Sentences with phrase «based fossil fuel industry»

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It has been based on the production of lies developed by the fossil fuel industry through industry - funded conservative think - tanks, laundered through conservative foundations, spun and repeated by right - wing media outlets, and adopted as ideology by the Republican Party.

The hummingbird challenges us to organize, to hold our political leaders and global industries accountable and demand that they, and we, accept the potential difficulties, even sacrifices, that we'll have to make to transition from a fossil fuel - based and extractive global system to one that's organized around genuine sustainability and responsibility.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

Now that Obama has targeted power plants, vehicles, government buildings, the agriculture sector, the fossil fuel industry, and advocated for a plant - based diet, there isn't much low - hanging fruit left.

For instance, fossil fuel companies, such as Koch Industries and Peabody Energy, worked through ALEC to develop state - based legislation opposing federal standards on clean air and climate change.

Agricultural and forest - based industries, in both developed and emerging economies, generate substantial quantities of biomass residue and waste that can be used for energy production, to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and support sustainable growth.

We will need the expertise of the fossil fuel industry as switch from a carbon based fuel economy to a non-carbon based fuel economy.

Tom Stacy once staked the credibility of his Ohio - based anti-wind power group on a claim that they had received «zero dollars and zero cents» from the energy industry, but that was before he became a paid consultant for a fossil fuel - funded think tank.

The following quotes come from a press release sent out this morning from the fossil fuel industry - funded «Heartland Institute,» which pretends to offer science - based arguments in support of their «mission... to discover, develop, and promote free - market solutions to social and economic problems.»

The biggest failing of the economic models that predict ruin is that they are unable to account for the industries that will, over time, grow to replace the fossil - fuel based industries.

And it is on the basis of this phony, manufactured «consensus,» that the scientifically illiterate Obama is hostile to the fossil fuel industry and threatens to bankrupt the coal industry, while wasting billions on failed «green energy» experiments.

Substituting fossil - based products for plant - based ones is the core idea of the «bioeconomy», which is promoted by the EU, governments and industry, with the promised benefit of reduced reliance on fossil fuels.

For comments made on the basis of the fossil - fuel industry driven buzz about the report's eminent release.

The whole idea of the «fossil fuel industry conspiracy» is just a kooky idea that has no basis in fact.

I know your tongue is planted firmly in cheek, but I did some research on the matter, and found that the fossil fuel industry, automobile industry, and wal - mart - like fossil - fuel - based mega-scale consumer goods distribution industry have many thousands of times more money at stake (~ $ 10 trillion annually) on the outcome of this debate than do the scientists in question.

Richard Heinberg and several of his associates from the Post Carbon Institute are one of the groups that is pushing the notion of a fossil fuel industry valuation bubble, and another group is the UK - based Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, which put out a 40 - page scientific report on this very subject before Al Gore more recently touched on the same subject.

-- The term «qualified industry organization» means the Edison Electric Institute, the American Public Power Association, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, a successor organization of such organizations, or a group of owners or operators of distribution utilities delivering fossil fuel - based electricity who collectively represent at least 20 percent of the volume of fossil fuel - based electricity delivered by distribution utilities to consumers in the United States.

Together the delegation portrayed the true needs of U.S. - based communities, successfully pushed back on the Trump delegation to COP23 by revealing their close ties to the fossil fuel industry, and built momentum for climate action throughout the conference.

Hobby sites like «WattsUpWithThat» are a start to effective opposition, but to be honest it really is time that the fossil fuel industry who so many believers think are funding the sceptics, got off their backsides, put their hands in their pockets and did the decent thing to fund the professional science «opposition» which is needed to force the climategate forecasters to stop feeding this monster with their PR and start to try to justify the existence of their monster based on real science in the face of real decently financed opposition and not part - time unpaid people like us here.

If the public loses all faith in the notion that the fossil fuel industry pays skeptic scientists to participate in a giant denial machine, then there is no reason for anyone to ignore the detailed science - based climate assessments from those skeptics.

Clean, interconnected energy and the electrification of vehicles, buildings and industry, would be the basis for a rapid worldwide shift from fossil fuels to zero - carbon energy.

He said that he was «keen to protect Industry» by which, of course, he meant the fossil fuel based industries at the expense of the renewable and energy efficiency industries.

«They are sending an unequivocal message that fossil fuel profits are illegitimate — on par with tobacco and arms profits — and that brings us a significant step closer to demanding that our politicians sever ties with this rogue industry and implement bold climate policies based on a clear, progressive «polluter pays» principle.

