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everyone's expectations, it seems incredibly obtuse to want to be a part of a competition where the «winners» are among the last fossil fuel producers in the world.

In a time when clean energy is outpacing everyone's expectations, it seems incredibly obtuse to want to be a part of a competition where the «winners» are among the last fossil fuel producers in the world.

San Francisco and Oakland are suing Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, BP and Royal Dutch Shell — the five biggest investor - owned fossil fuel producers in the world — over the costs of climate change.

Not exact matches

But three types remain common: consumption subsidies in developing nations, consumption subsidies in rich developed countries, and subsidies for fossil - fuel producers.

Questions about where Mr. Low and the prime minister's stepson — a movie producer behind films including «The Wolf of Wall Street» — obtained money for the United States properties have helped fuel political unrest in Malaysia, where several political leaders in the opposition and in Mr. Najib's own party have called for the prime minister to step down.

Fuel prices have been in a downtrend since June, losing nearly 50 percent of their value, on the back of a price war waged by OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) against the U.S. shale producers and as demand from China decreased amid slowing growth.

To ensure the fund had a low - carbon footprint, NUBD excludes issuers in sectors having high levels of fossil - fuel reserve ownership — which includes metals miners and oil and gas producers.

Behind Germany and ahead of some of the oil producers, it runs the largest current account surplus in the world, which means that it is exporting its excess savings in a world that has nowhere to put the money, and so the world must respond either with speculative asset bubbles, unproductive investment, debt - fueled consumption binges or unemployment.

While these new developments are new and exiting, Ford is by and large still a fossil fuel car producer with a significant legacy in terms of platforms, factories, workers, pension obligations etc..

Disruption in the industry, fueled by the explosion of new brands, new business models and new producers, are the drivers of the conference agenda.

The anaerobic digestion technologies — recently applied to a major SE Asian pineapple producer — extract biogas from crop processing waste water streams to simultaneously raise water quality while generating methane to replace fossil fuels used in production processes.

The natural gas industry is losing in New York, where a political wall has been erected to stop fossil fuel, which is not only costing producers opportunities to grow, but blocking nearby states from receiving vital supplies.

Government scientists have developed a biological system to keep microbial fuel producers from poisoning themselves in the process

Biofuel producers use the sugars in crops such as corn to create alternative fuel that is more climate friendly than gas or coal.

While many recent studies have documented that agricultural producers must significantly increase yields in order to meet the food, feed, and fuel demands of a growing population, few have given practical solutions on how to do this.

It has been pointed out that one of the leading producers of hydrogen for fuel is a company located in Walker's home state of Pennsylvania.

Ultimately, the political problem that regulators face here in the U.S. as they struggle with the California low - carbon fuel standard and the revised EPA Renewable Fuel Standard is that they are trying to regulate biofuels producers with respect to indirect changes over which they (both the regulators and the biofuels producers) have little contfuel standard and the revised EPA Renewable Fuel Standard is that they are trying to regulate biofuels producers with respect to indirect changes over which they (both the regulators and the biofuels producers) have little contFuel Standard is that they are trying to regulate biofuels producers with respect to indirect changes over which they (both the regulators and the biofuels producers) have little control.

Yet despite the relatively small tax credits given to producers, wind electricity is now often competitive with that supplied from fossil fuels in the United States, Lovins says.

Biofuel producers home in on genes linked to high polysaccharide levels, allowing wood to be more easily converted to biodiesel or jet fuel.

Here's how it might work: Next year and in each year thereafter, Congress would set an overall cap on fossil fuels extracted by upstream energy producers, which David A. Weisbach of the University of Chicago Law School identifies as «fewer than 3,000 entities» — petroleum refiners, coal mines and domestic natural gas processors — «plus imports at a few locations.»

Jiang Kejun, a researcher from the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that power producers in China face difficulties in passing along their emissions costs to fossil fuel consumers, due to the country's fixed electricity prices.

Neste, currently largest producer of renewable drop - in fuels (primarily diesel) with its NEXBTL platform (earlier post), has filed a patent (US20150144087) on a gasoline composition (and the method for making it) comprising up to 20 vol % (preferably from about 10 - 15 vol.

A status review of California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS)(earlier post) for the period of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012 by Dr. Sonia Yeh at the Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis and Julie Witcover found that regulated parties in the LCFS — i.e., oil producers and importers to... Read more →

The volume will only get larger, too: oil and gas producers use at least 7.5 million liters of water per well to fracture subterranean formations and release entrapped hydrocarbon fuels, a practice that has grown in the U.S. by at least 48 percent per year in the last five years, according to the Energy Information Administration.

«The world's best player has helped fuel the biggest leap forward on the pitch that we've ever delivered,» said Aaron McHardy, senior producer on the FIFA series, in a news release from EA.

«It's the social trends of today that are fueling the growth of this category,» says Brad Gruber, president and chief operating officer of Health Extension Pet Care, a producer of holistic dog and cat food based in Deer Park, N.Y. «With lifestyles changing and pets being treated like family, consumers want foods that are superior to their own and they are comfortable splurging on their pet's food, being the valued member of the family that they are.»

