Sentences with phrase «against fossil fuels»

We, and more than 50 other BC - based organizations, have challenged BC local governments to consider a class action lawsuit against fossil fuel companies.

It's hard to imagine major institutions turning against the fossil fuel industry.

If radical action against fossil fuels becomes necessary, these investments will suddenly turn bad.

Did you find it more challenging to find people on the front lines to talk about their fight against fossil fuels in those countries?

Let us be clear, this is really not a war against fossil fuels as you say above, but a war against pollution.

In spite of generating clean energy from sustainable sources, renewables still have to compete against fossil fuels economically.

Renewable energy resources are now more competitive than ever on price; they also help protect against fossil fuel price volatility and the accompanying price risks to the consumer.

This movement is riding a serious wave of momentum — let's let this be the start of a revolution against fossil fuels.

Without that, all he's got to sustain his opposition to government intervention against fossil fuels is the argument from consequences.

The movement against fossil fuels is gaining strength in some unlikely quarters.

So is the need for a hedge against fossil fuel cost increases, the opportunity to create local jobs, put generation near customers and offer community garden subscriptions.

This is hardly the first time an activist fighting against fossil fuel development has found herself in legal hot water.

The case is one of several that pits cities against fossil fuel companies and that turns on what the companies knew about climate science, and when.

There is no immediate risk from anything that's out or in the pipe line against fossil fuels.

And this is a common phenomena by many who engage in similar types of activism against fossil fuels.

Five years from now, say the power companies, wind will be competing without tax breaks against fossil fuels.

Climate Reality created this activist kit to help you fight back against the fossil fuel agenda and protect this vital plan.

We must take a stand for the planet and against fossil fuel companies.

Across the continent, people are preparing mass actions against fossil fuels.

has called for an anti-apartheid-style boycott and divestment campaign against the fossil fuel industry for driving global warming

Pawa brought a similar lawsuit against fossil fuel companies in 2010, alleging that they were responsible for melting sea ice that had protected an Alaskan village from storms.

Pipeline opponents garnered national attention last month, when some 40,000 protesters (according to organizers) assembled in Washington, D.C., to urge the White House to take a stand against fossil fuel emissions by vetoing the project.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island who has endorsed the use of RICO against fossil fuel industries since May, made a similar argument in his weekly climate speech, delivered Tuesday on the Senate floor.

The case against the fossil fuel industry largely relies on proving that these companies deceived the American public about the threats posed by consuming their products.

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.

RAGA has called the rule «unlawful» and a prime example of the federal Environmental Protection Agency exerting authority that it doesn't have to carry out a political agenda against fossil fuels.

It seems to me that the most likely explanation for the NYT «correction» was that the paper's editors were worried about creating a legal basis for global - warming lawsuits against fossil fuel interests, as «prior knowledge of harm caused» played a central role in the tobacco lawsuits — and the head of the American Petroleum Institute PR push is Edelman, previously of «second - hand tobacco smoke is not a problem» fame.

Her plan is based entirely on other means of achieving the target - even though wind is by far the lowest cost form of renewable energy, and solar is likely to become cheaper by 2020 with continued support to the point where it competes directly against fossil fuel generation.

Our poll indicates that 63 % of British Columbians would support a lawsuit by their local governments against fossil fuel companies to recover a share of local climate costs.

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.

UCS is a sponsor of the campaign to use the federal RICO Act against fossil fuels companies and non-profit climate realist think tanks such as The Heartland Institute.

Whenever we talk about renewable energy being comparatively expensive it's always balanced against fossil fuels as if the only thing that mattered was the financing of the thing.

At the workshop, scientists and lawyers had discussed copying a strategy against the fossil fuel industry that had been used to great effect against Big Tobacco — namely trying to prove that it had covered up knowledge that its products were harmful.

All the while, Puerto Ricans don't have the luxury of waiting for the grid of the future, so renewable energy entrepreneurs must compete against fossil fuel generators.

After winning a fracking ban, one of the most significant strikes against fossil fuel usage in the nation, New York's environmental groups are eager to score another victory such as a rejection of proposed natural gas pipelines by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

For example, following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the organization rallied supporters to challenge President Donald Trump's support for fossil fuels and to fight against fossil fuel infrastructure.

While governmental policies still carry renewables to a large extent, there have been times and places in recent years when renewables could hold their own against fossil fuels unaided by tariffs or subsidies.

[Insert, Oct. 15, 9:29 p.m. Two leaders of the student movement against fossil fuel investments at Harvard, Chloe Maxmin and Hannah Borowsky, have challenged Faust's decision.

The main case being made against our fossil fuel habit is that we are releasing carbon stored over millennia into the atmosphere in a relatively short period of time.

Elon Musk rails against fossil fuel «subsidies» while pocketing billions in government cash for his «visionary» experiments.

Today's executive order only strengthens our resolve to protect our region against fossil fuels and transition to clean...

The voice against fossil fuel subsidies has internationally grown stronger the last couple of years - both among civil society and world leaders - but it is apparent that European decision makers don't feel enough pressure to start putting their money where their mouth is.