Sentences with phrase «including plant closings»

The city of Oswego faces many of the same economic challenges facing cities all over upstate New York, including plant closings and the flight of you, educated adults from the area.

Not exact matches

When parent company Kraft Heinz announced in November 2015 it would close Oscar Mayer operations in Madison as part of a restructuring that will shutter seven plants in the U.S. and Canada, about 1,000 people worked in the local factory and offices, including 650 union members at the plant.

The July 2012 bottling deal included a reciprocal arrangement, where Accolade closed all of its packaging and warehousing facilities at its Reynella headquarters, south of Adelaide, and shifted most of the bottling and packaging of its wine to the large Wolf Blass bottling plant owned by Treasury Wines in the Barossa Valley, north of Adelaide.

With our significantly improved balance sheet, we anticipate expediting our on - going cost reduction efforts, including the closing of 10 - 15 % of our plants to remove fixed costs...,» said the company in the financial report.

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill said the $ 275 million investment will create 380 direct roles and 460 contract positions, including for General Motors Holden workers who are set to lose their jobs when their plant in Elizabeth closes.

Fathers bring home extra calories — including meat, honey, and plant foods — and their contributions may be crucial if the mother lacks the help of other close kin (Marlowe 2005).

That really hits close to home,» Perry said, adding that 650 workers had been idled by the scare, including 300 at a meat plant in Texas.

Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, D - Kenmore, and Senate Finance Committee Chairwoman Cathy Young, R - Olean, said the final budget will include a $ 30 million dollar pool to mitigate the impact of closed or mothballed power plant facilities.

The Motherwell and Wishaw constituency includes the closed site of the Ravenscraig steel plant, widely seen as a symbol of the decline of heavy industry in Scotland.

The company said the plant loses money and that closing it would save up to $ 275 million through 2020, including the cost of refueling next year.

Cuomo has pushed in recent years to adopt new efforts aimed at reducing emissions and shifting the state toward the majority use of clean and renewable power in the coming years, including an effort to close coal - burning power plants by 2020, promoting offshore wind projects and developing a clean energy standard to have the state on 50 percent renewable energy by 2030.

The state Senate's one - house budget resolution includes $ 100 million in funds to keep FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant from closing in Oswego County.

Sen. Terrence Murphy may launch an investigation into the Cuomo administration's agreement with Entergy to close the Indian Point nuclear plant unless questions he has about the deal are answered, including how local governments will replace the tax revenue they'll lose once the facility closes.

Members of Local 81380, which represents lab workers at the plant, voted 61 - 0 for the pact, which was spearheaded by closed - door negotiations between the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and officials of Momentive Performance Materials, which is owned by several hedge funds that include some of the richest men in the U.S.

Critical goals of the 23 - member task force include identifying ways to respond to potential local tax and workforce impacts while closing the plant in a safe and responsible manner.

His campaign issued a statement saying, in part, that «the Governor has led the nation in combating climate change», including, closing down the «dangerous» Indian Point nuclear power plant and implementing the first multi-state cap and trade system to lower carbon pollution.

Following that incident, opponents of the plant said Indian Point should close for good, pointing to a handful of mishaps this year including a transformer fire and water pump problem.

For Cuomo, triangulation includes supporting gay marriage, defending abortion and calling for the closing of a nuclear power plant, while pushing a property tax cap, blocking tax increases and making sure Long Island schools received greater shares of school aid in Republican districts.

ALBANY — State Sen. Terrence Murphy says he may launch an investigation into the Cuomo administration's agreement with Entergy to close the Indian Point nuclear plant unless questions he has about the deal are answered, including how local governments will replace the tax revenue they'll lose once the facility closes.

Together with The Yellow Emperor?s Internal Classics, contemporary books such as The Poetry Classics and The Mountain and Sea Classics identified close to 200 therapeutic plants, including herbs with tonic, contraceptive, antidotal, and antiparasitic effects.

But Rafflesia's MatR appeared intact, and when the researchers compared its sequence to that of almost 100 other plant species, they found a close relationship with the Malpighiales, the plant order that includes passionflowers and violets.

What in effect, we would be doing is displacing 300 oil - fired power plants and another 300 coal - fired power plants; so the land required for 600 fossil fuel power plants — if you are going to think that way, if you consider the whole system, which includes mining coal, which includes drilling for oil, the refining of all that, it's not just the power plant — that the land tradeoff actually gets to be fairly close, you know, the solar power plant is the footprint of the solar power and that's it.

Although North America isn't known as a hotspot for crop plant diversity, the inventory uncovered nearly 4,600 CWR in the United States, including close relatives of globally important food crops such as sunflower, bean, sweet potato, and strawberry.

The paper is a culmination of several years of close collaboration and interdisciplinary studies, including species modeling, plant growth studies and climatology.

