Sentences with phrase «fuel industry tried»

The fossil fuel industry tried to turn clean energy into something dirty during the political campaign season.

While the fossil fuel industry tries it hands at by squandering billions of dollars of research on unfeasible technical solutions such as geological sequestration of carbon emissions from power plants, soils are a natural solution which has been proven for hundreds of millions of years of biological and evolutionary history.

Not exact matches

At the workshop, scientists and lawyers had discussed copying a strategy against the fossil fuel industry that had been used to great effect against Big Tobacco — namely trying to prove that it had covered up knowledge that its products were harmful.

Ford looked to be leading the way toward making aluminum the industry standard for automakers trying to cut weight and improve fuel economy — but nobody followed.

I am not yet in my 40's but was raised in a very alternative community of people in nyc in the 70's and 80's... amidst the depression of the city at that time, there were tons of free - thinking individuals, groups and companies leading the way presenting biofuel - concepts and ideas, or promoting industries based on recycling things rather than being a disposable society... there have always been large numbers of people in the pro-environment movement country and world - wide that cried out about how alternative thinking would lead to newer, more positive and less harmfully - impacting industries and tried to introduce inventions that could have spurred new economies... Had the auto industry not blocked things, we could have had more energy efficient cars decades ago... but they did not want the «expense» of helping foster this new industry... it is so damn sad it took a war to make people «wake up» about alternative fuels and how exciting the options are.

Maybe that one of those private sponsors is Koch Industries, who are currently using underwriting spots to try to greenwash their image with crap about their devotion to «renewable fuels», whatever that is supposed to mean.

CNN: The giant corporations powering the fossil fuel industry are warned that they face a damaging backlash if they try to resist the mounting pressures of climate change legislation and high - profile campaigning The financial and economic muscle of the global fossil fuel industry's corporate behemoths will not protect them from the costly effects of negative [continue reading...]

If this was a CSI detective show, humans, especially the fossil fuel industry, would have been arrested long ago, thrown in jail, tried, and convicted of damaging our planet's life support system because of all the vast evidence of climate change.

The oil industry is trying to drive the nation toward a future of so - called Tough Oil — fossil fuels that are costly and risky to extract.

Climate activists are trying to rally folks around an extreme agenda of halting new fossil - fuel projects, denying natural gas and oil industry's financial support by pressuring lenders and investors and pushing for a fast transition to renewable energy.

So let's be clear about the facts: Galileo had the courage to speak truth to the powerful interests of his day in the Roman Catholic Church, just as two generations of scientists have tried to speak truth about climate change to executives and lobbyists in the fossil fuel industry.

Man for thousands of years has tried to find ways of «roping the wind», and it wasn't until the 1970's that science and industry really got going, when the emergence of wind farms as a viable alternative to fossil fuel power began to gain momentum.

However, the company told us that it tries to combine negative and positive approaches, and that it invests in SSE plc despite its involvement in fossil fuels because of its significance in the wind power industry and transitioning the UK towards renewable energy.

The selective use of scenarios which fit business as usual for the fossil fuel industry we believe is misleading for investors trying to understand the energy transition.

State looked no further than oil industry contractors to run the draft SEIS — companies like Cardno ENTRIX, which calls TransCanada a «major client,» and ERM Resources, a dues paying member of the American Petroleum Institute which is being investigated by the State Department's Inspector General for trying to hide its prior consulting for fossil fuel giants like ExxonMobil, BP and Shell.

«Despite the recent Paris Agreement on global warming, the fossil fuel industry is still systematically trying to stall progress, and using shareholder funds to do so,» warns a new report by London non-profit organisation InfluenceMap.

Hobby sites like «WattsUpWithThat» are a start to effective opposition, but to be honest it really is time that the fossil fuel industry who so many believers think are funding the sceptics, got off their backsides, put their hands in their pockets and did the decent thing to fund the professional science «opposition» which is needed to force the climategate forecasters to stop feeding this monster with their PR and start to try to justify the existence of their monster based on real science in the face of real decently financed opposition and not part - time unpaid people like us here.

The way to read this letter is that it is the fossil fuel industry that is trying to short - circuit the decisionmaking process by taking the science out of it, and basically getting Congress to oppose any carbon - related policies.

One key element of this latter program will be to try to forge a new coalition between industry and environmental groups for the use of cleanly - produced natural gas as a bridging fuel to slow global warming over the next few decades — with a particular focus on China.

