Sentences with phrase «revive coal industry»

The United States is in fact headed in the completely wrong direction on fossil fuels — pledging to revive the coal industry and pursuing multiple strategies to expand use of fossil fuels at home and abroad.

Trump himself is a climate change skeptic, he once blamed climate change on the Chinese and campaigned on the promises to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement and to revive the coal industry.

Trump is trying to revive the coal industry, the dirtiest form of power generation.

Dozens of utilities surveyed by Reuters earlier this year said they would continue to move away from coal despite efforts by the Trump administration to revive the coal industry.

Meanwhile, he predicted that certain market drivers will constrain Trump's ability to deliver on promises to revive the coal industry.

Current federal efforts to revive the coal industry will likely do more harm than good to fragile Appalachian communities transitioning from coal as a major source of employment, according to a study conducted by Indiana University researchers.

«Efforts to revive coal industry unlikely to work, may slow job growth.»

It's not yet clear how — or whether — those policies will be enacted, or whether they'll be enough to revive the coal industry.

They include «canceling» American involvement in the Paris climate accord, reviving the coal industry and rolling back federal environmental regulations.

This includes expanding U.S. oil and natural gas development, reviving the coal industry, rolling back EPA's Clean Power Plan, and withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement.

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The defeat is a setback for the president, who vowed on the campaign trail to revive the battered coal industry and put miners back to work.

Trump said that, if elected, he would rescind Obama's «job - destroying» executive actions, «save» the coal industry, revive the Keystone XL pipeline project and cancel the Paris climate accords.

President - elect Donald Trump has vowed to revive the flagging U.S. coal industry, but a new analysis suggests cheap natural gas and falling prices for wind and solar power mean there are few places where it makes sense to build a new coal - fired power plant.

Many of the representatives at COP 22 are worried about a Trump presidency because he has called climate change a «hoax,» pledged to «cancel» the Paris agreement, repeal many of Pres. Barack Obama's climate initiatives and has promised to revive the U.S. coal industry.

As I wrote then: A folk singer — in this case Pete Seeger — has just as legitimate a place at the table as a first grader, a retiree, a coal - industry lobbyist, a climate scientist or one of the diplomats negotiating in Bali over how to revive an ailing climate treaty.

But actually, a folk singer — in this case Pete Seeger — has just as legitimate a place at the table as a first grader, a retiree, a coal - industry lobbyist, a climate scientist or one of the diplomats negotiating in Bali over how to revive an ailing climate treaty.

But the fact is, the UK coal industry is virtual dead, and will not be revived.

Trump has formerly gone on record saying he believes global warming is a hoax and that his administration would revive the U.S. coal industry.

To what extent the president can deliver on his vow to revive the U.S. coal industry is an open question.

The presumptive Republican nominee has claimed he will revive mining jobs and boost heavy industry in this downtrodden slice of American coal country.

The «America First Energy Plan» web portal also promotes the use of «clean coal» and «reviving America's coal industry,» as well as tapping into the U.S. bounty of shale oil and gas via the use of hydraulic fracturing («fracking»).

Donald Trump has made it very clear that he wants to revive the flagging US coal industry.

Key focuses of the US government include reducing regulatory requirements which impact the United States» ability to develop its energy (including changing the focus of the Environmental Protection Agency), reviving the US» coal industry, and posturing the US to be independent from OPEC and other foreign nations.