Sentences with phrase «energy industry efforts»

Not exact matches

OPEC was meeting with rival U.S. shale producers on the sidelines of the annual CERAWeek energy conference for a second year in a row, in an effort to learn what the industry can do to avoid the type of painful downturn faced in 2015.

It inhibits companies from raising money that funds future pharmaceuticals, schools, food, energy and all the ancillary industries that support these efforts.

Efforts by the energy industry and the Trump administration to delay the methane rule have twice been blocked by federal courts in Wyoming and California.

Delaying U.S. compliance with international anti-corruption effort March The Department of the Interior halted work on a related effort to make sure U.S. transparency rules for the energy industry comply with an international anti-corruption initiative.

Our processes go above and beyond the CSCDA's requirements, and we have helped lead consumer protection efforts for the U.S. residential solar industry through our work with the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).

Instead of putting our efforts toward renewables and energy storage, we continue to subsidize our oil and gas industry.

With a personal desire and eye for design and innovation, Shaul has focused his entrepreneurial energy into the emerging technology industry by founding various innovative startups and startup incubators around the U.S. Initiating efforts include being co-founder of OfficePort, a co-working business center with two locations in Kansas City and one in Chicago.

Therefore greater efforts are needed by government and industry to embrace less polluting and more efficient technologies to ensure that coal becomes a much cleaner source of energy in the decades to come.

Fifth, governments, industry and other interested groups should strengthen their efforts to build a national ethic of energy conservation and a clearer public understanding of the costs and benefits of various energy choices.

While the impact investing industry devotes a tremendous amount of effort to quantifying «impact,» we believe in simplicity and focusing our energy on investing and building great companies whose impact is baked into their business model.

Requiring pipelines to be made entirely of US steel would make their production prohibitively expensive to American companies and hamstring efforts to support the energy industry.

That effort enhances the IT unit's service offering with the energy unit's oil and gas industry expertise, a package that most IT competitors can't match.

That research led to improved gearbox designs, reducing the overall cost of wind energy and showing how collaborative industry efforts and federal support for R&D can resolve performance challenges.

An energy bill that activists warn could hurt Connecticut's efforts to encourage rooftop solar power and the solar power industry cleared a General Assembly committee Thursday, but key lawmakers agreed to continue working on the legislation.

Given that ocean observations for climate provide a wide range of benefits to the agricultural, shipping, fishing, insurance, and energy - supply industries, the committee that wrote the report suggested that efforts could be made to draw support for ocean observing from the commercial sector.

Hawaii even has an ongoing effort to turn ocean thermal energy conversion technology into a reality, as well as an actual algal agriculture industry — the algae are largely grown for nutraceutical purposes but have also been turned into jet fuel on the mainland by UOP.

Industry: Amidst efforts to reduce energy use and pollution, EHS is a rapidly growing profession.

The federal government should begin a major effort to measure greenhouse gas emissions tied to the nation's booming natural gas industry, a Department of Energy advisory panel said today in a series of proposals on air and water quality issues.

They also fear that the strategy, which the energy industry has helped fund, will undermine efforts to curb habitat destruction.

Some energy experts worry that the scale of the incentives could lead to a repeat of the disastrous effort 30 years ago to underwrite a synthetic fuels industry.

The stage is also being set for a potential uptick in biomass energy in the US, as Congress may declare biomass carbon neutral in an effort to revive the American forest product industry.

This month, China announced that it will cut exports this year of rare - earth elements by 40 %, which could ground fledgling efforts to build clean - energy industries in the United States and other Western countries.

Combined with Chinese export tariffs of 10 % to 25 %, the policy could ground fledgling efforts to build clean - energy industries in the United States and other Western countries.

Until now, the U.S. wind energy industry has watched European countries build offshore wind turbines by the thousands as efforts to build wind farms off the coast of the U.S. stalled.

Ted Jones of the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group in Washington, D.C., says the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is already deeply engrossed in international nuclear safety efforts.

These cuts would scale back federal efforts to foster the development of wind and solar energy, in line with President Donald Trump's campaign promise to bring back coal industry jobs.

Sept. 19, 2017 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will be part of a multi-lab effort to apply high - performance computing to U.S. - based industry's discovery, design and development of materials for severe environments under a new initiative announced today by the Department of Energy (DOE).

