Sentences with phrase «whether oil and coal»

The big issue around climate change that «nobody's talking about» is whether oil and coal companies are prepared to write down 80 % of their reserves.

Not exact matches

Members of its corporate citizenship group, which also monitors whether clients engaged in coal mining and oil drilling are adhering to Citigroup's environmental standards, will check in regularly on partners» gun - selling procedures, the company said.

ROBERT LAUGHLIN, a Nobel laureate for his work in quantum physics, starts his study of our energy futures with an absurd proposition — that it doesn't matter much whether we burn all our coal and oil or leave it underground.

As a result, many emissions brokers are former traders of the commodities important to the industries that emit CO2 — whether metals or coal, oil, and natural gas.

The real crux of the matter is whether we are going to go to clean energy and conservation, or whether we are going to go to oil shale, tar sands, and coal - to - liquid, and in the process wreck the planet.

Sooner or later, whether forced by climate disruption or fossil - fueled wars, we'll have to move off the coal and oil steps on Loren Eiseley's «heat ladder.»

But when the worldwide peaks in both oil and gas production are recognised, who is to say whether deep - mined UK coal production will become again «economical ``.

Sorry — but I actually didn't know to what extent Gene thinks that oil and coal are subsidized, how he would evaluate the cost of negative externalities associated with coal and oil, and whether the prices of coal and oil truly reflect their cost.

While the Court did not overturn EPA's analysis and conclusion that public health benefits of the MATS rule vastly outweigh the costs to the coal and oil industry, it did find that EPA should have first considered whether it was appropriate to regulate power plants under the Clean Air Act's hazardous air pollution safeguards.

-LSB-...] Whether you're drinking clean drinking water, listening to a thunderstorm with pleasure instead of fear, or going to the Grand Canyon, you should be thanking Big Coal, Big Oil, and Big Gas.»

Government and industry must decide whether to invest vast sums, of the order of hundreds, perhaps even thousands of billions of dollars in production of synthetic liquid fuels from coal or oil shale, an equally expensive and widely unpopular alternative is construction of many new nuclear fission plants for generation of electricity or production of secondary fuels.

Whether or not global warming is entirely or largely due to human use of carbon for fuel, the reduction of the dependence on carbon makes sense for reducing asthma in children; reducing black lung disease; reducing the production of coal ashes, residues, and effluents; reducing the impact of carbon greenhouse gasses; reducing pipeline failures; reducing coal and oil surface transport accidents; reducing pipeline - related warfare; and reducing air pollution.

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.

We must pay attention to the need to ensure that those who are employed in the fossil fuel industry are ready and able to transition into good - paying clean energy jobs - whether they are working now in the coal - fields or the oil fields.