Sentences with phrase «oil funded american»

Using false oil industry talking points, the Big Oil funded American Energy Alliance produced an ad attacking Sen. Lindsey Graham for his willingness to work with Democrats on clean energy jobs legislation.

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Before founding K2, he was with American Capital Ltd., a publicly - traded buyout and mezzanine fund (NASDAQ: ACAS), where he created the American Capital Energy Group, building a peak portfolio of nearly a billion dollars of market value of energy - related equity and debt investments across oil and gas production, oilfield services, utility services and alternative energy.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects the South American country — which has the largest proven oil reserves in the world — to contract 10 percent this year and has declared it the worst - performing economy in the world right now.

He was a founder of Deep 6 PLC, American Eagle Oil and Gas as well a founding general partner in Aquastone Capital LLC, a New York based gold fund.

For Caro, Johnson represents a shift that began under Franklin Roosevelt, toward a new populism in American politics, driven by a combination of emerging Texas oil and natural gas tycoons, billionaire government contractors, and the high - tech political campaigns they were able to fund.

$ 8 billion) over first ten years for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives for domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.

Not only has Dr. Soon lied to us and our lawmakers about the seriousness of global warming — he even lied directly to Congress in 2003 about his sources of funding at a time when he was promoting his study funded by the American Petroleum Institute, the $ 200 million / year oil and gas lobbying group.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Parent trigger laws are being pushed by organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which Walden Media owner and oil billionaire Philip Anschutz helps fund.

Some popular South American funds rely heavily on oil and metals that are tied to the level of global economic activity, such as iron and copper, but the region has more than that to offer.

The # 1 priority is to keep the vertically - integrated supply chain well - oiled, so the maximum amount of American Funds can be moved and held.

In the works for about five years, the rat eradication plan is one of many coastal restoration efforts funded by a $ 9.1 - million settlement with BP America stemming from the 1990 American Trader oil spill off Huntington Beach.

ACQUISITION In early January, the Brooklyn Museum announces the acquisition of its first Beauford Delaney painting, «Untitled (Fang, Crow, and Fruit),» a 1945 oil on canvas still life (shown above), purchased from Michael Rosenfeld Gallery with money from the museum's African American Purchase Fund.

The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy: September 11, 2001, 2002 - 2006, Graydon Parrish (b. 1970), Oil on Canvas, 76 x 210 in., New Britain Museum of American Art, Charles F. Smith Fund and in memory of Scott O'Brien who died in the World Trade Center, given by his family

Marian Anderson, 1965, Beauford Delaney, American (1901 — 1979) Oil on canvas, J. Harwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art

Thomas Hart Benton American, 1889 — 1975 Engineer's Dream, 1931 Oil on panel Eugenia Buxton Whitnel Funds 75.1 © T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / UMB Bank Trustee / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Images: Jackson Pollock, Echo: Number 25, 1951, 1951, enamel paint on canvas, Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest and the Mr. and Mrs. David Rokefeller Fund, Museum of Modern Art, New York © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Jackson Pollock, Number 7, 1951, 1951, enamel on canvas, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gift of the Collectors Committee (1983.77.1) © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Jackson Pollock, Untitled, c. 1949 - 50, painted terracotta, Collection Gail and Tony Ganz, Los Angeles © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Jackson Pollock, Portrait and a Dream, 1953, oil and enamel on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Algur H. Meadows and the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Jackson Pollock, Number 14, 1951, 1951, oil on canvas, Purchased with assistance from the American Fellows of the Tate Gallery Foundation 1988 © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Jackson Pollock, Black and White Painting II, c. 1951, oil on canvas, Private Collection © 2015 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Thomas Hart Benton, American, 1889 - 1975, Engineer's Dream, 1931, Oil on panel, Eugenia Buxton Whitnel Funds, 75.1.

Grant Wood American, 1891 — 1942 Oil on composition board Dubuque Museum of Art, on long - term loan from the Carnegie - Stout Public Library, Acquired from the Lull Art Fund

Beauford Delaney (American, 1901 - 1979), Marian Anderson, 1965, oil on canvas, 63 x 51 1/2», J. Harwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art

Roger Brown, American, 1941 — 1997, Clouds Over Alabama, 1994, Oil on canvas, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art purchase; funds provided by the Thomas W. Briggs Foundation Community Service Award in honor of Kaywin Feldman, with additional support from Mimi Loeb 2006.22.

Linda Francis (American, b. 1943) The Square and the Tortoise, 2001 oil on wood panel 72 x 72 inches Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York: Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons funds, 2006, 2007.1 © Linda Francis.

Laura Owens Untitled 2016 Oil paint on linen, Flashe, wool 2743 x 2134 x 41 mm Purchased with assistance from the Tate Americas Foundation, courtesy of North American Acquisition Committee, and with funds provided by Alireza Abrishamchi and Komal Shah 2017

The Open Air Breakfast William Merritt Chase (American, 1849 - 1916) about 1888 Oil on canvas Lent by the Toledo Museum of Art; Purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Mariner Artist: Malcolm Morley born 1931 Date: 1998 Classification: painting Medium: Oil paint on canvas Dimensions: support: 2951 x 3748 x 36 mm Purchased with assistance from the American Fund for the Tate Gallery, the Friends of the Tate Gallery and the Evelyn, Lady Downshire's Fund 2001 © Malcolm Morley

Marsden Hartley (American, 1877 - 1943) Lobster Fishermen 1940 — 41 Oil on hardboard (masonite) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund

Native American Painting Walter Ufer (1876 - 1936) On the Rio Grande (Rio Grande November), 1927, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 ins., J. Harwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art.

