Sentences with phrase «big oil and coal»

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

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.

The Greenpeace report, «Dr. Willie Soon: a Career Fueled by Big Oil and Coal,» reveals that $ 1.033 million of Dr. Soon's funding since 2001 has come from oil and coal interests.

As communities in our region stand up to Big Oil and Coal export projects, we are rejecting the status quo and keeping the fossil fuels in the ground.

Every scientist that comes out against the IPCC view is dismissed as «unqualified» or is automatically in the pockets of Big Oil and Coal.

Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis — and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster Ross Gelbspan (Basic Books, $ 22)

Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis — and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster

Not exact matches

It's easy to see why we should produce our own energy — relying on other countries for oil, natural gas, and coal (the biggest sources used today) can get complicated.

While manufacturing has shown a little weakness, the biggest difference by far is in mining — and that's where the Oil patch weakness shows up, as well as coal and metals production for export (recall how awful rail and steel have been in the Weekly Indicators for the last 4 months).

The big issue around climate change that «nobody's talking about» is whether oil and coal companies are prepared to write down 80 % of their reserves.

In addition to dabbling in coal, real estate and oil and gas through their primary company, the Mancal Group, brothers Fred and Ron are also the biggest shareholders in mining junior Infinito Gold.

Renewable energy companies are expected to see big upticks in investments to develop new technologies, while coal and oil companies may see tougher regulations.

Exxon has reported to its shareholders that «what may become the world's largest coal mine is being developed in Colombia and a new oil discovery is the biggest there in 18 years.»

Calling the United States «the biggest polluter and the biggest energy user in the world,» Turner said the country needs to take the lead in ridding itself of coal and oil dependence.

Legislation introduced in the state Senate and Assembly would prohibit the state's pension fund from investing in big oil, gas or coal companies.

Oil Change International, another environmental organization, said that as the bank shifts away from coal, it is taking a larger and troubling interest in natural gas and big hydropower projects.

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Its members include many big American producers and consumers of coal, oil and electricity — such as Dow Chemicals and the National Coal Association — all of whom might suffer from controls on emissions of carbon dioxcoal, oil and electricity — such as Dow Chemicals and the National Coal Association — all of whom might suffer from controls on emissions of carbon dioxCoal Association — all of whom might suffer from controls on emissions of carbon dioxide.

From a strategic standpoint, which is the bigger competitor for biofuels: incumbent coal, oil and gas technologies or other alternative energy technologies?

From a strategic standpoint, which is the bigger competitor for nuclear: incumbent coal, oil and gas technologies or other alternative energy technologies?

From a strategic standpoint, which is the bigger competitor to biofuels: incumbent coal, oil and gas technologies or other alternative energy technologies?

Big changes will be necessary whatever happens, as oil and natural gas supplies dwindle, though coal is still available in huge quantities.

Many of his mistakes are big ones: he bungles the issues involving reserves and resources that are critical to his core argument about oil remaining cheap; he drastically misleads his readers about the extent to which sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from coal - burning have been reduced; he trivializes the climate - change risks from coals carbon dioxide emissions by suggesting we know the impacts will be worth only 0.64 cents per kilowatt - hour.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

Not only did Big Oil punt hundreds of thousands of dollars to Soon, but Big Coal as well — specifically, the Southern Company, one of the largest coal burning electric utilities in the U.S. and in the woCoal as well — specifically, the Southern Company, one of the largest coal burning electric utilities in the U.S. and in the wocoal burning electric utilities in the U.S. and in the world.

I had prior knowledge that there are climate deniers that are funded from Big Coal and Big Oil, but what I learned about Willie Soon's funding, motives, works published, and past (and present) controversies shocked me.

What we know from reading the actual findings of this study, as well as several other analyses of the climate impacts of fossil fuel subsidy removal, is that nixing oil, gas, and coal subsidies would be a big win for the climate, would saves money, and could free up resources to help the poorest and most vulnerable.

When we send money to big oil and king coal, that money gets filtered upward into a top - down corporate hegemony that keeps money out of local communities.

