Sentences with phrase «energy interest groups»

Federal regulators have denied requests from a multitude of energy interest groups seeking to slow down a 60 - day review of an Energy Department proposal that could upend the country's wholesale energy markets, by propping up coal and nuclear plants in the name of grid resiliency.

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Juan Carlos Hartasánchez, Albright Stonebridge Group senior director, said energy isn't a big enough common interest to bring the NAFTA negotiations together but it could help.

Representing one of its first major overseas acquisitions, the company's wholly - owned subsidiary, Woodside Energy (USA) Inc. reached agreement with the Marathon Oil Company — part of the USX - Marathon Group which is a unit of the USX Corporation in Pittsburgh — for the acquisition of interests in a number of deep water exploration acreage blocks in the Gulf.

The Energy Accountability Series takes a substantive look at what could happen if energy proposals from political candidates and interest groups were actually adEnergy Accountability Series takes a substantive look at what could happen if energy proposals from political candidates and interest groups were actually adenergy proposals from political candidates and interest groups were actually adopted.

Our Global Market Strategies segment, established in 1999 with our first high yield fund, advises a group of 46 active funds that pursue investment opportunities across various types of credit, equities and alternative instruments, including bank loans, high yield debt, structured credit products, distressed debt, corporate mezzanine, energy mezzanine opportunities and long / short high - grade and high - yield credit instruments, emerging markets equities, and (with regards to certain macroeconomic strategies) currencies, commodities and interest rate products and their derivatives.

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CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate.

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.

If we can not think past the conflicting goals of different groups to the world in which their diverse interests can be reconciled, too much energy will be spent on bickering among those who should be allies in a common struggle.

But Hunter says upstate Democrats are benefiting from the energy and interest that's fueling activism and marches throughout the country, like the women's marches and Indivisible grassroots groups.

A coalition of groups including the New York Public Interest Research Group and Food & Water Watch announced Wednesday the launch of a campaign aimed at blocking a planned surcharge on utility bills that was a key component of the state's new Clean Energy Standard regulations.

«It is unfortunate that your organization has decided to deal with a serious issue — climate change — with a cheap stunt that not only misleads, but offers no workable alternatives,» wrote Richard Kauffman, the state's energy and finance chairman, to New York Public Interest Group Executive Director Blair Horner.

The Public Interest Advocacy Group has called on the Joe Ghartey committee to make public, the report on its investigation into the bribery allegations made against the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko and some members of Parliament's Appointments Committee.

«At the highest levels of government, people viewed economic development and energy policies as a gold rush,» said Blair Horner, the longtime legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group.

The group focuses on donations Republicans have received from special - interest groups that have been anathema to liberals, such as the energy and financial sectors.

He now represents a half - dozen interest groups, including Alliant Energy, which spent $ 194,000 on lobbying in the 2011 - 12 legislative session; School Choice Wisconsin, which supports public spending on private schools and has another former Assembly speaker, John Gard, on its lobby payroll; and the Wisconsin Council for Independent Education, which represents for - profit colleges.

The report was released by Alliance for Clean Energy New York, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environment America, Environment New York, Environmental Advocates of New York, HealthyPlanet, Long Island Solar Energy Industries Association, National Wildlife Federation, New York Building Congress, New York League of Conservation Voters, New York Public Interest Research Group, Renewable Energy Long Island, and Sierra Club.

Unfortunately, at the urging of radical special interest groups that oppose increased production of American - made energy, President Obama has delayed, blocked, and restricted access to America's energy resources, resulting in a 14 percent drop in federal energy production since 2010.

«This measurement has been of great interest to the heavy - ion and high - energy physics communities for several years, as calculations from several groups showed that we might achieve a significant signal by studying lead - ion collisions in Run 2,» says Peter Steinberg, ATLAS Heavy Ion Physics Group Convener.

I became interested in high energy physics when I began by working with the MIT Heavy Ion group looking at data from RHIC (the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, at BNL) as an undergraduate.

Lynnea Smith and John Fogarty represented the group at a news conference at the National Press Club where the U.S. Public Interest Research Group issued a report critical of the billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies to the energy industry embodied in the House Energy group at a news conference at the National Press Club where the U.S. Public Interest Research Group issued a report critical of the billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies to the energy industry embodied in the House Energy Group issued a report critical of the billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies to the energy industry embodied in the House Energyenergy industry embodied in the House EnergyEnergy Bill.

This breadth allows us to draw on a group of the top people in the country whose scientific interests span both solar energy conversion and photonics.

Our Radiochemistry and Energy Sector Interest Groups also do a great deal of work supporting researchers with a broad portfolio of events, conferences and awards.

Groups like the Center for Science in the Public Interest have called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to add safety warnings to energy drinks, and American Academy of Pediatrics researchers have argued the stimulants in energy drinks have «no place in the diet of children and adolescents.»

There are over 150 meet - up groups categorized under «environment» in the U.S. ranging from general green interests to specifics like biodiesel or energy.

SVDCer's are an amazing group of dedicated, energetic and caring single professionals from the Metro DC area who are interested in devoting their time and energy to improving the quality of life in their communities through volunteer work.

This highly practical example shows that by taking a keener interest in energy use schools can save money, reduce carbon and create a group of more engaged and motivated students who will have the skill sets required in a new economy.

