Sentences with phrase «with dirty fossil fuels»

Up to this point, California has met this challenge by backing up clean resources with dirty fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

Will the Cuomo administration commit to continued dirty, dangerous, climate destroying fossil fuel energy, that further endangers communities with risks of explosion and fire, and provides few jobs?

Nuclear is absolutely needed not just to stop the hand - wringing over climate change but to free mankind from the erstwhile shackles of fossil fuels, which by comparison, is dirty, expensive, inefficient, dangerous to mine, transport, and refine, and fraught with geopolitical dangers and uncertainties.

Furthermore, powerful actors with vested interests in fossil fuels are working to remove the incentives for wind power that has made it competitive with the dirty energy sector that enjoys billions of dollars in subsidies.

The campaign launched last week with a letter demanding that Brown halt the development of all new dirty fuel projects in California, create a plan to phase out all fossil fuel extraction as quickly as possible and provide support and opportunities for those most impacted by the transition.

What: Activists will greet Gov. Brown with banners outside his scheduled appearance at the National Press Club to demand an end to new fossil fuel projects in California and a plan to phase out the state's dirty fuel extraction.

Like the airline bringing in a truck with a more powerful engine to tow that plane, the global economy is upping the ante from conventional sources of fossil fuels to even dirtier and more dangerous versions — bitumen from the Alberta tar sands, oil from deepwater drilling, gas from hydraulic fracturing (fracking), coal from detonated mountains, and so on.

In spite of its climate - friendly rhetoric, the WBG continues to disproportionately fund dirty energy projects within its core energy portfolio, with nearly half of energy lending — more than US$ 15 billion — going to fossil fuels in the last four years.

Ms. Browner, a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, was charged with directing the administrationâ $ ™ s effort to enact comprehensive legislation to reduce emissions of climate - altering gases and moving the country away from a dependence on dirty - burning fossil fuels.

Though all of these forms of renewable energy come with a cost, all are superior to dirty fossil fuels and all have a place in the future of meeting the world's electricity needs.

Milloy, who actually calls himself the «junk man» with no apparent sense of irony, is a denier - for - hire who happily takes money from tobacco interests, chemical interests and of course fossil fuel interests to do their dirty work, attacking seemingly any scientist whose findings threaten their financial bottom line.

Instead, developing countries desperately need to replace such primitive and dirty fuels with electricity, the most affordable sources of which are fossil fuels.

If President Obama chooses the dirty needle (approves the Keystone XL pipeline) it is game over (for the earth's climate) because it will confirm that Obama was just greenwashing, like the other well — oiled coal — fired politicians with no real intention of solving the addiction (of fossil fuels).

And those benefits don't even include the sizeable public health gains that result from when we replace dirty fossil fuel power with clean, renewable energy.

With the Senate set to consider these nominees, their approval could allow Ex-Im to spend hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars on dirty fossil fuel projects overseas.

Catalyze immediate, urgent and drastic emission reductions: «In line with what science and equity require, deliver urgent short - term actions, building towards a long - term goal that is agreed in Paris, that shift us away from dirty energy, marking the beginning of the end of fossil fuels globally, and that keep the global temperature goal in reach.»

The CFS will help clean up our transporation fuel use over time by replacing dirty petroleum with locally produced clean fuels including clean electricity, renewable fossil gas and sustainable biofuels.

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Cheaper and cheaper renewables along with the increasingly successful fossil fuel divestment campaign (which largely targets coal for being the dirtiest of all the fossil fuels) means the industry has had to reimagine itself.

Professor Edenhofer said: «It is a dirty lie that CO2 emissions from fossil fuels have so far come with no cost — they cost us human health, damage to our climate, and billions of dollars in subsidies worldwide.

With the Trump Administration rolling back climate protections, expanding fossil fuel development, ramming through dirty infrastructure, and withdrawing the U.S. from its commitments to the Paris Climate Agreement, the People's Delegation and the organizations involved are taking action to protect communities and isolate the Administration by demanding a fossil free future and real climate action on the local level.

We have to choose clean energy alternatives to dirty fossil fuels and work together in our communities and with activists around the world to cut greenhouse gas emissions at every turn.

Biomass is a very «dirty» fuel (lots of complicated carbon chains, some of them long and not easily burned) that is difficult to combust cleanly and as a result particulate emissions are orders of magnitude greater than with many fossil fuels.

SO, climate theory obsessed politicians blow up and decommission baseload «dirty» fossil - fuel power stations, to stop bad weather, and replace them with «dirty» fossil - fuel diesel generators to stop blackouts!

From the «Could» a, would» a, should» a» Comment Department: we might note that it was by using a classic interference with the market that the fossil fuel industry promoted dirty fuels — it worked to hide the true cost accounting of coal and all carbon fuels - and even funded the political suppression of clean energy — wind and solar.

Activists will greet Gov. Brown with banners outside his scheduled appearance at the National Press Club to demand an end to new fossil fuel projects in California and a plan to phase out the state's dirty fuel extraction.

In South America, the vision of a clean energy economy is starting to come to life as countries like Chile are seeing the reality of the climate crisis and choosing bold policy solutions, replacing dirty fossil fuels with wind, solar, and geothermal at every turn.

In this hour, we'll explore how India can choose — and is choosing — to shift from a fossil fuel path to sustainable development, witnessing leadership in action from the country's role in the International Solar Alliance to its efforts to replace the dirty conventional cars polluting its cities with 6 - 7 million electric and hybrid vehicles by 2020.

While there's a ecological footprint associated with solar cells, it's usually offset by the fact that you're not using fossil fuel - generated dirty power to charge up your gear.

Not only does Amazon's reliance on fossil fuels mean shopping on their own ecommerce site is dirtier than it needs to be, but because Amazon Web Services provide hosting to a huge number of major web players including Netflix and Pinterest, Amazon's own failings mean the rest of the internet is being dragged down with it.

This time last year, I was standing at a petrol station in Canada filling my V8 Mustang with 60 litres of dirty fossil fuel.

and the tech getting better, the day isn't far off when solar will be truly competitive with dirtier energy (Italy's solar industry is projected to be ready to compete on its own as soon as next year, thanks to that nation's abundant sunlight and reliance on imported fossil fuels).

«However, even with the most rigorous methane controls and monitoring in place, we will still fall short of what is needed to fight climate disruption if we do not reduce our reliance on these dirty fossil fuels.»

We at Earthjustice have joined with community groups from Arctic Alaska to the mountains of Appalachia to stop the extraction of dirty and dangerous fossil fuels.