Fossil fuel money: Biden plans to sign the "no fossil fuel money" pledge on contributions.
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Countries around the Gulf subsidized fossil fuel consumption by around $200 billion in 2014, and accounted for 40 percent of all fossil fuel subsidies worldwide ("Fossil Fuel Subsidies Database", IEA, 2015).
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Even if you and everyone you know cut personal fossil fuel use — even if everyone in America did it — it wouldn't turn those rising fossil fuel lines into falling fossil fuel lines.
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Stop pouring money into fossil-fuel companiesFirst, financiers must act boldly to stop financing the expansion of fossil-fuel extraction and infrastructure and should commit to phasing out fossil-fuel financing altogether.
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President Obama openly boasted about increasing US fossil fuel production, fossil fuel exports, and low gasoline prices.
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Ozone is a byproduct of fossil fuel pollutants, so reducing concentrations would likely mean reducing fossil fuel use.
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It's a byproduct of burning fossil fuel, so attempts to reduce ozone usually involve reducing fossil fuel use.
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Moratorium on new major fossil-fuel projects, banning fracking, ending fossil-fuel subsidies, low-income weatherization and retrofit assistance.
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A just transition means ensuring that fossil fuel workers and fossil fuel-dependent communities are treated with dignity and respect.
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" It also does not demonize the fossil fuel industry, though it does call for "stopping new fossil fuel leases" on public lands and ending "the tens of billions of dollars of tax breaks currently given to fossil fuel companies.
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A fossil fuel subsidy is any government policy that lowers the cost of fossil fuel production, raises prices received by producers, or lowers prices paid by consumers: they can consist of tax breaks and direct funding for fossil fuel companies.
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Canada's fossil fuel subsidies also undermine the purpose of carbon pricing, meant to discourage investments in producing more fossil fuel, according to Touchette.
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However, its own subsidies to fossil fuel producers undercut its ability to convince major developing economies to roll back their fossil fuel subsidies.
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They also noted it could be addressed by reducing fossil fuel use, meaning that fossil fuel reserves might one day become stranded assets.
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"He's not a fossil fuel executive," Biden said, adding that he supports suing the fossil fuel industry over its contributions to climate change.
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Examples include students pushing their universities to divest from fossil fuel companies, mothers lobbying for statewide access to clean energy, doctors raising public awareness, children suing the government and fossil fuel companies over intergenerational injustice, and frontline communities blocking fossil fuel expansion.
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"Gas is a fossil fuel but it's in the best place of the fossil fuel if you compare to coal and oil," Flowers added.
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It is naive to think that we can "feed the world" forever using fossil fuel dependent means and increasingly toxic fossil fuel-based chemicals.
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DNC VOTES TO REJECT FOSSIL FUEL COMPANY DONATIONS: The Democratic party's main fundraising arm will no longer accept campaign donations from fossil fuel companies.
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He'd doused himself in fossil fuel to protest fossil fuel use, after leaving a suicide note nearby and emailing a copy to this newspaper.
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Clean energy and anti-fossil fuel state ballot initiatives got crushed by fossil fuel money this year, including a carbon tax in Washington state.
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The demonstrators also wanted to press Congress to put an end to fossil fuel exploration and to "phase out" fossil fuel infrastructure, said Ms. Fonda, who added that it was feasible to find fossil fuel industry workers comparable paying jobs in the renewable energy sector.
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It is only around 210 that displacement of fossil fuel energy by zero-carbon energy takes over as the dominant driver of fossil fuel reductions.
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Biden has signed the No Fossil Fuel Pledge, an agreement that his campaign would not accept donations from the fossil fuel industry or its executives.
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On a related note, environmentalists and fossil-fuel executives alike are watching to see whether the pressure to divest from fossil-fuel companies picks up steam.
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On pursuing polluters, Harris pledges she will end federal subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, including eliminating tax preferences and opposing new fossil fuel infrastructure projects.
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Strained nautical analogy aside, the meaning could not be more clear: Zinke is telling fossil fuel executives that the fossil-fuel team has captured an enemy vessel.
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Fossil-fuel machinations on Wall Street A record number of investors in 2017 pressured fossil-fuel companies to reveal how climate change could hit their bottom lines.
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His conflicts of interests are certainly worse: Pruitt may have worked closely with the fossil fuel industry before taking office, but Wheeler worked for the fossil fuel industry.
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"But addressing fossil fuel extraction and fossil fuel imports are what is separating real leaders on climate policy from those that are more in the middle," he added.
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Do not imagine that free markets are what sustain the fossil fuel industry either: at least 12 of the world's 20 largest fossil fuel companies are state owned.
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The plan also calls for a series of strict reforms that aim to "accelerate the end of the use of fossil fuels," including ending tax subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, "barring all new onshore or offshore fossil fuel leases" and banning the creation of new fossil fuel infrastructure after 2025.
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We need to divest from fossil fuel stocks, go after the banks that loan to new fossil fuel businesses, and convince cities and states to move towards renewable energy.
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Journalist and podcaster Amy Westervelt explains this history of fossil fuel PR in the third season of "Drilled," her climate accountability podcast that counters fossil fuel messaging with storytelling.
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You see that kind of thinking come up all the time, not just in fossil fuel stuff but also across industries, but it comes from the fossil fuel guys.
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They get showered in praise for small steps to reduce fossil fuel consumption while they turn a blind eye to the other side of the equation — fossil fuel extraction.
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Fossil fuel financing: Citi financed or backed fossil-fuel-related deals amounting to about $129 billion between 953 and 2018, per BankTrack, averaging to about $43 billion per year.
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Fossil fuel financing: Goldman Sachs financed or backed fossil-fuel-related deals amounting to $59 billion between 2016 and 2018, per BankTrack, averaging to about $20 billion per year.
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Among her promises: reversing Mr. Trump's pro-fossil-fuel policies by executive order, banning new fossil fuel leases on public lands, and introducing "100% Clean Energy for America" legislation.
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Airlines should improve flight routes and airplane designs to cut emissions, banks should end funding fossil fuel projects, and the already subsidized fossil fuel industry should not get financial support.
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Fossil fuel financing: Morgan Stanley financed or backed fossil-fuel-related deals amounting to nearly $20063 billion between 2016 and 2018, per BankTrack, averaging to about $22 billion per year.
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In the past few years, even as fossil fuel prices have declined, world investments in clean energy, chiefly wind and solar, have reached levels that are double those for fossil fuel.
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Prioritize fossil fuel programs The proposal outlines how several government departments are focusing resources and time on fossil fuel programs, largely at the expense of renewable energy and climate change programs.
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Fossil fuel financing: Bank of America financed or backed fossil-fuel-related deals amounting to about $20073 billion between 2016 and 2018, per BankTrack, averaging to about $35 billion per year.
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Fossil fuel financing: Credit Suisse financed or backed fossil-fuel-related deals amounting to more than $57 billion between 2016 and 2018, per BankTrack, averaging to about $19 billion per year.
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Fossil fuel champions — including President Trump — denounced the tax.
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But Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill pointed to Sanders' own contributions from fossil fuel employees and took issue with the Sanders campaign conflating lobbyists and employees with the fossil fuel industry in general.
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He was the top recipient of fossil fuel dollars in the House in 2018 — the year he was running for Senate in Texas, which is the epicenter of the fossil fuel industry.
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What's happening right now is that fossil fuel companies are banking on these targets not being met so they can keep on extracting, selling and looking for more fossil fuel to extract.
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Without an obligation, these same companies have no incentive to make available fossil fuel products that blend with renewable fuels, because renewable fuels compete directly for market share with fossil fuel products.
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I can't swear off heating oil just yet, but I can support the fossil fuel divestment campaign, which has persuaded institutions worth $5.5 trillion to shed at least some fossil fuel investments.
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Over the same period that fossil fuel spending worldwide has steadily increased, though, the net value of energy being extracted from the fossil fuel resource base has declined by more than half.
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He wants to end fossil fuel subsidies but has not gone so far as to say fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay for efforts to stop climate change, like Sen.
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But that transition, once considered a bragging right in the environmental world, has become a liability to his campaign at a moment when the only acceptable fossil fuel is no fossil fuel.
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Fossil fuel financing: JPMorgan Chase financed or backed fossil-fuel-related deals amounting to more than $195 billion between 2016 and 2018, per BankTrack, averaging to more than $65 billion per year.
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In theory, cutting ties with fossil fuel companies stops them from benefiting from being associated with the names of prestigious universities and — if enough institutions divest — drains fossil fuel companies of resources.
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Fossil fuel financing: HSBC financed or backed fossil-fuel-related deals to the tune of about $58 billion between 2016 and 2018, according to BankTrack's report, averaging to about $19 billion per year.
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Remember, not only is Sanders a self-described democratic socialist but he is also calling to end all subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, ban fracking, and ultimately eliminate fossil fuel use altogether.
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Trump said American fossil fuel would make America great again.
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That money comes from individual employees of fossil fuel companies.
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The Rockefeller Brothers Fund used to invest in fossil fuel.
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Shielding fossil fuel companies from tort claims over their emissions.
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The leading candidates have called for ending fossil fuel subsidies.
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Leading cities like Copenhagen are going totally fossil fuel free.
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So will fossil fuel companies survive the coming climate revolution?
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So fossil fuel divestment can be a powerful advocacy tool?
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What they're saying: Fossil fuel divestment advocates cheered the move.
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This is especially true of the extractive fossil fuel industries.
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Governments and fossil fuel companies hold the power to change.
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Fossil fuel producers may resist efforts to slash emissions quickly.
