Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel money on»

The influence of fossil fuel money on climate science has sometimes reached right into the White House.

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Environmentalists have long scrutinized Exxon Mobil for giving money «to dozens of right - leaning interest groups whose main purpose was to cast doubt on that very science» despite understanding the link between global warming and the burning of fossil fuels as early as the 1970s, according to the New York Times.

A coalition of 40 Catholic institutions on Tuesday announced a decision to pull their money from — or block future investment in — fossil fuels.

While the money is modest compared with that donated by fossil fuel interests, the support provides GOP candidates with added credibility on clean energy, an issue polling shows swing voters care about.

Its not just the liberals, prior to their entrance on stage» it was the conservatives taking in this money for fossil fuel approvals.

BC Chamber of Commerce massively promotes and supports these fossil fuel and energy projects, since they believe it enhances «business growth» in BC, and since it appears only money talks in this province, boycotting their membership is a first step in demanding those corporations take an ethical stand for the protection of BC on this matter.

Oil and gas companies, the most profitable corporations in history, are counting their fossil fuel reserves as money in the bank and continuing to spend capital on finding and developing even larger reserves.

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).

Apparently, it will only be when we cease our dependency on fossil fuels, and the massive Muslim oil money that is diverted to radical Islam dries up, that the promoters of this barbarous cult will retreat back to the desert where all this horror originated.

Zephyr Teachout claimed that John Faso «took» money from fossil fuel companies while they were trying to use eminent domain to build a pipeline on the properties of residents in the 19th Congressional District.

NYSERDA, a public benefit corporation, offers objective information and analysis, innovative programs, technical expertise, and support to help New Yorkers increase energy efficiency, save money, use renewable energy, and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

«Unfortunately, our governments have become so dominated by money that both parties are heavily dependent on contributions from industry, including especially the fossil fuel industry.»

In India, Rogers discovered that carbon offset ventures were doing more harm than good because carbon offset money discourages certain countries from investing in wind or solar power and continues their reliance on fossil fuels.

Dr. Depledge described signs of a shift in the oil kingdom's stance, including its endorsement of science pointing to big impacts from a building human influence on climate and commitment of money to pursue technologies for capturing carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other new energy options.

[AR: I keep hearing, again and again, that China simply will not budge from its growth, coal, and emissions trajectories without help — meaning money — from countries, like the United States, that have built their own economies on fossil fuels for a century or two.

So if you like cheap fossil fuels, now is a great time to begin spending money on substitutes.

«The United States is heavily dependent on fossil fuels (> 80 %), most of which come from places we would rather not send our money to.

When energy consumers, like Japan's gov» t, decide that it's better to spend a bit more money on limitless and safe ethanol, solar, wind, water, or geothermal power than on limited and dangerous fossil fuels, then the energy industry will change because it must.

Money that would have been spent on fossil fuels needs to be spent, instead, on renewables.

However other countries spend even more tax payer money on fossil fuel subsidies of various forms, including subsidising producers, tax credits, and keeping petrol artificially cheap.

It's notable to see someone somewhere looking beyond fossil fuels, just as Thomas Edison recommended in 1931 when he told Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone: «I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy.

If the main goal is to achieve a power source that could replace fossil fuels, we suspect the money would be better spent on renewable sources of energy that are likely to be cheaper and quicker to put into wide use.

It's important to note that there's also sometimes a kind of «false inequivalence» in the fight over climate science and policies — an implication that the lack of action on greenhouse gases is largely the result of the unfair advantage in money and influence held by industries dealing in, or dependent on, fossil fuels.

So that's a good development, but what saddens me is the fact that he spent millions of dollars of Virginia taxpayer money and forced the University of Virginia to come up with significant funds themselves, wasted on this witch hunt, wasted on this personal vendetta, this effort that he was using to try to discredit climate science, to do the bidding of the fossil fuel interests that fund his campaigns.

Recently, there has been a renewed focus on how much money Willie Soon has taken from fossil fuel companies for his «research» (over a $ 1 million dollars).

Solar has become a mainstream technology that Massachusetts residents, businesses, and institutions can own and operate; a technology that produces local clean energy, saves money, and lightens the electric burden on the utility grid while reducing the use of fossil fuels» said William Stillinger, President of SEBANE.

Fossil fuel companies such as ExxonMobil stand to lose revenue if carbon emissions are restricted so they certainly would dole out money to any scientist that was working on a landmark anti-AGW paper.

