Not exact matches
The previous round of CAFE
talks, which dates back to 2007 when the
industry dropped its lawsuits against California's proposed emissions standards and set the table for the combined
fuel economy and CO2 federal rules, brought auto makers to the front lines in the war against climate change.
There's a public relations strategy used in the late 1990s by the fossil
fuel industry to get their
talking points across (they were all bogus
talking points, but it was a fairly effective strategy).
Fourteen months later I gave another public
talk — connecting the dots from global warming to policy implications to criticisms of the fossil
fuel industry for promoting misinformation.
Corporate Knights had a chance to sit down with Kortenhorst to
talk about the new RMI - CWR alliance, the rise of the «transactive» grid, the fall of the fossil
fuel industry, and what we can expect to see along the path to December's Paris climate summit.
Badal Saha, lead scientist at the fermentation biotechnology research unit of the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS), began his
talk with a status report on the
fuel ethanol
industry.
No matter where you go with the «public is reluctant to accept catastrophic man - caused global warming»
talking point, there is the «
industry - corrupted skeptics» accusation — Gelbspan's accusation about leaked fossil
fuel industry memos.
Colin Roche, extractive
industries campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe, said: «Just last week at the UN climate
talks the EU was claiming to be a climate leader yet here it is locking us in to a fossil
fuel future.
Neither Cook nor Nuccitelli have any serious physical sciences research experience (though Dana's experience in the fossil
fuel industry may qualify as applied research — oddly it's something he doesn't like to
talk about on blog).
In a conversation with Yale Environment 360 contributor Elizabeth Kolbert, he
talks about what he's learned about the power of the fossil
fuel industry — and why the battle over Keystone is far from over.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the sixth round of U.S. - European Union trade negotiations in Brussels moves toward conclusion, Friends of the Earth U.S. is dismayed by the fossil
fuel industry's influence on the
talks, as documented in a new report.
I submit that Oreskes has long been little more than a mouthpiece in this issue, basically just parroting what was already said in various
talking points about a «scientific consensus», journalists not needing to give equal time to skeptics, and that a set of Western
Fuels leaked memos indicts such skeptics as paid co-conspirators with fossil
fuel industry people.
Already, people close to the fossil
fuel industry have begun to
talk of geoengineering as a substitute for carbon abatement.
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.
One of the most important things NPA found is that the fossil
fuel industry has inserted prominent
talking points into their messaging about the impact of the Clean Power Plan on people of color and low - to moderate - income people, while advocates of the plan tend to
talk about the benefits in broad terms, rarely referencing race or communities of color.