Sentences with phrase «of fossil fuel industry»

Robin Guenier, are you in the pay of the fossil fuel industry or some other industry that has an interest in sowing doubt in the public's mind?

The only answer that I can see is that they are in the pockets of the fossil fuel industry.

We showed to Chevron and the rest of the fossil fuel industry, that we won't be fazed by intimidation as we fight for a safer future.

The size of the renewable power market is a minute fraction of the fossil fuel industry.

And as I've noted on several times, Ozone Action and Ross Gelbspan sure appear to be the epicenter of the fossil fuel industry corruption accusation against skeptic climate scientists.

This is the surest sign yet that an administration that has pulled out of global climate change agreements and is rolling back environmental protections at the behest of the fossil fuel industry, nonetheless does not want to miss out on the economic potential of a renewable energy industry that has revived many ailing port cities in northern Europe.

Divers from coastal communities around the world wrapped crime - scene tape around dead coral reefs during a series of underwater dives to highlight the catastrophic damage to this valuable ecosystem and the culpability of the fossil fuel industry for its loss.

This is especially true of the fossil fuel industry, whose subsidies include such things as a depletion allowance for oil pumping in the United States.

Violators of the ban face the Bulgarian equivalent of a $ 65 million fine — which in the scheme of the fossil fuel industry's cash flow really isn't that much.

Understanding why idiots like James Inhofe and paid shills of the fossil fuel industry make absurd HOAX statements is easy — they get paid for it by extremely wealthy oil companies.

«Absent some incredible breakthrough in mythical carbon - sucking unicorns, the numbers say we're done with the expansion of the fossil fuel industry,» says Kretzmann.

They have used their money to build the «sword and shield» of the fossil fuel industry — a network of operatives who are no different than a secret political police who smear scientists in the media and persecute them by abusing their high office unjustly.

You know, the power of the fossil fuel industry in Washington is enormous.

Desmond Tutu calls for anti-apartheid style boycott of fossil fuel industry http://t.co/BgKuIRP3D3 via @guardian

Even the era of tightened government spending and «not picking winners and losers» is no match for the political might of the fossil fuel industry.

«Private citizens, funds and institutions determined to give not a penny more to dirty energy are eroding the economic and cultural capital of the fossil fuel industry, paving the way for a fast and just transition to 100 % renewable energy for all.

Building on these efforts and achievements of various anti-coal campaigning initiatives, there is a strong need to take the struggle to a higher level with a clear call and direction in dismantling the power of the fossil fuel industry through divestment.

The press conference, hosted by UK climate science denying think tank the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) and the Foreign Press Association, is the latest demonstration of how Trump's newly - empowered network of climate science deniers is using its platform to promote the interests of the fossil fuel industry around the globe.

In this hour, we'll explore this movement for change taking root and flourishing right in the heart of the fossil fuel industry's home turf and speak with leaders like International Renewable Energy Agency Director - General Adnan Amin and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa.

In other words, those who oppose government regulation of the fossil fuel industry are more likely to reject climate change science.

February 29, 1980 the American Petroleum Institute hosts a meeting with its CO2 and Climate Task Force comprised of fossil fuel industry representatives from Exxon, Texaco, and Standard Oil.

«In the face of that failure, more and more regular people are stepping up to take direct action to resist the imminent threat of the fossil fuel industry.»

In extreme cases of the fossil fuel industry, we're now having a huge divestment movement break out across the entire country.

Either way, clearly he is offering up only a simple message, so he can sustain a story of an easy technical solution, thwarted by the might of the fossil fuel industry's conspiracy — a conspiracy that Monbiot has much trouble producing any evidence of.

McKibben and 350.org make three demands of the fossil fuel industry.

OCI founder Stephen Kretzmann put it this way: «Continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry is now quite clearly and quantifiably climate denial.»

The real truth was too painful for the fossilised brains of fossil fuel industry and thus the full message from the science was watered down - that was the source of dissent amongst scientists of ability and honesty i.e. that the IPCC FAR in its final version understated the probable outcomes.

