Sentences with phrase «fuel companies knew»
As early as 1977, investor - owned fossil fuel companies knew their business was risky — that the use of their products released dangerous amounts of carbon dioxide and methane emissions that could destabilize our climate.
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Large integrated oil companies are known as such because they not only produce oil, but they also refine it into finished products, such as jet fuel, gasoline, heating oil, and diesel, and sell it via a network of gasoline stations.
Along with those logistical considerations, Cox says the company knows it needs to move beyond the social media - fuelled word - of - mouth momentum that generated the initial tranches of business.
There are known microbes that can eat renewable resources and produce usable fuel, so why aren't companies commercializing that practice?
If you've tried Oculus's headset, you know it's pretty amazing — and the company's very real breakthroughs are fuelling the hype train.
«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.
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.
The globally known money transfer company Western Union confirmed that it is testing Ripple following more than a month of rumor - fuelled speculation that began in early January.
The company's products are well - known for superior shortening management, fuel savings and quick recovery times.
The minority in Parliament has noted with grave concern the sale of contaminated fuel product to the tune of five million litres to a company known as Movenpiina by the MD of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Limited under very dubious and bizarre circumstances in another clear example of escalating corruption in the Akufo - Addo / Bawumia Government.
It's not known how much of that is invested in fossil fuel companies.
Burning known fossil fuel reserves would release nearly 3000 gigatonnes, and energy companies are currently spending $ 600 billion trying to find more.
And some believe fossil fuel companies could be legally liable if they knew about climate change dangers but suppressed that information.
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.
Israel - based company, Emefcy, named as a play on the acronym for microbial fuel cell (MFC), starts with the same principle as most wastewater treatment — water is aerated so bacteria in the liquid break down organic material in a closed series of containers known as a bioreactor.
The cities allege that, for decades, the companies sold fossil fuels they knew were contributing to climate change, while engaging in a multimillion - dollar campaign to sow doubt about global warming.
The letters said Exxon Mobil, the world's largest fossil fuel company, had told the committee in 2007 that it was no longer funding Soon.
Specifically, Doug Rodante, president of Green Flight International (a company in Florida that promotes alternative aviation fuels), and chief test pilot Carol Sugars, a senior pilot with the United Parcel Service (UPS), conducted extensive fuel tests on the ground, beginning with a 20 percent blend of biodiesel and normal jet fuel (kerosene known as Jet A) and progressing to 100 percent biodiesel (B100) as their confidence increased.
Magic Trip (Unrated) Psychedelic documentary about Sixties cult figure Ken Kesey recounting the best - selling author's (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) fabled, hallucinogen - fueled bus trip across the country from Oregon to New York in the company of a band of freewheeling, fellow acid freaks known as The Merry Pranksters.
Time hasn't been good to the 2012 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid: while it's still Hyundai's most fuel - efficient vehicle, it was one of the many models implicated in the company's MPG inflation scandal and, as such, no longer scores 40 mpg on the EPA test cycle.
It is why natural - gas extraction — the controversial practice known as fracking — has been virtually free of environmental regulation since 2005, and why government - owned car companies get to use taxpayer money to lobby against stricter fuel - economy standards proposed by the government.
I've known Turner for years and first met him when he was at Lotus (he had two stints at the Norfolk company), where he worked on the Corvette ZR1 engine, Lotus's own V8 and numerous skunkworks projects, including a test engine nicknamed Omnivore for its ability to run on virtually any fuel, and an optical engine that allowed the combustion process to be observed through a transparent cylinder.
Fiat - Chrysler knows it, too, and with today's recall of 2211 Hellcats, the company is hoping to avoid having things get any hotter due to potential fuel leaks.
We already knew that the Veloster Turbo is going to be fitted with a 1.6 - litre unit featuring a twin - scroll turbocharger and a direct fuel injection system, due to the fact that the South Korean company has published some details on this matter a while ago.
Today, the company creates vehicles that are known for their reliability, drivability, and great fuel efficiency.
