Sentences with phrase «into coal country»

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As a whole, those counties were about 1 - in - 5 votes cast in the state and are a mix of the factories around Youngstown, the farms down the Ohio River Valley, former coal country in the south and into the Cincinnati suburbs.

India is building railroad lines that crisscross the country to connect underused coal mines with growing urban populations, threatening to dump more resources into an already glutted market.

Clinton's plan for coal country was not to make it easier to mine, but to pump $ 30 billion into the region for economic revitalization to move them away from coal.

Since the ACLU protects the KKK and other disliked groups, how about a little support for this atheist, who is simply the canary in the coal mine when it comes to warning us of the creeping descent into Shariah law in this country.

As we roll through coal country hollows long since tapped out, Bobcats coach Larry Hunter explains how the MAC hopes to model itself after the Atlantic 10, which grew from mid-major shoot into big - time flytrap during the 1990s despite being in the shadow of the Big East.

ZeroGen and the Callide Oxyfuel Project, which is a $ 200 million project to convert an existing 30 - megawatt unit into a carbon capture plant, are in the heart of Australia's coal country.

Strategies to meet the goal would vary by country and largely rely on advanced technology such as capturing the carbon dioxide spewed by coal - burning power plants; the Bush vision also foresees gasoline alternatives, nuclear power and an international clean technology fund to promote research into carbon - free energy sources.

In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, 72 percent of all toxic water pollution in the country comes from coal - fired power plants, making coal plants the number one source of toxic water pollution in the U.S. (1) What's more, four out of five coal plants in the U.S. have no limits on the amount of toxics they are allowed to dump into our water.

The class split into teams mirroring the blocs of countries and interest groups hunkered in Paris — from the United States to the «climate vulnerable» nations, from Greenpeace to the World Coal Association.

Six years earlier, more than 5 million cubic yards of coal ash spilled into Tennessee's Emory River — one of the country's largest environmental disasters ever.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

Both moves into renewables and nuclear represent a major change in Polish energy policy, diversifying away from the country's traditional coal - fired power base, in a bid to fill an electricity shortfall and meet EU emission standards.

Countries continue to approve new coal, oil and gas projects, and funnel billions into fossil fuels.

By the end of the climate talks we may find out whether the Philippines leader was bluffing with a view to forcing the hand of wealthy countries into funding climate solutions in the archipelago, or whether coal power truly won.

There are other countries embracing coal as well — the report gets into detail on the top 10 or so.

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By 2035 third world countries will run into a brick wall unless they use more coal, and coal supplies also have limits.

All eyes are on the next big opportunity to put the Commission's call to action into practice: countries must agree to narrowly limit their support of export credits to overseas coal projects through the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The official treaty to curb greenhouse - gas emissions hasn't gone into effect yet and already three countries are planning to build nearly 850 new coal - fired plants, which would pump up to five times as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the Kyoto Protocol aims to reduce.

They are fed up with a bunch of white environmentalists and oppressed do - gooders running the country into ruin by ignoring the fundamentals of jobs, wage growth, and personal and family security in favor of reduced coal burning, reduced oil drilling, no oil pipelines, no fracking, endangered species over the human kind, and attempts to control the long - term climate at tremendous cost to the citizenry.

In 2008, ABEC morphed into the «American Coalition of Clean Coal Electricity» (ACCCE) that mobilized industry supporters across the country before the elections.

Corruption within the coal sector threatens the country's democracy and has been entrenched into the highest levels of governance.

Kimberly Wasserman led local residents in a successful campaign to shut down two of the country's oldest and dirtiest coal plants — and is now transforming Chicago's old industrial sites into parks and multiuse spaces.

tl; dr — We're not going back into that mess — «Over all, 1,600 coal plants are planned or under construction in 62 countries...»

He concluded the meeting with the statement that an unfinanced transition from coal in his country would lock millions of Indian people into a future of «energy starvation.»

A new study in the Arctic north shows that water at the higher latitudes are undergoing as serious changes as other areas, but they're changing at an even faster rate.Physorg writes that researchers from nine European countries have turned a coal mine village off the coast of Ny - Aalesund, just shy of 750 miles from the North Pole, into a laboratory site during July in a major effort to understand how ocean acidification is altering the northern water.

We're hardly a month into a new administration, and at least from an environmental perspective, it's hard to believe that this is the same country we're talking about: clamping down on coal, leading negotiations to create a multinational treaty to cut mercury emissions, and now, nationwide greenhouse gas regulations on cars?

In the process, it may also pour a lot of concrete, a lot of coal into its engines, and a lot of smoke back into the air.Much of the reason for China's dirtier stimulus is clear: the country is still developing, and still depends largely on dirty industry and manufacturing for growth.

China joined South Africa as the only countries with a working coal - to - liquids plant designed to turn abundant domestic coal into liquid transport fuel, Bloomberg notes.

But the protracted battle over the details of the plan revealed it will be a bumpy ride to turn climate ambition into practice, as the country will ultimately need to kick its habit of burning coal for power production — and say good - bye to petrol - and diesel - fuelled cars.

His stories for The Times have taken him to Greece, where he wrote about the country's growing ranks of nurses who aren't really nurses; Ukraine, where he covered the economic devastation caused by war; and Poland, where he followed so - called rathole miners into illegal coal pits.

Climate - related litigation is a reality, particularly in the United States where action has been taken against private companies, administrative decisions and government agencies... In relation to the impacts on Indigenous peoples, in February 2008 the Alaskan native village of Kivalina filed a lawsuit against a number of oil, coal and power companies for their contribution to global warming and the impacts on homes and country disappearing into the Chukchi Sea.