Sentences with phrase «big oil and»

Send the CB after the banks, insurance companies, big oil and / or big pharmacy; where price fixing seems to be the order of the day, every day.

By gutting Canada's long - standing environmental laws, the budget bill gives big oil and gas companies what they've been asking for — fewer environmental safeguards so they can push through resource megaprojects with little regard to environmental damage.

If you have clients (in - house or of your firm) at corporations that work overseas, Geoff Gussis recommends that you take a hint from what's happening at DaimlerChrysler and big oil and revisit the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Representing the climate movement, May Boeve, 350.org Executive Director, and Jesse Bragg, Corporate Accountability International Media Director, spoke to financial ties between Big Oil and the Science Committee, as well as climate impacts that likely could have been curbed if Exxon had told the truth when its scientists warned executives about climate change.

Eight years after Kyoto, Big Oil and Big Coal remain in complete and unchallenged power.

So this did not start last summer when Sheldon Whitehouse, the Senator from Rhode Island, published an op - ed in the Washington Post, in which he said, «it's time to investigate big oil and their allies, just like we went after big tobacco.»

Oklahoma was built on Big Oil and agriculture, but the state lives or dies by the availability of water.

Donald Trump and Ryan Zinke want to steal Americans» lands and give them to Big Oil and other corporate polluters.

And we should fight the efforts of big oil and big agri - business to undermine this emerging industry.

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I am confident that President Obama will stand up to big oil and reject this dangerous and unnecessary pipeline because it is the right thing to do, and that the American public will support him.

If it seemed for years that the GOP was the party of Big Oil and Coal, we'd do well to remember

The U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday passed a Democratic rewrite of U.S. energy policy that strips $ 16 billion in tax incentives away from Big Oil and puts it toward renewable energy sources like wind and solar power.

It has long been suspected that Big Oil and the major automakers have spent millions on strategic suppression and misinformation campaigns regarding alternatives to oil and the internal combustion engine.

Americans are paying through the nose on their tax returns and health bills to help Big Oil and the political elite maintain the illusion that cheap, dirty energy is a bargain.

«We'll be out in large numbers at the White House this August to show the President he has the support necessary to stand up to Big Oil and stop the pipeline.»

Big Oil and Big Coal are not the problem.

Dan Hughes wrote in # 19: «Big Oil and Big Coal are not the problem.

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Do you know the rate of return on the gross income of Big Oil and Big Coal?

Imagine the Congress standing up to big oil and rejecting cap and trade.

And all of these options would spread even more rapidly if we stopped subsidizing Big Oil and Coal and put a price on carbon that reflected the true cost of fossil energy — either through the much - maligned cap - and - trade approach, or through a revenue - neutral tax swap.

Be it asthma or heart disease from air pollution, or mercury poisoning due to toxic emissions, there's no question that Big Oil and Big Coal are affecting our health.

Where's all those Big Oil and Big Tobacco dollars when you need them?

Except for a few scientists, each with likely support from big oil and big coal, there is agreement on the fact that the global average temperature is rising along with carbon emmisions.

We'd become beach bums living on the proceeds of lawsuits against fast food companies in trailer parks complaining the government didn't do enough to protect us from big oil and bad weather, and was letting gas prices get too high.

Over 500 activists peacefully demonstrated against the negative impacts of offshore exploration and exploitation, under discussion at the MCE Deepwater Development summit by representatives from big oil and gas companies including Total, Shell, BP, Exxon, and Repsol.

At the end of the day, we still have a tax system that transfers billions every year to polluters like Big Oil and King Coal.

(08/03/2009) Barely six weeks after a dozen Amazon natives were gunned down by the Peruvian Army in the oil town of Bagua for protesting the cozy relationship between Big Oil and the government of President Alan Garcia, I find myself on the banks of the Mother of God River in Salvacion, Peru, wondering if all those folks died in vain.

They also look for dividend - paying companies since the big oil and gas companies pay dividends.

They (Big Oil and naysayers) claim that the tailling ponds smell good and are good for the environment?

Yes, that's right — most «socially responsible» funds screen out companies that sell alcohol, tobacco and firearms, but not big oil and gas companies.

Myriam Douo, lobby transparency campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe continued: «With ENTSOG there is a clear conflict of interest: members include subsidiaries of big oil and gas companies like Engie, OMV, Mol Group, E-On and Gazprom and climate - change deniers Centrica.

He's held Big Oil and other polluters accountable for their actions, and fought against expanded offshore drilling in the Arctic, by showing that the industry is not technologically prepared to do so.

* I been duped by big oil and / or right wing think tanks * I have opened my mind so wide to skeptics that my brains have fallen out * I'm in the pay of big oil or right wing think tanks * I'm being blackmailed * I have become either physically or mentally disabled

Then when you get criticized for making these attacks, conclude that big oil and the right wing think tanks are attacking the IPCC's detection and attribution arguments.

The behaviour of Rupert Murdoch, the Republican Party, Big Oil and other assorted villains is reprehensible enough on its own.

b. Big Oil and Big Coal are not different from «Big Insurance» (e.g. «prediction» of more hurricanes as tool to increase insurance primes) and «Big Banking» (huge investments with tax money, via Government).

Or do we let the forces of obstruction — led by Big Oil and special - interest polluters — win, ensuring America's continued addiction to the dirty, unsafe energy of the 19th century?

I always hated big oil and now I have a new talking point.

To pay for the renewable incentives, the House bill is expected to repeal about $ 21 billion in tax subsidies extended to big oil and gas producers like Exxon Mobil Corp, ConocoPhillips and Chevron Corp..

I wonder what percentage of the Pro-CAGW crowd thinks that 100 mpg cars aren't available because of big oil and big auto?

It's under the stranglehold of Big Oil and Big Gas and other polluting industries.

I was promptly told that they were all in the pockets of Big Oil and industry, and that they were all not «real» scientists - because if they were, they'd agree with Al Gore.

In each of these countries, the political pitched battle is between the 20th - century giants, Big Oil and Big Coal and the 21st - century realities for zero - carbon energy.

Environmentalists have long claimed that their desire to save the world has been thwarted by conspiracies of Big Oil and right - wing think - tanks.

Luckily for some of us, the deniers (like me), the doubters, skeptics and cynics, not to mention the minions and dupes of Big Oil and Big Bananas are ensuring that sanity will eventually prevail.

Governor Schwarzenegger now must decide whether to truly lead this environmental fight or shrink to the will of big oil and automaker special interests.»

CRU is still financed by big oil and nuclear and it is from CRU's outset that world temperature records began to be manipulated, see Salinger / New Zealand.

More properaganda by big oil and big coal paid by there billion of dollars in profits, you know the call drill baby drill or is it spill baby spill.