Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel industry lobby»

«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.

If he had not, how would anyone be able to determine when the larger public was genuinely swayed by skeptic scientists, and a necessity no longer existed for PR departments of the fossil fuel industry lobby to stage fake bouts of «citizen concern»?

But, as he claimed in only a few instances, he discovered the letter - writers were not really concerned private citizens but instead were people working in the PR departments of the fossil fuel industry lobby.

Everything's Cool (Unrated) Cautionary documentary exposes the efforts of the fossil fuel industry lobby and conservative think tanks to manufacture an artificial debate about global warming in the face of irrefutable proof of the phenomenon provided by responsible members of the scientific community.

He recounts, for example, a conversation with a top television network editor who was reluctant to run stories about global warming because a previous story had» triggered a barrage of complaints from the Global Climate Coalition» — a fossil fuel industry lobbying group...

Not exact matches

You say that «unlike the fossil fuel industry, drug firms haven't engaged in industrial - scale lobbying and the manufacture of denial»...

All four organisations actively lobby against any measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, all four are well known for publishing disinformation concerning science in order to achieve this objective; and all four are funded by sections of the fossil fuel industry.

A front - page article and headline on April 24 reported that the Global Climate Coalition, a group that throughout the 1990s represented industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, knew about the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions could cause global warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emissions.

An anti-Kyoto, Anti-IPCC, anti-regulation lobby group founded and run by Frederick Singer, that has received $ 20,000 from ExxonMobil... as well as having received substantial funds from several other fossil - fuel industry sources including Shell, Unocal, Texaco, Arco, and the American Gas Association (see his sworn affidavit at http://tinyurl.com/2rrqz7; HeatIsOnline at: http://tinyurl.com/yqvozw; and Center for Media and Democracy: http://tinyurl.com/yloyf2).

According to the notes, Michael Whatley, policy adviser of the fossil fuel lobby group Consumer Energy Alliance, which receives funding from Peabody Energy along with other coal, oil, and gas companies, underlined the industry's urgent need to mobilize state public officials, including legislators, attorneys general, environmental and public utility commissioners, and energy officials in many states.

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.

Antoine Simon, extractive industries campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said: «Europe desperately needs to kick its fossil fuel addiction, but the fossil fuel lobby has embedded itself deep in the heart of European decision making.

Excuse me, Ojo Grande, but I lobby for fossil fuel development, I have no connection to the oil industry, and I perfectly well understand AGW.

I think it's pretty obvious that many of these guys either work on the ground for the fossil fuel industry, or lobby for them indirectly.

Furthermore, you just so happen to be finishing up your last term in office, therefore insulated from the lobbying power of the fossil - fuel industry, and given the freedom to implement a roadmap for a sustainable future

In keeping with their outsized roles, Koch Industries and ExxonMobil spent more on campaign contributions and lobbying than any other fossil fuel company this year.

Many of these lobby groups are partly funded by sections of the fossil fuel industry.

Unlike renewable energy incentives, which periodically expire and require Congress to approve extensions, the fossil fuel industry has dozens of subsidies permanently ingrained in the tax code from decades of successful lobbying.

To break the grip of gas across Europe, we will need to support these local fights, as well as tackling the misinformation of the fossil fuel lobby, and the finance systems that are propping up the gas industry.

From the 1991 «Ice Campaign» run by the coal and utility industries to the Marshall Institute's bogus «Study» of 1998 (which was designed to resemble a National Academy of Sciences document) to the recent efforts of ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy to eviscerate efforts to address the climate crisis, in tandem with the Bush White House, the fossil fuel lobby and its ideological supporters have waged a relentless campaign of deception and disinformation to confuse people about the reality of warming - driven climate change.

The Global Climate Coalition — a lobbying group that represents fossil fuel, automotive and heavy industry interests — has also been very active in spreading misleading information about the climate crisis.

The briefing «Ending the affair between polluters and politicians» exposes the massive lobby effort mounted by fossil fuel companies and heavy industry which has managed to convince senior politicians of the disingenuous idea that «green» legislation can not be allowed in times of economic crisis.

Though the dirty energy industries» dislike of Obama seems a bit misplaced, (between allowing widespread fracking and his support of drilling offshore and in the arctic, Obama has given the fossil fuel lobby plenty) it does make sense that they would support Mitt Romney.

For more than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat - trapping gases could lead to global warming.

Part of the answer must be that the fossil fuel industry is much bigger than the halogenated hydrocarbon industry, and its lobbying power much greater.

This was despite a sustained campaign of lobbying and denial by the chemicals industry — led by Dupont — which bears strong similarities to the campaign by fossil fuel companies to prevent action on climate change.

I'm not being naïve here, I understand that the fossil fuels industry is the most profitable industry in history and that, in turn, they have the most powerful lobby the western world has ever seen.

It concludes that establishing the links between former government officials and the fossil fuel industry highlights «the major potential for conflict of interest», adding: «When one takes into account what is at stake for large fossil fuel companies, and how much lobbying they conduct on climate policy more generally, weak revolving door policy provides another avenue of influence for private fossil fuel interests to exploit».

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.

When should we have done something: Without the influence of coal industry propaganda and lobbying: There would have been zero large fossil fueled electric power plants after 1970.