Sentences with phrase «getting big coal»

Even before the flood, getting Big Coal to clean up its act was like getting a child to clean up its bedroom.

So if you've got big coal plants producing electricity, you're not getting anywhere.

Not exact matches

It's easy to see why we should produce our own energy — relying on other countries for oil, natural gas, and coal (the biggest sources used today) can get complicated.

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.

I have Christmas fever in a big way and this train's not slowing down... in fact, I've got a whole lot more coal to keep it moving at a fast pace for the next couple of weeks so get ready!

«There's roughly seven million people who die globally from air pollution every year, so getting rid of coal could take a big chunk out of that number as well,» Pearce says, adding that another goal of future research is to dig deeper into the life cycles of coal production as this study only looked at air pollution - related deaths.

For anyone expecting a film close to that original teaser trailer, you just got a big lump of coal in your stocking.

When we send money to big oil and king coal, that money gets filtered upward into a top - down corporate hegemony that keeps money out of local communities.

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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.

More than half of India's power - generation capacity of 205 gigawatts is coal - based, and Coal India Ltd., the world's biggest coal producer, is unable to produce enough owing to delays in getting environmental clearances for mincoal - based, and Coal India Ltd., the world's biggest coal producer, is unable to produce enough owing to delays in getting environmental clearances for minCoal India Ltd., the world's biggest coal producer, is unable to produce enough owing to delays in getting environmental clearances for mincoal producer, is unable to produce enough owing to delays in getting environmental clearances for mining.

It's a big job, but it's one that has to be done anyway, since if the whole world tries to pull itself into prosperity by burning carbon at the rate the US does, then we run out of coal even at the highest estimates by 2100, and you wind up with no fossil energy and the hellish climate you get from 5000 gigatonnes cumulative emission.

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

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Be sure to check out past posts on this issue to see mines like this one compared with more familiar features like San Francisco, and get an idea how big the trains are that carry all this coal to foreign markets.

China is the world's biggest coal consumer; it gets more than 70 percent of its power from coal.

To get an idea of how all of this looks in the bigger scheme of things, we can compare that entire state - wide 150 MW of solar energy to one single coal - fired power station.

Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.

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).

Because he thought a) that he would find «smoking gun» evidence of «big oil or coal» support, b) that he could neutralize a worrisome opponent and c) that he could get away with it.

When you just say generic «solar», and call a small project the world's largest, you make it seem as if solar is not getting very far if a 200 MW farm is the biggest in the world, when coal plants are routinely 150 - 250MW.

«Big oil, gas, and coal have huge influence on politicians and governments and they get that influence the old fashioned way — they buy it,» said Kretzmann.

Phase out coal and stop wasting energy, and we get big reductions in emissions.

Germany has got rid of nuclear and is getting back big time to coal extraction and coal powered electricity, for example.

But you also have to bear in mind that the really big players in this have another agenda, the banking cartel's one world government, so a lot of the anti this and anti that, «coal death trains» and «nasty big oil», are just the use of the emotional energy of plebs to get one world government legislation put into place.

This fossil - vs - fossil fight between King Coal and Big Oil is just getting started.

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.

In 2016, the state passed a bill that requires its two big utilities to eliminate coal from their portfolios by 2030 and get 50 percent of their power from renewables by 2040.

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

This way, for instance, electricity customers in coal - heavy Indiana, say, get a bigger refund than those in hydropower - heavy Washington (so as to compensate for the fact that Indiana's utilities will get hit harder by the carbon price).

I can understand his decision, he needs big oil / coal's money for his re-election bid and he won't get it if he backs science / facts and anything that will increase carbon taxes.

We need a carbon tax, collected and returned to US citizens, to force the big fossil fuel producers to get serious about alternative energy sources and move away from coal, oil and gas as quickly as possible.

Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute, repeated the widely - held opinion that there is no way China will stop building coal - fired power plants, so the technology «had better work or we're in such a big mess we're not going to get out of it.»

Big Coal is urging a boycott of travel to Tennessee because Sen. Lamar Alexander supports a federal ban on mountain - top removal mining, a type of mining where the tops of mountains are blown apart and the dirt dumped into rivers and valleys in order to get to the coal undergrouCoal is urging a boycott of travel to Tennessee because Sen. Lamar Alexander supports a federal ban on mountain - top removal mining, a type of mining where the tops of mountains are blown apart and the dirt dumped into rivers and valleys in order to get to the coal undergroucoal underground.)

If these young people are leading the charge, then Big Coal, Oil, and Gas had better get out of the way.

One gets depressed watching American politics, where the Democrats pander to big coal and the Republicans are fighting renewable energy, or Canadian politics, where national parties are fracturing into regional self - interest.

I recall one of the big Amtrak delays is to get out of the way of coal trains, and another is for the maintenance demanded by the heavy traffic.

I note that on our last little chat about natural variability on Climate Etc, you didn't get around to answering my point that since momma nature was able to cause many big swings in temperature before man ever set fire to coal, she probably still can.

We not only have to replace coal baseload to get the really big CO2 cuts but we also need to replace oil imports and power transport.

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But the biggest geo threat is carbon capture and sequestration, which he sees as the real get out of jail free card for big oil, big coal, big natural gas, big auto and any other biggies I may have left out.

It's because Big Oil / Gas is determined to increase its market share in the electricity generation market at the expense of coal and nuclear, and sees wind and solar as a strategem to get the environmentalist useful idiots on board.