Sentences with phrase «out of the coal industry»

It's time we amp up the pressure on Chase and take their money out of the coal industry.

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For shareholders, it made financial sense to get out of the industry a year ago, when mining stocks and coal prices were collapsing.

Coal, in fact, ranked as the worst performing industry for the six months ending June 19th, with a composite price change of — 26.7 %, while heavy losses among Precious Metals and Steel stocks also put these two group in the bottom five out of roughly 100 industries under our review.

Instead, it was an effort to regulate the coal mining industry right out of business,» said Rep. Bill Johnson, R - Ohio, who sponsored the disapproval measure on the stream protection rule.

Larry Gibson, who has held onto his family home on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia despite the total destruction of the mountain all around him, speaks out frequently against the coal industry.

The most striking beneficiary from the phasing out of nuclear power in Germany is the coal (and especially lignite) industry.

«The reality is that this rule was not an effort to protect streams — it sought to regulate the coal industry out of business and eliminate tens of thousands of jobs in that industry,» said Rep. John Faso (R - Kinderhook) in a letter to the Daily Freeman last year.

Statistics from the China Coal Industry Association show that in 2014, 7 out of 10 Chinese coal companies failed to make ends mCoal Industry Association show that in 2014, 7 out of 10 Chinese coal companies failed to make ends mcoal companies failed to make ends meet.

Most in the coal industry argue that market forces will sort out the problem, a dubious view shared by the Bush administration, but that seems improbable unless IGCC technology gets cheaper or the cost of emitting carbon goes up.

«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.

Meanwhile, coal industry leaders say they are optimistic about coal's ability to deliver developing countries out of energy poverty and have noted that coal is expected to surpass oil as the world's leading energy source by 2015.

Oddly, as I pointed out earlier, the Friends of Coal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utilitiCoal industry front group is not attacking the legislation's impacts on coal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal — instead going for a general criticism of potential increases in energy costs to consumers. And as I've also pointed out, the United Mine Workers union concluded the bill ensured that «the future of coal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal will be intact (but still withheld its endorsement, seeking more concessions for coal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal companies and coal - fired utiliticoal - fired utilities).

In this «episode», Lt. Frank Drebin (Nielsen, Nuts) is, in his own inept fashion, out to thwart the plans of some power - hungry heads of industry trying to make sure that oil, coal, and nuclear energy maintain their stronghold.

Amy Schumer put her freshly - forged Hollywood connections to good use last night in a biting sketch that points out just how much of the industry's female talent is wasted on barely - there roles like concerned wife of sniper or concerned wife of trapped coal miner.

Once home to steel mills, coal mines, glassworks, and factories that produced chains, locks, leather, nails, cast iron and similar goods, the Black Country also inspired writers such as Elihu Berrit, whose Walks in the Black Country and Its Green Border - land begins: «The Black Country, black by day and red by night... is a section of Titanic industry, kept in murky perspiration by a sturdy set of Tubal Cains and Vulcans, week in week out, and often...

And a convoluted tale it is, involving the country's wealth of natural resources (coal, iron, copper and water for powering machines and transporting goods), the comparatively high literacy rate that enabled common folk to educate themselves in science and technology, a patent system that protected the rights of inventors and gave them economic incentive to both create and refine devices, and a population large and wealthy enough to form a profitable market for products the new industries turned out.

Yes, there are a few nooks and crannies that are neglected, like Russia and Brazil, industries that are deeply out of favor like gold, oil E&P, coal, mining, etc., but you have to hold your nose and take reputational risk to buy them.

In my view, if the coal industry does not proactively agree to, and indeed volunteer for, a prompt moratorium on the construction of new coal - fired power plants until carbon capture and storage are proven and viable, and included in commercial plants, we should get out the literature, the musical lyrics, the poetry, the ethical codes, and so forth and create a collection of material that brings to vivid life the «problems» (to put it mildly) that Shakespeare illuminates, as they will then apply to the coal industry.

That said, of course, my sense is that the coal industry is trying to change the subject, because reason is against it (in terms of its desire to build additional coal capacity before technologies are available that can take carbon dioxide out of coal emissions).

To me it seems that the coal industry, recognising that the game will soon be up, has conned our rather stupid state government into helping them ramp up production rapidly to make a windfall profit before they go out of business — akin to drug dealers getting governments to help them ramp up sales before banning the product.

They have done honorable work — largely figuring out how to cushion coal - state consumers and carbon - intensive industries from rising fossil fuel costs in a carbon constrained world — but the fruits of their labor have been demonized by the opposition as «cap and tax,» Rube Goldberg, etc..

So far, the only energy trade groups to come out in support of the proposal are from the nuclear and coal industries.

On the other hand, you can price your industries out of the home market by making energy so expensive that you end up buying goods and services from China and India that were made in factories powered by coal.

I think if the coal industry hadn't been so vicious about all of this, buying them out would be on the table.

Despite this, one of the main takeaways from the report is that Trump administration may still be preparing to use energy «resilience» as an excuse to bail out the coal industry.

The film lays out in disturbing detail the damage caused by the coal industry to Appalachia over the past decades: a million acres of forest destroyed, 2,000 miles of streams buried and 300 million gallons of toxic sludge spilled.

We'll be trading away those jobs, tourism, restaurant industry for coal mine jobs for people flown in from out of state.

The oil and coal industries, as well as groups like the National Association of Manufacturers, all vehemently opposed cap - and - trade and shelled out millions lobbying Congress.

I was fortunate enough to find out that these greenhouse skeptics were getting paid sort of under the table by the coal industry.

Unfortunately for the fossil fuel industry, natural gas only reduces pollution by 55 % (compared to coal) at the power plant, and only by 17 % (compared to gasoline) out of car tailpipes.

