Sentences with phrase «fuel lobby»

The report also expressed concern about the impact of fossil fuel lobbying on climate change policy overall.

The arguments of the alternative fuel lobby are finding significant political backing.

He later discovered the public relations departments of the fossil fuel lobby pretending to be concerned citizens had written the letters.

It was only later that I realized those letters were most likely sent by public relations specialists from the fossil fuel lobby disguised as private readers.

The allowance giveaways in the climate bill reflect the power of the fossil fuel lobby.

So the tactics, personnel and organisations mobilised to serve the interests of the tobacco lobby in the 1980s were seamlessly transferred to serve the interests of the fossil fuel lobby in the 1990s.

Not only does it help erode the power of the fossil fuel lobby through efficiency, but in Phoenix, 500 of these beasts have been hacked by Waymo to be self - driving taxis that are open to the public.

Maybe it's the politics of the fossil fuel lobbies at play here?

As elections loom, and the fossil fuel lobby comes out in force, it's more important than ever that we celebrate our incredible successes so far, build that momentum, and keep organising to break the social and political license of the dirtiest industry on earth.

Guy Pearse, a member of the Liberal Party and a former adviser to Senator Robert Hill when he was environment minister, has managed to coax the leading members of the fossil fuel lobby into frank admissions about how they go about their business.

In late May, the fossil fuel lobbies asked a federal judge to withdraw from the lawsuit, allowing them to avoid handing over potentially damaging information as part of the discovery process.

«So far there is no anti-fossil fuel lobby comparable to the anti-nuclear groups, although some environmental groups are beginning to express concern.

Is he a radical shill for powerful fossil fuel lobbies who will set the planet on fire to advance greedy capitalist profit agendas?

Then as now, a prime tactic of the fossil fuel lobby centered on a clever manipulation of the ethic of journalistic balance.

Some of the difference between the oil company scenarios and those from green NGO's and academics is due to fossil fuel lobby assumptions about demand and the role of gas (including shale gas), with CCS also seen as coming on line in a big way.

Though the dirty energy industries» dislike of Obama seems a bit misplaced, (between allowing widespread fracking and his support of drilling offshore and in the arctic, Obama has given the fossil fuel lobby plenty) it does make sense that they would support Mitt Romney.

• They counterbalance the influence of corporate organisations over government decision making, such as the role played by environment organisations in countering the influence of the fossil fuel lobby over ratifying the Kyoto protocol.

All the calculations are backed up by published scientific papers and have been peer reviewed by Dr Thomas Stocker, professor of climate and environmental physics at Bern University in Switzerland, in an attempt to prevent the fossil fuel lobby attacking the findings.

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.

I think the Shindell paper (april issue Nature Geosciences) and the attempts to respin it by the fossil fuel lobby together demonstrate how media opinion is far behind the most recent scientific research into climate.

The Australian Aluminium Council has without question been the most powerful and effective fossil fuel lobby group in Canberra.

This would have been a significant first step, yet the agreement instantly came under attack from the fossil - fuel lobby in the United States and Australia, and the recalcitrant parties managed to insert so many loopholes in the protocol that, after several international meetings culminating in a conference in Marrakech in 2001, it would, if implemented, result in minimal reductions in the rich countries» greenhouse gas emissions.

Do we hand over our future to the fossil fuel lobby and 90 super-rich people, or will there be an Anthropocene democracy?

«The defection of the gas companies means that the fossil fuel lobby has split,» says Jeremy Leggett, scientific director of Greenpeace's climate campaign.

Gelbspan condemns corporate indifference to climate change as «a crime against humanity» and indicts the Bush administration for allowing the fossil - fuel lobby to dictate national energy policy.

From the trustable and well known fossil fuel lobbying to something totally new and odd.

This is popular with the people, less so with politicians, who fear the fossil fuel lobbies.

Ross Gelbspan's «Snowed» article in the May / June 2005 issue of Mother Jones magazine described how a «misguided application of journalistic balance» and «a decade - long campaign of deception, disinformation, and, at times, intimidation by the fossil fuel lobby» was causing the media not to properly warn us about the perils of global warming.

I do not think this phenomenon can be understood completely in political terms or is due solely to political influence of the fossil - fuel lobby.

The Liberal Party and the Abbott government are both very compliant with the desires of the fossil fuel lobby, presumably because of the very generous campaign donations involved.

It appears that the fossil fuel lobby is stronger than the Government's will to reduce greenhouse.

If weak political leadership, the power of the fossil - fuel lobby, pervasive wishful thinking and a culture of denial have undermined plan A, why would we not expect those same conditions to govern the development and deployment of plan B?

The Bush Administration remains in the grip of the more recalcitrant elements of the fossil fuel lobby and seems to have an ideological opposition to taking action.

After dismissing the article as «reactionary, evidence - free journalism which provides a small part of a whole picture, thereby giving the wrong view», she makes her argument that the fossil fuel lobby — the Black Fog — is far more extended into policymaking than the Green Blob is.

«The fossil fuel lobby's (villain) blaming renewable energy as the cause of the recent power spike is untrue and exaggerated.

According to the notes, Michael Whatley, policy adviser of the fossil fuel lobby group Consumer Energy Alliance, which receives funding from Peabody Energy along with other coal, oil, and gas companies, underlined the industry's urgent need to mobilize state public officials, including legislators, attorneys general, environmental and public utility commissioners, and energy officials in many states.

The idea of building a vast industrial infrastructure to offset the effects of another vast industrial infrastructure (instead of shifting to renewable energy) only highlights our unwillingness to confront the deeper causes of global warming — the power of the fossil - fuel lobby and the reluctance of wealthy consumers to make even small sacrifices.

Instead, world leaders have pandered and caved to the powerful fossil fuel lobby: rubber stamping massive carbon - intensive infrastructure, unlocking billions of tonnes of new carbon in hard - to - reach places like the deep offshore ocean, the arctic, or hard - to - extract resources like tar sands, and proceeded to design energy policy around scenarios incompatible with a safe global climate.