Sentences with phrase «other fossil fuel companies»

What you describe is exactly the outcome that Exxon - Mobil and other fossil fuel companies desire, and have achieved by their funding of right - wing propaganda mills, disguised as «think tanks», that spew a steady stream of fake, phony, pseudoscientific bunk and employ cranks and liars to create the completely false impression that there is a genuine «debate» about the reality of anthropogenic global warming.

House Democrats also announced they are planning a broader probe into other fossil fuel companies and their climate research.

Another frequently mentioned option is for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of New York to invoke the state's powerful stock - fraud statute, the Martin Act, as the state has done in recent years to force other fossil fuel companies to disclose more about the financial risks they face from climate change.

Pawa is one of many lawyers who, along with advocacy groups, have struggled to hold Exxon and other fossil fuel companies legally accountable for climate change.

Through her advocacy against new pipelines in Virginia and campaign for fossil fuel divestment, she has become increasingly concerned with the influence of Dominion Power and other fossil fuels companies on her state government and her school.

Exxon alleges in a court filing that while it and dozens of other fossil fuel companies are being blamed by the cities and counties for sea level rise damages in lawsuits filed over the last nine months, the cities and counties had made little reference to the same risks over the last 27 years in dozens of bond offerings that netted the local governments more than $ 8 billion to pay for municipal projects.

on the growing swirl of state and municipal lawsuits alleging that ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies knowingly hid climate change risk from the public.

Hochberg hopes to finance energy projects and already has interest from oil and potentially other fossil fuel companies.

Published reports suggest that the Exxon investigation may be expanded to encompass other fossil fuel companies.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI), who has long advocated that the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate whether Exxon and other fossil fuel companies violated the RICO statute by disputing the role of fossil fuel burning in global warming, at a recent hearing, asked Attorney General Loretta Lynch if she'd considered using RICO against fossil fuel companies.

What you describe is exactly the outcome that Exxon - Mobil and other fossil fuel companies desire, and have achieved by their funding of right - wing propaganda mills, disguised as «think tanks», that spew a steady stream of fake, phony, pseudoscientific bunk and employ cranks and liars to create the completely false impression that there is a genuine «debate» about the reality of anthropogenic global warming.

«This case represents an unprecedented first step in the absolutely critical work of forcing coal and other fossil fuel companies to start being honest about the damage they are doing to our planet,» Schneiderman said in a prepared statement.

Other fossil fuel companies must embrace the same obligation, Schneiderman said.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the agreement reached with coal giant Peabody Energy over its misleading conduct on climate risk disclosure «represents an unprecedented first step in the absolutely critical work of forcing coal and other fossil fuel companies to start being honest about the damage they are doing to our planet.»

«I believe that full and fair disclosures by Peabody and other fossil fuel companies will lead investors to think long and hard about the damage these companies are doing to our planet.»

Read all about climate denial scientist Willie Soon's dirty money from petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch, coal utility Southern Company, oil giant ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies to deny the science of climate change!

Exxon and other fossil fuel companies could face «a huge universe of potential plaintiffs» in civil liability suits in coming years, said Carroll Muffett, a lawyer who is president and CEO of the Center for International Environmental Law, with offices in Washington and Geneva.

Even before Dominion signed on as his sponsor, Bacon exhibited an exasperating credulity when examining claims by Dominion and other fossil fuel companies.

I ask that Exxon and the other fossil fuel companies think very carefully about what they are doing.

«Investors have been pushing for coal and other fossil fuel companies to face facts and adapt their business models to thrive in a carbon - constrained world.»

In keeping with their outsized roles, Koch Industries and ExxonMobil spent more on campaign contributions and lobbying than any other fossil fuel company this year.

They have received significant funding from ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and other fossil fuel companies.

Fair enough — but if we're all responsible for climate change, then that includes Chevron, and Exxon Mobil, and the other fossil fuel companies.