Sentences with phrase «major coal company»

What these dry government numbers leave out is the effect on coal workers and their families as coal mines close and one major coal company after another files for bankruptcy.

Coal is hardly even a source of middle class jobs given efforts by major coal companies to bust their respective unions.

Not exact matches

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

U.S. authorities have repeatedly targeted companies and individuals from the Chinese city of Dandong, which borders North Korea, in a bid to cut off Pyongyang's major export revenue from selling natural resources, such as coal.

The transportation company ships coal and industrial products on its railroad, serving every major port on the East Coast.

Public records show that at the start of 2014, the Foundation held $ 1.4 bn of investments in major coal, oil and gas companies.

The Company owns and operates three surface coal mines in the PRB, the lowest cost major coal producing region in the nation.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

Similar to some oil and gas companies, many coal miners accumulated major debt loads when prices were high and demand seemed sustainable.

In July 2010, Rothschild set up a shell company, Vallar, and — with the Bakries — bought 25 % of PT Bumi Resources and 75 % of Berau Coal Energy, two major Indonesian coal miners, in a $ 3 billion dCoal Energy, two major Indonesian coal miners, in a $ 3 billion dcoal miners, in a $ 3 billion deal.

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

In a major blow to the government's plans to develop «clean» coal technology (where fossil fuels are burnt and the emissions stored underground), the company have postponed the project.

Yes, it's true that many major banks invest in companies that engage in the environmentally destructive practice of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining, whereby the tops of mountains are removed by explosives to expose thin seams of recoverable coal.

The Carbon Tracker Initiative — led by James Leaton, an environmentalist who served as an adviser at the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers — combed through proprietary databases to figure out how much oil, gas and coal the world's major energy companies hold in reserve.

The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90 major multi-national and state - owned coal, oil and gas companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.

Last year Greenpeace revealed that Willie Soon is exclusively funded by fossil fuel interests like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil and Southern Company, a major contributor to mercury air pollution from its coal plants.

Most people think it's the oil industry in general that is promoting this FUD but ExxonMobile seems to be the only major oil company standing with the coal industry and their ex-tobacco scientists, could this be because they have heavy investments in coal but it's easier to scare people by telling them the greenies will take away their SUV's?

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissiCoal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissicoal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

American Electric Power is a member of the American Coal Ash Association (ACAA), an umbrella lobbying group for all coal ash interests that includes major coal burners Duke Energy and Southern Company as well as dozens of other companCoal Ash Association (ACAA), an umbrella lobbying group for all coal ash interests that includes major coal burners Duke Energy and Southern Company as well as dozens of other compancoal ash interests that includes major coal burners Duke Energy and Southern Company as well as dozens of other compancoal burners Duke Energy and Southern Company as well as dozens of other companies.

Air pollution from Europe's 300 largest coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days, says a major study of the health impacts of burning coal to generate electricity.

While many of the defecting companies said their anti-Kyoto posture had not changed, this was a major blow to a 10 - year campaign by oil, coal and automotive interests to prevent public action to address the climate crisis.»

«It includes companies whose major business is coal exploration, processing coal, producing specialized equipment for coal mining, transporting or trading coal, converting coal to oil or gas, manufacturing equipment for coal power stations and many other activities along the thermal coal value chain.

That figure may well be much smaller by the time of the next election, because the market value of some of the major companies has been falling rapidly, and the value of their coal, oil and gas fired power stations is falling even faster.

Major investors such as Norway's sovereign wealth fund — the world's biggest — have already begun selling off high - carbon stocks such as coal companies.

The best example of this is coal, which was in the news this week for a major transaction involving the sale of a leading coal company's mines.

The coal, gas and oil companies that are major producers of greenhouse gases are finally taking notice of these high - level political discussions, and many have mounted spirited public relations exercises to defend themselves, and even win endorsements of their products.

E.ON is a member of the American Coal Ash Association (ACAA), an umbrella lobbying group for all coal ash interests that includes major coal burners Duke Energy, Southern Company and American Electric Power as well as dozens of other companCoal Ash Association (ACAA), an umbrella lobbying group for all coal ash interests that includes major coal burners Duke Energy, Southern Company and American Electric Power as well as dozens of other compancoal ash interests that includes major coal burners Duke Energy, Southern Company and American Electric Power as well as dozens of other compancoal burners Duke Energy, Southern Company and American Electric Power as well as dozens of other companies.