He is currently a sector leader overseeing the global research effort for energy & utilities and establishes positioning recommendations for both the sector and industries within the sector.

The products you offer may be unique to the pet industry, but shipping practices, packaging materials, in - store energy efficient systems and electronic marketing efforts are all examples of operational systems that can be adopted from other industries.

Guess it pays to be the biggest oil company in the world — even though their profits are at the lowest they've been in six years, Exxon still managed to spend more money on lobbying efforts for the climate bill than the entire clean energy industry combined.

But while science advances through that process of argument, public attitudes on climate change have largely been dulled by the debate, particularly after more than a decade of industry - backed efforts to point to the implicit complexity in the science as a reason for inaction on related energy and climate policies.

We need to start thinking in practical terms about how to get the technologies we need ready — as the authors say, «deep energy system decarbonization is likely to require an ambitious, focused agenda of rapid innovation and improvement in every critical technology area, even those commercially available today, as well as substantial «demand pull» efforts and policies to ensure early demonstration, industry maturation, scale - up, and «learning by doing.

Energy - efficiency efforts in the computing industry, such as Climate Savers consortium, resulted in more standardized parts and measurements in things like as power supplies.

And that despite the efforts by industry interests and certain politicians to claim such a transition would «devastate the economy» or whatever, people still want comprehensive energy reform.

While the Trump team characterizes the question as an effort to bring about transparency, it's worrying workers because the head of Trump's Energy Department landing team is Tom Pyle — who is better known as the president of the oil - industry - funded advocacy group American Energy Alliance.

This requires a joined - up effort from government and industry to create a pathway to low cost, low carbon energy generation that will benefit all.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal President As Appearing in The Daily Caller It used to be that responsible liberal politicians made at least a token effort to distance themselves from extremist environmentalists and their efforts to shutter America's energy industry manufacturing jobs.

IMO was represented at the event by Aubrey Botsford, who said that «efforts to mitigate climate change and promote energy efficiency in the maritime sector, through actions taken by Pacific governments and maritime industry, show the dynamic approach taken by your region».

As the founding Managing Director of Offshore Wind: Massachusetts, Mr. Morrissey spearheaded the industry's successful efforts to include offshore wind in the Commonwealth's energy portfolio, resulting in the historic 1600MW bill signed into law in August 2016.

The president outlined his new view in a letter to four Republican senators, whose criticisms of Mr. Bush's initial plan had been among a torrent of protests by conservatives and industry leaders who warned that any effort to regulate carbon dioxide emissions could deal a severe blow to the energy industry and to the American economy.

According to Gabe Elsner, executive director of watchdog group the Energy & Policy Institute, ALEC supplies «model» legislation to politicians at the state level who then push efforts to enact the laws as written by the group's utility and fossil fuel industry representatives.

«This project is a prime example of how private / public efforts can benefit emerging industries, particularly those in the renewable energy sector.

This coal industry PR and lobbying effort has nothing to do with protecting the average consumer from energy price increases, as they like to suggest.

COMMENTARY: • The president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association says Illinois could save ratepayers money by supporting efforts to expand rooftop solar.

The energy industry now is focusing its efforts on the energy legislation moving through the House.

All key sectors — energy generation, road transport, buildings, industry, forestry and land use, and commercial agriculture — have to begin major efforts to cut emissions by, latest, 2020.

The Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) is a nonprofit organization and a front group for the energy industry that opposes political efforts to regulate carbon standards while advancing deep water and land - based drilling for oil and methanEnergy Alliance (CEA) is a nonprofit organization and a front group for the energy industry that opposes political efforts to regulate carbon standards while advancing deep water and land - based drilling for oil and methanenergy industry that opposes political efforts to regulate carbon standards while advancing deep water and land - based drilling for oil and methane gas.

We evaluated energy codes and building industry practice in Frankfurt, London, San Francisco, Singapore, and Sydney to suggest ways to advance New York City's efforts toward this and other sustainability goals.

PM Abbott has proposed an «alliance of like - minded nations» in an effort to keep the obscenely profitable fossil fuel industry alive and to slow the accelerating rise in clean renewable energy such as wind and solar.