numerous dangerous sites, Kavanagh attended a meeting at the White House alongside representatives from Duke Energy, Southern Company, Progress Energy, and other major industry groups.

Interesting, especially noting that all the effort amounted to virtually nothing with PG&E getting only 1 % of generation from coal.

Furthermore, fossil fuel and utility interests that have a stake in coal or natural gas plants simply want to slow the growth of their competition: for every solar installation on a home, means approximately one less customer paying for the electricity produced from fossil fuel plants.

Coal to gas: the influence of methane leakage; an interesting paper on how methane leakage from the natural gas industry could prove worse for climate change than burning coal (and it doesn't seem to consider the leakage from coal seam gCoal to gas: the influence of methane leakage; an interesting paper on how methane leakage from the natural gas industry could prove worse for climate change than burning coal (and it doesn't seem to consider the leakage from coal seam gcoal (and it doesn't seem to consider the leakage from coal seam gcoal seam gas).

The publicâ $ ™ s waning interest in global warming poses a challenge for Mr. Obama, who emphasized climate change throughout his campaign and pledged to seek a cap on emissions in the United States of heat - trapping gases, led by carbon dioxide, which come mainly from burning coal and oil.

Over the past decade, renewable energy's strong growth and success has made it a target for unprecedented new attacks from oil, coal, and gas interests.

On two interesting asides, John P. Holdren, director of Woods Hole and one of the presenters, pulled up the statistic that in 2004, the emissions in the US from coal - electric power were more than the emissions from motor vehicles (an important point to consider when Bush touts coal as a renewable energy, falsely labelling it «green» simply because it is abundant).