Sentences with phrase «in fossil fuel money»

They are the ones who attacked it as a party plank, they are the ones who have been taking millions in fossil fuel money to fund an organized disinformation campaign about it, they are the ones who harass climate scientists.

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They first began working toward this goal in the 90s, when the government taxed fossil fuels and put 3.5 % of all that money towards its national forests.

A coalition of 40 Catholic institutions on Tuesday announced a decision to pull their money from — or block future investment in — fossil fuels.

If the world's governments fulfil their pledges to tackle climate change by cutting carbon emissions, many fossil fuel reserves would have to be kept in the ground, potentially wasting trillions of investors» money.

Last year, twice as much money was invested globally in renewable energy as in fossil fuels.

Investment in clean energy set a new record last year, with more money invested globally in new renewable power than in new power from fossil fuels.

Its not just the liberals, prior to their entrance on stage» it was the conservatives taking in this money for fossil fuel approvals.

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.

It's the first mainstream religious organisation in the UK to threaten to withdraw money from fossil fuel companies, after various «divestment» campaigns.

Turns out, $ 750 million worth of State money is going to SolarCity to build solar panels, which will presumably be in high demand as the nation transfers away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy sources.

«Money from megadonors from multibillion dollar fossil fuel industry should be rejected by all Long Island elected officials,» said Diane Goins of Hempstead, chairwoman of the Long Island Chapter of New York Communities for Change, a nonprofit coalition of working families in low and moderate income communities.

Zephyr Teachout claimed that John Faso «took» money from fossil fuel companies while they were trying to use eminent domain to build a pipeline on the properties of residents in the 19th Congressional District.

In their remarks Sanders and Teachout both assailed the influence of money in politics, income inequality and fossil fuelIn their remarks Sanders and Teachout both assailed the influence of money in politics, income inequality and fossil fuelin politics, income inequality and fossil fuels.

If money were the only lure for earth scientists, fossil fuels might be the only fluids in town.

They can not tell us how much money will be invested in green energy R&D, whether fertility rates will go up or down, whether we will dig up all the remaining fossil fuels and burn them, or the outcomes of numerous other decisions that affect the atmosphere — though they can tell us what will probably happen if we do or don't take them (see «Earth, 2100 AD: Four futures of environment and society «-RRB-.

Environmental groups, climate activists, and some Democrats in Congress have long complained that federal agencies, and DOE in particular, have spent too much money supporting the fossil fuel industry, even as it racked up decades of impressive profits.

A study published today, by a group led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), indicates that eliminating fossil fuel subsidies could curb global greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 5 % through 2030 while saving hundreds of billions of dollars in public money.

Historically, Dr. Balling has taken plenty of money from fossil fuel interests, which brings in funding not only to Balling's predetermined «research,» but hundreds of thousands of dollars in overhead payments to Arizona State University (see Balling's 1997 testimony to the Minnesota News Council).

He has accepted more than $ 1.2 million in money from the fossil - fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers.

In India, Rogers discovered that carbon offset ventures were doing more harm than good because carbon offset money discourages certain countries from investing in wind or solar power and continues their reliance on fossil fuelIn India, Rogers discovered that carbon offset ventures were doing more harm than good because carbon offset money discourages certain countries from investing in wind or solar power and continues their reliance on fossil fuelin wind or solar power and continues their reliance on fossil fuels.

In particular, I want to keep my my money out of fossil fuel companies» pockets!

Dr. Depledge described signs of a shift in the oil kingdom's stance, including its endorsement of science pointing to big impacts from a building human influence on climate and commitment of money to pursue technologies for capturing carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other new energy options.

This notion underlies a lot of campaigns, ranging from Ecuador's effort to raise enough money from international contributors to «leave the oil in the soil» under its splendid Yasuní National Park to Bill McKibben's «Do the Math» campaign to rid university and college endowments of fossil fuel investments.

While climate science promotes the narrative of cooperation for stopping the use of fossil fuels, one just need to look to how much money is spent in national defence budgets to see that the world is still fiercely competing to control the remaining economically viable resources of fossil fuels.

