Sentences with phrase «when coal companies»

The costs are most obvious when coal companies go bankrupt, but can affect everyone indirectly through higher energy costs, slower economic growth, reduced employment, and lower business profits.

When the coal company announces a lower pay rate, a strike is called by United Mine Worker Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper).

When a coal company chief executive officer offers a decarbonization plan, it means one of two things.

(When the coal company responsible for a miner's disability can be identified, it often takes many years for miners to receive compensation, because the company can hire expensive lawyers and its own doctors to dispute the diagnosis, creating an endless backlog of red tape and bureaucracy.)

To support miners and families when the coal company can't be identified or is no longer in business, in 1977 Congress set up the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, which has so far shelled out $ 45 billion in compensation to miners and their families.

Not exact matches

What retailers and shippers alike want to avoid is a repeat of 2013, when snafus and bad weather caused UPS to miss delivering two million packages by Christmas, earning the company lumps of coal in its stocking.

When it comes to thermal coal, first look for companies that operate in Wyoming and Montana's Powder River Basin, says Scott.

Similar to some oil and gas companies, many coal miners accumulated major debt loads when prices were high and demand seemed sustainable.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

That's an impressive gain, to be sure, especially for a miner heavily reliant on coal, but to really understand that advance you have to go back to the middle of June, when the company updated its coal production guidance.

The measure would require the pension fund to stop investing in the world's top 200 fossil fuel companies in the next five years, and divest from coal companies within one year from when the law is passed.

Solving the issue could bring closer the day when disaster victims can successfully sue oil and coal companies.

As electricity use spikes across the country in the summertime when more people use air conditioning, electric power companies turn to more coal and natural gas power plants to help meet the demand, reducing renewables» share of total U.S. power generation, Comstock said.

The infant solar power companies, however, must gain their foothold by taking business away from the incumbent and politically powerful coal, natural gas and nuclear power providers, at a time when overall growth in U.S. electricity demand is still slowed by an underperforming economy.

In 1936, Manifest is a town worn down by sadness, drought, and the Depression, but it is more welcoming to newcomers than it was in 1918, when it was a conglomeration of coal - mining immigrants who were kept apart by habit, company practice, and prejudice.

According to NComputing, the access devices eliminate the need for air conditioning when there is a room full of the devices, since they create little heat, produce significantly less e-waste at the end of their extra long lifetimes, and according to their calculations, the company's current user base is right now saving 144 million kWh of electricity annually, 17,700 metric tons of coal, 112,300 metric tons of CO2, and about 8,100 metric tons of e-waste.

Very good piece — but when dealing with the kind of massive public relations campaign being run by the last holdouts (fossil fuel investors, coal companies, and fossil fuel - dependent nation - states), it really is unwise to go along with their «list of questions.»

As I've written repeatedly, it's tough to sustain a focus on long - term needs, like sustained research on the frontiers of photovoltaics and energy storage, when congressional politics is about building short - term coalitions by satisfying demands presented by influential players, from coal companies to unions.

When he gets elected, I fully expect Obama to ditch his oil and coal company supporters and do what's right for his country and the world.

When Hillary stands in front of a crowd of people during her campain and says with a big smile on her face «We are going to put a lot of coal companies out of business and coal miners out of work.»

The rule «reinforces what most power company executives and investors already understand — that if and when new coal plants make a comeback, they will need to be designed with carbon capture and storage,» said David Doniger, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

It's hard to understand why (mainly conservative) state governments are opposing the RET when they could be divested themselves of outdated, polluting coal - fired generators while picking up taxes from renewable energy related industries and services — unless of course the same state governments are getting healthy and frequent «donations» from various fossil fuel companies.

Coal companies will stop wasting the earth when consumers stop wasting so much power.

When the networks did include other viewpoints, the experts were dismissed as «out of the scientific mainstream» or backed by «oil and coal companies.»

Petroleum and coal companies are allowed to sell their products which, when consumed, cause untold trillions of dollars in costs in human health and environmental damage, and governments pay those costs in the form of medical benefits, and eventually measures to deal with the effects of global climate change.

And since paleontologists and coal companies have known for at least a century that the mines are treasure chests of ancient secrets, many companies have staff scientists who look for unusual formations and alert researches when they find something good.

When I try to envision these three — Gavin Schmidt, Michael Mann, and Scott Rutherford — in the private sector I get the tobacco industry of the 60's and substandard oil and coal and wind power companies with serious liquidity problems.

21 Fossil Fuels: Natural Gas Fossil Fuels: Natural Gas Formed at the same time as oil At higher temperatures, relatively more gas is formed than oil... at lower temps, more oil than gas is formed Typically gets trapped above the layer of oil and below the cap rock when there is a «fold» in the Earth's rock layers Cleaner burning than coal or oil Colorless, odorless in its natural form... power companies add odor in order to detect leaks

The Kentucky solar project, for instance, began in early 2016 when Ryan Johns, project development executive of Berkeley Energy, decided he wanted to help diversify the company's portfolio as the coal mining industry declines.

«If you look at the long - term [for coal], it's not getting any better,» said Standard & Poor's Aneesh Prabhu when S&P downgraded coal company bonds to junk status.

Palmer's work with the Western Fuels Association goes all the way back to 1991, when he served as Vice President to the Informational Council for the Environment (ICE), a small coalition of US coal companies that devised a detailed PR campaign to show that «evidence that the earth is warming is weak» and that proof that carbon dioxide was the primary cause was «non existent.»

There also will be debates on whether rules should focus on companies producing oil, gas and coal, which release CO2 when burned, or consumers who use the fuels.

Senate advocates — including one Republican — felt abandoned when the president made concessions to oil and coal companies without asking for anything in return.

The issue of the bubble arises because the combined proven oil, gas and coal reserves currently on the books of fossil fuel companies (and governments in the case of NOCs) will produce far more than this amount of CO2 when consumed.

Remember when rabid arch-warmist Dana Nuccitelli of Skeptical Science and Guardian fame was discovered to be in the pay of an «oil and gas» company (Tetra Tech)(aka Dana's Dirty Little Secret) and thus probably the worst person to pontificate about eg how bad coal and tar sands could be for the world's climate?

Shell: «The issue of the bubble arises because the combined proven oil, gas and coal reserves currently on the books of fossil fuel companies (and governments in the case of NOCs) will produce far more than this amount of CO2 when consumed.»

Progress Energy Florida lost a similar case before the PSC in 2007, when the commission ordered the company to refund $ 13.8 million for buying more expensive coal from 2003 to 2005.

And law & economics, for that matter, is all about weighing costs and benefits, for instance when judging the potential anti-competitive effect of companies agreeing to close 5 old coal - fired power plants in the Netherlands.