Sentences with phrase «against fossil fuel power»

The mounting evidence for climate change, and all its tragic consequences, has provided a powerful argument against fossil fuel power stations: the burning of coal, gas and oil releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and this is almost certainly responsible for global warming.

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Organizations Supporting the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act: 350.org NRDC Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Citizens Campaign for the Environment Clearwater Food & Water Watch Citizen Action of NY 350NYC NYS Council of Churches Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy Catskill Mountainkeeper Citizens Environmental Coalition of NY Fossil Free & Green NY Green Education and Legal Fund Greenfaith Healthcare Without Harm Jews Against Fracking NY Interfaith Power & Lights People for Animal Rights Plan to Save the Planet, Albany Renewable Energy Long Island Rochester People's Climate Coalition Syracuse Cultural Workers Syracuse Peace Council

However we are both against highly expensive and inefficient renewables that can't begin to replace fossil fuel and will put a brake on the economic prosperity we have enjoyed — largely due to cheap plentiful power — since the Industrial revolution.

Moreover, they drive climate change by encouraging the consumption of polluting fuels while tilting the playing field against renewable power and energy efficiency: Fossil - fuel subsidies are five times greater than renewable energy subsidies, and they inflate domestic demand and discourage energy efficiency through artificially low energy prices, undermining the energy security of fossil - fuel importing counFossil - fuel subsidies are five times greater than renewable energy subsidies, and they inflate domestic demand and discourage energy efficiency through artificially low energy prices, undermining the energy security of fossil - fuel importing counfossil - fuel importing countries.

Using the latest available national data on power generation, this most recent look at data on annual and quarterly electricity generation nationwide from the Energy Democracy Initiative at ILSR illustrates how small - scale, distributed solar energy stacks up against its big, fossil fuel and utility - scale renewable energy competitors.

The next major step is to continue to motivate and engage the movement in order to achieve a large - scale victory against the fossil fuel interests that are still trying to cling to their remaining power base no matter what the ultimate costs to our communities, our economy, and the planet.

The economic case against the CPP is further rebutted by the rapid evolution of the power sector away from fossil fuels and the sizable drop in CO2 emissions independent of CPP requirements.

On March 29, 2016, when 17 attorneys general — 15 Democratic state attorneys general, one Democrat from the District of Columbia, and one Independent from the Virgin Islands — announced a coordinated effort to initiate legal action against ExxonMobil and other groups opposing President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, the AGs tried to hide evidence they were collaborating with radical groups opposed to fossil fuel use.

Considering the harm done by the burning of fossil fuels and the relative ease of replacing a substantial amount of fossil fuel burning with renewable energy, the knowingly dishonest support of fossil fuels and denigration of renewable energy by people in positions of power and / or responsibility is rightly a crime because it is certainly a grave offence against morality.

For a person in a position of power and authority to dishonestly support fossil fuels and disparage renewables has to be about the limit in unethical behaviour — a crime against, not only humanity, but all living things on Earth.

The «cuts both ways» argument was among those raised by 13 Republican attorneys general in a letter urging their Democratic counterparts to stop using their law enforcement power against fossil fuel companies and others that challenge the climate change catastrophe narrative.

At Earth Ministry / Washington Interfaith Power and Light, we are so grateful for our members who are speaking out against the burning of fossil fuels and standing up for climate action, and happy to support their efforts to care for God's creation.

This has not prevented advocates from pursuing their campaigns against the use of fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power at all levels of American government.

Others challenge government authorizations of fossil fuel development, such as a claim against the Norwegian government's approval of oil drilling and a South African NGO's recent successful challenge to the approval of a coal - fired power station.

«The remarkable story of the transition of Port Augusta from coal to renewable energy — which won a competitive tender against fossil fuel — is also a preview of the future of power generation around the world.»

Conscious of this fierce opposition from communities against the proliferation of coal - fired power plants on the continent, 350 Africa in collaboration with these same communities and regional partners is organising a Regional Day of Action called «Break Free from Fossil Fuels» on May 25.

The few relatively minor problems that wind farms cause should be balanced against the huge problems that will arise if we do not replace fossil fuel use with renewable energy such as wind power.

Xcel was also caught testifying just three days later that, when concerning its nuclear power plant, non-fossil generation (like solar...) did provide «a valuable hedge against potential increases in fossil fuel costs» which have been «extremely volatile.»

And all this brings increasing recognition by investors that the carbon bubble and stranded assets are serious financial risks, which in turn reinforces the growing power of NGO campaigns against coal and CSG along with their fossil fuel divestment campaign.

And even if this Court were to issue a nationwide injunction against all fossil fuel production, such an order would not abate the alleged nuisance — though it would devastate the U.S. economy — because global warming is caused by global emissions that this Court has no power to enjoin.»

The action was part of the global #BreakFree2016 protests against fossil fuels, which saw a similar action last week in the UK when Reclaim the Power halted operations at the UK's largest open coal mine in Wales.

A frequent argument against renewable sources of electricity is that they are much too expensive to compete with nuclear or fossil fuel power plants.

In the days following Obama's State of the Union address, Stephen Chu took center stage in the energy arena to announce a «Sun shot» — a government - funded effort to innovate the technology necessary to make solar power competitive against fossil fuels.

We can only build a coalition with the power to curb climate disruption if environmentalists are fighting for economic and racial justice as hard as they are against fossil fuels, and if unions are fighting as hard for an immediate transition to a worker - friendly clean energy economy as they are to protect their members.

While major protests in the U.S. against the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline have targeted specific infrastructure projects that would lock us into decades of continued fossil - fuel use, they have also shown the power of a united climate movement to effect real policy changes.

Industrial farms Gare fossil - fuel addicted places, from their reliance on fossil fuels for powering machinery to petroleum - based chemicals used to create artificial soil fertility, protect against pests, and stave off weeds.

No — what's holding back nuclear is not decommissioning costs, but the immense financial and political power of fossil fuel interests, which are able to stack the deck against nuclear energy.

And while the President lectures us about our sins against the planet, his EPA and other agencies embark on the project to impose penance on us by forcing the closure of coal and other fossil fuel power plants, blocking pipelines, bankrupting the coal mining industry, subsidizing intermittent power sources that can't possibly run a fully operational electrical grid at reasonable cost, and multiplying our cost of electricity by an order of magnitude or so.