Sentences with phrase «out of fossil fuel companies»

As was reported by Karl Mathiesen in The Guardian, 2014/07/30, «dozens of cities, institutions and investors are taking their money out of fossil fuel companies after the launch of the divestment campaign in the US around 18 months ago.»

(05/01/2013) The cities of San Francisco and Seattle have pulled their money out of fossil fuel companies, taking a climate divestment campaign from college campuses to local government.

In particular, I want to keep my my money out of fossil fuel companies» pockets!

Not exact matches

The signers of Monday's letter also argue that any of the fund's gains from such companies are zeroed out by the tens of billions of dollars spent each year to combat public health problems associated with fossil fuels.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

Unlike Governor Cuomo, they have both gone out of their way to take positive steps on climate change; A.G. Schneiderman by issuing a report detailing the need to address climate change at the state level, Comptroller DiNapoli by effectively pressing the world's largest fossil fuel companies to disclose how their business plans fare in a low - carbon future.»

But by putting the targets into law and mandating a set of regulations — including requiring 35 percent of the country's electricity to come from clean sources by 2024; establishing a voluntary carbon market; developing incentives to promote renewable energy; phasing out fossil fuel subsidies; and forcing companies in the largest carbon polluting sectors to report their emissions — they said the results could be groundbreaking.

If Mr. KIA were writing back in the early 1900s, he'd be decrying those same fossil fuel companies as having put all the whalers and blacksmiths out of business.

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).

It's about time somebody pointed out that fossil fuel companies» disinformation campaigns are known to be full of lies by the ones who ordered them.

People need to take action out of necessity to stop the damage caused by fossil fuel companies to their islands, cultures and environments.

Is it actually Chevron turning out the «fossil fuel industry denial light» about the certainty of man - caused global warming, or is it one solitary unmistakably pro-global warming lawyer nudging an entire company into the most inexplicable kind of politically correct appeasement to enviro - activists?

A script pulled out the direct fossil fuel investments using the Carbon Underground 200 that identifies the top 100 public coal companies globally and the top 100 public oil and gas companies globally, ranked by the potential carbon emissions content of their proven reserves.

Myself, I've been trying valiantly to point out how we don't have fossil fuel companies & skeptics planting unneeded doubt about AGW, but instead how have the opposite: enviro - activists working non-stop to plant doubt about the motives of skeptics.

If there are companies — whether utilities or fossil fuel companies — committing fraud in an effort to maximize their short - term profit at the expense of the people we represent, we want to find out about it and want to expose it and we want to pursue them to the fullest extent of the law, prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.

All those who make use of goods and services that involve the use of fossil fuels are helping to keep the fossil fuel companies in business Without their money the fossil fuel companies would go out of business.

The scientists pointed out that the company still supported, for instance, the American Enterprise Institute, whose fellow, Jonah Goldberg, falsely told Fox News in 2014 that it was «utterly fraudulent» that 97 percent of scientists actively doing research into climate change back the theory that it is driven by human activity, mostly fossil fuel use.

One of the reasons the world is now running out of time to prevent dangerous climate change is because fossil fuel companies and their allies in the US Congress has prevented the United States from taking serious action on climate change since 1992 when the George H. W Bush administration agreed in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that the United States should adopt policies and measures to prevent dangerous anthropocentric interference on climate change on the basis of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities.

But states often serve as laboratories of democracy, and a successful carbon tax in Massachusetts could help to broaden support for a national or even global carbon pricing system — if powerful fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil get out of the way.

By generating our own solar energy we can keep money, which would normally would have been sent out of state to support large fossil fuels companies, in the state or in our pockets.

«If there are companies — whether utilities or fossil fuel companies — committing fraud in an effort to maximize their short - term profit at the expense of the people we represent,» he continued, «we want to find out about it and want to expose it and we want to pursue them to the fullest extent of the law, prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.»

Jeremy Grantham, a billionaire fund manager who oversees $ 106bn of assets, said his company was on the verge of pulling out of all coal and unconventional fossil fuels, such as oil from tar sands.

What I really can not figure out though is where this hatred of fossil fuel and car companies has come from.

Also on the menu is the establishment of locally - owned utility companies, the right to community buy - outs of renewables projects on large estates and a «managed transition» that will result in fossil fuel jobs shifting into «renewables and associated industries».

Instead, you build a wall between that information and the public, built entirely out of a very powerful emotion: anger, toward «denier scientists» who shill for fossil fuel companies in a massive, sinister disinformation campaign.

Facebook: Homegrown clean energy projects mean more jobs & revenues stay in North Carolina — and less money flows to out - of - state fossil fuel companies

LONDON, 26 June, 2017 — In a furious argument that can only leave the lay observer blinking, two sets of academics have parted company over the future of US energy: how actually to achieve a fossil fuel phase - out.

The article is published as part of the newspaper's Keep it in the Ground campaign against fossil fuel companies, encouraging big capital investors to move their interests out of brown energy — «divestment».

So fossil fuel reform seems to be a case of simple political will: government can use other forms of subsidy to ensure social cohesion, companies want a free market, and politicians — certainly the ones with loud voices in the USA — want government out of the subsidy business.

But can't we all agree that the multi-billion dollar transnational companies that profited from taking the fossil fuels that cause climate change out of the ground are more responsible than individual consumers — and have a greater responsibility to help sort this out?