Sentences with phrase «fuel company profits»

When the government trades the health of our families and our planet away for fossil fuel company profits, we have to speak up.

And we refuse to let politicians risk our future and our world, just so fossil fuel companies profit.

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The vote will represent a choice between Broadcom's strategy, under Tan, of acquiring companies and focusing on boosting profits, or Qualcomm management's promise of future growth fueled by investment in new products and technology.

The Quebec - based company's revenues and profits have surged since it acquired Scandinavia's Statoil Fuel & Retail last June for US$ 2.58 billion.

The company made a comeback in February, showing higher profits on lower fuel costs for the fourth quarter.

United Continental Holdings Inc.'s fourth - quarter profit missed analysts» estimates, after the company ended an agreement to sell fuel to a third party.

The company used the profits from the Model S to fuel the development and manufacturing of Model 3, a more affordable electric vehicle.

«The good news is that the recent changes in the U.S. tax system have many of the key ingredients to fuel economic expansion: a business tax rate that will make the U.S. competitive around the world; provisions to free U.S. companies to bring back profits earned overseas; and, importantly, tax relief for the middle class.»

Walt Disney Co's quarterly profit and revenue on Tuesday beat analysts» estimates fueled by movie studio hits, and the media company said it was taking a stake in a streaming video technology company to sell more content directly to consumers.

After all, the latter would entail divesting from the modern economy as a whole, since so many companies gain a distinct advantage from using gas - powered trucks rather than horse - drawn wagons, thus profiting from the production of fossil fuels.

We're particularly enthusiastic to show companies how much environmental and profit benefit they can achieve by investing in waste - to - energy solutions that permanently reduce the expense of fossil fuels while radically improving environmental impacts on air and water quality.»

Fuelled by profits from the baby - foods market (which includes but is not limited to infant formula and generates $ 30 billion in global sales annually, with growth projected to reach $ 35 billion in 2016), these companies have funnelled money to projects like the Singapore - based Asia Pacific Infant and Young Child Nutrition Association (APIYCNA).

Tony Woodley, Unite the union joint general secretary, said the Chancellor had gone some way to tackling the issues of fuel poverty but he had missed an opportunity to levy a windfall tax on the excess energy company profits.

The Fuel Poverty Monitor, written by experts from the UK's leading fuel poverty charities National Energy Action and Energy Action Scotland with support from not - for - profit energy company Ebico, is unique in presenting an overview of the different problems and potential solutions experienced in the individual natiFuel Poverty Monitor, written by experts from the UK's leading fuel poverty charities National Energy Action and Energy Action Scotland with support from not - for - profit energy company Ebico, is unique in presenting an overview of the different problems and potential solutions experienced in the individual natifuel poverty charities National Energy Action and Energy Action Scotland with support from not - for - profit energy company Ebico, is unique in presenting an overview of the different problems and potential solutions experienced in the individual nations.

Citi News gathered earlier this week that, at least 200 liters of premix fuel had been diverted by Oil Marketing Marketing Companies that claimed to supply the product outside Accra, but ended up supplying mostly within Accra for industrial purposes at a higher cost to make more profit.

«At the moment the only thing rising faster than household fuel bills are the profits of the energy companies.»

We've got ta have a public energy system — not rely on companies motivated by private profit who make more money when they sell more electricity or fuel.

Service providers have fiscal responsibilities toward shareholders, and they also have the requirement to create novel ideas and pre-commercial products to fuel continued growth of their companies» own profits.

I see fossil fuel companies that are investing some of their profits into renewable energy R&D and efficiency.

Clearly, with the Jewish matchmaker dating sites being so important to Spark Network's profit margin, the company is going to concentrate on these sites to help fuel its recovery.

The very curricular model that Rocketship employs is shaped not simply by what is good for kids but also, in part, by what will generate profits for investors and fuel the company's ambitious growth plans.

The more people have learned about poorly managed, unaccountable schools with at best mixed academic records — not to mention the network of anti-union billionaires and for - profit education companies that are fueling much of the expansion — the more charter schools» popularity has declined.

Then again, in those days you never heard annual reports from fuel companies indicating net profits in the multiple - billions of dollars.

However, much of that growth was fueled by getting the dividend up to speed, as the company was going from no dividend to paying out a large chunk of its profit via that dividend.

