Sentences with phrase «in fossil fuel corporations»

Five years later, Comptroller Stringer continues to oversee more than $ 3 billion invested in fossil fuel corporations like ExxonMobil.

We're stuck between looking at a short term grab for stockholders in fossil fuel corporations, or whether we want life on earth to be possible for humans over the long term.

On the recent Do the Math tour, Bill McKibben, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, author Naomi Klein and other speakers and a team of organizers launched a campaign calling on churches, colleges, and others to divest their stock portfolios of investments in fossil fuel corporations — as was done in the the 1970s and 1980s as part of delegitimizing the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Not exact matches

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most revered figures of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and a key backer of the divestment campaign that helped end the system, was an early backer of fossil fuel divestment and said in 2014: «People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.»

BC Chamber of Commerce massively promotes and supports these fossil fuel and energy projects, since they believe it enhances «business growth» in BC, and since it appears only money talks in this province, boycotting their membership is a first step in demanding those corporations take an ethical stand for the protection of BC on this matter.

Oil and gas companies, the most profitable corporations in history, are counting their fossil fuel reserves as money in the bank and continuing to spend capital on finding and developing even larger reserves.

The companies include Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips Co., BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Peabody Energy Corp. «The American people deserve answers from the fossil fuel corporations about their actions to massively deceive the public in regards to climate science,» Lieu and Welch wrote in a letter to their House colleagues asking for their support.

«Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in their study.

And, although a few projects such as the Sleipner gas field in the North Sea or oil fields owned by the EnCana Corporation in Calgary, Alberta have proved that CO2 can be pumped underground and remain trapped below cap rock, they are aimed at enhancing recovery of the fossil fuels in those fields rather than permanently storing the greenhouse gas.

--(A) In all calendar years following its establishment, the Corporation shall collect an assessment on distribution utilities for all fossil fuel - based electricity delivered directly to retail consumers (as determined under subsection (f)-RRB-.

Tesoro Corporation plans to foster the development of biocrude, made from renewable biomass, which can be co-processed in its existing refineries along with conventional fossil crude oil to produce lower - carbon drop - in fuels.

With Trump and the Republicans running the Government, look for the transition to clean energy and EVs to be delayed as long as they can make it happen and as long as the fossil fuel corporation can bribe them to act in their interests and not the people's best interest.

The attacks on climate science have nothing to do with any actual political ideology, and everything to do with the ONE BILLION DOLLARS PER DAY PROFIT that the fossil fuel corporations want to keep raking in for as long as they can get away with it.

It is not surprising that the eco-pragmatists attract support from conservatives who have doggedly resisted all measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions, defended the interests of fossil fuel corporations, and in some cases worked hard to trash climate science.

AGW denialism has been manufactured by a generation - long campaign of deliberate deceit, funded by ExxonMobil and Koch Industries and other fossil fuel corporations that collectively rake in one billion dollars per day in profit from the ongoing business - as - usual consumption of their destructive products.

I would respectfully suggest that «policy - makers within the GOP» have suffered much more «damage» from the millions of dollars in campaign contributions they receive from the fossil fuel corporations.

New statistics developed by the Bank Information Center show that the World Bank Group's private sector arm, the International Financial Corporation (IFC), increased its lending for fossil fuel projects by a staggering 165 % in FY2008 [1].

What that sciencey - sounding gibberish about «unproved variables» means is that you don't want to see trillions of dollars in wealth shift from the fossil fuel corporations to other sectors of the industrial economy, therefore, anthropogenic global warming can not be true.

Reducing fossil fuel use won't «shrink the economy» — quite the opposite — but it will result in the transfer of trillions of dollars in investments, capital and profits from the fossil fuel corporations to other sectors of the industrial economy.

The intelligence agencies, military, non fossil fuel corporations, banks, and universities are not interested in arguing this point, because the facts are obvious.

Many corporations not directly involved in fossil fuels and timber are ahead of the people and the politicians on these issues.

Efforts to reduce fossil fuel use are under way at every level of government — national, state, and city — as well as in corporations, utilities, and universities.

Doesn't matter how big global estimated potential oil reserves are in total: when an oil company has diminishing access to state - controlled fossil fuels it may be experiencing its own peak - as a corporation.

The warnings have been ignored or ridiculed at the international, national, state and even local level, thanks in part to a well - funded, right - wing campaign representing the short - term interests of heavy industry, mining and fossil fuel corporations.

The companies include Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips Co., BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Peabody Energy Corp. «The American people deserve answers from the fossil fuel corporations about their actions to massively deceive the public in regards to climate science,» Lieu and Welch wrote in a letter to their House colleagues asking for their support.

That will look like a number of things, first, continuing fights around the world to keep fossil fuel in the ground, and second, continuing to follow the money and expose the corporations and industries that stand in the way of progress.

