Sentences with phrase «dirty industries clean»

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.

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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.

To help clean out America's shelters, two pet industry leaders, Wahl and Petfinder Foundation, are addressing a dirty issue about pet adoption, and in the process giving thousands of shelter dogs a fresh start.

Using the so - called «clean - coal», a term created by the coal industry's PR firms, will still leave us with the dirtiest energy source in the nation.

If industry - generated aerosols have a more limited cooling effect than originally thought, we can clean up and scale down dirty coal plants without worrying too much about consequent sudden jumps in global temperatures of up to 2 degrees C (if I remember the upper limits of earlier studies correctly).

Alberta's tar sands industry took a couple of major hits over the last two weeks, in large part because of the great job clean energy advocates have done raising the profile of the problems and risks associated with the dirty energy project.

Some progressives actively distrust policies that lean hard on price signals, partly for fear that workers in dirty industries will be penalized as investment migrates to cleaner alternatives.

Recent legal decisions that Earthjustice has helped to secure have affirmed EPA's authority under the Clean Air Act to reduce climate pollution from vehicles and industrial facilities, but anti-environmental members of Congress and the dirty energy industry are determined to prevent any action to reduce dangerous climate pollution.

«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.»

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.»

We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development in the new clean energy industries of the future are much higher priorities for most voters than capping carbon emissions or taxing dirty energy sources.

Despite rising public concern about global warming and a growing awareness that coal is an irrevocably dirty business, the industry is spending millions of dollars on a slick messaging campaign stressing its «commitment to clean.»

So, rather than claim that fracking is good because it creates jobs, maybe CEOs in the energy industry should look towards sustainability, and recognize that, by definition, a sustainable energy industry will create jobs for a longer time than an unsustainable one, and the change from dirty to clean energy will yield short - term jobs and long - term profitability without the massive downside of fossil fuels.

And then again in the 80s - 90s as clean air regs toughened and the dirty old Soviet Union / East Euro industries tanked.

Will these permits provide a buffer (or windfall) which sustains these dirty industries (to the suppression of cleaner alternatives), or will these permits have no value at all?

The House passed amendments, drafted by industry, to the landmark Clean Water Act — ridiculed by opponents as the Dirty Water Act — and that was so unpalatable to Senate Republicans that it went nowhere.

And while biofuels and electricity producers are cleaning up, the oil industry should do the same, reducing avoidable emissions, avoiding the dirtiest sources of oil, and preventing the oil we do use from getting worse.

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.

Until clean energy replaces dirty fossil fuels, the industry should work to find best practices to curb flaring.

Affiliated under the banner of the State Policy Network, these groups have also coordinated against clean energy in states like North Carolina and Ohio, where dirty energy giants may score a victory against renewable industry jobs.

The coal industry claimed they had cleaned up dirty coal eliminating the «black froth» on streams so that nearby waterways would remain «pristine.»

This ensures that these powerful corporations have the ear of lawmakers, and can influence them to expand support for dirty energy sources at the expense of the clean energy industry, U.S. taxpayers, and the climate.

From the «Could» a, would» a, should» a» Comment Department: we might note that it was by using a classic interference with the market that the fossil fuel industry promoted dirty fuels — it worked to hide the true cost accounting of coal and all carbon fuels - and even funded the political suppression of clean energy — wind and solar.

While such a program won't do anything to extinguish the «carbon neutral: good or bad» debate (and may only add fuel to the fire), shipping is a huge, dirty industry, and we think it'd be awfully nice to be able to move, ship furniture and more with a cleaner conscience.

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

But the most interesting part of the segment is an interview with Joe Lucas, head of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (nee Americans for Balanced Energy Choices), a coal industry front group that has spent tens of millions of dollars on deceptive advertising and political activities, as well as more than $ 10.5 million to lobby Congress directly on behalf of dirty coal and against legislation to fight global warming and promote clean, renewable electriClean Coal Electricity (nee Americans for Balanced Energy Choices), a coal industry front group that has spent tens of millions of dollars on deceptive advertising and political activities, as well as more than $ 10.5 million to lobby Congress directly on behalf of dirty coal and against legislation to fight global warming and promote clean, renewable electriclean, renewable electricity.

The bill, which was openly written with the help of lobbyists, has now gotten bipartisan support from one of the chief opponents of clean energy reform from the Democratic side of the aisle — any guesses on who it is?It's our friend, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D - AR)-- she has cosponsored the amendment, popularly known as the Dirty Air Act, and seeks to protect the interests of heavily polluting industries.

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Worldwide, the coal industry is suffering as the demand for its product weakens in the face of a surge in clean, renewable energy options and a world that can no longer afford to continue to consume this dirty fossil fuel.

The fossil fuel industry tried to turn clean energy into something dirty during the political campaign season.