Sentences with phrase «of coal communities»

«Sierra Club's definition of «victory» is nothing but a «loss» for the thousands of coal communities that continue to reel from plant and mine shutdowns, and for America's energy future,» Sheehan added.

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Jeannie Kielty, who works on community relations for Banks, says open cast is part of the social fabric of the northeast, an area with a long history of coal mining.

«Based on evidence gathered from focus groups and interviews conducted in U.S. coal communities, we argue that coal communities that have experienced mine closures have already begun an economic and social transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity,» wrote professors of Indiana University in a paper published in the March issue of Energy Research and Social Science.

Researchers and community members had worried that the heavy rainfall heightened the risk of coal ash toxins leaching into the soil and contaminating drinking water.

The Task Force is due to report back to McKenna by the end of this year, after engaging with workers and communities affected by the coal phaseout.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

According to Adriana Gonzales of the Sierra Club, an uncovered five - story pile of coal ash situated next to a low - income and minority community in the town of Guayama threatens to toxify the entire area thanks to its content of heavy metals like arsenic, mercury, and chromium that will be released when the rain liquefies the ash.

Despite major shifts in the industry and serious worries in coal communities, today coal still supplies nearly 40 % of our electricity.

We can expect NDP cabinet ministers to boast about achieving the approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans - Mountain Pipeline expansion and Environment & Parks Minister Shannon Phillips to release further details of the plan to address Climate Change, including government support for communities impacted by the phase out of dirty coal - fired power plants.

The two most important figures in the founding of the European Coal and Steel Community (the predecessor of the EU), French foreign minister Robert Schuman and German chancellor Konrad Adenauer, both had roots in the region.

Thanks to the vision of a French statesman, Jean Monnet, this concept was tested in 1951 when Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany established the European Coal and Steel Community.

The first seed of the European Economic Community, i.e., the 1954 European Coal and Steel Company, was not sown for economic reasons only, but» and this was very conscious on the mind of its father, another Christian, Jean Monnet» in order to prevent competition about the possession of these basic industrial goods from becoming once again the cause of wars.

NSW will cancel coal seam gas exploration licences applications covering 43 per cent of the state as part of a new plan to regain community support for a few carefully vetted strategic projects.

OAK PARK — The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has directed Commonwealth Edison and Nicor Gas to revise the plan for removing coal tar and benzene from the site of a former gas manufacturing plant in south Oak Park that for years has been a community park.

The State may become a member of the European Coal and Steel Community (established by Treaty signed at Paris on the 18th day of April, 1951), the European Economic Community (established by Treaty signed at Rome on the 25th day of March, 1957) and the European Atomic Energy Community (established by Treaty signed at Rome on the 25th day of March, 1957).

Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club commented: «Mike Bloomberg's partnership with the Sierra Club and our more than 3 million members and supporters has put our country on a path to cleaner air and cleaner water, good - paying clean energy jobs, and healthier communities that are safe from toxic coal pollution».

The Attlee government missed a crucial chance to join the European Coal and Steel Community, forerunner of the Common Market, because Herbert Morrison was afraid of offending the Durham miners.

The party maintains a «strong and positive» commitment to the European Union; [134][135] the Liberal Democrats and its predecessors (the SDP — Liberal Alliance) have been consistently in favour of British EU membership, with the Liberal Party originally proposing membership into the predecessor European Coal and Steel Community.

At noon, leaders from four municipalities will join Ratepayer and Community Intervenors at a press conference to cal on Cuomo to reject a proposal by Cayuga Operating Co. to continue burning coal at the Cayuga plant and to add gas - fired capacity, Town of Ithaca Town Hall, 215 North Tioga St., Ithaca.

Coppard works in the former coal mining communities of South Yorkshire for the Dearne Valley Eco-Vision project.

At 11:15 a.m. Monday, State Senator Liz Krueger, together with community leaders and elected officials, will gather at the City Hall for a press conference which will urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to transition New York off of coal power by 2020.

«We found substantial evidence that Appalachian coal communities are working to shed the culture of coal and develop new opportunities and an evolving conception of identity based on these opportunities,» said researcher Sanya Carley of IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Current federal efforts to revive the coal industry will likely do more harm than good to fragile Appalachian communities transitioning from coal as a major source of employment, according to a study conducted by Indiana University researchers.