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He demanded that regulations limiting fossil fuel production be revoked.
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I mean, I just don't like the fossil fuel stocks.
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He's admitted that it requires eradicating the fossil fuel industry.
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Shell's fossil fuel business dwarfs its clean energy operations today.
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The fossil fuel industry wants more from the Trump administration.
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The fossil fuel industry is currently worth nearly $18.5.2 trillion.
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A sustained fossil fuel decline would likely have political implications.
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Domestic fossil fuel production has only risen in recent years.
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Some fossil fuel companies have distanced themselves from these efforts.
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Rejection of all future permit applications for fossil fuel infrastructure?
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Fossil fuel champions — including President Trump — jumped on the issue.
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Workers in the fossil fuel industry are not my enemy.
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Banning fracking, new offshore leases, fossil fuel imports and exports.
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The fossil fuel exclusion has nothing to do with religion.
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One circle is CO2 policies that benefit fossil fuel companies.
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Fossil fuel is a lousy investment in the 21st century.
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Mr. Biden denied Mr. Goldman was a fossil fuel executive.
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Natural gas, a cleaner burning fossil fuel, is No. 1.
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Put simply, fossil fuel companies are in the penalty box.
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Regulations on fossil fuel companies and banks will be revived.
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Who wants to kill the fossil fuel industry for good?
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EXIM has rejected terrible fossil fuel projects in the past.
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Booker wants to end fossil fuel development on public lands.
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Yes, some AGU members work in the fossil fuel industry.
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God called on him to deregulate the fossil fuel industry.
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Coady also noted that there are other fossil fuel subsidies the IMF didn't consider at all, namely subsidies directly to fossil fuel producers, like tax credits or government research and development funding for extraction.
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Its intent, regardless of the legal merits, is to weaken or roll back as many regulations on fossil fuel companies as possible, so fossil fuel companies don't have much reason to sue any more.
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I'm a high school student and I think we desperately need more leaders like President Obama to take a stand against fossil fuel interests and to block all new fossil fuel infrastructure right now.
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International versions of a similar strategy, such as the SPDR MSCI EAFE Fossil Fuel Reserves Free () and SPDR MSCI Emerging Markets Fossil Fuel Reserves Free () ETFs, kick out carbon but are highly diversified portfolios.
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All the top Democratic presidential contenders, including Biden, have signed the "No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge," a commitment to reject contributions of more than $200 from fossil fuel executives, lobbyists and political action committees.
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Washington is still formally part of the Paris accord, which aims to end the fossil fuel era this century, even though Trump announced plans to quit last year and bolster the U.S. fossil fuel industry.
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Members of Ireland's Dail (Parliament) passed the Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill, which requires the fund to divest direct investments in fossil fuel undertakings within five years and not to make future investments in the industry.
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We know that it's urgent that the world breaks its ties with the fossil fuel industry because they are corrupting our politicians, they are blocking the energy transition by exploring new fossil fuel extraction processes.
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In 2014, they announced they would remove fossil fuel stocks from the portfolio of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and this month said they would remove fossil fuel stocks from their Rockefeller Family Fund as well.
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HOUSE SPENDING BILL BOOSTS FOSSIL FUEL RESEARCH: House Republicans are targeting a key part of President Obama's environmental agenda with a bill to give more money to federal fossil fuel research and less to renewables.
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Lost in the pursuit of emissions reductions, which involves either technology to reduce emissions from fossil fuel use or less fossil fuel use, has been attention to what the agreement means for the world's poor.
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If Mr. Morrison's government genuinely believed the science, it would immediately put a price on carbon, declare a moratorium on all new fossil fuel projects and transfer the fossil fuel subsidies to the renewables industries.
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The amount of money invested in U.S.-based fossil-fuel free funds — investments constructed to hold no stocks in the fossil fuel business — has reached $100 billion, according to shareholder advocacy group As You Sow.
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Sanders says Clinton owes him apology over fossil fuel spat Sen.
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Even fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil is campaigning for a carbon tax.
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The second piece is phasing out fossil fuel production more broadly.
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Nigeria, Brazil, and the Philippines also saw anti-fossil fuel protests.
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Coal, along with gasoline and other fossil fuel pollution, contribute significantly.
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Both Manchin and Heitkamp represent states with major fossil fuel interests.
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The fossil fuel corporations agree, demanding maximum access to preserved land.
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I believe we've got to take on the fossil fuel industry.
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The fossil fuel industry is facing heightened scrutiny on several fronts.
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Yet many of them continue to prop up fossil fuel industries.
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Cities going entirely fossil fuel–free in the next 13 years?
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We will raise penalties on pollution from fossil fuel energy generation.
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Ask your rep to take the no Fossil Fuel Sunrise Pledge.
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In fact, he wants to expand the use of fossil fuel.
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Big Oil Cambridge Analytica has other ties to fossil fuel interests.
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The paper doesn't include emissions from fossil fuel extraction and deforestation.
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The fossil-fuel industry says it is committed to the technology.
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The California cities aren't the only ones suing fossil fuel companies.
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Who's Who of America's most successful and most conservative fossil fuel
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These profligate users of fossil fuel — they need to take responsibility.
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We no longer assume that the fossil fuel companies are innocent.
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Think of it as detective work for the fossil fuel era.
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The tobacco and fossil fuel industries have been down this road.
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The way fossil fuel companies were avoiding royalties was deceptively simple.
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The world's 100,000 daily flights still stick to conventional fossil fuel.
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It did not estimate the value of their fossil fuel holdings.
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But fossil fuel produced energy is still the norm in 2017.
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Eleven of these insurers also continue to underwrite fossil fuel projects.
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The previous prime minister, Stephen Harper, was a fossil-fuel fan.
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"Every organization, every business, has a fossil fuel footprint," he said.
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Banks don't rely on high-polluting fossil fuel projects to survive.
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"We are heading towards a post-fossil (fuel) society," he said.
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Shareholders of fossil fuel companies are a good example of this.
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Even many fossil-fuel companies acknowledge the threat of climate change.
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Electric heating is far more expensive than the fossil-fuel sort.
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Republicans contend the legislation would make fossil fuel prices too high.
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CCS has support from Congressional, environmental and fossil fuel allies. Sens.
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Take the SPDR S&P 10 Fossil Fuel Reserves Free ETF ().
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Trump and the fossil-fuel industry have picked the wrong battle.
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Natural gas is consumed more flexibly than any other fossil fuel.
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The era of fossil fuel dominance will come to a close.
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Fracked oil, in particular, changed the contours of fossil fuel consumption.
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The country is also world's top exporter of the fossil fuel.
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The answer is the political power of the fossil fuel industry.
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Trump is about to meet the fossil fuel resistance head on.
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That outpaces the 70 gigawatts of fossil fuel generation capacity added.
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That's a trend proliferating within other publicly trading fossil-fuel companies.
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Stream protections and fossil fuel industry transparency rules have been guillotined.
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He has relaxed regulations for fossil fuel exploration and other industries.
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Unsurprisingly, Perry also has close ties to the fossil fuel industry.
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An end to federal leasing of land for fossil fuel production?
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That means fossil fuel use keeps growing to fill the gap.
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The fossil fuel industry plays an enormous role in Houston's economy.
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BRITAINS ZERO-CARBON POWER OUTSTRIPS FOSSIL FUEL IN 2019 NATIONAL GRID
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How was their protest related to the fossil fuel divestment movement?
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Cars, trucks, power plants, and fossil fuel operations all became regulated.
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Will fossil fuel companies be successful in the near-term future?
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For non–fossil fuel companies, the calculations are a bit different.
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Justine Calma: Microsoft is still doing business with fossil fuel companies.
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However, it will continue its work with the fossil fuel industry.
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However, fossil fuel subsidies have actually increased 22019 percent since 2009.
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And pipelines facilitate the generation of fossil fuels, fossil fuel energy.
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Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said about his fossil fuel amendment. Sen.
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They were just trying to get rid of fossil fuel usage.
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This switch will mean the loss of fossil fuel-related jobs.
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He could commit to rejecting permits for new fossil fuel infrastructure.
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Do your retirement funds or other investments include fossil-fuel companies?
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So I had to pipe another fossil fuel into my house.
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Pruitt has long kept close ties to the fossil fuel industry.
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The fossil-fuel and renewable energy programs would be abolished entirely.
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For the state's fossil fuel industries, that battle would be existential.
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Cramer has accepted $343,000 in campaign financing from fossil fuel lobbyists.
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It will require organizing and advocacy to overcome fossil fuel resistance.
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These prices are less than the existing price of fossil-fuel derived power in Hawaii (15 cents/kWh), and would dramatically undercut the cost of fossil fuel power in Puerto Rico, which exceeds (20 cents/kWh).
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BP has made four fossil fuel discoveries in 2017 in Trinidad, Egypt and off Senegal, all of which were gas and which the company said were part of a strategic shift to less polluting fossil fuel.
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Universities and institutional shareholders like pensions and church endowments are being pressed to sell their stock in fossil-fuel companies, to fight projects like the Keystone XL pipeline and to disrupt construction of fossil-fuel facilities.
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According to the OECD definition of a fossil fuel subsidy - which includes direct expenditures by governments, foregone tax revenues and other concessions - Britain's fossil fuel support amounted to around 10 billion pounds ($13 billion) a year.
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Indirect fossil fuel subsidies - including things like costs to health systems from air pollution and fossil fuel spill cleanups - were estimated at $5.2 trillion a year in 2017, according to an International Monetary Fund working report.
