Sentences with phrase «by oil industry lobbyists»

Time and again, the path forward has been blocked - not only by oil industry lobbyists, but also by a lack of political courage and candor.

But many legislators have been tasked with promoting the project by oil industry lobbyists who provide them with model bills, talking points and draft op - eds.

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Or think of the price the Canadian economy is expected to pay for the damage wreaked by climate change after years of oil industry lobbyists opposing serious carbon reduction policies.

The nation's top energy - industry lobbyist said Cuomo's «knee - jerk» ban on fracking is being «cheered» by the gas and oil industries in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, all of which share the gas - rich Marcellus Shale region with New York.

The edits shown are by Philip Cooney, a lawyer - lobbyist who had earlier helped lead oil industry opposition to limits on greenhouse gases, then became chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality and altered many statements.

Lobbyists representing industry players including natural gas giant EQT, Antero Resources, TransCanada, and multiple oil and gas trade associations wooed state lawmakers with thousands of dollars» worth of food and drink throughout 2017, according to lobbying records obtained by DeSmog.

Translation: between the 25 of them, on top of a model bill handed to them by corporate oil and gas industry lobbyists, they were also furnished with $ 20,895 in campaign cash by these industries with the expectation to do their legislative bidding.

Moreover, by applying the term «denial» (with all its loaded undertones) to sceptical scientists; by referring to them inaccurately as «well funded» by the oil industry; and by likening those who stress the uncertainties of climate science to unprincipled lobbyists for tobacco companies, Lord May enters on the field of personal vilification — not a suitable place for a distinguished former President of the Royal Society.

President Obama's decision on this enormous fossil fuel project by the end of the year will not be a quiet deal with oil industry lobbyists; it will be witnessed by millions of voters who had hoped that President Obama would have the vision to get America off of oil with a moonshot program for oil - free cars by the next decade.

Obama's decision (Greenpeace commentary): President Obama's decision on this enormous fossil fuel project by the end of the year will not be a quiet deal with oil industry lobbyists; it will be witnessed by millions of voters who had hoped that President Obama would have the vision to get America off of oil with a moonshot program for oil - free cars by the next decade.

Recently released internal documents indicate that the strategy to put multiple changes to a series of environmental protection laws into a single piece of legislation was recommended by lobbyists for the oil and gas industry.

The oil and gas industry has lavished more than $ 440 million over the past six years on politicians, political parties and lobbyists in order to protect its interests in Washington, according to a new report by the Center for Public Integrity.

The challenge faced by the Obama administration as it seeks to secure support for the Waxman - Markey Climate Change bill was again underlined when it emerged oil and gas industry lobbyists are planning a nationwide campaign designed to create the impression of widespread grassroots opposition to the legislation.

On the other we have a small band of sceptics, including lobbyists funded by the US oil industry, a sci - fi writer, and the Daily Mail, who deny the scientists are right.

Publicly described as an «ALEC Academy,» documents obtained by CMD show the legislators were accompanied on a chartered flight by a gaggle of oil - industry lobbyists, were served lunch by Shell Oil, dinner by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and that the expenses of the trip were paid for by TransCanada and other corporations and groups with a direct financial interest in the Alberta tar sands and the proposed Keystone XL (KXL) pipelioil - industry lobbyists, were served lunch by Shell Oil, dinner by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and that the expenses of the trip were paid for by TransCanada and other corporations and groups with a direct financial interest in the Alberta tar sands and the proposed Keystone XL (KXL) pipeliOil, dinner by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and that the expenses of the trip were paid for by TransCanada and other corporations and groups with a direct financial interest in the Alberta tar sands and the proposed Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline.