Sentences with phrase «coal and oil companies»

A 100 percent auction ensures that all polluters pay for every ton of emissions they release, rather than giving these emission rights away to coal and oil companies.

The coal and oil companies have spent in the United States alone a half a billion dollars in the first eight months of this year promoting a lie that there is such a thing as «clean coal.»

In the past, these IPCC reports have turned into a lightning rod for attacks by organizations like the Heartland Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who claim to tout freedom and liberty as their cause, but enjoy big dollar sponsorship from coal and oil companies like Koch Industries, Murray Energy, and ExxonMobil.

The coal and oil companies, as well as the oil - producing nations, argue that the computerized climate models are crude and approximate, incomplete, inconclusive, and so flawed that their predictions of future climate change can not be used as a basis for taking action.

This time they're radically overvaluing the value of coal and oil companies, by failing to put a reasonable price of the risk associated with climate mobilization.

Thanks to the lobbying work of the coal and oil companies, and the vast army of thinktanks, PR consultants and astroturfers they have sponsored, thanks too to the domination of the airwaves by loony right shock jocks, the debate over issues like this has become so mad that any progress at all is little short of a miracle.

First, Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey called on coal and oil companies to disclose how much they had spent funding climate science.

In his 1997 book, «The Heat Is On,» Ross Gelbspan cites professors for not disclosing that coal and oil companies had funded their studies, which were used to undercut arguments in favor of reducing greenhouse gases.

Coal and oil companies are paying for many TV advertisements to help their candidates win.

Once in office, Mr. Bush did a complete turnaround in March 2001, abandoning that pledge under intensive lobbying of the White House by coal and oil companies, and industries whose profits depend on selling things that use energy.

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.»

We need to make the coal and oil companies pay their fair share of taxes, and get out of the government trough once and for all.

Michaels is currently being scrutinized after he apparently under - reported his financial backing by coal and oil companies during a presentation before Congress.

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

Not exact matches

The latter two are inexcusable — rich nations have no business subsidizing rich oil, gas and coal companies or their own consumers.

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.

The U.N. Security Council on Friday blacklisted dozens of ships and shipping companies over oil and coal smuggling...

UNITED NATIONS, March 30 - A United Nations Security Council committee blacklisted 21 shipping companies, 27 ships and one individual on Friday over illegal North Korean oil and coal smuggling.

The construction - based company diversified during the 1950s, moving into coal production and, later, oil and gas, and railroad equipment manufacturing and servicing.

The United Nations Security Council blacklisted dozens of ships and shipping companies on Friday over oil and coal smuggling by North Korea, boosting pressure on Pyongyang as leader Kim Jong Un plans to meet with his South Korean and U.S. counterparts.

Although Swensen did not release the names of the investment managers or companies involved, he said that by the end of Fiscal Year 2015, Yale's $ 25.6 billion endowment had only minor exposure to the oil and coal industries.

Notably absent from the list are oil and coal companies that have built their businesses on fossil fuels.

Public records show that at the start of 2014, the Foundation held $ 1.4 bn of investments in major coal, oil and gas companies.

Disclosing the Facts: Transparency and Risk in Methane Emissions focuses on the critical risk of methane emissions and how companies are managing methane reduction, reflecting rising investor concern that excessive methane emissions from oil and gas operations will undercut the potential net climate benefit of substituting natural gas for coal, especially in decarbonizing energy markets.

The Energy sector consists of companies involved in the exploration, production, or management of energy resources such as oil, gas, and coal, as well as companies that service these industries.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

Similar to some oil and gas companies, many coal miners accumulated major debt loads when prices were high and demand seemed sustainable.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

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A diversified resources company that operates in several commodity businesses, including aluminum, energy coal and metallurgical coal, iron ore, copper, manganese, uranium, silver and titanium minerals, and has interests in oil, gas, liquefied natural gas and diamonds.

In order to send a message to fossil fuel companies that oil and coal reserves are best left in the ground, the movement encourages investors to sell their shares in these companies.

Copper, one of four business units at Teck besides steelmaking coal, oil and zinc, is a priority for the company

Members of its corporate citizenship group, which also monitors whether clients engaged in coal mining and oil drilling are adhering to Citigroup's environmental standards, will check in regularly on partners» gun - selling procedures, the company said.

in 1896 Charles Dow created the Dow Jones Industrial Average which consisted of 12 companies (American Cotton Oil, American Sugar, American Tobacco, Chicago Gas, Distilling & Cattle Feeding, General Electric, Laclede Gas, National Lead, North American, Tennessee Coal and Iron, U.S. Leather pfd.

They allowed giant oil, gas, and coal companies to destroy the health of our land and our waters.

Presumably that means divesting from companies that are engaged directly in coal, gas, and oil exploration and production, though not their use.

Yes, all those conspiring biologists, geologists, oceanogrophers, astronomers, cosmologists, archeologists, paleontologists, horse breeders, dog breeders, oil companies, coal mining companies, horticulturists, agricultural companies and zoologists.

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

The government manages several natural resources like Gas, Coal, Iron, Gold, Oil, Sea, Water, Mass Transport Services (subway), Trains, Sea transport, Electricity, and has a company in the telecommunications sector.

Pruitt, one of Trump's controversial cabinet picks, has in the past worked to file lawsuits against the agency he is now running on the behalf of coal, oil and gas companies, according to The New York Times.

Hawkins opposes the pension funds being invested in coal, oil and natural gas companies that are causing significant damage to New York residents.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Opponents say cutting use of oil, gas and coal is a more effective way to redirect energy companies

Maxwell Ball, manager for clean coal technologies at SaskPower in Regina, which owns the plant, says that the company was surprised to learn that it would be cheaper in the long term to keep burning coal at Boundary Dam and sell the carbon dioxide to oil companies to boost production in the oil field than to build a new natural - gas plant.

For a system of enhanced oil recovery fed by coal plants designed for carbon capture to pay off, Denbury, Tellus and every other oil company must survive current low oil prices.

Permits can be issued to companies that emit carbon dioxide or to those that supply it for burning — oil, coal and natural gas firms.

CCS turns carbon dioxide into a liquid form of carbon, which oil and coal extraction companies then pump into underground geological formations and wells and cap; millions of tons of carbon are already being stored this way each year.

Solving the issue could bring closer the day when disaster victims can successfully sue oil and coal companies.

In 2011, the institute sent Davies a list of Soon's funders, which included a number of oil and coal companies, a list that Davies passed on to journalists.