The dispute underscores the conflicts between conservation groups and
renewable energy interests, such as the ongoing issue with wind turbine farms imposing dangers to birds.
Exxon and API just two of dozens of
dirty energy interests paying to be in the room during ALEC's exclusive Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force meetings.
He is a thought leader on defending policies from attacks by
incumbent energy interests and his work has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Daily Mail, The Australian, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, and National Public Radio.
To many of them the American energy revolution — with oil production projected to reach 10.7 million barrels per day this year, and the U.S. becoming a net natural gas exporter for the first time in nearly 60 years — means our armed forces are less likely to be deployed to faraway places to
protect energy interests.
Darren has amassed an investment portfolio consisting of over 4,000 rental properties across North America, tens of millions of dollars
in energy interests and hundreds of acres of land.
Cox Newspapers reported in May that the paper was underwritten by the American Petroleum Institute and promoted by nonprofit organizations that receive support
from energy interests, primarily ExxonMobil Corp..
akin to saying «Cancer: not cigarettes, just natural,» but funded via fossil
fuel energy interests, not tobacco.
In the past it has clashed several times with Saudi Arabia's leadership, and it has shared
energy interests with Iran in the South Pars / North Dome gas field in the Persian Gulf.
For them the Anthropocene is not proof of humankind's shortsightedness or rapacity, let alone the product of a power structure defended vigorously by
fossil energy interests.
They went to someone with whom they have a work relationship and that also does work
for energy interests.»
Gibson, meanwhile, is criticized for accepting donations from Wall Street and
energy interests while supporting hydrofracking (and to be fair, Eldridge has tapped into a wealthy donor base himself).
DeSmogBlog seeks to uncover the spin and propoganda that dirty
energy interests masquerade as expert opinion in the theatre of politics.
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.
Are natural gas and renewable
energy interests funding efforts by FOE, Greenpeace, and President Moon to kill nuclear energy in Korea, Taiwan, and other parts of the world?
Entrenched energy interests would pay breathtaking sums to introduce this kind of dissonance into the public mind but they don't have to; scientists and journalists work together to make a mess of our cognition.
«Out - of -
state energy interests, particularly in gas, have used deregulation of power generation to game the market,» Kucinich said, «and have developed price points to undercut Ohio's largest energy company.»
It was an abuse of science... the Bush administration were very closely tied to a political clientele within the
major energy interests.»
Low - cost natural gas, it was argued, could give
U.S. energy interests a competitive edge in supplying gas to Asia and Europe, where the price of gas currently tends to be much higher.
One state measure demands the attention of environmental and
energy interests across the nation: Proposition 23 in California.
In 1997 Bill Clinton changed the Freedom of Information Act to protect
wind energy interests and help them conceal their industrial carnage to highly protected species.
Grid conditions «do not empower the [DOE] to provide the long term out - of - market price support that the coal and nuclear plant owners seek,»
energy interests wrote to the secretary.
King once remarked that «climate change poses a bigger threat than terrorism», that it is the «biggest challenge our civilisation has ever had», and that foreign spies and
US energy interests were behind attempts to undermine public confidence in climate science and the attempt to build an international agreement at Copenhagen.
There is much hand - wringing about
large energy interests getting involved in politics — especially in the USA — but Business Green and the REA seem somewhat unashamed to admit that their own interests lie in particular election outcomes.
EP has exposed the flagrant alliance between anti-nuclear groups and natural gas - renewable
energy interests around the world;
Energy interests wishing to stave off action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have a documented history of supporting the small group of scientists who question the human role in causing climate change — as well as consciously strategizing about how to sow confusion on the issue and sway journalists.
In addition to solar quote data at the national and state level, this report includes an analysis of consumer preferences, model - level data on popular equipment choices, and insight into solar shoppers»
other energy interests.
Business Green writes harsh words about people it accuses of being in the pay of vested interests, yet seems to have been established to promote
certain energy interests.
In 2017, 74 % of solar shoppers who shared their
non-solar energy interests with EnergySage stated they were also considering a home battery like the Tesla Powerwall.
In particular, he acted for the National Iranian Gas Company in Botaş v NIGC, its long - running $ 25 billion ICC price review dispute with Botaş (the Turkish state -
owned energy interest).
We know that ALEC members include not only the Heartland Institute, but a who's who of
dirty energy interests that stand to make money by denying climate change.
Incumbent energy interests were happy to indulge the magical thinking by green groups and Democrats, who have been certain since Jimmy Carter's administration that solar and wind are on the verge of becoming economically competitive with coal and oil.
But between stiff opposition
from energy interests and the overwhelming distractions of health care reform and the economy, the legislation has been stalled in the Senate.
All in all, a number of U.S. fossil - fuel development and export policy positions suggest an administration that is attempting to straddle climate and energy policy in such a way that it wins support on the progressive side for having a proactive domestic climate policy while, in effect, failing to challenge the obstacle to climate change mitigation posed by
corporate energy interests and their global ambitions.
If we take one mega basin in this paper, the Ganga — Brahmaputra — Meghna (Fig. 3), we can focus on the major water and
energy interests at work today and model what is occurring across the river systems of the Himalayas.
Those documents show that Michaels has financial ties to
big energy interests — ties that he's worked hard to keep secret.»
[35] Soon, «who has relied on grants from fossil -
fuel energy interests,» co-wrote the paper with Christopher Monckton, David R. Legates, and William M. Briggs.