There is still time for the World Bank to do the right thing and halt
this dirty coal project as well as further WBG support of coal development more generally.
Not exact matches
But when we asked about increasing transparency for the billions of U.S. taxpayer financing Ex-Im allots to fossil fuel
projects, we got the same, tired excuses for the Bank's undying support for
dirty, outdated
coal technology:
As mentioned in the press release:» -LRB-...) these groups released a briefing titled «
Dirty Dozen: How Public Finance Drives the Climate Crisis through Oil, Gas, and
Coal Expansion», highlighting fossil fuel
projects by the World Bank Group, other multilateral and national development banks and export credit agencies.
«The Power Past
Coal and Stand Up to Oil coalitions recently delivered over one million statements (to Gov. Inslee) from people opposed to dirty coal and oil export proje
Coal and Stand Up to Oil coalitions recently delivered over one million statements (to Gov. Inslee) from people opposed to
dirty coal and oil export proje
coal and oil export
projects.
Our ministers must do the same at the Warsaw conference, and not let the
dirty coal lobbyists dressed up as Australian government officials get in the way of urgent, immediate, emission controls by developed countries and a ban on new fossil fuel
projects.»
Other chapters of the TPP could put at risk green standards for public purchasing, efforts to block
dirty energy
projects such as oil drilling and
coal mining, environmental labeling of consumer products, at - the - border regulations related to food safety, feed - in tariffs for renewable energy and the list goes on.
Faith leaders have stood up to corporate polluters time and again to defend our region from
dirty coal and oil
projects that make vast profits while harming our communities and
dirtying our air, water, land, and climate.
They are working to protect communities from toxic
coal ash, end mountain top removal, get the World Bank to stop funding
coal projects, put existing mining protections into action, eliminate
dirty coal subsidies, halt the development of liquid
coal, and expose false solutions like carbon capture and sequestration.
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Coal is
Dirty and its affiliate site
Coal is Clean are a joint
project managed by DeSmog, Rainforest Action Network and Greenpeace USA.
Unfortunately, Power Africa appears to emphasize large, centralized natural gas
projects — a
dirty fossil fuel that some scientists believe is worse for the climate than
coal.
Through ALEC, Duke works with state legislators to distribute anti-environmental model bills across the country that delay policy solutions to climate change, block clean energy, prevent EPA from regulating
coal pollution, fasttrack
coal mining
projects and other
dirty energy initiatives.
The study
projects that the use of
coal, the
dirtiest fuel, would face the most severe constraints, with the U.S., Australia, and the former Soviet Republics leaving 90 percent or more of it in the ground.