Sentences with phrase «funded by energy companies»

In fact, in a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Nov. 23, researchers found that climate change doubts were initiated by studies funded by energy companies, ExxonMobil and the Koch brothers.

This practice is why promoters of AGW successfully accused skeptics of being funded by energy companies.

In both New York and Illinois, we faced deep - pocketed adversaries — including ones funded by energy companies with a financial interest in closing nuclear plants.

Well so far, they only dirt they seem to have dug up is hurricane forecasting funded by an energy company, devastating criticisms in the blogosphere by the likes of Thingsbreak, and the possibility of some mythical relative with an involvement with a right wing think tank.

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The other three nominees are John Lipinski and Bob Alexander who have worked with refining company CVR Energy Inc, which is majority owned by Icahn, and Randolph Read, who has worked with investment fund Nevada Strategic Credit Investment.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

The Clark government has also proposed that taxpayers fund hydro dam construction to subsidize power for the energy - hungry liquified natural gas plants largely owned by foreign companies.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

House Democrats, led by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Peter Welch of Vermont, also announced Thursday they are planning a broader probe into when other energy companies first understood that fossil fuels drive climate change, what they did with that information and whether they funded or participated in sowing doubt about the matter.

Represented a manager of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and sustainability investments in all aspects of its business, including a management company recapitalization, the continuous public offering of its fund client's interests, and an adviser examination by the SEC.

And yet, as crazy as the game was, perhaps the most interesting thing that happened Monday night was a staged protest by activists who rappelled from the upper deck of Bank of America Stadium to unfurl a banner directing attention to Bank of America's funding of a North Carolina energy company.

Remember all the Billions in funding by Obama to push the alternative energy agenda and the companies went bankrupt.

Florida - based renewable energy company NextEra gave Cuomo a $ 5,000 contribution on June 9, the day before it announced it had completed work at Tompkins Cortland Community College that had been funded by a renewable energy program that Cuomo implemented.

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Percoco was among a slew of defendants named in an 80 - page complaint unsealed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara today, outlining schemes to take favorable state actions for an energy company that in exchange employed Percoco's wife (when discussing her salary, Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe colorfully used the codeword «ziti,» a kind of macaroni, for money — something he lifted from The Sopranos) and to rig bids considered by SUNY Polytechnic University for funding through Cuomo's economic development program, the Buffalo Billion.

The Record Hill wind project was created in 2011 by King's former company, Independence Wind, and funded by a controversial $ 102 million federal Department of Energy (DOE) loan guarantee.

Financial support for this work was provided by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, BG Group PLC, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., Pioneer Natural Resources Company, SWEPI LP (Shell), Statoil, Southwestern Energy and XTO Energy, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil.

The state renewable energy standard requires electric companies to meet emissions targets by investing ratepayer money into programs that green the grid and electrify vehicles and buildings, or else pay into a state fund at the end of the year.

Those methods to ensure eagle productivity could range from putting money into a mitigation bank fund to be used in some management action to a direct action by the energy company itself.

Oil companies are dictating future energy options by choosing which academic research projects recieve funding.

Willie Soon continues to attend industry - funded climate denier events and detests questions that highlight the dirty energy companies funding his work: watch Dr. Soon shout at a student asking critical questions last April, at events run by the campus arm of CFACT, a well known climate denial organization.

This is done either through funding offers like Salix Finance, a not - for - profit company funded by the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Welsh and Scottish Governments to remove the barrier of significant upfront capital cost to investing in energy efficient technolEnergy and Climate Change and the Welsh and Scottish Governments to remove the barrier of significant upfront capital cost to investing in energy efficient technolenergy efficient technologies.

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For example, you might choose to hedge gas prices by buying more oil stocks through a fund like the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Energy Sector (IYE), which holds several different oil companies.

Direct investments in MLPs could provide more favorable tax treatment than you'd get by investing in an energy fund or by buying a specific energy company's stock.

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Generous support for the Wisconsin Triennial has been provided by Paul Reckwerdt and Ellen Rosner; Gabriele Haberland and Willy Haeberli; Jeff Levy; Judith Dion Pyle; Alliant Energy Foundation; Hiebing; Kohler Foundation; the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation and the Overture Foundation; the Art League of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art; and a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin.

That's why so many scientists and others (me included) were irked last month to learn that Google, a company that in recent years gained a green reputation by investing aggressively in renewable energy projects, was hosting a July 11 fund - raising luncheon for Inhofe.

E.g., the AFP organization is funded by the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation that gets its money from Koch Industries, the nation's largest privately held energy company and the second largest family - owned business in the U.S. with annual sales of over $ 20 billion.

