Sentences with phrase «in fossil fuel industries»

In reality, investments in renewable energy or energy efficiency have been shown to create far more jobs than equal investments in fossil fuel industries (see Green For All citing UC Berkeley, SolarLove citing U-Mass at Amherst, Citizen's Climate Lobby references).

It was an unusual intervention by the Supreme Court, given that a powerful appeals court had just weeks ago turned down a request by dozens of states and their allies in the fossil fuel industries to impose a stay on the new federal regulation.

Separately, the Church of England announced that it is selling various investments in fossil fuel industries.

The greed of those in the fossil fuel industries who believe that growth in wind power will come at the cost of contraction in the fossil fuel industry and less profits;

Reporting companies, particularly those in fossil fuel industries, may wish to review their disclosure practices regarding the possible financial impact of climate change and of proposed laws, regulations and policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions.

Like the tobacco lobbyists who spent years denying the links between smoking and cancer, global warming denialists don't have to win the debate — they simply have to confuse the public indefinitely to successfully undermine any political action which might hit the interests of their backers in the fossil fuel industries

«The Scottish Greens believe that by harnessing the existing transferrable skills of those currently employed in fossil fuel industries, we can can generate a sustainable energy revolution,» said candidate and spokesperson Mark Ruskell.

The Australian government has far more money invested in the fossil fuel industries than in the renewable fuel industries.

In my opinion, it would take a wholesale rebellion by energy investors through the necessary act of divestment in fossil fuel industries and reinvestment in renewables to achieve this goal — first by sapping the political power of the agencies that keep putting people like Trump into office and also by removing capital for current and future projects.

This would create large numbers of jobs for those no longer employed in fossil fuel industries and others.

Similarly, people in the fossil fuel industries are making a lot of money by digging up and burning fossil fuels.

Stop investing in the fossil fuel industry, they told... Read more

«The message we expect this conference to send investors in the fossil fuel industry is «get out now».»

When hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» to access unconventional oil and gas reserves was a hot topic in the fossil fuel industry, Ryerson was tapped to lead a team to develop GEOS — a dynamic computational rock mechanics and hydrologic tool — that can model facture propagation, resulting seismic signals and pressure - driven fluid flow through a rock mass.

Given the very well established history of lying by omission in fossil fuel industry propaganda, did they just pick three bodies out of about 60 or so that happened to have some record of warming, no matter how flimsy that warming record is?

The banking sector has been the target of numerous campaigns over the years with tax avoidance, excessive directors» remuneration, investments in the fossil fuel industry and investments in nuclear weapons continuing to be key pressure points.

The article by Sandi Keane says that «Mitchell certainly has interests in the fossil fuel industry.

REVEALED: #FuellingtheFire report shows UK councils investing # 16 BILLION in the fossil fuel industry.

Of course there is big money in the fossil fuel industry and where there is big money there is often great dishonesty, consider the tobacco industry.

New data has revealed that councils across the UK are investing more than # 16 billion in the fossil fuel industry — the companies responsible for the climate crisis.

Rep. Joe Barton of Texas is angling for chairmanship of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee where he could further favor his friends in the fossil fuel industry.

Most people not involved in the fossil fuel industry will be glad that tax monies don't go to their coffers)

Everyone is connected to an institution that shouldn't be investing in the fossil fuel industry.

And the club's Super PAC disclosures show that its wealthy donors include some heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry and connected to the Koch brothers, like hedge fund manager Paul Singer of Elliott Management, and Quantum Energy, a Houston private equity and venture capital firm specializing in oil and gas.

Between 2010 and 2012 alone, individuals and companies in the fossil fuel industry spent an unprecedented $ 90.5 million to elect friendly Republicans, an increase of 66 percent over the previous two election cycles (compared with $ 15.7 million they gave to Democrats), according to Center for Responsive Politics data.

Your skepticism and misunderstandings are common for many in the Republican Party and those in the fossil fuel industry.

