Sentences with phrase «conservative oil interests»

But what is one to make of a climate - change law that withstands a $ 35 million campaign supported by conservative oil interests only to be thrown off course by a legal challenge from the leftier edges of the environmental movement, particularly its environmental justice wing?

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The biggest winners are the oil companies and large corporate and monied interests that stand to benefit from a strong Conservative majority.

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The SNP has unsurprisingly chosen to chair Scottish Affairs (previously Labour), and has also taken on Energy and Climate Change (previously Conservative)-- reflecting Scotland's interests in oil, gas and renewable energy.

But in a case study of the power of fossil fuel interests to shape government policy, the industry's money and alliances with conservative think tanks and advocacy groups transformed the committee's membership and supported the rise of Smith, son of an old oil and ranching family in South Texas.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — Utility companies clashed with oil industry interests over electric vehicle and fuel subsidies at a meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative political group, last Friday.

Of course, it is easy to paint skeptics as right wing conservative nutjobs who are all in the pay of big oil (despite big oil benefiting from climate change legislation) and who have no interest in science.