Sentences with phrase «from coal states»
Democrats, particularly from coal states, helped set the stage for the failure of the 1993 tax, according to various experts, and according to Mr. Clinton.
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We estimate that low natural gas prices and state policies that move utilities away from coal are savings tens of thousands of lives and tens of billions of dollars each year.
Most of the senators who signed are from states that depend on the continued burning of coal, oil and gas.
Even in states that wish to favor coal - fired power, it will be difficult to convince ratepayers that they ought to pay more for electricity from coal than they could pay for electricity from alternative sources.
The Virginia Tech team sought out coal - ash samples from states including Virginia and Illinois, and from as far away as China.
China's steel and metals associations urged the government to retaliate against the United States, citing imports ranging from stainless steel to coal, agricultural products and electronics.
Certainly, the states that have long relied on coal and mining jobs for economic stability will benefit from the end of Obama - era regulations.
Industry advocates often blame the Obama administration's «war on coal,» specifically two signature policies to reduce fossil fuels» carbon emissions — the Clean Power Plan, which never went into effect before the Trump administration moved to eliminate it altogether, and the Paris Climate Agreement, from which the United States has withdrawn.
Instead, it's focused on coal coming up from the United States, primarily from Wyoming and Montana.
Hazard, Kentucky, a town hard - hit from coal - mining closings, is struggling to employ its out - of - work coal miners through a mix of local, state, federal and private programs.
Plus, he noted, because coal from western states, including Wyoming — by far the nation's top coal producer — is considerably cheaper than Appalachia's, «even if there's a big resurgence in demand, it's not likely to be for Kentucky coal.»
Bowling's story is emblematic of the boom - and - bust history of the coal industry in Appalachia, a largely rural 13 - state swath that runs from southern New York to northeastern Mississippi.
New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural...
Democrats from coal - producing states, led by West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, had delayed the Senate vote on the funding bill in a failed attempt to get a bigger extension of miners» healthcare benefits that expire at the end of this year.
The power industry is highly regional, and some states have big solar and wind industries, while others benefit from large natural gas resources, or have long had major coal plants.
Records from the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority show that 94 per cent of the 6.6 - million tonnes of thermal coal exported through the Port of Vancouver in 2016 came from the United States.
The United States continued to import coal primarily from Colombia (64.8 %), Canada (12.9 %), and Indonesia (18 %).
Some 40 percent of U.S. coal production comes from government land, much of it found in wide - open western states such as Montana and Wyoming.
In the United States, climate action is driving a shift from coal - fired power to clean energy.
New electricity from solar and wind will be cheaper than coal in most parts of the United States by 2023, according to a new...
A big part of President Obama's climate legacy will be the U.S. Clean Power Plan, which will cut pollution from U.S. coal plants — and, importantly, allows imports of new Canadian clean power to help states meet their targets.
A recent report from the Brookings Institution stated coal Continue Reading
Pulling the same legal levers as those involved in its climate change investigation of ExxonMobil, the New York state attorney general's office obtained an agreement from coal giant Peabody Energy to end misleading statements and disclose risks associated with global warming.
By: Simone Liedtke 30th April 2018 State - owned power utility Eskom says it is considering a proposal by Optimum coal mine business rescue practitioners (BRPs) to reduce the monthly coal supply tonnage from the mine from 400 000 t to 200 000 t for the remainder of the contract period.
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.
«We serve New York - style, coal - fired pizza made in a state - of - the - art oven from Wood Stone Corp..
Renewable energy: Commit to 100 percent renewable power The Climate Collaborative states that about one - third of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas to produce electricity.
During his 39 years in Parliament he has been suspended from the House of Commons for accusing the government of conducting a crooked deal to sell off coal mines (1995), calling John Gummer a «little squirt of a Minister» (1992), accusing George Osborne of snorting coke (2005), calling David Owen a «pompous sod» (1984), accusing the Deputy Speaker of bias towards the Conservatives (2006) and calling Jim Prior, then Secretary of State for Employment, the «Minister of Unemployment» (1980).
Legislation introduced in the state Senate and Assembly would prohibit the state's pension fund from investing in big oil, gas or coal companies.
This first document from 1977 was written by Nicholas Ridley and explains how they would denationalise the state, subvert the Unions, use the security services of the state against organised Labour, and build up stocks of coal to take on the miners.
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.
«The economic potential from the Marcellus Shale could provide a badly needed boost to the economy of the Southern Tier and even many environmentalists agree we want to produce more domestic natural gas that reduces the need for environmentally damaging fuel sources such as coal,» his campaign statement said, while adding, «Existing watersheds are sacrosanct, and Andrew Cuomo would not support any drilling that would threaten the state's major sources of drinking water.»
The state is taking the Trump administration to court for not taking steps to reduce air pollution from predominantly coal - burning states upwind that is causing chronic smog in metropolitan New York City.
ALBANY — Two of the state's four remaining coal plants, struggling financially and facing closure, have drawn interest from an outside investor.
WESPORT — While several towns in Essex County received an early present from the state's economic Santa Claus, others found a lump of coal in their stockings.
But blue states in the Northeast and along the West Coast have few coal plants left to close, meaning emission reductions will increasingly need to be wrung from other sectors of the economy.
«He's targeting the largest share of coal production from an energy source that provides the largest share of U.S. electricity even now — removing coal will create a far less diverse energy supply and damages economies in coal states.»
In combination with the data on when the specimen was collected, the results tell the tale of coal use in the United States; rising from the late 1800s and falling during the Great Recession; then increasing again through the middle of the century until legislation in the»50s,»60s, and»70s set limits on air pollution, The Washington Post reports.
Particulates and other air pollutants from coal - fired power plants cause somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 premature deaths in the United States each year.
The extraordinary growth in fracking — the hydraulic fracturing of deeply buried shale rock to extract natural gas — has transformed the United States over the past 15 years, boosting energy stocks, cutting pollution from conventional coal - power plants, and creating new jobs.
Meanwhile, the data in the United States as well as Europe point to a trend away from coal and toward gas, while South America has the cleanest power sector in the world.
[D] uring gasification, roughly half of the sulfur, mercury, arsenic, tar, ash, and particulates from the used coal remain in the subsurface, and any sulfur or metals that reach the surface arrive in a chemically reduced state, making them relatively simple to remove.
After all, the 10 RGGI states are connected to a national grid for power that can allow, for example, cheaper, dirtier power from coal - fired power plants in Ohio to substitute for reduced electricity production at a coal plant in New York State.
The Asian forecast contrasts sharply to projections for the United States, which is expected to see sagging domestic demand as power plants undergo fuel switching away from coal.
Even in the United States — where much has been made of the switch away from coal to less carbon - intensive gas — coal is making a comeback.
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.
But experts in the energy industry warn that the state corporation - dominated decisionmaking process could stall the government's ultimate goal — to shift away from coal — because the statistics that have been announced may not be accurate.
In the United States, roughly two - thirds of all sulfur dioxide and a quarter of all nitrogen oxide come from electric power generation that relies on burning fossil fuels, such as coal.
In both the United States and China, he said, mineral rights agreements separate coal from below - surface gases.
Some want to emulate the success of the United States in bringing down energy prices via shale gas - a fossil fuel that can help cut greenhouse emissions if it replaces coal but at the same time can divert investments from cleaner energy.