Sentences with phrase «of coal giant»

Not exact matches

The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered by cheap electricity from coal - fed generating plants.

The chief executive of mining giant Rio Tinto will hand the reins over to the leader of the company's copper and coal division later this year.

Faced with worsening smog in large East Coast cities, the Asian giant has ordered thousands of factories and manufacturers, especially those that burn coal, to shut down in accordance with the government's four - year climate action plan.

The Asian giant still accounts for a large percentage of global trade in important resources such as iron ore, aluminum, copper and coal.

Pulling the same legal levers as those involved in its climate change investigation of ExxonMobil, the New York state attorney general's office obtained an agreement from coal giant Peabody Energy to end misleading statements and disclose risks associated with global warming.

The case of coal starkly illustrates the affect that the Asian giant has had on commodity prices this year.

They allowed giant oil, gas, and coal companies to destroy the health of our land and our waters.

, and along with the joy of the season comes a giant Santa sack filled with «internet coal,» aka common social media blunders.

«We capture impurities» While Huaneng is leading the way in capturing carbon for coal - fired power plants, an industry that is traditionally tied with CCUS, the Chinese coal giant Shenhua is trying to adopt CCUS technology in a new sector: factories that produce chemicals out of coal.

ERDOS, China — Shenhua Group Corp., one of China's coal giants, has built much of its success at the cost of climate change.

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

The world's largest private - sector coal firm, along with other U.S. giants like Arch Coal Inc., Cloud Peak Energy Inc. and Alpha Natural Resources Inc., are swimming against a powerful current of regulatory and economic change that has shrunk markets and driven down stock prices to unprecedented lcoal firm, along with other U.S. giants like Arch Coal Inc., Cloud Peak Energy Inc. and Alpha Natural Resources Inc., are swimming against a powerful current of regulatory and economic change that has shrunk markets and driven down stock prices to unprecedented lCoal Inc., Cloud Peak Energy Inc. and Alpha Natural Resources Inc., are swimming against a powerful current of regulatory and economic change that has shrunk markets and driven down stock prices to unprecedented lows.

Read all about climate denial scientist Willie Soon's dirty money from petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch, coal utility Southern Company, oil giant ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies to deny the science of climate change!

Exactly as tedious as Steamboy, then, and covering exactly the same ground, Howl's Moving Castle shares with Ôtomo's film, too, a giant steam - powered ball as its central image, encapsulating a vision of Victorian England in a Frankenstein's yin / yang clattering along inexorably like the Industrial Revolution while gorgeous impressionistic watercolour towns are polluted by coal smoke from a fleet of trains burning through the forests at night.

AVS Estates Limited are leading providers of pre-school care in Germany and have chosen Coal Clough House in Burnley to accommodate the first Giant Leap Childcare and Learning Centre.

The trail leads him to a village on the border with Turkey, a stone's throw away from Greece, high up in the Strandja Mountains - a place of pagan mysteries and black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where every spring, possessed by Christian saints, men and women dance barefoot across live coals in search of rebirth.

Where the rest of us saw only the empty overgrown meadow behind our house, riddled with groundhog holes, with a shallow, muddy stream running through it and a splintering wooden wagon that I had almost outgrown, he saw his friends: artists and teachers and butchers, scenic painters and Russian lighting designers, ship captains and hardware merchants all with a glass in hand, their laughter rising high above our heads and then evaporating into the canopy of maple leaves; the weeping willows shedding their leaf tears down the banks of the stream; fireflies and bagpipers arriving through the low clinging humidity of summer; a giant pit with four spring lambs roasting over apple - wood coals; the smell of wood smoke hanging in the moist summer nighttime air.

One company it likes is South32, the alumina, silver, nickel and coking coal miner that was recently spun out of resources giant BHP Billiton.

Trouble is, these are really just a giant bet on the building blocks of the economy: Iron ore, copper & coal, for example.

She's the artist who carved coal dust and brought us the skull of a giant whale, Leo Benedictus gives us the lowdown on Lucy Skaer

The central challenge is that the world's powers, both the established ones and the emerging giants, China and India, face ballooning energy appetites, a finite atmosphere, and no menu of affordable energy sources — yet — that can substitute on a large scale for burning coal and oil.

The piece centers on Secretary of State John Kerry's trip to China in July, and thus appropriately casts China's policy choices on greenhouse gases and its deep dependence on coal in the broader context of the never - ending «you first» dance between these two greenhouse - gas giants.

This choice would undoubtedly be hailed both by those pushing for development and large - scale testing of nonpolluting energy technologies and by environmental campaigners seeking knowledgeable leadership at the giant agency — which, while it still oversees efforts to boost coal and oil extraction, also has what may be the world's biggest assemblage of scientists pursuing development of renewable power sources.

Their mock attack ad, which starts out with a group of children dancing hand in hand around a giant lump of coal in a pasture, can be seen on the newspaper's Web site by clicking on the image above.

