Sentences with phrase «oil and coal companies»

The current lawsuit blaming oil and coal companies for Katrina is one such example.

Others, however, call me names and claim that I am paid by the oil and coal companies or the Koch brothers (I wish).

It's a tactic that most peak oilers avoid, but most oil and coal companies love.

Oil and coal companies and their shills focus on denying the larger question, to postpone the inevitable attribution of harm and need for lifestyle changes for as many news cycles (and personal fortune accumulations) as can be.

«We are under siege by fake information that's being put forward by people who have a profit motive,» she said, citing oil and coal companies as culprits.

But oil and coal companies are doing everything they can to fight these new rules and avoid being held accountable for their polluting ways.

Senate advocates — including one Republican — felt abandoned when the president made concessions to oil and coal companies without asking for anything in return.

«U.S. oil and coal companies, including ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute, Koch Industries, and the world's largest coal - burning utility, Southern Company, have contributed more than $ 1 million over the past decade to his research.

But that would mean you can show the falling per unit profits for those poor oil and coal companies.

I think this comes not especially from Individualism per se, but from smart campaigning by oil and coal companies, which realised that by depicting climate change action as a left - wing, environmentalist, Egalitarian conspiracy, they could enlist anti-Egalitarians as unwitting foot soldiers in the cause of enduring profitability for the incumbent energy suppliers.

It is no coincidence that the groups publicizing the University of East Anglia email hacking story also have a long history of taking money from oil and coal companies to attack the conclusions made by climate scientists.

Oil and coal companies in the United States have joined in a conspiracy to hire pseudoscientists to deny the facts, and then begin raising political arguments that are essentially fraudulent.

The oil and coal companies may produce the stuff, but we're the ones who burn it every time we step on the gas or flick on the lights.

The suit was brought by landowners in Mississippi, who claim that oil and coal companies emitted greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming that, in turn, caused a rise in sea levels, adding to Hurricane Katrina's ferocity.

(2) As to your comment regarding CEOs of oil and coal companies, in fact we have already waited so long that many of the the oil companies now accept the science on AGW!

«It is simply not acceptable for major companies to mimic the unethical strategy of the tobacco companies in presenting blatantly false information in order to protect a business model,» Gore added, alleging that's what some oil and coal companies are doing.

Our modern witches are the oil and coal companies.

Brulle's claims were cited by environmentalists and news media around the world as evidence of an immense conspiracy, concocted by oil and coal companies and their allies to attain great wealth by ruining the planetary environment.

When the networks did include other viewpoints, the experts were dismissed as «out of the scientific mainstream» or backed by «oil and coal companies.»

Later in the interview, Harris spoke with Kert Davies, a Greenpeace environmental activist, who alleged that Singer is connected to «oil and coal companies» whose opposition to a global warming consensus will «cost lives.»

Other difficulties were surreptitiously injected into the negotiation process by Washington lobbyists, working for Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, as well as US oil and coal companies.

Oil and Coal companies are laughing their asses off at the thought of people being against wind power because it kills birds — even if it were true (which it is not) could clean small wind power possibly kill as many birds as oil spills and ground water and air pollution from coal / oil power?

Despite executives» claims to the contrary, many oil and coal companies continue to support groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which spreads misinformation about climate science to state legislators, but denies that it denies climate science.

Oil and coal companies may continue plugging their ears and yelling «LALALA!!!»

The problem is that the oil and coal companies have massive amounts of money to make sure they can continue their activities.

It will allow his administration to unilaterally build pipelines across our national parks and sell - off our public lands to oil and coal companies.

Meanwhile, Big Polluters like oil and coal companies aren't going down without a fight.

The oil and coal companies made sure everyone knew about the costs of action.

But there was a much discussed recommendation in both his oral presentation and a written statement he prepared beforehand: that the heads of oil and coal companies who knowingly delayed action on curbing greenhouse gas emissions were committing a crime.

It takes tremendous courage, confidence and integrity, not to mention super powered testicular fortitude for him to take on these oil and coal companies.

They will have to stand up to them, and say to the public: «The US government has been subcontracted to the oil and coal companies in the last eight years.

The oil and coal companies make this possible.

I suggest that all of the environmental organizations get together to defeat lawmakers who are in thrall to the oil and coal companies.

The big question is how long will our elected officials refuse to free the country and the climate from the stranglehold of oil and coal companies?

The oil and coal companies are, after all, steering us to hell on earth, and you are the ones who are going to have to fight them.

The only devastation that will be wreaked will be on the income statements of the oil and coal companies (unless they get off their duffs and get with the program).

In 2011, the institute sent Davies a list of Soon's funders, which included a number of oil and coal companies, a list that Davies passed on to journalists.

Solving the issue could bring closer the day when disaster victims can successfully sue oil and coal companies.

Notably absent from the list are oil and coal companies that have built their businesses on fossil fuels.

The big issue around climate change that «nobody's talking about» is whether oil and coal companies are prepared to write down 80 % of their reserves.

I am sure the people who complain about oil and coal company - funded research would be equally outraged to learn of these «conflicts of interest».

When he gets elected, I fully expect Obama to ditch his oil and coal company supporters and do what's right for his country and the world.

Gore is entitled to put his money where his mouth is — just as oil and coal company executives are.

That's because our once great country is controlled by greed crazed oligarchs, many of whom have grown to love the dividends and appreciation from oil and coal company stocks.

Not exact matches

The latter two are inexcusable — rich nations have no business subsidizing rich oil, gas and coal companies or their own consumers.

In addition to dabbling in coal, real estate and oil and gas through their primary company, the Mancal Group, brothers Fred and Ron are also the biggest shareholders in mining junior Infinito Gold.

The U.N. Security Council on Friday blacklisted dozens of ships and shipping companies over oil and coal smuggling...

UNITED NATIONS, March 30 - A United Nations Security Council committee blacklisted 21 shipping companies, 27 ships and one individual on Friday over illegal North Korean oil and coal smuggling.

The construction - based company diversified during the 1950s, moving into coal production and, later, oil and gas, and railroad equipment manufacturing and servicing.

The United Nations Security Council blacklisted dozens of ships and shipping companies on Friday over oil and coal smuggling by North Korea, boosting pressure on Pyongyang as leader Kim Jong Un plans to meet with his South Korean and U.S. counterparts.