Guided by distinct wellness experts, the new Life Enhancement Retreats provide a setting for guests to explore specific areas of interest in greater depth and benefit from the dynamic group energy and support network of like - minded individuals, with a maximum of 12 participants per retreat.

While Whitten has been exhibiting at home and abroad throughout his career, there has been a recent resurgence of interest in his work, which has been included in major group shows such as Energy / Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction 1964 — 1980 at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2006); High Times Hard Times: New York Painting 1967 — 1975, organized by Independent Curators International (2006); and Blues for Smoke organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California in 2012.

The campaign is promoted by two interrelated groups, Choose Common Sense, which claims to have the interests of the hard - working people of the coal and gas industries at heart, and the Secure Energy for America Political Action Committee.

A bill introduced in Congress this week to «save uranium mining,» the Northern Arizona Mining Continuity Act of 2011, would undo that protection from new uranium mining claims.Despite all the talk about energy independence, «a significant percentage of these mining claims and pending operations are controlled by foreign interests, which pay no royalties for the mineral wealth they extract from U.S. public lands,» said Jane Danowitz of the Pew Environment Group, in response to the legislation.

He previously served as the Director of the Energy Policy & Climate program at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC He is also the former President of the Association for Environmental Studies & Sciences, and former Co-Chair of the International Environmental Law interest group of the American Society of International Law, and Chair of the International Wildlife Law Interest group of the interest group of the American Society of International Law, and Chair of the International Wildlife Law Interest group of the Interest group of the Society.

American Electric Power is a member of the American Coal Ash Association (ACAA), an umbrella lobbying group for all coal ash interests that includes major coal burners Duke Energy and Southern Company as well as dozens of other companies.

«There is a clear conflict of interest — Glenn Vaad was a high - ranking representative of a corporate lobbying group that is coordinating a national attack on clean energy,» explains Gabe Elsner, Executive Director for the Energy and Policy Institute, «In the past year, ALEC's utility and fossil fuel members lobbied lawmakers in at least 15 states to introduce legislation repealing Renewable Energy Portfolio Stanenergy,» explains Gabe Elsner, Executive Director for the Energy and Policy Institute, «In the past year, ALEC's utility and fossil fuel members lobbied lawmakers in at least 15 states to introduce legislation repealing Renewable Energy Portfolio StanEnergy and Policy Institute, «In the past year, ALEC's utility and fossil fuel members lobbied lawmakers in at least 15 states to introduce legislation repealing Renewable Energy Portfolio StanEnergy Portfolio Standards.

This drew an immediate legal response from an unprecedented coalition of 14 industry trade groups, representing divergent interests in energy policy.

The groups also have financial ties to coal interests, including Alpha Natural Resources and Peabody Energy.

In addition to all this, in August investor - owned Duke Energy, the state's second largest utility, announced a proposed settlement with consumer, environmental and public interest groups that entails scrapping plans to complete construction of the Levy nuclear power plant without customers or the state having to pay for any more costs incurred.

The Heartland Institute is a fossil fuel - funded front group with over $ 800,000 in contributions from fossil fuel interests that has routinely attacked clean energy policies and the science behind climate change.

Before Donald Trump appointed Daniel Simmons to lead the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Simmons worked for special interest groups that called on Congress to eliminate the same Department of Energy program.

It also aligns with the assessment of clean energy and environmental groups, natural gas trade groups and utilities that have invested in more natural gas generation, and the majority of energy regulators and economists, who have fought FirstEnergy's and the Trump administration's attempts to bail out coal and nuclear interests, largely in the PJM region.

Canada's oil sands (and the Keystone Pipeline that will bring their petroleum to the United States) must be evaluated on environmental and ethical grounds that compare them to real world alternatives to them — not to some utopian energy resource that exists only in the minds of idealists, ideologues and special interest environmental pressure groups.

Who knew that green groups — and those with business interests in renewable energy — have access to such obscene amounts of money?

It was tabled after a protracted floor battle and opposition from utility interests like Duke Energy and the Edison Electric Institute, a trade group.

Environment groups that have supported the wind industry and taken their thirty pieces of silver, «health professionals» who have no expertise in acoustics and no interest in faraway rural communities, but do have an overblown interest in climate health effects, have jumped on the wind energy bandwagon eager to claim the high moral ground despite the human collateral damage.

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Capitalism since its birth, as Paul Sweezy wrote in «Capitalism and the Environment,» has been «a juggernaut driven by the concentrated energy of individuals and small groups single - mindedly pursuing their own interests, checked only by their mutual competition, and controlled in the short run by the impersonal forces of the market and in the longer run, when the market fails, by devastating crises.»

This Energy & Policy Institute briefing outlines the studies frequently used by pundits and special interests to attack the Clean Power Plan, details who has been paid or consulted in the production of these reports, and exposes the front groups involved in circulating the following reports:

E.ON is a member of the American Coal Ash Association (ACAA), an umbrella lobbying group for all coal ash interests that includes major coal burners Duke Energy, Southern Company and American Electric Power as well as dozens of other companies.

VANCOUVER — Foreign special interests are paying millions of dollars to local front groups to sabotage Canada's energy industry, according to an advertising campaign launched today.

Worried about self - preservation, and acting in its own best interest — rather than that of consumers specifically, and America in general — industry groups have sprung up to defend the favored - status energy policies and attack anyone who disagrees with the incentive - payment business model.