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Anne Michaud of Newsday likes the film but notes that its depiction of the Shoreham plant closure on Long Island didn't mention there was no workable evacuation plan.

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CNBC's Eunice Yoon reports on China's once - prosperous industrial zones which are now seeing manufacturing plant closures and vacant factories.

GM is trying to consolidate production capacity to focus on key product lines and a closure off a South Korean plant was a first step, says Scott Upham of Valient Market Research.

Together with VW's home state of Lower Saxony, labour representatives hold more than half of the 20 seats on the group's supervisory board that ratifies key decisions on investment, plant closures and executive appointments.

On Feb. 1, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed a controversial right - to - work law prohibiting workers in union shops from being forced to pay union dues — less than 48 hours before Electro - Motive announced the closure of the London plant, its jobs expected to move to the Hoosier state.

Company officials have long insisted that the product is safe and healthy, and blamed the closure of three plants and roughly 700 layoffs on what they viewed as a smear campaign.

One of Canada's leading scholars on deindustrialization and the author of Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969 — 1985, Concordia historian Steven High, assumes that deindustrialization did occur to some extent, but that nationalist worker activism forced politicians to legislate advance warnings of shutdowns, better packages and, in some cases, even slowed plant closures.

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Eken Park neighborhood resident Mark Cotter, 62, contemplates the impact the impending closure of the nearby Oscar Mayer plant will have on his street.

Due to a shift in production focusing on glass containers for food and spirits, however, Ardagh (ardaghgroup.com) announced the March 2018 closure of its Milford, Mass., beer bottle plant.

With 150 delicious plant - based recipes, I set my sights on one single recipe I knew would facilitate a sweet closure to a year so many people are trying to forget.

Sanders on Monday issued a statement calling for the plant's closure in a «safe and responsible way.»

The Democratic chairman of the Westchester County Board of Legislators said Thursday legislation to support Republican County Executive Rob Astorino's planned lawsuit to stop or delay the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is dead on arrival.

His administration is on a fast track to close that plant by 2021, and his top energy officials testified at a hearing on the proposed Indian Point closure earlier in the month.

Astorino, speaking with reporters on Monday after addressing the Conservative Party's annual confab in Albany, pointed to a federal law that gives the Department of Energy authority over the closure of nuclear power plants.

The speed with which they reached a closure agreement on Indian Point also surprised executives at Entergy Co., which operates the plant.

While the PSC views the subsidies as a way to control carbon emissions as the state moves toward more renewable energy sources, critics believe the Cuomo administration, which supported the plan, was intent on avoiding the job losses that would have come with plant closures in the hard - pressed region where the plants operate.

The announcement was paired with Cuomo administration officials set to testify before a joint legislative panel of lawmakers, including those who are skeptical of the plant's closure, its impact on the New York City area's utilities as well as the hit jobs and taxes will take in the area.

In its announcement of the closure, Cuomo's administration wrote that closing the plant «will have little to no effect on New Yorkers» electricity bills.»

The plan was to join fellow Green Party candidate, gubernatorial hopeful Howie Hawkins, to draw attention to the pending closure of the General Electric plant in Fort Edward, a straight shot to the east from Funiciello's bakery, the Rock Hill Bakehouse, on Exchange Street....

To lessen the economic impact on workers at the plant, Cuomo has floated a potential transition into the renewable energy sector for workers laid off by the plant's closure.

Currently, Buchanan receives $ 3 million in tax breaks as per a payment in lieu of taxes agreement, and Joseph Hochreiter, superintendent of the Hendrick Hudson school district, has said that the closure of the plant would negate a third of the district's tax base, and has therefore halted intentions to move forward on a $ 14 million capital improvement project.

Additionally, Joseph Hochreiter, superintendent of the Hendrick Hudson school district, said that the closure of the plant would negate a third of the district's tax base and has halted intentions to move forward on a $ 14 million capital improvement project for the district.

Tonawanda Huntley Plant Aid: The Ken - Ton School District will receive $ 2.7 million more aid, the town of Tonawanda will receive an extra $ 1.8 million and the county an extra $ 1 million to offset massive property tax losses with the closure of NRG Energy's Huntley power plant on River Road, according to a statement from Sen. Chris Jacobs and Assemblyman Robin SchimmiPlant Aid: The Ken - Ton School District will receive $ 2.7 million more aid, the town of Tonawanda will receive an extra $ 1.8 million and the county an extra $ 1 million to offset massive property tax losses with the closure of NRG Energy's Huntley power plant on River Road, according to a statement from Sen. Chris Jacobs and Assemblyman Robin Schimmiplant on River Road, according to a statement from Sen. Chris Jacobs and Assemblyman Robin Schimminger.

