Sentences with phrase «polluting coal industry»
They felt left alone in the struggle against the polluting coal industry, and many had had already lost their homes or will soon if the pit continues to expand.
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Therefore greater efforts are needed by government and industry to embrace less polluting and more efficient technologies to ensure that coal becomes a much cleaner source of energy in the decades to come.
Some industries (like those connected to mining, coal, wood preservation, and pesticides) pollute the environment with inorganic arsenic.
Relevant regulatory failures in that coal - centric state are nicely unpacked by Nora Caplan - Bricker in this New Republic piece: «Why So Many West Virginians Relied on Water from the Elk River: Industry Already Polluted the Others.»
But the coal industry has been pressuring the EPA to reconsider the standard, pushing to weaken regulations that could affect dozens of decades - old, heavily - polluting coal plants like Indianapolis» Harding Street Station, which has been in operation for 54 years.
This is untrue, except that, by adding the element of confusion to the mix (which most skeptics do well), progress to find environmentally - friendly alternatives to high - polluting infrastructure and industries (such as coal - fired power plants and Hummers) is slowed due to political inertia.
And with regard to replacing or even forfeiting those wealthy and polluting coal and oil industries for cleaner technologies in order to save our planet's future?
The coal industry has gotten away with polluting our water for far too long.
«The Closing the Floodgates» report says that toxic pollution from coal - fired power plants «dwarfs the pollution from any other industrial category in the United States and is more than the other top nine polluting industries combined.»
It's hard to understand why (mainly conservative) state governments are opposing the RET when they could be divested themselves of outdated, polluting coal - fired generators while picking up taxes from renewable energy related industries and services — unless of course the same state governments are getting healthy and frequent «donations» from various fossil fuel companies.
In Australia much of the financial support for Abbott's Liberal Party comes from the coal industry while in Canada PM Harper's support comes from the highly polluting tar - sands and oil - shale mining businesses.
The only way China will meet its development needs in the long run is to a) rebalance its economy away from polluting industry towards job - creating services, b) increase the efficiency with which industry and buildings consume energy and c) find alternatives to coal or ways to use it cleanly.
Although coal combustors can be designed to produce little BC, coal can also be highly polluting when burned in simple combustors, which are still present in small industries, particularly in developing countries.
Hydraulic fracturing or fracking for shale gas is the new wild frontier of the fossil - fuel industry, one they're keen to promote as a low - carbon alternative to high - polluting coal and oil.
An assault led by policies promoted, through Pruitt, not just by his allies in the coal, oil, and gas industry; but by practically every harmful polluting industry.
the Michigan Tech scientists focussed only on deaths from air pollution linked to coal - burning power stations: they did not make a calculation about the economic costs of chronic illness linked to polluted air, nor did they estimate the health costs that might be linked to the entire coal industry, nor include the estimates of deaths that might be attributed to climate change as a consequence of prodigal fossil fuel combustion.
Importantly, the Michigan Tech scientists focussed only on deaths from air pollution linked to coal - burning power stations: they did not make a calculation about the economic costs of chronic illness linked to polluted air, nor did they estimate the health costs that might be linked to the entire coal industry, nor include the estimates of deaths that might be attributed to climate change as a consequence of prodigal fossil fuel combustion.
The coal industry are clearly in the business of suppressing alternatives, pushing the clean coal fraud, garnering massive subsidies and snapping up free permits to pollute indefinitely.
What it really does is streamline access to oil, gas, and coal under public lands and federally - controlled ocean waters for the fossil fuel industry — and condemns Americans to more spills, climate - polluting emissions, and health problems.
While there certainly is wisdom in this, as well as undeniably more research being needed before this is commercially ready, my fear is that it will continue to be dangled in front of the public as something always just on the horizon as the coal industry continues to pollute.
And it's not because of any wish of the climate scientists» that global warming has been so heavily politicized — the only ones who have benefited from that are the interests of carbon - polluting industries like coal and oil.
But if we had our priorities straight, we could stop the federal bankrolling of coal and oil — mature, uber - profitable, climate change - causing and heavily polluting industries — and develop a system that rewards clean, renewable power producers instead.
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The coal industry's efforts to export huge amounts of taxpayer - owned coal from Montana and Wyoming to Asia has generated unprecedented opposition in the Pacific Northwest - tens of thousands of people have rallied, attended public hearings, and called on their elected officials to oppose coal export terminals that would disrupt and pollute communities and pose one of the biggest threats to the climate of any fossil fuel project in the world.