Sentences with phrase «into coal subsidies»

In an article titled «Under the Rug: How Governments and International Institutions are Hiding Billions in Support to the Coal Industry» David Tumbull revealed how much government money around the world is going into coal subsidies.

Not exact matches

You condemn thousands to early deaths and our economy to distortion if you continue to pour our precious tax funds and subsidies into nuclear and coal, rather than turning that money toward the future, toward the sun.

This would be better than pouring more subsidies into coal, whose use will be limited by the carbon emissions, and which creates environmental problems in the mining process (e.g., «mountaintop removal).

The 237 - page bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R - AK)-- S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 — includes provisions that would expedite the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export permitting process, heap subsidies on coal technology, and fund research geared toward discovering a way to tap into methane hydrate reserves.

Also, coal power plants must close by 2025 in the UK, meaning these subsidies are not being used to invest into life - extensions.

Reduce dependency on (imported) fossil fuels (balance of payments, reliance on potentially unfriendly or unstable nations as suppliers, high cost at the pump, all problems as seen from US viewpoint): — encourage nuclear power generation (cut red tape)-- encourage energy savings and improved efficiency projects (tax breaks)-- encourage basic research into new (non fossil fuel) resources (subsidies)-- encourage imports from friendly neighbor, Canada (Keystone pipeline)-- encourage local oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill»)-- encourage «clean coal» projects (tax incentives)-- set goal to become energy independent within ten years

In an amusing sideshow, Republican leaders tried to use their support for this legislation to strong - arm liberal Democrats into supporting a bill extending coal subsidies, on the theory that passing one bill that benefits Dominion warrants passing another bill that benefits Dominion.

They are working to protect communities from toxic coal ash, end mountain top removal, get the World Bank to stop funding coal projects, put existing mining protections into action, eliminate dirty coal subsidies, halt the development of liquid coal, and expose false solutions like carbon capture and sequestration.

The money going into politics from the oil, gas and coal industries gets huge returns in the form of subsidies back to fossil fuels.

It wants to wait for better technology to save the day, even as it pours subsidies into oil, gas, and coal, and ignores the abundance of renewables that are readily available at this very moment.

In a Friday memo, Perry asked his chief of staff to undertake a 60 day inquiry into «the extent to which continued regulatory burdens, as well as mandates and tax and subsidy policies, are responsible for forcing the premature retirement of baseload power plants,» such as those fueled by coal or nuclear energy, among other grid related questions.

(Given the massive subsidies that the coal industry has received over the years, Louie and Pearce suggest that companies should be required to finance a retraining fund — possibly patterned after the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, which mandates that companies pay into a federal fund for reclamation of abandoned mine land).

A lot of money goes into promoting the concern about climate change — $ 2Billion / yr from the government for «climate science» plus another $ 8B or so for subsidies, plus $ 400Million / year from foundations, plus corporate money (e.g. — Chesapeake's $ 25 Million to the Sierra Club to kill coal (which Sierra has now turned against natural gas).