Sentences with phrase «for fossil fuel industries»
Equally, the event became a lightning rod for environmental groups who attempted to depict the panel discussion as a trade show for fossil fuel industries.
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These politicians can be viewed as spokespeople for the fossil fuel industries of their countries.
The EU's high - level group on sustainable finance issued its interim report on Thursday (13 July), urging the European Union to stop all public funding for fossil fuel industries such as coal, oil and gas.
Wesley Palmisano, president and CEO of the $ 97.2 million commercial construction company Palmisano (No. 241; 1,779.4 percent), says that the new administration seems good for the fossil fuel industry.
Christy Clark, and her «Liberals», like the BC Chamber of Commerce, have been, and continue to be shills for the fossil fuel industry, for which they are paid handsomely in political donations, and / or «membership fees», and whatever other benefits come to them.
We will fulfill Canada's G - 20 commitment to phase out subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.
A scientist at Exxon for 20 years until his departure in 1989, Bernstein went to Mobil where he wrote a 1996 primer on climate science for the Global Climate Coalition, an advocacy group for the fossil fuel industry.
«We have a Congressman who was at one time a lobbyist for the fossil fuel industry who is not equipped to take this fight to the halls of Congress.»
«Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in their study.
These results imply a greater potential than previously thought for fossil fuel industry efficiency improvements to mitigate the effects of human activity on the climate.
At first sight this may look like a scientific conference — especially to those who are not familiar with the activities of the Heartland Institute, a front group for the fossil fuel industry that is sponsoring the conference.
They are not efficient, there is no infrastructure, and they are shills for the fossil fuel industry.
I too share you concern for the fossil fuel industry.
These include ending subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, boosting energy efficiency, advancing renewable sources like wind and solar power and moving away from the idea that «drill baby, drill» is a solution.
Can you figure out why a PR outfit for the fossil fuel industry might lie about the dangerous nature of fossil fuel, Eric?
heck you cant even get agreement on what consititutes a subsidy for the fossil fuel industry or how to end them.
Carbon Tracker is developing a transition road map for the fossil fuel industry.
The cultural and perhaps political opprobrium that divestment can spark is long overdue for the fossil fuels industry.
It's time for fossil fuel industry enablers and apologists to step aside and let the rest of us continue the work necessary to solve the climate crisis and transition our society to 100 percent renewable energy.
Industrial - scale jet fuel production from solar thermochemical splitting would be disruptive for the fossil fuel industry.
And now, understandably, they've had a hard time adjusting to the presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton, a candidate who both defends her past support for the fossil fuel industry, and continues to pay them lip service.
Shell researcher: «Climate change is the most important environmental issue for the fossil fuel industry»
The selective use of scenarios which fit business as usual for the fossil fuel industry we believe is misleading for investors trying to understand the energy transition.
Unfortunately for the fossil fuel industry, natural gas only reduces pollution by 55 % (compared to coal) at the power plant, and only by 17 % (compared to gasoline) out of car tailpipes.
Great, so we get to look forward to swapping one fossil fuel industry backed labor dinosaur for a fossil fuel industry backed liberal dinosaur.
Tax credits, defined as a subsidy by the World Trade Organisation, are a key route of support for the fossil fuel industry.
Regrettably, your colleagues in the liberal environmental movement responded at first by pretending we don't exist, and when opinion polls and political decisions revealed that strategy wasn't working, by denouncing us as «deniers» and «shills for the fossil fuel industry.»
It's been a rough year or so for the fossil fuels industry, what with exploding fracking wells, massive coal ash dumps, and oil spills from pipelines.
... along with myriad other problems surrounding Naomi's efforts to portray skeptic climate scientists as «paid shills working for the fossil fuel industry.»
After one final ad hominem, he makes a really ludicrous statement: «And I call upon the DE and the SIUC community to make our Voices page a place for OUR voices — not reprints of shills for the fossil fuel industry.»
It's really not speculation that the same tactics that were used for the tobacco industry that are now being used for the fossil fuel industry.
Interview abstract: Zehner is neither a global warming skeptic nor a spokesman for the fossil fuel industry.
Small personal item today, concerning those who might attempt to say my blog and other writings are «what a paid shill does for the fossil fuel industry».
This will be a significant blow for the fossil fuel industry and a tipping point for the whole movement.
This report makes it clear that «business as usual» is not a viable option for the fossil fuel industry in the long term.
I think it's pretty obvious that many of these guys either work on the ground for the fossil fuel industry, or lobby for them indirectly.
«Over the past 15 years my co-authors and I have been subject to a crescendo of by politicians, typically aligned closely with fossil fuel interests or front groups advocating for the fossil fuel industry, that see the need to discredit this iconic graphic.»
Writing in Harper's Magazine in 1995, former Boston Globe reporter Ross Gelbspan called Lindzen a «hood ornament» for the fossil fuels industry, alleging that the scientist once received $ 2,500 a day in consulting fees from oil and gas companies.
The world is changing for the fossil fuel industry, especially the coal sector which is facing a shrinking demand window.
As the potential losses for oil companies could lead toward perilous catastrophe for the fossil fuel industry, how will oil companies engage in preparation to COP21?
The documents, unveiled by Dutch newspaper De Correspondent on Thursday, show that the oil giant's researchers flagged that climate change could have major implications for the fossil fuel industry as far back as the 1980s — and predicted that environmental groups could sue following damages from extreme weather.
If it does not, it will instead prevent the most urgently needed transition, away from fossil fuels (in which case it would merely limit the cost for the fossil fuel industry).
At RealClimate, the blog that touts its devotion to sober scientific analysis, the Heartland Institute was written off as «a front group for the fossil fuel industry,» the same them that was picked up by some commenters on this blog.
As of November 2011, a large majority of Americans (70 %) also opposed federal subsidies for the fossil fuel industry (coal, oil, and natural gas), including majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents:
While tax incentives for the fossil fuel industry remain intact, support for clean energy is on the chopping block.
The Heartland Institute has a long history of climate change denial and support for the fossil fuel industry and is known for its regular International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC) where prominent climate change deniers gather to promote the idea that a debate still exists on the science behind man - made climate change.
Labor pretends to be concerned by climate change, but do nothing to stop support for the fossil fuel industry (Adani coal mine is a case in point), and continue the green wash of society who actually think that they are acting on the issue.
What it really does is streamline access to oil, gas, and coal under public lands and federally - controlled ocean waters for the fossil fuel industry — and condemns Americans to more spills, climate - polluting emissions, and health problems.
The women - led network hopes to bring awareness to the threat climate change poses to reproductive justice, and to end U.S. subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.
You have to pinch yourself when the government announces another new subsidy for the fossil fuel industry, not only because they so recently said that renewable energy should stand on its own two feet, but also because they're announcing this just days before the latest climate conference in Paris — at which world leaders will gather to try and hammer out a global deal to reduce emissions.