Sentences with phrase «fight over fossil fuels»

Not exact matches

This means that such fights, which are at the core of the delays over energy legislation, are a distraction from the simpler process of building the first stages of a sustained energy quest after a long comfortable nap facilitated by cheap abundant fossil fuels for which longer - term and indirect costs are finally being gauged.

It's important to note that there's also sometimes a kind of «false inequivalence» in the fight over climate science and policies — an implication that the lack of action on greenhouse gases is largely the result of the unfair advantage in money and influence held by industries dealing in, or dependent on, fossil fuels.

But this wouldn't preclude the inevitable fight over the costs and benefits of continued reliance on fossil fuels.

Activists are also fighting Rover and other fossil fuel infrastructure projects on climate change grounds because the new installations can have a lifespan of 50 years or more, locking in new carbon emissions over the long term.

It can be added that CO2 impacts are only part of the troubles and impacts created by the fighting over the right to benefit most from burning fossil fuels.

The fight over clean energy and climate policy in California is dripping with out - of - state oil money because the oil billionaires want to stamp out the progress that has been made to move toward clean energy and energy efficiency, and keep us addicted to their fossil fuels.

In 2017 alone, we've held over 900 local anti-fracking meetings and trained over 100 organizations in the country on how to fight fossil fuels.

Hundreds of thousands of people joined an estimated 2,300 marches and actions in 175 countries over the weekend, demanding that the heads of state and negotiators in Paris pull together a strong deal to fight global warming — and fight to keep fossil fuels in the ground and shift to 100 percent clean energy.

The entire developed world is implicated by its dependence upon fossil fuels to function yet some have over the past few decades struggled valiantly to change this while others have fought to keep the status quo.

The owners of those fossil fuels have now begun fighting over who gets to sell their fossil carbon, and who doesn't.

'' [I] t is hard to deny that the fossil fuel industry has been fiercely fighting effective climate policies over the past couple of decades.

We can't all become survivalists; surviving into the next century (moot for me as a septuagenerian) will likely call on all our cooperative skills, or else what we are likely to get in a world fighting over scarce food and water, never mind fossil fuels, is neofeudalism.

That will put Gina McCarthy, the woman he's tapped to run the agency, at the heart of a fight over a priority that Obama views as a cornerstone of his legacy — and that the fossil - fuel industry views as a threat to its very existence.

To many, the thought of people in a town of just over 82,000 — in a county of only 200,000 — taking on the fossil fuel industry in a local fight with global implications might sound a little, well, ambitious.

As with fights under way over the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, and plans to build coal export terminals on U.S. coastlines, the new fossil fuel abundance is touching off a backlash among those alarmed by the consequences for climate change.