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When companies like Exxon, Shell and BP invest in extracting more fossil fuel out of the ground, they lock us into high-carbon infrastructure, and that drives more fossil fuel consumption — exactly what these companies want.
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And we've seen firsthand how fossil fuel divestment has helped to reframe the climate narrative from a technocratic problem about greenhouse gases to a moral one about fossil fuel production, climate denial, and social and intergenerational justice.
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Just days after selecting Scott Pruitt—an attorney general whose pockets have been lined by the fossil fuel industry—to head up the Environmental Protection Agency, Trump has beefed up his roster of pro-fossil fuel personalities.
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The fossil fuel industry is still setting the terms of the debate, so as well as keeping fossil fuels in the ground, activists also call for the fossil fuel industry to be kicked out of the talks.
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G7 Fossil Fuel Subsidy Scorecard ranks countries on their transparency, commitments, and progress made on ending support for the production and use of oil, gas, and coal despite repeated pledges to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2025.
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Fossil fuel and utility interests contributed handsomely to DeWine's campaign for governor.
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"It shows the tide is turning against fossil fuel producers," she said.
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Some countries are already taking steps to shut off fossil fuel power.
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The persistence of fossil fuel subsidies is an embarrassment to the species.
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He, along with his brother Charles, ran fossil-fuel conglomerate Koch Industries.
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We will spend $100 billion on fossil fuel well and mine cleanup.
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However, big fossil-fuel producers such as Alberta sat on their hands.
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Fossil fuel and nuclear power plants only come in one increment: big.
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Like: scrapping the $500 billion per year in global fossil fuel subsidies.
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EVs already offer cheaper fueling costs than typical fossil fuel-powered vehicles.
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But since it's a fossil fuel, it still produces heat-trapping emissions.
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It's a top priority for his supporters in the fossil-fuel industry.
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Overall, it expects non-fossil fuel to grow by around 6.5 percent.
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So what's up with that little wink at the fossil fuel industry?
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It was telling that the fossil fuel industry argued right alongside him.
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Florida has vanished; a second civil war erupts over fossil-fuel usage.
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Many contenders have also pledged to refuse money from fossil fuel interests.
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It's got the potential really to bring down the fossil fuel companies.
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Broadly considered, the costs of fossil fuel projects often outweigh their benefits.
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Those bids were logged by fossil fuel companies before the auction started.
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It's a function of globalization and fossil fuel reliance around the world.
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Yes, but so are all other fossil fuel users around the globe.
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" Canadian Natural Resources: "I'm not recommending any fossil fuel stocks here. None.
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"Chemically speaking, it should be almost identical to fossil fuel," he said.
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The move drew praise from fossil fuel groups but criticism from others.
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Falling costs have enabled solar to compete with fossil fuel-generated power.
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This is about more than President-elect Trump or fossil fuel profits.
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Further reading: Have we hit "the end of the fossil fuel era"?
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He aims to open federal lands and ocean for fossil fuel extraction.
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"Oil is a dangerous fossil fuel at all levels," said Coplon-Newfield.
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Nobody, aside from fossil fuel executives and donors, is demanding these things.
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As the planet shifts to non-fossil-fuel energy — as it must!
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Not surprisingly, Initiative 85033 is fiercely opposed by the fossil fuel industry.
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It's in part due to coal being the most polluting fossil fuel.
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We need to replace fossil fuel energy with renewable energy sources, e.g.
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CopenHill also produces a lot less energy than fossil-fuel power plants.
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It is a byproduct of various pollutants caused by fossil fuel burning.
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Those rules could even include a ban on fossil fuel–based engines.
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Fossil fuel companies and their allies generally ridicule the comparison to tobacco.
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Across the US, activists will target six areas of fossil fuel development.
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IEA's outlook still leaves plenty of room for fossil fuel-powered vehicles.
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One undeniable obstacle will be intense resistance from the fossil fuel lobby.
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So the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge isn't very costly for Democrats.
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Funding transitions and job creation for all fossil-fuel industry workers & communities.
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The harmful consequences of fossil fuel companies' stalling tactics are already visible.
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It is amoral to continue with pro-fossil fuel policies in 2017.
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That's the equivalent of building five standard fossil-fuel power stations annually.
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APChina announced plans to end sales of all fossil fuel-powered cars.
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Until then, he is just a shill for the fossil fuel industry.
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This includes, most obviously, any emissions of CO2 from fossil fuel activity.
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I do think that ending fossil fuel subsidies is the easiest thing.
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The checking account provides 1 percent interest and is fossil fuel free.
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Zinke also supports additional fossil fuel development on public lands and waters.
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The fossil-fuel lobbyists advising Mr. Trump have no interest in that.
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They could start by getting rid of those damn fossil fuel subsidies.
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That hurt the Chinese economy and fossil fuel consumption in both years.
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And like all fossil fuel infrastructure, natural gas facilities are potentially dangerous.
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To date, 21 candidates have signed a "no fossil fuel money" pledge.
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We see political representatives bought and sold by the fossil fuel industry.
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He would end all leases for fossil fuel extraction on federal lands.
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But fossil fuel interests are also sending checks directly to her campaign.
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"I can tell you it's not the fossil fuel industry," he said.
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They are likelier to get sick from living near fossil fuel production.
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Without drastic reductions in fossil fuel use, the entire nation will drown.
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When it comes to fossil fuel production, the disruptions are particularly serious.
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The fossil fuel industry is now the equivalent of the tobacco industry.
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Cramer's comments followed , when he compared fossil fuel stocks to tobacco companies.
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The tech magnate is getting serious about reducing its fossil fuel dependence.
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The report lays much blame on governments' generosity to fossil-fuel industries.
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Harvard has refused to eliminate its investments in the fossil fuel industry.
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JP Morgan Chase is the world's leading financer of fossil fuel projects.
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They've also criticized Amazon for providing cloud services to fossil fuel companies.
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Yet fossil fuel interests have been some of McCarthy's most loyal contributors.
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In colleges, students are pressuring administrations to divest fossil fuel company stocks.
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I've seen the collateral of the environmental fossil fuel damage first hand.
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"Divestment isn't going to shrink the fossil-fuel industry," Mr. Ip adds.
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We need to get at fossil fuel replacements and the technologies there.
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The fossil fuel car is going the way of the dodo bird.
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We will prosecute the fossil fuel executives who knowingly destroyed the planet.
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Appropriating money to replace the fossil fuel industry is only the beginning.
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Increased fossil fuel use is directly causing climate change, studies have shown.
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Sanders also takes the most aggressive line against the fossil fuel industry.
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Similarly, some want to ban fossil fuel exports, but some do not.
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I'd like to tell candidates, first, focus on cutting fossil-fuel subsidies.
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That leads to more sprawl, more driving, and more fossil fuel use.
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He promised to take on Wall Street, drugmakers and fossil fuel companies.
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Natural gas is the fossil fuel with the fastest growing demand worldwide.
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The campaign does not accept money from lobbyists or fossil fuel executives.
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It wasn't fossil fuel companies, the Republican Party, or other political elites.
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He's repeatedly said that he's in favor of more fossil fuel infrastructure.
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Japan is another country that has yet to ban fossil fuel vehicles.
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"At the same time that the European Union has corporate fossil fuel lobbyists talking on their stage, the European Parliament is voting to extend fossil fuel subsidies for another 10 years," said Kevin Buckland, one of the activists.
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These reports shine a spotlight on the fatal flaw that has plagued the last three decades of U.S. climate policy: it has focused solely on fossil fuel consumption and demand and has ignored fossil fuel extraction and supply.
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Providing a relief to the workers affected by the downturn in this fossil fuel industry in the form of a carbon tax could preclude the need to open new mines in addition to helping curb fossil fuel emissions.
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Even in such a favorable landscape to fossil fuels, where only the fossil fuel emission damages to human health are monetized, much more fossil fuel generation, and in particular coal, would be sidelined than under the status quo.
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The renewed calls for fossil fuel divestment at Harvard is part of a worldwide movement to confront the fossil fuel industry's finances, slowly chipping away at the pool of investors willing to bet on coal, oil, and natural gas.
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Sanders, too, said on Friday that Clinton "has taken significant money from the fossil fuel industry," though fact checkers note her fossil fuel donations amount to a miniscule total when it comes to the fundraising Clinton has already completed.
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In any pathway forward, social equity, particularly for communities that are dependent on fossil fuel jobs and for communities that have been most harmed by fossil fuel pollution, is an indispensable element of any effort to address climate change.
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Sanders's staffers have been pointing out that he is one of the only candidates that included a national ban on fracking, like Inslee, as well as a moratorium on fossil fuel infrastructure and expanding the fossil fuel export bans.
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The latest climate change moves are aimed particularly at slowing fossil fuel production.
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Tesla founder Elon Musk is an outspoken opponent of the fossil fuel industry.
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President Donald Trump has supported fossil fuel production and repeatedly denied climate change.
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That's equivalent to 20 years of fossil fuel carbon release at carbon levels.
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On the right are global emissions from fossil-fuel use and cement production.
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Rich fossil fuel executives surely felt like they won the lottery last November.
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UPS is giving some its fossil-fuel powered vehicles a green energy makeover.
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Icahn, a major fossil fuel investor, has frequently criticized Obama administration energy restrictions.
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Gavin Newsom is weighing whether or not to end new fossil fuel development.
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Glass is heavy, so transporting it uses up a lot of fossil fuel.
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The costs of generating these renewables are now comparable with fossil-fuel plants.
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Energy independence, from foreign sources and from fossil fuel dependence, meant making compromises.
