Sentences with phrase «plant closures from»

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.

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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.

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.

Investors had originally hoped that an additional $ 120 million of cost savings in 2018 and 2019 from the sale and closure of bottling plants and head office restructuring would start flowing through to the bottom line in 2018.

It's hoped that energy generated from the project could, in part, replace the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

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....

ALBANY — Two of the state's four remaining coal plants, struggling financially and facing closure, have drawn interest from an outside investor.

In one arrangement, Bharara alleges Kelly channeled several hundred thousand dollars to Percoco and his wife in exchange for help building a power plant in upstate New York, and for other public assistance the company never received — including a guarantee the state would find a buyer for energy from the facility, and the closure of the controversial Indian Point nuclear plant in Westchester, which the governor has advocated for.

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.

A New York state senator from the Hudson Valley believes there has been little progress regarding an action plan for the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County.

The last power from Widows Creek is expected in October, when the plant's last operating unit shuts down after a phased eight - unit closure that began in 2012.

In each case, the goal of those closures is to keep the plant from losing too much water.

Lignite of the Living Dead notes that utilities may keep coal plants running at a loss for many reasons, including: hopes that governments will make capacity payments for guaranteed power supply or payments to retire plants; expectations that competitors will close plants, pushing power prices up; the clean - up costs associated with retiring plants; and opposition to closures from governments for political reasons.

Last year, EP and I were the first to note that the share of global electricity coming from clean energy had — against the hype — actually declined, in part due to the closure and cancellation of nuclear plants.

In 2016, pro-nuclear advocates won our first victories against the anti-nuclear Goliath, saving nuclear plants from closure in Switzerland, Illinois, New York and Sweden.

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.»

In December, however, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) suggested in its 2017 Long - Term Reliability Assessment that power generation from natural gas — fired units and renewable sources such as solar and wind will provide enough electricity to offset closures of coal and nuclear plants over the next decade, at least.

And even in the American Midwest and Northeast, nuclear plants have been at very high risk of closure because they've been forced to pay an economic penalty, and an oversupplied market, resulting from federal subsidies — now a quarter century old — to wind developers, and from their exclusion from state clean energy mandates.

[2] In addition to the 1.7 bn surplus in the market there are a further 900m EUAs that were withheld from the auctions over 2014 - 16, and the CTI report estimates that a further 800m allowances will end up in the MSR in 2020 owing to plant closures and unused allowances in the new Entrants» Reserve.

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.

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.

Sierra Club openly takes money from solar energy companies including Sungevity that benefit from its lobbying for renewables subsidies and the closure of nuclear plants.

Additional urgency to separate DOJ's investigation comes from the fact that CPUC will likely vote this week to approve another settlement for the closure of yet another nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon, after years of private negotiations involving Pacific Gas & Electric, top advisors to Gov. Brown, including the former head of the California Energy Commission, and Brown appointee, John Geesman, and Lt. Gov. Newsom.

The so - called «clean jobs» coalition members includes the Environmental Law and Policy Center, which accepts money from the natural gas company Invenergy, as well as solar and wind companies that stand to benefit from the closure of Illinois nuclear plants.

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

In every recent closure of a nuclear plant, from Vermont Yankee to California's San Onofre, lost nucear power has been replaced almost exclusively by fossil - fueled power.

In flat contradiction of their stated views that climate change represents an imminent cata - strophic threat, anti-nuclear environmentalists from Germany to Illinois to California bless the burning of fossil fuels if it means they can force the closure of a nuclear power plant.

ELPC has fought to halt construction, and close down, Illinois nuclear reactors, for over 20 years, and takes money from fossil and renewable energy companies that stand to benefit from the closure of Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear plants.

To calculate the emissions from Germany's electricity production in 2016 that could have been avoided without nuclear plant closures, we estimated the electricity production of all of Germany's historically operating reactors larger than 600MW.

The authors of the bill hope that they can save the St. Paul plant from potential closure and help make the state a leader in making cutting - edge green vehicles.

These problems result from the closure of a number of coal - fired electric plants in recent years in these states and the refusal of local politicians to approve new natural gas pipelines or local fracking for natural gas, in many cases for alleged climate «reasons.»

Tara counsels her clients on all conceivable day - to - day employment matters, ranging from plant closures to advising them on conducting sexual harassment investigations to developing plans of action for employees seeking accommodation of disability, religion, and family status.