Sentences with phrase «through coal country»

The unions against the owners, like it was all through the coal country back around the turn of the century, but in Robbens it was different, and worse.

As we roll through coal country hollows long since tapped out, Bobcats coach Larry Hunter explains how the MAC hopes to model itself after the Atlantic 10, which grew from mid-major shoot into big - time flytrap during the 1990s despite being in the shadow of the Big East.

Not exact matches

The emergence of low - cost natural gas in the U.S., largely uncovered through fracking techniques, is one of the major reasons that the country has been able to lower its carbon emissions and has started to ween itself off of coal use.

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions against 13 Chinese and North Korean organizations Washington accused of helping evade nuclear restrictions against Pyongyang and supporting the country through trade of commodities like coal.

Venetian trader and explorer Marco Polo said that one of the most surprising sights during his travels through Asia in the 13th century was the Chinese practice of burning a strange, black rock for heat — and the mountains along the Silk Road that smoldered due to underground coal fires, like the ones burning throughout the country today.

He also says governments in Africa and Latin America are getting in the way of off - grid solutions to their people's energy difficulties through corruption, policies that discourage entrepreneurism like tariffs on solar lamps, and a general prejudice in favor of the large coal - and gas - fired power plants they see as drivers of developed - country wealth.

The trajectories for emissions of carbon dioxide as the world's industrial and industrializing countries boost coal burning are clearly going to be tough to turn around, whether through caps on emissions or efforts to improve non-polluting energy technologies.

It's good old fashioned black carbon soot — a visible pollutant with measurable effects on human health both in poor places, where it comes from cooking or heating using coal, firewood or dung, and rich countries, where it is produced mainly through the combustion of diesel and similar fuels and from some industries.

Ma also calculated the expected number of premature deaths in China in the future if the country meets its current targets to restrict coal combustion and emissions through a combination of energy policies and pollution controls.

The latest evidence comes in an Earth Day news release from Peabody Energy, the largest private coal company, which is thriving both domestically and through rapidly growing coal exports from its worldwide mining operations to China, India and other developing countries.

Through the new U.S. - China Clean Energy Research Center, the two countries are launching a program of technical cooperation to bring teams of U.S. and Chinese scientists and engineers together in developing clean coal and C.C.S. technologies.

In OECD countries, and especially in many emerging economies, where coal - fired power generation is set to expand in the near future, new - build coal ‑ fired power units should aim for best available efficiencies (currently, through application of supercritical or ultra-supercritical technologies), where feasible, and be designed in view of potential future CCS retrofits, if they are not equipped initially with CCS.

On the other side of the country, mountaintop removal coal mining opponents received good news when the Federal Highway Administration announced that the Virginia Department of Transportation will be required to conduct a full environmental review for a controversial 26 - mile section of the Coalfields Expressway that would run through southwest Virginia.

NGS is also the only coal - fired power plant in the country that is majority owned by the federal government through the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

The simultaneous surge in energy demand, especially from developing countries, means that fossil fuels — such as coal and oil — will still account for 77 percent of world energy use through 2040.

It seems hardly any country in the world has moved the decarbonization rate upwards by 1.3 % over a sustained period of time, and the one major economy that may have done so (the UK) has gone through a coal - to - gas transition that can't be repeated, while de-industrializing at the same time.

The system succeeded in meeting this demand, but the way it did so, through increased use of conventional energy, and in spite of mediocre to poor performance from renewables, has raised serious questions about the country's ability to withstand similar shocks in the future, when much conventional capacity, mostly coal, will have retired without replacement.

And plans for the next two Five Year Plans show us that the Indian government is planning a major expansion of power generation through the construction of coal power plants which will make the country the third worst climate polluter on Earth.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just published a report showing that almost 9 % of all annual country budgets are spent supporting oil, natural gas and coal industries through direct subsidies, consumer rebates and avoided taxes on pollution.

Some studies suggested that emissions from rapidly developing countries in Asia could be largely to blame — India and China, for example, are thought to have ramped up their sulfur dioxide output by about 60 percent over the decade through coal burning.

Through the U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im), Trump is pushing developing countries toward dependence on coal for decades to come.

Representatives on the panel talked through the role that coal plays in the countries and regions they represented and the steps that are being taken to meet SDG7 — which calls for urgent action to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.

All eyes are on the next big opportunity to put the Commission's call to action into practice: countries must agree to narrowly limit their support of export credits to overseas coal projects through the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

If China completes all of the coal - fired projects that are currently in the works or in the planning stage, the country would blow through its carbon budget for limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius by 2036, the group added.

Through ALEC, Duke works with state legislators to distribute anti-environmental model bills across the country that delay policy solutions to climate change, block clean energy, prevent EPA from regulating coal pollution, fasttrack coal mining projects and other dirty energy initiatives.

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), whose mission is to ensure the reliability of the bulk power system for the continent, finds in its 2017 Long - Term Reliability Assessment, that (contrary to NETL raising potential reliability issues from future coal and nuclear retirements) most regions of the country have sufficient reserve margins through 2022, as new additions more than offset expected retirements.