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For decades, fossil fuel corporations knowingly destroyed our planet for short-term profits.
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However, "net zero" could imply a continuation of fossil fuel production and use.
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O'Rourke has also supported a GOP bill that bolstered the fossil fuel industry.
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Trump's potential Cabinet is filling with nominees from top fossil fuel-producing states.
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A key point of focus: "transitioning" fossil fuel workers into new energy jobs.
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Since 2002, he has received 285 contributions from fossil fuel interests totaling $318,496.
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France wants to end the sale of fossil fuel-powered cars by 2040.
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Global, Regional, and National Fossil-Fuel CO23 Emissions, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center.
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We're saving ten million gallons of fossil fuel a year with these projects.
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Fossil fuel and other industry groups had also lined up against the proposal.
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And we have got to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel.
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Smith has an interest in shielding fossil fuel companies like Exxon, environmentalists say.
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Another new offering, Etho Climate Leadership U.S. (ETHO), is also fossil-fuel free.
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Other fossil fuel giants are also conducting risk assessments focused on climate change.
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So it's no surprise Perry's fossil fuel allies are taking aim at them.
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But fossil fuel and manufacturing industries are criticizing the suits as baseless targeting.
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Trump opened ANWR to appease fossil fuel interests and Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski.
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Other progressives and environmentalists, however, note that it benefits the fossil fuel industry.
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Taking planes, enjoying first-world fossil fuel, an addict of first-world comfort.
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The most prominent cause of this pollution are fossil fuel electric plant emissions.
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Russia, meanwhile, has begun to reform some fossil fuel subsidies and tax breaks.
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It's the most polluting fossil fuel, but it's also cheap and relatively plentiful.
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"Solving climate change requires essentially dismantling the fossil fuel industry," Rogers-Wright said.
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Biden had pledged not to take any money from the fossil fuel industry.
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Brown has done nothing to reign in the fossil fuel industry in California.
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Both plans also call for halting new fossil fuel development on public lands.
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Fossil-fuel-powered engines replaced animal (including human) labor during the Industrial Revolution.
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A number of fossil fuel companies and industry groups backed Trump's plan Wednesday.
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But it doesn't create nearly the economic impact of the fossil fuel industry.
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It strips out science-based climate policies and instead promotes fossil fuel uses.
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TV was like fossil fuel, and I had lucked out, and struck oil.
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The love affair between Trump and fossil fuel companies has blossomed ever since.
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The fossil fuel industry was very much under the spotlight during the talks.
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All investment in fossil fuel production would have to be switched to renewables.
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In between it all is the earth-rumbling machinery of fossil fuel extraction.
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It is in fact a fossil fuel, not an alternative source of energy.
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With Trump as president the fossil fuel industry has never looked so powerful.
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To really change things, you can't just reduce your own fossil fuel use.
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VP Biden signed a pledge not to take money from fossil fuel executives.
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If the fossil fuel empire were to collapse, participants wondered, what would follow?
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He argues that the IEA's measures to calculate fossil fuel subsidies are inadequate.
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Investors assumed that fossil-fuel reserves could only become more valuable over time.
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Kirsten Gillibrand wants fossil fuel companies to pay for climate change-related damage.
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In Australia, the fossil fuel industry has a long history of political connections.
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Some of the world's biggest fossil fuel companies would like to find out.
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I would start a phase-out of production of fossil-fuel-related vehicles.
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The think tank accepts generous donations from a number of fossil fuel companies.
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Even the fossil fuel industry will find normalcy difficult going forward; Tellurian Inc.
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The fossil fuel industry has pushed climate science denial into the public consciousness.
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Automakers are well aware that fossil fuel emissions are contributing to climate change.
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However, one essential policy commitment is noticeably absent: addressing costly fossil fuel subsidies.
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That's considerably higher than the fossil fuel financing of other banks we compared.
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Investors are advised to steer clear of companies with large fossil fuel operations.
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Yet ending fossil fuel use could also provide huge economic and employment opportunities.
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Still, the mercenary interests of fossil fuel companies aren't the whole story here.
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Which box has the highest number of jobs within the fossil fuel category?
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In other words, avoiding fossil fuel stocks would have been a great strategy.
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Warren's environmental justice plan would likely draw intense opposition from fossil fuel companies.
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And many popular models still cost much more than comparable fossil-fuel cars.
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The deal also goes out of the way to protect fossil fuel companies.
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Schumer blasted the replacement rule, saying it largely benefited the fossil fuel industry.
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A quick search uncovers the group's past ties to the fossil fuel industry.
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But the end of the fossil fuel era is not yet in sight.
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"Our fossil fuel addiction is killing us," Schwarzenegger said in a Monday statement.
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Global CO503 emissions from fossil-fuel combustion in the power sector by scenario.
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Like Reagan and Bush, Trump would favor fossil fuel production at renewables' expense.
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Burning less fossil fuel reduces greenhouse gas emissions and helps curb climate change.
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Of course, efficiency is only one half of per capita fossil fuel use.
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Expanding fossil-fuel production in this region results in more emissions and deforestation.
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Still, GE downplays the threat to its bulked up fossil fuel product line.
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This technique has been used by fossil fuel projects elsewhere in the Arctic.
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" In the video, the Greenpeace activist asks Clinton to "reject fossil fuel money.
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"New York is mostly purchasing fossil fuel products out of state," she said.
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RE growth is outpacing fossil fuel growth in the developed world electricity sector.
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Strict carbon emissions policies are also leading toward banning fossil-fuel powered vehicles.
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What they're saying: The letter calls for various aggressive and "visionary" measures they say are needed to hold the global temperature rise to 1.5°C, such as... Ending fossil fuel leasing on public lands and halting approval of fossil fuel infrastructure.
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But several key directors at Cambridge Analytica's parent company, SCL Group, also have close ties to the fossil fuel industry, according to business records filed with the British government, fossil fuel company presentations obtained by Motherboard, and employee LinkedIn pages.
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As we challenge the social and political license that these profits have lent the fossil fuel industry, so must we also challenge our politicians to break free from the disproportionate influence that fossil fuel interests have in our political system.
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He was the second-highest recipient of money from the oil and gas sector last year, and recently declined to sign the No Fossil Fuel Money pledge, which states that candidates won't take money from fossil fuel lobbyists, PACs, and executives.
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It's part of the Keep it in the Ground movement, a project that's taken hold in recent years to pressure the federal government to stop fossil fuel production on federal lands and waters, and to eventually stop fossil fuel production altogether.
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And they should double down on the principle behind the No Fossil Fuel Money pledge and similar state-based initiatives, demonstrating to the DNC with every donation and vote that accepting fossil fuel money now comes with immediate political costs.
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New polling from 249 Action and Data for Progress conducted by YouGov Blue shows that rejecting fossil fuel money is popular (274 percent support their representatives refusing campaign contributions from fossil fuel PACs, with 265 percent opposed and the rest unsure).
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Details: Sanders tweeted that fossil fuel executives should be criminally prosecuted for the destruction they have knowingly caused and pledged to "end the greed of the fossil fuel industry and move to 100% renewable energy" with the Green New Deal.
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We demand, at this year's World Economic Forum, participants from all companies, banks, institutions and governments immediately halt all investments in fossil fuel exploration and extraction; immediately end all fossil fuel subsidies; and immediately and completely divest from fossil fuels.
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We demand, at this year's World Economic Forum, participants from all companies, banks, institutions and governments immediately halt all investments in fossil fuel exploration and extraction; immediately end all fossil fuel subsidies; and immediately and completely divest from fossil fuels.
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China also needs to do much more to curb fossil fuel use, by burning less highly polluting coal and ending funding for fossil fuel-powered plants in other countries, even as it boosts renewable energy use, the former vice president said.
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The renewed calls for fossil fuel divestment at Harvard and Yale are part of a worldwide movement to confront the fossil fuel industry's finances, slowly chipping away at the pool of investors willing to bet on coal, oil, and natural gas.
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For one thing, fossil fuel companies play an enormous role in funding the party (and climate denying "think tanks"); the material interests of politicians like Scott Pruitt and Ryan Zinke are bound up in the good graces of fossil fuel executives.
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Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) to stop all new fossil fuel leases on public lands.
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They tend to have fairly cheap electricity because they have abundant [fossil fuel] resources.
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Denmark, the cradle of wind power, aims to become fossil fuel-free by 2050.
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So the first piece here is phasing out fossil fuel production on public land.
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Getting serious about climate change means getting serious about phasing out fossil fuel production.
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Aspiration is trying to help save the planet by offering fossil-fuel free accounts.
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Joe Lieberman to shift US energy away from fossil fuel and toward renewable energy.
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Fossil fuel money or not, 1631 was always going to be a tough sell.
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During that time, he said, the world needs to drive down fossil fuel emissions.
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Eventually, all fossil fuel firms will face the same pressure that brought down Peabody.
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Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, for instance, was famously cozy with fossil fuel companies.
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It also, crucially, means working to eliminate fossil fuel use as quickly as possible.
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The new mandate's approach to these buildings is replacing fossil fuel equipment all together.
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Re-imposing a ban on crude oil exports and restricting other fossil fuel exports.
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On the plus side, you get your hands on another sweet, sweet fossil fuel.
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It's actually hard to find a big bank that isn't investing in fossil fuel.
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In fact, even The World Bank supports the financial argument for fossil fuel divestment.
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Airliners that mix batteries and fossil fuel could dominate the skies in the future.
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The Phi Energy document shows, however, that Hatton also overlapped with fossil fuel interests.