The glut of cheap gas and tightening regulations on air pollutants have prompted the planned closure of 175 coal - fired power plants by 2016, representing 8.5 percent of all coal - fueled electricity capacity in the country.

Climate change was a key focus for the nuclear industry under the Obama administration, including treatment under U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan and ongoing studies at DOE on how plant closures would affect U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

Shocks to ratepayers In fact, Japan's electricity prices are now among the highest in Asia, a condition created partly by high - priced renewables, but also by its heavy reliance on imported energy fuels following the closure of its nuclear plants, which provided 26 percent of the country's power before 2011.

In previously published research on these cohorts, the authors reported newborns born after the plant closure had lower levels of PAH - DNA adducts, lower rates of various health outcomes, and increased levels of BDNF.

But mark my words, right - wingers will start screaming about compensation when all those shiny new gas - fired power plants they're building are threatened with closure when we start thinking seriously about building a modern grid that can shuttle electricity instead of curtailing renewable generation in one area while simultaneously turning on fossils in another.

There was some bad news for Drax recently as the UK government decided that biomass subsidies would not keep climbing as the «carbon price floor» — levied on fossil fuel production (and due to rise further)-- on electricity consumption has caused a backlash from manufacturers, consumer groups and energy suppliers who are concerned that the «tax will push up prices, make the UK uncompetitive and force the premature closure of coal - fired power plants, increasing the risk of blackouts.»

On the same day, the Toledo Blade reported that FirstEnergy Corp.'s Davis - Besse nuclear plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio, is headed for premature closure, citing James Pearson, the company's chief financial officer.

As utilities plan for the closure of large, dispatchable baseload coal and nuclear plants, Michigan's system will be forced to rely on a smaller suite of energy options — specifically natural gas, renewables, and conservation measures.

And while closing the power plants would have an affect on «generator deliverability,» or the ability for those regions to export power to others, PJM also noted that «transmission upgrades are required to preserve deliverability of all existing PJM capacity resources under various contingency conditions» — or, in other words, that investments are needed regardless of the closure plans.

Grid operator says nuke plant closures aren't a threat to keeping the lights on.

In a new report from Moody's, and reported on by SNL, the ratings agency predicts that cheap natural gas could lead to another massive wave of coal - fired power plant closures over the next year and a half.

The closure of Belgium's Langerlo plant comes hot - on - the - heels of Scotland closing Britain's largest coal - fired power station, Longannet, signalling the end of an era for Scottish coal.

These moves come on the back of China's previous cancellation and closure of 103 coal - fired plants coordinate with three consecutive years of falling coal consumption from 2014 through 2016.

Campaigners are converging on Washington to press for the closure of «Congress's own coal fired power plant», marking a political turning point for the future of the fossil fuel

And nobody can say that there hasn't been emphasis on green energy — including the closure of many fossil fuel power plants, and much green legislation — in the UK over the last two parliamentary terms.

On June 28, 2010 the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality laid out three alternative options for shutting down its Boardman coal - fired power plant, all of which involved an earlier closure date or significantly more expensive pollution controls.

While the war on coal in the United States has taken its toll, with the closure of over 250 coal - fired power plants, and a resulting increase in what people pay for their electricity, the price of natural gas will likely rise to where coal will be competitive.

We published the first detailed count of nuclear plants at risk of closure, and helped put the issue on the front - pages of the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, and in hundreds of other newspapers and columns.

Having long bemoaned of a «war on coal,» facing massive losses in share value, and the likely closure of many coal plants under the Clean Power Plan, the coal industry must be looking to Jeb Bush as a potential ally.

The closure of New York's nuclear plants would undo all the progress the state has made on climate, and would harm New York's economy.

Two nearby cities, Maastricht in the Netherlands and Aachen in Germany, are said to be considering legal action to force plant safety — or closure, and on Tuesday the German environment minister waded into the row.

Two of the coal plants that planned to close — Eggborough and one unit at Fiddlers Ferry — have secured SBR contracts for winter 2016/17, offering stays of execution on their eventual closure.

On one extreme lies Germany, which decided to speed up the closure of its nuclear plants following Fukushima.

COAL - fired power plant closures have become the order of the day for Australia's virtue - signalling and global warming theory - obsessed political class who think that destroying the country's industrial heartland, and imposing crippling energy - poverty on its citizens is a worthwhile price to pay for «saving the planet».

Energy Secretary Rick Perry has directed his department to conduct a wide - ranging study of the U.S. electric grid, with a particular emphasis on recent coal and nuclear plant closures and whether environmental policies may be driving them.

Murray blamed the plan for the closure of 411 coal - fired power plants and a freeze on new construction.