Sentences with phrase «fuel companies cause»

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Rising fuel prices are causing government coffers to swell, and in a web poll conducted by COMPAS Inc., 126 leaders of Canadian companies offered their opinions on how that money should be spent.

He added that they suspect some industry insiders at the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST) deliberately caused the contamination of the 5 million litres of fuel.

In June 2017, it emerged that the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) sold about 5 million liters of contaminated fuel to some unlicensed companies; Movepiina and Zup Oil, causing the state to lose GH cents 7 million

Analogies between fossil fuel companies» knowledge of climate change and cigarette - makers» knowledge that smoking caused cancer are common in environmental circles.

Cities in the United States are taking oil companies to court, arguing that they should pay for climate - related problems caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

The cities are seeking compensation from the companies for cost related to sea level rise and other climate damages caused by greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.

Nissan has finalized the buyout of a majority stake in Mitsubishi Motors Corps Thursday for $ 2.3 billion following a fuel - economy scandal that caused the latter company to spiral toward demise, The Wall Street Journal reports.

A second probable cause was the great expansion of investment trusts, public utility holding companies, and the amount of margin buying, all of which fueled the purchase of public utility stocks, and drove up their prices.

«With its operations now returned to normal, Manchester Airport, its airlines and the fuel companies will be working together to review the incident, learn lessons and mitigate any risk of disruption that might be caused by a similar incident in the future.»

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Judge William Alsup had requested this tutorial to bring him up to speed on the fundamental science before proceedings begin in earnest in a case brought by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, on behalf of the people of California, against a group of major fossil fuel companies, addressing the costs of climate change caused, they argue, by products those companies have sold.

Emissions traced to the same 50 companies from 1980 to 2010, a time when fossil fuel companies were aware their products were causing global warming, contributed:

If Chevron Corp. has caused climate change and needs to pay for its damage, so should pretty much every company that has ever explored for oil and gas near North America, as well as manufacturers of cars and equipment that burn fuel, plus consumers.

People need to take action out of necessity to stop the damage caused by fossil fuel companies to their islands, cultures and environments.

Is it actually Chevron turning out the «fossil fuel industry denial light» about the certainty of man - caused global warming, or is it one solitary unmistakably pro-global warming lawyer nudging an entire company into the most inexplicable kind of politically correct appeasement to enviro - activists?

In 2006, a fuel line leak at an Exxon service station in Jacksonville, Maryland (that the company hid from the public for five weeks) released 26,000 gallons of gasoline underground, severely polluting local groundwater and causing irreparable damages to many local homes.

It would also immunize fossil - fuel companies from lawsuits for damages done by their products — lawsuits such as those bound to arise from the revelations that ExxonMobil and other companies knew for decades about the climate damages their products cause, and lied about it.

The lawsuit comes on the heels of several other California communities suing 37 fossil fuel companies earlier this summer for causing climate change.

Enviro - activists believe they are headed toward the light at the end of the tunnel on the man - caused global warming issue with this growing collection of lawsuits against fossil fuel companies.

Forget the #ExxonKnew effort to re-invigorate the otherwise 25 year - old accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid corrupting money by fossil fuel companies to lie to the public about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming.

Companies that buy and sell fossil fuels in our city would pay a steadily rising fee on each ton of heat - trapping pollution they cause.

Beginning to use plant - based products will certainly help the company achieve its sustainability goals, though LEGO is just doing their part in a global economy still dominated by fossil fuels — finite resources that are the primary contributor to human - caused climate change.

These local governments argue fossil fuel companies, including Exxon and Chevron, knew greenhouse gases from its products would cause the world to warm but «concealed the dangers, sought to undermine public support for greenhouse gas regulation, and engaged in massive campaigns» to promote their products.

«It's fantastic news that cities like New York and Paris are mobilizing to protect their citizens and hold multinational fossil fuel companies accountable for the damage they cause.

Years earlier, one climate researcher at the company, Henry Shaw, had called management's attention to a key conclusion of a landmark National Academy of Sciences report: global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions, not a scarcity of supply, would likely set the ultimate limit on the use of fossil fuels.

It also says the companies «orchestrated a campaign of deception and denial regarding climate change» by funding efforts to discredit the science on climate change even though their scientists had warned them of the risks and the role of fossil fuels in causing it.

Attacking the oil companies makes that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels is causing global warming a forgone conclusion.

They say the fossil fuel companies «intentionally engaged in conduct that has caused and contributed to climate change, thus causing flood waters, fire, hail, rain, snow, wind and invasive species to enter plaintiffs» property.»

