Sentences with phrase «written by the coal»

It could have been written by the coal industry.

Not exact matches

«Between 2006 and 2016,» Rhodium writes, «US coal consumption declined by 34 percent and production fell by 37 percent.»

This first document from 1977 was written by Nicholas Ridley and explains how they would denationalise the state, subvert the Unions, use the security services of the state against organised Labour, and build up stocks of coal to take on the miners.

That, like all good nature - writing stories, we would search and search and then search some more, and then, just as we were packing up, we'd see one: glowing like a beacon, a single revolutionary invertebrate in a world lit by artificial coal - fired lights.

The panel argues that the current rules as written let supercritical coal plant developers claim avoided emissions by comparing their projects to power plant technology that's now a decade old.

The challengers — an alliance of energy and fossil fuel companies and coal - producing states — wanted the court «to do something that they candidly acknowledge we have never done before: review the legality of a proposed rule,» wrote Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in an opinion unanimously backed by a three - judge panel.

Dr. Willie Soon is a Smithsonian Institution astrophysicist paid by Charles Koch, ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute and coal utility Southern Company to write papers dismissing climate change, publish op - eds saying coal pollution won't affect our health, refute the seriousness of ocean acidification, and apparently anything else he can be paid to deny.

Release: Friday, May 27, 2016 [Theater] Written by: Bryan Singer; Simon Kinberg; Michael Dougherty; Dan Harris Directed by: Bryan Singer In the midst of Magneto's metal - throwing rampage, a burning hot ember of emotion buried deep underneath the rapidly cooling coals of X-Men: Apocalypse, I glance over to find my friend fast asleep, head buried into his shoulder and a... Continue reading X-Men: Apocalypse

He explained that an article I wrote in 2002 about fires, both natural and human caused, smoldering in coal seams around the world, inspired him, while he was completing a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, to switch from studying risks posed by smoldering combustion in spacecraft to those back on Earth.

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.

International journalist and author Dahr Jamail wrote on the nonprofit news site Truth-out.org in December 2014 that «coal will likely overtake oil as the dominant energy source by 2017, and without a major shift away from coal, average global temperatures could rise by 6 degrees Celsius by 2050, leading to devastating climate change.

According to Gelbspan, «Lindzen, for his part, charges oil and coal interests $ 2,500 a day for his consulting services; his 1991 trip to testify before a Senate committee was paid for by Western Fuels, and a speech he wrote, entitled «Global Warming: the Origin and Nature of Alleged Scientific Consensus,» was underwritten by OPEC.»

Palmer told Ken Ward Jr. of Coal Tatoo that the paper was not funded by any advocacy group, and Ward writes that the paper «underwent the most rigorous peer review by Science that they had ever seen».

The approval processes for coal plants and mine expansions will not be halted while the upcoming multi-stakeholder commission on Germany's coal exit — the so - called coal commission — discusses the country's phase - out - path, indicates the economy ministry (BMWi) in reply to a parliamentary inquiry by the Greens, writes Thorsten Knuf in Frankfurter Rundschau.

The BMWi writes that the composition of the commission has not yet been finalised, but that the ministry is not aware of any reasons that would delay the plan to develop an action programme - including an end date for coal - by the end of 2018.

Those include distribution - level efforts like tree trimming and automation, outage recovery efforts, and investments to improve customer resilience, they wrote, while the onsite fuel supplies championed by the coal and nuclear sector are seen as less beneficial.

Alaska Beyond Coal activists have helped defeat bills (written by the Governor!)

Get ready for assertions that the NIPCC study was paid for by big oil, the coal industry, or power companies (it wasn't), or that the people who wrote the study aren't scientists (but they are).

Last July, Brulle and co-author Timmons Roberts wrote approvingly of the prospect that, «if the Democrats gain the majority in the November election, they will probably investigate [oil, gas, and coal] firms and their front groups» actions, and might recommend follow - up by the U.S. Attorney General.»

«[A] n electric car running on power generated by dirty coal or gas actually creates more emissions than a car that burns petrol,» Dr. Dénes Csala, an engineer at Lancaster University, wrote in The Conversation.

Mr. Dickson wrote passionately about several areas in climate science that troubled him, including: first, the idea that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real, caused by humans, and a threat; second, the idea that government agencies had manipulated temperature records to fit a narrative of warming; and third, that China is developing its coal resources so fast that nothing short of radical population control will save us, if burning fossil fuels really does cause global warming.

