Sentences with phrase «killed by coal»

Here West Virginia is first in the nation, with an estimated 14.7 people per 100,000 adults killed by coal pollution.
The implications of the amount of lives that could have been saved in this eight - year timeframe is staggering: tens of thousands of people have likely been unnecessarily killed by coal pollution because of the delay.
The big worry for all of us goes beyond the millions of people killed by coal pollution every year.

Not exact matches

Olaf had him killed by placing a brazier of hot coals on his belly.
The religion of today is from Rome, All the Christians and Apostles had been killed by 70 ad except for John who was imprisoned on the Island of Patmos, probably working in a coal mine.
So killing people through airpolution by burning coal is better..
While critics call it an effort to kill coal, Gillibrand says it's part of the EPA's mandate, something Congress gave it under the Clean Air Act, a mandate later upheld by the Supreme Court.
A vote in favor of the panel's recommendation by the board won't kill the projects completely — the panel also recommends revising the methodology to account for the annual efficiency improvements expected in the coal energy industry.
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My Bloody Valentine 3 - D (R for profanity, gruesome violence, grisly images, explicit sexuality and graphic nudity) High attrition - rate slasher flick about a coal miner (Jensen Ackles) who returns to his hometown of Harmony exactly 10 years after the slaughter of 22 locals by a deranged murderer on Valentine's Day only to discover another madman embarking on a similar killing spree.
But coal is not «cheap» for the Appalachian communities destroyed by mountaintop removal (see appvoices.org), nor for the miners killed or sickened because worker safety would be too costly for mine owners, nor for the areas made permanently dead from the mining practices, nor for the children poisoned by the toxic fumes of even the cleanest - burning coal plants, not to mention the entire planet, every species, every community, every neighborhood being damaged and degraded by the global warming coal burning causes.
But it is the coal that killed him; In the last election he lost a huge number of seats in rural ridings divided by wind turbines on land and offshore.
And by placing their short sighted greed, ignorance, and stupidity first, the unholy polluting coalition of oil producers and coal burners has told the world that they don't care who else they hurt by continuing their dirty addiction, killing reefs and drowning islands and coasts, and imperiling millions in poor countries.
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[116] An initial response to Peabody's letter by the Electronic Frontiers Foundation argued that, as the «Coal is Killing Kids» website was clearly satirical and as it was non-commercial, rejected the claim that Peabody's trademark was protected by the First Amendments.
«Alex Epstein's book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels documents the rapidly shrinking number of human beings killed by storms, floods and other climate events thanks largely to ever - growing industry, fueled mainly by oil, natural gas and coal,» says Stossel.
Trump, who once called climate change a hoax, has vowed to reorient the federal government so that U.S. oil and coal producers thrive, while manufacturers aren't burdened by «job - killing» restrictions — a commitment he reiterated Tuesday at the Environmental Protection Agency.
The move is part of a broader effort by Trump to kill regulations he deems «job - killing» and make good on a campaign promise to unleash «clean, beautiful coal» and bring jobs back to the sector.
That said, we have seen a bunch of plants basically killed by the same thing that's killing coal plants, namely cheap natural gas.
Hundreds of thousands of real human beings have been killed outright by coal barons or slowly by coal - fired electrical generating stations (death machines is a more accurate term).
Trump's vow to «end the war on coal» will start by killing the Clean Power Plan.
Amid worsening economic conditions in the 1970s and 1980s, coal miners led some of the most dramatic protests as the state imposed martial law, with seven workers killed by strike - breaking police in a 1981 massacre at a Silesia mine.
On the other hand air pollution from the burning of coal kills millions of people each year, as reported by the World Health Organisation, and renewable energy, including wind power, displaces coal fired power.
Leaving aside Chernobyl, how many people have been killed by nuclear power in the west and how many have lost their lives, directly or indirectly, to coal energy?
A protest against a coal plant project two years ago in Sompeta in the eastern coastal state of Andhra Pradesh turned violent, with two farmers killed by police and several others wounded.
More on Rush: Rush Limbaugh Celebrates Earth Day - By Saluting Coal and Overconsumption Rush Limbaugh Wishes NYT Climate Reporter Would «Go Kill Himself»
He railed against a political «war on coal» supposedly waged by President Obama, one Trump claimed was «killing American jobs.»
It would be well worth paying higher prices for clean energy, but the fact is that renewable energy is similar in cost to filthy coal - fired energy (which, by the way, kills millions of people world - wide each year by its air pollution).
To oppose wind power is to support the coal industry by default; air pollution from the mining, transport and particularly the burning of coal kills millions of people world wide each year.
On Sept. 15, 2011, N.C. labor officials fined Progress Energy $ 31,500 for safety violations that contributed to the death of Corey Rogers, 24, who was killed March 15, 2011 by a hydrogen explosion while performing maintenance at the Sutton coal - fired plant near Wilmington, N.C. [50]
In Virginia, 14 - term Democratic Rep. Rick Boucher, who voted for the climate change bill, has come under attack in a TV ad sponsored by Americans for Job Security for putting «Pelosi's job - killing agenda ahead of Virginia coal
The Westray Bill was created in the wake of the 1992 Westray mine disaster, where 26 miners were killed by a methane explosion in a coal mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia.
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