Sentences with phrase «fuel funded ones»

Except for the fossil - fuel funded ones like Tim Ball and Fred Singer, who don't even publish at all in climate science journals, and have no credibility whatsoever.

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«$ 5tn in five years is a stunning and unprecedented figure,» said Ellen Dorsey, at the philanthropic Wallace Global Fund, one of the earliest backers of the fossil fuel divestment movement.

That growth, fueled by $ 1.1 billion in venture funding, makes Dropbox one of the greatest Silicon Valley startup stories of all time.

Friends and family business loans, or financing from friends or family members remains one of the primary sources small businesses of every size use to access capital to fuel growth or otherwise fund specific initiatives.

Buffett's comments, fueled by one of the worst annual performances of his flagship Berkshire Hathaway fund, suggested that the U.S. Economy «had fallen off a cliff».

One of the investors was the Amazon Alexa Fund, which provides venture capital to fuel voice technology innovation.

Your school can use the funds to implement one Healthy Eating Play and one Physical Activity Play from the Fuel Up to Play 60 Playbook during the 2018 - 19 school year.

If your school has at least one adult who is signed up to be a FUTP60 Program Advisor and is enrolled in the National School Lunch Program, your school is eligible to apply for Funds for Fuel Up to Play 60.

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.

It will provide at least one not for profit agency in each of the four National Grid Gas Distribution Areas with up to # 100k funding to design and deliver a project bringing tangible and lasting benefits to low - income households in fuel poverty.

Even as these young vulnerable women jumped from one office to another, soliciting for funds for Inna Patty and her Miss Ghana organisation, they were not given any fuel money.

New York, NY — Just one day before dozens of New Yorkers will take action at the New York City pension fund meeting calling for full divestment from fossil fuels, actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio added his voice, calling on New York to step into its leadership and divest from fossil fuels.

Zemsky counters that Buffalo's higher participation is likely the result of the State University at Buffalo's designation as one of the highest federally funded research institutions in the SUNY system — and a fuel for research - inspired businesses.

Sharon Frost, a soil district technician for the Suffolk County Soil and Water Conservation Service, said one new, 1,000 - gallon tank costs about $ 16,000 and about 75 percent of the cost was paid through the agricultural fuel tank replacement grant program, which receives funding from the state.

Fueled by name recognition and deep connections in more conservative corners of the city's media and night - life world, he has raised nearly $ 1 million for his campaign from celebrities like Andre Agassi and through fund - raisers headlined by bawdy comedians and a Sinatra tribute band — or, in one case, hosted by Anthony Scaramucci, the short - lived White House communications director.

The political damage from George Osborne's U-turn on plans to increase fuel duty deepened on Tuesday night when he was accused of leaving one of his junior ministers to carry the can during an interview in which she struggled to explain how the freeze would be funded.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

After seven years of tumult and transition fueled by the common core, state testing is settling down, with most states rejecting the federally funded PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments, and nearly one - quarter embracing the SAT or the ACT as their official high school test.

For the price of one G63 AMG 6 × 6, you could also buy three «normal» G63 AMGs in the U.S., or four 2013 G550s, and still have a little cash left over for your fuel slush fund.

Named in honor of one of the industry's biggest proponents of education, long - time DATIA Board Member, lifelong educator, and long - time DATIA instructor; the Diana Bauske Educational Scholarship Fund fuels the growth and advancement of DATIA members by expanding opportunities for professional development through scholarships based on financial need.

Despite this performance CO2 emissions are just 129g / km — putting the car in VED Band D with no - cost Road Fund Licence in year one — and the official combined cycle fuel economy is 57.6 mpg.

Surrey, B.C. — March 2018 — The Surrey Community Cat Coalition announced its receipt of a new $ 10,000 grant from PetSmart Charities of Canada, one of the nation's leading funders of animal welfare, to help fuel its spay and neuter efforts in Surrey.

-- January 19, 2018 — Today, Manitoba Underdogs Rescue Inc. announced it has received a $ 20,000 grant from PetSmart Charities of Canada, one of the nation's leading funders of animal welfare, to help fuel its spay and neuter efforts in Chemawawin Cree Nation in 2018.

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.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

If fuel prices stay the way they've been (that is, expensive and becoming more so), we can expect to see more funding for magnificent developments in alternative fuels (sadly, one of which is coal) as they supplant oil as an industrial, commercial and transportation energy source.