My focus is on the accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid fossil fuel industry money to lie about the issue to the public.

A lot more money, flowing from the political favors of tax - payer subsidized renewable energy into the pockets of billionaires, plus getting politicians to impose new environmental rules on fossil fuels and nuclear to make them wildly more expensive and billionaire renewable interests more competitive.

As the fossil fuel divestment movement grows increasingly mainstream — even BlackRock recently partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Council to launch an «equity global index series that will exclude companies linked to exploration, ownership or extraction of carbon - based fossil fuel reserves» — the smart long - term investment money would seem to be on divestment.

Fossil fuel companies are the wealthiest and most powerful companies on the planet, and they're using their money, power and influence to block every serious attempt to stop climate change.

Instead of putting constraints on poor countries that will hold back their ability to fight poverty, we should be investing dramatically more money in R&D to make fossil fuels cleaner and make clean energy cheaper than any fossil fuel.

«While Americans have rallied in support of clean renewable energy at home, the U.S. Export - Import Bank has made it a priority to handout money to fossil fuel companies to work on projects abroad,» said Kate DeAngelis of Friends of the Earth U.S. «If Trump gets his way, U.S. Export - Import Bank will become a slush fund for Big Oil's plans to accelerate climate change.

Fossil Free Southwark's first members met one another in February 2015 underneath the letter «N» whilst spelling out the words «Divest London» in front of Tower Bridge as part of a Global Divestment Day event calling on City Hall to take its money out of fossil Fossil Free Southwark's first members met one another in February 2015 underneath the letter «N» whilst spelling out the words «Divest London» in front of Tower Bridge as part of a Global Divestment Day event calling on City Hall to take its money out of fossil fossil fuels.

We need to sustainability proof the future EU budget and make it serve the public good, promote social inclusion and strengthen European values, instead of wasting taxpayers» money on dirty fossil fuel investments, harmful and outdated farming practices, and large scale infrastructure projects that damage our health, destroy our environment, and jeopardise the safety and prosperity of our children.

«A group of financial experts has set out its vision for hardwiring sustainability goals into the European Union's financial system, calling on the 28 - country bloc to stop pouring public money into polluting fossil fuels and focus spending on clean energies instead.

The fossil fuel companies will pass the cost on to customers, but the person doing better than average in limiting fossil fuel use will make money.

The idea, proposed by Hansen, is simple: a fee on carbon emissions collected from fossil - fuel companies, with 100 percent of the money rebated to legal residents on a per capita basis.

Beginning as a movement in 2011, young people on campuses across the US were determined that their college or university should not be putting money into fossil fuels, and urged their schools to divest their endowments away from fossil fuel companies.

I know your tongue is planted firmly in cheek, but I did some research on the matter, and found that the fossil fuel industry, automobile industry, and wal - mart - like fossil - fuel - based mega-scale consumer goods distribution industry have many thousands of times more money at stake (~ $ 10 trillion annually) on the outcome of this debate than do the scientists in question.

Currently, the group is working on fossil fuel divestment of the OTPP, one of the largest and most successful money management funds in the world.

The WWF, therefore, has depended on fossil fuel money for four of the five decades it has been in existence.

Instead of keeping the taxpayers» money, why not distribute it in order to fund micro generation projects that will actually make a difference, rather than these massive developments that rely on fossil fuel plant to be constantly spinning as a backup.

A geothermal heat pump will save money on utility bills, especially with the rising costs of fossil fuels.

Santa Cruz and San Francisco may be legitimately concerned about the effects of climate change on their communities, but their concern is being co-opted by money - hungry lawyers and environmental activists seeking to eliminate fossil fuel companies.

I did a study on the money involved in climate science vs. the money involved in fossil fuel related industries and found that any money - motivated scientist was better off working for industry than laboring away as a government or academic scientist.

More than a tax, B.C. has imposed a tax shift: The money collected from the carbon tax pushes personal and corporate taxes down, while steadily ramping up taxes on fossil fuels.

But the price of fossil fuels and fossil - intensive goods continues to rise, and consumers quite predictably spend less money on goods and services when their prices rise.

That, says Elgie, is because B.C.'s tax on fossil fuels was designed from the start to go as unnoticed as possible by being «revenue neutral» — most of the money it collects from taxpayers is given back in the form of lower income and corporate taxes.

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.