Sentences with phrase «plant closures»

The growing public concern with climate change and CO2 emissions further increases the pressure for coal plant closures.

Power plant closures reduced coal's share from 30 % to 22 % of the mix.

But in every instance, the nuclear plant closures have led to higher emissions and electricity prices, pointing out a difficult truth.

A mediator will be appointed to work out the contentious details of plant closures with power companies, who were not represented at the announcement.

More temporary plant closures may be on the horizon, though, as car sales continue to decline.

An estimated 6,000 American jobs have already been lost due to plant closures associated with the rules.

Europe saw a record 10 gigawatts of coal plant closures in 2016, and countries including Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, and Portugal are working toward aggressive coal retirement schedules or, in the case of the UK, complete phase - out plans.

The rule is designed to speed up the retirement of the nation's fleet of coal - fired power plants — the most carbon - intensive way of creating electricity — and could more than double the rate of coal plant closures by 2040.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats Wednesday cited plant closures from across the country — including the shutdown of the Dresser - Rand plant in Wellsville — as arguments that the Republican tax cut bill passed last year isn't bringing back jobs as the GOP had promised.

And he evinces even less recognition of the ways in which corporations destroy working - class communities through plant closures, wage cuts, and poor working conditions.

Concerning base metals, zinc is expected to gain as the sector continues to balance its demand - supply deficit in the near term, following plant closures in 2015.

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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.

This likely comes as welcome news to the workers at the Valenciennes plant, as France's auto manufacturing sector has been hit especially hard in the auto industry downturn in Europe, which has seen plant closures across the continent.

First are four relatively small programs - $ 8.4 million for the State Education Department to print more versions of state exams, $ 25 million to the Yonkers school district (following a similar «one - time» $ 28 million bailout last year), $ 19 million to address economic hardship in municipalities with fossil fuel plant closures, and $ 6 million for an anti-poverty initiative in Rochester.

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.

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

The lockout of workers at the Electro - Motive Diesel locomotive plant in London, Ont., and its subsequent closure by owner Caterpillar, has received a great deal of international attention, but here in southwestern Ontario it is just one plant closure among many.

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.

Group companies hire nearly 65 per cent of Eicher Polaris white - collar employees hit by Multix plant closure

Sales snap back after a difficult February plagued by lower aerospace production and temporary auto plant closures.

«I have this vision of the site looking like the GM factory in Janesville, all boarded up with overgrown weeds,» said Mark Cotter, 62, referencing a 2009 plant closure about 40 miles southeast of Madison.

But they will mainly use a combination of action strategies to stop plant closures and / or to propose community - worker plant buyouts, to push legislation protecting the worker, to propose alternative economic development plans and to hold conferences and publish educational materials.

These new developments compel the attention of the American religious community, for they are now affecting millions of workers, their families and their communities in the form of massive plant closures, huge movements of industrial capital overseas and a downshifting of the work force into lower - paying and more menial jobs — when such jobs can be found.

In 2001 Arla Foods formulated a strategic plan of centralisation in its Swedish and Danish operations to increase production through selective plant closures and increased investment in other plants.

In the year to June 30, 2017, Murray Goulburn reported a loss of $ 370 million loss after a series of writedowns and processing plant closures.

Alongside the Cororooke plant closure, the firm is beginning a three - year program of investment and upgrades at its remaining manufacturing sites in the region.

«After the scandals of lost jobs and plant closures private equity is getting the message that they are not the saviours they portray themselves as,» he added..

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.

A similar sister campaign by the Sierra Club in the US has been running for years, and has led to 262 announced coal plant closures so far, progress which has continued in spite of the Trump administration's pro-coal agenda.

The bill calls on the state Department of Commerce to identify trade - exposed industries, which compete globally and might face plant closures from rising energy costs, and allow them to apply for an exemption.

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

BERLIN, 23 March 2018 — Coal plant closure momentum is growing in Europe this month, with four German plants retiring or announcing retirement in March, and Ireland committing to a total coal phase out by 2025.

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 state will also work with local communities to address potential revenue shortfalls, similar to how it has worked with communities affected by other plant closures through the existing fossil fuel plant retirement fund.

Nearly 600 counties could be in «non-attainment,» which entails, among other things, draconian new regulations to lower emissions, loss of industry and economic development, including plant closures and increased fuel and energy costs.

Biomass, wind and other clean sources produced a quarter of UK electricity last year, government figures show, as plant closures reduced coal's share to 22 %

Critics questioned whether or not a proposed $ 560 million investment in the plant for pollution control measures was too risky given the possibility of a future plant closure.

It was one of 188 plant closures credited to former New York City Mayor Bloomberg's activist «Beyond Coal» campaign which he has supported with a $ 80 million in donations to the anti-fossil Sierra Club.

Dislocated workers are workers who have been let go or laid off from their current job and are unlikely to return to the industry due to a permanent plant closure, foreign competitors, or lack of skills.

First is the uranium spot market has been rather tight in terms of overall percentage of production, and there have been some nuclear plant closures in addition to shutdowns in Japan after Fukushima.

A recent incomplete data sample from a compilation of plant closures in California showed that the numbers of minority people laid off exceeded whites laid off — a figure far out of proportion to racial percentages in the general population.

That's one possible outcome of the looming Indian Point nuclear power plant closure, which the Cuomo administration earlier this year said would happen by 2021.

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Yet corporations that threaten «unionized workers with plant closures» are not making empty threats, as the workers at Caterpillar's London plant and Walmart's Jonquière store learned the hard way.

This deep - level understanding of the market system and identification of plant closure with retraining as the solution for a basic problem was spelled out by Pius XI in one of the classic documents of the social magisterium half a century ago.

Windsor endured years of layoffs and plant closures by GM, Ford and Chrysler.