Sentences with phrase «campaign against the fossil fuel»
The article is published as part of the newspaper's Keep it in the Ground campaign against fossil fuel companies, encouraging big capital investors to move their interests out of brown energy — «divestment».
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It's the latest push for Nixon's environmental agenda in her campaign against Gov. Andrew Cuomo that is staking out an opposition to fossil - fuel infrastructure construction in New York.
Organizations Supporting the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act: 350.org NRDC Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Citizens Campaign for the Environment Clearwater Food & Water Watch Citizen Action of NY 350NYC NYS Council of Churches Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy Catskill Mountainkeeper Citizens Environmental Coalition of NY Fossil Free & Green NY Green Education and Legal Fund Greenfaith Healthcare Without Harm Jews Against Fracking NY Interfaith Power & Lights People for Animal Rights Plan to Save the Planet, Albany Renewable Energy Long Island Rochester People's Climate Coalition Syracuse Cultural Workers Syracuse Peace Council
A front - page article and headline on April 24 reported that the Global Climate Coalition, a group that throughout the 1990s represented industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, knew about the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions could cause global warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emissions.
It is noteworthy that in the recent campaign of libels against him there has not been, as far as I know, a single suggestion that any particular result or conclusion was reached in part or in whole because either that particular research project or his scientific work in general was funded by fossil - fuel interests.
We are writing now to express our concern at Taiwan's transition away from clean, nuclear energy to fossil fuels, warn against a misinformation campaign being waged by financial interests, and encourage a democratic resolution to Taiwan's energy crisis.
In truth 10 of its protagonists have either been funded directly by fossil fuel companies, or have received paid employment from lobby groups funded by these companies, which campaign against taking action on climate change (11).
In the state of Michigan, however, an attempt to write a 25 per cent renewables target into the state's constitution was lost after fossil fuel interests spent $ 35 million campaigning against it.
He is most recently the founder of the advocacy group 350.org which has led campaigns against the Keystone XL oil pipeline and on behalf of campus divestment from fossil fuel companies.
Indeed, those campaigning for action to prevent further warming have had to battle against huge vested interests, including the fossil - fuel industry and its many political allies.
If we see a renewable energy market isn't performing as we want it to, we'll try to jump in with campaigns — against fossil and nuclear fuels and in favor of renewables.
Vanessa Green, Campaign Director for DivestInvest Individual said, «We are thrilled to have some of the nation's leading social change organizations join us in taking a stand against banks that are financially backing destructive fossil fuel projects.
Friends of the Earth France continues to campaign against dirty fossil fuels — especially unconventional oil and gas.
350.org and No Fracking Coalition exposed the success of the campaign against fracking and fossil fuels in Brazil and Latin America
On May 29, 2015, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, attended a Big Green - funded League of Conservation Voters event where he called for using RICO against climate skeptics and fossil fuel companies (see the YouTube here), then in a Washington Post op - ed, «The fossil - fuel industry's campaign to mislead the American people,» prompting a backlash asserting that the charge was false, and defending the right to dissent.
Friends of the Earth Europe and Food & Water Europe campaign against the extraction of unconventional fossil fuels, including shale gas.
This has not prevented advocates from pursuing their campaigns against the use of fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power at all levels of American government.
Less a new assault inspired by the Republican - led backlash against green energy under way in Washington, D.C., it's the continuation of campaigns by conservative groups such as the American Legislative Exchange Council, Americans for Prosperity and the Heartland Institute with ties to the fossil fuel billionaires, the Koch brothers.
It is the strongest possible encouragement to all those people across the world who are now actively working on divesting public funds from fossil fuel companies and all those people who actively engage in campaigns against destructive fossil fuels infrastructure.
In the United States, the Sierra Club's campaign against dams (which began for traditional conservationist reasons) received a big boost from Big Oil in California, who wanted to sell gas for electricity generation and therefore wanted to curb hydro - electricity (which was then the main competitor to fossil fuels for this purpose).
UCS is a sponsor of the campaign to use the federal RICO Act against fossil fuels companies and non-profit climate realist think tanks such as The Heartland Institute.
For more than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat - trapping gases could lead to global warming.
And all this brings increasing recognition by investors that the carbon bubble and stranded assets are serious financial risks, which in turn reinforces the growing power of NGO campaigns against coal and CSG along with their fossil fuel divestment campaign.
The current campaign by News Ltd, the AFR and the Grattan Institute against intermittent renewables is of course a campaign to defend the profits of fossil fuel generators.
The fossil fuel industry has responded to these suits by fiercely waging a campaign that claims that any legal action against the fossil fuel companies for funding organizations engaged in climate change denial activities is tantamount to a legally inappropriate suppression of free speech (See: Climate change vs. free speech: Punishing fossil fuel companies for expressing doubt).
The event featured prominent members of Congress including Rep. Ted Lieu (D - CA), Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Rep. Katherine Clark (D - MA) and Rep. Peter Welch (D - VT), who have been leading the charge against Exxon to hold the fossil fuel company for its role in orchestrating a decades - long campaign of deception and misinformation about climate change.