Sentences with phrase «helping coal communities»

Certainly helping coal communities is never prioritized over, say, high - end tax cuts.

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The pits were closed, the economic and societal glue that held those communities together was destroyed and there was absolutely no attempt to temper the blow or help those for whom coal wasn't just a job, but the Force: it surrounded them and penetrated them; it bound their galaxy together.

Come enjoy some amazing food at Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza in Clearwater, and help MEOW Now's mission to provide TNVR (Trap - Neuter - Vaccinate - Return) to community cats in Pinellas County.

As part of the transition to a clean energy future, the American Lung Association supports providing assistance to retrain coal industry workers and to help impacted communities transition to other economic opportunities.

During that time, Nancy and Commissioner Newman helped to pass one of the most aggressive Energy Efficiency Standards in the U.S. and championed the expansion of progressive policies such as aggregated and virtual net metering, community solar, energy imbalance markets, and including so - called «externalized» costs of coal - fired power.

In Indonesia, we are helping to organize communities against numerous proposed coal power plants, especially the large Cirebon and Indramayu plants.

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This approach helps utilities refinance the costs of stranded coal generation assets and redirect savings toward cheaper renewable energy to replace generation capacity, while directing funds to communities or workers affected by coal closures.

«Ensuring public health benefits are realized by communities neighboring coal plants, and that worker transition assistance reaches coal - dependent areas to help diversify their economies, is crucial.

In 2009, when I was awarded the Goldman Prize, I gave money to Coal River Mountain Watch to hire others to help their communities.

In what turned out to be a whirlwind year, our activities ranged from bursting the gigantic balloon of 13 gigatonnes CO2 - equivalent of «hot air», to achieving a major victory against coal power projects in the CDM, to helping local communities negatively affected by CDM projects to be heard at international level.

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.

Watch the stories of individuals and communities facing a future where their natural heritage is at risk of being blown up by mountaintop removal coal mining, then take action to help save them!