Sentences with phrase «efforts by energy companies»

Ellsberg emphasized the need to look for whistleblowers on various issues, including national security and climate denial efforts by energy companies.

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Prior shareholder letters insisted the proposals were misguided or ignored the company's efforts to spell out its position that even a world intent on limiting temperature rises would still need more oil — a position shared by bodies such as the International Energy Agency, which sees oil demand rising for some years to come yet.
Dan leads Ceres» efforts to secure commitments from 25 large companies to double the amount of value they generate from each unit of energy by 2030.
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced three major U.S. energy companies have agreed to detail how they will be impacted by the global effort to achieve the Paris Agreement's goals and how they can adapt to a lower carbon future.
The unanimous decision from a panel of judges on Thursday supported two previous losses in the same case for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in which the free - market think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute sought documents related to a multi-state effort to investigate energy companies for allegedly profiting by «creating misperceptions» about climate change.
The banks made their pledges on renewable energy as part of a campaign called RE100, an effort organized by environmental advocacy groups to get leading companies to commit to shrinking their carbon footprints.
Through SunShot, the Energy Department supports efforts by private companies, universities, and national laboratories to drive down the cost of solar electricity to $.0.05 per kilowatt - hour.
However, instead of recognizing the effort by tech companies to produce enough power to meet the demand of their data facilities, Chesser cites the fossil fuel - funded Institute for Energy Research to lambast these companies for «misleading claims.»
To ensure that the energy market remains dominated by its fossil fuel company funders, ALEC promotes an array of «model» bills that undermine efforts to protect the environment.
On Wednesday, a coalition of European energy companies announced that there would be no new coal plants built throughout the European Union after 2020, in an effort to meet goals set forth by the Paris climate agreement.
The unanimous decision from a panel of judges on Thursday supported two previous losses in the same case for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in which the free - market think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute sought documents related to a multi-state effort to investigate energy companies for allegedly profiting by «creating misperceptions» about climate change...
Monbiot's efforts to distinguish between good and bad science by fishing around for links on the Internet that hint at conspiracies between energy companies, right wing think tanks and fundamentalist Christians are by far the most desperate.
The head of Illinois anti-nuclear organization Environmental Law and Policy Center — which is funded by fossil fuel interests and other energy companies that would benefit from closing nuclear plants — has doubled down on his efforts to increase carbon emissions by closing nuclear power plants and replacing them with fossil fuels.
PHOTO CAPTION: Based on the pioneering work of UC Davis professor Andy Frank, the marketing efforts of Felix Kramer and the engineering efforts of EPRI, grid - chargeable hybrids like the one developed by Energy CS are beginning to get serious attention from both the media and policy makers, if not car companies.
Bold language in the ExxonMobil papers released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) reflects a brazen, behind - the - scenes effort by the oil company and other energy giants to disrupt the principal international science assessment program on global warming.
In the last few years, companies and governments have made efforts to eliminate flaring and reclaim the wasted energyby re-injecting it into the ground to bolster oil production, transporting it to new markets via pipelines, using it onsite for electricity generation or by converting it into LNG for shipment.
In California, most of the green movement's energy and effort has gone towards fighting Proposition 23, an initiative funded by the Texas companies Tesoro and Valero to effectively turn back the state's
Walmart comes out the clear leader in the corporate solar sector, as it has for the last four years, with 142 MW of solar capacity at 348 locations, and although the retail giant's sustainability efforts are open to dispute, Mark Vanderhelm, VP of energy for Walmart, said the company aims to double the number of «on - site solar energy projects» at its US stores, distribution centers, and Sam's Club locations by 2020, which may keep it solidly out front in the US business solar rankings.
China plans to amend the country's renewable energy law to set a minimum quota of electricity produced by RES that state - owned grid companies must buy, in a effort to encourage them to buy more electricity from wind, solar and biomass projects.
Irving - based ExxonMobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) launched a counteroffensive against the ongoing effort to target American energy companies for presumed politically incorrect viewpoints by left wing attorneys general.
Counsel for officers of energy company in effort by minority shareholders to obtain consents to remove management in proxy contest
Android Nougat is going to step up the company's energy - saving software efforts by expanding Doze Mode so that it thoroughly limits background tasks whenever the screen is turned off.
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