The cities» lawsuits allege — supported by modern climate science — that major oil and natural gas companies contribute substantially to global warming by extracting and using fossil fuels, which emit massive quantities of heat - trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, causing ocean waters to warm and ice sheets to melt, and thus, sea levels to rise, endangering coastal communities.

Internal company documents uncovered by a Dutch news organization show that the oil giant Shell had a deep understanding, dating at least to the 1980s, of the science and risks of global warming caused by fossil fuel emissions.

These groups and individuals — all of them residing on the far left of the political spectrum — claim Exxon - Mobil knew fossil fuels could cause catastrophic climate change but paid think tanks and advocacy groups to «deny» the truth in order to protect the company's profits.

Openly and unapologetically, ExxonMobil, the world's No. 1 oil company disputes the notion that fossil fuels are the main cause of global warming.

Since the plaintiffs claimed that burning of fossil fuels puts deadly CO2 into the atmosphere, causing all their forecasted death & destruction, then why didn't the oil companies ask the judge for a restraining order to prevent the plaintiffs from burning any more fossil fuels at least until the case was settled one way or the other?

in other words the complaint is the companies conspired to promote «massive amounts» of fossil fuels by hiding the fact that hey «knew» it would cause «catastrophic climate change impacts», a conspiracy claim even the judge recognized as bogus:

This untold chapter in Exxon's history, when one of the world's largest energy companies worked to understand the damage caused by fossil fuels, stems from an eight - month investigation by InsideClimate News.

That later phrase is the infamous leaked memo phrase which has every appearance of being the only so - called evidence to support the accusation that fossil fuel companies paid skeptics to turn the certainty of man - caused global warming back into a «false theory.»

Palmer's work with the Western Fuels Association goes all the way back to 1991, when he served as Vice President to the Informational Council for the Environment (ICE), a small coalition of US coal companies that devised a detailed PR campaign to show that «evidence that the earth is warming is weak» and that proof that carbon dioxide was the primary cause was «non existent.»

On taxing carbon: His climate change plan called for a carbon tax that will «tax polluters causing the climate crisis, and return billions of dollars to working families to ensure the fossil fuel companies don't subject us to unfair rate hikes.»

With a carbon fee - and - rebate policy called the Climate and Community Reinvestment Act of D.C., companies that buy and sell fossil fuels in the District would pay a steadily - rising fee on each ton of heat - trapping pollution they cause.

The plaintiffs are suing energy companies for global warming, but their complaint admits that fossil fuel use — that is, the activity that every resident of Boulder and San Miguel counties do every single day — is what's actually causing the problem.

Earlier this week New York City mayor Bill de Blasio stood side - by - side with several leading anti-fossil fuel activists, whom he called «my brother and sister activists,» and announced he would sue five oil and gas companies for causing Hurricane Sandy.

Fortunately, there is just enough happening that is causing big companies and investors and financiers to reassess some fossil fuel investments.

Back in the 1950's Greens wanted to get rid of the energy companies because they burnt fossil fuels without smokestack filters and powered cars without pollution control which did cause lethal smog and any idiot could see that had to change.

A lighter take on a serious subject, one day before the official start of winter... The tune is familiar, the words clever and the cause serious: Fracking for natural gas, occurring in a number of places as fossil fuel companies try to to tap into the billions of dollars worth of natural gas trapped in shale deposits, using a technique with some environmentally dubious consequences — flammable drinking water, anyone?

A lighter take on a serious subject, one day before the official start of winter... The tune is familiar, the words clever and the cause serious: Fracking for natural gas, occurring in a number of places as fossil fuel companies try to to tap into the

Mr. Tillerson himself has been asked to testify about the role of fossil fuel companies and the government in causing climate change, as part of a lawsuit brought by children alleging their constitutional rights have been violated.

Now, let's assume that the «right» amount of margin for a duel fuel energy company is # 50, and then that the current October price was caused by increases in wholesale costs, and the other actual rises.

Acting for an international oil company in a High Court claim for alleged diminution in value to a multi-million pound private property caused by illegal tapping of the company's pipeline by fuel thieves.

The complaint alleges that the companies had produced fossil fuels knowing that the resulting pollution would cause climate change and lead directly to violations of the human rights of people in the Philippines.

Such action would take the form of «climate accountability letters» sent by the local governments, demanding fossil companies to take responsibility for the harm their product are causing, but we are also asking the local governments to consider bringing a class action lawsuit — a joint lawsuit on behalf of all BC local governments — against some of the world's largest fossil fuel cartels.