Sentences with phrase «people than the coal»

The solar industry really does employ more people than the coal industry does.

Across the country, these industries already employ far more people than coal mining.

The solar industry already employs more people than coal mining and wind energy is cheaper than coal power in many U.S. states.

Clean energy industries employ far more people than the coal industry.

Not exact matches

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

The temporary foreign worker program was first under fire in the fall of 2012, when it came to light that approval was granted to Chinese - owned HD Mining International to bring more than 200 people from China to work at its coal mine near Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

Solar power currently employs more than twice as many people as the coal industry, and entry - level jobs pay a much higher wage than average.

(As is frequently noted, Arby's employs more people than the entire coal mining industry.

Robert Finkelman, a former USGS coordinator of coal quality who oversaw research on uranium in fly ash in the 1990s, says that for the average person the by - product accounts for a miniscule amount of background radiation, probably less than 0.1 percent of total background radiation exposure.

Australia relies heavily on coal for its own electricity as well, emitting more CO2 per person than any other developed country, and its agricultural emissions are among the highest per capita in the world, mainly because of the large numbers of sheep and cattle.

In all the nations surveyed, more than 73 per cent of people agreed that «Every time we use coal or oil or gas, we contribute to the greenhouse effect».

Before 10,000 gallons of an obscure coal - processing chemical spilled into the Elk River near Charleston, W.Va., in January and contaminated water supplies for more than 300,000 residents, few people knew crude MCHM existed.

True, it had the potential to clean up California's air, although that may be of little consolation to people living near coal - fired power plants, which supply more than 50 percent of America's electricity.

Marufu's samples show that coal - burning power plants produce a bigger - than - expected share of the chemical cocktail that people in the northeastern United States inhale every day.

The People's Republic now produces more than three billion tons of coal a year, and the fossil fuel has played a key role in accelerating the nation's growth, along with its carbon dioxide emissions, dating to the early 20th century

We also discuss what's going on in New Mexico with renewable energy, work that offers a better response to meeting people's energy needs and also is better environmentally and more affordable than nuclear power — or coal, oil, and natural gas that also play major roles in New Mexico.

But getting at all that coal has meant the displacement of more than 12,000 people of the Navajo Nation, one of the largest removals of Native Americans since the 19th century.

It's more important and intelligent to fix the gut when it comes to the immune system than to worry about rubbing coal tar on a person with psoriasis or treating a patient with rheumatoid arthritis with steroids to reduce their inflammation.

But at the time the newspapers were full of reports from Mr. Palmer's office that new evidence of a gigantic plot against the safety of the country had been unearthed; and although the steel strike was failing, the coal strike was failing, and any danger of a socialist régime, to say nothing of a revolution, was daily fading, nevertheless to the great mass of the American people the Bolshevist bogey became more terrifying than ever.

Whether it's the history of steel in Braddock, automobiles in Flint, or coal in Borinage, a historical element is always necessary in my work for the fact that it proves people are more important than profits.

Indoor wood, coal and biofuel fires kill more than 1,000,000 people per year.

People drive a lot here, there is a fledgling public transportation, but I am sure that the airport is used more than the train station for humans, but the train station has two or three coal trains pass through each day.

Peak coal may be a lot closer than most people think, especially if we go into gasification or liquefying, which take considerable energy leaving less net energy gain than if we just burn the coal directly.

From what I've heard from people who convert them & read in books, even if the source of electricity is coal or oil, EVs are still 1/4 to 1/3 more efficient (even figuring in batteries & their manufacture) than ICE vehicles.

They seem like nothing other than an overpriced way of giving people the privacy of their car and the ability to avoid sharing transit with other people who might make us nervous at great public expense and simply converting the fuel from gas to coal via electricity.

For years, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has used tortured economic logic to mask its willful ignorance of the tremendous harm done to our climate and people through federal leasing of more than five billions of tons of coal.

Jaws should feel that coal train is real death train and understand this meaning more than other people then fight for global warming, ban coal power plants.

Air pollution from coal burning kills more than 100,000 people per year.

It can be calculated that burning this coal will cause air pollution that will kill more than seven thousand people each year;

Solar employs far more people per dollar spent and per MWh generated than coal.

There has been some progress: since 2000, the number of people in developing countries with access to clean cooking — principally liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), natural gas and electricity, has grown by 60 %, and the number of people cooking with coal and kerosene has more than halved.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

In fact, today more people work in the solar industry than the coal industry.

n fact, today more people work in the solar industry than the coal industry.

My general aim in this work is to examine more sustainable economic models than coal mining for both indigenous and non-indigenous people in the North Queensland region.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has reported that more than three - quarters of African - Americans live within 30 miles of a coal - fired power plant.

[24] According to People's World, «Patriot Coal now wants to be released from its pension and retirement obligations covering more than 20,000 UMWA retirees and beneficiaries in West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Ohio....

According to People's World, «Patriot Coal now wants to be released from its pension and retirement obligations covering more than 20,000 UMWA retirees and beneficiaries in West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Ohio» [12](see below for more).

We've found that people in Coal River are more than twice as likely to have cancer than folks in Pocahontas County.

The result of the analysis is that there is probably much less coal left to be burnt than most people think.

If climate change continues to have a negative impact on these tourism spots and natural wonders, it could have a huge effect on the local economy, too, as tourism is Australia's second-most valuable export, employing more than 580,000 people — 15 times more than the coal mining industry.

Each year the people keep digging up coal and drilling up oil and gas and burning it, and each year, on average, the world, since 1907, has warmed by half more than a hundredth degree Fahrenheit.

If the new power plants are to be developed, premature deaths may rise up to 2,410 or more than double the current number of people dying from coal - related pollution in the Philippines.

I think «most people» do require that nuclear be 10 or 100 times safer than a coal plant, in the sense of the plant itself being incredibly reliable with the dangerous materials it deals with.

In the U.S., more people were employed in generating electricity from solar last year than from coal, oil, and gas combined.»

today more people are employed by the solar industry than the coal mining or steel manufacturing industries.

Between 2006 and 2011, the Denver - metro area saw a 35 % increase in direct employment growth in the clean energy sector; today more people are employed by the solar industry than the coal mining or steel manufacturing industries.

The 1.2 billion people who live in India use far less electricity than do Americans, but the nation's growing economy and its dependance upon coal pose major global warming threats.

Operating cost for electric cars is $ 0.50 to $ 0.75 per mile versus $ 0.10 for gasoline powered cars once battery replacement costs are included By 2020, Chinese PER CAPITA emissions will be higher than America's Does not believe that the 0.6 degree temperature rise to date is the West's «fault,» but does believe that China is the future problem Whatever U.S. does about emissions reduction and what people do as individuals is totally trivial in face of the fact that China is adding huge amounts of coal fired generating capacity The most meaningful emissions reduction strategy today would be to convert China from coal to natural gas The claim that there are more frequent or more intense hurricanes and tornadoes as a result of AGW is not scientifically supported We can reduce emissions, but it is important that we do the RIGHT things (and NOT the WRONG ones) Not worried about «peak oil;» coal can be converted to liquid fuel

The former is a far bigger problem than most people realize: a 2011 economic analysis by Nicholas Muller et al found that coal power's associated «damages range from 0.8 to 5.6 times value added.»