Sentences with phrase «fuel companies do»

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.»

Both Borenstein and Revkin concede that fossil fuel companies do have some responsibility, especially given the industry's track record contesting regulations and spreading climate disinformation.

The fossil fuel companies don't need to convince denialists of anything, but they get their money's worth by «convincing» non-expert policymakers who oppose any actions on carbon because they are told to.

«If we do get a global deal on climate that locks in a target for reducing emissions... then I think the fossil fuel companies do face a very bleak outlook,» said Mark Lewis, chief energy economist at

«If we do get a global deal on climate that locks in a target for reducing emissions... then I think the fossil fuel companies do face a very bleak outlook,» said Mark Lewis, chief energy economist at Kepler Cheuvreux, a Paris - based brokerage.

The proposal requires fossil fuel companies doing business in the District to pay a fee for every ton of carbon dioxide they put into the atmosphere.

Speaking at a Guardian Live debate on divestment last week, Vince argued: «Simply selling shares of a fossil fuel company doesn't undermine its fundamental business plan.

Not exact matches

In October, when hay season ends, Stinger employees drive machines to energy companies, national labs, or universities doing alternative fuel projects and help the farmers that supply them bale, stack, and haul residue left in their fields.

They also provide a community for startups that many don't have access to unless they are the darling of the huge firms, and have taken part in several rounds in famous companies, including Instacart, Coinbase and Screenhero, acquired by Slack to fuel their videoconferencing surge.

Most companies raise capital and use IPO proceeds to fuel growth, but «Spotify doesn't need that — it has plenty of cash on its balance sheets,» says Matthew Kennedy, IPO market strategist at Renaissance Capital.

Just like car fuel, if you don't have the right company culture in place, you can find yourself broken - down on the side of the road.

That's what Joliette, Que. - based petroleum products supplier Harnois Groupe did in 2014 when Esso announced it would stop supplying fuel to mining companies operating in Labrador City.

«The oil companies knew from 1959 on, they did their own study that there would be global warming happening because of fossil fuels, and on top of it that it would be risky for people's lives, that it would kill,» Schwarzenegger said in the podcast.

The fuel cell technology company posted revenue of $ 20.1 million in the period, which also did not meet Street forecasts.

Ripcord, a company that aims to do away with the piles of paper enterprises keep around, has raised a $ 25 million round led by GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) to fuel its robotic - assisted paper digitization business.

While this company's bond did not directly invest in increasing fossil fuel output, refineries are still processing fossil fuels and any investment in making refineries more efficient, as this bond is aiming to, will likely extend plant operating lifetimes and therefore indirectly increase emissions over time.

«This case represents an unprecedented first step in the absolutely critical work of forcing coal and other fossil fuel companies to start being honest about the damage they are doing to our planet,» Schneiderman said in a prepared statement.

House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Peter Welch of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing doubt about the matter.

Clean Energy Fuels didn't make any announcements on the day, and there wasn't any material news out about the company directly.

«I believe that full and fair disclosures by Peabody and other fossil fuel companies will lead investors to think long and hard about the damage these companies are doing to our planet.»

The company does make it up with lower diesel costs but there is a lag time between lower fuel surcharges and the declining price of diesel.

In each case, the company generates strong returns, needs to reinvest their earnings to fuel growth and has the opportunity to do so.

Falling interest rates also made it cheaper for companies to do business, further fueling the economic machine.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian did, however, announce that the company is looking at whether to end discounts with other «politically divisive» organizations after Georgia lawmakers punished the airline by removing the jet fuel tax exemption from a larger bill.

Oil ministry officials said they don't have anything to do with pricing and it's up to the companies how they price fuel.

If coal is to Australian politics as pipelines are to Canada's, the head of the country's largest coal - fueled energy company has just done the...

Moody's says house price growth in Australia does not appear to be fuelled by excessive credit growth, capital buffers at the LMI companies are sufficient to meet a serious cyclical recession and mortgage loss ratios are not only benign, they are likely to improve.

