Sentences with phrase «gets coal companies»

What else gets coal companies, some environmental groups, and labor unions in support of it?

Not exact matches

Many utilities can generate power using either coal or natural gas, so if the latter's price gets cheap enough — typically below $ 4.50 per MCF — power companies will make the switch.

While we're on the question of Ric Stowe and his Griffin Coal Company, bar - room chatter coming out of Collie indicates that life is about to get somewhat tougher in the coalfields and a new round of cost cutting may be on the way — with interesting variat

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

In our nation's rush to get «cheap» energy in the form of coal from the ground, energy companies have begun to blow up the mountains.

Coal companies must now appear before federal judges to get special permits for this process.

Mountaintop removal is just what it sounds like: Explosives are used to blast away the tops of mountains to get at the coal reserves that power companies want for producing electricity.

Tylerh1701: Nintendo seems to get a free pass on a lot of things that, if other companies tried, they would be raked over the coals.

In Pennsylvania miners appropriated coal seams on company property and sold the ore for what they could get daily.

The new company will get most of BBL's aluminum, manganese and nickel assets plus some coal assets.

The only devastation that will be wreaked will be on the income statements of the oil and coal companies (unless they get off their duffs and get with the program).

The BEST way to reduce Global Warming is to reject the PR spin from the entrenched energy companies, and by electing legislators who are not in the pocket of big - coal so we can get on with the job.

We need to make the coal and oil companies pay their fair share of taxes, and get out of the government trough once and for all.

I suggest that all of the environmental organizations get together to defeat lawmakers who are in thrall to the oil and coal companies.

And as long as businessmen with a vested interest (Exxon / Mobil, Peabody Coal, power companies), and economists with a political bias (CEI, Heartland, Cato, Wall Street), and lawyers (Bachmann, Cornyn, Cantor) believe that they know more about global warming than climate scientists, nothing will get done to combat global warming.

But even his back big coal company changes it's mind, next two year we will get a goal, also, the president will change.

When he gets elected, I fully expect Obama to ditch his oil and coal company supporters and do what's right for his country and the world.

A tenured, salaried climatology professor (who gets paid either way), or a coal / oil company executive?

Then at night the only source is the coal, and because the energy companies have to recover their capital costs, they either raise the price because they're not getting any return for the day, or they slowly go bankrupt.

In February, the New York Times reported that Willie Soon, a climate scientist at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, did not disclose funding he got from Southern Company, an energy company that useCompany, an energy company that usecompany that uses coal.

It's hard to understand why (mainly conservative) state governments are opposing the RET when they could be divested themselves of outdated, polluting coal - fired generators while picking up taxes from renewable energy related industries and services — unless of course the same state governments are getting healthy and frequent «donations» from various fossil fuel companies.

Get ready for assertions that the NIPCC study was paid for by big oil, the coal industry, or power companies (it wasn't), or that the people who wrote the study aren't scientists (but they are).

Yet a message of denial and confusion got the industry only so far, so the main backers of CEED, including Western Fuels and major coal producers like Peabody and Southern Company, formed Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) to promote clean coal.

This morning we're learning that the Sierra Club received $ 30 million from a natural gas company to fight coal, until its incoming Executive Director got the Board to agree in Sept 2010 to stop accepting money from fossil fuel companies.

There was a group there that was particularly interested in mountaintop removal coal mining and getting the college to stop investing in coal companies, and the activist organization 350.org, which is probably the biggest grassroots climate - action organization, noticed this movement and were interested to see if they could scale it up.

When I try to envision these three — Gavin Schmidt, Michael Mann, and Scott Rutherford — in the private sector I get the tobacco industry of the 60's and substandard oil and coal and wind power companies with serious liquidity problems.

21 Fossil Fuels: Natural Gas Fossil Fuels: Natural Gas Formed at the same time as oil At higher temperatures, relatively more gas is formed than oil... at lower temps, more oil than gas is formed Typically gets trapped above the layer of oil and below the cap rock when there is a «fold» in the Earth's rock layers Cleaner burning than coal or oil Colorless, odorless in its natural form... power companies add odor in order to detect leaks

«Romney's Chief Energy Advisor Defends Plan to Give Tax Subsidies to Oil Companies Main Risky Business: Kentucky May Not Get Paid for India Coal Deal»

I would be incensed if brown coal and aluminium companies got free permits then sold them.

The Surface Mine Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 put regulations in place that require coal companies to restore the land after they are done mining to prevent groundwater contamination, control erosion, and get rid of other hazards.

ANALYSIS: Through shareholder resolutions, the Aiming for A coalition is getting coal, oil and gas companies to face up to global warming

The coal companies have already got they're feet wet in the export market and it WILL only get bigger!!

I don't really want to rehash our last round, but it probably is worth pointing out for readers that even the coal companies themselves say that the coal isn't going anywhere — and hence won't get burned — if the WA export terminals aren't built.

«If you look at the long - term [for coal], it's not getting any better,» said Standard & Poor's Aneesh Prabhu when S&P downgraded coal company bonds to junk status.

Controversial so - called «clean coal» technology just got a triple - digit investment — GreatPoint Energy, a company that converts dirty coal into cleaner - burning natural gas, has raised $ 100 million in a Series C funding, a company spokesperson told us.

So it looks like there's a showdown a-comin», between the massive, entrenched coal conglomerates and the new wave of clean energy companies — and it could get ugly.

The problem is that coal companies and people who think that they can get rich building wind or solar do not want to allow the electric utilities to have that freedom.

If we just keep drilling, we're told time and again (and again), if we just tap into our plentiful domestic coal reserves, if we just build that tar sands pipeline, if we just let natural gas companies get in there and get the job done and get our natural gas trapped beneath our homes and farms.

In other words, coal companies draw up the lease themselves, obviously charging as little as they can get away with, and await the offer to get rubber - stamped by the Bureau of Land Management in a sham «auction.»

Energy companies should never get a social license to build another coal plant,» said Samantha Smith, head of the global climate and energy initiative at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Future Gen clean coal will get funded as a sop to the coal companies who will get hounded by Hansen and friends.

So far, 2016 has not been very kind to U.S. energy companies solely invested in coal production, and there is no indication that it's going to get better anytime soon.

We get to know working miners along with activists who are battling coal companies in Appalachia.

But if you know you're getting raked over the coals, it is hard to even write out the name of the auto insurance company without cringing.

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