The Huawei MediaPad M3 is next in line, this is Huawei's most powerful tablet, and it is fueled by the Kirin 960 64 - bit octa - core SoC, which is no longer the company's flagship SoC, but it's still quite powerful.
In Final Fantasy VII, a giant energy manufacturing company known as Shinra Inc. attempts to harvest the sheer life energy of the Planet as a simple fossil fuel.
There are already companies developing ways to make concrete, fertilizer, alternative fuels and even graphene from CO2, so the potential for making useful products is known, the competition just wants to find the absolute best options.
The Scandinavians acted unilaterally, because they knew that many of their European brethren have the same problems of political corruption, fossil fuel company influence, and militarism that we have here in the US.
It's about time somebody pointed out that fossil fuel companies» disinformation campaigns are known to be full of lies by the ones who ordered them.
The genesis of this idea for DOJ to investigate fossil fuel companies lies in the comparison between the actions of the fossil fuel industry and the actions of other industries known to have intentionally misled the public about the nature of their products, including the tobacco and lead paint industries.
If companies or individual building owners are serious about combating climate change and / or reducing carbon emissions then their is NO possible way to continue to use any form of combustion based, fossil fuel, systems of any kind!
Due to the high cost of capturing, transporting, and sequestering carbon dioxide, EPA expects that any new coal fired power plants built in the foreseeable future will defray the costs of CCS by selling its carbon dioxide to oil companies, which can use the gas to help extract oil by displacing liquid fuels deep underground, in a process known as CO2 enhanced oil recovery (or CO2 - EOR).
Recently, a scientist named Jagadish Shukla penned a letter to the White House asking that fossil fuel companies be investigated under anti-racketeering laws for funding disinformation campaigns about global warming (a campaign we know they did and have continued to do).
The main point here is that everyone, including the fossil fuel companies, have known this for a long time.
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.
ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies chose, however, to suppress what its own scientists knew.
«Just as it doesn't make sense for organisations whose purpose is to safeguard health to profit from the tobacco industry, health institutions can no longer justify investing in fossil fuel companies but need to start investing in clean energy solutions.»
The plaintiffs fault oil and gas companies for knowing about climate change in the mid-20thcentury, accusing them of ignoring the «warnings» and proceeding «to double - down on fossil fuels.»
State looked no further than oil industry contractors to run the draft SEIS — companies like Cardno ENTRIX, which calls TransCanada a «major client,» and ERM Resources, a dues paying member of the American Petroleum Institute which is being investigated by the State Department's Inspector General for trying to hide its prior consulting for fossil fuel giants like ExxonMobil, BP and Shell.
There have been several studies of this strategy, and the ones I've seen show the world blowing well past 2 - or 3 - degree - C temperature increases, unless the major energy companies leave most of their currently known fossil fuel reserves in the ground along with any new discoveries.
Three days before Christmas, Seattle mayor Mike McGinn announced city funds would no longer be invested in fossil fuel companies, and asked the heads of the city's pension fund to follow his lead.
A core component of their suit is fossil fuel companies «engaged in a large - scale, sophisticated advertising and public relations campaign» to promote fossil fuels while they «knew» their products would contribute to «dangerous global warming.»
There are others, high level employees and strategists of major oil companies, who are driving the business of fossil fuel extraction and can no longer take the defense that they were just following orders.
Lawsuits filed by two coastal California counties and a city argue that fossil fuel companies named in the lawsuits knew greenhouse gas emissions had a significant impact on the climate and sea levels and «concealed the dangers.»
At one conference I attended, a gas company executive gushed, «Natural gas is no longer a bridge fuel.
As the founder of an organization known as «350.org,» he leads a global network of climate change zealots who believe that persecuting energy companies involved in the production of fossil fuels is necessary to achieve «climate justice.»
Since then, InsideClimate News published an exposé detailing a $ 30 million, multi-decade effort by Exxon Mobil to sow doubt about climate change, despite the company's own internal deliberations about known climate risks associated with fossil fuel use.
Their lawsuits accuse the companies of having known, for nearly five decades, «that greenhouse gas pollution from their fossil fuel products had a significant impact on the Earth's climate and sea levels.»
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.