Sentences with phrase «important coal state»

Coal had played an important role in the election of George W. Bush in 2000 — West Virginia, an important coal state which hadn't voted Republican in many years, was widely credited with giving Bush his margin of victory — and it was clear that coal would play an increasingly important role in America's energy future.

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More important though — as Dr. Hansen, NASA's chief climate scientist, has stated, we can not solve global warming if we burn all of the remaining reserves of coal.

«It has to be recognized that at a global level, coal as an important source of energy production is not going to disappear immediately,» says the paper circulated among representatives of E.U. member states.

This is an important step on two fronts — sustaining domestic momentum away from coal in electricity generation and providing a fresh signal to other countries that the United States is committed to cutting its carbon footprint.

India's Tata Power group just gained important financial backing from the International Finance Corporation, a branch of the World Bank, for its planned $ 4 billion, 4 - billion watt «Ultra Mega» coal - burning power plant complex in Gujarat state.

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

This is particularly important because a number of studies indicate that carbon cap - and - trade schemes will disproportionately burden lower - income households, rural households, and those living in coal - dependent states in the south and Midwest.

This brought not only great scrutiny of the approach, but — more important — it meant that all of the hostility to action on climate change, mainly but not exclusively from Republicans and coal - state Democrats, was targeted at the policy du jour — cap - and - trade.

An important example is a victorious 28 - state effort resulting in a Supreme Court stay on the Obama Administration's centerpiece Clean Power Plan (CPP) that is aimed at shutting down America's coal industry.

For electricity production, coal and natural gas are the most important resources and the United States has a large amount of coal and natural gas.