Sentences with phrase «dirty industries»

The results are encouraging: many of them are taking a stand against the historically dirty industry!

Dirty industries get a lot more of them than clean ones anyway, making the green underdog artificially less competitive with tax dollars.

[3] «The European Commission is paying lip - service to protecting the climate but puts neo-liberal economic policies and the interests of dirty industry above human well - being and environmental protection.

Such is life in the sewer of American politics that dirty industry lobbyists can push legislation through a friendly Senator by simply contributing to her campaign.

The options they are considering put dirty industry interests ahead of citizens and the planet and will not bring about the transition to the clean energy system urgently needed, reacted Friends of the Earth Europe.

Instead, they will cut their «carbon intensity»: the amount of CO2 emitted per unit of GDP, a reflection of how dirty their industries are.

All the options for the EU proposed for climate action by 2030 put dirty industry interests ahead of citizens and the planet and will not bring about the transition to the clean energy system urgently needed.»

Earthjustice is protecting our right to breathe clean air by making dirty industries clean up their pollution and prevent the harm they cause to nearby communities.

«It's one thing for a company making an organic energy bar to become a B Corporation; it's another to take a company from a traditionally dirty industry and make a transition,» says Andrew Kassoy, a co-founder of B Lab, the nonprofit that created the standards in 2007 with founding companies such as King Arthur Flour, Seventh Generation, and Method.

Which is probably a good thing, because if you don't do something different from what everybody else is doing, how on earth can you hope to succeed in a down - and - dirty industry like cardboard boxes?

«Weaning ourselves off dirty industries into clean industries... is going to create a lot more jobs than we are going to lose in oil and gas or mining.»

A boom in the production of photovoltaic solar cells has not only cut the price of solar panels in half, but has also helped double solar energy's contribution to America's power supply Now dirty industry has the Production Tax Credit for wind energy in its sights - and polluters don't care that letting the credit expire means major job losses.

We called for 100 % renewable energy and more efficient buildings across the state and regulations to force dirty industries to pay for the climate pollution they emit.

The process used to convert bamboo grass stalks into soft yarn is akin to viscose (rayon) production, which has traditionally been a very dirty industry, using caustic solvents to extract the cellulose element.

Instead, they will cut their «carbon intensity ``: the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of GDP, a reflection of how dirty their industries are.

It's such a dirty industry that we're sort of out there to set the bar, hoping that we'll start to inspire some changes.»

Roscheisen explains how his company is cleaning up a dirty industry — while designing some very chic jewelry.

Those who are fighting clean energy focus on high prices, but at the same time they don't talk about the real costs for the people who live with those dirty industries.

Steel mills, mineral processors and petrochemical plants in Guizhou, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Yunnan and Shanxi are China's dirtiest industries.

He wants the area around the monument made a pollution - free zone, which would mean relocating all the dirty industries to areas well outside the Taj trapezium.

Here are more thoughts: if North America's dirty industries, like steel mills, were the culprit, then we should be able to trace back to those times a significant regional cooling differential in the downwind regions of places like Pittsburgh, PA..

This is unlike cap and trade in which progress is exchanged for special interest groups and where the dirtiest industries can just buy credits instead of doing the right thing which would be to invest in change.

As elections loom, and the fossil fuel lobby comes out in force, it's more important than ever that we celebrate our incredible successes so far, build that momentum, and keep organising to break the social and political license of the dirtiest industry on earth.

He combined data on greenhouse gases and other air pollution and mapped out who lived next to the dirtiest industries in the state, arriving at what he called the «pollution disparity index.»

Marc Lee calls it absurd to give additional handouts to dirty industries that are already making huge profits by offloading the cost of their carbon pollution onto society.

But Mari Rose Taruc, state organizing director of Asian Pacific Environmental Network, said, «If California allows REDD programs into AB 32, then it would encourage these dirty industries to avoid their responsibility to reduce their emissions locally, and then empower them to destroy forest communities where our families also live, in tropical places like Mexico, with carbon offsets.

The dirty industry lobbyists thought the talks were «extraordinarily productive» and «encouraging.»

If Peterson and his band of Big Ag crusaders get their paws on it, it's only going to become more compromised and friendly to dirty industries.

But that's only if leaders of important development institutions — like the World Bank — finance the clean energy technology of the future, rather than prop up the dirty industries of the past.

Today's ruling is an important step, but the work continues to stop spending taxpayer dollars to prop up dirty industries.

It uses information gained from Freedom of Information requests to show just how close Europe's dirtiest industries are to senior politicians and regulators and what influence this is having on the EU's official climate change policy.

It has awarded billions in subsidies to some of the EU's dirtiest industries.

As minister for resources and energy in the Rudd and Gillard governments he was dirty industry's best friend in cabinet, fighting tooth and nail to protect the interests of «his» industries and carving out massive subsidies for the big polluters.

It's essentially a large (barely) disguised subsidy to the dirtiest industries.

Concerted lobbying from Europe's dirtiest industries has resulted in the gutting of EU climate and energy proposals, it has emerged today.

It offers a thorough insight into the coal industry worldwide and helps us understand, who is behind this dirty industry.

In the process, it may also pour a lot of concrete, a lot of coal into its engines, and a lot of smoke back into the air.Much of the reason for China's dirtier stimulus is clear: the country is still developing, and still depends largely on dirty industry and manufacturing for growth.

While it's true that the oil lobby, another dirty industry, targets mostly Republican members, Democrats are by no means innocent, or clean.

As it turns out, fashion is a dirty industry.