One of the biggest challenges confronting coal communities, besides the need to develop new economic opportunities, is overcoming the deeply rooted culture of coal that has defined the lives of residents and full communities for generations.

Promising coal communities a return of their jobs has the potential to fill them with false hope, which can threaten the very progress that has been made in launching job training programs and other transition steps.

When you look at the number of people who are dying on the job, when you look at the health of communities, when you look at the bp oil spill, the death of coal miners, we are paying in a different way for industries that are dirty.

In the impoverished communities near Georgia's coal plants, as in many communities around the country, the health benefits of nixing coal aren't as obvious as the lost economic opportunities.

The Commission intends «to shine a light on the civil rights implications of toxic coal ash, as well as other environmental conditions, on communities most in need of protection,» said Commission Chairman Martin R. Castro in a statement.

Too often toxic coal ash, a byproduct of coal - fired power, ends up in poor, minority communities.

When coal - fired power plants close communities can face painful transitions, and the debate over one Massachusetts facility shows the local impacts of a national shift to cleaner power

Massachusetts has offered $ 6 million to Somerset, Salem and Holyoke, site of a third aging coal plant, to pursue renewable energy projects, but state officials say decisions about the future are up to communities.

Many of the worst coal fires are in remote areas or in poor regions where ruined communities and impaired public health have not commanded much attention.

Restrictions set for SO2 emissions by the European Community and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution will begin to take effect early in the next century, and may limit coal to conventional stations fitted with flue - gas desulphurisation (FGD) equipment, which removes SO2 from exhaust gases, or to any purpose - built clean coal stations that will have been built.

Like thousands of others throughout the region who have seen their communities ravaged by the effects of mining, Gibson laughs at the notion of coal being clean or green.

More than 1 billion gallons of toxic sludge were released into a Tennessee community when a dam collapsed last December, causing a massive coal - ash spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant, a coal - burning power plant owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority.

In May 2004, high levels of air pollution in Tongliang prompted the government to shut down the local coal - burning power plant to improve community health.

This comfortable middle - class community has made itself an uncomfortable symbol of what may be lost as coal relinquishes its role in the U.S. electric grid.

Coastal communities in the US state are suing oil, gas and coal giants for the cost of dealing with sea level rise.

About 1,500 mostly low - income households are within reach of the coal yard dust, said Shweta Narayan of Community Environmental Monitoring, an environmental justice group in India.

Emissions controls on coal - fired power plants are making a difference in reducing exposure of mercury to people, especially in the western Maryland community.

Cleaner air means a higher acceptance of coal - fired plants in local communities, and equally important, by lenders and financial institutions — leading to better financing terms for our customers.

The mining, processing, transportation, burning and disposal of coal waste is toxic, wasteful, and harms communities in Appalachia and across the country.

Join our community and meet thousands of lonely hearts from various parts of Coal Harbour.

The Last Mountain (Director: Bill Haney; Screenwriters: Bill Haney and Peter Rhodes)-- A coal mining corporation and a tiny community vie for the last great mountain in Appalachia in a battle for the future of energy that affects us all.

Little Accidents reminds us of this and shows how tragedy is able to divide the small community of Beckley, West Virginia when ten coal miners die in a collapsed mine.

The Last Mountain (Director: Bill Haney; Writers: Bill Haney and Peter Rhodes)-- A coal mining corporation and a tiny community vie for the last great mountain in Appalachia in a battle for the future of energy that affects us all.

A landmark account of a community rising up against corporate greed, Barbara Kopple's Oscar - winning Harlan County USA unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners» strike in a small Kentucky town.

In the opening moments of «Pride,» activist Mark (Ben Schnetzer) makes the case at the 1984 London Gay Pride parade that the LGBT community and the coal miners on strike, seemingly disparate, actually share common enemies: Margaret Thatcher, the police and the tabloid press.

Bugg said the Coal City School Board already was internally gauging school performance by incorporating testing data along with the needs of the community.

As a student of the University of Canterbury, studying towards a Masters in Education (eLearning specialisation) she is focused on keeping up to date with the current pedagogical theories, the needs of teachers at the coal face and all the learners in our diverse communities.