Sentences with phrase «help coal country»

Byers thinks that because the Clean Power Plan would cut coal use, repealing it can help coal country.

Clinton said she had a policy to help coal country benefit from creating renewable energy «because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?»

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The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions against 13 Chinese and North Korean organizations Washington accused of helping evade nuclear restrictions against Pyongyang and supporting the country through trade of commodities like coal.

Canadians in the coal, oil and gas sector have helped build our country, and will need help during a transition so that no person is left behind.

That deal allows Stanbroke to take control of 40 QGC properties spread across the heart of Queensland's coal seam gas country, from west of Chinchilla to south - west of Dalby and help it secure supply of cattle for its processing business.

A promise to coal country «I will be very clear, I want to do more to help in coal country,» Clinton said at the event, according to The New York Times.

The Greens want to shut down the country's dirtiest coal power plants, and support a climate - protection law to help Germany meet its plans to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions by 80 — 95 % from 1990 levels by 2050.

Meeting coal demand in Japan Indonesian coal is also expected to help fuel a surge in fossil power generation in Japan after that country shuttered its nuclear plants in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor meltdown in 2011.

Fracking to free more natural gas from shale can help displace even more polluting coal in more developed countries such as the U.S. but can only serve as a bridge — and a very short bridge — to the zero - greenhouse - gas pollution future, unless also outfitted with carbon capture and storage to eliminate pollution.

As electricity use spikes across the country in the summertime when more people use air conditioning, electric power companies turn to more coal and natural gas power plants to help meet the demand, reducing renewables» share of total U.S. power generation, Comstock said.

The introduction of the carbon tax, along with Australia's target of generating 41,000 gigawatt hours of renewable energy a year by 2020, up from 21,000 in 2013, has helped increase renewable energy use and reduce the country's heavy reliance on coal, Dargaville says.

This is helping the UK meet its commitment to be the world's first country to transition completely from coal generation by 2025, and to keep its coal resources unburnt in the ground.

Research and development to advance coal, natural gas, oil, and other fossil energy technologies, which will help the country make greater use of our rich natural energy resources and help keep down energy costs, are funded at $ 635 million — a decrease of $ 33 million below the fiscal year 2017 enacted level and $ 355 million above the budget request.

I agree all of Revkin's list especilly the «Coal is still abundant, has helped today's industrial powers become rich, and is helping poorer countries grow their economies.

[AR: I keep hearing, again and again, that China simply will not budge from its growth, coal, and emissions trajectories without help — meaning money — from countries, like the United States, that have built their own economies on fossil fuels for a century or two.

I am impressed with Mr. Obama's statement; I will also create a Technology Transfer Program dedicated to exporting climate - friendly technologies, including green buildings, clean coal and advanced automobiles, to developing countries to help them combat climate change.

And yet, declaring polar bears endangered would have great effects that would help push the country off our coal and oil addiction, probably saving thousands of human lives per year in the US alone.

Without rich countries help, poor will just depend on coal.

I stress this one deal because here is a chance to help a developing country just building a free market economy build a power grid not based on coal, but in cleaner energy.

Buying up US coal just helps the other countries at the top, China, Russia, India and Australia to export more.

China's voluntary plan to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions does allow emissions to rise until 2030, but it also moves the country away from reliance on coal, and the tangible results have been the cancellation of over 100 new coal - fired plants.

In total 20 countries, including the US, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, India, Japan and China have signed up to the plan to help drive the global economy away from oil, gas and coal.

You know full well that the World Bank, IMF and other big lenders have refused funding to help these third world countries build coal fired power stations, under the guise of the anti-CO2 scam.

India has very ambitious projects underway to build huge solar plants right now but it is a very poor country with a GDP per capita 3 % that of the US, just $ 1700 per year, so it's hardly unreasonable that they get help to transition away from coal fired power.

The group will devote the money to its Beyond Coal campaign, which has helped block the construction of 153 new coal - fired power plants across the country since 2Coal campaign, which has helped block the construction of 153 new coal - fired power plants across the country since 2coal - fired power plants across the country since 2002.

For this reason we felt it was an interesting area to investigate, and to understand what helped this to happen in Britain at such scale and with such speed, and whether there were lessons here for other countries to consider in terms of rapid reductions in CO2 emissions from incentivizing fuel switching from coal to natural gas.»

The UN fund to help developing countries fight climate change can be spent on coal - fired power plants — the most polluting form of electricity generation — under rules agreed at a board meeting.

Around $ 1 billion that Japan has pledged under a U.N. initiative to help developing countries fight global warming has actually gone to support Japanese coal - fired power plants in Indonesia, despite the fact that coal is the most carbon intensive fuel in the world.

Rules agreed a meeting of fund's board described by Friends of the Earth as «like a torture convention that does not forbid torture» The UN fund to help developing countries fight climate change can be spent on coal - fired power plants — the most polluting form of electricity generation — under rules agreed at a board meeting.

That southeastern region of Poland was then split from the country for hundreds of years until after World War I. Between the two world wars, the coal industry helped drive Poland's economic development.

Quite simply: The Bank finances a fossil fuel project, involving oil, natural gas, or coal, in Poor Country A. Rich Country B asks the Bank to help arrange carbon credits so Country B can tell its carbon counters it's taking serious action on climate change.

European countries outside the EU like Iceland and Norway were among the first in the world to prove bold initiatives like carbon pricing and state - level coal divestment could not only help cut emissions, but drive economic growth.

The Washington Post reports that the donation will be spread out over four years, and will go straight toward the «Beyond Coal» campaign that has «helped block the construction of 153 new coal - fired power plants across the country since 2002.&raCoal» campaign that has «helped block the construction of 153 new coal - fired power plants across the country since 2002.&racoal - fired power plants across the country since 2002.»

The money will also be used to help those countries develop clean energy sources that reduce the use of greenhouse gas - emitting coal, oil and gas.

If a small city of subdued excitement can help halt the shipment of coal across the Pacific, then surely thousands of us from across the country can send a message to Big Polluters, and the global community looking to us to uphold our Paris pledge, that our public land here in the US will not be used to contribute to climate change.