Sentences with phrase «tank clean energy»

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Said Ed Whittingham of the clean energy think - tank the Pembina Institute: «I think the world needs more of this kind of leadership.»

«We would agree that Alberta's historic focus on maximizing oilsands production... rather than optimizing production on the highest quality ore may be having unnecessary environmental impacts on things like greenhouse gas intensity and tailings production and lowering returns to Albertans as the owners of the resource,» said Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute, a clean energy think - tank.

Sales frozen by protectionism «Chinese cities show a strong protectionism when it comes to buying clean cars,» said An Feng, executive director at the Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation, a China - focused think tank based in Los Angeles.

Friedman: Well, it -LSB-'s] precisely because — and again [this] goes back to the thesis — in a world that is hot, flat, and crowded, clean power, clean technology, the ability to have your energy in both the clean form where you know the cost of your power and you can control that much better; that's going to be a source of power generally and that's going to be a currency of power, every bit Is [as] much as tanks, planes, and nuclear missiles have been during the cold war.

CLIMATE CHANGE Hasn't discussed Walker has not yet addressed his feelings on climate change specifically, but he has never been a fan of laws promoting clean energy, and he's been associated with the Heartland Institute, a climate change - denying think tank.

As we detailed in our report «Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine,» oil billionaires David and Charles Koch have become kingpins of climate denial, funneling tens of millions of dollars to front groups and think tanks that oppose climate and clean energy policies.

While the EPA touts the diesel engine on the Chevy Cruze Clean Turbo gets 46 miles to the gallon, approximately 710 miles distance on one tank, an energy engineer for General Motors states she traveled 900 miles on just one tank of diesel.

A recent scorecard by a think tank that proclaimed Minnesota's community solar program to be the best in the nation says the state is missing out on other opportunities to help residents and communities access clean energy.

But the Koch Brothers continue to use their oil wealth to fund campaigns, front groups, think tanks, and politicians to sabotage climate and clean energy policies.

The most recent records available document that the Kochtopus dished out $ 6.4 million in 2009 to front groups and think tanks that spread inaccurate and misleading information about climate science and clean energy policies.

According to the Pembina Institute, a Canadian non-profit think tank that advances clean energy solutions, «95 % of woodland caribou habitat in northeastern Alberta is to be lost in order to promote oil sands development.»

As we detailed in our report «Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine,» oil billionaires David and Charles Koch have become kingpins of climate denial, funneling tens of millions of dollars to front groups and think tanks that oppose climate and clean energy policies.

She has also worked in international development, including for REEEP — Investing in Clean Energy Markets, and is currently at the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit, a London - based think tank.

Clean energy finance is increasing according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a think tank, with «over half of all new annual investment in emerging markets&renergy finance is increasing according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a think tank, with «over half of all new annual investment in emerging markets&rEnergy Finance, a think tank, with «over half of all new annual investment in emerging markets».

«If the president vetoes the pipeline or prevents the pipeline from happening, it will confirm that he is moving forward with his agenda of growing the economy through investments in clean energy rather than dirty energy,» said Daniel Weiss, a senior fellow at the American Progress, a progressive think tank in Washington.

The goal of this campaign, which began around the time of the first Kyoto Protocol negotiations, was to assemble a group of like - minded «free - market» think tanks and pseudo-science experts that would call into question the scientific research on climate change, create doubt in the minds of the public and politicians, and effectively delay the introduction of clean energy policies in the United States and elsewhere.

The Kansas Policy Institute (KPI) has been the central coordinating think tank within Kansas as outside interests have backed ALEC's attack clean energy laws.

Before joining NRDC, she served as the U.S. policy director for the Pembina Institute, a Canadian clean energy think tank.

A group of Democratic state attorneys general calling themselves «AGs United for Clean Energy» have mounted a vicious campaign of RICO investigations — RICO is a racketeering law — specifically targeting Exxon and climate skeptic think tanks.

The Koch brothers, their family members, and their employees direct a web of financing that supports conservative special interest groups and think - tanks, with a strong focus on fighting environmental regulation, opposing clean energy legislation, and easing limits on industrial pollution.

It's still probably going to be much better to make a battery once and then use it for years with progressively cleaner electricity (as the grid incorporates more and more renewable energy) rather than fill up a gas tank with non-renewable fossil fuels from halfway around the world every week, but even in that scenario, it's going to be better if we can get the lithium cleanly and close to where we'll use it.

Climate expert Fahad Saeed, who heads the Climate Change Unit at the Islamabad - based think tank Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), said it could be a good time for Pakistan to invest in clean energy by tapping intelligently into the international funding available and demanding technology transfer or investment from the USD 100 billion figure per year earmarked for the Green Climate Fund by 2020.