Sentences with phrase «energy industry lobbyists»
I'm also asking an assortment of climate and energy experts, environmental campaigners, energy industry lobbyists, other elected officials and Dot Earth participants for their reactions, too.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
Last week, Trump appointed the long - time fossil fuel lobbyist Myron Ebell to lead the transition of the Environmental Protection Agency, and recently Trump's transition team released statements on «energy independence» that unambiguously favor the extractive industries and in which the team promises to «conduct a top - down review of all anti-coal regulations».
Mr. Protti is the founding President of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and at that time was a registered lobbyist for the Energy Policy Institute of Canada, an energy industry lobby Energy Policy Institute of Canada, an energy industry lobby energy industry lobby group.
But David Cameron is breaking his promises to clean up the lobbying industry because, under his Government's watered - down Bill: · only a fraction of lobbyists would have to register and this will not include the in house lobbyists used by the big energy firms.
The nation's top energy - industry lobbyist said Cuomo's «knee - jerk» ban on fracking is being «cheered» by the gas and oil industries in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, all of which share the gas - rich Marcellus Shale region with New York.
Frank Maisano, a lobbyist at Bracewell & Giuliani in Washington, D.C., who represents energy - industry clients, said plans don't count as much as action.
Rachel Notley said her party, if elected, would work with industry to re-establish energy and environmental standards in the province using «research - driven» best practices and a «science - based» approach as opposed to «the outcome of a lobbyist meeting on a golf course somewhere.»
The lobbyists are representing both fossil fuel and renewable energy industries and everything in between.
Aware of corporate resistance to mandatory limits, some energy industry executives and lobbyists have proposed that the government sponsor a voluntary program to reduce emissions.
As someone with deep ties to right - wing political circles, and strong financial ties to the tobacco industry, C. Boyden Gray fits the bill as the ideal lobbyist for the dirty energy industry.
In total, 15 staffers on the eight main energy and environment congressional committees previously worked as industry lobbyists on behalf of oil, gas, mining, coal, petrochemical, and electric utility interests.
The simple fact is that the report is not credible; it was produced by the Republican party as propaganda: nothing more than a compilation, by lobbyists for the carbon - based energy industry, of out - of - context, out - of - date or misinformed quotes or, to be charitable, reasonable doubts that climatologists would have no problem with.
What hasn't been reported is the complementary role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.
Alexandra «Sandy» Liddy Bourne runs an oil industry front group called the American Energy Freedom Center with former ExxonMobil lobbyist Randy Randol.
The group allowed lobbyists from fossil fuel giants, such as Koch Industries and Peabody Energy, to draft legislation designed to undermine regulation on air pollution and climate change.
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.
But John Constable, director of the Renewable Energy Foundation, lambasted the lobbyists, saying: «This industry is behaving like a spoiled brat — you can never give it enough subsidies, it will always want more.
However, John Constable of the Renewable Energy Foundation criticised the lobbyists, saying: «This industry is behaving like a spoiled brat — you can never give it enough subsidies, it will always want more.
Almost all of these industry lobbyists have been plucked from the senior ranks of the Australian Public Service where they wrote briefs and cabinet submissions and advised ministers on energy policy.
Other participants were former CIA Director James Woolsey, Andrew Lundquist, an industry lobbyist who served as Cheney's top energy adviser in the White House, Nobel Laureate Mario Molina and Ralph Cavanagh, co-director of energy programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Industry lobbyists and members of Congress who are engaged in writing energy and global warming bills say they are well aware of the E.P.A. process bearing down on them.
Five prominent non-profits have launched the «Polluter Fraud Hotline» (1-866-363-4648), inviting average citizens or industry insiders to blow the whistle on any deceptive or illegal tactics that big polluters and their lobbyists are using in opposition to clean energy legislation.
WASHINGTON — American Energy Alliance President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement on the Senate approving an extension of the wind Production Tax Credit (PTC): «Christmas came early for wind industry lobbyists courtesy of the United States Congress.
Jim Inhofe attended a closed door mitting with lobbyists from the energy industry, DeSmog and Politico reported.
Other individuals that Raney didn't highlight, but who also have connections with the utility and coal industry, include Brian McCormack (formerly of the Edison Electric Institute), David Banks (former lobbyist for Exelon), Mark Menezes (former lobbyist for Southern Company and other utilities), and Travis Fisher (formerly of the fossil fuel - funded Institute for Energy Research).
Tom Harris has a long history as a lobbyist for the energy industry.
While there is always some chance Trump could lunge off in an unexpected direction (he is Trump, after all), the overwhelming likelihood is that GOP operatives and industry lobbyists will control energy and environmental policy for the next four years.
Part of the duty of the ALEC state chairs is to solicit funds from corporations for the ALEC «scholarship fund,» which raises more than $ 600,000 per year and which enables legislators to travel for free to ALEC conferences, where they meet with lobbyists from corporations like Peabody Energy, Exxon Mobil and Koch Industries.
Koch Industries lobbyist Jonathan Small has added direct pressure on Kansas lawmakers to rollback support for clean energy.
While Koch Industries has deployed its own lobbyists to compliment the effort, the brothers who lead the company have tapped into their broader national network to aid the fight against clean energy in Kansas.
Exelon teamed up with the American Energy Alliance (AEA), which is affiliated with the Institute for Energy Research (a group that receives funding from fossil fuel interests and is led by Thomas Pyle, a former Koch Industries lobbyist), to attack the wind production tax credit.
Via the FOIA request, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has learned that the Department of Energy — specifically the office headed by Al Gore's company's former CEO, Cathy Zoi — turned to George Soros» Center for American Progress and other wind industry lobbyists to help push Obama's wind energy propEnergy — specifically the office headed by Al Gore's company's former CEO, Cathy Zoi — turned to George Soros» Center for American Progress and other wind industry lobbyists to help push Obama's wind energy propenergy proposals.
Senators and lobbyists for the oil industry have been arguing about this for decades, insisting on their right to drill on behalf of America's energy plan.
And the next time some building industry lobbyist says that the public can not afford the construction cost increases that come with energy efficiency upgrades, just remind them how smart developers have always responded: take up a little less land and make the house a little bit smaller.
I'm not saying there's a linear connection between the news from two weeks back of lobbyists sending forged letters urging opposition to the climate bill to a Virginia Congressman, but it does show the level of manipulation going on to protect vested interests of polluters — Think Progress reports that Greenpeace has obtained internal documents from the American Petroleum Institute that show they plan on staging so - called «energy citizen» rallies during the August Congressional recess: The API would coordinate transportation for oil industry employees to these rallies, where the objective would be,
A major climate scientist, his colleague and lover, an Arctic scientist, wage fierce battle with his twin sister, a publicist for the energy industry, and her husband, a lobbyist, over scientific truth and an inherited wilderness estate.
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.
They a) use a legion of lobbyists to push Washington to oppose carbon pricing policies, limit tax breaks to renewable energy, and keep their own generous subsidies in place (remember, Exxon spends more on lobbying than the entire domestic clean energy industry combined).
A ragtag (by comparison) group of lobbyists for environmental orgs and 130 lobbyists for the alternative energy industry.
The way it is now, the renewable technology industry (PV, wind,...) with best lobbyist gets the biggest rebate programs — I think this works to the detriment of other renewable technologies that may be superior from cost effective energy reduction point of view, but are not as glamorous and don't lobby so well.
Other controversies have included Pruitt renting an apartment from an energy lobbyist at below market rates, defying the White House to give staff huge pay raises, and dodging normal congressional review procedures to stack positions at the agency with industry flacks.