Sentences with phrase «lobbying by energy companies»
Given that the Fisheries Act has been gutted in response to lobbying by energy companies (they found habitat protection «onerous» and it has been removed), government supporters say the infrastructure to protect fish and freshwater is no longer necessary.
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An attorney for Peter Galbraith Kelly, Jr., for instance, who lobbied on behalf of Competitive Power Ventures, an energy company once seeking certain regulatory approvals in New York, has argued that there are at least four schemes alleged by the government.
Once in office, Mr. Bush did a complete turnaround in March 2001, abandoning that pledge under intensive lobbying of the White House by coal and oil companies, and industries whose profits depend on selling things that use energy.
Given the financial stakes, it is little wonder that alternative - energy companies, «green» investment firms, and biofuel producers are lobbying hard for more government largesse, and marketing their cause directly to the public by highlighting its supposed benefits for the environment, energy security, and even employment — none of which withstand scrutiny.
In 2009, Southern Company lobbied hard against the climate bill passed by the House of Representatives — which died the following year in the Senate — on the grounds that it would have raised energy prices too much.
According to sources cited by the newspaper, Exxon is increasing its lobbying of other energy companies to support a revenue - neutral carbon tax.
Miliband and his successors have tried to fudge the issue with partial studies produced by dodgy think tanks and renewable energy lobbying groups, and by blaming the energy companies.
As a disclaimer, I am not a climate skeptic, I am not paid by any energy company or lobby, I do have a Ph.D. in Geology from UC Berkeley, and I have published many articles pertaining to climate change in peer - refereed scientific journals.
America's largest privately owned energy company, Koch Industries, has been lobbying on «energy markets / financial regulation» reveals new data released by the interactive lobby database, EU Integrity Watch launched at the end of June.
The three - page letter was written by lawyers for Devon Energy, one of Oklahoma's biggest oil and gas companies, and was delivered to him by Devon's chief of lobbying.
Significant progress in reducing emissions and limiting climate change could be achieved if companies 1) unequivocally communicate to the public, shareholders, and policymakers the climate risks resulting from continued use of their products, and therefore the need for restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the 2 °C global temperature target; 2) firmly reject contrary claims by industry trade associations and lobbying groups; and, 3) accelerate their transition to the production of low - carbon energy.
plausible «conspiracy theory»: that fossil energy companies, driven by the need to protect hundreds of billions of dollars of profits, encourage obfuscation of the inconvenient scientific results... Challenging vested interests as powerful as the oil and coal lobbies was never going to be easy... Scientists are not naturally aggressive defenders of arguments... The skeptics are far, far more determined and expert propagandists to boot.