Then, there are the «bad guys» — oil and gas companies, mining corporations, electricity generators and other fossil fuel - based industries, eagerly promoting their green credentials.

* 1 Skyla Wagstaff (Animal Justice Party) platform includes: AJP has clear Key Objectives surrounding renewable energy including to rapidly transform to a carbon free energy infrastructure, prohibiting any fossil fuel expansion, and a carbon tax on both coal and animal agriculture industries to pay for clean energy solutions, sustainable plant - based food agricultural systems, education and the protection of existing forests and marine habitats.

«Ken Lay, the head of Enron, a large Texas - based national gas supplier with annual sales of $ 20 billion that is fast becoming a worldwide energy firm, sees his company, and more broadly the natural gas industry, playing a central role in the conversion from a fossil - fuel - based energy economy to a solar / hydrogen energy economy.»

The hummingbird challenges us to organize, to hold our political leaders and global industries accountable and demand that they, and we, accept the potential difficulties, even sacrifices, that we'll have to make to transition from a fossil fuel - based and extractive global system to one that's organized around genuine sustainability and responsibility.

Yet, we see politicians block reform on climate change on a regular basis and the reason why is simple — the fossil fuel industry is spending millions of dollars on politicians who will support their bottom line on Capitol Hill.

So, while just about the only group likely to make a case for the historical benefits of fossil fuels is the oil industry — who can not be trusted because they are the fossil fuel industry — the press and politicians are more than happy to swallow the GHF report despite the fact that much of the crucial data on which its 300,000 figure is based is provided by insurance giants Munich Re, when risk insurers have as much interest in generating fear of climate change as Exxon has in generating doubt.

These equity concerns include: the regressive impact of potential energy price increases on low - income households; the potential for carbon pricing policies to allow some fossil fuel - fired power plants or refineries to continue to operate and emit air and water pollutants in neighborhoods already burdened by pollution; and the economic hardship to workers and communities dependent on fossil fuel industries for livelihoods or for their tax base as we transition away from these resources.

Julie - Anne Richards, a UK - based campaigner for and author of the Climate Damages Tax, an initiative seeking to make rich countries and the fossil fuel industry pay for climate damage to poor and vulnerable communities, explains that loss and damage is the third pillar of climate change finance, added to mitigation and adaptation.

The Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund, both based in Virginia, are donor - advised funds that have channeled money from the Kochs, owners of the sprawling conglomerate Koch Industries and outspoken supporters of conservative causes, to groups that deny the link between fossil fuels and global warming, the paper says.

Finally, it seems to me that if Lord Deben is wrong to claim that his / the CCC's critics «have a very vested interest from the fossil fuel industry» and that they are «spending billions of pounds», then there may be a possibility that The CCC, under Lord Deben's chairmanship, may have prematurely ruled out criticism, and on an erroneous basis.

Headlined «Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate,» the story reported that a once - powerful but now long - defunct fossil - fuel - based industry coalition, the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), had ignored its own scientific and technical Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate,» the story reported that a once - powerful but now long - defunct fossil - fuel - based industry coalition, the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), had ignored its own scientific and technical industry coalition, the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), had ignored its own scientific and technical experts.

Will someone kindly define «the fossil fuel industry» and quantify its emissions of CO2 on a yearly basis.

The email begins: «HydroInfra Technologies (HIT) is a Stockholm based clean tech company that has developed an innovative approach to neutralizing carbon fuel emissions from power plants and other polluting industries that burn fossil fuels.»

In addition to tea party congressional Republicans, opposition to continuing the wind credit comes from the American Energy Alliance, a Washington, D.C. - based industry group linked to petrochemical interests that promote expanded drilling for fossil fuels, including in the protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, and approval of the proposed XL pipeline to bring Canadian tar sands oil to refineries in Texas and the Gulf Coast.

One day it will run out taking with it the transport industry, as it is currently totally fossil fuel based, the plastics and fertilizer industries that require fossil fuels as feedstock and the power generation system that uses natural gas.

The fossil fuel industry has based its entire business model on the idea that it can endlessly «replenish» the oil and gas it pumps each year; its teams of geologists are constantly searching for new fields to drill.

This is particularly significant in the face of the climate change denial policy stance of the current administration which is not based on science and is merely a tool designed to financially benefit fossil fuel industries.

For the vast majority of that time period, the commerce and industry of the north (powered to a great extent by hydro power prior to the widespread adoption of coal as a fossil fuel) produced much higher GDP per capita than the agricultural economies of the South, particularly because the infamous «three - fifths compromise» that gave the South Congressional representation based in part upon the number of slaves who lived there (30 % or more of the population of many states) did not apply to capitation taxes.