Sentences with phrase «fuels companies pay»

What if there was a way to make fossil fuels companies pay their fair share — while putting extra cash in American pockets?

Apparently he thinks if the fossil fuel companies pay you have an agenda.

That later phrase is the infamous leaked memo phrase which has every appearance of being the only so - called evidence to support the accusation that fossil fuel companies paid skeptics to turn the certainty of man - caused global warming back into a «false theory.»

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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.

However, compared to Home Depot which was reinvesting more than 100 % of earnings to fuel growth, the capital requirements of growing First Republic, Google and Tiffany still leave room for the companies to pay a dividend or buy back stock.

With transportation so key to the business, rising fuel prices hit the company hard, but Glunz has never made customers pay a fuel surcharge.

Sometimes, when customers pay with checks, they write it to the fuel company as opposed to Pic - n - Pac, he says.

According to the same form, Percoco's wife — a former middle - school teacher — was paid by a Connecticut consultant with ties to a third company, Competitive Power Ventures, that is in the process of constructing a natural - gas - fueled power plant in Orange County.

Cities in the United States are taking oil companies to court, arguing that they should pay for climate - related problems caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

And they want the companies to pay for measures such as sea walls to cope with rising sea levels they blame on carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels.

If you need to emit less carbon, you can change your process, you can change what fuel you use, or you can find a company that you can pay to reduce those tons for you, which is what happens when you buy an offset.»

Companies paying extra for fuel would receive tax breaks for energy efficiency.

The judge in the cities» lawsuit against fossil fuel companies has ordered the contrarians to reveal who paid for their research and any connections to the case.

The 4 Series Convertible is not a cheap car — and if you go for one of the petrol versions, you're going to pay a particularly high price in fuel and company car tax costs.

What you'll save in fuel, a zero VED bill or tax incentives (if you're a company car driver), you'll pay out on the car itself — it costs # 31,000 before the # 5,000 electric car grant is applied.

Several years ago, Hyundai got into some trouble with its EPA fuel economy ratings, and the company was forced to both reduce the estimates and pay millions of dollars as part of a settlement with vehicle owners.

However, much of that growth was fueled by getting the dividend up to speed, as the company was going from no dividend to paying out a large chunk of its profit via that dividend.

If the futures contract was physically settled, at expiry Company Z would pay the previously agreed upon futures price, and receive the actual fuel from the seller regardless of the spot price (current market price).

Rather than paying $ 50 per barrel and receiving the actual fuel, in a cash settled contract the seller of the contract would simply pay Company Z $ 25, or the difference between the spot and futures price.

The data would then suggest that value companies tend to pay higher percentage dividends than growth companies (distribute earnings to investors, rather than retain earnings to fuel growth).

As a small site I work quite hard to get PR companies to pay attention to me and thus get the review code needed to fuel the site, games that I otherwise couldn't afford.

Suffice to say that when you factor in all of the government subsidies and «externalities» (increased health costs from respiratory sickness, environmental degradation, etc; the stuff that we all have to pay for maybe not from our wallets but in our tax returns), the true price of fossil fuels is much, much higher than any individual or company pays.

Cynical distortions paid for by fossil fuel companies in apparently credible media outlets is a very disturbing trend, and I applaud Dr. Hansen for pointing this out.

If Chevron Corp. has caused climate change and needs to pay for its damage, so should pretty much every company that has ever explored for oil and gas near North America, as well as manufacturers of cars and equipment that burn fuel, plus consumers.

• Washington state's King County files a climate change lawsuit against five prominent fossil fuel companies and asks them to establish a fund to pay for the effects of global warming.

In truth 10 of its protagonists have either been funded directly by fossil fuel companies, or have received paid employment from lobby groups funded by these companies, which campaign against taking action on climate change (11).

But while his fans play up his association with the environmental group, they fail to mention his much stronger ties to fossil fuel - intensive industries: For over 20 years, he's been a paid spokesman for companies involved in «mining, energy, forestry, aquaculture, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing.»

Mykura contends that the allegation that 10 of the film's protagonists have been paid by fossil fuel companies or lobby groups funded by such companies «is a gross exaggeration that can be traced to blog gossip.»

Already, supporters have drawn on the research from the study to call for forcing fossil fuel companies to pay for the costs of «climate damages,» including damage due to hurricanes and flooding.