The central allegation that stands against Dr Soon is that he had had a «conflict of interest» in that he had received much of his research funding from fossil - fuel corporations and foundations but had failed to declare it in a dozen of his 60 published papers.

Francis said that wealthy nations and multinational corporations that use foreign debt as a way to control poorer countries, while exploiting their natural resources and polluting their land and water, owe them an «ecological debt» by limiting consumption of fossil fuels and assisting them in more sustainable development.

As Matthew Yglesias articulated last year in a thoughtful piece on Slate, divestment by socially responsible investors, universities and even governments won't starve capital flows to fossil fuel corporations anytime soon.

June 1, 1983 Mobil Oil Corporation status report published in the company's environmental affairs and toxicology department discusses the atmospheric greenhouse effect, and asks the question, «is burning fossil fuels affecting world climate?»

We, 93 civil society organisations working in Brussels and in countries affected by EU climate policies, are therefore deeply concerned that the same polluting corporations whose actions largely contribute to climate change - chief among them fossil fuel companies and their lobby groups - are using their involvement in the UNFCCC talks to delay action and hold back the needed ambition.

Like Scaife and Gulf Oil, Olin made his bucks in part from the fossil fuel industry via the Olin Corporation, which manufactured blasting powder for coal mining companies.

(B) The Corporation is authorized to adjust the assessments on fossil fuel - based electricity to reflect changes in the expected quantities of such electricity from different fuel types, such that the assessments generate not less than $ 1.0 billion and not more than $ 1.1 billion annually.

Fossil fuel corporations know they're not the future, yet they're determined to keep us stuck in the past.

--(A) In all calendar years following its establishment, the Corporation shall collect an assessment on distribution utilities for all fossil fuel - based electricity delivered directly to retail consumers (as determined under subsection (f)-RRB-.

The letter specifically aims the RICO act at «corporations in the fossil fuel industry and their supporters»... who do you think the «supporters» are?

If corporations in the fossil fuel industry and their supporters are guilty of the misdeeds that have been documented in books and journal articles, it is imperative that these misdeeds be stopped as soon as possible so that America and the world can get on with the critically important business of finding effective ways to restabilize the Earth's climate, before even more lasting damage is done.

But with fossil fuel burning continuing at near record levels globally, and with many corporations and political bodies around the world dragging feet on greenhouse gas emissions cuts, the level of heat - trapping carbon held aloft in our airs will continue to rise for some time.

The Koch Brothers» supposed «free market» political activities often line up with the financial interests of Koch Industries, the 2nd largest privately held corporation in the United States and a major fossil fuel conglomerate (invested in coal, oil, and natural gas among many other sectors).

Exxon Mobil, a massive fossil fuel corporation, has a lot of money to invest in scientific research about fossil fuels.

Mike Brune, the head of the Sierra Club — an organization that is on the record accepting tens of millions of dollars from fossil fuel and renewable energy investors and corporations with an interest in shutting down nuclear plants — falsely accused «Pandora's Promise» of being associated with the nuclear industry.

At a meeting in Exxon Corporation's headquarters, a senior company scientistdelivered a sobering message: carbon dioxide from the world's use of fossil fuels would warm the planet and could eventually endanger humanity.

Fossil fuel corporations have five times more oil and coal and gas in known reserves than climate scientists think is safe to burn.

The fossil fuel companies use «political payola» (bribes) to influence a majority in Congress to create and sustain pollution practices... while also sustaining inefficient, «dirty energy» policies that help optimize the profits of these corrupt, wealthy corporations.

Unlike Koch, most of those fortunes did not come from owning a corporation like Koch Industries, historically rooted in fossil fuel operations.

Fossil fuel companies have arguably become the most powerful corporations in history.

McKibben is considered the father of the «divestment» movement — defined as applying pressure on universities and corporations to end all investments in fossil fuel companies or other industries that contribute significant amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.

In this case, your unsupported generalization that «the electorate could not care less» about climate change was rebutted with actual opinion polls showing that significant majorities of «the electorate» do, in fact, care a good deal, and consider the issue a priority for the President and the Congress, and support policies to regulate GHG emissions and to hold fossil fuel corporations responsible for the full costs of their productIn this case, your unsupported generalization that «the electorate could not care less» about climate change was rebutted with actual opinion polls showing that significant majorities of «the electorate» do, in fact, care a good deal, and consider the issue a priority for the President and the Congress, and support policies to regulate GHG emissions and to hold fossil fuel corporations responsible for the full costs of their productin fact, care a good deal, and consider the issue a priority for the President and the Congress, and support policies to regulate GHG emissions and to hold fossil fuel corporations responsible for the full costs of their products.

Yes, the biggest users of all energy, and fossil fuel energy especially, are the global corporations (bigger than nations), and government, and the rest of business... not the residents of either middle - income US suburbs or farming villages and cities in China.

Except of course for the fossil fuel corporations, who will see their hundreds of billions of dollars in profits shift to other sectors of the economy.