Sentences with phrase «fuel companies still»

And the third issue is that fossil fuel companies still invest, on the order of half a trillion dollars a year in developing new reserves.

Not exact matches

Just like planes need to always leave enough fuel for an alternate airport, companies should ideally close on new funding while they still have money for at least another six months of normal operations.

Today the company works with a bio - and fossil - fuel blend, which Shepherd insists is still kinder to the environment than importing salt from overseas.

Still, the voracious energy consumption of Google's data centers makes any attempt to reduce the company's reliance on fossil fuels noteworthy.

Like a world still addicted to fossil fuels, these companies are suffering now.»

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.

Continental Europe and UK still showed better business and fueled growth for the company.

However, compared to Home Depot which was reinvesting more than 100 % of earnings to fuel growth, the capital requirements of growing First Republic, Google and Tiffany still leave room for the companies to pay a dividend or buy back stock.

Then Pat and company can tarnish his unblemished record in front of the home crowd, which then unleashes the media's story line about how Mahomes still hasn't lost a game and looks to be the best QB in the NFL, which fuels the flames within and we ride his magical arm all the way to the dance and win the SB.

But most investors and oil companies are betting on business as usual, with Shell still trying to find new fossil fuel reserves.

Other companies such as Samsung and Siemens already offer products to back up grid power, but they are still expensive compared with fossil - fuel storage, and provide cover only for short periods.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

The Rainforest Action Network (RAN), a climate advocacy group, said yesterday that Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of the West, through its parent company, BNP Paribas, are each sponsors of this week's Climate Week conference but still finance billions of dollars» worth of fossil fuel projects.

Mainly, the industry's lawyers are likely to argue that fossil fuel companies» past understanding of all this was too imperfect to spur action to protect the climate and is still not absolute.

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 can't match the PHEV on paper, but its claimed fuel consumption of 53.3 mpg is pretty good for an SUV this size, although its 139g / km CO2 emissions figure still means a relatively pricey 29 % Benefit - in - Kind (BiK) rating for company - car drivers.

As one example cited, the company has increased its use of high - strength steel and other lightweight materials to reduce vehicle weight, and thus improve fuel economy, while still meeting standards for vehicle safety.

Audi still builds engines that burn fossil fuel, but the company brings cutting edge engineering to the S7.

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.

The company generates tons of cash, which fuel perpetual dividend increases while still leaving plenty left over for building organically and making acquisitions to fuel growth.

Seven years on and we get the impression that the spectre of this creative endeavour still haunts the company, fuelling it to do better now the opportunity has presented itself.

All of that is a long way of saying that calling the Munro Motor 2.0 electric bike a «bike» might ruffle some feathers, not only for leading people to think that it can be pedaled as a bike can, but also because even as the company incorporates the latest in electric drive technology, it still retains design elements that resemble actual components from its gas - fueled inspiration, just for style.

C. Technically, it is still possible to solve the climate problem, but there are two essential requirements: (1) a simple across - the - board (all fossil fuels) rising carbon fee [2] collected from fossil fuel companies at the domestic source (mine or port of entry), not a carbon price «scheme,» and the money must go to the public, not to government coffers, otherwise the public will not allow the fee to rise as needed for phase - over to clean energy, (2) honest government support for, rather than strangulation of, RD&D (research, development and demonstration) of clean energy technologies, including advanced generation, safe nuclear power.

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.

While over 100 mainstream American companies have fled the controversial organization, a 2017 Annual Meeting registration list shows that ALEC is still chock full of fossil fuel companies.

This, to my mind, is the ideal approach — consumers are better off (use less fuel, and pay no more for the benefit) companies are OK (can still make money) and CO2 reduces.

A significant proportion of fossil fuel projects outside the carbon budget are related to future projects, which companies still have time to cancel — the less that energy transition risks are factored into company planning now, the greater chance of value impacts in the future.

