Sentences with phrase «regulations on the coal industry»

Regulations on the coal industry are driving massive layoffs and the shuttering of coal plants in Pennsylvania, injecting environmental issues into that state's hotly contested Senate race between incumbent Democrat Bob Casey Jr. and Republican challenger and coal mining executive Tom Smith.

Pruitt's come under fire for rolling back Obama - era global warming regulations and regulations on the coal industry.

If the regulations on the coal industry are allowed to stand, they will almost certainly destroy the coal industry, with predictable, undesirable economic effects on the rest of the country.

Easing regulations on the coal industry won't stop the death spiral.

Not exact matches

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis reports on the outlook for coal as the Trump administration is working to rollback regulations on the industry.

Coal had made me money but companies in the industry had fallen on hard times due to low natural gas prices and environmental regulations.

In his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump flicked at a lie about the US coal industry that he began telling early on the campaign trail: that there was a «war on coal,» that coal's jobs will return, that regulations by the Obama administration are responsible for its ills, and that the measures he has taken in office can reverse its fortunes.

On the campaign trail, Mr. Trump promised to «bring back» the coal industry by cutting environmental regulations.

Worse than that, in related «horse trading» that the industry insisted on before it would allow the regulations to happen, they managed to grandfather old coal plants — so today we are still stuck with emissions from old coal plants — most of the electricity form coal is from plants that were built before 1970, indeed, most built before 1950, I believe....

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued the first - ever limits on heat - trapping pollution from new power plants in March, ignoring protests from the energy industry and Republicans who fear regulation will raise electricity prices and kill off coal as an energy source.

The study concluded with few details on which industries would grow to replace the coal industry, leaving little in the way of detail for those concerned with the economic implications of greater environmental regulation.

Background on the coal industry's lobbying to prevent regulation can be found in DeSmogBlog / PolluterWatch report, Coal - Fired Utilities to American Public: Kiss My Ash [pcoal industry's lobbying to prevent regulation can be found in DeSmogBlog / PolluterWatch report, Coal - Fired Utilities to American Public: Kiss My Ash [pCoal - Fired Utilities to American Public: Kiss My Ash [pdf].

But Southern, which relies heavily on coal at its other power plants in the south - east, has been outspoken in its opposition to the EPA's new regulations — and the use of its plant to sell them to a skeptical industry and public.

«If EPA proceeds with regulations, they should be based on adequately demonstrated technology and provide an achievable time frame to allow the coal industry to continue advancing clean coal technologies,» he said.

President Trump loves to talk about the fictitious «War on Coal,» depicting the mining industry as a victim of environmental regulations.

The American coal industry says Mr. Obama is waging a «war on coal» in response to his proposed regulation of air pollution and surface mining in mountain areas.

It also doubles down on the false claim that the coal industry can be saved by dialing back public health regulations.

The subject of the hearing was the impact on employment and the economy associated with EPA's regulation of the Appalachian coal industry under the Clean Water Act (CWA).

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen says that the Obama Administration is continuing, even revving up, its campaign against domestic energy production with new EPA regulations on the horizon that would shutter much of the nation's coal industry and do great harm to oil and gas production; he also promised to veto any legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

Within a few months, he agreed to the utility industry's petitions that he reconsider Obama regulations on coal ash and on regional haze.

The regulations are certain to be denounced by House Republicans and the industry as part of what they call the president's «war on coal.»