Sentences with phrase «fuels companies on»

«Following the storms, a coalition of environmental NGO's brings a class - action sit against the U.S. government and fossil - fuel companies on the grounds of neglecting what scientists (including their own) have been saying for years: that something must be done,» the scenario states.

and Sheldon Whitehouse (D - R.I.) sent letters to 100 fossil fuel companies on February 25, 2015, asking if the companies had funded scientific studies designed to confuse the public and avoid taking action to cut greenhouse gas emissions [7]

A practitioner in Texas, on the other hand, is more likely to spend their time advising fossil fuel companies on regulatory compliance.

Not exact matches

Different perspectives on customers needs, product improvements and company well - being fuel a better business.

Wednesday: Boeing & Biogen Boeing: In the past, this company has been deemed a loser on suspicions that airlines won't upgrade their fleets for fuel efficient planes now that the price of oil is so low.

The recent surge of companies focusing on car sharing — from Zipcar to Getaround — will fuel Local Motion's growth.

Weakness in the company's fuel refining and chemicals businesses dragged on an upbeat quarter for Exxon's unit that focuses on producing oil and natural gas.

Industries that rely heavily on fuel, such as shipping companies, airlines, vehicle fleet operators and other transportation companies, are seeing rising costs, which eventually will be passed on to consumers.

Peloton predicts that platooning would save companies money by improving trucks» fuel efficiency while also cutting down on emissions.

In effect, it's a chicken - or - the - egg thing: Has the company achieved its status on its own merits, or has its rise been fueled by the media?

That's equivalent to burning just 20 % of the fossil fuel reserves already on the books of companies and nations that disclose them.

Valeant has been at the center of a political firestorm over prescription medication costs and pharmaceutical companies, which depend more on acquiring or licensing existing therapies (and then raising their prices) rather than fueling R&D into new drugs.

These reports have given fuel to skeptics of the car company, which the company addressed head - on Tuesday night.

Regulators have steadily added tough safety, emissions and fuel efficiency standards, and in the U.S., class - action lawsuits that have yielded big judgments is putting additional pressure on auto companies.

One is to regard capital as the fuel that is keeping our company alive for a finite period of time, during which one of two things will happen: 1) We prove our company to be a worthy proposition, which will bring it more investment or increased revenue and allow us to stay in business, or 2) we fail to create a worthy proposition, and it's time to move on.

If you're on track to be more than a mom - and - pop shop, it's essential to have a high - quality, accountable financial platform to effectively monitor the health of an organization, fuel business decisions and open your company up to growth capital.

On Thursday in Salt Lake City, the Nikola Motor Company unveiled the Nikola One, the world's first hydrogen fuel - cell electric freight truck.

The company claims its service conserves one gallon of fuel per idling hour per truck, and with more than one million truckers on the road at any given time, the savings add up — so far, says Wilson, eight million gallons of fuel have been saved, 83,000 metric tons of emissions have been eliminated, and 150,000 road cowboys have plugged in.

Companies rise much more quickly, fueled by VC money and with very scalable business models based on the internet.

The EPA's recent move to roll back automobile fuel efficiency standards benefits almost no one except auto manufacturers, who save on R&D costs, and oil companies, for whom greater fuel consumption translates into more revenues.

That's because these private companies tend to run on rocket fuel.

A tightening of the company's focus on home services like cleaning and handyman work and a somewhat more aggressive use of paid channels for user acquisition, with advertising now bringing in 35 percent of new business, helped fuel the growth.

Rising fuel prices are causing government coffers to swell, and in a web poll conducted by COMPAS Inc., 126 leaders of Canadian companies offered their opinions on how that money should be spent.

Low fuel prices have given bus companies higher revenue to work with, researchers found, and they're using this extra income to focus on amenities.

The vote will represent a choice between Broadcom's strategy, under Tan, of acquiring companies and focusing on boosting profits, or Qualcomm management's promise of future growth fueled by investment in new products and technology.

The complaint added fuel to the fire of some on Capitol Hill, who have grown increasingly uneasy about the confusing ownership structure of the Chinese conglomerate since a July announcement revealed that a charitable foundation owned more than half of the firm and company executives and board members owned most of the rest.

On Wednesday, Facebook added fuel to the fire by disclosing that «malicious actors» had abused a feature to likely scrape the public profile information of the company's two billion users.

Just like planes need to always leave enough fuel for an alternate airport, companies should ideally close on new funding while they still have money for at least another six months of normal operations.

Investors have put fresh bets on steel company shares on a positive sentiment in the industry that has been fueled by the Nov. 8 election.

Gary Kelly, Southwest Airlines chairman, president & CEO, breaks down his company's quarterly results and the impact of lower oil prices on jet fuel costs.

Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, a climate change denier, as his pick to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and has promised to lift restrictions on fossil fuel companies.

Most companies raise capital and use IPO proceeds to fuel growth, but «Spotify doesn't need that — it has plenty of cash on its balance sheets,» says Matthew Kennedy, IPO market strategist at Renaissance Capital.

Just like car fuel, if you don't have the right company culture in place, you can find yourself broken - down on the side of the road.

This Pennsylvania - based company also produces gas, so it can make money on rising prices for both fuels.

The company made a comeback in February, showing higher profits on lower fuel costs for the fourth quarter.

Subaru executives said Friday that some employees had manipulated fuel economy data on some Japanese - made vehicles, according to a report the company released Friday.

«The oil companies knew from 1959 on, they did their own study that there would be global warming happening because of fossil fuels, and on top of it that it would be risky for people's lives, that it would kill,» Schwarzenegger said in the podcast.

This time synthetic biology companies are focusing on materials — proponents assert they have higher margins and fewer market fluctuations than fuels — and specialty chemicals.

The Canadian company is relying on the redesigned BlackBerry to fuel a comeback.

Last year the PR agency scored with about half the target media on the top 10 list; that led to a record number of inquiries from potential customers who had read about the company, helping to fuel 32 % sales growth in 1991.

Companies that are fueling their growth through venture capital, for example, will sometimes set their sights on being a particular size at which they are deemed to have succeeded in their quest to expand.

And when you declare war on a top competitor, any successful strike against it will fuel your company forward.

But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.

Automotive supplier Stackpole International plans a $ 351 - million expansion in Ontario, a move the company says will increase its North American customer base and focus on supplying alternative - fuel vehicles.Thursday, April 26, 10:26 am ET

Still, the voracious energy consumption of Google's data centers makes any attempt to reduce the company's reliance on fossil fuels noteworthy.

It's time for fossil fuel companies to use their considerable capx budgets to invest in solar pv or wind projects and get a better roi (return on investment) for investors.

Notably absent from the list are oil and coal companies that have built their businesses on fossil fuels.

In 2012, Rameet Chawla, founder of Fueled, expanded on the success of his app development company by creating the Fueled Collective in SoHo, Manhattan.

Since January alone, the rise in the price of jet fuel from 70 cents a litre to 90 cents has taken $ 200 million off the company's bottom line on an annual basis, according to Robert Palmer, a spokesman for WestJet.

But the outages at the nation's top refineries along the Gulf Coast have forced the Colonial Pipeline company to announce on Wednesday that it was shutting down Line 2, which carries diesel and jet fuel due to «supply constraints.»