But there is clearly a major mismatch between the straight line on your UK Hubbert analysis, and the fact that private commercial companies are opening new coal mines in South Wales.

Greenpeace included in its data owners and board members of oil, gas and coal mining companies and firms that transport these fossil fuels, and people with major investments in the companies.

The company has been a major player in coal regions across the U.S., including Appalachia and the Powder River Basin.

The slump in coal prices has driven at least two dozen coal companies into bankruptcy in the last three years alone, including major producers like James River Coal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavcoal prices has driven at least two dozen coal companies into bankruptcy in the last three years alone, including major producers like James River Coal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavcoal companies into bankruptcy in the last three years alone, including major producers like James River Coal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavCoal and Patriot Coal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavCoal Corporation, after many of the worst performers — who betted on an upturn that never came — made acquisitions and borrowed heavily.

Yet a message of denial and confusion got the industry only so far, so the main backers of CEED, including Western Fuels and major coal producers like Peabody and Southern Company, formed Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) to promote clean coal.

In July 2013, Storebrand, a major Norwegian pension fund advisor, excluded from its Energy Sector all 13 coal producers and the 6 oil companies with the highest exposure to tar sands «to reduce Storebrand's exposure to fossil fuels and to secure long term, stable returns for our clients...»»

Now ExxonMobil — the only major oil company to deny the reality of climate change — has joined the coal industry to finance the skeptics, confuse the public and undermine the work of 2,000 scientists from 100 countries on the IPCC.

The first, is a major focus on mapping out the implications of the energy transition involved for key stakeholders, with a focus on coal, oil and gas sectors, on capital expenditure by companies and scenario planning around demand and supply.

'' So far in 2008, the major industry players, Southern Company, Duke Energy, American Electric Power, the Edison Electric Institute, and American Coalition For Clean Coal Electricity spent $ 4.0 million on broadcast and cable television advertising; $ 0.4 million on radio advertising; $ 2.4 million on print advertising in magazines and newspapers; $ 0.1 million on internet advertising; and $ 0.3 million on other types of advertising.

«It is simply not acceptable for major companies to mimic the unethical strategy of the tobacco companies in presenting blatantly false information in order to protect a business model,» Gore added, alleging that's what some oil and coal companies are doing.

The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90 major multi-national and state - owned coal, oil and gas companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.

In the interest of preventing federal regulation of coal ash, which AEP stores in numerous dangerous sites, Kavanagh attended a meeting at the White House alongside representatives from Duke Energy, Southern Company, Progress Energy, and other major industry groups.

He sent out a media release purporting to come form a major bank announcing it was withdrawing a loan to a company planning a major new coal mine.

Peabody Energy, the world's largest coal company, was a major conference sponsor.

In April 2017, AXA was also the first major insurer to stop underwriting the coal companies in which it would no longer invest.

Even as Peabody Energy and Arch Coal declare bankruptcy, major fossil fuel companies and trade groups shell out nearly $ 115 million a year to fight policies that would address climate change.

Then: Gehri was a research specialist at Southern Company, a major US coal electricity utility cCompany, a major US coal electricity utility companycompany.

The companies that represent the biggest risk in a demand misread to the climate and shareholders alike in the next decade are a mix of state and listed companies, including oil majors Royal Dutch Shell, Pemex, Exxon Mobil, and coal miners Peabody, Coal India, and Glenccoal miners Peabody, Coal India, and GlencCoal India, and Glencore.

Energy is «a sector of the economy where we're used to being takers and not givers,» says Vic Svec, senior vice president for investor relations at Peabody Energy, the world's largest private sector coal company, which is seeking to be a major exporter here.

(05/07/2014) The fossil fuel divestment campaign won a major victory today as Stanford University announced it would drop coal companies from its massive $ 18.7 billion endowment, the fourth largest of any American university.

Big coal — in the form of the National Rural Electric Association, Koch Industries, American Electric Power, the Southern Company, the National Association of Manufacturers and others are planning a major blitz against efforts to fight global warming.

The Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, a lobbying group that represents energy companies with major investments in coal - fired power plants, has prepared an analysis that cites a study estimating that a phase - out of coal plants could cost consumers $ 13 billion to $ 17 billion a year between 2018 and 2033.

Given that nearly all the major US coal companies are now bankrupt, and that coal - fired electricity is declining rapidly, I'd have expected a lot of «wrecking ball» pieces on the supposed damage to the economy (in reality, the effects are small and mostly offset by the expansion of renewables) now that mitigation policies of various kinds are taking effect.