Sentences with phrase «fuel lobbying»

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.

This is a critical issue — indeed, probably the single most troubling aspect of the current U.S. government stance on global warming is the deliberate sabotage of data - gathering missions by politicians in the hire of the fossil fuel lobby.

The grip fossil fuel lobby groups have on government is huge as you know.

This is a critical issue — indeed, probably the single most troubling aspect of the current U.S. government stance on global warming is the deliberate sabotage of data - gathering missions by politicians in the hire of the fossil fuel lobby.

Right now business and fossil fuel lobby groups have a lot of influence over politicians as we all know.

What are the connections between GW deniers, their think tanks and websites, and the fossil fuel lobbies??

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.

What are the connections between the mass media and the fossil fuel lobbies??

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

In that sense, the funding of the CAWG vested interest group is orders of magnitude larger than the fossil fuel lobby, the Koch brothers, or the little people that would dare ask, before their lives are upended, if the CAWG leviathan is really really sure of the data.

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

So I take it that Dr Curry wants scientists to say nothing, while fossil fuel lobby groups get to say whatever they please.

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.

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,

Let's just assume for the sake of argument that you're right, that the denialists, the fossil fuel lobby are trying to gin up uncertainty in order to paralyze the legislative process and to stop anything from happening in this regard.

Governments in countries such as Australia and the USA have allowed themselves to be influenced by the strong fossil fuel lobbies.

Antoine Simon, extractive industries campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said: «Europe desperately needs to kick its fossil fuel addiction, but the fossil fuel lobby has embedded itself deep in the heart of European decision making.

(I should not forget to point out that Labor's policies on renewables look good only when compared to those of the LNP; Labor too gives far to much to the fossil fuel lobby.)

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.

Alone among the nations of the developed world, key members of fossil fuel lobby groups have actually been made members of Australia's official delegation that has negotiated − or more accurately, attempted to derail − international agreements on climate change, notably the Kyoto Protocol.

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

But the play's «questioning» is not about why our politicians won't provide leadership, why much of the public is so apathetic, or why the fossil fuel lobby has been so successful.

MacFarlane has worked hand - in - glove with the fossil fuel lobby to sideline climate change.

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

Not all criticism of the «alarmist» climate change narrative is misinformation funded by the fossil fuel lobby.

Climate science is very robust and can easily fend off the unfounded criticisms of fossil fuel lobbies and other global warming deniers.

Broomhead led the charge against emissions trading (which was supported by Treasury) on behalf of the fossil fuel lobby.

The policy isn't the problem; the power of the fossil fuel lobby is.

I would say that the great bulk of criticism is neither misinformed nor funded by «the fossil fuel lobby.»

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.

One more time, from the top: The number of offsets in the climate bill reflects the power of the fossil fuel lobby (and the common impression that reducing emissions will be costly).

All of this is music to the ears of the fossil fuel lobby.

After documenting the largely successful efforts of companies like ExxonMobil to paralyze the policy process, confuse the American people and cynically ««reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,»» as one strategy paper put it, he concludes that «what began as a normal business response by the fossil fuel lobby — denial and delay — has now attained the status of a crime against humanity.»

That effort at character assassination followed an earlier effort by the fossil fuel lobby.

and he said, «We did that but the fossil fuel lobby was all over our news executives.

I found out that the fossil - fuel lobby was flying in four experts to testify.

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

The reason goes back to the original point of the PR campaign by the fossil fuel lobby — to create a sense of doubt in the public mind about this issue.

Without vigorous truth - telling from the press, there was no pressure brought to bear on a government in thrall to the fossil fuel lobby.

It's part of a deliberate and concerted public relations campaign by the fossil - fuel lobby.

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

To be sure, these forms of denial have been systematically promoted by sceptics and the fossil fuel lobby, but the public collaborates in them because they are psychologically reassuring.