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They found "complementary" policies to a potential carbon tax include... Ending fossil fuel subsidies.
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Hurdles remain, however, if a fossil fuel-free world is to become a reality.
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Ethane escapes into the atmosphere via leaks caused by fossil fuel extraction and processing.
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There is now overwhelming consensus among scientists that fossil fuel emissions cause global warming.
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It spun off its fossil-fuel-burning power plants into a related company, Uniper.
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Fossil fuel, or thermal, power still accounts for almost half of the EU's electricity.
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It's a who's who of fossil fuel investors, industry henchmen, and big oil benefactors.
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The Trump administration promised its action would create jobs in the fossil fuel industry.
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Nitrogen dioxide is a byproduct of fossil fuel combustion that can contribute to smog.
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But the fossil fuel industry and its congressional supporters vowed to fight the decision.
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He's surrounded by science deniers and fossil fuel junkies POTUS jealous of Obama accomplishments.
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One source said "publicly traded fossil fuel companies" are being contacted, according to Reuters.
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The emails at issue are between Pruitt's office and fossil fuel and conservative interests.
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Already, we've warmed the atmosphere about 1 degree Celsius in the fossil-fuel era.
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Lyft has also long invested in measures to offset its drivers' fossil-fuel dependence.
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Often, their arguments are premised on concerns over the expansion of fossil fuel production.
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Some 70 million buildings in the US use fossil fuel-burning appliances for heat.
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The group had sought his office's communications with various fossil fuel and conservative interests.
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The fossil fuel industry may well avoid that fate, thanks to Pruitt and Milloy.
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Is renewable energy defying the odds of the Trump administration's pro-fossil fuel agenda?
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He also has deep ties with anti-science lobbyism and the fossil fuel industry.
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Every major U.S. bank, it seems, funds the fossil fuel industry in some way.
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But fossil fuel companies, in most cases, need financing for their high-polluting projects.
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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is basically a glorified agent of the fossil fuel industry.
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And Wheeler was Murray's unabashed inside man for fossil fuel industries on Capitol Hill.
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Castor said she has decided not to take any donations from fossil fuel companies.
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Any plan to free an industrialised economy from fossil-fuel dependence will create losers.
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The message: cut fossil fuel pollution to "net zero" in just a few decades.
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For many states, dollars spent on fossil fuel energy flow outside of state borders.
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Warren's plan to ban fossil-fuel leasing on public lands can be found here.
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It will lock in fossil fuel infrastructure for decades and divert money from renewables.
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They want to line the pockets of the fossil fuel industry, plain and simple.
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Trump has said he would try to boost the fossil fuel industry as president.
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Coordination among fossil fuel companies led to a unified communications strategy concerning climate change.
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And he's pushed pro-fossil fuel development policies that expand threats to bird habitats.
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President Trump says his order will bring back jobs in the fossil fuel industry.
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The IPCC report suggests phasing out fossil fuel use by 2050, the AP reported.
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But he also asked Perry to conduct more fossil fuel research than Obama's DOE.
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Investors can choose not to invest in fossil fuel companies in the first place.
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Cutting pipeline cashflow: Divestment means having an economy with less reliance on fossil fuel.
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Unless the reality is that the fossil fuel industry has you under their thumb.
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Jerry Brown (D) has waged several battles with the oil and fossil fuel industries.
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Trump and his fossil fuel-soaked administration cannot hold back the tide of history.
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He has also made reviving fossil fuel industries a major point of his campaign.
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What will it take to get the biggest fossil-fuel dependent states on board?
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This includes leasing public lands for mining, drilling, and fracking to extract fossil fuel.
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If fossil fuel companies adapt to the policy without difficulty, the policy is weak.
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If it doesn't bother fossil fuel interests, it's not high enough to be effective.
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It is making the US a geopolitical fossil fuel giant, which pleases the right.
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Norway has heavy taxes on fossil fuel vehicles and no tax on electric vehicles.
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The progressive base has already soured on Wall Street, fossil fuel and pharmaceutical cash.
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Most Republicans are prepared to go to the mat for the fossil fuel industry.
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The awkward truth for fossil fuel supporters is that this is a family fight.
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As the E.T.F.'s name suggests, that lack of fossil fuel overlap is intentional.
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Sanders wants to prosecute oil executives and to eliminate fossil fuel use by 2050.
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The company is also tightening lending on certain fossil fuel projects, including Arctic drilling.
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He wants to end fossil fuel subsidies and reach net-zero emissions by 53.
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Its exports alone now account for about 5% of the world's fossil-fuel emissions.
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Watch this three-minute video from The Guardian about the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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Amazon is pledging to reduce its fossil fuel consumption, mainly due to employee pressure.
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The reputational risk alone should give any fossil fuel company (or its financiers) pause.
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It assumes the last fossil-fuel vehicles would be on the roads until 2050.
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Steyer was one of many candidates who signed the no fossil fuel money pledge.
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And the president's pro-fossil-fuel agenda has plenty of opposition from other tribes.
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And few presidents have been as kind to fossil fuel interests as Donald Trump.
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Later that day I called my broker and divested all my fossil-fuel holdings.
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Calls for fossil-fuel divestment linked to climate-change concerns have also raised awareness.
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Coal is "the worst fossil fuel there is", he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Students are calling for both schools to divest their endowments from fossil fuel holdings.
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To be sure, fossil fuel companies will be helped by the Trump administration's initiative.
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They argue that phasing out the fossil fuel is important to stopping climate change.
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We cannot afford to have a pro-fossil fuel climate denier in that position.
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Mr. Pruitt has faced frequent criticism for his close ties to fossil fuel companies.
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France is pledging to ban all fossil fuel- and diesel-powered cars by 2040.
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They can start the long work of shutting down fossil fuel production and distribution.
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Yet the issue looms, for the fossil fuel alternative has disastrous long-term effects.
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It rules out true emergency measures or radical disruption of the fossil fuel industry.
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For now, the odds are against governments wanting to see fossil-fuel vehicles disappear.
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How would an electric fleet be more affordable than a fossil fuel bus service?
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Shifting from fossil fuel electricity to renewables reduces all of those external costs, considerably.
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"We should be careful, in terms of the long-term consequences of our fossil fuel burning," Zeebe warns, "because it is possible, and this is what these records tell us, that we're still underestimating the long-term consequences of our fossil fuel burning."
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The most straightforward form of carbon pricing is a carbon tax, which, in its simplest version, imposes a fee on every ton of carbon that enters the economy ("upstream," on fossil fuel producers and importers, as opposed to "downstream," on fossil fuel consumers).
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The White House is expected to frame the order as a step to help the fossil fuel industry: during his campaign, Trump said he would clobber Obama's climate work in order to boost fossil fuel sectors like coal, oil and natural gas.
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"We demand that at this year's forum, participants from all companies, banks, institutions and governments immediately halt all investments in fossil fuel exploration and extraction, immediately end all fossil fuel subsidies and immediately and completely divest from fossil fuels," the letter continued.
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"We ... call on the university's investment office to immediately freeze any new investments in fossil fuel companies, and to divest from direct ownership and any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds within five years," an open letter said.
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America would be both largely decarbonized and the biggest player in remaining fossil fuel markets.
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The request to dismiss the case came from the federal government and fossil fuel companies.
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Yet water poisoning is often caused by lack of regulation of the fossil-fuel industry.
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Resolving the imbalances embedded into the fossil fuel system is paramount to a genuine transition.
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The fossil fuel industry is meanwhile still getting a number of direct and indirect subsidies.
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Burning fossil fuel generates greenhouse gases that are blamed by scientists for warming the planet.
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So he let fossil fuel disciple Scott Pruitt run amok in the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The net result would be a conscious, deliberate phasing out of US fossil fuel production.
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"You couldn't pick a better fossil-fuel industry puppet," May Boeve, executive director of 350.
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It is time to confront the fossil fuel industry, and take on their corporate power.
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Both Democratic candidates have taken direct contributions from employees of fossil fuel companies this cycle.
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At least seven Californian cities and counties have brought lawsuits against major fossil fuel companies.
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Now the CEO of a fossil fuel company could take Kerry's place in those negotiations.
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Connecticut, the Clean Air Act displaces federal common law claims based on fossil fuel emissions.
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Fossil fuel giants like ExxonMobil, Shell, and Chevron spend millions each year in lobbying efforts.
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Rystad notes that is even cheaper than the lower cost limit of fossil fuel power.
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"My early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves," he wrote.
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Few doubt that the fossil fuel which will suffer most from this transition is coal.
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In contrast, 13% of emissions were linked to fossil-fuel use supported by consumption subsidies.
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You can't ramp them up and down at will like you can fossil fuel plants.
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While promising clean energy technologies continue to scale, the demand for fossil fuel still exists.
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Biden was occasionally interrupted by protesters urging him to shun contributions from fossil fuel companies.
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The company screens out REITs that have ties to the fossil fuel industry or prisons.
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There's a nonstop propaganda campaign from the fossil fuel industry because they're just defending themselves.
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An international agreement reached in Paris in 2015 committed signatories to cutting fossil fuel use.
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It's a subtle but important distinction gaining attention here, particularly from fossil fuel-dependent nations.
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Fossil fuel companies were supposed to get a temporary tax break from Congress in 28.
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Countries that struggle to access finance are more likely to invest in fossil fuel capacity.
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Why does the fossil fuel industry pay — spend huge amounts of money on campaign contributions?
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AP Environmental Protection Agency head and fossil fuel shill Scott Pruitt is a simple man.