It's either political (conservative, right wing or libertarian) or being funded by or in the employment of the fossil fuel industry or one of their front groups.

One of the few energy specifics Obama floated in his 2013 State of the Union speech was the creation of an Energy Security Trust, which over the next decade would steer $ 2 billion in oil and natural gas royalties to fund research into biofuels, fuel cells, and advanced batteries.

But Michaels — who at one point estimated 40 percent of his funding came from the fossil fuel industry — has been caught repeatedly making inaccurate climate claims, including on Fox News and in the Washington Post and Forbes.

The letter claims that climate «skepticism» is growing, and yet only has 16 signatories, at least 43 % of which have received funding from the fossil fuel industry, and not one single new argument which hasn't been long - debunked.

Now one that is almost sure to revive the nausea: A Conversation on Climate Intimidation with Richard Lindzen and fossil - fuel funded Willie Soon, moderated by lawyer Andrew Grossman.

Currently, the group is working on fossil fuel divestment of the OTPP, one of the largest and most successful money management funds in the world.

How far will fossil fuel industry - funded elected officials go to protect one of the biggest carbon polluters in the world?

The three demands strengthen one another — after all, one way of achieving a 100 % renewable future is to phase out fossil fuels, yet that won't happen if our cities, universities, schools or places of worship keep funding the fossil fuel industry.

They are the ones who attacked it as a party plank, they are the ones who have been taking millions in fossil fuel money to fund an organized disinformation campaign about it, they are the ones who harass climate scientists.

One of the three actual atmospheric scientists out of the Heartland Institute's 58 «experts,» Patrick Michaels, has admitted that 40 percent of his funding comes from fossil fuel industry groups.

Citing the rising sea levels that threatened cityâ $ ™ s neighborhoods, he said, «I believe that Seattle ought to discourage these companies from extracting that fossil fuel, and divesting the pension fund from these companies is one way we can do that.»

You are the one drawing the equivalence, and trying to tar all fossil fuel funds with the same simplistic brush, not me.

Robert Balling, Idso's mentor, was one of the leading scientists paid by the Greening Earth Society, the climate science - denying front group created by the Western Fuels Association, one of the first and earliest coal industry groups funding the denial of climate change.

Consequently, I'm pleased to help develop and support initiatives and investments like this one, through the Environmental Protection Fund, to assist municipalities transition their transportation fleets to electric and / or hydrogen fuel cell, zero - emissions vehicles.

The final agreement reached means the continued bankrolling of polluters, with billions of euros of taxpayers» money set to fund the building of new fossil fuel plants, and extended life support for existing ones.

[Translate] One area of energy funding the House spared as it voted on its «minibus» budget bill was fossil fuel...

(You may never see a more perfect example of hypocrisy than the climate - change movement's ironclad belief that their vast funding is one hundred percent pure and noble — even when, as Curry notes, it comes from those eeeeeevil fossil fuel companies, who donate enormous sums of money to universities and environmental groups.)

Media Matters also reports that of the seven reports that the NBCC cites in the op - eds, three predate the Clean Power Plan, one was a preliminary analysis by a mining group, and the others received funding from fossil fuel interests.

Andres, R.J., G. Marland, I. Fund, and E. Matthews, 1997: Geographic Patterns of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Fossil - Fuel Brning, Hydarulic Cement Production, and Gas Flaring on a One Degree by One Degree Grid Cell Basis: 1950 to 1990.

Behind the group are three lawyers — one a Republican - elected district attorney, another a former radio host and «longtime friend» of Vice President Mike Pence, and Horner, who has been paid by coal companies and works at the fossil fuel — funded Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Earth scientist Bill Chameides, dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and a former chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, urges the administration to use its Clean Air Act authority to promulgate carbon regulations for existing power plants like it has for new ones: «Doing that will force fuel switching from coal to natural gas.»

For a group apparently hooked on transparency, the latest organization to spring from the loins of the fossil fuel — funded climate science denial industry certainly manages to obscure one or two pertinent facts.

Or they could just start reaching out to more scientists — ones who are putting out peer - reviewed research on climate change and, we can only hope, aren't being funded by fossil fuel industry — and let them do the talking.

* Groups known to have funding ties to the Koch Brothers, the billionaire heads of Koch Industries, which is one of the largest privately held fossil fuel conglomerates in the U.S.