What's even more mind - boggling about all of this is that despite the realities of how good things have been for fossil
fuel companies in recent years, people on the right still claim that President Obama is anti-drilling, anti-oil and totally in - line with the environmentalists.
I guess in the end I view fossil
fuel companies in a much more favorable light than you.
Often, when I write about fossil fuel divestment, someone will pipe up that divestment is useless — someone else will buy those stocks, and they'll be less motivated to engage the fossil
fuel companies in mending their ways.
On Feb. 23, the Smithsonian opened an investigation into the ethical conduct of Willie Soon, one of its part time scientists and a climate skeptic who has failed to disclose funding from fossil
fuel companies in papers he published.
But when you're working on behalf of some of the largest fossil
fuel companies in the world, you probably won't be inclined to endorse renewable energy.
To be sure, McKibben announced a small victory last week: An environmentally - oriented college in Maine named Unity College voted to sell the stocks of fossil
fuel companies in its endowment, but its holdings amount to $ 13 million.
And investors, even ones that claim to be sustainable or socially responsible, don't seem to protest either, as they quietly include fossil
fuel companies in their portfolios.
Instead, you build a wall between that information and the public, built entirely out of a very powerful emotion: anger, toward «denier scientists» who shill for fossil
fuel companies in a massive, sinister disinformation campaign.
In March 2018, Happer — among other, was asked by a judge to disclose any ties he had to fossil
fuel companies in a case between cities and fossil fuel companies.
We see that Cuccinelli is taking the money from the fossil
fuel companies in exchange for persecuting Dr. Michael Mann.
All those who make use of goods and services that involve the use of fossil fuels are helping to keep the fossil
fuel companies in business Without their money the fossil fuel companies would go out of business.
Their letter was the latest sign environmental concerns that were once peripheral for many investors have become mainstream, with some of the most traditional shareholder groups demanding fossil
fuel companies in general, and Exxon in particular, do more in response to climate change.
by Richard Pollock Daily Caller George Soros made big investment bets on fossil
fuel companies in the fourth quarter of 2017 even though he claims these firms contribute to climate change, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation.
Cynical distortions paid for by fossil
fuel companies in apparently credible media outlets is a very disturbing trend, and I applaud Dr. Hansen for pointing this out.
After all, Cheney achieved this in 2001 just to keep the fossil
fuel companies in business.
ALEC is funded by some of the biggest fossil
fuel companies in the world, like Koch.
The measure would require the pension fund to stop investing in the world's top 200 fossil
fuel companies in the next five years, and divest from coal companies within one year from when the law is passed.
Mylan has 99 percent stakes in 5 LLCs that own refined coal plants: Canton
Fuels Company in Illinois, Chouteau
Fuels Company in Oklahoma, Deogun Manufacturing Company in Utah, Marquis Industrial Company in Indiana and Powder Street LLC in West Virginia.
► On Wednesday, also at ScienceInsider, David Malakoff reported that «[a] half - dozen academic journals are investigating allegations that aerospace engineer Willie Wei - Hock Soon, a prominent skeptic of the idea that humans are contributing to global warming, failed to disclose financial ties to a fossil
fuel company in papers they published.»
Not a single fossil
fuel company in the world discloses potential emissions from their reserves of oil, gas and coal — and that is a big problem.
Not exact matches
Bombardier hopes the
fuel - efficient aircraft that's been
in development for a decade will be a game - changer for the
company, whose regional jets face an uncertain future amid increased competition.
Wednesday: Boeing & Biogen Boeing:
In the past, this
company has been deemed a loser on suspicions that airlines won't upgrade their fleets for
fuel efficient planes now that the price of oil is so low.
Government investments
in research and technology can help
fuel innovation — and hugely successful
companies can arise as a result of that innovation.
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 field
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 field
in their fields.
Weakness
in the
company's
fuel refining and chemicals businesses dragged on an upbeat quarter for Exxon's unit that focuses on producing oil and natural gas.
The
company seeks to solve the whole issue of customer centricity and leveraging data
in the making decisions about customers, and is
fueled by Argyros» dedicated to continued innovation.