Consider in this regard the deeply deceptive recent WSJ op - ed by David B. Rivkin Jr., who writes for the National Review and is a principal attorney in the fossil fuel industry attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency clean power plan, and Andrew M. Grossman, who represents the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), an organization with long - established ties to both the fossil fuel industry and the tobacco industry before it, including its ongoing affiliation with Chris Horner, the very lawyer Alpha was funding to attack climate scientists.

Our local councils invest over # 14 billion in the fossil fuel industry, but already there are nearly 50 local groups and campaigns taking action to divest local government, with more springing up every month.

So let's be clear about the facts: Galileo had the courage to speak truth to the powerful interests of his day in the Roman Catholic Church, just as two generations of scientists have tried to speak truth about climate change to executives and lobbyists in the fossil fuel industry.

I don't think business is inherently bad, but it has been proven that major players in the fossil fuel industry have been playing us to extend their profits, at the expense of life on Earth and human civilization.

Dig deep enough in the «crooked skeptics» accusation, and you ultimately discover that in regard to the notion about skeptics being in a pay - for - performance arrangement with anybody in the fossil fuel industry, there's only one usable weapon in the enviro - activists» arsenal to indict those skeptics as industry - paid shills: the supposedly leaked industry memo set from a public relations campaign called the «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) supposedly containing the «reposition global warming» strategy goal, which targeted «older, less - educated males» and «younger, lower - income women.»

The decision to retain holdings in the fossil fuel industry flies in the face of recommendations from a climate change committee appointed by Reif, which this summer issued a report noting that three - quarters of the committee supported «targeted divestment from companies whose operations are heavily focused on the exploration for and / or extraction of the fossil fuels that are least compatible with mitigating climate change.»

Not just to protect our environment and ourselves now, but to justify long term investments in the fossil fuel industry so that we may continue to enjoy the unique capabilities and products it delivers.

«Carbon Tracker has done so much to bring climate change into mainstream investor thinking and make financial markets aware of stranded asset risk in the fossil fuel industry.

The idea of addressing climate change threatens some people in the fossil fuel industry.

A $ 150 billion energy investment in the fossil fuel industry would create 788,567 jobs while that same investment would create 2,505,732 jobs from clean energy investments.

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.

Front page stories at The New York Times and The Washington Post have also highlighted Steyer's past investments in the fossil fuel industry and the profits accrued by the hedge fund he used to lead, noting the apparent inconsistency with his political advocacy.16, 17 Bill McKibben who helped inspire Steyer's opposition to the Keystone pipeline and who consults with the billionaire activist, offers an opposing perspective: «After years of watching rich people manipulate and wreck our political system for selfish personal interests, it's great to watch a rich person use his money and his talents in the public interest.»

- As in the fossil fuel industry, biofuels are highly subsidized.

Neither Cook nor Nuccitelli have any serious physical sciences research experience (though Dana's experience in the fossil fuel industry may qualify as applied research — oddly it's something he doesn't like to talk about on blog).

Carbon withdrawal: Europe's largest bank has joined the list of global investors retreating from new financial commitments in the fossil fuel industry, including investments in oil - rich Alberta.

On the bright side, you've probably given your new company a boost, so at least you'll profit from from those in the fossil fuel industry who might now be more inclined to use your services, seeing as you are an ally.

It's true that I find Dyson's participation in fossil fuel industry funded disinformation troubling.

MANN: Unfortunately, there are powerful special interests in the fossil fuel industry for whom the prospect of climate change policy — a price on carbon emissions — would be extremely costly.

«I said, «Why are we just a leader in the fossil fuel industry?

This memo warned of potential legal consequences for companies — particularly those in fossil fuel industry — that fail to properly disclose their climate risks:

generate new jobs in the renewable energy sector that would more than offset job losses in the fossil fuel industry, with further jobs being created by energy efficiency activities, and;

The ad heralds jobs in the fossil fuel industry, when in fact more than 500,000 people work in solar, wind, hydro, bioenergy, and geothermal energy.

In the fossil fuel industry, for example, the term increasingly used to signify the long - term risk associated with oil and gas that may become much more expensive to exploit is «stranded assets.»