At the same time, the world's biggest energy companies, according to a report from Carbon Tracker, are sitting on a virtual mountain of coal, oil, and gas.

This choice would undoubtedly be hailed both by those pushing for development and large - scale testing of nonpolluting energy technologies and by environmental campaigners seeking knowledgeable leadership at the giant agency — which, while it still oversees efforts to boost coal and oil extraction, also has what may be the world's biggest assemblage of scientists pursuing development of renewable power sources.

As alternatives to Big Oil and Big Coal emerge, it would be a mistake for executives to rely on loyalty or love from the public.

Perhaps the filmmakers were simply highly - paid double agents for big oil and big coal trying to undercut the global effort of the similarly named 10-10-10 campaign kicking off on Oct. 10 (the 10:10 group is one of thousands of participants in the international climate «work party»).

We're seeing a confluence of interests that will — or at least should have — Big Oil and Big Coal worried.

The big question is how long will our elected officials refuse to free the country and the climate from the stranglehold of oil and coal companies?

Just monitoring the science will be insufficient to avoid economic consequences over-riding the consequences of doing nothing as our elected representative seek to avoid economic consequences to big oil, big coal, transportation and utility campaign contributors.

Blaming big oil and big coal for the broad array of opinions about climate change is disingenuous.

Big Coal is firing back at James Hansen, NASA's top climate expert, who on Monday told a House committee on energy and climate that he thought top executives of coal and oil companies should be tried for «crimes against humanity and nature.&raCoal is firing back at James Hansen, NASA's top climate expert, who on Monday told a House committee on energy and climate that he thought top executives of coal and oil companies should be tried for «crimes against humanity and nature.&racoal and oil companies should be tried for «crimes against humanity and nature.»

Can his plans on either front pass muster with the big bloc of lawmakers in Congress who are not from red or blue states but fossil states — those sitting on, or dependent on, coal and oil?

They will continue Mr Bush's behind supporter of big oil and big coal.

Sounds to me like Big Oil and Big Coal have nothing to worry about.

Meanwhile, Big Polluters like oil and coal companies aren't going down without a fight.

Some of the biggest fossil fuel deposits in North America lie to our East: Powder River Basin coal, Bakken shale oil, and Alberta Tar Sands.

Credits for using giant machines to remove the gas are not likely to be accepted internationally for a long time, if at all, not least because the industrial infrastructure needed for extraction would need to be about as big as the infrastructure that puts it there — oil wells, coal mines, railways, pipelines, power plants, refineries and so on.

The left says global warming is a real - time crisis requiring swift curbs on smokestack and tailpipe gases that trap heat, and that big oil, big coal and antiregulatory conservatives are trashing the planet.

Big Oil and Big Coal funded sympathetic think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Competitive Enterprise Institute and also outright front groups with names like Friends of Science and the Global Climate Coalition, all of which came up with an endless stream of arguments for why global warming wasn't happening and even if it was, nothing should be done about it.

We call on you to listen to the European Parliament, to align yourself with those governments fighting for greater ambition on behalf of populations already feeling the impact, and not with President Trump and the same Big Oil, Gas and Coal corporations who are profiting from destroying the climate.

-- perhaps the «problem» is not big oil or big coal, both of which have discovered there is big money to be made from tax breaks and other subsidies justified in the name of combating carbon.

Will EU Commissioner Cañete side with the European Parliament, which has called for a conflict of interest policy for the UN talks, or will he stick to the line of the likes of US President Trump and the same big oil, gas and coal corporations who are profiting from destroying the climate?

Because he thought a) that he would find «smoking gun» evidence of «big oil or coal» support, b) that he could neutralize a worrisome opponent and c) that he could get away with it.

According to Al Jazeera America, «A 2010 donor list from the IRS shows the Texas Public Policy Foundation receives funding from groups long associated with big oil, gas, and coal, such as Koch Industries, the electric utility Luminant, and the oil and gas investment company the Permian Basin Acquisition Fund.»