A corporate venture fund set up by oil and gas company Statoil has invested in North American energy storage developer Convergent Energy + energy storage developer Convergent Energy + Energy + Power.

However, instead of recognizing the effort by tech companies to produce enough power to meet the demand of their data facilities, Chesser cites the fossil fuel - funded Institute for Energy Research to lambast these companies for «misleading claims.»

This project is a public private partnership managed by Terra Global and funded by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service under the Conservation Innovation Grant program and Entergy Corporation, an integrated energy company, through its Environmental Initiatives Fund.

By this I mean the mutually supportive network of environmental pressure groups, renewable energy companies and some public officials who keep each other well supplied with lavish funds, scare stories and green tape.

Purportedly set up to represent «small, independent oil and natural gas producers,» instead «Energy in Depth» is funded by some of the largest oil companies on the planet, such as Chevron, BP, Shell and Occidental, along with the American Petroleum Institute and other trade associations.

And yet, despite some encouraging developments in renewable energy and some breakthroughs in international leadership, carbon emissions continue to rise at a steady rate, and for their pains the scientists themselves — the cruelest blow of all — have been the targets of an unrelenting and well - organized attack that includes death threats, summonses from a hostile Congress, attempts to get them fired, legal harassment, and intrusive discovery demands so severe they had to start their own legal - defense fund, all amplified by a relentless propaganda campaign nakedly financed by the fossil - fuel companies.

To ensure that the energy market remains dominated by its fossil fuel company funders, ALEC promotes an array of «model» bills that undermine efforts to protect the environment.

The first target for JCAP, backed by $ 122 million of Energy Department funds, is a system to make large amounts of hydrogen from sunlight that can be used by fuel or chemical companies.

David Suzuki, whose Foundation is funded by oil companies and chaired by James Hoggan (whose PR company has alternate energy companies for clients), says:

Equity raising by renewable energy companies on public markets jumped 54 % in 2014 to $ 15.1 billion, helped by the recovery in sector share prices between mid-2012 and March 2014, and by the popularity with investors of US «yieldcos» and their European equivalents, quoted project funds.

Usual investment criteria may not deliver the super low - cost, clean, renewable energy soon enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change,» said Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, «Google.org's hope is that by funding research on promising technologies, investing in promising new companies, and doing a lot of R&D ourselves, we may help spark a green electricity revolution that will deliver breakthrough technologies priced lower than coal.»

Senate Leadership Fund was also supported by NextEra Energy, a utility and renewable energy company, which donated 250,000 this pastEnergy, a utility and renewable energy company, which donated 250,000 this pastenergy company, which donated 250,000 this past June.

A consortium of UK companies led by advanced waste to energy and fuels company, Advanced Plasma Power (APP), has today been awarded & pound; 11m in government funding to develop and build...

The head of Illinois anti-nuclear organization Environmental Law and Policy Center — which is funded by fossil fuel interests and other energy companies that would benefit from closing nuclear plants — has doubled down on his efforts to increase carbon emissions by closing nuclear power plants and replacing them with fossil fuels.

The Rampion Offshore Wind Farm is being built 13 kilometres off the Sussex coast by E.ON, Canadian energy infrastructure company Enbridge and a consortium comprising of the Green Investment Group, Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 5 and the Universities Superannuation Scheme.

Authors also included David Legates, who has received funding by various industry groups such as the American Petroleum Institute, Charles G. Koch Caritable Foundation, Southern Company, and Exxonmobil; William M. Briggs, a statistician; Michael Limburg, vice president of the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) that has co-hosted climate change denial events with the Heartland Institute; Dietrich Jeschke from the University of Applied Sciences in Flensburg, Germany; and James Morrison, whose only listing is as an undergraduate in Environmental Scienes at the University of West Anglia.

The Colorado bill was based on a model bill from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate - funded group dedicated to passing legislation approved by ALEC's corporate funders, including fracking companies like Chesapeake Energy.

The money spent on exploring for and producing oil, gas, etc., and the resulting profits earned by the BIG EVIL fossil energy companies is not spent countering the money spent on funding CAGW biased research, and the related promotional propaganda.

I must disagree with your assertion: «To say that deniers are funded by oil companies trying to derail energy policy again is only an issue that arises if there is scientific dogma that is tied to policy.

A sizable portion of Klein's funds come from the IPOC Group, an international growth fund owned by Russian minister of telecommunications and Putin friend Leonid Reiman; Spectrum Partners, a Moscow - based energy investment firm with major assets in Russian oil and gas; Rosneft, the Russian - government - owned oil and gas giant that is one of Wakefield's largest clients; and other Russian companies.

To say that deniers are funded by oil companies trying to derail energy policy again is only an issue that arises if there is scientific dogma that is tied to policy.