Sentences with phrase «fuel corporations»

We stand with the millions of people around the world paying for the ignorance and arrogance of countries and fossil fuel corporations who put the interests of profits ahead of the needs of people.

As the campaign group People and Planet points out, universities help provide fossil fuel corporations not only with expertise but also with a «social licence to operate» (9).

The companies include Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips Co., BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Peabody Energy Corp. «The American people deserve answers from the fossil fuel corporations about their actions to massively deceive the public in regards to climate science,» Lieu and Welch wrote in a letter to their House colleagues asking for their support.

Five years later, Comptroller Stringer continues to oversee more than $ 3 billion invested in fossil fuel corporations like ExxonMobil.

BC is one of few provinces with no limit on corporate donations (as is Saskatchewan, whose leading political party appears to have benefitted handsomely from vast sums of money from Alberta - based fossil fuel corporations over the last decade).

As the head of the Regulatory Unit at the Institute for Public Affairs, a right - wing think tank with close ties to greenhouse sceptics, Moran's role has been to support the Government and the fossil fuel corporations with anti-environmental opinions about climate science, the costs of emission reductions and the pitfalls of renewable energy.

It's really too bad that you haven't seen fit to give even a fraction of the attention to the very real, very serious question of who broke into the computer system and stole the emails that you have given to legitimizing the baseless, slanderous and inflammatory charges that various fossil fuel corporation stooges made about the emails.

The attacks on climate science have nothing to do with any actual political ideology, and everything to do with the ONE BILLION DOLLARS PER DAY PROFIT that the fossil fuel corporations want to keep raking in for as long as they can get away with it.

Is the money from the fossil fuel corporations so good that it completely cripples their consciences?

The Fossil Fuel Corporations seem dead set on burning up the the remaining carbon in the ground even though they know it will be catastrophic when they are done.

If the promises made by geoengineering erode the political incentives requiring polluters to cut their emissions, will we see fossil fuel corporations begin lobbying to get political endorsement for climate modification?

As Matthew Yglesias articulated last year in a thoughtful piece on Slate, divestment by socially responsible investors, universities and even governments won't starve capital flows to fossil fuel corporations anytime soon.

For those open to the implications of the scientific warnings, a sense of despair can take over when they see once again the failure of governments to protect the future wellbeing of their citizens and the extraordinary power fossil fuel corporations exercise over government decisions.

Yet instead of closing these loopholes to make fossil fuel corporations pay their fair share to the federal government, the budget deal extends dirty energy subsidies while slashing support for clean energy.

Naysayers and fossil fuel corporations say it's impossible to both protect the environment and inspire a thriving economy.

Its business is drilling and managing oil wells as a sub-contractor for fossil fuel corporations such as BP, Occidental, and Petrogas.

The companies include Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips Co., BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Peabody Energy Corp. «The American people deserve answers from the fossil fuel corporations about their actions to massively deceive the public in regards to climate science,» Lieu and Welch wrote in a letter to their House colleagues asking for their support.

It is not surprising that the eco-pragmatists attract support from conservatives who have doggedly resisted all measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions, defended the interests of fossil fuel corporations, and in some cases worked hard to trash climate science.

It includes «contrarian scientists, fossil fuel corporations, conservative think tanks, and various front groups», along with «amateur climate bloggers... public relations firms, astroturf groups, conservative media and pundits, and conservative politicians».

At 8:15 a.m., grassroots organizations rally to urge Cuomo to stand up fossil fuel corporations and executives, outside of the New York Stock Exchange, 11 Wall St., Manhattan.

Climate Hawks Vote does not accept contributions from fossil - fuel corporations, executives, or lobbyists.

Fossil fuel corporations are simply meeting the public's request for energy, he said.

What, specifically, is the reason that you less skeptical of propaganda funded by the fossil fuel corporations?

With Trump and the Republicans running the Government, look for the transition to clean energy and EVs to be delayed as long as they can make it happen and as long as the fossil fuel corporation can bribe them to act in their interests and not the people's best interest.

AGW denialism has been manufactured by a generation - long campaign of deliberate deceit, funded by ExxonMobil and Koch Industries and other fossil fuel corporations that collectively rake in one billion dollars per day in profit from the ongoing business - as - usual consumption of their destructive products.

I would respectfully suggest that «policy - makers within the GOP» have suffered much more «damage» from the millions of dollars in campaign contributions they receive from the fossil fuel corporations.

It is the financial interests who are co-owners of both media and fossil fuel corporations, after all.

Which is exactly the scam that the fossil fuel corporations have gotten away with for a century or so, to their vast profit, and to the grave detriment of everyone else.

(Actually, I have seen a few feel - good commercials by major corporations, usually fossil fuel corporations, touting their feel - good research projects with no real - life implementations to date, as if to say «see, we're working on a solution, now go back and drive your car around the block, just for the fun of it, there's nothing to worry about, and we're certainly not to blame.»).

The warnings have been ignored or ridiculed at the international, national, state and even local level, thanks in part to a well - funded, right - wing campaign representing the short - term interests of heavy industry, mining and fossil fuel corporations.

We challenge the power of fossil fuel corporations, bolster support for renewable and citizen - powered energy and seek to hold big polluters to account.

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Members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), including fossil fuel corporations and front groups, will meet in Chicago this week to discuss their next round of attacks on clean energy policies.

The Heartland Institute, funded over the years by fossil fuel corporations and conservative philanthropists, is itself one of America's loudest climate science denial organisations.

Instead, in 1989, a group of fossil fuel corporations, utilities and automobile manufacturers banded together to form the Global Climate Coalition.