Walter Ufer (1876 - 1936) On the Rio Grande (Rio Grande November), 1927, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 ins., J. Harwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art.

After Memling's Portrait of Man with a Coin of the Emperor Nero, 2013, Kehinde Wiley, American, b. 1977, oil on wood panel in artist - designed hand - fabricated frame with 22k gold - leaf gilding; with doors open: 24 1/2 x 29 x 5 in., Phoenix Art Museum; Museum purchase with funds provided by The Marshall Bequest, Contemporary Forum, Dr. Eric Jungermann, Ann and Michael Wall, Mr. and Mrs. James G. Bazlen, BMO Private Bank, Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Block, Iris Cashdan - Fishman, Mr. and Mrs. Richard N. Goldsmith, Clark Olson and Nick Butler, Norman McLash, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Watts and others, 2013.526, © Kehinde Wiley, Photo: Max Yawney, courtesy of Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, California.

Red Wall Artist: Robert Mangold born 1937 Date: 1965 Classification: painting Medium: Oil paint on fibreboard Dimensions: displayed: 2450 x 2450 mm Presented by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery 2012 © ARS, NY and DACS, London 2018

Malcolm X (version 2) # 1 Artist: Glenn Ligon born 1960 Date: 2000 Classification: painting Medium: Vinyl paint, oil based printed ink on canvas Dimensions: support: 1224 x 915 x 36 mm Purchased with funds provided by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery 2007 © Glenn Ligon; courtesy Thomas Dane Gallery, London

Left: Burt Glinn, Jay DeFeo working on The Rose, 1960; © 2012; photo: Burt Glinn / Magnum; Right: Jay DeFeo, The Rose, 1958 — 66; oil with wood and mica on canvas; 128 7/8 x 92 1/4 x 11 in.; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Jay DeFeo Trust, Berkeley, CA, and purchase with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee and the Judith Rothschild Foundation 95.170; © 2012 The Jay DeFeo Trust / Artists Rights Society, New York, photo: Ben Blackwell

Grant Wood Sentimental Ballad, 1940 Oil on masonite, 24 x 50 inches Selections from the collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art Charles F Smith Fund Art © Estate of Grant Wood / Licensed by VAGA, New York, New York

NSTA's list of corporate donors also includes Shell Oil and the American Petroleum Institute (API), which funds NSTA's Web site on the science of energy.

«One co-author of the paper, Willie Soon, completed the study with funding from ExxonMobil — which has oil operations in Alaska's North Slope — as well as from the American Petroleum Institute....»

In fact, a 2008 energy blueprint released by House Republicans, the «American Energy Act,» included the concept of a trust fund for advanced technology research funded by oil and gas royalties.

The paper, written mostly by think tank «experts», was partly funded by the Koch foundation (oil), ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute and concluded that a) global warming wasn't happening b) the arctic isn't melting c) polar bears more in danger from tourism.

While the Trump team characterizes the question as an effort to bring about transparency, it's worrying workers because the head of Trump's Energy Department landing team is Tom Pyle — who is better known as the president of the oil - industry - funded advocacy group American Energy Alliance.

A corporate venture fund set up by oil and gas company Statoil has invested in North American energy storage developer Convergent Energy + Power.

Exxon said it cut off funding for some groups opposed to climate change in 2005, but the oil giant continued to support the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-- groups that have lobbied against climate - related government policies.

The fossil fuel - funded Americans for Prosperity wrote a coalition to Congress signed by 21 front groups calling for the elimination of the oil export ban.

«While Americans have rallied in support of clean renewable energy at home, the U.S. Export - Import Bank has made it a priority to handout money to fossil fuel companies to work on projects abroad,» said Kate DeAngelis of Friends of the Earth U.S. «If Trump gets his way, U.S. Export - Import Bank will become a slush fund for Big Oil's plans to accelerate climate change.

It was introduced in two separate committees, or «task forces,» by IER, an energy group funded by the oil magnate Koch brothers, as well as Ebell's CEI and conservative group Americans for Prosperity.

Purportedly set up to represent «small, independent oil and natural gas producers,» instead «Energy in Depth» is funded by some of the largest oil companies on the planet, such as Chevron, BP, Shell and Occidental, along with the American Petroleum Institute and other trade associations.

Washington Free Beacon — 27 January 2015 Foreign Firm Funding U.S. Green Groups Tied to State - Owned Russian Oil Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011.Oil Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011.oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011....

It was authored by Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute — a free market - focused think tank funded in part by the oil and gas industry.

The average American or the oil profiteer who funds AFP in an attempt manipulate the political system?

Among them are leading opponents of climate action such as Americans for Prosperity, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the Heartland Institute, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), all of which have received funding from the oil billionaire Koch brothers.

Speaking at a fringe, anti-science event in Copenhagen sponsored by Americans for Prosperity (founded and funded by the oil company Koch Industries), Monckton found himself being upstaged by young climate protestors.

Americans for Prosperity Foundation, founded by oil industry billionaire David Koch, has received the most funding from DT.