Sentences with phrase «taking fossil fuel industry»
Some of the papers cited by the IPCC predate the Harvard Smithsonian Center involvement, but Soon's long history of taking fossil fuel industry money is well established.
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According to a recent private report seen by Newsweek from the multinational banking and financial firm HSBC, «The speed of the collapse in energy prices over the past three quarters has taken the fossil fuel industry by surprise.»
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New York City is taking on the oil industry on two fronts, announcing a lawsuit Wednesday that blames the top five oil companies for contributing to global warming and saying the city will sell off billions in fossil fuel investments from the city's...
«We have a Congressman who was at one time a lobbyist for the fossil fuel industry who is not equipped to take this fight to the halls of Congress.»
Fossil fuel industries collect some $ 4 billion a year in tax breaks and other aid, reports Taxpayers for Common Sense, a group of nonpartisan budget watchdogs — and that figure doesn't even take into account hidden forms of support, such as the Pentagon's jet aircraft research and development that led to efficient new natural gas turbines.
«It takes 77 million years to make fossil fuels and 45 minutes to use as a coffee cup,» says Cereplast's Scheer, noting that his industry can use the residue of government - mandated production of biofuels, such as ethanol from corn.
So, if Inhofe lets money dictate his policies, what does it mean that the top three contributors to his campaign are dirty energy companies (Koch industries being # 1), or that he has taken well over $ 1 million from the fossil fuel industry since 1999?
Now that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are no longer around to run the Executive Branch as a wholly - owned subsidiary of ExxonMobil, Chevron, et al, and the Obama administration and the Congress are moving to take action — however inadequate — to reduce emissions, the fossil fuel industry's campaign of denial and deceit will kick into overdrive, with the goal of undermining public support for the necessary action.
As far as I can tell, he has made a point of avoiding associations with the main body of scepticism, nor has he taken money from the fossil fuel industry or the Scaife crowd.
That's what it takes to be the Energy Company of the Year, as far as the fossil fuels industry is concerned.
The transition away from fossil fuels will take some time, but over the last year and a half, we have already taken unprecedented action to jumpstart the clean energy industry.
From South Africa to Mexico, Bangladesh to Benin, and Bulgaria, people are showing commitment to taking on the fossil fuel industry.
Moniz is already taking heat from some environmental campaigners for his work directing the M.I.T. Energy Initiative, which — like many university energy and climate research hubs — receives ample funding from industries selling or dependent on fossil fuels.
I don't want to throw out the baby with the bath water by just taking on the fossil fuel industry.
The New York Times took the lead by reporting that Soon received many donations from the fossil fuel industry, which they believe constitutes a conflict of interest.
How do you take on a growing popular movement that's figured out the link between the fossil fuel industry and the destruction of our planet?
You can also help Stop and Ban the fossil fuel industry where you live using the gofossilfree platform, and take action with others globally on 8 September.
Despite Washington's newfound green enthusiasm, industry executives argue that replacing any significant part of the fossil fuel business will take decades, at best.
Considering that at least 43 % of the letter's signatories have received money from the fossil fuel industry, being given large sums of money just for being climate «skeptics» and publishing error - riddled nonsense like this op - ed, the sheer nerve it must have taken to make this «follow the money» argument is astounding.
Earthjustice attorney, on the lawsuit to force EPA to take action to better regulate pollution from the fossil fuel industry.
We've crossed this epic milestone just weeks ahead of the Global Divestment Mobilisation, when people all over the world will be taking action to highlight the moral urgency of cutting ties with the fossil fuel industry and pushing their institutions to divest.
Senator Sanders: «What are you guys doing — what role can you play in taking on the fossil fuel industry?»
Our local councils invest over # 14 billion in the fossil fuel industry, but already there are nearly 50 local groups and campaigns taking action to divest local government, with more springing up every month.
Every year the GCP provides an estimate of the global carbon budget, which estimates both the release and uptake of carbon including emissions from fossil fuels and industry, emissions from land - use changes, carbon taken up by the oceans and land, and changes in atmospheric concentrations of CO2.
The global fossil fuel industry faces a loss of $ 28 trillion in revenues over the next two decades, if the world takes action to address climate change, cleans up pollution and moves to decarbonise the global energy system, according to European broking house Kepler Chevreux.
