Sentences with phrase «oil and coal lobbies»

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.

It is absolutely true that America's oil and coal lobbies have consistently blocked legislation and mis - represented facts about global warming to the American people.

But one little fly in the ointment about «following the money»: don't you think the oil and coal lobbies have pockets one HELL of a lot deeper than environmental organizations supported by well intentioned college profs, high school teachers and housewives??

Not exact matches

There are reports that oil, coal and gas industries in America have invested more than half a billion dollars on lobbying against acting on climate change.

So I'm wondering how many of these are in the oil, coal and gas business, and how much do they spend on their lobbying?

And given the lobbying power of energy - extracting industries, along with those reliant on them (automakers, electric utilities), can embedded advantages, ranging from cheap rail rates for coal to direct tax breaks for oil drillers, be diminished?

But the prospect has spawned a fierce lobbying effort by conservative Republicans and some coal, oil and industry groups, which are urging Mr. Bush to abandon his campaign stance and any mention of carbon dioxide.

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.

According to the notes, Michael Whatley, policy adviser of the fossil fuel lobby group Consumer Energy Alliance, which receives funding from Peabody Energy along with other coal, oil, and gas companies, underlined the industry's urgent need to mobilize state public officials, including legislators, attorneys general, environmental and public utility commissioners, and energy officials in many states.

The oil and coal industries, as well as groups like the National Association of Manufacturers, all vehemently opposed cap - and - trade and shelled out millions lobbying Congress.

That doesn't stop Oxfam America, the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and the Methodist Church jointly lobbying US politicians to prevent investment in coal, oil or gas projects in Africa.

USA, with all powerful coal, oil, corn lobbies, will not follow and will keep using low cost dirty energy sources regardless of the negative effects on the people health and well being.

Organizers are concerned about Canada's relentless lobbying against a key piece of EU climate policy, the Fuel Quality Directive, which aims to reduce imports of highly polluting fuels such as tar sands and synthetic oil from coal into Europe.

Therefore, silence of the candidates about climate change is understandable, but it gives the climate deniers a sense that their views are prevailing, of course, with the help of generous funding by the coal and oil lobbies.

«Between 2010 and 2014, the oil, coal, gas, utility, and natural resource extraction industries spent $ 1.8 bn on lobbying, much of it in defence of these giveaways,» according to Sanders and Ellison.

American ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's has partnered with climate activism group 350.org Australia to launch a campaign to freeze fossil fuels investments, by encouraging Australians to lobby their local governing bodies to ensure that none of its assets are in coal, oil and gas.

Since then, students at dozens of other universities have sat down with senior administrators and boards of trustees to lobby them to sell holdings in coal, oil and gas companies.

a sustained and very effective campaign of deception and disinformation by the coal and oil lobby

Much of the failure of the press to address this problem originated with a sustained and very effective campaign of deception and disinformation by the coal and oil lobby within the US.

In the mid to late 1990 she also worked with the Global Climate Coalition, a special interest group of coal, oil and utility companies, set up to lobby against international action on climate change.

Despite its advanced knowledge of the climate disruption fueled in large part by oil, gas and coal pollution, ExxonMobil turned its back on crafting responsible solutions and instead funded a sophisticated campaign to sow doubt and delay action to curb carbon emissions — honing the tobacco industry's playbook with even more advanced public relations, advertising and lobbying muscle.

The data analyzed included lobbying expenses from the oil and gas, coal mining, and electric utilities industries.

The immediate threat in the United States is that dirty energy lobbyists will effectively use hypothetical arguments of WTO or NAFTA illegality to chill congressional action and provide cover for U.S. legislators who are indebted to Big Oil, Big Coal and the LNG lobby for campaign contributions, even though international trade law is not incorporated into U.S. domestic law and violations can not be enforced in U.S. domestic courts.

Thanks to the lobbying work of the coal and oil companies, and the vast army of thinktanks, PR consultants and astroturfers they have sponsored, thanks too to the domination of the airwaves by loony right shock jocks, the debate over issues like this has become so mad that any progress at all is little short of a miracle.

When the coal and oil lobby could not disprove the findings by the IPCC that human - induced global warming is under way, it launched a second round of attacks — this time on the reputations and integrity of Dr. Benjamin Santer and other unsuspecting scientists who have been blindsided by the personal nature of the assaults.

With a job description that entails commenting on news items day in and day out, it's waaaay easier to isolate certain groups and refer to them in perpetuity as «bad guys» than to deploy sincere empathy on a daily basis: 50 % of my blogging oeuvre bemoans entities like Big Oil, the 2010 congressional GOP, climate change deniers, or the coal lobby.

In his new book Greedy Bastards, Dylan Ratigan explains how «vampire industries» like oil and coal have forged «an unholy alliance with government based not just on the money that they contribute to political campaigns and spend on lobbying but on their ability to hypnotize us with false prices.»

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn10152005.html If burning oil (and presumably coal and gas) is then «carbon neutral,» such views tie Cockburn even closer to the corporatists in the oil lobby (and especially the now «revolutionary» Citgo) he ostensibly despises.

This newish breed lobbies against measures to fight climate change on behalf of the likes of oil, electricity, and coal firms.