Sentences with phrase «other fossil fuels companies on»

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Moreover, in those cases, the gap between the leading - edge technologies and the competitors trying to catch up is on aggregate twice as great for the fossil - fuel firms than the clean - technology firms; that is, the dirty energy companies are generally farther ahead of the other firms in their fields.

Adopt a goal of requiring, or persuading, fossil fuel companies to disclose in their 10Ks and other filings the amount of carbon held for ultimate release on the asset side of their balance sheets, and the range of possible outcomes to their business if some of those assets are stranded.

The reason a listening tour is the next step, and not a pre-packaged batch of legislation or other steps, is to build on the common ground across a wide range of Americans on energy thrift, innovation and fair play (meaning policies that distort the playing field, with mandated corn ethanol production and tax breaks for fossil fuel companies prime examples).

Second, if divestment were to reduce the financial resources of coal, oil, and gas companies (which it would NOT do), this would only reduce research and development at those same companies of: carbon capture and storage technologies; other key technological breakthroughs; and renewable sources of energy (the fossil fuel companies are carrying out much of the R&D on renewables).

On February 26, E&E Legal President Craig Richardson joined radio host Zeb Bell to discuss his recent op - ed, and how the Rockefeller Foundation and other green benefactors are using elected officials and the court system to shake down fossil fuel companies.

These companies, which include some of the world's biggest producers and users of fossil fuels, have concluded that limits on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse, or heat - trapping, gases are inevitable.

There are already several other lawsuits worldwide that are attempting to hold fossil fuel companies, including Shell, accountable for their contributions to dangerous climate change, but most are focused on financial compensation.

Along with other major fossil fuel companies, it deceived the public about the risks of its products and kept us on a path of unabated fossil fuel extraction.

The lawsuit comes on the heels of several other California communities suing 37 fossil fuel companies earlier this summer for causing climate change.

The Michigan power company is planning to float 30 year bonds to cover renewable energy and energy efficiency investments, while taking other steps to favor continued reliance on fossil fuels over renewable energy.

The conspiracy theories around Exxon and other fossil fuel intense companies disregards the important reality that everything we are today is built brick by brick on the fossil fuel economy, I think you fall into the trap of thinking that you are somehow removed from that system, free, independent and pure... you are not.

Instead they are working with big industry to ensure that those with the wealth and power, particularly the fossil fuel companies, can continue to cling on at the top at the expense of all other living things on our planet.

And on page 271 we're told that the WWF began to «phase - out» fossil fuel funding from companies such as «BP, Shell and others» in the year 2000.

The public relations machines of fossil fuel companies would have us believe that new hospitals, better education, and all sorts of other good things are reliant on the prosperity that comes from us allowing them to sell off our fossil fuel «resources».

The head of Illinois anti-nuclear organization Environmental Law and Policy Center — which is funded by fossil fuel interests and other energy companies that would benefit from closing nuclear plants — has doubled down on his efforts to increase carbon emissions by closing nuclear power plants and replacing them with fossil fuels.

Even the most environmentally conscious might be surprised to learn that their retirement account or 401 (k) could be supporting companies that rely on fossil fuels and other practices that drive climate change.

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.

McKibben is considered the father of the «divestment» movement — defined as applying pressure on universities and corporations to end all investments in fossil fuel companies or other industries that contribute significant amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Interview with Jim Gordon, CEO of Cape Wind The famed Cape Wind offshore wind project has finally been granted a permit to begin construction, after a decade - long battle with the company and clean energy advocates on one side, and well - funded fossil fuel industry interests and NIMBY concerns on the other.

Other ministers have taken on roles in energy companies with a focus on renewables or cleaner energy sources, in contrast to those that enter the fossil fuel industry.

Based on the report's research, DeSmog UK has mapped the connections between former government officials and the fossil fuel and other energy companies where they have taken up jobs:

As Mashey documents here, so well, this whole party has been a set - up, with scientists on one side, bound by the rules of evidence and by their own integrity, and think tanks, PR counsellors and their aides and allies on the other side, using any technique aailable (including, apparently, obtaining, using and disseminating stolen emails), to defend the right of fossil fuel companies to continue, unrestrained, in the sale and distribution of a substance that is threatening the human habitability of planet earth.

A practitioner in Texas, on the other hand, is more likely to spend their time advising fossil fuel companies on regulatory compliance.