It's notable to see someone somewhere looking beyond fossil fuels, just as Thomas Edison recommended in 1931 when he told Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone: «I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy.

More options all the time When I first became involved in environmentalism, I remember the «ethical» banks and financial products I came across were mostly about negative screens: meaning avoiding putting money in arms, pornography, tobacco or maybe fossil fuels.

The effect will not be to remove but to move money in the economy, from traditionally favored fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables.

It's important to note that there's also sometimes a kind of «false inequivalence» in the fight over climate science and policies — an implication that the lack of action on greenhouse gases is largely the result of the unfair advantage in money and influence held by industries dealing in, or dependent on, fossil fuels.

Yet while money may be flowing away from many fossil fuel investments, investing in solar projects has traditionally been somewhat cumbersome — requiring significant capital, legal expertise, and industry connections.

In fact if you look at money changing hands, politicians who are AGW deniers are receiving tons of money from fossil fuel interests.

How a combination of fossil fuel industry money and free market fundamentalists support PR firms like CFACT and writers like David Wojick and we end up with lame strawman arguments and delay in a rational response to address climate change: http://www.merchantsofdoubt.org

Combating climate change needs money that is only available in global bond and equity markets, which are heavily invested in fossil fuels; public finances are needed to make them change direction

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.

This move will not only cut carbon emissions, it will keep money in the hands of American consumers and out of the pockets of the dirty fossil fuel industry.

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

Biofuel investment should amount to 0.3 billion dollars up to 2035, Birol adds — so the big oil alternative would receive just 3 percent as much * money as continued investment in the fossil fuel it is one day supposed to replace.

Accusations of corrupt fossil fuel industry influence over skeptic climate scientists are irrelevant material — worthless — in the absence of any physical evidence (full context document scans, undercover video / audio transcripts, leaked emails, money - transfer receipts) proving such skeptics were paid and orchestrated to lie about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming.

There has been no shortage of public support for unfreezing Ohio's clean energy standards, but behind the scenes, fossil fuel and utility interests have been using money to influence the debate in Columbus.

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.

With Virginia's climate skeptic attorney general seeking the governor's seat and fossil fuel money pouring in, familiar battle lines are being drawn.

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

For years, environmentalists have been attacking Soon for taking money from energy companies with fossil fuel interests, the only update the Times story added was that Soon allegedly did not disclose this to academic journals he was being published in.

Instead of putting constraints on poor countries that will hold back their ability to fight poverty, we should be investing dramatically more money in R&D to make fossil fuels cleaner and make clean energy cheaper than any fossil fuel.

«While Americans have rallied in support of clean renewable energy at home, the U.S. Export - Import Bank has made it a priority to handout money to fossil fuel companies to work on projects abroad,» said Kate DeAngelis of Friends of the Earth U.S. «If Trump gets his way, U.S. Export - Import Bank will become a slush fund for Big Oil's plans to accelerate climate change.

Fossil Free Southwark's first members met one another in February 2015 underneath the letter «N» whilst spelling out the words «Divest London» in front of Tower Bridge as part of a Global Divestment Day event calling on City Hall to take its money out of fossil Fossil Free Southwark's first members met one another in February 2015 underneath the letter «N» whilst spelling out the words «Divest London» in front of Tower Bridge as part of a Global Divestment Day event calling on City Hall to take its money out of fossil fossil fuels.

Interestingly, the landmark international accord draws a big fat highlight (and maybe a circle and some stars in the margin) across the work that activists and leaders are doing in the Pacific Northwest: not just the work to keep fossil fuels in the ground and make polluters pay for their pollution, but also our work to reduce the influence of money in politics and reform broken North American democratic institutions.

Benefits of the carbon fee - and - dividend (in which an across - the - board rising carbon fee is collected from fossil fuel companies at the domestic mine or port — of - entry, with 100 % of the money given to the public, an equal amount to each citizen) include the following:

As well, lower payroll taxes would give household pocketbooks extra money to invest in clean technology and cover higher electricity and fuel costs that are inherent as solar, wind and other renewables replace fossil fuels.

The fossil fuel companies will pass the cost on to customers, but the person doing better than average in limiting fossil fuel use will make money.