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What are some of the ways these fossil fuel industry lobbyists have impacted UN talks?
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The fossil fuel divestment movement wants to try to make that not happen. 212. Huh?
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Why does the fossil fuel industry pay — spend huge amounts of money on campaign contributions?
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And the IEA report doesn't even include various governments' support for fossil fuel production projects.
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Still, here they are, the most disturbing and outrageous outcomes from Exxon's fossil fuel lovefest.
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I personally think fossil fuel with CCS will never pass any reasonable cost-benefit analysis.
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Solar, wind, electric vehicles and other alternatives continue to thrive despite lower fossil fuel prices.
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It would require replacing the bulk of the world's fossil fuel generators with cleaner alternatives.
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As a result, atmospheric carbon levels, amplified by consistent fossil fuel emissions, peak in April.
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Harder is pinning a specific weather event in a specific location on fossil fuel pollution.
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Now just over half of its gross domestic product comes from non-fossil fuel sources.
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With the Spend & Save account, Aspiration guarantees that deposits are 100 percent fossil-fuel free.
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Nowhere is that more evident than in Pruitt's naked devotion to the fossil fuel industry.
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Of course, outdoor recreation is dwarfed by the influence of farming and fossil fuel interests.
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It can compensate consumers or fossil-fuel producers for their welfare losses through direct payments.
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Environmental activists will likely continue fighting for coal plant closures or blocking fossil-fuel infrastructure.
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Gas, the least polluting fossil fuel, is widely expected to be crucial for reducing emissions.
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The project is deeply opposed by environmentalists, anti-fossil fuel activists and American Indian tribes.
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The EIB estimates that under 5% of its lending currently goes on fossil fuel projects.
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State Street's SPDR S&P 500 Fossil Fuel Free ETF (SPYX) just began trading recently.
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To boot, California has no real plan to transition off its old fossil fuel infrastructure.
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I came back to my school and helped kick-start a fossil fuel divestment campaign.
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It will also remain tied to Uniper's fossil-fuel fortunes because of its 47% stake.
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It's a win for the fossil-fuel industry, and a big loss for the public.
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He is a longtime fossil-fuel lobbyist and helped to advance Trump's pro-polluter agenda.
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Meanwhile, fossil fuel corporations poured millions of dollars into two losing candidates in Washington state.
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Idaho lacks notable fossil fuel developments, meaning the governor hasn't worked much with extraction policies.
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It says there is still demand, despite environmental opposition to the most polluting fossil fuel.
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This would end local efforts by cities and states to contain harmful fossil fuel projects.
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Renewable industries are spending less than one-seventh of what fossil fuel is forking out.
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"Middle-ground approaches are not enough we must confront the fossil fuel industry," Inslee said.
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But when there is, it is so cheap that fossil-fuel plants struggle to compete.
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What's more, fossil fuel companies have poured billions into researching and developing carbon reduction technologies.
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It is also deeply controversial, opposed by conservative state attorneys general and fossil fuel producers.
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Even so, it was the first crack in the fossil fuel industry's armor, he says.
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Many environmentalists believe that fossil fuel lobbying should disqualify Wheeler and Bernhardt from these positions.
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This failure was not the fault of the fossil fuel industry or the Republican Party.
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In Poland, the US delegation held an event dedicated to coal and fossil fuel technologies.
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And most power grids were built with fossil fuel rather than renewable sources in mind.
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Almost 2 billion euros of fossil fuel projects were funded by the EIB in 2018.
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Communities are pushing back against the fossil fuel industry and are holding our politicians accountable.
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The lower limit of fossil fuel energy production is roughly 5 cents per kilowatt-hour.
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EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK TO STOP ALL FOSSIL FUEL LENDING AT END OF 2021 - BANK OFFICIAL
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The bill also calls for ending subsidies to the fossil fuel industry while banning fracking.
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The landmark bill would charge fossil fuel companies a tax for their carbon dioxide emissions.
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How do we define, how do we describe the behavior of the fossil fuel industry?.
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This also applies to the utility companies that get their energy from fossil fuel sources.
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Pruitt has faced criticism for his role meeting with leaders of the fossil fuel industry.
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But there would be different voices within the country, especially form the fossil fuel industries.
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Fossil fuel magnates, happy to drain the planet's resources for some extra cash, love him.
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) will no longer accept campaign donations from fossil fuel companies.
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Energy policy guidance, for instance, was in many cases literally written by fossil fuel lobbyists.
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He has taken stances favoring coal, a fossil fuel that suffered during the Obama administration.
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In fact, fossil fuel power plants lead to far more bird deaths than wind turbines.
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Its money comes from revenue derived from the state's relatively large fossil fuel extraction industry.
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How challenging is the Hauts de France's energy revolution in a fossil fuel driven economy?
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In the meantime, staff are being ordered to promote fossil fuel development on public lands.
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Of 2018's roughly $84.4 million in fossil fuel contributions, 87 percent went to Republicans.
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Already, the CRA has been used to overturn stream protections and fossil fuel industry transparency.
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But the effect would have been to limit further fossil fuel extraction in the state.
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Initiative 732 faces opposition from the usual sources, like the fossil fuel industry and manufacturers.
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You might follow the Rockefeller Family Fund and divest from the fossil fuel companies entirely.
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We've just become, the government has become an assistance center for the fossil fuel industry.
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It looks like carbon taxes and regulating (and prosecuting) of still-powerful fossil fuel interests.
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This is how it looks: Those fossil fuel lines are just going up, up, up.
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The real question now is how fast can the fossil-fuel plants be shut down.
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And every year, fossil fuel subsidies grow — rising 280 percent to $213 billion in 213.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren would enact a "total moratorium" on new federal fossil fuel leases. Gov.
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Some have already shown a willingness to pick a fight with the fossil fuel industry.
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Climate denial is about using whatever argument comes to hand to defend fossil fuel interests.
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Nonetheless, those reserves currently have enormous value on the balance sheets of fossil fuel companies.
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Fossil-fuel companies have gone from lying about climate science to saying they believe it.
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The fossil fuel industry alone constituted 70 percent of emissions on humans' behalf in 2015.
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"We didn't use the words 'fossil fuel free' till five years ago," Ms. Samuelrich said.
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In this case, it's not fossil fuel companies that are most strongly implicated, it's agribusinesses.
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Free Market does not disclose its donors, though ties to fossil fuel companies have emerged.
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It is no University of California, either, where fossil-fuel divestment is already in progress.
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Earlier generations of indexes relied on static information like fossil fuel reserves or emissions measurements.
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He announced Vanuatu was considering suing fossil fuel companies and the governments that enabled them.
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Both endowments have investments in fossil fuel industries such as oil, coal and gas. Rep.
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The European Union could stop investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure, including natural gas pipelines.
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It has been long evident he would stay loyal to a fossil fuel-based economy.
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"We too must let go of the fossil-fuel-dominated past without recrimination," it reads.
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Major cities including New York and London have vowed to dump their fossil fuel stocks.
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In early October, BP wrote down up to $3 billion of its fossil fuel assets.
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Meanwhile, nations like Australia are providing Asia with bounties of the exceptionally problematic fossil fuel.
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Pete has taken money from Craig Hall, the chairman of a fossil fuel investment firm.
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It was an Empire State Building of this fossil-fuel town, visible from miles away.
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These vehicles combine fossil fuel and electrical power to some degree but are not rechargeable.
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We must not vote for any candidate who accepts money from the fossil fuel industry.
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He also wants to stop building new gas plants and end all fossil fuel subsidies.
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Congress should stop this fossil fuel industry giveaway hidden in an unrelated surface transportation bill.
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Fossil fuel companies, who will bear the brunt of the heightened scrutiny, oppose the plan.
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Exxon predicted our present global warming caused by fossil fuel emissions over forty years ago.
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As our fossil-fuel emissions heat the planet, the threat to Earth's oceans is staggering.
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The fossil fuel industry in turn is taking the threat of climate change litigation seriously.
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Drawing on her track record of fighting the fossil fuel industry with the courts, Sen.
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They have the fossil fuel lobbying industry that's in the tens of millions a year.
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However, he has pledged not to take fossil fuel money or funding from corporate PACs.
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Corals thrive in alkaline waters, but fossil-fuel emissions are making the seas more acidic.
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Environmentalists have increasingly focused on the financiers behind the fossil fuel industry, with some success.
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Otherwise, they have to fire up fossil-fuel plants to meet periods of high demand.
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And peakers, by burning fossil fuel, are also at odds with California's green-energy goals.
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We don't need to shutter the nuclear and fossil fuel industries to achieve environmental goals.
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Lots of high-heat industrial processes, like making steel and coke, require fossil fuel combustion.
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So now my family is warmed through the chilly Seattle winters with a fossil fuel.
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How high they will go depends on policy decisions about fossil fuel emissions, said Gutzler.
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Neither would it be helping those harmed by climate change or the fossil fuel industry.
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Financing fossil fuel infrastructure and adding capacity to move that oil exacerbates the climate crisis.
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The commission has recently shown signs that it might be sympathetic to fossil-fuel interests.
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It has staffed federal agencies with people financially or ideologically committed to fossil fuel industries.
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This is no doubt a result of our new administration's pro-fossil fuel energy strategy.
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Right now, Indonesia's policies are allowing for deforestation, and are far too fossil-fuel centric.
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And it's not just the booming emerging economies that rely heavily on fossil fuel subsidies.
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Obviously Perry's use of sexual assault victims to promote Trump's fossil fuel agenda is offensive.