A full - throated campaign has taken root at the University at Buffalo, calling on officials to divest endowment funds from fossil fuel companies, as several universities around the country already have done.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have received information that these contaminated fuels which were originally meant for industrial usage by the steel, garment, petrol chemical as claimed by BOST by companies to run their machinery and certainly not for the running of vehicle engines has ended up in the open market against the NPA's directive not to do so.

So multi million dollar e-hailing companies had to let go of that, and start using an IRGC backed navigation app, which fails to work stably and their drivers end up using more fuel and time and energy doing their work.

The Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport Company (BsOST), Mr Alfred Obeng has been cleared of any wrong doing by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and the National Security in the sale of five million litres of contaminated fuel.

But Sustainable, which is working on a system that turns animal or plant waste into fuel to power equipment, is doing all its construction and testing at space its leasing from a power tool company in Saugerties.

«Somebody must have been engaged in this whole fuel fraud and somehow it needed to be offloaded and a company has been set up not properly incorporated and we have decided to reduce that value of whatever has been contaminated deliberately, I don't think it was a mistake.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

«We're not going to be intimidated by people who take a lot of money from fossil fuel companies and then do their bidding,» Schneiderman said.

The Ministry of Energy, in May 2017, subsequently ordered the Fisheries Ministry to probe the companies alleged to be complicit in the fuel diversion, but that did not happen.

State Comptroller Tom Di Napoli is opposing the call for him to divest the state's pension plans from fossil fuel companies, on the grounds that he can be more effective using the state's stock ownership to do shareholder activism.

Cogema, the state - owned company that handles France's nuclear fuel, says that it has a contract with the Russian atomic ministry to do such work but that it does not know where exactly the work is done.

The old way of doing business, with big centralized power companies and industries that are totally reliant on fossil fuels, is over, he says.

«Don't blink,» says Tam, a fuel explosions specialist at energy company BP.

The company is doing enough business in such fuel cells for backup electricity, for example, that it makes sense, according to spokesman Daniel Pepitone.

A truth that floated to the surface during the BP energy company's Deepwater disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, along with hundreds of millions of liters of oil, is that the world does not have a ready replacement for conventional forms of fuel such as crude oil and likely will not have one for some time, particularly as demand for energy grows worldwide.

Two other companies, Energy Matter Conversion Corp. (EMC2) and Tri Alpha Energy, are developing reactors that use proton - boron fuel, which requires even higher temperatures than deuterium does but allows almost direct conversion of fusion into electricity, without boiling water to drive a generator.

Although companies do not divulge how much fuel they use in collision avoidance manoeuvres, Dunstan estimates that each one must shorten a satellite's lifespan by between four and 12 months.

When the pair studied the share prices of oil companies and alternative - energy technology companies, and estimated the rate of change of future investment, they found that investors do not expect the replacement of oil - based fuels with renewables for another 131 years.

The challengers — an alliance of energy and fossil fuel companies and coal - producing states — wanted the court «to do something that they candidly acknowledge we have never done before: review the legality of a proposed rule,» wrote Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in an opinion unanimously backed by a three - judge panel.

The oil companies do have control of the liquid fuels market, however — so at the end of the day, what the biofuel folks are looking to do is to take market share away from probably the most powerful industry in America, and arguably in the world.

«What we're doing is opening up, in a more serious way, a pathway to synthetic fuels from air,» says David Keith, the former University of Calgary physicist who is the company's founder and executive chairman.

So, if Inhofe lets money dictate his policies, what does it mean that the top three contributors to his campaign are dirty energy companies (Koch industries being # 1), or that he has taken well over $ 1 million from the fossil fuel industry since 1999?

I urge all of you to not purchase the Honda fuel cell car or any other company's fuel cell vehicle until they do what is right and provide a fuel cell car that pulls the hydrogen from water.