In a wave of movement, we'll break free of the fossil fuel industry's stronghold, coloring the way forward with distributed renewable energy solutions.

but to convey this picture of the fossil fuel industry as an outlaw industry.

Testimonials of people affected by the devastating consequences of the fossil fuel industry, as well as climate change, were presented at the Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil (Paris), to a panel of three judges and a room of 350 live witnesses and 5,500 streaming in on December 10.

And they are usually motivated by selfish and short - sighted desires including looking after their finacial backers in the case of many politicians, or chasing short - term financial gain in the case of the bosses of the fossil fuel industry.

Donald Trump has put fossil fuel interests in charge of the United States government and tomorrow, emissaries of the fossil fuel industry will debate how to undermine international climate action.

After trying to spin his lack of expertise as full credentials, Taylor invokes the long - debunked «Oregon Petition» as supposed proof against climate change, despite the petition's inception as a tactic of the fossil fuel industry, its lack of climate experts as signatories, and its inclusion of fictitious characters like the Spice Girls.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which is centrally involved with pushing environmentally destructive legislation on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, today complained that «Earth Day has been a largely somber event» when it should be «a celebration of the wonderful achievements humankind has made in cleaning and greening the planet,» wrote Todd Wynn, ALEC Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Director.

The idea of taxing energy to better reflect its full costs collides with Americans» historical entitlement to cheap energy and the anti-tax ideology of the past 35 years, not to mention the political muscle of the fossil fuel industry.

Using this knowledge and experience, we produce cutting edge research and analysis and craft strategic, incisive campaigns, supporting a diversity of strategies and tactics to challenge the influence of the fossil fuel industry.

Pruitt, a «close ally of the fossil fuel industry,» the Times reporters wrote... the Times selectively quoted Pruitt from a piece he authored for the National Journal in May: «Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind.

Here's my concern over the specific accusation narrative that skeptics were on the payroll of the fossil fuel industry — as I implied in both my March 17, 2014 blog post and my post just three weeks ago, there really has only been one solitary bit of core evidence keeping this accusation alive the whole time.

«Because the government is sort of in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry and you have a core of climate deniers that threaten the prime minister's leadership, there's a political imperative to not take serious action on climate change,» says Dr Casule.

Skeptic climate scientists, holding unspecified viewpoints prior to the 1991 ICE campaign, were subsequently corrupted to spout the position of the fossil fuel industry.

Just as we have seen a resurgence in popularity of Zombie movies, whose origins are in the now classic 1968 thriller «Night of the Living Dead» (photo above), so do we see a return of the fossil fuel industry's desperate attempts to animate certain still - living (we believe) bodies in Congress to repeal Section 433 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA 2007) at this critical time in history.

Meanwhile, scientists who are hired guns or goons of the machine are «contrarians» who sell their scientific credentials in the service of the fossil fuel industry.

I think that corrupt politicians in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry (like former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder) are a bigger problem.

From seeing the cabinet stacked with friends of the fossil fuel industry to listening to the president announce US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement to watching the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency try to roll back the Clean Power Plan, we took some big hits in the past 12 months.

A biased review from a website that wants to promote the interests of the the fossil fuel industry it seems.

That magnitude of reduction threatens the survival, in its present form, of the fossil fuel industry — one of the largest commercial enterprises in history.

Michael Fallon (Energy Minister) is also an misinformed puppet of the fossil fuel industry (as his attempts to discredit Tim Yeo in the recent parliamentary debate on the Energy Bill demonstrated).

Only by denying the impacts of rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, can you then push for an unmitigated expansion of the fossil fuel industry.

«I do not mistrust the «Greens»,» stated Bolin, who went on to observe that neither does he «agree with everything they say, however, just as I do not agree with everything that might be said by representatives of the fossil fuel industry, for example.»

This is not to say that I agree with everything they say, however, just as I do not agree with everything that might be said by representatives of the fossil fuel industry, for example.