Sentences with phrase «fuel interests spent»

Over the last two years, fossil fuel interests spent more than $ 700 million to shape a Congress that would champion its priorities, according to a December report by the Center for American Progress, based on data from the Center for Responsive Politics and Kantar Media Intelligence / CMAG, as published by the Atlas Project.

In the state of Michigan, however, an attempt to write a 25 per cent renewables target into the state's constitution was lost after fossil fuel interests spent $ 35 million campaigning against it.

Not exact matches

Mr Goyder said another interest rate cut might stimulate retail spending and offset higher living expenses such as fuel.

The comic fueled national interest in the bill on «The Daily Show» by spending nine minutes of air time to attack Republican Senators who didn't support it.

Iain Duncan Smith has found an interesting way to trim spending on winter fuel payments.

The U.S. government is also interested in recycling the spent nuclear fuel, as France, Japan, Russia and the U.K. do, under the terms of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, a consortium of 21 foreign countries as well as domestic nuclear technology firms formed to promote nuclear power.

Another interesting design feature is the lack of a PRISM spent fuel pool.

Given the price difference between the two petrol variants $ -1,500 equal equipment (comparative tab)-- we find most interesting option for 100 hp and spend that money on equipment (or fuel).

Theoretically, lowering interest rates fuels demand for credit and encourages consumers and businesses to spend and invest.

A fuel surcharge is never a good thing, but it might be money well - spent, especially if you are interested in visiting more places with free stopovers.

Her focus on describing «place» stems from an interest in urban planning, architecture and anthropology, and has been fueled by time spent working and traveling in different landscapes.

So that's a good development, but what saddens me is the fact that he spent millions of dollars of Virginia taxpayer money and forced the University of Virginia to come up with significant funds themselves, wasted on this witch hunt, wasted on this personal vendetta, this effort that he was using to try to discredit climate science, to do the bidding of the fossil fuel interests that fund his campaigns.

Global warming is a particular difficult science because of the vast sums being spent by vested interests in fossil fuels to encourage doubt in the results.

From 2007 to 2013, corn ethanol interests spent $ 158 million lobbying for more mandates and subsidies — and $ 6 million in campaign contributions — for a fuel that reduces mileage, damages engines, requires enormous amounts of land, water and fertilizer, and from stalk to tailpipe emits more carbon dioxide than gasoline.

To quote Malcom; Global warming is a particular difficult science because of the vast sums being spent by vested interests in fossil fuels to encourage doubt in the results.

The mainstream green groups, these lefties argue, spent way too much time compromising with fossil - fuel interests in order to craft a byzantine cap - and - trade proposal that could placate enough swing voters in Congress.

Given the evident concern about nuclear waste, it will be interesting to see if there is any reactions from young people to the governments recent admission that, on current NDA plans, the proposed Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) is not expected to be available to take spent fuel from new nuclear power stations until around 2130, which they note «is approximately 50 years after the likely end of electricity generation for the first new nuclear power station».

But there is a surprising new twist this year - fossil fuel interests are actually spending money to directly attack clean energy like wind and solar, as we reveal in a new report we are releasing today, «Clean Energy Under Siege» (PDF).

Like the tobacco lobbyists who spent years denying the links between smoking and cancer, global warming denialists don't have to win the debate — they simply have to confuse the public indefinitely to successfully undermine any political action which might hit the interests of their backers in the fossil fuel industries

And more worrisome, fossil fuel interests including the Koch brothers and Shell Oil are still spending millions trying to repeal renewable energy standards in states around the country through the work of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and other front groups.

To protect their fossil fuel interests, which are at odds with the public's desire for a safe climate, clean water, and healthy air to breathe, the Kochs have spent the last several decades radically changing the face of American democracy, and investing major amounts of money in think tanks and other outlets involved in climate denial.

They are the fossil fuel interests who are making more money than ever known to man, and spending equal amounts on making sure they can continue to make that money.

Finally, it seems to me that if Lord Deben is wrong to claim that his / the CCC's critics «have a very vested interest from the fossil fuel industry» and that they are «spending billions of pounds», then there may be a possibility that The CCC, under Lord Deben's chairmanship, may have prematurely ruled out criticism, and on an erroneous basis.

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.

One interesting point raised in the judgment concerned whether the government had allocated its fuel poverty budget on the basis of its spending commitments as a whole, or on the basis of departmental spending limits within DEFRA and BERR.

The report «found that growth will be fuelled by the entrance of high profile brands such as Apple into the smartwatch arena, allied to increased consumer affinity with and acceptance of wearable technology» and argues that «the emergence of an additional consumer screen would stimulate interest amongst advertisers, although until a critical user base is reached most ad - spend is likely to take the form of ad hoc campaigns.»