Develop a education program to transition
workers from coal mining and power production to constructing and operating a geothermal plant.
China is by far the most significant contributor of methane
emissions from coal mining operations, accounting for more than half of the world's estimated 27.8 million metric tons of methane released due to coal mining in 2010.
The measures include stemming methane
leaks from coal mines or landfills and stopping black carbon pollution from primitive stoves and diesel construction equipment.
Her samples
come from coal mines in many parts of the world; much of the recent work has been done in the Donets Basin, in the Ukraine.
Projects to harvest natural
gas from a coal mine in the Four Corners region is spewing the potent greenhouse gas
This month,... my business inked a deal to capture methane
vented from a coal mine — one of the largest point sources greenhouse gases in Colorado — to make electricity.
Capturing methane emissions
from coal mines around the world could significantly reduce the amount of heat - trapping gases in the atmosphere, as well as lead to improvements in mine safety and local air quality, according to a report by the Clean Air Task Force (CATF).
Other experts say that Appalachia provides a good opportunity for energy projects because many areas are already equipped with power stations and power lines
from coal mining operations.
And administration officials have signaled that they will support pending efforts in Congress to use an obscure law to eliminate up to a dozen major rules that came out late in Obama's tenure, including rules that seek to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas operations and protect
streams from coal mining.
Germany's Ruhr region has undergone a decades - long shift
away from coal mining, bringing both challenge and opportunity.
But we want Bimblebox to set a precedent to show that conservation of nature is worth more than short - term
profits from coal mining.
Federal candidates, PACs, political parties, and leadership PACs received $ 2,425,159
from the coal mining industry from January 2008 to June 2008.
A Greenpeace investigation released last week highlights the recurring themes of Big Coal advertising, with decades of ads
from coal mining companies, coal - burning utilities, and industry front groups.
Those crimes committed by Massey Energy led not only to the deaths of their own workers, but to the deaths of countless local residents, such as Joshua Mc Cormick, who died of kidney cancer at age 22 because he was unlucky enough to live
downstream from a coal mine.
As the WV economy
shifts from coal mining, some come to Cabell to receive training for new skills, but others feel hopeless.
For instance regulations that are going to cripple the coal industry were voted against by
Democrats from coal mining areas, despite their party's significant support for the measure.
'' [Methane emissions
from coal mines] are important on many levels,» said Jonathan Banks, senior climate policy adviser at CATF and lead author of the report.
The setting is an economically depressed West Virginia town where the residents are still
reeling from a coal mine collapse that killed 10 men.
Her online artist statement doesn't try to aestheticise this ugly reality but on the contrary includes Lock The Gate's web site which states: «The residents of the Bylong Valley, like communities all around NSW, want action to protect land and water
resources from coal mining.
But $ 20 million of that will go to workers
discharged from coal mines, $ 25 million to the Appalachian communities effected, $ 6 million to economically distressed communities, and roughly $ 5 million for «brownfield» studies in communities affected by the retirement of coal - fired plants.
Ridley writes frequently in the Wall Street Journal and the Times promoting fossil fuels, while at the same time earning considerable
wealth from coal mining.
Mercury from tooth fillings incinerated with humans corpses and magnesium dust blown east from the Gobi Desert can now join heavy - metal residues wafting from smelting plants and
arsenic from coal mines to contaminate soil.
Emissions of toxic
pollutants from coal mines including PM10, lead, arsenic and fluoride increased by 100 - 200 % during the last decade.
Communities across America are still struggling to resolve problems left behind decades
ago from coal mining and related industrial pollution.
Ignoring its own scientific study, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday that dumping
debris from coal mining into mountain streams doesn't conflict with the Clean Water Act — a reversal that clears the way for a new Bush administration rule that critics call a gift to mining interests.
Categories excluded are: non-CO2 emissions in buildings and transport, part of material efficiency options, heat production and cogeneration in energy supply, heavy duty vehicles, shipping and high - occupancy passenger transport, most high - cost options for buildings, wastewater treatment, emission
reduction from coal mines and gas pipelines, fluorinated gases from energy supply and transport.
Such
leaks from coal mines and gas drilling sites are on the rise as a result of the shale gas boom in the US.
Allianz will no longer invest in companies if more than 30 per cent of sales
come from coal mining or if coal generates more than 30 per cent of electricity.