Sentences with phrase «by the fossil fuel corporations»

Nor did the documents show that Heartland's climate program was funded by fossil fuel corporations or the Koch brothers.

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Unlike Germany, the U.S. has vast deposits of fossil fuels owned by powerful corporations.

«Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in their study.

And, although a few projects such as the Sleipner gas field in the North Sea or oil fields owned by the EnCana Corporation in Calgary, Alberta have proved that CO2 can be pumped underground and remain trapped below cap rock, they are aimed at enhancing recovery of the fossil fuels in those fields rather than permanently storing the greenhouse gas.

AGW denialism has been manufactured by a generation - long campaign of deliberate deceit, funded by ExxonMobil and Koch Industries and other fossil fuel corporations that collectively rake in one billion dollars per day in profit from the ongoing business - as - usual consumption of their destructive products.

New statistics developed by the Bank Information Center show that the World Bank Group's private sector arm, the International Financial Corporation (IFC), increased its lending for fossil fuel projects by a staggering 165 % in FY2008 [1].

Our political system is currently controlled by fossil fuel, timber, and big ag (especially meat and cattle feed) corporations.

Between 2007 and 2008, the International Finance Corporation's fossil fuel lending increased by a whopping 165 % (see / / www.bicusa.org/en/Article.3840.aspx).

Why, after all, should governments be paying for paved roads, when the chief beneficiary by far are private corporations making fossil fuel consuming vehicles?

Francis said that wealthy nations and multinational corporations that use foreign debt as a way to control poorer countries, while exploiting their natural resources and polluting their land and water, owe them an «ecological debt» by limiting consumption of fossil fuels and assisting them in more sustainable development.

As Matthew Yglesias articulated last year in a thoughtful piece on Slate, divestment by socially responsible investors, universities and even governments won't starve capital flows to fossil fuel corporations anytime soon.

We, 93 civil society organisations working in Brussels and in countries affected by EU climate policies, are therefore deeply concerned that the same polluting corporations whose actions largely contribute to climate change - chief among them fossil fuel companies and their lobby groups - are using their involvement in the UNFCCC talks to delay action and hold back the needed ambition.

I do see wrt to US laws, you are proposing confiscation and nationalization of resources, since many of the fossil fuels are owned by individuals who have leased their mineral rights to corporations.

This could be seen as a tribute to the relative political power of the fossil fuel industries and high - consumers of fossil energy (large corporations and the affluent) versus the power of the unemployed and youth; the former are treated, if at all, with gentle «nudges» while the latter are viewed as «clay to be molded» by elites.

We now know that for a decade the Howard Government's policies have been not so much influenced but actually written by a tiny cabal of powerful fossil fuel lobbyists representing the very corporations whose commercial interests would be affected by any move to reduce Australia's burgeoning greenhouse gas emissions.

10) «Leaders of Large Organizations without a Low - / Zero - Carbon Strategy» — Besides electric utilities, much fossil energy or electricity generated by combusting fossil fuels is consumed by large corporations, non-profit organizations, and departments / ministries of various governments throughout the world.

Senators Kaine, Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI), and others have banded together to attack the alleged «web of denial» that appears to be made up only of conservative organizations that they claim are funded by ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel corporations that they consider immoral — even though the energy they provide has been indispensable to lifting and keeping billions of people out of poverty, and even though ExxonMobil has not given any of these groups a dime for a decade or more.

The Oakland - based company BrightSource Energy, which is overseeing construction by the Bechtel corporation, says that using sunlight instead of fossil fuels to power the turbines will reduce carbon emissions by more than 400,000 tons annually.

The idea is, if we allow oil and gas corporations to exploit our land and water to extract fossil fuels, it will benefit the average citizen by lowering energy prices and reducing dependence of «foreign» energy supplies.

Antoine Simon, shale gas campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said: «Shale gas regulations have been fracked to pieces by corporations and fossil fuel - fixated governments.

According to the article, the direct benefit comes down to the creation of a federal Carbon Storage Research Corporation that is funded by per - kilowatt charges on electric bills instead of a tax on fossil fuel - burning utilities.

Energy & Policy Institute's new report exposes the strategies, front groups, and people used by the fossil fuel and utility corporations to attack clean energy policies.

Majorities of Americans say that global warming and clean energy should be among the nation's priorities, want more action by elected officials, corporations, and citizens themselves, and support a variety of climate change and energy policies, including holding fossil fuel companies responsible for all the «hidden costs» of their products.

Too many of the media institutions are controlled by holding companies with large interests in fossil fuels — hence, the real solution to the problem might be something like antitrust regulations for media corporations.

What would motivate the world's richest corporations to make a policy change to cut fossil fuel energy use in their company to under 10 % by 2050 or else?

And we should expect fossil fuel corporations to pay for a share of the harms resulting from the use of their products, both for the damages that have already occurred and the costs of preparing to limit the damages from further, now unavoidable impacts that responsible actions by these companies could have, and should have, helped to avoid.