Sentences with phrase «fueled by billions of dollars»

Fueled by billions of dollars in government and foundation funding and adopted as a cause célèbre by no less than Bill Gates and Colin and Alma Powell, dropout prevention has been gaining momentum.

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There are more than 80 immune - related cancer therapies currently in clinical trials, fueled by many billions of dollars in pharmaceutical investment from the likes of Bristol - Myers Squibb bmy, Merck mrk, Pfizer pfe, and dozens of biotechs.

Over the past couple of years, Emirates» expansion into the US market has been met with pushback from a coalition lead by American, Delta, and United Airlines (the US3) that claim Emirates» growth has been fueled billions of dollars in government subsidies.

The signers of Monday's letter also argue that any of the fund's gains from such companies are zeroed out by the tens of billions of dollars spent each year to combat public health problems associated with fossil fuels.

This include trillions squandered in fuel subsidy scam, billion Dasukigate scam, hundreds of millions of dollars taken from the NNPC by the former minister to bribe election officials in 2015, the list goes on.

Now, 140 years after the transcontinental railroad's nearly 2,900 kilometers of track first connected both U.S. coasts, a number of states are hoping for a second golden age of rail, this time fueled by the Obama administration's pledge of billions of stimulus dollars for high - speed railway development.

A study published today, by a group led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), indicates that eliminating fossil fuel subsidies could curb global greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 5 % through 2030 while saving hundreds of billions of dollars in public money.

The effort will be fueled in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which is channeling billions of extra dollars in federal aid into...

Integrity in Education and the Center for Popular Democracy aren't the first to warn of problems plaguing an under - regulated industry fueled by billions of tax dollars.

AGW denialism has been manufactured by a generation - long campaign of deliberate deceit, funded by ExxonMobil and Koch Industries and other fossil fuel corporations that collectively rake in one billion dollars per day in profit from the ongoing business - as - usual consumption of their destructive products.

Their critics say their stance, however well intentioned, will produce the real delays, given how much can be done now simply by cutting energy waste with tools already on the shelf — ranging from strengthening efficiency standards to eliminating billions of dollars in persistent fossil - fuel subsidies that continue to make coal and oil much cheaper than they really are when all their hidden costs are revealed.

While the fossil fuel industry tries it hands at by squandering billions of dollars of research on unfeasible technical solutions such as geological sequestration of carbon emissions from power plants, soils are a natural solution which has been proven for hundreds of millions of years of biological and evolutionary history.

4) A new UN climate treaty would limit fossil fuel use by developed countries, place no binding limits or timetables on developing nations, and redistribute hundreds of billions of dollars to poor countries that claim they have been harmed by emissions and warming due to rich country hydrocarbon use.

This Workshop was conceived by history professor Naomi Oreskes, who was obsessed with prosecuting fossil fuel producers with the same legal tools successfully used to win billions of dollars in penalties against the tobacco industry.

But that growth has been fueled not by consumer demand, but by billions of dollars» worth of taxpayer money.

Patrick McCully, Climate and Energy Program Director of Rainforest Action Network, said, «RAN is pleased to keep its money at a bank that supports sustainable businesses and non-profits and shares our values, unlike the big banks who are fueling the climate crisis by pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into extreme fossil fuels every year.

They are increasingly facing resistance from governments concerned about pollution and climate change; the United Nations is taking the position that fossil fuels must be put out of business over the next thirty years or so, which will reduce their revenues by hundreds of billions of dollars every year, and the simultaneous loss in stranded assets is calculated to be up to $ 100 trillion.

A new report by Oil Change International identifies billions of dollars in subsidies for fossil fuel exploration from the world's wealthiest countries.

If that doesn't sound like advantage enough, consider this: By exchanging a single - source (oil) transportation system for a multisource system that makes greater use of the nation's domestically obtainable fuel sources, America automatically enhances its national security, which in turn reduces the financial burden of having to defend America's sources of imported oil, which in turn frees up billions of tax dollars for more worthy endeavors.

It ain't even an energy source, and after billions of dollars of public and private research in the past 15 years — including several years running of being the single biggest focus of the DOE office on climate solutions I once ran — it still has actually no chance whatsoever of delivering a major cost - effective climate solution by midcentury (see «This just in: Hydrogen fuel cell cars are still dead»).