Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel corporations»

Some have been set up or have accepted cash from fossil fuel corporations.

We stand with the millions of people around the world paying for the ignorance and arrogance of countries and fossil fuel corporations who put the interests of profits ahead of the needs of people.

As the campaign group People and Planet points out, universities help provide fossil fuel corporations not only with expertise but also with a «social licence to operate» (9).

We challenge the power of fossil fuel corporations, bolster support for renewable and citizen - powered energy and seek to hold big polluters to account.

Its business is drilling and managing oil wells as a sub-contractor for fossil fuel corporations such as BP, Occidental, and Petrogas.

AGW denialism has been manufactured by a generation - long campaign of deliberate deceit, funded by ExxonMobil and Koch Industries and other fossil fuel corporations that collectively rake in one billion dollars per day in profit from the ongoing business - as - usual consumption of their destructive products.

Five years later, Comptroller Stringer continues to oversee more than $ 3 billion invested in fossil fuel corporations like ExxonMobil.

Representatives from major fossil fuel corporations and industry groups had joined forces with operatives from major conservative think tanks and public relations experts to draft what they called their Global Climate Science Communications (GCSC) plan.

BC is one of few provinces with no limit on corporate donations (as is Saskatchewan, whose leading political party appears to have benefitted handsomely from vast sums of money from Alberta - based fossil fuel corporations over the last decade).

Yet instead of closing these loopholes to make fossil fuel corporations pay their fair share to the federal government, the budget deal extends dirty energy subsidies while slashing support for clean energy.

It's really too bad that you haven't seen fit to give even a fraction of the attention to the very real, very serious question of who broke into the computer system and stole the emails that you have given to legitimizing the baseless, slanderous and inflammatory charges that various fossil fuel corporation stooges made about the emails.

(Actually, I have seen a few feel - good commercials by major corporations, usually fossil fuel corporations, touting their feel - good research projects with no real - life implementations to date, as if to say «see, we're working on a solution, now go back and drive your car around the block, just for the fun of it, there's nothing to worry about, and we're certainly not to blame.»).

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Members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), including fossil fuel corporations and front groups, will meet in Chicago this week to discuss their next round of attacks on clean energy policies.

If the promises made by geoengineering erode the political incentives requiring polluters to cut their emissions, will we see fossil fuel corporations begin lobbying to get political endorsement for climate modification?

As Matthew Yglesias articulated last year in a thoughtful piece on Slate, divestment by socially responsible investors, universities and even governments won't starve capital flows to fossil fuel corporations anytime soon.

It's not that they want it to be the case, but with all the data and warnings from scientists, up against the misinformation spewing from powerful fossil fuel corporations, they logically don't see it happening any other way.

Colin Roche, economic justice campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said: «It is scandalous that after the Paris Agreement and in the middle of a climate crisis the European Central Bank launched a programme that has been pumping public money into fossil fuel corporations.

His door is always open to the bosses of big fossil fuel corporations and closed to those representing renewables (except his ethanol - producing mate Dick Honan).

For those open to the implications of the scientific warnings, a sense of despair can take over when they see once again the failure of governments to protect the future wellbeing of their citizens and the extraordinary power fossil fuel corporations exercise over government decisions.

Exxon Mobil, a massive fossil fuel corporation, has a lot of money to invest in scientific research about fossil fuels.

Naysayers and fossil fuel corporations say it's impossible to both protect the environment and inspire a thriving economy.

And we should expect fossil fuel corporations to pay for a share of the harms resulting from the use of their products, both for the damages that have already occurred and the costs of preparing to limit the damages from further, now unavoidable impacts that responsible actions by these companies could have, and should have, helped to avoid.

While Pompeo does not head a giant fossil fuel corporation, he has received millions in campaign funds from the billionaire Koch brothers, criticized the Paris climate deal as a «costly burden,» and described the assertion that climate change is a national security threat as «ignorant, dangerous and absolutely unbelievable.»

On the recent Do the Math tour, Bill McKibben, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, author Naomi Klein and other speakers and a team of organizers launched a campaign calling on churches, colleges, and others to divest their stock portfolios of investments in fossil fuel corporations — as was done in the the 1970s and 1980s as part of delegitimizing the apartheid regime in South Africa.

It is not surprising that the eco-pragmatists attract support from conservatives who have doggedly resisted all measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions, defended the interests of fossil fuel corporations, and in some cases worked hard to trash climate science.

The memo «summarize [d] a potential legal case against major fossil fuel corporations,» premised on the claim that «certain fossil fuel companies (most notoriously ExxonMobil), have engaged in a campaign and conspiracy of deception and denial on global warming.»

to be discovering, without these loans it becomes difficult for fossil fuel corporations to find the billions required to build new infrastructure projects.

It includes «contrarian scientists, fossil fuel corporations, conservative think tanks, and various front groups», along with «amateur climate bloggers... public relations firms, astroturf groups, conservative media and pundits, and conservative politicians».

The companies include Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips Co., BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Peabody Energy Corp. «The American people deserve answers from the fossil fuel corporations about their actions to massively deceive the public in regards to climate science,» Lieu and Welch wrote in a letter to their House colleagues asking for their support.

At 8:15 a.m., grassroots organizations rally to urge Cuomo to stand up fossil fuel corporations and executives, outside of the New York Stock Exchange, 11 Wall St., Manhattan.

Fossil fuel corporations are simply meeting the public's request for energy, he said.

What, specifically, is the reason that you less skeptical of propaganda funded by the fossil fuel corporations?

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.

The attacks on climate science have nothing to do with any actual political ideology, and everything to do with the ONE BILLION DOLLARS PER DAY PROFIT that the fossil fuel corporations want to keep raking in for as long as they can get away with it.

I would respectfully suggest that «policy - makers within the GOP» have suffered much more «damage» from the millions of dollars in campaign contributions they receive from the fossil fuel corporations.