Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel industry»

Compare that to the combined revenues of fossil fuel industries of a minimum of $ 9,000 billion.
This would create large numbers of jobs for those no longer employed in fossil fuel industries and others.
As a caveat, individual Republican party politicians DO oppose alternative energy vs. fossil fuels, because their own constituents are heavily involved with fossil fuel industry.
My focus is on the accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid fossil fuel industry money to lie about the issue to the public.
It's not looking good for the global fossil fuel industry.
Oh, and the usual allegations of fossil fuel industry influence, and you wonder why you don't get much respect?
The answer is politics: Getting rid of government regulations plays well with voters as well as with big - donor fossil fuel industries.
He has admitted receiving funding from various fossil fuel industry sources.
This is the first time a wide - range of fossil fuel industry demand scenarios has been compared with alternative and credible financial market views.
Transportation and fossil fuel industries typically come to mind as major sources of pollution.
Some see these actions as a blatant fossil fuel industry land - grab.
And to think we thought the only conflicts of interest would be finance industry and fossil fuel industry cabinet department and regulatory capture.
This dangerous game fossil fuel industry is playing is destroying our planet.
Join the struggle to cut ties with the backward fossil fuel industry, as well.
This good news for the rest of us, is bad news for the demand - based fossil fuel industry.
All responsible governments must ensure that the current fossil fuel industry subsidies are transferred to renewables to speed up the ongoing process.
Job losses in fossil fuel industry would be fully offset by new jobs in renewables, with more jobs being created by energy efficiency activities.
Re # 70, «Oh, and the usual allegations of fossil fuel industry influence» Not from me you don't, can't see the point.
This is somewhat problematic, Frontline's program basically had the appearance of being a thinly veiled attempt to portray skeptic climate scientists and the organizations they associate with as being tainted by fossil fuel industry funding.
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.
These equity concerns include: the regressive impact of potential energy price increases on low - income households; the potential for carbon pricing policies to allow some fossil fuel - fired power plants or refineries to continue to operate and emit air and water pollutants in neighborhoods already burdened by pollution; and the economic hardship to workers and communities dependent on fossil fuel industries for livelihoods or for their tax base as we transition away from these resources.
about Fossil Fuel Industry Paid for Meetings with GOP Attorneys General to Plan Attack on Clean Power Plan
From 2002 - 2008, the US Government gave the mature fossil fuel industry over $ 72 billion in subsidies, while investments in the emerging renewable industry totaled $ 12.2 billion.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island who has endorsed the use of RICO against fossil fuel industries since May, made a similar argument in his weekly climate speech, delivered Tuesday on the Senate floor.
Given the very well established history of lying by omission in fossil fuel industry propaganda, did they just pick three bodies out of about 60 or so that happened to have some record of warming, no matter how flimsy that warming record is?
«The proposal to roll back air pollution and fuel economy standards is another shameless giveaway to the dying fossil fuel industry at the expense of our economy and the health of the American people,» said New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo.
«Energy from gas power stations has been rebranded as a green, low - carbon source of power by a $ 80bn European Union program, in a triumph of the deep - pocketed fossil fuel industry lobby over renewable forms of power.
S&R also estimated the amount of «extra» revenue that fossil fuel industries made in 2008 as a result of very limited CO2 restrictions.
Fossil fuel industries spent an estimated $ 213 million lobbying U.S. and European Union decision makers last year, according to a new report published by Oxfam International on Friday.
In a lame effort to fill out the TRNN video with other material which looked like fossil fuel industry orchestrating things, a line from the American Petroleum Institute's 1998 leaked «Global Climate Science Communications Team» memo was highlighted, while the narrator read it: «Victory will be achieved when average citizens understand uncertainties in climate science.»
Though not a formal recommendation, three - quarters of the committee members supported the university divesting from coal and tar sand companies but not from other fossil fuel industry members.
Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen: «Champagne corks are popping in the board rooms of big corporate polluters as they celebrate this ill - disguised fossil fuel industry wish - list...»
I expect to see fossil fuel industries funding some of the geo engineering advocates.
Some of the papers cited by the IPCC predate the Harvard Smithsonian Center involvement, but Soon's long history of taking fossil fuel industry money is well established.
Only in the U.S., and to a lesser extent Canada, Australia, and Russia — nations with powerful fossil fuel industries — did important political figures continue to scoff at the evidence.
The «skeptic scientist accusation» is what I consistently refer to in all of my writings as the idea that their climate assessments are fabricated under a top - down directive by fossil fuel industry executives.

Phrases with «fossil fuel industry»

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