Sentences with phrase «lost coal jobs»

I'd quibble with you about lost coal jobs; that isn't so much due to the rise of renewables as to the regulation of coal in general; and I suspect that in fact, more coal jobs have been lost to natural gas than to renewables.

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Eastern Kentucky lost 21.6 percent of its coal jobs during the quarter, while the drop in the state's western coalfield was 12.2 percent.

Full article: 1,500 coal jobs lost in 1st quarter; total is lowest in 118 years

More than 4,800 coal miners in West Virginia and Kentucky lost their jobs, according to EIA.

No jobs will be lost as the company weans itself off coal, Georgia Power spokesman Mark Williams said.

The mining sector, which covers workers in the coal, oil and gas trades, has lost 220,000 jobs since peaking in September 2014.

In the opening sequences, Jimmy loses his coal mining job in West Virginia on a technicality, then promptly goes to Clyde's bar where he gets into a fight with an obnoxious racing team owner named Max Chilblain (an unrecognizable Seth MacFarlane, complete with long curly locks and a British accent).

I really don't care if a coal miner loses his job if that means that my children and grandchildren will not suffer a catastrophic future.

We wouldn't have to close any polluting plants, nobody would have to lose their jobs in the coal mines, and we could go on getting half of our energy supply from the black

What you have here is Senators from states that have lost a lot of manufacturing jobs — that have been sent abroad or that have been very hard hit by the state of the economy — or they're coal - producing states, or states that burn a lot of coal — so they have these domestic economic and political concerns that they have to answer to their voters on.

The chamber argues that the costs for companies to comply with the new regulations, along with higher energy prices and lost jobs, will reduce productivity, particularly in the southern Atlantic states, because of the «need to replace large portions of coal generation.»

Here is article on actual green jobs created by industry - http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/art... mbers.html You need to account for the lost jobs in coal industry that have been impacted.

As an example of anticipated displacement, she mentioned coal industry workers who will lose their jobs due to restrictions on coal power.

As nuclear and coal operations shut down, some jobs may be lost in those sectors.

«My dad was a coal miner and he lost his job back in 2008,» McGrew told SNL.

While this is a small number compared with the number of jobs that have been lost due to the war on coal, it is important to the communities located near the mine.

In the coal miner's case, even though the job is ultimately going to be lost for economic reasons, some triggering event is likely to control the exact timing, and that event may be the start of a new government regulation to limit climate change.

Jobs lost in the coal and petroleum industries would be more than compensated for by growth in the renewable sectors, and in the end, there would be more than 24 million new jobs worldwide.

Plus, coal's getting a whole lot cleaner these days, so we should just burn more of that, too — otherwise, everybody's going to lose their jobs.

Some audacious proposals have been floated for the U.S. government to simply buy out the entire coal mining industry, shut it down over a number of years and develop a program with transition payments, relocation assistance and job - training for workers losing their jobs.

Nuclear and coal proponents, however, have backed such policies as a way to keep thousands of people from losing their jobs and to promote a resilient electric grid.

That report went so far to say that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations of the coal - generated electrcity sector would amount to some 1.5 million lost jobs over the next four years.