Sentences with phrase «big oil lobby»

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Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute (API), the oil and gas industry's biggest lobby, told Fortune in an interview at the Republican National Convention.

The term connotes the business and lobbying power of soft drink companies who, like Big Oil and Big Tobacco, would use that power to influence politicians and voters.

In the calendar year, Brown raised a whopping $ 9.87 million in monetary contributions, with the overwhelming majority of those funds coming from big corporations, labor unions, oil companies and high - worth individuals that routinely lobby state government.

Guess it pays to be the biggest oil company in the world — even though their profits are at the lowest they've been in six years, Exxon still managed to spend more money on lobbying efforts for the climate bill than the entire clean energy industry combined.

EDF is working alongside the American Petroleum Institute (Big Oil & Natural Gas) to lobby against saving nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

The immediate threat in the United States is that dirty energy lobbyists will effectively use hypothetical arguments of WTO or NAFTA illegality to chill congressional action and provide cover for U.S. legislators who are indebted to Big Oil, Big Coal and the LNG lobby for campaign contributions, even though international trade law is not incorporated into U.S. domestic law and violations can not be enforced in U.S. domestic courts.

Myriam Douo, lobby transparency campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe continued: «With ENTSOG there is a clear conflict of interest: members include subsidiaries of big oil and gas companies like Engie, OMV, Mol Group, E-On and Gazprom and climate - change deniers Centrica.

Some of the difference between the oil company scenarios and those from green NGO's and academics is due to fossil fuel lobby assumptions about demand and the role of gas (including shale gas), with CCS also seen as coming on line in a big way.

This includes oil & gas giants like ExxonMobil ($ 344,000, 2007 - 2012) and Big Oil's top lobbying group, the American Petroleum Institute ($ 88,000, 2008 - 201oil & gas giants like ExxonMobil ($ 344,000, 2007 - 2012) and Big Oil's top lobbying group, the American Petroleum Institute ($ 88,000, 2008 - 201Oil's top lobbying group, the American Petroleum Institute ($ 88,000, 2008 - 2010).

The three - page letter was written by lawyers for Devon Energy, one of Oklahoma's biggest oil and gas companies, and was delivered to him by Devon's chief of lobbying.

I'm sure you will ferret out any foreign money involved in lobbying our government on behalf of big oil, the pharmaceutical companies, the insurance interests and the grain industry.

With a job description that entails commenting on news items day in and day out, it's waaaay easier to isolate certain groups and refer to them in perpetuity as «bad guys» than to deploy sincere empathy on a daily basis: 50 % of my blogging oeuvre bemoans entities like Big Oil, the 2010 congressional GOP, climate change deniers, or the coal lobby.

There is no need for Big Oil to hire expensive PR and lobbying firms or fund «conservative think tanks», because the environmental movement and politicians do all their own negative PR for them.