Sentences with phrase «fossil energy interests»

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Fossil - fuel subsidies drain government budgets, throwing up a fiscal wall that blocks state support for clean energy while protecting the interests of the oil industry.

While the money is modest compared with that donated by fossil fuel interests, the support provides GOP candidates with added credibility on clean energy, an issue polling shows swing voters care about.

That logic is another reason why OPEC countries have less of an incentive to cut back production: renewable energy sources is starting to give fossil fuels some serious competition, and oil - exporting countries have an interest in keeping oil a cheap alternative.

«That, let's be honest, has some fossil fuel interests pretty nervous, to the point where they are trying to fight renewable energy.»

Although this aspect of the analysis was largely absent from the immediate news coverage, the RECAI also tracked growing interest in renewable energy on the part of large fossil companies, with Eni, BP, Statoil, Total, and Shell all scoring notable investments.

In sum, what started last April with a call to action to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to prevent a mega fossil energy project from threatening a primary source of fresh water has grown into a public interest campaign with powerful implications for energy development, the environment, and the rule of law.

Now that energy is becoming the factor that is scarce and labor is plentiful, it would make more sense to replace fossil fuels by labor, especially at those points where that could also restore interest and dignity to work.

Given the vastness of the world's marine methane hydrate deposits — more than twice the carbon reserves of all other fossil fuels combined — it's not surprising that government agencies and the petroleum and natural gas industries have long been interested in harvesting this new energy supply.

From the Post Carbon Institute comes a quick video of the history of fossil fuels and the growth of the modern economy over the last 300 years: You might also be interested in this recent post: «Energy source transitions over time - what comes next?

With Trump and the Republicans running the Government, look for the transition to clean energy and EVs to be delayed as long as they can make it happen and as long as the fossil fuel corporation can bribe them to act in their interests and not the people's best interest.

It is interesting to note that as the world is projected to require 70 % more energy by 2050 than is used now and begs the question of where this additional energy will come from if not from fossil fuels?

However, it is also well - known that vested interests in fossil fuels have used their wealth and political connections to lock out competition from renewable energy.

Currently, the DOE is under the control of fossil fuel interests who don't want to see any competition in their energy markets.

I have never seen that textbook in the United States, and that is because political interests linked to fossil fuels have ensured that we don't do renewable energy research in this country.

The case gets even worse when we consider that fossil fuel interests have engaged in specific actions to LIMIT choice that would lead to using alternative sources of energy.

Fossil fuel interests are using their clout at the White House and in Congress to sabotage every renewable energy program that comes along, while make sure massive government subsidies, on the order of $ 100 billion a year when you count it all up, continue to flow to the fossil fuel industry (U.S. military expenditures are $ 500 billion a year, and good chunk of that is devoted to protecting overseas oilfields, for exaFossil fuel interests are using their clout at the White House and in Congress to sabotage every renewable energy program that comes along, while make sure massive government subsidies, on the order of $ 100 billion a year when you count it all up, continue to flow to the fossil fuel industry (U.S. military expenditures are $ 500 billion a year, and good chunk of that is devoted to protecting overseas oilfields, for exafossil fuel industry (U.S. military expenditures are $ 500 billion a year, and good chunk of that is devoted to protecting overseas oilfields, for example).

It really points to very serious widespread problems in the U.S. academic and journalistic professions — you can't do research on renewable energy in the U.S. academic system, because of fossil fuel influence, and you can't get honest coverage of renewable energy initiatives in the U.S. press, also because of undue influence by vested interests — and more often than not these days, those vested interests are in finance, not in industry.

Efficiency improvements applied to fossil energy sources are in all of our interests for two key reasons.

For years, it has often seemed that those most passionately pressing for a rapid transition from still - abundant fossil fuels to non-polluting energy sources have been as focused on attacking each others» arguments as they have on fighting powerful interests defending the status quo (as well as perhaps the biggest foe — inertia, both in society and infrastructure).

If we define «Adaptation to climate change» as ending the use of fossil fuels and quickly building renewable energy infrastructure, then yes, there is opposition — from established fossil fuel interests, mostly.

The company's background in solar cell technology combined with this interest in display technology could lead to some amazing energy efficient, solar powered gadgets that provide users with the service they need without fossil fuel - based electricity.

Commercial customers could include Fortune 500 companies — who may be interested in rounding out their energy procurement not to be as dependent on fossil fuels or regional electric grids — but also school districts, cities, counties, water districts, colleges and government agencies.

The standards will now be unfrozen on January 1, 2017, a significant win for supporters of renewable energy and energy efficiency standards and a notable loss for the fossil fuel and utility interests that lobbied behind the scenes to continue the freeze.

Part of this entails a recognition that fossil interests are not going to relinquish the stranglehold they have on the world's energy supply.