What hasn't been reported is the complementary role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.

American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.

But he still believes one or more of solar, wind, nuclear, and coal will bail us out — by the time I write those articles it will be too late, sigh...

However, claims based on «eyeballing» and similar offered here in the thread by Mr. Coal - Magazine Editor, who is probably going to write his PhD thesis soon where he refutes global warming using «eyeballing», and by other «skeptics» are not a scientifically valid approach to provide evidence for the assertion of the «stopped» global warming.

The most formidable coverage on the coal industry not available anywhere else, written and researched by Chief Analyst Barry Cassell.

In 1983, Graham Allison, then dean of the Kennedy School of Government, and Albert Carnesale, then professor of public policy there, wrote an essay describing the dilemma faced by a utility director weighing whether to build a coal or a nuclear power plant.

Jeff, you wrote: «coal power plants in some places are slowly being replaced by wind turbines» Not true, unfortunately.

But because most reporters don't have the time, curiosity, or professionalism to check out the science, they write equivocal stories with counterposing quotes that play directly into the hands of the oil and coal industries by keeping the public confused.

For example, it won't suprise anyone that an investigation of the internet's energy use by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity sees much higher electricity consumption than a report written by the information and communication technology industry itself.

In the article, Gelbspan claimed that Lindzen charged «oil and coal interests $ 2,500 a day for his consulting services; [and] his 1991 trip to testify before a Senate committee was paid for by Western Fuels and a speech he wrote, entitled «Global Warming: the Origin and Nature of Alleged Scientific Consensus,» was underwritten by OPEC.»

«It is clear that the EPA is continuing to move forward with a strategy that will write off our huge, secure, affordable coal resources by essentially outlawing the construction of new coal plants,» US Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President for Government Affairs Bruce Josten said in a statement.

«I have a real concern about the speed at which the changes being implemented by the Clean Power Plan will affect my work location and my life,» wrote Ameren Missouri's John Cooper, a shift supervisor at the Meramec coal plant scheduled for shuttering in 2022.

Can you imagine the hullaballoo that Greenpeace would kick up if this was a report written and sponsored by the coal or oil industries and their advocacy groups?

I wrote, «This move was instigated by Glenn Schleede, president of NEECO's fuel subsidiary, New England Energy, and the leading militant in the coal industry's battle with the U.S. railroads over transportation rates.

And ironically enough, Goodell argues, it's China's quickly growing demand for energy that presents us with a solution: «Energy demand is expected to double by 2030, and at that pace, there is not enough oil, coal and gas in the world to keep their economy humming,» he writes.

Writing in response to a report released by US NGO Oil Change International (OCI), McKibben and Monbiot echoed OCI's conclusion that no new coal mines or oil or gas wells can be opened up, lest we exceed the carbon budget imposed on us by atmospheric physics.

Soon, who says global warming is mostly caused by changes in the Sun, not emissions from burning oil, gas and coal, has written some peer - reviewed studies on global climate change.

See Nine Reasons Why Thermal Coal is Struggling (and will continue to do so) RenewEconomy, written by Nathan Mim, 2014/08/13.

The skeptic's view of cleaner coal is summed up nicely by one of our commenters when he writes: «clean coal isn't.»

Burning coal though can not raise CO2 levels as levels are determined by Nature,» Roberts wrote in the document.

«We reiterate weak odds for climate legislation and weaker odds for an energy - only bill without 1) explicit support by Senator Lindsey Graham (R) of S.C.; 2) explicit support by coal state Democrats; and 3) a drilling deal that offshore energy proponents and environmentalists can both accept,» wrote Kevin Book, an energy analyst with ClearView Energy Partners, in an e-letter analysis.

Dear Editor, Re: David de Jager - New coal technology won't solve climate woes I write in response to an article written by David de Jager, Principal Consultant, Ecofys Netherlands B....

The fact that this is a book written by judges working at the coal face of costs shines through on every page.

His stories for The Times have taken him to Greece, where he wrote about the country's growing ranks of nurses who aren't really nurses; Ukraine, where he covered the economic devastation caused by war; and Poland, where he followed so - called rathole miners into illegal coal pits.

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