Sentences with phrase «funded by the coal»

But I found the headline really confusing: I took it to mean «Attorney * Is * Hounding Climate Scientists Covertly Funded By Coal Industry» (sure, why shouldn't he?)

... Our Wyoming schools are largely funded by coal, oil, natural gas, mining, ranching, etc..

[4] In it, Hileman described «a systematic campaign of disinformation» being conducted by a small group of scientists calling themselves the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) whose work is funded by coal, oil, utility, automobile, and chemical companies — the corporations whose profits might decline if Congress took global warming seriously.

It's the attorney, not the climate scientists, that's funded by the coal industry.

Therefore, silence of the candidates about climate change is understandable, but it gives the climate deniers a sense that their views are prevailing, of course, with the help of generous funding by the coal and oil lobbies.

His boss, GMU J.D. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has been well - funded by coal and utilities.

The film was produced by a company headed by Idso's wife and funded by the coal industry.

Michaels» web publication, World Climate Report, and its skeptical predecessors have been heavily funded by coal and electric utility industries with a large financial stake in preventing regulation of greenhouse emissions.

ExxonMobil has become a major funder of the most visible «greenhouse skeptics», most of whom who have traditionally been funded by the coal industry — including S. Fred Singer, Patrick Michaels, Robert Balling and Sherwood Idso.

«Attorney Hounding Climate Scientists Is Covertly Funded By Coal Industry,» The Intercept, August 25, 2015.

Also, at one point, Phillip Foster, an English minister who seemed to be the event organiser, suggested they say they aren't funded by the coal industry.

So Dr. Soon, why should we trust someone without credentials in climate science whose work is only funded by coal and oil interests?»

New Hope Environmental Services also ran a climate change bulletin titled The World Climate Report which was edited by Patrick Michaels and funded by coal group Western Fuels Association.

Not surprisingly, Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC), the charming little «grass - roots» organization funded by the coal mining industry who is running this ad campaign points only to the electricity generating side of clean coal technologies while overlooking the pollution created to mine and transport the stuff To quote Leah Arnold, their communications director, «We don't get into the mining issue.

Not exact matches

The fossil fuel divestment campaign began on university campuses in 2011 but the new report reveals that concerns over investments in coal, oil and gas have now entered the financial mainstream, with more than 80 % of the funds now committed to divest being managed by commercial investment and pension funds.

A new coal plant, funded by the World Bank, is only scheduled for completion in a few years» time.

These refined coal credits were approved by Congress in 2004 in order to incentivize companies to fund production of cleaner coal.

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.

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

While new data may come from FutureGen, a $ 1.8 billion prototype «zero emissions» coal - fired plant funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, it is not likely to open before 2012.

Methane lawsuit threat hangs over EPA's head Research by the Environmental Defense Fund has found that leakage rates must remain below 3.2 percent for natural gas power plants to carry a climate advantage over coal plants.

Coal producers operating in Australia have pledged to contribute $ 1 billion by 2016 to a fund for CCS technology development.

«They are pretending to be good guys by doing clean coal and nuclear, but they are also funding Willie Soon to erase the entire problem,» Davies said.

Strategies to meet the goal would vary by country and largely rely on advanced technology such as capturing the carbon dioxide spewed by coal - burning power plants; the Bush vision also foresees gasoline alternatives, nuclear power and an international clean technology fund to promote research into carbon - free energy sources.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has invested more than $ 3 billion since 2001 to fund multiple CCS projects being conducted by seven regional partnerships, including demonstrations of ammonia capture technology at the massive coal - fired Pleasant Prairie power plant in Kenosha County, Wisc., and the R. E. Burger plant in Shadyside, Ohio.

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

With financial backing from the Appalachian Regional Commission, Southern Research formed The Prosperity Fund in 2017 to accelerate small business growth and job creation in four Alabama counties hurt by the coal industry's downward spiral.

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.

By contrast, the exchange - traded fund for coal, Market Vectors Coal (NYSE: KOL), fell more than 20 perccoal, Market Vectors Coal (NYSE: KOL), fell more than 20 percCoal (NYSE: KOL), fell more than 20 percent.

Owner of The Coal Shed restaurant in Brighton, Razak Helalat and myself from Sussex - based veterinary group Grove Lodge Vets — came up with a fun way to raise funds for local rescue centre Dogs Trust Shoreham by holding a special Valentine's...

