Sentences with phrase «influenced by energy companies»
For weeks before the hearing, environmental groups campaigned to urge lawmakers to block Pruitt's nomination, saying his litigation as Oklahoma attorney general may have been influenced by energy companies and industry groups that contributed to his election campaigns.
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Percoco, 48, of South Salem, Gov. Cuomo's longtime right - hand man, is accused of taking bribes of over $ 300,000 set up by Howe from two of his clients — an energy company executive and two Syracuse developers — in return for using his influence to solve problems with the state.
Prosecutors say Percoco sold his influence in the halls of power by taking more than $ 315,000 from 2012 through 2016 from a Syracuse real estate development company, COR Development, and Competitive Power Ventures, an energy company looking to build a power plant in the Hudson Valley.
House Republicans are investigating whether Schneiderman's investigation into the energy company and its claims of impacting the climate was influenced by environmental groups.
Gibson has countered Eldridge's accusations of being under the influence of corporate money, especially in regards to his positions on energy, by pointing to his challengers» own investments in oil and gas companies and his acceptance of individual contributions from wealthy corporate executives.
Howe, 57, a cooperating witness on his first day on the stand in Manhattan federal court, laid out how he came to be the linchpin of an alleged scheme by two clients to pay more than $ 300,000 in bribes to Percoco — referred to by them in code as «zitti» — to buy influence for an energy company and a Syracuse developer.
McKibben's enemy, of course, is the outsize influence on policy exerted by the array of companies extracting fossil fuels from the Earth to satisfy the growing global demand for energy.
«What has been of particular interest has been the number of TUPE transfers we have been involved in supporting, brought about by companies outsourcing work as fluctuations in the energy sector have continued to influence how projects are being completed,» says Mr Gilligan.