Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel industry gets»

If the fossil fuel industry gets its way, there will be at least four major new fracked gas pipeline projects criss - crossing the Blue Ridge and Appalachian regions of Virginia and West Virginia — endangering our forests and farmlands, the communities living along their routes, and taking us backward in our fight to stop climate change.

The whole fossil fuel industry gets in the way.

Not exact matches

He gets lambasted for supposed hypocrisy because he flies to places on planes — which use a lot of fossil fuel — to criticize the fossil fuel industry.

The answer is politics: Getting rid of government regulations plays well with voters as well as with big - donor fossil fuel industries.

And in the movie the fossil fuel industry and the nuclear people get together and kidnap this renewable energy guy to make sure the president can't choose that system.

What we have to do, which is of great importance, is to stop pandering to the fossil fuel industry and get onto clean, green energy.

«The message we expect this conference to send investors in the fossil fuel industry is «get out now».»

There's a public relations strategy used in the late 1990s by the fossil fuel industry to get their talking points across (they were all bogus talking points, but it was a fairly effective strategy).

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.

California could get roughly halfway to that goal in a perfect world — one without impediments such as higher costs, nimby fights and resistance from consumers and industries wedded to fossil fuels.

His conclusion, which I see as robustly supported by peer - reviewed work (including the new paper), is that California could get roughly halfway to that goal in a perfect world — one without impediments such as higher costs, nimby fights and resistance from consumers and industries wedded to fossil fuels.

heck you cant even get agreement on what consititutes a subsidy for the fossil fuel industry or how to end them.

The fossil fuel industry has gotten us into this climate mess, and listening to their advice is almost certainly going to lead to false solutions that do not result in the changes to society and emissions levels that are needed.

But let's get one thing straight, Oreskes is little more than yet another «cog in the wheel» when it comes to accusing skeptic climate scientists of being paid shills of the fossil fuel industry, enslaved just like all the other cogs to the same single source for the accusation, Ross Gelbspan.

It's hard to understand why (mainly conservative) state governments are opposing the RET when they could be divested themselves of outdated, polluting coal - fired generators while picking up taxes from renewable energy related industries and services — unless of course the same state governments are getting healthy and frequent «donations» from various fossil fuel companies.

These guys get tons of money from the fossil fuel industry, and then they lead their party off the deep end.

Man for thousands of years has tried to find ways of «roping the wind», and it wasn't until the 1970's that science and industry really got going, when the emergence of wind farms as a viable alternative to fossil fuel power began to gain momentum.

It's clear that to get where people, the planet and our climate need us to be, we need to do everything we can to smash the power of the fossil fuel industry while building our own, and this walkout led by movements and organisations who may be working together for the first time is part of that process.

Great, so we get to look forward to swapping one fossil fuel industry backed labor dinosaur for a fossil fuel industry backed liberal dinosaur.

And get this: molten salt reactors run at much higher temperatures than today's reactors, so heavy industry can use them as a clean source of industrial heat, replacing the fossil fuel furnaces they use today.

The point here is not that Gelbspan appears to have put out misinformation about his collective work back in 2004, it is that his words have huge influence right up to the present time, such as the only months - old «fossil fuel industry misinformation» research paper written by an impressionable young college student, or the days - old suggestion by one of his Facebook Friends that he should get a guest appearance on CNBC's Rachel Maddow show.

To get truly serious about addressing climate change, Washington must end the billions in subsidies going to the industry and move to keep fossil fuels in the ground by banning drilling offshore and ending the fossil fuel leasing program on public lands.

Hobby sites like «WattsUpWithThat» are a start to effective opposition, but to be honest it really is time that the fossil fuel industry who so many believers think are funding the sceptics, got off their backsides, put their hands in their pockets and did the decent thing to fund the professional science «opposition» which is needed to force the climategate forecasters to stop feeding this monster with their PR and start to try to justify the existence of their monster based on real science in the face of real decently financed opposition and not part - time unpaid people like us here.

Read this book (or see the movie) to learn how the fossil fuel industry plays the game, and get motivated to deny the deniers their day and win the most important battle for sound science in all of history.

If corporations in the fossil fuel industry and their supporters are guilty of the misdeeds that have been documented in books and journal articles, it is imperative that these misdeeds be stopped as soon as possible so that America and the world can get on with the critically important business of finding effective ways to restabilize the Earth's climate, before even more lasting damage is done.

The way to read this letter is that it is the fossil fuel industry that is trying to short - circuit the decisionmaking process by taking the science out of it, and basically getting Congress to oppose any carbon - related policies.