The reason is simple — many companies feel that the best use of their profits is to reinvest in the business and fuel further growth.

The company needs an improving global economy to fuel commodity demand, but it's well positioned to profit when markets rebound.

Trillions are spent on war where oil is the key political factor, hundreds of billions on subsidies for rich companies that reap huge short - term profits, both in fossil fuels and pseudo-green technologies like corn ethanol and biodiesel.

This approach forces them to be more direct, more open and honest, about the values - based reasons they oppose GM food; that it fuels commercial scale agriculture, that it produces profits for big rich companies that are harming «nature,» etc..

[8] A Think Progress analysis of the data found that 32 companies in the fossil - fuel industry — such as AEP, Peabody Energy, ConEd, and PG&E — transformed a tax responsibility of $ 17.3 billion on $ 49.4 billion in pretax profits into a tax benefit of $ 6.5 billion, for a net gain of $ 24 billion.

McGinnes, though he profited from ownership of both the power company and one of the trucking companies that transported fuel to the island, finally agreed that the diesel generators had to go.

Fossil fuel companies will fight tooth and nail to keep us locked to the path that gives them a few more years of profit - the path that sends us careening off a cliff.

«Now the city is looking to shift the burden of these expenses from its taxpayers to the companies who produce and profit from fossil fuels, which have been shown by scientists to be the overwhelming driver of climate change.»

Along with falling gas prices, they've slashed the profits of fossil fuel companies, which are delaying dozens of billion - dollar projects and laying off thousands of workers.

«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.»

For too long, oil companies have reaped massive profits through a monopoly over our transportation options, leaving people with few alternatives to fossil fuels — fuels which are by far Washington's largest source of climate and air pollution.

The idea was that companies whose profits depended on sales volume of electricity from fossil fuels would earn less and less.

The Governor's Office also repeats usual lies about the so - called «scientific consensus», «climate science,» and the conspiracy theory about «a well - organized climate change counter-movement,» funded by «companies that make their profits from burning fossil fuels.»

«At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive taxpayer subsidies that pad fossil - fuel companies» already enormous profits,» said senator Bernie Sanders, who announced on 30 April he is running for president.

If there are companies — whether utilities or fossil fuel companies — committing fraud in an effort to maximize their short - term profit at the expense of the people we represent, we want to find out about it and want to expose it and we want to pursue them to the fullest extent of the law, prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.

So when utilities and fossil fuel companies urge our political leaders to keep energy costs low for the poor folks, we should recognize that what they really want is to keep profits high for themselves.

«If there are companies — whether utilities or fossil fuel companies — committing fraud in an effort to maximize their short - term profit at the expense of the people we represent,» he continued, «we want to find out about it and want to expose it and we want to pursue them to the fullest extent of the law, prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.»

On the bright side, you've probably given your new company a boost, so at least you'll profit from from those in the fossil fuel industry who might now be more inclined to use your services, seeing as you are an ally.

Rather than do so, we can demand policies that will protect our climate (while also cleaning our air and water, creating jobs, improving our economy, and making our lives more convenient), or we can sit on our butts and let big fossil fuel companies control our governmental bodies in order to maximize their profits (at the expense of society as a whole).

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.

All over the world, fossil fuel companies have a violent history of doing whatever it takes to reap their profits.

Make no mistake, fossil fuel companies are continuing to invest in expanding their stockpiles of coal, oil, and gas with the intention of burning them for profit and warming the planet well beyond what anyone would consider habitable.

In his opinion, fossil fuel companies are evil and it's therefore immoral for colleges to profit from buying their stocks.

Europe continues to be taken hostage by destructive fossil fuels and the companies who profit from them, according to Friends of the Earth groups protesting at an informal meeting of European energy ministers in Amsterdam today.

«Oil, coal and gas companies that extract fossil fuels from the ground sell it for trillions of dollars of profits a year, and essentially outsource the true cost of their products onto the poor people who face climate change loss and damage,» she says.

The fossil fuel companies use «political payola» (bribes) to influence a majority in Congress to create and sustain pollution practices... while also sustaining inefficient, «dirty energy» policies that help optimize the profits of these corrupt, wealthy corporations.