Merchants qualifying for the accelerated earn rate: The accelerated earn rate applies to purchases made at American Express merchants in the Gas, Grocery, Dining and Entertainment categories, classified in the American Express network as: Gas Service Stations (with or without Ancillary Services and with Merchant Code: 5541) and Automated Fuel Dispensers (Merchant Code: 5542); Grocery Stores and Supermarkets (Merchant Code: 5411); Eating Places and Restaurants (Merchant Code: 5812); Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) including Bars, Taverns, Nightclubs, Cocktail Lounges, and Discotheques (Merchant Code: 5813); Fast Food Restaurants (Merchant Code: 5814); Entertainment including Motion Picture Theaters (Merchant Code: 7832), Theatrical Producers (except Motion Pictures) and Ticket Agencies (Merchant Code: 7922), Bands, Orchestras and Miscellaneous Entertainers - Not Elsewhere Classified (Merchant Code: 7929).

The company is also active in studying the use of biofuel and has partnered with AltAirFuels, a producer of sustainable aviation biofuel, to implement renewable jet fuel at its Los Angeles hub later this year.

Fuelling Creative Digital Media in NSW Sue McCreadie, Senior Manager, Film & Creative Industries in the NSW Department of Trade and Investment The session will outline the background to the introduction of the NSW Digital Media Initiative and the support available through the fund for games developers and transmedia producers.

However, speaking at GDC 2018, series producer Hisashi Nogami revealed that Splatoon's success was more a pleasant surprise rather than a Cambridge Analytica - fuelled campaign in targeted design.

In her film Los Angeles (2005), for instance, Morris explores an industry fuelled by fantasy and examines the trenchant relationship between studio, producer, director and talent.

The United States produced 16.2 billion liters of fuel ethanol in 2005, nearly surpassing Brazil to become the world's largest fuel ethanol producer.

Fossil fuel producers pay many times more in taxes than they receive in subsidies and tax breaks (which should be eliminated).

By subsidizing fossil fuels here, along with providing subsidies for highways, spreading our communities out ever more widely in sprawling suburbs, and discouraging rapid transit development almost everywhere the U.S. has made sure that oil producers would be enriched around the world for as long as the pumps were working.

At a high level, a number of factors should support a regional renewables drive, including low electrification levels, a growing appreciation of the environmental impact of fossil fuel independent power producers (IPPs) and the increasing difficulties a number of banks face in financing them, and a growing recognition of the depth and breadth of renewable resources in the region.

Ray Long, vice president of National State and Federal Government Affairs at NRG noted his company, one of the largest independent power producers in the nation, owns a fleet that uses diverse fuel sources, including nuclear, coal, gas, wind, and solar.

The most straightforward form of carbon pricing is a carbon tax, which, in its simplest version, imposes a fee on every ton of carbon that enters the economy («upstream,» on fossil fuel producers and importers, as opposed to «downstream,» on fossil fuel consumers).

This Workshop was conceived by history professor Naomi Oreskes, who was obsessed with prosecuting fossil fuel producers with the same legal tools successfully used to win billions of dollars in penalties against the tobacco industry.

Our Producer - Limited Profile has future fossil - fuel production that is lower than all 40 of the IPCC scenarios, so it seems that producer limitations could provide useful constraints in climate mProducer - Limited Profile has future fossil - fuel production that is lower than all 40 of the IPCC scenarios, so it seems that producer limitations could provide useful constraints in climate mproducer limitations could provide useful constraints in climate modeling.

Global subsidies to both consumers and producers of fossil fuels are reported at USD 425 billion in 2015.

In addition to our Producer - Limited Profile, I define one policy profile called Super-Kyoto, where future fossil - fuel production is stretched out by 50 % (Figure 11).

They will also continue to point out that the U.S. still has high per - capita emissions, remains the largest historic emitter, is a large importer of carbon - intensive goods made in the developing world, and has become a major producer of fossil fuels.

Even in Canada, the second largest hydropower producer in the world, 76 % of end use energy is provided by fossil fuels.

It's odd that Allen has so much confidence in the ability of the market to deliver vast amounts of cheap CCS, once we insist that the fossil fuel producers do so, but has so little faith in other parts of the market to contribute cheap abatement solutions as well.

And while it is true that Allen's proposed cap - and -(maybe) trade system would reduce European demand on Russian fossil - fuel producers, it would be likely to increase dependence on RussianCO2 sequestration services, since it is probable that massive CO2 sequestration would be more publicly acceptable and cheaper in Siberia than, say, the Paris or Wessex Basins.

In July 2013, Storebrand, a major Norwegian pension fund advisor, excluded from its Energy Sector all 13 coal producers and the 6 oil companies with the highest exposure to tar sands «to reduce Storebrand's exposure to fossil fuels and to secure long term, stable returns for our clients...»»

Putting a price on carbon, in the form of a fee or tax on the producers of fossil fuels, can be an effective way to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

By contrast, British Petroleum is now the world's largest producer of solar energy systems, Shell created a $ 500 million renewable energy company and Texaco has invested substantial resources in hydrogen - powered fuel cells.

It supports numerous far - left causes such as unilateral reduction in U.S. nuclear weapons stockpiles, opposes the vast majority of American foreign policy decisions, opposes pesticides and genetically engineered foods, opposes capitalism and actively promotes opposition to fossil fuel producers.

Reducing these substances may be easier than cutting emissions of carbon dioxide, which is so pervasive because the vast majority of our energy still comes from burning fossil fuels — as delegates at the talks have been continually reminded by their location in Qatar, one of the world's biggest producers of natural gas.