Sentences with phrase «oil lobby»

Global Climate Coalition dissolves as many corporations grapple with threat of warming, but oil lobby convinces US administration to deny problem.

That, in itself, was an oddity in a country at a time it was becoming normal for government climate policies to be cooked up in the boardrooms of Calgary oil lobby groups, as happened with B.C.'s «climate leadership plan» under former premier Christy Clark's Liberal government.

«It is a disturbing development to see a politically motivated group like ALEC join forces with the shadowy palm oil lobby from Malaysia and Indonesia as well as with huge agribusiness companies Cargill and Wilmar to pressure the EPA to overturn what is supposed to be a science - based decision made in the best interests of the American people,» said Laurel Sutherlin with the Rainforest Action Network, in a statement.

Surely what the protocol needs is massive support in the face of the concerted opposition to it of the now nearly omnipotent 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.

With the Big Oil lobby firmly entrenched in the Trump administration, national action against climate change has ground to a halt.

Coal and oil lobbies see this as the biggest threat to their business interests, which is why the US government under Donald Trump fought so hard during this summit to avoid making any commitment on finance.

Simpson - Bowles proposes a 15 cent a gallon gasoline tax hike which not only generates relatively little revenue for its political risk, but singles out the powerful oil lobby.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono risked his political future by taking on the powerful palm oil lobby.

So «not your daddy's oil» is not sinking in with Millennials and Generation Z, and with many of them, it never will, despite the oil lobbies» marketing efforts to try to make it sound like an attractive career path.

Expert analysts break down the oil lobby's most persistent misinformation campaigns For a special episode of the Dogwood Podcast, Sophie Harrison tackles ten myths about Kinder Morgan's expansion proposal, with the help of expert guests.

Instead, he assembled a one - sided package of misrepresentations and fabrications based mainly on inaccurate newspaper reports, opinion pieces and old propaganda disseminated by the oil lobby and its stooges.

Booker asks Tillerson whether Exxon was part of USA * Engage, an oil lobbying group who has lobbied against government sanctions in the past.

Non-oil dependent development will be a whole lot easier when the oil lobby is taken down a peg or too.

OK, I admit, I haven't looked much into this but climatologists (PROFESSIONALS, not shills for the oil lobby) really don't seem overly convinced of the potential impact of solar constant variation, magnitude-wise.

With the latest 6.5 % rise in oil consumption, USA's oil lobbies and Flower Parties will be very active in the near future.

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.

However, despite the oil lobbies, President Obama has succeeded in quickly doubling his renewables, as promised in February, 2009.

In the Stoddard piece US climate skepticism is linked to some of the same old bogeymen: «the influence of U.S. talk radio» and the «oil lobby.»

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

The oil lobby continues to spread the campaign dollars.

I hope the authors consider updating the report to reflect new science on the likely global carbon cap so that the oil lobby (which includes the current Norwegian government) can't use that one weakness as a handhold to further its interests.

People are always claiming that Steve and other sceptics gets some bit of funding from the gas and oil lobby (he doesn't), while they never consider the scientists who will be, not just poorer, but out of both a job and a career when AGW is shown not to be an issue.

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.

«We need to have a fair system,» said Michael Shellenberger, president of Environmental Progress, a pro-nuclear policy center, who first publicized the oil lobby's involvement.

Jerry Brown, California's governor, said the state is charting a clear course on climate, and attacked what he called «the brazen deception of the oil lobby and their Trump - inspired allies who deny science and fight every reasonable effort to curb global warming».

On Nov. 6 it will too cold in Washington, DC to strip down to Union Jack and maple leaf skivvies, but you can still join thousands of others at the White House to show President Obama that he has our support if he stands up to the oil lobby and says no to the Keystone XL pipeline.

I feel like the early climate scientists in the»70s fighting against the oil lobby... I guess I had the realisation that the climate lobby is perhaps more powerful than the energy lobby was back in the»70s — and the politics of climate I think there's a lot of emotion in this debate.

While it's true that the oil lobby, another dirty industry, targets mostly Republican members, Democrats are by no means innocent, or clean.

The travesty was when the oil lobby aired the «carbon is life» advertisement, not when the We Can Solve It campaign tried to set the record straight.

The oil lobby easily sways the US Federal government.