Sentences with phrase «of coal baron»

I refer to network video of him shaking the hand of coal baron David Koch.

He advocated for propping up coal, a dirty fossil fuel that has been displaced by natural gas as the top source of energy in the U.S. Not only that, he got the idea (or at least had it reinforced) courtesy of coal baron Bob Murray.

Nearby, visit the Craigdarroch Castle Historic House Museum, the opulent mansion of coal baron Robert Dunsmuir.

Not exact matches

With a deadpan delivery and a defiant attitude that has become his trademark, the former coal baron focused his onslaught on the family of McConnell's wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, which owns an international shipping business.

In 2011, it had bought out the mountaintop removal mining company Massey Coal from under coal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standarCoal from under coal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standarcoal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standards).

National Republicans have scrambled to intervene in the contest, fearing that a coal baron Don Blankenship primary win would destroy their prospects of winning in November.

-- A new poll out Monday evening shows recently imprisoned coal baron and Senate hopeful Don Blankenship fading in the Republican primary, amid an avalanche of establishment attacks aimed at stopping him from winning the nomination.

The paintings are from the collection of Gwendoline (1882 - 1951) and Margaret (1884 - 1963) Davies, the granddaughters of Welsh coal and railway baron David Davies.

«Matt Ridley is a coal baron who profits directly from the sale of fossil fuel reserves while the rest of us suffer the consequences.

«Royal Society accused of allowing «anti-scientific coal baron'to preach benefits of global warming,» The Independent, October 20, 2016.

According to its Certificate of Formation [2], the group's directors are spokesman (and EOG Resources Director) H. Leighton Steward, Wyatt Hogan, and coal baron Corbin J. Robertson, Jr., who «is said to own more coal through his various ventures than anyone outside of the U.S. government.»

Balling was a trendsetter among climate - change deniers for hire, working as early as the late 1990s for the coal barons of the Western Fuels Association on its Greening Earth Society project.

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).

To the relief of coal company barons and the chagrin of health advocates, the Energy Independence executive order, takes aim at the Clean Power Plan, our nation's first regulations to reduce the amount of climate pollution from coal - fired power plants, among other safeguards of our climate and public health.

And, except for two congressmen who didn't take any energy industry money, the signatories received sizable contributions from a number of other corporations that compete with wind, including coal barons Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources; and oil and gas giants Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Enecoal barons Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources; and oil and gas giants Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero EneCoal and Alpha Natural Resources; and oil and gas giants Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy.

An entire industry is slowly dying, so, of course, the coal barons that see their power fading are not going to just sit idly by on their fortunes and watch their demise.

And once you've built the pipelines and gas - fired power plants, the sunk investment makes it that much harder to switch: Suddenly you have a bunch of gas barons who will fight as hard as the coal barons Obama is now trying to subdue.