«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.

You can point the finger at all sorts of participants in this battle, but I believe (and we have been examining and discussing at length on this site for more than 8 years now) the principal drivers of the polarization are coming more from: (1) the corporate energy interests who are protecting their profits against regulation and other policies that would move the system away from fossil fuels, and using their clout in the political process to tie things up; (2) right - wing anti-government and anti-regulatory ideologues whose political views appear threatened by scientific conclusions that point toward a need for stronger policy action; (3) people whose religious or cultural identities appear threatened by modern science; and so forth.

Fossil fuel and utility interests have used lobbyists and 2016 campaign contributions to influence state legislators in Ohio, and to drive renewed attacks on clean energy policies in the Buckeye State.

Furthermore, powerful actors with vested interests in fossil fuels are working to remove the incentives for wind power that has made it competitive with the dirty energy sector that enjoys billions of dollars in subsidies.

There has been no shortage of public support for unfreezing Ohio's clean energy standards, but behind the scenes, fossil fuel and utility interests have been using money to influence the debate in Columbus.

A lot more money, flowing from the political favors of tax - payer subsidized renewable energy into the pockets of billionaires, plus getting politicians to impose new environmental rules on fossil fuels and nuclear to make them wildly more expensive and billionaire renewable interests more competitive.

In fact, most states with renewable energy standards have chosen to stand by their bipartisan commitments to clean energy, and reject the disinformation campaign funded by fossil fuel and utility interests.

We are writing now to express our concern at Taiwan's transition away from clean, nuclear energy to fossil fuels, warn against a misinformation campaign being waged by financial interests, and encourage a democratic resolution to Taiwan's energy crisis.

While the move toward renewable energy is good for California's environment and ratepayers, utilities and fossil fuel interests saw it as a threat to their profits.

Travis Fisher wrote a 2015 report for the Institute for Energy Research, which has received funding from fossil fuel interests.

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.

For years, environmentalists have been attacking Soon for taking money from energy companies with fossil fuel interests, the only update the Times story added was that Soon allegedly did not disclose this to academic journals he was being published in.

But the results from projects like the Nyabyeya biomass energy plant are renewing interest in wood and biomass as larger scale energy sources, and an alternative to fossil fuels.

The heavy hand of the fossil fuel industry works mostly in legal ways such as the «I'm an Energy Voter» campaign in the U.S. Failure of executive and legislative branches to deal with climate change makes it essential for courts, less subject to pressure and bribery from special financial interests, to step in and protect young people, as they did minorities in the case of civil rights.

All of these leaders have been aggressive champions of renewable energy, and none could be accused of being a pawn of fossil fuel interests.

Despite Perry's close ties to fossil fuel interests, he's probably done more for the wind energy industry than most so - called environmentalist Democrats.

The research methodology manages to systematically ignore the most critical evidence surrounding the drivers undermining U.S. primacy: such as, the biophysical processes of climate, energy and food disruption behind the Arab Spring; the confluence of military violence, fossil fuel interests and geopolitical alliances behind the rise of ISIS; or the fundamental grievances that have driven a breakdown in trust with governments since the 2008 financial collapse and the ensuing ongoing period of neoliberal economic failure.

This is a point routinely mentioned at the top of the list of challenges for wider deployment of clean energy (and too often blown way out of proportion by fossil fuel interests).

Vested interests are pushing the dirtiest fossil fuel as the energy solution in poor nations.

They believe the transition to a wind & solar powered energy grid could be made in two decades or less using current technology, and at an affordable cost — but only if the many roadblocks now being thrown up by nuclear and fossil fuel interests can be overcome.

My anti-nuclear, pro-renewable relatives now living in California believe it is only the entrenched opposition of well - financed nuclear and fossil fuel interests which prevents America's rapid transition into a mostly wind and solar energy future.

Documents posted online by Common Cause, a public advocacy organization, show that Dominion executives sit on ALEC's energy, environment, and agriculture task force, along with Joseph Bast of the climate - denying Heartland Foundation and representatives of major carbon polluters and fossil - fuel interests including Koch Industries - related entities and Exxon - Mobil.

Among those who have taken some interest in addressing climate change, there have over the last decade or so been discussions about whether a focus on curtailing the activities of the fossil fuel industries or a focus on reducing demand for fossil fuels is the right single or leading method to move society into a transition away from fossil energy.

But Gabe Elsner, co-director of the public watchdog group Checks and Balances Project, said the legislation and economic reports amount to «a one - two punch against clean energy laws across the country» by fossil - fuel interests.

But the fossil fuel industry is far from abandoning its own interest in British waters as the energy giant BP has announced that it is to invest about # 670m (US$ 1,040 m) to extend the life of its North Sea assets.

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.