Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel industry executives»

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.

So, if none of those deliver (pardon the pun) evidence clearly showing how skeptic climate scientists agreed to accept illicit money in exchange for spreading lies that meet the approval of fossil fuel industry executives, what do we have left?

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President Trump's executive orders are a giveaway to the fossil fuel industry at the expense of our planet and its inhabitants.

A survey of executives at companies engaged in energy alternatives to fossil fuels reveals some of the challenges facing the industry

Now that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are no longer around to run the Executive Branch as a wholly - owned subsidiary of ExxonMobil, Chevron, et al, and the Obama administration and the Congress are moving to take action — however inadequate — to reduce emissions, the fossil fuel industry's campaign of denial and deceit will kick into overdrive, with the goal of undermining public support for the necessary action.

«If the world is serious about achieving the goals agreed in Paris, governments have to stop the expansion of the fossil fuel industry,» Stephen Kretzmann, Executive Director of Oil Change International, said in a statement.

According to Gabe Elsner, executive director of watchdog group the Energy & Policy Institute, ALEC supplies «model» legislation to politicians at the state level who then push efforts to enact the laws as written by the group's utility and fossil fuel industry representatives.

But in mid-2006 I was told by an executive that the channel had realised it had been misled by people who were sponsored by the fossil fuel industry.

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.

Despite Washington's newfound green enthusiasm, industry executives argue that replacing any significant part of the fossil fuel business will take decades, at best.

That's when fossil fuel industry lobbyists and executives started pouring more money into front groups and advocacy campaigns aimed at spreading doubt about climate science and blocking action to reduce emissions.

So let's be clear about the facts: Galileo had the courage to speak truth to the powerful interests of his day in the Roman Catholic Church, just as two generations of scientists have tried to speak truth about climate change to executives and lobbyists in the fossil fuel industry.

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.

The Trump Administration's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement is selfish and shortsighted and sends a very clear message: the profits of the fossil fuel industry and the multimillion dollar bonuses afforded to their chief executives matter more than humanity's shared future on the planet.

Second, as the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change points out, divesting from the fossil - fuel industry acknowledges the fact that the majority of known fossil - fuel reserves must be left unburned if we are to avoid catastrophic climate disruption.

No matter how often it is repeated, however, the memo collection crumbles as evidence of an industry - wide pay - for - performance conspiracy arrangement between skeptic climate scientists and fossil fuel company executives.

In this hour, we'll explore this movement for change taking root and flourishing right in the heart of the fossil fuel industry's home turf and speak with leaders like International Renewable Energy Agency Director - General Adnan Amin and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa.

Executive Summary A transition from conventional fossil fueled electricity generation to clean energy offers several benefits — particularly the growth of new clean energy industries and associated jobs, diversification of energy supply, and reductions in the public health and environmental damages (especially...

There seems to be a lack of similar outrage from Eric & Gavin about the fossil fuel industry working with the American Petroleum Institute to develop a whitelist of approved scientists for media interviews, then giving that list to media executives and having them direct reporters to these sources.

From the beginning of his administration, oil man former President George W. Bush consistently appointed former lobbyists, executives and others from the fossil fuel industry to key decision - making posts within the federal government.

«Champagne corks are popping in the board rooms of big corporate polluters as they celebrate this ill - disguised fossil fuel industry wish - list of an executive order, which will wreak havoc on efforts to tackle climate change and protect our communities.