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Environmental activists will likely continue fighting for coal plant closures or blocking fossil fuel infrastructure.
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Job growth in renewables means less job growth (or job loss) in fossil fuel sectors.
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His "Freedom From Fossil Fuels" proposal called for an end to fossil fuel subsidy, a national fracking ban, a ban on "all new fossil fuel leasing on federal lands and offshore waters, including coal, oil, gas, oil shale and tar sands," and a carbon fee.
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A retreat to a fossil fuel economy will risk our nation's health, wealth and global leadership.
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Natural gas, a cleaner burning fossil fuel, helps power the electric grid that EVs plug into.
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That means Uber and Lyft might not be taking fossil fuel-puffing cars off the road.
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Despite what the fossil fuel industry would tell you, the targets have never been super ambitious.
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The use of coal, easily the dirtiest fossil fuel, grew at an annual rate of 3.1%.
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Until its closure, the fossil fuel power plant generated roughly one-third of the city's power.
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Pruitt is a climate change denier who has a close relationship with the fossil fuel industry.
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France and the U.K. have also expressed plans to phase out fossil fuel cars by 2040.
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Perhaps one day our cyborg bacteria overlords will lead the way out of fossil fuel dependence.
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In his remarks, Musk described it as a "smackdown" to the fossil fuel-addicted auto industry.
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Transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy cannot be done without standing up to fossil fuel corporations.
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And these are not just workers in the fossil fuel industry, these are paid, registered lobbyists.
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The ones most benefitted by abandoning our carbon reductions pledges, are no surprise, fossil fuel companies.
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The only winners here are the fossil fuel execs who donated thousands in funds to Pruitt.
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Rick Perry's attempt to exploit this struggle to justify further dangerous fossil fuel development is unacceptable.
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By contrast, fossil fuel industry jobs increased by just under 5 percent in that same period.
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How can I be investing in fossil fuel if I can barely even pay my bills?
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There is so much more: A planet dying because for years fossil fuel interests were coddled.
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They can choose to finance fossil-fuel projects from general expenditure, not the MDBs' cash specifically.
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His plan also outlines social justice and equity provisions and steps to help fossil fuel workers.
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The defendants in these suits include fossil fuel companies, as well as the US government itself.
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Bioplastics are made from plastic wastes and non-fossil fuel materials like starch or sugar cane.
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He has publicly sworn off support from corporate PACs and contributions from the fossil fuel industry.
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He previously declined to sign a "no fossil fuel money" promise back in April, per Bloomberg.
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In 2015, Syracuse University moved to divest $1.8 billion of its endowment from fossil fuel companies.
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The protectors, meanwhile, are bringing public attention to the urgency of reducing a fossil fuel dependence.
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But no climate plan is complete without a strategy to take on America's fossil fuel industry.
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We were offering incentives for people to move away from fossil fuel heating, cooling, and transportation.
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Economics dictate these trends will continue: While fossil fuel prices fluctuate, technology costs are generally irreversible.
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An attorney representing fossil fuel industry associations also generally sided with the Obama administration in court.
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We do not have to sacrifice those benefits or jobs to the dirty fossil fuel industry.
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The reviews, made public this weekend, highlighted inefficient fossil fuel support policies that could be reformed.
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But fossil fuel production was down 7 percent, driven in large part by falling coal use.
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Staff in at least four fossil fuel-fired plants have also voted to strike, she added.
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One global industry affected at first-hand from such a target is the fossil fuel sector.
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At the same time, fossil fuel–free exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are streaming into the marketplace.
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Fossil fuel companies such as Exxon Mobil or Royal Dutch Shell say they are limiting emissions.
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He has tapped pro-fossil fuel officials to lead key agencies, including former Exxon Mobil Corp.
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Different studies disagree on whether fossil-fuel methane emissions are rising or flatlining globally, for instance.
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It is opposed by nearly all Republicans, conservative states, fossil fuel-related industries and big businesses.
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Fossil fuel groups and Republicans have already seized on the report as ammunition against the movement.
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Coal is also the dirtiest fossil fuel, emitting air pollution and high levels of carbon dioxide.
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The core challenge is that prevailing fossil fuel-dependent "sociotechnical systems" have developed over many decades.
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The biggest amount of fossil fuel-derived energy, 38 percent, comes from gas-fired power plants.
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Communities built on fossil fuel extraction could be revitalized through job training for clean energy programs.
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It's no secret that the fossil fuel industry heavily lobbies Congress with well over $150 million.
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Compared with fossil fuel production, typically highly automated, the clean energy industry is more labor intensive.
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But to blame fossil fuel industry spending for the initiative's defeat is to miss the point.
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The landmark bill aims to charge fossil fuel companies a tax for their carbon dioxide emissions.
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After receiving no warning of the decision, the reaction from fossil fuel organizations has been scathing.
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And our workers can produce more when they aren't breathing air pollution from fossil fuel emissions.
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They can be released from fossil fuel combustion and industry, and include natural sources like dust.
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"Understand — this is exactly what the fossil-fuel industry hopes we're all talking about," Warren said.
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A growing fossil fuel sector – natural gas – now accounts for nearly a third of our energy.
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The entire fossil-fuel economy has to be transformed in a very short amount of time.
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Senate Democrats have introduced a bill to bolster carbon capture technology for fossil fuel power plants.
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Sinking investments into future fossil fuel extraction would only hinder the necessary transition to clean energy.
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BP and Total, two other fossil fuel giants, have previously announced short-term carbon-cutting targets.
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But the Trump administration has signaled its support for continued fossil fuel exploration in the country.
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The EPA blamed the increase on higher fossil fuel consumption in the energy and transportation sectors.
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Not all states are sitting on huge fossil fuel reserves, and tapping these reserves isn't costless.
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Norway signed the 2016 Paris accord, which aims to end the fossil fuel era this century.
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For all three [individuals, corporations, and leaders], I think we should just end fossil-fuel usage.
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Over the past 30 years, fossil fuel companies have waged a war on addressing climate change.
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So why have U.S. politicians largely left fossil fuel production to the whims of the market?
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The president-elect has vowed to pursue policies aimed at increasing the nation's fossil fuel production.
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Their forlorn hope is that restrictions on fossil fuel burning will slow down the rising sea.
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Clinton has accused Mr. Sanders's staff of lying on the issue of fossil fuel industry donations.
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To get from the fossil fuel present to the renewable future, we will need ... a bridge.
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"We don't want kids in Portland learning material courtesy of the fossil fuel industry," Bigelow wrote.
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Others are worried about what solar power means for their traditional fossil fuel-driven electricity industries.
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I think that there's not much sympathy globally or in the US for fossil fuel business.
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Today, it is the Lakota who find their communities and heritage imperiled by fossil fuel development.
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In these cases, the local governments are claiming fossil fuel producers have created a public nuisance.
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If it is high enough to be effective, it will be anathema to fossil fuel interests.
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Climate was introduced through the prism of Sanders's recent attacks on Clinton regarding fossil fuel money.
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The fossil fuel Industry has heralded the EPA's June report as vindication for years of criticism.
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Otherwise, candidates were asked about imposing a carbon tax and banning fossil-fuel exports and fracking.
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Though natural gas generates lower greenhouse gas emissions than coal, it is still a fossil fuel.
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Most of the Democratic candidates have recently pledged not to take money from fossil fuel companies.
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Harris has pledged to reject funds from corporate PACs, the fossil fuel industry, and federal lobbyists.
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Globally, direct fossil fuel subsidies were $427 billion last year, according to the International Energy Agency.
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Fossil fuel companies are not clean energy companies, and no amount of spin will change that.
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Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga told Motherboard no country is seriously interested in fossil fuel expansion anymore.
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President Trump's plan puts powerful fossil-fuel interests ahead of those of coastal businessmen and women.
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Moving forward, PensionBee should focus on marketing its fossil fuel-free fund toward younger demographics first.
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Trillions of dollars in fossil fuel subsidies mean the fuel for these vehicles is artificially cheap.
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That means, of $10,000 invested in the fund, $428 will end up in fossil-fuel stocks.
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In telling these stories we also hope to find real alternatives to fossil fuel-dependent capitalism.
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Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is well known for his enthusiasm for fossil fuel drilling.
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The 2020 presidential candidate blasted the fossil fuel industry for its contribution to the climate crisis.
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Were this incautious proposal to be enacted, the world's fossil fuel corporations would undoubtedly be winners.
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It's why a lot of companies are doubling down on natural gas, the cleanest fossil fuel.
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Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies is possible and should be a continued focus for G-20 leaders.
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Energy corporations are paying for materials to be developed that promote fossil fuel usage and production.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry, an enthusiastic supporter of fossil fuel industries, will attend, along with Gov.
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"What the environmental groups are saying, we're simply exporting fossil fuel emissions to Mexico," Sanders said.
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In just 100 years, fossil fuel use has more than undone 5000 years of natural cooling.
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Meanwhile, global temperatures are rising as fossil-fuel use pumps heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere.
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Even among Trump voters, 48 percent support taxing fossil fuel companies, according to the Yale program.
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A combination of approaches will be necessary, to reduce fossil-fuel emissions and mitigate their impact.
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The fossil-fuel industry's decades-long opposition to big policy has also been an essential impediment.
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Many of the respondents are planning to replace fossil fuel dollars with investments in renewable energy.
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The fossil fuel industry used its unlimited money (and related threats) to capture the Republican Party.
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It is foolish to think, however, that the fossil fuel industry will eagerly embrace this transition.
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It bought about $7 billion worth of other fossil fuel products, including coal and crude oil.
