Sentences with phrase «producing coal state»

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These predictions make sense given the strong support for Trump in coal - producing states and the fact that the Trump EPA transition team is led by a climate science denier.

Mylan Chief Executive Heather Bresch, who has led the company since 2012, has coal country roots: she is the daughter of U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the second largest coal - producing state in the country.

Democrats from coal - producing states, led by West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, had delayed the Senate vote on the funding bill in a failed attempt to get a bigger extension of miners» healthcare benefits that expire at the end of this year.

Wyoming, with rich reserves of low - sulfur coal near the surface, is the largest coal - producing - state and has the most coal still in the ground at producing mines.

By: Nadine James 16th September 2016 To facilitate the gasification of low - grade fine waste coal that is discarded as a by - product of coal processing, State - owned mineral research council Mintek is developing the concept of direct current (dc) arc plasma gasification, intending to produce a synthesis gas (syngas) that could be used... →

By: Victor Moolman 21st October 2016 Mining equipment supplier Tenova Takraf Africa is offering junior miners in the surface mining industry a tailor - made package that will help new mining operations produce State - owned power utility Eskom - grade coal.

Renewable energy: Commit to 100 percent renewable power The Climate Collaborative states that about one - third of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas to produce electricity.

«The economic potential from the Marcellus Shale could provide a badly needed boost to the economy of the Southern Tier and even many environmentalists agree we want to produce more domestic natural gas that reduces the need for environmentally damaging fuel sources such as coal,» his campaign statement said, while adding, «Existing watersheds are sacrosanct, and Andrew Cuomo would not support any drilling that would threaten the state's major sources of drinking water.»

Cuomo has said the nuclear power produced at those facilities is preferable to coal or natural gas as the state transitions to renewable energy.

Last April natural gas tied coal as the top electricity - producing fuel in the United States (each generated 32 percent of the total).

Traditional coal - fired power plants, which produce 36 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, are the fastest - growing source of energy — and air pollution — around the world.

China will widen its gap with the United States as the world's largest coal - producing country by the end of the decade, riding continued strong demand from its electric power and steel - making sectors, according to a new analysis from New York - based GBI Research.

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 administration continues to push an agenda of job - killing regulations that could strangle this country's energy industries, in particular coal,» said Rogers, who hails from a major coal - producing state.

He produced a document showing two of the plant's four coal - fired units provide about $ 14.2 million in tax revenue to state and local governments in Montana — dollars that help fund Colstrip's history museum, recreation center, golf course, schools and 32 colorful playgrounds.

The challengers — an alliance of energy and fossil fuel companies and coal - producing states — wanted the court «to do something that they candidly acknowledge we have never done before: review the legality of a proposed rule,» wrote Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in an opinion unanimously backed by a three - judge panel.

An NPR story on reactions to the encyclical in the country's top coal - producing state, Wyoming, revealed that some residents were torn between their interests and what Pope Francis has recast as a compelling moral question.

Half the states produce at least some coal, and around 30 states produce at least a bit of oil.

The carbon entity data allows for the differentiation between carbon emissions, produced and marketed by each of the 90 major multi-national and state - owned coal, oil and gas companies (and their predecessors), and the total human attribution on climate change impacts.

Coal - producing states, along with states reliant on coal - fired electricity, have broadly rejected the proposed pCoal - producing states, along with states reliant on coal - fired electricity, have broadly rejected the proposed pcoal - fired electricity, have broadly rejected the proposed plan.

Wyoming, in fact, produces more coal than the next five coal - producing states combined.

The map above shows locations of coal mines and plants as of 1997, with nearly 1,400 active operations, while the map below illustrates the top five coal producing states in the United Sstates in the United StatesStates.

It's by far the top coal - producing state in the United States, responsible for nearly 40 percent of our domestic yield.

The EMS (Earth and Mineral Science) Energy Institute at Penn State has developed a conceptual novel process configuration for producing clean middle - distillate fuels from coal with some algal input with minimal emissions.

In the United States, where much electricity is produced from coal, it is even better than a battery - electric car, Honda says.»

In 2011, the entire CAPP region produced about 185 million short tons, or 17 % of total United States coal.

The United States, with the world's largest coal reserves, continued to churn out the most carbon - intensive fuel, producing 1 billion tons of coal from its mines in 2012.

What you have here is Senators from states that have lost a lot of manufacturing jobs — that have been sent abroad or that have been very hard hit by the state of the economy — or they're coal - producing states, or states that burn a lot of coal — so they have these domestic economic and political concerns that they have to answer to their voters on.

Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska, has joined with Senator Robert C. Byrd, the veteran Democrat from West Virginia, a leading coal - producing state, in introducing a bill aimed at controlling emissions.

In 2016, 17 states produced 10 percent or less of their generation from coal (compared to nine states 10 years ago in 2007 and 16 states in 2015).

It's by far the top coal - producing state in the United States, responsible for nearly 40 percent of our domestic yield.

American Indian Coal Lease: A lease granted to a mining company to produce coal from land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans, Native American tribes, and Alaska Natives in exchange for royalties and other revenCoal Lease: A lease granted to a mining company to produce coal from land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans, Native American tribes, and Alaska Natives in exchange for royalties and other revencoal from land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans, Native American tribes, and Alaska Natives in exchange for royalties and other revenues.

Wyoming, in fact, produces more coal than the next five coal - producing states combined.

By the mid 2020s, for example, Kawasaki Heavy Industries plans to begin importing brown coal fired, carbon - capture - and - storage produced hydrogen from Australia's state of Victoria to the southern Japanese port city of Kobe.

On its website the company states that in 2008 it produced approximately 69.4 million tons of coal and «controlled approximately 1.75 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves.»

Washington state regulators sent directives to three major utilities this week asking them to consider the carbon - emission costs of producing electricity from coal - fired plants....

«Increasing coal exports, continued land clearing and putting precious water resources at risk are unlikely to produce the stated goals of the Paris climate agreement.»

Legislators from coal - producing states criticized the agency for holding those hearings far from the nation's most coal - intensive regions.

Proposed coal terminals in Longview and Bellingham or oil terminals in Vancouver and Gray's Harbor, would lead to more carbon emissions than produced in the state of Washington each year.

Greatly expanded domestic production can be achieved, however, by producing methanol from coal, a resource the United States has in abundance.

In contrast, the United States has produced an average of 2.1 billion tons of CO2 per year by the use of coal.

A previous version of this report described Berkeley County, W.Va., as being in a coal - producing part of the state.

The senators represent Midwestern and coal - producing states from which many of the 44 Democrats who voted against the measure in the House come from.

Jim D: The macroeconomic numbers will not lift the fortunes of the poor in Appalachia and Africa, those who still need cheap energy in states that produce coal.

The socialist states at that time were producing gargantuan amounts of CO2 and other gases implicated in global warming from unfiltered coal - fired power plants and factories; when those unprofitable industries withered, countless thousands of workers went on the dole — but the air got cleaner.

The Wyoming governor, Republican Matt Mead, is an outspoken supporter of fossil fuels (not surprising, given that Wyoming is the No. 1 coal producing state in the union) and is also on record as denying global warming.

Although the United States produces a large amount of coal (about 728 million short tons in 2016), some power plants along the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic Ocean sometimes find it cheaper to import coal from other countries than to obtain coal from U.S. coal - producing regions.

Recoverable Coal Reserves and Average Recovery Percentage at Producing Underground Coal Mines by State and Mining Method

It starts with stopping the massive amounts of coal that are mined from the Powder River Basin, the largest coal - producing region in the United States.

Between 2000 and 2010, about 5 % of the coal produced in the United States, on average, was exported to other countries.