Sentences with phrase «fuel lobby into»

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.

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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.

Organizers are concerned about Canada's relentless lobbying against a key piece of EU climate policy, the Fuel Quality Directive, which aims to reduce imports of highly polluting fuels such as tar sands and synthetic oil from coal into Europe.

Dodgy data from the European gas lobby could lock Europe into unnecessary billion - euro infrastructure deals and decades of fossil - fuel use, according to Friends of the Earth Europe.

Over the years, fossil fuel companies have poured their resources into lobbying politicians, attacking scientists, funding biased studies, and producing deceptive ad campaigns.

With the exception of Greenpeace, the mainstream environment movement has been drawn into the process of insider negotiations, trying to match wits, access and economic modelling studies with the fossil fuel lobby.

At the risk of descending ever further into off - topic weirdness, here's an article about the environmental message of the aliens, also mentioning «intelligences beyond the material realm», «ecological destruction on a scale that threatens the survival of the Earth's living systems» and the fossil fuel lobby.

It plays right into the hands of the pro-fossil fuel lobby and anti-environmental screeching hordes who portray concern over the environment as being comparable to wanting to take developed nations back to the Stone Age, and not simply wishing to switch to more sensible energy and materials.

It concludes that establishing the links between former government officials and the fossil fuel industry highlights «the major potential for conflict of interest», adding: «When one takes into account what is at stake for large fossil fuel companies, and how much lobbying they conduct on climate policy more generally, weak revolving door policy provides another avenue of influence for private fossil fuel interests to exploit».

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.

As coal becomes increasingly unprofitable and unpopular, the fossil fuel lobby has been working hard to embed gas into...