Although China is among the largest producers of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells in the world, over 90 % of such PV cells are exported, leading Shi Dinghuan (石定寰), the Chairman of the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association (CREIA) to lament that China ships out its clean energy only to leave pollution (i.e. coal fired power generation) behind.

Oil refineries, coal plants, cement kilns and other heavy industries have for years fouled the air with toxic pollution, leaving residents who live nearby with a difficult choice: stay inside or venture out and risk becoming sick from breathing air that's full of pollutants that can cause lung and heart disease, cancer, brain damage — and even death.

It is also worth to point out that this overarching Plan is designed to encompass previously released sub-sector industry energy plans such as Solar Power (Feb 2012)-LRB--RRB-, Coal Power (Mar 2012), Wind Power (Sept 2012) and Emission Reduction & Energy Savings (Aug 2012), which themselves, given the increasingly complexity and size of China's energy sub-sectors required stronger coordination across various government departments.

If you've ever wondered exactly why the global coal industry has argued so vehemently — first against the science of climate change and secondly against doing anything about it — the International Energy Agency lays it all out in its latest World Energy Outlook.

Why don't you continue to represent those fine coal industry geologists by pointing out a few that «know much, much more about the mechanisms of the atmosphere and its variations over time...» than the climatologists and atmospheric scientists that make it their profession to know how atmospheres vary over time.

«Fugitive emissions are on the run in the U.S. — regulators, investors and industry leaders are all out to ensure gas can demonstrate it has a climate advantage over coal,» said Anthony Hobley, CEO of Carbon Tracker.

Critics argue that «clean coal» means anything the industry wants it to, pointing out that of the country's 616 coal plants, none are carbon - free or close to it.

The climate movement is pointing out that unconventional fossil fuel extraction techniques (fracking, tar sands excavation, deep - water drilling, mountaintop removal coal mining) are leaving or will leave toxic wastes and scars on the landscape as the fossil fuel industry gouges and lacerates the earth in search of combustible fossil resources.

On top of that, it turns out that in recent days, Republicans in Congress (with the backing of the coal industry), have been successfully blocking mine safety measures that would help address this problem.

While the institute rejects claims it is a front group, one of its senior fellows, coal industry veteran Fred Palmer, told DeSmog in February 2017 that he was «reaching out to the fossil fuel community right now and raising money for Heartland.»

A week after it was excerpted in The Washington Post, the Western Fuels Association, a disinformation arm of the coal industry, took out full page ads in the Sunday Post and The Washington Times denouncing the book.

But because most reporters don't have the time, curiosity, or professionalism to check out the science, they write equivocal stories with counterposing quotes that play directly into the hands of the oil and coal industries by keeping the public confused.

Its claim to fame: the deregulation «studies» it publishes on behalf of the nuclear, coal, and oil / gas industry - and as it turns out, Big Tobacco, too.

According to industry experts, if coal loses out in utilities» decisions on what to build, it would be because the economics of burning gas are simply better than burning coal.

Further, the corporate - funded campaign to play up uncertainties in climate science, carried out through industry associations like the American Petroleum Institute and front groups like the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, has done its part to sow public confusion about the level of consensus in climate science.

However, when the oil and gas and coal industries start pulling their vast wealth out of the coffers of big banking, what will the banking industry have left?

IEA and industry experts described the current status of coal - fired power generation in general in India and the overall need to ensure that the facilities are modernised and that least - efficient plant be phased out, given the expected large role that coal will continue to play in power supply.

They spoke last, after the nine coal industry and coal - allied politician witnesses, who bemoaned the burden of following critical clean water regulations and wrongly blamed the Obama administration for its coal - production woes — of course without a single mention of their real problem, which is the subject of a flurry of current news reports: Coal in Appalachia is running out, there is little left to mine (see the AP's report that broke the story, Jeff Goodell's Rolling Stone piece «The Coming Decline and Fall of Big Coal,» and even this energy industry publication stocoal industry and coal - allied politician witnesses, who bemoaned the burden of following critical clean water regulations and wrongly blamed the Obama administration for its coal - production woes — of course without a single mention of their real problem, which is the subject of a flurry of current news reports: Coal in Appalachia is running out, there is little left to mine (see the AP's report that broke the story, Jeff Goodell's Rolling Stone piece «The Coming Decline and Fall of Big Coal,» and even this energy industry publication stocoal - allied politician witnesses, who bemoaned the burden of following critical clean water regulations and wrongly blamed the Obama administration for its coal - production woes — of course without a single mention of their real problem, which is the subject of a flurry of current news reports: Coal in Appalachia is running out, there is little left to mine (see the AP's report that broke the story, Jeff Goodell's Rolling Stone piece «The Coming Decline and Fall of Big Coal,» and even this energy industry publication stocoal - production woes — of course without a single mention of their real problem, which is the subject of a flurry of current news reports: Coal in Appalachia is running out, there is little left to mine (see the AP's report that broke the story, Jeff Goodell's Rolling Stone piece «The Coming Decline and Fall of Big Coal,» and even this energy industry publication stoCoal in Appalachia is running out, there is little left to mine (see the AP's report that broke the story, Jeff Goodell's Rolling Stone piece «The Coming Decline and Fall of Big Coal,» and even this energy industry publication stoCoal,» and even this energy industry publication story).

The market implications for this are significant, in that conventional generation is now fighting to maintain its share of a shrinking pie, and the U.S. Department of Energy's clumsy moves to find a rationale to bail out the coal and nuclear industries can be seen in this light.

Although the Keystone State was thought to have tapped out its big - time energy supplies long ago, Pennsylvania was key to the rise of oil and coal that fueled U.S. industry in the 19th and 20th centuries.