One greenhouse just outside Homer — an area better known for its halibut fishing — includes a tunnel packed with plants that produce fruits and vegetables that you'd expect to find on a dinner table closer to Mexico.

If you consume the exact calories or close to this amount, you should be eating enough, as long as you include a variety of plant - based foods.

GM announced last week that it would have to close Holden plants in Elizabeth and Victoria, Australia, by 2017 due to «the perfect storm» of circumstances including a highly - valued Australian dollar that stiffened competition from Asian importers.

The magazine also made special mention of the many attractions close to the resort, including the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Belize Barrier Reef with its world - class snorkeling, diving, and fishing as well as the rainforests, jungles, and animal sanctuaries on the mainland where the «sheer variety of plants, flowers, trees, and foliage literally drench Belize in color.»

A boat tour of The Sea Pines Forest Preserve gives you a close - up view of Hilton Head's indigenous plant and animal life, including the American Alligator.

A closer look reveals that they conform to biological laws including predator - prey dynamics (seal Pokémon can be found in low numbers amongst high densities of fish Pokémon) and even something known as niche theory; the idea that all plants and animals occupy a pretty specific set of environmental conditions (you won't find a sun - loving grass - type Pokémon in a dark cave).

Drawing on a variety of sources, including plant physiology, her work inspires close viewing.

The flares from the camera lens acts as a compositional force driving the movement of the film through close - ups of seemingly unconnected images including plants, a nude woman, a view from a window, an arabesque carpet and a burning candle.

The first episode of this season, which aired on Sunday, opens and closes with David Letterman, sporting an enormous beard, exploring India «s extraordinary energy challenge and choices, which so far include an aggressive push to deploy solar panels and other renewable energy choices, but also a doubling of coal - fired power plants.

Because the LEDs produce far less heat than HPS lights, they can be placed very close to the plants to deliver high intensity lights to the surface of the leaves, including the lower branches and leaves in the understory.

Other ways to harvest sunlight, including solar thermal plants, are already close to competitive but restricted to areas with clear skies most of the year.

There's much more, including on - the - ground reporting from the 750 - megawatt Trianel power plant in Luenena, Germany, which only burns imported coal (Germany is closing down its coal mines).

Lignite of the Living Dead notes that utilities may keep coal plants running at a loss for many reasons, including: hopes that governments will make capacity payments for guaranteed power supply or payments to retire plants; expectations that competitors will close plants, pushing power prices up; the clean - up costs associated with retiring plants; and opposition to closures from governments for political reasons.

He pointed to the NRC as a factor in the closing of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, but failed to mention the plant had been plagued by problems in recent years, including

He pointed to the NRC as a factor in the closing of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, but failed to mention the plant had been plagued by problems in recent years, including a cooling tower collapse and radioactive tritium leak.

Upon Mr. Pruitt's confirmation, the Trump administration intends to waste little time issuing directives scaling back high - profile EPA regulations, including a rule cutting carbon emissions from power plants and another bringing more bodies of water under federal jurisdiction, according to several people close to the administration.

Their primary objective is to close coal power plants in the United States, including at least one - third of the country's more than 500 coal plants by 2020, and to replace them with renewable energy sources.

Now that the United States has, in effect, a near de facto moratorium on the licensing of new coal - fired power plants, several environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, are starting to focus on closing existing coal plants.

But the incidental benefits of greenhouse - gas reductions can include a reduction in conventional pollutants, which do tend to enter the ground - level air close to industrial plants.

This is a particularly interesting and unusual project because beyond the wind turbines it is to include from 3 to 10MW of solar (photovoltaic) collectors and a closed - loop mini hydro - electric plant.

Right behind them are 12 more scheduled to be closed unless a buyer or bailout emerges, including the Davis - Besse, Perry, and two Beaver Valley nuclear plants now owned by a FirstEnergy Corp. subsidiary, FirstEnergy Solutions.

It is being opposed by the usual suspects, including NRDC, the Sierra Club and Riverkeeper — both of whom take money from energy corporations that stand to benefit from closing New York nuclear plants.

My Clean Break column today takes a closer look at efforts by Ontario Power Generation to convert some of its coal - fired generating assets into biomass - burning power plants, including potentially several units at its Nanticoke Generating Station — North America's largest coal plant.

Ohio's two nuclear plants could soon be forced to close due to their exclusion from government and corporate subsidies for solar and wind, including Amazon's policy, which is using Ohio's renewable energy credits to meet its goal.

This campaign includes making sure no new coal - fired power plants are built, existing plants are closed, and renewable energy is promoted.

Wasserman partnered with other health and environmental groups, and launched a strong campaign to close down the plant, which included picketing, attending public hearings, and organizing «Toxic Tours» of the industrial sites.