Sentences with phrase «oil interests»

In fact, green groups have received far more funding from oil interests.

These are the same damaged trans fats that have been touted as «healthy» and «heart - friendly» for the last 60 years by the vegetable and seed oil interests!

And we should never, ever go to war to protect our perceived oil interests.

The documents allegedly reveal that some funding came from oil interests.

These are the same damaged trans fats that have been touted as «healthy» and «heart - friendly» for the last 60 years by the vegetable and seed oil interests!

I agree with you, J.S. (comment # 243) that our leaders will continue to try to protect oil interests in the mid east.We've been playing up to them since President Rooosevelt courted favor with the Sheiks, Mullahs, Princes and Imams in the mid 1940s.

But the EPA is being pushed in the other direction by oil interests.

The answer is clearly, that they never were operating in good faith, that the war was pursued for the benefit of oil interests, and that climate deniers are supported for the same reason.

Devastating oil spills, the disturbing influence of Big Oil on our political system, the fact that the U.S. expenditures on foreign oil equal half the federal deficit, the extent the U.S. military will go to protect oil interests, and the alarmingly high amounts of carbon we send into the air from burning oil are just a few examples of the need to move beyond oil.

Stock says the debate between agriculture and oil interests over ethanol has been needlessly divisive, and that the EPA under Pruitt should instead turn its focus to «second - generation» biofuels that do not provoke such bitter fights.

Still, recent actions by the Jokowi government have cast doubts that the leader is willing to take on big palm oil interests.

President Donald Trump is considering sanctions on Venezuela's oil industry that could benefit U.S. oil interests, according to a foreign policy expert.

Well, he is the Bush Administration's pick for the post (may be under the advice of some with oil interests), to replace Robert Watson, whom the administration did not like.

David Buente, a lawyer representing oil interests in the case, declined to comment when asked by Bloomberg.

Gelbspan, as I've pointed out at this blog and in my prior online articles, has a rough time keeping any of his narratives straight about the «coal and oil interests behind global warming», or more specifically, just how those «interests» directed skeptic climate scientists to lie to the public.

They include industrialist David Koch, whose holdings include oil interests; hedge - fund billionaire Paul Singer, who invested heavily in the energy sector and Charles Joyce, president of a pipeline company and supporter of hydraulic fracking, the process of oil extraction using high pressure mixtures of water, chemicals and sand or gravel.

Trump's attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions didn't disclose revenue - making oil interests he holds in Alabama, despite federal ethics rules requiring him to do so, an examination of state records shows.

The powerful lobbying organisation, which receives funding from pharmaceutical, weapons and oil interests among others, is heavily funded by the Koch Charitable Foundation whose founder, Charles G Koch, is one of the most generous donors to the Tea Party movement in the US.

Second, the story quote «Opponents of CA's landmark global warming legislation AB32 — led by Texas oil giant Valero and other out - of - state oil interests — recently spent nearly $ 2 million dollars...» shows that oil companies themselves are getting involved with legislation that regulates electricity generation.

The National Energy Policy Development Group is a meeting of Texan oil interests convened by Vice President (and former energy baron) Dick Cheney to lobby for their own interests.

But what is one to make of a climate - change law that withstands a $ 35 million campaign supported by conservative oil interests only to be thrown off course by a legal challenge from the leftier edges of the environmental movement, particularly its environmental justice wing?

Long - established major oil interests, of course, sound determined not to give an inch, such as a builder of a planned pipeline from the prairies of Canada all the way to the gulf of Mexico through the USA.

The huge oil interests that control the tar sands aren't content with a landlocked pipeline to the midwest.

In this analysis, Public Campaign Action Fund has attempted to quantify how much coal and oil interests spent in the first six months of 2008.

After all, sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, and if oil interests can influence the science, so too can the interests that stand to gain from seemingly eco-friendly policies.

The Western States Petroleum Association, which represents oil interests influential at the Capitol, has said it could cost oil companies 12 cents or more a gallon to buy carbon credits for the fuel they sell in California each year.

Under it, Ottawa will play a much smaller role in protecting people from harmful projects, while retaining the right to basically rubber - stamp big projects that powerful oil interests want.

Case in point: Roy Innis, the head of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), whose group participated in a «Stop the War on the Poor» campaign launched by a lobbying firm connected to Alaskan oil interests in order to push for more oil drilling in the US.

Mobil's complaint derived from the nationalisation of Venezuelan oil interests by President Chavez's government in Venezuela.

Despite the environmental hoops the State Department still seems to have to jump through, watchdogs fear authorities are intent on giving a thumbs - up to Keystone XL in the name of energy security and in response to pressure from oil interests.

Demonstrating the power of the masses to challenge Big Oil interests, Not Without Us is an all too timely document of the grassroots struggle for significant climate action.

US oil interests are present, too, but they hold a much smaller share of the Libyan market than do the Europeans.

A «reformer» or friend to palm oil interests?

Bruce Greenwood is effortlessly authoritative as U.S. ambassador Dwight Morrow, a charming and effective negotiator whose main concern in Mexico is U.S. oil interests, though he gradually becomes aware of the enormity of what is occurring.

This has angered climate activists, who are determined to connect climate - change «denial» with oil interests.

The about - to - retire Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, Phil Radford, unabashedly points to Ross Gelbspan as «the lone voice, the moral compass, the beacon that has inspired countless people, me included, to demand our country and our future back from the coal and oil interests behind global warming» (full text here).

This misconception is the basis from which more mythology about the debate develops: scientists are united by a consensus, are of unimpeachable character and the science is unequivocal; sceptics are financed by oil interests, motivated by «ideology» and are «anti-science».