Sentences with phrase «coal interests»

The collective millions spent on federal lobbying and politicians went a long way for these five coal interest groups.

Sen. Murkowski has received over $ 380,000 from coal interests from 1999 - 2011, with $ 65,000 from Holmstead coal clients in the specific years he has worked for them.

Sourcewatch reports allegations that Lindzen was consulting for oil and coal interests in the early 1990s, but I haven't seen anything more recent than this.

Local governments and strong coal interests also present obstacles to China's transition from the world's biggest carbon polluter to an economy largely powered by clean energy.

He discussed, appropriately, the need for a short - term strategy in which all existing sources play a role — from wind turbines and nuclear reactors to natural gas and — yes — coal (although I still feel he and Congress are biasing federal research and development money far too much toward coal interests through spending on capturing CO2 from power plants).

Of the estimated $ 6 billion spent on television ads on the Presidential, House, and Senate races, some $ 270 million was directed at the promotion of oil, gas, and coal interests just in the last two months, according to a Center for American analysis of data from Kantar Media.

Major coal interests endorsed PJM's approach, but pressed FERC to move faster to identify and correct resilience issues.

At Freedom Plaza, facing down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol Building, speakers and musicians carrying the voice of Appalachia conveyed a passionate narrative of commitment to defending their communities, their environment, and their way of life against the depredations of the corporate coal interests, the banks that behind the scenes finance mountaintop removal, and the complicity of politicians and government agencies

BRANCACCIO:... the Information Council on the Environment, funded by the Western Fuels Association, which mostly represents coal interests.

«Ridley has always maintained his own coal interests are immaterial to his climate sceptic views and political activities,» Shrubshole said.

In this 112th Congress alone, oil, gas and coal interests gave over $ 20 million of this «dirty energy money» to our Senators and Representatives, to influence their votes around industry - friendly measures from dismantling the power of regulatory bodies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to approving the Keystone pipeline, to opening up the outer - continental shelf to drilling.

Holmstead's coal interest clients have paid Bracewell & Giuliani over $ 13.7 million since he joined the firm.

This poses a massive problem for Ross Gelbspan, who has become rather famous over the narrative that Lindzen «charges oil and coal interests $ 2,500 a day for his consulting services.»

Coal interests will argue that the plan would boost costs to utilities, which would likely result in cuts in mining jobs.

Coal interests are fighting to stave off the retirement of an iconic plant that has long powered the state economy.

ALEC is leading the nationally - coordinated attack on state renewable portfolio standards as part of an ambitious dirty energy agenda for the members of its anti-environmental task force, like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy, Duke Energy and other major oil, gas and coal interests.

The groups also have financial ties to coal interests, including

The groups also have financial ties to coal interests, including Alpha Natural Resources and Peabody Energy.

As a longtime fighter against the oil and coal interests that bankroll climate skeptics, I am delighted by Desmogblog's posting of the Heartland disinformation documents.

It seems reasonable to suspect that coal interests must be funding directly or indirectly the anti-science campaign and likewise whoever is organising the campaign of death threats.

Of course, the history of the coal interests is an especially unsavory one in the history of American capital, so nobody should be too surprised that the culture remains antisocial.

In addition to direct spending on specific electoral campaigns, they also pumped millions of dollars into generic «branding» campaigns promoting oil, gas, and coal interests, such as the American Petroleum Institute's «I'm an energy voter» campaign.

«There are people,» says Mr. Hoggan, a veteran self - promoting pro in the PR business, «mainly people who are getting paid by oil and coal interests, and [some] who are just basically ideologues, who are trying to confuse the public about climate change.»

[4](See also BHP Billiton's coal interests).

To say the accusation is widespread that Dr Lindzen «charges oil and coal interests $ 2,500 a day for his consulting services» is something of an understatement, when you consider how many hits are found in an internet search for variants of it.

But coal interests have great power in the US; the essential moratorium and phase - out of coal requires a growing public demand and a political will yet to be demonstrated.

ROSS GELBSPAN: And the money basically came from coal interests, from mining interests, from some oil companies.

ALEC is leading the nationally - coordinated attack on state renewable portfolio standards as part of an ambitious dirty energy agenda for the members of its anti-environmental task force, like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy, Duke Energy and other major oil, gas and coal interests.

These five interests only represent a slice of the coal interests spending money in politics, and just a few players among many in the coal, oil, gas and chemical industries that dump millions of dollars into public relations campaigns telling us that climate change is not a problem.

The brochure lists 14 sponsors, five of which are coal interests:

You need to be held accountable as a lobbyist for coal interests.»