Therefore, speaking as a layman trying to understand what to believe or not to believe, seeing a term like «fossil fuel industry», one so broad as to defy specific facts and data, I can't help but to wonder about motive and objectives.

As a result, «fuel poverty» has become a big problem for low income families; the government has to subsidize German industry so that it does not move abroad; and German companies now invest much more abroad than in Germany, - The German government is struggling with these problems, the country is going downhill very fast, but Angela Merkel continues to try and cure the country with more aspirins.

As Science contributing correspondent Warren Cornwall reported last year, the forest products industry has long been pushing for the carbon neutral definition in a bid to make wood an attractive fuel for generating electricity in nations trying to move away from fossil fuels.

It is a strategy often referred to as «poisoning the well» where someone basically tries to make the case that the normally reputable authorities are all so biased that the only ones we should trust are (in this particular case) Lindzen and the small band of scientists (many affiliated with the aforementioned right - wing organizations and fossil fuel industry).

When people who dislike the «petroleum / fossil fuel» industry try and see how much «dark money» rolls through from them and into political or research efforts, they only find a comparatively small trickle.

What we are trying to do is make the case that the fossil fuel industry has behaved with such recklessness — they've known for many years what's going on.

From seeing the cabinet stacked with friends of the fossil fuel industry to listening to the president announce US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement to watching the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency try to roll back the Clean Power Plan, we took some big hits in the past 12 months.

Environmental groups desperately tried to unseat the chair of the House energy committee, while conservative donors and the fossil fuel industry were determined to keep him in place.

The fossil fuel industry continues to try to confuse the public about the real science of climate change, and Congress has dragged its feet on the issue.

After trying to spin his lack of expertise as full credentials, Taylor invokes the long - debunked «Oregon Petition» as supposed proof against climate change, despite the petition's inception as a tactic of the fossil fuel industry, its lack of climate experts as signatories, and its inclusion of fictitious characters like the Spice Girls.

To me, looking above and below the fold, try to capture the reality that the fossil fuel industry extracting carbon molecules from the Canadian boreal forest (e.g., Tar Sands) will make more money if Keystone XL gets built and those increased profits will, in essence, be the equivalent of picking the pockets of Americans who currently are benefitting from a «discounted» oil price.

Yet on the ground, significant momentum has been building to tackle fossil fuels at their source, by trying to block new production and exports, and change the economics of the industry.

Needless to say this has been deeply disturbing to an «ordinary Joe» (with 5 grandchildren) who has made an effort to understand the science and the politics that underlie the climate change «debate», especially since my country has become such an important player in the fossil fuel business with its tarsands and pipeline industries that affect us all, so I've tried to find out more about Judith Curry's recent contributions to the debate, not so much the hair - splitting, angels on the head of a pin, esoteric dissections of graphs and stats that I see here on your website but the ethical stance that you take on the larger issue of «killing» the IPCC and all it represents.

It's being fought in the states and in Congress, as the green building industry tries to minimize the use of plastics made from toxic materials, fossil fuels, and flame retardants, and the giant chemical industry and its plastic empire loyalists fight to defend their plastic turf.

The only people who oppose it are people who have a very vested interest from the fossil fuel industry, who are spending billions of pounds, trying to get people like you to say that, in order to confuse people.

These people are trying to ride the «climategate» story to turn themselves into the heroes who once and for all made the fossil fuel industry's case, except their numbers don't support it and some of them are (just) honest enough to say that.

You have to pinch yourself when the government announces another new subsidy for the fossil fuel industry, not only because they so recently said that renewable energy should stand on its own two feet, but also because they're announcing this just days before the latest climate conference in Paris — at which world leaders will gather to try and hammer out a global deal to reduce emissions.

Fighting Problems is Unavoidable But as we've seen with the fossil fuel lobbies trying to actively undermine the clean energy industry, we will never get where we need to go if we do not also fight our corner and put pressure on those who are undermining our future.

In other words, it's certainly more scalable than trying to use most biofuels for aviation, but if this was the only source of «green» aviation fuel, there's some massive contraction in order of the global aviation industry.

What the big banks and the fossil fuel industry have tried to influence is cap and trade with offsets, because that would allows business as usual to basically continue with only small perturbations.

In 2017, the revival of some smokestack industries as local governments tried to prop up local economies earlier in the year, an unprecedented coal ban in northern China to curb smog since heating season started in November, and a subsequent natural gas crunch as residents switched to the cleaner fuel to keep warm all complicated calculation of energy consumption last year.