Sentences with phrase «fuel political efforts»

But others feared a listing would cause massive economic harm in the 11 western states where the bird lives, and fuel political efforts to gut the law.

Not exact matches

Sister Rachelâ $ ™ s traveling pipeline revival, spanning these last two weeks, may not have effected any conversions among the fossil fuel haters or political blockers; her evangelistic efforts are unli...

The digital ad disclosure reforms come after a 2016 presidential election that fueled concerns of social media meddling by Russia in an effort to inject fraudulent information into the political bloodstream.

Since the 1970's at least, the U.S. federal government has had an interest in alternative sources of energy, although funding for those efforts has risen and fallen with economic conditions, fuel prices, and political administrations, among other factors.

Michelle Rhee Group Donates $ 250,000 to Candidates in LAUSD Races A group led by former District of Columbia schools chancellor Michelle Rhee donated $ 250,000 Wednesday to contests for seats on the Los Angeles Board of Education, adding further political fuel to a battle over the direction of reform efforts in the nation's second - largest school system...

But however well intended, such efforts often seem to empower defenders of fossil fuels as much as those seeking a low - emissions energy future, given how name calling syncs with the nation's broader, edge - driven political polarization.

-- Climate impacts: global temperatures, ice cap melting, ocean currents, ENSO, volcanic impacts, tipping points, severe weather events — Environment impacts: ecosystem changes, disease vectors, coastal flooding, marine ecosystem, agricultural system — Government actions: US political views, world - wide political views, carbon tax / cap - and - trade restrictions, state and city efforts — Reducing GHGs: + electric power systems: fossil fuel use, conservation, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, tidal, other + transportation sector: conservation, mass transit, high speed rail, air travel, auto / truck (mileage issues, PHEVs, EVs, biofuels, hydrogen) + architectural structure design: home / office energy use, home / office conservation, passive solar, other

Devoting scarce political capital to the goal of raising the price of fossil fuels is a waste of effort.

Things have worked out dramatically differently, and I am now engaged in an intense effort to write an entirely new proposal on campus fossil fuel divestment â $» this time, fully structured around a particular theoretical framework from the literature on political science.

Into this scene enter serial data deleter Patrick Michaels and his fossil fuel - funded Cato Institute political think tank, which have released a voluminous report attempting to undermine the endangerment finding, with their misguided efforts of course being promoted by the usual climate denial enablers.

Because I accept the science and from what I can tell attempts to discredit the science are funded by fossil fuel industries funnelling money to think tanks, opinion bloggers and facebook pages in an effort to influence the political process.

«attempts to discredit the science are funded by fossil fuel industries funnelling money to think tanks, opinion bloggers and facebook pages in an effort to influence the political process»

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.

But just in the same way that we always say to people «It's important to change your lightbulbs, but it's more important to change the structures of your energy system,» the most important thing that businesses can be doing is to join in a real concerted political effort to cause change — not letting the fossil fuel industry win through letting its vehicles like the Chamber of Commerce dominate the discussion.

@Vaibhav, you're better off focusing on political efforts to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies, than on «offsetting your personal carbon footprint.»