President Obama's decision on this enormous fossil fuel project by the end of the year will not be a quiet deal with oil industry lobbyists; it will be witnessed by millions of voters who had hoped that President Obama would have the vision to get America off of oil with a moonshot program for oil - free cars by the next decade.

Obama's decision (Greenpeace commentary): President Obama's decision on this enormous fossil fuel project by the end of the year will not be a quiet deal with oil industry lobbyists; it will be witnessed by millions of voters who had hoped that President Obama would have the vision to get America off of oil with a moonshot program for oil - free cars by the next decade.

We can't get anywhere near [a global agreement] as long as the fossil fuel industry exerts the power it does.»

[DeSmog coverage: State Investigations Into What Exxon Knew Double, and Exxon Gets Defensive] Climate activists and even presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are urging the Department of Justice and other relevant government agencies to investigate the fossil fuel industry's deliberate efforts to delay policy action to address the climate threat.

[30] Epstein states his main sources of revenue vary «depending on what [he's] working on,» but in the «last year it's been a combination of public - facing (e.g., getting paid to write the book [The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels]-RRB- and giving speeches, a lot of which are to industry groups,» noting that he'd be willing to «work with anyone fighting for freedom — but not for subsidies.»

What we need to get across is that, as the tobacco companies were to individual health, so the fossil fuel industry is to the safety of the planet.

Get a sneak peak into a family divided by the fossil fuel industry as a climate scientist struggles to tell the truth about global warming, his daughter struggles to save the frogs, while his sister wants to frack, with this live reading of excerpts from the upcoming play from the award - winning Three Theatre Collaborative.

«You've got the big green groups and the fossil fuel industry acting as if this plan is a huge deal,» says Komanoff.

The money going into politics from the oil, gas and coal industries gets huge returns in the form of subsidies back to fossil fuels.

Perhaps believing his own propaganda, he thought that if he could get the confidential packet of documents distributed at the Heartland board meeting, he could prove that Heartland had a nefarious agenda funded by the fossil fuel industry.

The accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid by the fossil fuel industry to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» has two parts: the 1991 - ’95 span when it got little public interest, and late 1995 to the present, when it became far more widespread.

To me, looking above and below the fold, try to capture the reality that the fossil fuel industry extracting carbon molecules from the Canadian boreal forest (e.g., Tar Sands) will make more money if Keystone XL gets built and those increased profits will, in essence, be the equivalent of picking the pockets of Americans who currently are benefitting from a «discounted» oil price.

The fossil fuel industry will NEVER have a time where you will be getting our power largely for free.

«Maybe,» the organizers write, «we can finally get rid of the huge subsidies to our fossil fuel industries.

«Whatever the legal judgement, Cañete will never get rid of his image of being linked to the fossil fuel industry.

The only people who oppose it are people who have a very vested interest from the fossil fuel industry, who are spending billions of pounds, trying to get people like you to say that, in order to confuse people.

It was one of my proudest moments at the Sierra Club so far to see the bright, enthusiastic SPROGers they were training get ready to take on the fossil fuel industry.

If we ramp up new industries without reducing other things, we could see a short term increase in fossil fuel consumption and consequent CO2 emissions (relative to BAU), but if that is the start of a larger and permanent reduction of CO2eq emissions, then it's worth it (or in other words, much better to get 100 kWh per kg coal than 3 (or whatever much smaller number it actually is) kWh per kg coal).

This is the argument that the tobacco industry used for decades to keep people confused about the link between tobacco smoking and lung cancer (and to keep smokers smoking), and it is the argument that the fossil fuel industry continues to use, and will use as long as they can get away with it, to keep people confused about the link between anthropogenic global warming and extreme weather events (and to keep them burning fossil fuels).

Likewise, if science shows like PBS NOVA started relying heavily on Exxon and Koch Industries funding — if the American Petroleum Institute started dictating policy to the National Science Teachers Association — if BP got to play a role in drawing up science curricula at California schools — well — the tobacco / fossil fuel comparison is fairly valid, isn't it?

Understanding why idiots like James Inhofe and paid shills of the fossil fuel industry make absurd HOAX statements is easy — they get paid for it by extremely wealthy oil companies.

Fossil fuels seem cheap and convenient now, but when we get hit with the true costs — of a spoiled environment, of missing out on vital future industries like clean energy, of a mounting public health burden, of possible war — we'll see we were had.

GigaOm has an extensive report on fossil fuel subsidies, which helps to explain: «when an industry has been subsidized for almost a century, as is the case with the fossil fuel industry, the ways in which those companies are supported get numerous and complex.

Fighting Problems is Unavoidable But as we've seen with the fossil fuel lobbies trying to actively undermine the clean energy industry, we will never get where we need to go if we do not also fight our corner and put pressure on those who are undermining our future.