The scientists pointed out that the company still supported, for instance, the American Enterprise Institute, whose fellow, Jonah Goldberg, falsely told Fox News in 2014 that it was «utterly fraudulent» that 97 percent of scientists actively doing research into climate change back the theory that it is driven by human activity, mostly fossil fuel use.

The total value of green bonds worldwide may be valued at $ 900 billion but with banks in the UK alone still making billions of pounds of loans to fossil fuel companies each year ROB MACQUARIE argues it's time for the Bank of England to take an active role in decarbonisation

We saw it with smoking and the tobacco companies, it's still there with evolution and some religious sects, and we're seeing it now with climate change and the fossil fuel industry.

This large carbon reduction is a great step in the right direction and we look forward to continuing such positive communications with the University to further reduce the remaining 60,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases still owned by the University's investments in fossil fuel companies.

Still, the company reports that it will not stop selling fossil fuels in the near future, despite the damage to the environment.

Local activists are making desperate stands to stop new fossil fuel projects, while the giant energy companies are making equally desperate attempts to build while they still can.

We have an agreement between every country in the world to have a dramatic shift away from the use of fossil fuels, and yet still fossil fuel companies dominate our stock exchanges, and on the basis that they're going to utilise all of the assets, all of those oil and gas reserves, which we absolutely can't burn.

The university still has investments in oil and gas company Santos and other fossil fuel firms, noted Louey.

But fossil fuel companies, as well as the automakers, have fought tooth and nail to block cleaner alternatives, so for a long time, Americans — who are still responsible for more carbon emissions per person than anywhere else in the world — didn't have much choice.

If the company will still downplay the effects of climate change through this new job hiring, it might fuel more debates and pressure from the U.S. government.

GM's beefy Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell vehicle also raised some eyebrows - mostly for portraying itself as an eco-friendly vehicle despite its tremendous girth (consumers still want big SUVs, company officials insist).

Sadly mainstream automobile companies are still desperately clinging to the notion that liquid fuels are going to last forever.

Despite the urgent climate crisis, fossil fuel companies and their financiers are still supporting new projects to extract, transport, and...

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.

Frito - Lay is adding over 1,200 fuel efficient vehicles to their fleet so store deliveries will have a lower carbon footprint.It'd be great to see the company using radically better vehicles - like all electric, or even electric hybrid - but we're still giving them some snaps for the choice to go with Sprinter vehicles, which give them a 50 % better fuel efficiency rate over what they're currently using, as well as a 28 % reduction of CO2 emissions per vehicle.

This could be due to a shift in certain fuel types in BP's portfolio (for example, clean diesel requires a lot of water), but still was extremely high versus other companies.

[10] While many companies appear to believe that climate targets will not be met, we are unaware of any company (save Statoil) that endeavors to incorporate the physical and economic impacts of largely unabated climate change on the macroeconomic forecasts that drive their modeling, though that flows, ipso facto, from the suggestion that the world is likely to use far more fossil fuels than could safely be combusted whilst still achieving those targets.

Yet, it still may be possible for fossil fuel companies to make a transition over the next two decades into energy companies that produce clean, low carbon energy at reasonable cost and reasonable profit.

Some fossil fuel companies continue today to reject the scientific evidence — to insist that the scientific jury is still out — and that their products represent a good solution to the world's energy needs.

But without judging the final outcome of that legal fight, the Supreme Court's decision still gives some idea as to how fossil fuel companies might be sued for climate damages in courts around the world, and those damages orders then enforced in Canada and elsewhere.

Today, Zynga's still around, and it even managed to turn a profit in 2017, but with 72 million fewer monthly unique users than it boasted in March 2010, the company's days of FarmVille - fueled glory are in the past.

Skill publishers still need to think through design and there will be many more custom voice apps developed in the near - term, but the rise of self - service is likely to fuel further activity and bring more companies onto voice platforms.

The appearance of a notch is to be determined, but the company released a short teaser video today that seems to still fuel the three camera rumor.