Take astronomer Willie Soon, who's had $ 1 million from the fossil fuel and energy industries, and was already conspiring in 2003 to attack IPCC AR4 WG1 four years prior to publication.
Records reveal that, following requests by fossil fuel industry groups, a top official at the Department of the Interior appeared to take credit for helping to delay new federal protections for a once - endangered species.
So, if Inhofe lets money dictate his policies, what does it mean that the top three contributors to his campaign are dirty energy companies (Koch industries being # 1), or that he has taken well over $ 1 million from the fossil fuel industry since 1999?
The way to read this letter is that it is the fossil fuel industry that is trying to short - circuit the decisionmaking process by taking the science out of it, and basically getting Congress to oppose any carbon - related policies.
Among those who have taken some interest in addressing climate change, there have over the last decade or so been discussions about whether a focus on curtailing the activities of the fossil fuel industries or a focus on reducing demand for fossil fuels is the right single or leading method to move society into a transition away from fossil energy.
Following recent floods, Paris may follow in the footsteps of New York in taking on the fossil fuel industry.
The billions spent by the fossil fuel industry to capture, refine, and distribute fossil fuels, and the billions in profit they take back in return, comprise that «BIG money» that spent on the «CAGW side.»
In my opinion, it would take a wholesale rebellion by energy investors through the necessary act of divestment in fossil fuel industries and reinvestment in renewables to achieve this goal — first by sapping the political power of the agencies that keep putting people like Trump into office and also by removing capital for current and future projects.
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If the fossil fuel industry gets its way, there will be at least four major new fracked gas pipeline projects criss - crossing the Blue Ridge and Appalachian regions of Virginia and West Virginia — endangering our forests and farmlands, the communities living along their routes, and taking us backward in our fight to stop climate change.
The witch - hunting obsessions of the climate cult took them into the realm of total absurdity with March's «Open Letter to Museums From Members of the Scientific Community,» which called upon museum administrators to begin refusing donations from the evil fossil - fuel industry.
But it remains to be seen what action Congress might take to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for delaying policy solutions and confusing the public on this critical issue.
Religious leaders called on faith communities to take concrete action against the fossil fuel industry through divestment, as a way to «put the money where our mouth is.»
Pielke is one of seven academics under Grijalva's investigation for allegedly taking money from the fossil fuels industry in exchange for research.
On global warming, it was naturally the fossil - fuel industries that took the lead.
From seeing the cabinet stacked with friends of the fossil fuel industry to listening to the president announce US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement to watching the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency try to roll back the Clean Power Plan, we took some big hits in the past 12 months.
The findings suggest the most polluting industries had started fighting climate change before President Donald Trump took office and signaled he'd back out of U.S. participation in the Paris accord on limiting fossil fuel emissions.
«Because the government is sort of in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry and you have a core of climate deniers that threaten the prime minister's leadership, there's a political imperative to not take serious action on climate change,» says Dr Casule.
Imagine fossil fuel companies taking responsibility for their CO2 emissions and imagine the beef industry taking that CO2 and storing it in the soil, where it enables the production of more food, on less land, for less money, using less water.
The fossil fuel divestment movement recognizes that as well, and argues that by taking money away from polluting industries and redirecting it toward renewables, then businesses, universities and non-profits can help jump - start the energy revolution.
He came up in Oklahoma conservative politics, where alliance with fossil fuel industries and hostility toward federal regulators are taken for granted and the only serious political threat is from the right.
The conversation about investing and the fossil fuel industries has taken a dramatic turn in recent months.
Clearly all subsidies of whatever type must be removed from fossil fuel and transferred to renewables and energy storage and a huge program must be put in place to re-train people put out of work in the fossil fuel industry to take their place in the renewable energy field.
Needless to say this has been deeply disturbing to an «ordinary Joe» (with 5 grandchildren) who has made an effort to understand the science and the politics that underlie the climate change «debate», especially since my country has become such an important player in the fossil fuel business with its tarsands and pipeline industries that affect us all, so I've tried to find out more about Judith Curry's recent contributions to the debate, not so much the hair - splitting, angels on the head of a pin, esoteric dissections of graphs and stats that I see here on your website but the ethical stance that you take on the larger issue of «killing» the IPCC and all it represents.
«In the face of that failure, more and more regular people are stepping up to take direct action to resist the imminent threat of the fossil fuel industry.»