Sentences with phrase «supporting coal industry»

Insurance giant Allianz has announced it will no longer support the coal industry in a move designed to support the transition to a low - carbon economy.

It seems clear that this is a moment in which we all need to make a choice: either support youth and future generations or support the coal industry.

Ironically, both the current PM, Kevin Rudd, and the previous PM, John Howard, are believers; yet both support the coal industry at the expense of the health of «God's creation».

Data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development show that the Polish government supported its coal industry with more than $ 840 million in tax expenditures and budgetary support in 2011.

You'd have to wonder why the Turnbull Government is doing all it can to discredit the renewable energy industry and the federal Labor Party's modest emission reduction aims other than to undemocratically support the coal industry against the needs of the future of the planet.

To oppose wind power is to support the coal industry by default; air pollution from the mining, transport and particularly the burning of coal kills millions of people world wide each year.

True to form, they continue to mindlessly support the coal industry (one of the main causes of climate change and the increasingly frequent violent weather events) and denigrate renewable energy.

Not exact matches

On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to reverse the coal industry's declining fortunes and supported opening up offshore drilling in the Atlantic.

The coal industry was interested in ensuring that the Paris deal provides a role for low - emission coal - fired power plants and financial support for carbon capture and storage technology, the officials said.

Requiring the reduction of carbon emissions will make coal - based energy more costly, while solar and wind technology are expected to be priced more competitively, thereby supporting those alternative energy industries, says Jason Blumberg, chief executive and managing director of Energy Foundry, a Chicago - based cleantech impact venture capital fund.

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The Trump administration may be internally divided about many things, but it is absolutely united around one goal: supporting the US coal industry.

For instance regulations that are going to cripple the coal industry were voted against by Democrats from coal mining areas, despite their party's significant support for the measure.

Indian coal plants under the CDM received financial backing from the World Bank, sparking an outcry against that organization by groups that argue that the bank's support for the coal industry is inconsistent with its other efforts to tackle climate change.

But fossil fuel advocates note that DOE support has been critical to industry advances, including developing the technology behind fracking, offshore drilling, and cleaner - burning coal and natural gas power plants.

Most importantly, this should further finally stop support for expanding our coal industry.

As President Trump announced on Thursday that the U.S. would leave the Paris climate agreement, he repeatedly expressed unwavering support for the coal mining industry.

This total does not include indirect employment - workers who are not directly employed in the coal industry, but whose jobs are supported by that industry.

It is entirely possible that thousands - even tens of thousands - of workers are indirectly supported entirely by the coal industry.

Once a thriving borough on account of the coal industry, Centralia is now a ghost town felled by the very technology that once supported its population.

Instead we get an environment where the Warner - Lieberman coal industry bonanza is considered progress, and where I see on the website of one major activist organization that they support Mike Crapo's senate equivalent of the Pombo bill gutting the ESA.

With the degree to which the Obama administration has supported the gas industry as a transitional fuel to get away from coal, it is great to see Fox and Gasland II getting this attention and raising the issues related to this source of energy.

But has there really been a «war on coal» or is the «War on Coal» just another industry - backed marketing campaign created to rally suppcoal» or is the «War on Coal» just another industry - backed marketing campaign created to rally suppCoal» just another industry - backed marketing campaign created to rally support?

Look where R&D money has been going lately: «clean coal» and biofuels, two lost causes, but ones with powerful industry support.

Or is the «War on Coal» just another industry - backed marketing campaign created to rally support for a cause, similar to the «War on Christmas» or the «War on Soda»?

Projects have multiplied as the nation provides financial support to its solar companies in a bid to diversify the coal - dependent energy industry.

All well informed people with a conscience have ample reason to oppose the coal industry and plenty of evidence to support their stance.

So far, the only energy trade groups to come out in support of the proposal are from the nuclear and coal industries.

As part of the transition to a clean energy future, the American Lung Association supports providing assistance to retrain coal industry workers and to help impacted communities transition to other economic opportunities.

Keep Fighting: The Last Mountain (A Film Review) The Last Mountain, a scathing documentary about mountaintop removal mining, details the many injustices bestowed by the coal industry upon the very people it claims to support.

While a carbon tax designed to produce substantially greater emission reductions than the CPP could be costlier to the coal industry than existing regulation, the industry could likely secure a host of valuable aid and assistance in return for supporting a carbon tax bill.

But what Bill Haney's scathing documentary The Last Mountain does so well is to descend from that mile - high picture to the shocking impacts of the coal industry on the very people it claims to support.

The advantages are explained as supporting the Norwegian forest industry, being useable in existing coal - fired plants, and reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

«The US government provided about $ 6 billion annually in financial support to the oil, gas, and coal industries between 2013 and 2015.»

At the same time it is proposing spending an additional five billion dollars of taxpayer's money, on top of all the existing subsidies, to support the dying coal industry.

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.

Break the cycle of dirty energy money, particularly by elected officials at all levels of government pledging to refuse campaign donations and other forms of support from the oil, gas, and coal industries.

Complimenting the grassroots struggles, it looks at how we can change the rules of the game to help us, while building the public support for campaigns against dirty industry and making sure their PR machines don't succeed in rebranding coal, gas and oil as part of the solution.

And in this episode of the nation's climate history, once again, the same industry that foresaw the ultimate end of coal as a main fuel for power generation later supported actions to cast doubt on the science and to stave off policies to address the problem, funding groups that deny the scientific consensus and joining the main industry group that opposed participation in the first climate treaty.

Mike Ewall is the founder and director of Energy Justice Network, a national support network for grassroots community groups fighting dirty energy and waste industry facilities such as coal power plants, ethanol plants, natural gas facilities, landfills and incinerators of every sort.

Though not a formal recommendation, three - quarters of the committee members supported the university divesting from coal and tar sand companies but not from other fossil fuel industry members.

«There is a direct link between coal - based, low - cost electricity and economic prosperity... On all fronts, we need a strong sense of urgency to support the people and the industry who have fueled the American Dream, and who will continue to do so.»

Climate scientists do a great job and because of this they have been vilified think tanks and PR outfits supported by the coal and oil industry.

Are you in favour of increasing the proportion of our energy that is renewable and sustainable, or are you more for supporting the dying coal industry (ramblingsdc.net/EndOfCoal.html).

Having worked in the coal industry as a geologist and mining engineer, I have considered some of those massive, exceptionally deep coal seams (some in the Powder River Basin get up to 80 feet thick) and I wonder how warm and luxurious it would have to be to support plantlife that would accumulate such massive amounts of carbon.

The People's Communique comes in contrast to the communique produced by a coal industry conference supported by the Polish government and attended by Christiana Figueres, the UN's highest ranking official on climate change.

WASHINGTON — Ten moderate Senate Democrats from states dependent on coal and manufacturing sent a letter to President Obama on Thursday saying they would not support any climate change bill that did not protect American industries from competition from countries that did not impose similar restraints on climate - altering gases.

The report builds on the 2016 report titled «An International Commitment to CCS: Policies and Incentives to Enable a Low - Carbon Energy Future» which outlined the coal industry's recommendations on the policies that will support the growth of CCS.

I think the Democrats support the new EPA coal standards, regulating fuel - efficiency, promoting energy efficiency, and making the US a green energy industry leader in the world with suitable government backing.

Financial support being planned to get Poland and others to sign on to the 2030 targets could once again end up propping up its coal industry by paying for efficiency upgrades or even for new, more efficient coal plants.