Sentences with phrase «massive new fossil fuel»

Instead of passing the buck by ignoring the lock - in of massive new fossil fuel infrastructure that is designed to produce for decades to come, we need action, leadership, and policy that plans for climate safety.

Instead of urgent and far - reaching measures to preserve a livable climate, in the United States massive new fossil fuel reserves have become available through fracking.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing that the massive state Common Retirement Fund stop new investments of pension assets in companies connected to fossil fuels.

And low prices are also putting a dent into the budget of the New York Power Authority, which sells electricity from the state's massive hydropower system along the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers, and from several smaller downstate fossil fuel power plants.

He wants to launch a massive infrastructure project to revitalize New York's infrastructure by becoming completely fossil fuel - free by 2030.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is proposing that the massive state Common Retirement Fund stop new investments of pension assets in companies connected to fossil fuels.

Yet many countries are still boosting investments in fossil fuel - fired power plants, a move that will «commit» the world to massive quantities of heat - trapping greenhouse gases, a new study says.

Did they think about the wisdom of their company's plans to build massive new fossil - fuel infrastructure?

Instead, world leaders have pandered and caved to the powerful fossil fuel lobby: rubber stamping massive carbon - intensive infrastructure, unlocking billions of tonnes of new carbon in hard - to - reach places like the deep offshore ocean, the arctic, or hard - to - extract resources like tar sands, and proceeded to design energy policy around scenarios incompatible with a safe global climate.

Instead, world leaders have pandered and caved to the powerful fossil fuel lobby: rubber stamping massive carbon - intensive infrastructure, unlocking billions of tonnes of new carbon in hard - to - reach places like the deep offshore ocean,

This is a massive blow to this dangerous new pipeline - we're turning the tide on new fossil fuel projects.

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But the true travesty is that the Keystone XL would plug us into a massive, unprecedentedly dirty new source of fossil fuel that would lead to untold amounts of particulate and greenhouse gas pollution.

There is quite a difference between calls by some climate scientists for nuclear energy, carbon capture and storage and geoengineering and calls for a massive refinery that will make possible the exploitation of a major new source of fossil fuel.