Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel programs»

Hence, what is really needed is a program that strips all subsidies from fossil fuel programs and transfers them to renewables.

Under this proposal, according to Science Magazine, the agency's fossil fuel programs would lose only $ 33 million annually, a 5 percent cut.

But the House energy and water subcommittee would boost spending on the fossil fuels program by 2 % to $ 645 million — not including the leftover $ 240 million.

Details about the bills are scarce, Cho noted, but «for the third year in a row the Senate panel moved to zero out spending on the United States's contribution to ITER,» «House appropriators would cut [DOE's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy] spending by 12 % to $ 1.8 billion,» and «the House energy and water subcommittee would boost spending on the fossil fuels program by 2 % to $ 645 million.»

Not exact matches

A known sceptic of human - induced climate change, advocate of fossil fuels, and critic of several government - run climate programs, the ex governor of Texas» nomination have many involved parties worried.

Resilience is a program of Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the world transition away from fossil fuels and build sustainable, resilient communities.

One option is to purchase locally sourced green energy though our Make the Switch program and displace fossil fuels on your community's power grid.

«Working with partner Mass Energy, we are committed to this quick, easy, and effective program that supports sustainable energy alternatives while moving us away from fossils fuels,» Tepper added.

Having the Belleayre, Gore and Whiteface ski centers join The Climate Reality Project's «I Am Snow 100 %» program is in line with Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, which requires that half of all electricity used in New York come from renewable sources, rather than fossil fuels, by 2030, the governor's office said in a press release.

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.

Hawkins calls for a publicly - funded, single - payer health care program for all New Yorkers, free tuition at SUNY and community colleges, a moratorium on home foreclosures, no new fossil fuel infrastructure, and a Green New Deal to create jobs and protect the environment.

Now Solarize Tompkins, the most successful program getting property owners to go solar, is looking ahead to other alternative energy sources for homeowners looking to break from fossil fuels.

Environmental Advocates of New York says the Cuomo team deserves credit for its aggressive State Energy Plan, but cautions the goals may be just out of reach should the state go the way of re-firing outdated fossil fuel plants and raiding carbon abatement programs like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

Jennifer Metzger, co-founder of Rosendale - based Citizens for Local Power (CLP), says it has vociferously opposed the NCZ not only because it raises rates but also because it incentivizes fossil fuel production, in direct opposition to the NYSERDA programs.

Rather, the world's largest oil company maintained that all sources of energy, including fossil fuels, will be necessary to meet the future global demand and that the best path toward managing greenhouse gas emissions is through technology advancement and adoption of energy efficiency programs.

As city - dwellers and tourists switch from riding fossil fuel - powered vehicles to public bikes, more than 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions is reduced annually, estimates Tao Xuejun, vice president of the program.

The proposed cuts include $ 269.78 billion from energy programs, including $ 158.7 billion of fossil fuel subsidies; $ 167.09 billion of agricultural subsidies, including $ 89.82 billion of federal crop insurance disaster aid; $ 212.02 billion of transportation subsidies, including $ 125.80 billion of general revenue transfers to the Highway Trust Fund; $ 101.8 billion of federal flood, crop and nuclear insurance subsidies; and $ 24.99 billion from wasteful or environmental damaging public lands and water projects.

A push for oil sands oversight and new climate targets Harper has been a target of environmentalists for most of his tenure — they say he turned Canada into an international pariah by not regulating greenhouse gases from oil and gas, cutting clean energy and climate science programs, withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, «muzzling» scientists, pressing aggressively on Keystone XL and fossil fuels, and allowing the country's emissions trajectory to spiral away from targets under the Copenhagen Accord.

The cost benefits and climate advantages are among the reasons that five countries run national research programs on the technique; is the United States falling behind on the next big fossil fuel technology?

In the ARPA - E program alone, four of the 37 funded developing technologies concerned researching more energy - efficient ways to capture the CO2 in a fossil fuel — fired power plant's flue gas.

Rich in fossil - fuel resources, Iran is pursuing a nuclear power program difficult to understand in the absence of military motives

Implementing key policies and investments in those three systems — from phasing out fossil fuels to stopping deforestation to ramping up energy efficiency — could deliver at least half of the emissions cuts needed by 2030 to lower the risk of dangerous climate change, said Jeremy Oppenheim, the report's program director.

«Tailpipe emissions are the main source of greenhouse gases from cars that use fossil fuels,» explained Anthony Shaw, a transport program specialist at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, a nonprofit research organization.

Ian Poll, professor of aerospace engineering at the Cranfield University in England, in a recent lecture covered by the Times of London called for a «big research program to help the aviation industry convert from fossil fuels to nuclear energy.»

In some ways, energy regulations to curtail fossil fuel burning may be an easier sell in developing countries than in the United States, said Rachel Cleetus, senior economist with the Climate and Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

-- The Secretary shall carry out a program to establish Energy Innovation Hubs to enhance the Nation's economic, environmental, and energy security by promoting commercial application of clean, indigenous energy alternatives to oil and other fossil fuels, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and ensuring that the United States maintains a technological lead in the development and commercial application of state - of - the - art energy technologies.