(1 m 73.04 cm × 109.86 cm × 54.93 cm) Medium: Coal Credit Line: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the artist, gift of Sperone Westwater, and DMA / amfAR Benefit Auction Fund Object Number: DEACC.2012.51 Deaccession Criteria: Work is in poor condition and can not be treated successfully / Exchanged for a different sculpture by the same artist

Futuregen is based on same old Hitler era bankrupt thermal coal gasification, which have neither been economical or nor worked with now almost $ 30 + billion funding by DOE since first oil embargo of 1973.

There is not a single similar institution in the U.S. — oh, you might point to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, managed jointly by Bechtel and Battelle (oil pipelines and «clean coal» - FutureGen projects), but they get their funding slashed every year, more or less — and they cancelled their most promising biofuel program, algal biofuel, back in 1997 — good luck with that.

This survey is probably funded by Mobil / Exxon, the coal industry and Waste Management.

Both of these options are cost effective: by telling the power market to go someplace besides coal - and telling them to spare us the BS about future carbon capture - incentives will increase to fund clean alternatives.

The report describes how India, despite its poverty, has moved ahead with an initiative for raising money for energy research that the United States — thanks to a lack of leadership, congressional polarization and fear of anything remotely resembling a tax — has so far been unable to do: India has created a National Clean Energy Fund for research and innovation financed by a levy of $ 1.10 (U.S.) per metric ton of mined or imported coal.

To their credit, Nature has covered the fact that the current funding for renewable energy is miserably low, and is being sabotaged by a push to fund clean coal technology: Nature Jobs: Renewable - energy funds threatened, 2001.

To make this a just transition towards a cleaner, healthier and more prosperous economy for all, Alberta has also created a Coal Community Transition Fund, to support municipalities and First Nations impacted by the phase - out of coal in the proviCoal Community Transition Fund, to support municipalities and First Nations impacted by the phase - out of coal in the provicoal in the province.

Palmer told Ken Ward Jr. of Coal Tatoo that the paper was not funded by any advocacy group, and Ward writes that the paper «underwent the most rigorous peer review by Science that they had ever seen».

As a result, despite periodic energy price spikes caused by disruptive world events and about $ 50 billion (in real terms) in energy R&D funding since 1978, the United States has made only steady incremental progress in developing and deploying advanced renewable, coal, and nuclear technologies that can compete with conventional energy technologies.

The 237 - page bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R - AK)-- S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 — includes provisions that would expedite the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export permitting process, heap subsidies on coal technology, and fund research geared toward discovering a way to tap into methane hydrate reserves.

The financing provided by this fund has enabled coal producers to restructure and recapitalize, leading to significant expansion of thermal coal production.

The Greening Earth Society (GES) was a group that was funded and controlled by the Western Fuels Association (WFA), an association of coal - burning utility companies.

In terms of community impact, BNP has been directly involved in the funding of a four giga - watt coal power plant in India, the Tata Mundra plant, which affects the livelihood of thousands of fish workers by dumping gallons and gallons of warm water from the plant into the naturally colder water of the coastal area.

Perhaps the most totemic sign of the times came in September when the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a philanthropic body set up by the heirs to the Standard Oil fortune, announced that it would pull its money out of fossil fuels, beginning with coal and tar sands.

While de Jong's political passion extends to resolving not to fund faith - based schools, including Catholic ones, and to ending dependence on coal - fired plants by 2009, he said climate change is the most important issue.

In May 2016 Arch Coal gave its 38 % share in the proposed Millennium Terminal to the project's last remaining supporter, Lighthouse Resources (previously known as Ambre Energy North America), which in turn is owned by Resource Capital Funds.

Industry misinformation is then pushed to the public through astroturf front groups (like the Koch - funded and - founded Americans for Prosperity), through advertising campaigns (like those run by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity), and by hiring «scientists» or «experts» with that special lack of integrity and credibility that allows a person to earn money at the expense of a far, far broader population.

We also call on Governor Deval Patrick and the legislature to pass the Clean Energy Commonwealth Bill (HB 2935), which would create a community empowerment fund to assist communities and workers by protecting the local tax base and providing worker assistance and retraining opportunities when a coal plant retires.