Given that coal use by China (and the sources of that coal) has to be at the center of any serious discussion of climate progress, it's worth reviewing some rich new contributions to the discussion I initiated on the ethical, economic and climatic issues that arise when coal flows from rich countries to fast - growing giants like China.

I think this emerging form of emissions accounting provides a valuable way to show how the growing coal (and natural gas) greenhouse - gas emissions commitment will play out, but — because of the competing social and economic values embedded in that extracted energy, along with the equity argument poor countries use against established fossil - powered industrial giants — I'm not sure it leads to a more effective strategy for cutting those emissions.

Our recent «Energy Access» report found that coal giant Peabody Energy Corp's assertion that coal can help to alleviate energy poverty in Africa and India is totally unfounded and smacks of desperation.

Paul Loeffelman, director of Corporate External Affairs for utility giant American Electric Power, states that the EPA's regulations will force more than 50 gigawatts of coal generation — about 300 power plants — to be retired by 2016.

For instance, while Wyoming is among the 27 states fighting President Obama's Clean Power Plan in court, the coal - rich state looks set to meet the emissions benchmarks in those power - plant rules, largely because of a giant wind farm poised to be built in, yes, Carbon County, and newly approved transmission lines to send electricity to states in the power - hungry Southwest.

On 2011/12/22 the Wall Street Journal published online the following «Guohua, a unit of China's state - owned coal giant Shenhua Group, is acquiring interests in the 65 - megawatt Bluff Point and 75 - megawatt Studland Bay wind farms.»

He said the energy demands from the giant LNG plants being built in the state's north would need at least 100MW of generation and represented the best opportunity for a «resurgence» in coal fired generation.

In 2015, Urgewald played a key role in convincing 2 of the world's largest investors - the Norwegian Government Pension Fund and the German insurance giant Allianz - to divest from most of their coal holdings.

David W. Schnare, director of the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic, subsequently emailed a response neither confirming nor denying that Horner or his organizations have received funding from the coal giant.

That has left swaths of industry in China struggling with limited gas, including giants like German chemical company BASF SE and local producer Yunnan Yuntianhua Co., as supplies are diverted to households that had previously relied on coal for heating.»

Robert Murray, owner of the Ohio - based coal giant, Murray Energy Corporation, filed a defamation lawsuit against a prominent liberal blogger and The Huffington Post.

From the very beginning, the story of utility giant Southern Company's Kemper clean coal plant is a long trail of broken promises, according to a New York Times investigation — and the project's numerous critics.

Visitors to Garzweiler, a giant openface lignite coal field near Cologne, get to see this old chart showing that renewables (the green slice of the doughnut on the right) make up 2.3 percent of the firm's power supply, compared to 44.9 percent lignite and 22.4 percent hard coal.

In each of these countries, the political pitched battle is between the 20th - century giants, Big Oil and Big Coal and the 21st - century realities for zero - carbon energy.

Since there are only so many possible harbours that could accommodate the giant freighters needed to move the coal, this might prove a winnable battle, though the power of money that moves the White House is now being brought to bear on county commissions and state houses.

Peabody Energy follows rival U.S. coal giant Arch Coal in filing for bankruptcy this year, and according to Reuters, producers covering around 45 percent of U.S. coal output have filed for bankruptcy in recent yecoal giant Arch Coal in filing for bankruptcy this year, and according to Reuters, producers covering around 45 percent of U.S. coal output have filed for bankruptcy in recent yeCoal in filing for bankruptcy this year, and according to Reuters, producers covering around 45 percent of U.S. coal output have filed for bankruptcy in recent yecoal output have filed for bankruptcy in recent years.

When China began exploiting their giant coal deposits and creating more electricity for their growing numbers of factories, they simply ignored many anti-pollution possibilities.

In July 2011, billionaire Forrest E. Mars, Jr. reached an agreement with BNSF Railway and coal giant Arch Coal to buy one - third of the Tongue River Railrcoal giant Arch Coal to buy one - third of the Tongue River RailrCoal to buy one - third of the Tongue River Railroad.

Indeed, the contours of compromise legislation are already visible from the cap and trade proposal that green giants Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense Fund announced along with coal giant Duke Energy late last year.

«Canadian Climate Denial Group, Friends of Science, Named as Creditor in Coal Giant's Bankruptcy Files,» DeSmogBlog, June 20, 2016.

Since Rousseff — a former head of oil giant Petrobras — took power, however, the controls have been weakened, deforestation is once again on the rise, more hydropower plants are planned in the Amazon and the government has approved its first coal - fired plant in nine years.

The Pacific Climate Warriors are on the edge of a giant coal mine in Germany.

While it avoided overtly challenging climate science, Anglo - Swiss coal giant Glencore also dismissed the risk of stranded assets in its sustainability report this week.

Dozens of U.S. mining companies, including giants like Peabody Energy Corp. and Arch Coal Inc., have filed for bankruptcy in recent months as their earnings declined and debt loads soared.

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.

French energy giant Engie this week announced it will stop investing in coal in a victory for Les Amis de la Terre / Friends of the Earth France and its campaign against Engie's dirty energy investments.