«We invested
in a couple of fertility
companies... We are broad, we are looking for great teams and founders and we try to
fuel them.»
Thanks to the new law, the largest tech
companies repatriated more than $ 470 billion
in cash from their overseas holdings at the beginning of the year, Materne said, adding that the mass movement «should result
in a bottomless well of capital to
fuel a significant wave of software M&A.»
Companies with high - energy inputs, like airlines, railways and miners, should also be trying to lock
in long - term
fuel contracts at current low rates, says Janice Plumstead, senior economist at the Canada West Foundation.
At its most desperate, the delivery
company had just $ 5,000
in the bank, substantially short of their $ 32,000 monthly
fuel cost.
In effect, it's a chicken - or - the - egg thing: Has the
company achieved its status on its own merits, or has its rise been
fueled by the media?
While many biofuel
companies have tried and failed to sell jet
fuel in large quantities, Fulcrum BioEnergy has some support that other haven't had.
Icahn owns an 82 % stake
in CVR Energy, which along with other refining
companies, has called for changes to the Renewable
Fuel Program to shift the burden of blending biofuels into gasoline away from refiners and further down stream to marketers.
Regulators have steadily added tough safety, emissions and
fuel efficiency standards, and
in the U.S., class - action lawsuits that have yielded big judgments is putting additional pressure on auto
companies.
Prior to that investment, Getaway raised $ 1.4 million
in two rounds of seed financing from a number of investors, including Rough Draft Ventures and
Fueled, according to the
company.
One is to regard capital as the
fuel that is keeping our
company alive for a finite period of time, during which one of two things will happen: 1) We prove our
company to be a worthy proposition, which will bring it more investment or increased revenue and allow us to stay
in business, or 2) we fail to create a worthy proposition, and it's time to move on.
However,
fueling speculation is a tweet by Vulture journalist Mark Harris stating that immediately after her interview with Seacrest, Henson told the next correspondent, «I'm great now that I'm
in your
company.»
In the first quarter, the
Company reported record total revenue and record operating revenue (a non-GAAP measure excluding all
fuel and subcontracted transportation).
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.
On Thursday
in Salt Lake City, the Nikola Motor
Company unveiled the Nikola One, the world's first hydrogen
fuel - cell electric freight truck.
The
company claims its service conserves one gallon of
fuel per idling hour per truck, and with more than one million truckers on the road at any given time, the savings add up — so far, says Wilson, eight million gallons of
fuel have been saved, 83,000 metric tons of emissions have been eliminated, and 150,000 road cowboys have plugged
in.
«Tesla understood what it takes and organized itself
in such a way as to be a real car
company» with a truly integrated supply chain, says Alan Baum, principal of Baum and Associates, a
fuel and energy consultant
in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
The
company's sales were
fueled by strength across global markets,
in both footwear and apparel, calming some nerves that the brand is losing its footing.
It has also opened offices
in India, Japan, and the Philippines, over the past year,
fueling speculation that the
company will soon be ready to file for an IPO.
Oil and gas
company Citation Resources is seeking to diversify its business by acquiring an initial 40 per cent interest
in an unlisted firm that converts rubber waste into clean
fuels, for a cash and share package worth about $ 7 million.
A tightening of the
company's focus on home services like cleaning and handyman work and a somewhat more aggressive use of paid channels for user acquisition, with advertising now bringing
in 35 percent of new business, helped
fuel the growth.
Within the first two years of starting FedEx, founder Frederick Smith found his
company so many millions of dollars
in debt, because of sharply rising
fuel costs, that he was nearly ready to declare bankruptcy.
But like many other, overly optimistic hydrogen - based
fuel entrepreneurs, Dean, whose
company made a specialized membrane that was to be used
in the
fuel - cell modules, watched the ground open beneath his feet as the commercial take - up proved to be far slower than anyone anticipated.
When Vancouver civil engineer James Dean started his greentech
company, dPoint Technologies,
in the early 2000s, he figured he could hitch his wagon to the promise of the hydrogen
fuel cell sector.
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.