The federal case demands sweeping changes in federal climate efforts and in government programs that subsidize or foster development of fossil fuels.

The Office of Fossil Energy (FE) programs are focused on activities related to the reliable, efficient, affordable, and environmentally sound use of fossil fuels that are essential to our Nation's security and economic prospFossil Energy (FE) programs are focused on activities related to the reliable, efficient, affordable, and environmentally sound use of fossil fuels that are essential to our Nation's security and economic prospfossil fuels that are essential to our Nation's security and economic prosperity.

and Sheldon Whitehouse (D - R.I.)-- sent 100 letters to fossil fuel companies including Southern, trade groups and other industry organizations seeking to unearth the extent of what they call «climate denial - for - hire programs.»

An Apollo type national R&D program will convert this country from fossil fuel energy economy to a hydrogen one in less than 10 years.

Fossil fuel interests are using their clout at the White House and in Congress to sabotage every renewable energy program that comes along, while make sure massive government subsidies, on the order of $ 100 billion a year when you count it all up, continue to flow to the fossil fuel industry (U.S. military expenditures are $ 500 billion a year, and good chunk of that is devoted to protecting overseas oilfields, for exaFossil fuel interests are using their clout at the White House and in Congress to sabotage every renewable energy program that comes along, while make sure massive government subsidies, on the order of $ 100 billion a year when you count it all up, continue to flow to the fossil fuel industry (U.S. military expenditures are $ 500 billion a year, and good chunk of that is devoted to protecting overseas oilfields, for exafossil fuel industry (U.S. military expenditures are $ 500 billion a year, and good chunk of that is devoted to protecting overseas oilfields, for example).

We need to do a «full court press» to switch from fossil fuels and nuclear (which also releases heat into water on a large scale, and supports nuclear military programs), using existing and near - commercialization battery, solar and wind technology, and design systems to cost - effectively convert the existing 600 - million - plus vehicle fleet rather than waiting for replacement.

Recent studies including an assessment by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization indicate that it's possible to slow the pace of warming and melting in the Arctic in the near term by reducing emissions of two common climate pollutants: black carbon and methane, both of which are emitted from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.

She began working with Greenpeace in 2008 on federal climate legislation and has since worked on reforming federal fossil fuel leasing programs and fighting new infrastructure projects around the United States.

Exxon scientists and managers warned of possible future policies to cut fossil fuel emissions, internal memos show, and the company established an ambitious in - house climate research program in part to have a credible voice in the development of such rules.

All countries, including Canada, must shift support from big, centralised and polluting energy sources, such as fossil fuels and nuclear power, to renewable energies, conservation and energy efficiency programs.

The American Lung Association supports programs and policies to encourage a transition from fossil fuel and biomass use in the residential and commercial sectors to cleaner alternatives.

Implementing border adjustments for an economywide carbon tax or cap - and - trade program would require determining the GHG emissions embodied in imports (that is, the amount of greenhouse gases emitted in producing each imported good and service), which would be extremely difficult if applied to most imports (but not if applied only to imports of fossil fuels).

There are many reasons to shift away from fossil fuels, and we will do so in the next century without legislation, financial incentives, carbon - conservation programs, or the interminable yammering of fearmongers.

The government has been clear about its intention to invest 60 percent of the $ 18 billion that it will reap annually from fossil - fuel subsidy reform into much - needed infrastructure programs.

To clarify, the context of the above snip had to do with state spending on education and social safety net programs, but that «you and me» reference covers far more ground than that, considering the Koch brothers» all - in approach to their fossil fuel holdings.

China vowed to step up its program to cut fossil - fuel pollution, spelling out its broadest commitments yet, boosting a United Nations effort to reach a landmark deal on climate change in December.

In a recent column entitled «Why Fossil Fuels Are Morally Good,» John Stossel praises the work of Alex Epstein, whom he has also featured on his television program.

California's new state environmental education program will distribute an energy booklet to 6th graders that is equivocal on the greenhouse effect, downplays the impacts of burning fossil fuels, and doesn't address climate change, Climate Science Watch has found.

Perhaps the appropriate response is a program of divestment, wherein government pension plans and officials scale down and eventually eliminate their holdings of stocks and bonds from fossil fuel companies.

By contrast, despite spending over $ 2 trillion in 5 decades, aid programs have much less to show in terms of poverty reduction — or its ancillary benefits, e.g., reductions in hunger, disease, better health care and education, and greater adaptive capacity to deal with climate change and natural disasters — than does fossil fuel - powered economic development.

The cost of annual federal fossil fuel production subsidies is equivalent to the projected 2018 budget cuts from Trump's proposals to slash 10 public programs and services that benefit some of the nation's most vulnerable children and families.

The recent «Earth Hour» made a point to the multitudes in many countries, but creating a long - term sustainable program of making people commit to a disciplined life that would drastically reduce fossil fuel consumption is the need of the time.

Just imagine: when the true cost of fossil fuels is appropriately accounted for, lines will form around the block for programs like Solar for All!

This workshop, organised by KAPSARC in partnership with the Clingendael International Energy Program, is one in a series of workshops to inform research into the role of fossil fuels through the transition to a low carbon future.