Sentences with phrase «into other fossil fuel companies»

House Democrats also announced they are planning a broader probe into other fossil fuel companies and their climate research.

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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.

If 50 % of the world population stopped using fossil fuels today, emissions would drop, fossil fuel companies would be deprived of finances, their employees wages would have to drop, driving them into other industries, and a vast and lucrative market for alternative energy would open up.

The conspiracy theories around Exxon and other fossil fuel intense companies disregards the important reality that everything we are today is built brick by brick on the fossil fuel economy, I think you fall into the trap of thinking that you are somehow removed from that system, free, independent and pure... you are not.

Earlier this week, documents revealed by the Guardian and New York Times provide irefutable evidence that climate denier Willie Soon and the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophyics received more than $ 1 million in funding from fossil fuel companies to deliver scientific reports that called into question the scientific conclusion that climate change is the result of burning too much oil, coal and other carbon - emitting fuel sources.

Since the plaintiffs claimed that burning of fossil fuels puts deadly CO2 into the atmosphere, causing all their forecasted death & destruction, then why didn't the oil companies ask the judge for a restraining order to prevent the plaintiffs from burning any more fossil fuels at least until the case was settled one way or the other?

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.