Sentences with phrase «of coal companies»

Investors should therefore expect significant volatility in asset prices as valuations are adjusted to reflect the impaired ability of coal companies to maintain historical rates of return.

The stock value of coal companies in the United States lost an astounding 90 percent of their value.

... the market value of coal companies has collapsed.

But it's got to be an especially appealing fiction when you're the CEO of a coal company — this statement is from a tweet by Don Blankenship, then the head of Massey Energy.

The drop in shares of another coal company, Peabody Energy, had not been as bad as that of Alpha Natural.

«The business of coal companies here turned south since late 2012,» Yang Cheng, a local driver, explained while passing by a closed hotel.

Peabody Energy filed for bankruptcy on April 13, joining a string of coal companies in recent months

Unfortunately, there don't seem to be legions of lobbyists out there for innovation (and energy efficiency, for that matter), while there are potent forces fighting on the side of coal companies and utilities, financial institutions eager to trade carbon credits, manufacturers and retailers of today's consumer products.

That power comes in part from the fact that so many swing states are coal states more than they are red or blue states, and from the potent lobbying and advertising muscle of coal companies and utilities.

[UPDATE 7/1: Upon consultation with editors here at The Times, we've pulled the photograph of a cliff of coal that was provided by Peabody Energy to accompany a Times business - section story in March on rising coal exports and which I used to illustrate this post on Peabody's response to criticisms of coal companies by James Hansen of NASA.

On June 1, 2015, Bezdek testified on behalf of the coal company Peabody Energy at a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearing, where he went on the record stating that:

When Hillary stands in front of a crowd of people during her campain and says with a big smile on her face «We are going to put a lot of coal companies out of business and coal miners out of work.»

And in the meantime, with the Washington machine now shining on the struggling coal industry, there are plenty of coal companies that could benefit this year.

EBELL: I'd like to see a lot more funding from all of those companies, but unfortunately many of the coal companies are now going bankrupt.

The groups intervened in lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency's climate plan addressing new and existing power plants, countering a group of coal companies, polluting power generators and allied state attorneys general that sued to block the first - ever standards limiting power plant carbon pollution.

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.

The President's climate commitment gives us great hope that he will finally address some of the remaining, worst abuses of the fossil fuel industry, including dirty and dangerous fracking, ending the devastating practice of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia, rejecting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, halting destructive oil drilling in the Arctic, and overhauling the sweetheart deal on public lands that pads the bottom line of coal companies at public expense.

George Soros just bought a huge stake in a couple of coal companies, Peabody Energy and Arch Coal.

Kump and his colleagues have tried to circumvent this problem by using Arctic Ocean cores discovered in the collection of a coal company geologist, Malte Jochmann in Norway.

Severstal, the Russian mining giant, leads the list of coal companies, followed by firms like BHP Billiton and Peabody.

He is the perfect example of the political revolving door: he was a coal lobbyist who was placed at the head of our government's clean air department before jumping back on the payroll of coal companies to dismantle the rules he was supposed to uphold.

So it's a disinformation or misinformation campaign on the part of the coal companies.

A coalition of coal companies, big polluters in the power industry, and their political allies in mostly red states are trying everything to block the Clean Power Plan.

We're improving the fundamentals of life for everything and everyone involved (except the CEOs of coal companies).

Despite the fact that dozens of coal companies have declared bankruptcy in recent years, Mr. Trump promises to resurrect coal mines, create mining jobs and open coal mining on federal lands.

The only survivor, Amos Jenkins (Boyd Holbrook), is under pressure from the miners» union to give testimony that one of the coal company's executives, Bill Doyle (Josh Lucas) had previously refused to reexamine the company's safety standards, despite his employees» objections.

Patrick Michaels lended «expert» advice on the impacts of global warming to a public relations campaign conceived and funded by a coalition of coal companies and electric utilities.