In the 1970s industrial users could switch to oil or electricity, and utilities had other choices, including coal, hydroelectric and even nuclear power.
It's trying to sell its solar product to industrial customers, including coal-fired plants, which would use both the sun and coal to make steam.
The company owns and operates a fleet of 29 dry bulk carriers that transport a wide range of commodities, including coal, iron ore, grains, bauxite, phosphate, fertilizers and steel products.
Even in the face of likely litigation, the resulting regulatory uncertainty surrounding new EPA regulations will put the damper on any investments in new major emissions sources for the time being, including new coal-fired power plants.
Furthermore, the company is involved in such a range of energy technologies (including dirty coal plants, nuclear generators, natural-gas turbines and wind) that it does not need carbon regulations in the way, say, a narrowly focused fuel-cell or solar-cell maker might.
At various times he spoke favorably about virtually every idea out there, including both bankrupting coal companies and encouraging technologies for "clean" coal.
Right now we are chained to dirty and outdated energy sources that contribute to global warming, including oil and coal and to nuclear power, which produces dangerous waste.
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It affects all "extraction" industries, including natural gas, coal, copper, diamonds and possibly timber.
Any country with lots of coal, including China, India, Russia and much of Europe, should be able to increase gas output in the same way.
Such fuels include natural gas, methanol (which can be produced from anything with carbon in it, including natural gas and coal) and ethanol (which can be generated from sources other than corn, particularly as cellulosic technologies come on stream).
He has also directed a number of big manufacturing concerns to Mississippi, including the Kemper County coal plant, which is expected to create 260 permanent jobs and 1, 000 during peak construction, and a Toyota factory in the state's rural north that will employ 2, 000 people.
We're putting this economy, through these governors, Mr. President, and putting this country on track to lead the world in clean coal technology which we can export -- including exporting to China, which China is building coal-powered plants at a rate of one per month -- one per month.
Les Brown, the president of the Earth Policy Institute, points to studies that coal emissions, including mercury and other pollutants, cause more than 10, 000 deaths a year.
Overall, world energy demand will grow 30% to 2030, from the equivalent of 240 million barrels of oil per day now (including oil, gas, coal, wind, etc.) to 300 million boe.
Last year, Mr. Choudhury, the company's chairman, said fear of probes into alleged wrongdoing was slowing decision-making at NTPC over operational issues, including whether to buy overseas coal blocks to reduce supply deficits.
Chief executives of utilities that support stronger standards for coal-fired plants, including Baltimore-based Constellation Energy Group Inc.
Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless gas produced by the burning of fuels, including gas, oil, wood and coal.
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We're investing in new technologies to produce electricity in cleaner ways, including solar and wind energy, clean coal technologies.
The oil-equivalent metric represents all forms of energy consumed, including crude oil, nuclear power, coal, natural gas and renewable sources such as hydropower.
By 2050, 82% of our energy should come from sources including renewable energy and low-carbon coal, achieved through the use of carbon capture and storage.
In the process, they retained some original details, including the herringbone floor and chimney with coal stove in the kitchen Ms. Sackman's favorite part of the house.
But he said for it to be "fully convincing", Mr Cameron should be clear he would rule out all "dirty" coal fired power stations - including plans for a new plant at Kingsnorth, Kent.
Companies that stand to benefit from tougher curbs on emissions from coal-fired power plants, including utilities that have invested heavily in wind, solar power and nuclear, are pushing the White House not to weaken the rules.
The third selling point: Hydrogen could, in principle, deliver energy independence to every nation because it can be derived using any number of sources-including oil, natural gas, nuclear fission, coal, hydroelectric power and wind.
The report insists that, in hand with a combination of energy efficiency and fuel-switching measures, this growth in electricity production would be enough to supplant all fossil fuel use (coal, gas and oil), including that for transport and space-heating.
Now others are attracted: no fewer than 17 states, including many in the Ohio River basin, are studying coal-bed methane production.
Coalitions of environmental policy groups have lampooned the idea of clean coal in a number of TV commercials, including one directed by the Coen brothers.
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Anglo American derived about 42% of its revenues from mines in South Africa in 2008, and the majority of its operations--including key segments like Anglo Platinum, De Beers and coal mines--are based there.
And her graph stacks the deck, because her conventional cars yielded 30 mpg, which is hardly average, and it assumes a coal-based grid, when most are a mixture of coal, natural gas and other things (including nuclear).
Moreover, powerful interests, including the Air Force and the rail industry, are pushing for coal.
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