The preferential tariff — the price that China's two state - owned electricity transmission and distribution companies will pay energy companies for their solar power — aims to make solar power competitive against traditional fuels, such as coal, which accounts for two - thirds of China's electricity.

State looked no further than oil industry contractors to run the draft SEIS — companies like Cardno ENTRIX, which calls TransCanada a «major client,» and ERM Resources, a dues paying member of the American Petroleum Institute which is being investigated by the State Department's Inspector General for trying to hide its prior consulting for fossil fuel giants like ExxonMobil, BP and Shell.

At a September 27, 2014 panel discussion at Queens Museum titled «Climate Wars: Propaganda, Debate, and the Propaganda of Debate,» Hoggan revealed that he was inspired to start DeSmogBlog by the work of Ross Gelbspan, a retired journalist who helped launch the modern environmental movement and spread the slanderous narrative of Al Gore's Earth in the Balance (page 160) that skeptical scientists are paid shills of fossil fuel companies hired to neutralize public support for government climate programs.

The proposal requires fossil fuel companies doing business in the District to pay a fee for every ton of carbon dioxide they put into the atmosphere.

Forget the #ExxonKnew effort to re-invigorate the otherwise 25 year - old accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid corrupting money by fossil fuel companies to lie to the public about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming.

Companies that buy and sell fossil fuels in our city would pay a steadily rising fee on each ton of heat - trapping pollution they cause.

even those who are not morally corrupt, evil, selfish, generally contemptuous, or in the pay of fossil fuel companies.

b. Fossil fuels are cheapest because: direct / indirect subsidies; human health costs not paid by fossil fuel companies; and climate disruption costs not paid by fossil fuel companies.

Dr Michaels is one of many people commenting on climate change who presents himself as an independent expert while being secretly paid for his services by fossil fuel companies.

To the scientific community, in violation of professional standards, he said nothing about having been paid to produce the «deliverables» by fossil - fuel interests, including the Southern Company (a utility holding company) and the Charles G. Koch FounCompany (a utility holding company) and the Charles G. Koch Founcompany) and the Charles G. Koch Foundation.

First, there is the problem of Lewandowsky's assumptions: he confuses categories of economic and environmental ideas; he fails to test for conspiracy theories that might be more coincident with environmentalism than the ones he chose, (for example the idea that climate scepticism is a phenomenon produced by covert PR operations, paid for by fossil fuel companies); and he fails to achieve a robust definition of climate scepticism.

If say only fossil fuel companies had to pay the carbon tax, this would simply push up the price of fuel to the many.

This, to my mind, is the ideal approach — consumers are better off (use less fuel, and pay no more for the benefit) companies are OK (can still make money) and CO2 reduces.

The cities are arguing that oil companies promoted the use of fossil fuels while denying or downplaying their harmful effects, and so should help cities pay for infrastructure like coastal barriers to protect them.

San Francisco and Oakland charge that fossil fuel companies «stole a page from the Big Tobacco playbook» with misleading campaigns and should pay for damage from rising seas

Fossil fuels companies should also fully disclose the financial and physical risks of climate change, invest in low - carbon and renewable energy resources, support policies to shift away from fossil fuels, publicly disclose their direct and indirect political spending, and pay for their share of the costs of climate - related damages and climate preparedness.

These groups and individuals — all of them residing on the far left of the political spectrum — claim Exxon - Mobil knew fossil fuels could cause catastrophic climate change but paid think tanks and advocacy groups to «deny» the truth in order to protect the company's profits.

On the cost issue, some of the media have been getting increasingly shrill: «Subsidies paid to windpower companies are forcing up to 50,000 households a year into fuel poverty», claimed the Sunday Times in June, using figures from a House of Commons Library paper.

DeSmog is a funded wing of a professional PR group Hoggan4 and Associates (who are paid to promote clients5 like David Suzuki Foundation, ethical funds, and companies that sell alternative energy sources like hydro power, hydrogen and fuel cells.)

In 2015, Ben Stewart of Greenpeace posed as a consultant to fossil fuel companies and approached prominent climate denialists, offering to pay for reports promoting the benefits of fossil fuels.

Behind the group are three lawyers — one a Republican - elected district attorney, another a former radio host and «longtime friend» of Vice President Mike Pence, and Horner, who has been paid by coal companies and works at the fossil fuel — funded Competitive Enterprise Institute.