Sentences with phrase «business industry lobbyists»

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Today she sounds like a lobbyist for German business, listing the industries that must be shielded from the full costs of her package.

Business interests (or BINGOs as they're called in U.N. speak) «can have very little effect at these meetings,» according to Nick Campbell, a European industry lobbyist who has represented the International Chamber of Commerce at U.N. climate talks since the early 1990s when the global effort to fight climate change began with the Rio Earth Summit.

Many business lobbyists say the change could cause electricity prices to rise and damage fledgling industries.

Vital in this dirty business are the lobbyists who are willing to ignore the massive external costs of coal and make a career peddling the coal industry's continued grip on U.S. electricity production.