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FEC decision opened the floodgates of fossil fuel industry money and turned climate politics upside down.
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"Now we feel like the E.P.A. is being run by the fossil fuel industry," she said.
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And even the best misinformation that fossil fuel money can buy isn't enough to change it.
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Other major cities have recently pledged to exit fossil fuel investments, including Melbourne, Berlin and Stockholm.
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We cannot trust Pete to stand for climate justice when he takes fossil fuel money. pic.twitter.
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However, Modi did not commit to any reductions in fossil fuel use or greenhouse gas emissions.
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Other Democratic presidential candidates have voiced support for holding fossil fuel companies accountable in civil court.
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The administration views many of them as onerous to fossil fuel companies and other major industries.
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"Globally, fossil-fuel-related emissions account for about 65% of the excess mortality," the authors wrote.
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When we look at displacement fuels, natural gas is a cleaning burning fossil fuel that's reliable.
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Some investors say that fossil fuel companies, for example, have no place in socially conscious funds.
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Trump has homed in on rules constraining the fossil fuel industry, banks, medical facilities and colleges.
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The country's continued reliance on the fossil fuel has come under increased scrutiny in recent years.
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Consider adjusting your retirement fund, and ask if your 401(k) can be fossil-fuel free.
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Mr. Trump's move is viewed as a victory for Republican lawmakers, fossil fuel companies and others.
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"Any investment in pipeline infrastructure is locking us into a fossil fuel future," Dr. Williams said.
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However, he has pledged not to take fossil fuel money or funding from corporate PACs. Sen.
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If you start there, emissions from fossil fuel combustion in BC have fallen by 1 percent.
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He received plaudits from Republican lawmakers for "suing the fossil fuel industry" by going after ConocoPhillips.
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By the end of March, dozens of fossil fuel photos were uploaded to BLM's Flickr page.
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The 200 non-governmental organizations called for the G20 to set "a clear timeline for the full and equitable phase-out by all G20 members of all fossil fuel subsidies by 2020, starting with the elimination of all subsidies for fossil fuel exploration and coal production".
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But in any case, most major banks, including Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, US Bank, Capital One, HSBC, Lloyds, Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Santander, have millions invested in fossil fuel companies and in fossil fuel infrastructure projects like the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City on Wednesday filed a multibillion dollar lawsuit against five top fossil fuel companies, citing their "contributions to global warming," as it unveiled a plan to cut fossil fuel investments from its $189 billion public pension funds over the next five years.
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It transitions the auto industry to zero-emissions by 2035, halts new fossil fuel projects, bans the profit-driven export of oil and gas overseas, ends foolish subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, promotes environmental justice, and provides a just transition for displaced oil and gas workers.
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Seeking to position himself as a national leader against climate change, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday announced a two-pronged attack against the fossil-fuel industry, including a vow that city pension funds would divest about $5 billion from companies involved in the fossil fuel business.
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" He added, "While there may not be much difference between what Wall Street investors want from a Clinton presidency and what major fossil fuel interests might want, it is safe to say that fossil fuel industry interests rise to the top of the list of Clinton donors.
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And it was paired, in 2012, with McKibben's widely read "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math," which made clear that the vast bulk of existing fossil fuel reserves could not be developed in a climate-safe world — that fossil fuel companies' interests were at odds with humanity's interests.
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And I would like her to join us in the "Fight for 15"; in a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system; in taking on the fossil fuel industry so that we transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, and move to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.
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Two-thirds of respondents said they believed increased production of renewable energy in their area would be a bigger boost to the job market than fossil fuel production, pollsters found, but the majority of Republican respondents said they believed fossil fuel production would be better for jobs.
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Most importantly, they must battle the well-funded propaganda of the fossil-fuel industry, along with Fox News and the opinion section of the Wall Street Journal, leading properties in Rupert Murdoch's media empire and ones that are thoroughly devoted to the fossil-fuel status quo.
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Second, we initially thought that the steps to remove the larger, soot-like particles from fossil fuel emissions — the ones that caused smog events like the one that crippled London in 1952— would be enough to eliminate the adverse health effects of fossil-fuel-related air pollution.
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It's also true that the fossil fuel industry overwhelmingly gives campaign donations to Republicans rather than Democrats.
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So that means we stop all new fossil fuel and nuclear infrastructure, right now, on day one.
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The new rule applies to automakers who make or import over 30,000 fossil fuel cars a year.
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The doomsaying from fossil fuel defenders will only get more shrill as that inevitable fate gets closer.
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He wants to stop all future fossil fuel development on public lands, including oil and natural gas.
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Renewables are even starting to put pressure on natural gas, which is a cleaner-burning fossil fuel.
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Essentially, how might we cut emissions without grinding the fossil-fuel-driven economy to an immediate standstill?
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Fears said governments' top priority should be to curb greenhouse gas emissions and reduce fossil fuel combustion.
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Environmental groups fear he will roll back regulations in a bid to bolster the fossil fuel industry.
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Both judges lamented the climate change crisis and acknowledged the science linking it to fossil fuel emissions.
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Created by the grandsons of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller, fossil fuel was a familiar space.
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Any requirement for companies to do that would be a big deal for some fossil-fuel producers.
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His environmental messages have been laced with a broader critique of capitalism, especially the fossil-fuel industry.
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They say Manchin is too close to the fossil fuel industry, citing his acceptance of campaign contributions.
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I recently attended a fossil fuel auction in New Orleans, for example, that activists attempted to disrupt.
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The Republican Party has overwhelmingly opposed action on climate change in Washington while backing fossil-fuel interests.
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Some investors avoid the fossil fuel industry as they worry about the companies' impact on climate change.
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Fossil fuel corporations have fought to escape liability for the pollution and destruction caused by their greed.
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As president, [I] will prosecute and sue the fossil fuel industry for the damage it has caused.
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Still, the Paris Agreement creates the framework for shoving the world out of the fossil fuel era.
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The mayor also announced plans to rid the city's $189 billion pension funds of fossil fuel investments.
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Fossil fuel companies are driving the climate crisis and have delayed action on climate change for decades.
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But they do not dominate the caucus: Fossil-fuel enthusiasts like Mitch McConnell and Jim Inhofe do.
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It also predicts if the voter thinks the US should be moving away from fossil-fuel use.
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America's biggest provider of the fossil fuel has admitted that it may have to seek bankruptcy protection.
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They're set to outsell fossil-fuel powered cars within two decades, Bloomberg's New Energy Finance group predicts.
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They range from expanded electric vehicle credits for low-carbon manufacturing to ending fossil fuel-related incentives.
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DESPITE WILDFIRES and polar freezes, energy firms such as ExxonMobil are planning to increase fossil-fuel production.
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The proposal aims to hold fossil fuel companies financially accountable for damages stemming from a warmer world.
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Trump is pro-fossil fuels and also wants all fossil fuel companies, even coal miners, to prosper.
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Non-fossil-fuel energy, chiefly hydro and nuclear, accounts for only 12% of its total energy mix.
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Several European countries are pushing for more carbon-free power generation to replace fossil fuel-fired plants.
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Banning new fossil fuel infrastructure supports the city's 100 percent renewable pledge and its climate action plan.
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American communities are paying the price for American politicians who refuse to confront the fossil fuel industry.
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And as a fossil fuel, natural gas creates more greenhouse gases — an easy choice for climate hawks.
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"The fossil fuel carbon is so much bigger than all the carbon in the trees," he added.
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In the U.S. and Canada alone, the fossil fuel industry rakes in almost $260 billion in profit.
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Chilton added that, in the current environment, operating may not get any easier for fossil fuel companies.
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He should have stood up to the fossil fuel industry and gone straight from coal to renewables.
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Most world leaders are seeking to reduce greenhouse gases from fossil-fuel production and other human activity.
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Since then, environmentalists have urged the White House to undertake a sweeping review of fossil fuel extraction.
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That added to the cost of the final product and made it more expensive than fossil fuel.
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They recognize the need to overcome the entrenched fossil fuel interests and infrastructure of the status quo.
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It's "all in the name of record profits for their fossil fuel industry executive friends," he said.
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That's likely because he doesn't want to start a battle between his company and fossil fuel giants.
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Then: Oh, and guess what: It's paid for, entirely funded by a tax on fossil fuel energy.
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On March 10, fossil fuel industry groups filed a similar motion requesting appeal of Judge Aiken's decision.
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Throughout his campaign, Trump vowed to help coal miners by lifting Obama regulations on fossil fuel production.
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Climate change is linked to fossil fuel emissions, but clean renewable energy doesn't have the same effect.
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The biggest reductions would need to come from the fossil-fuel emitting states not currently on board.
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They're told don't you dare say climate change is real because we're in the fossil fuel business.
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More than seven in ten Americans under the age of 50 prioritize clean energy over fossil fuel.
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Look at Annise Parker in Houston, where there is obviously a pro-oil, pro-fossil fuel economy.
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We should not become more dependent on fossil fuel and accelerate the planetary crisis of climate change.
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Prior to his appointment, Pruitt was in close alignment with Oklahoma's oil, gas, and fossil fuel industries.
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And burning fossil fuels to create electricity kills people, so displacing fossil fuel power directly saves lives.
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These sorts of fossil fuel-burning, greenhouse gas-emitting monsters from Detroit are long for this world.
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The IEA's Sadamori said there is increasing pressure on some countries to re-introduce fossil fuel subsidies.
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That is enough to offset nearly two decades of emissions from fossil-fuel burning in the region.
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Interior moved to delay the rule until 2019, citing its burdensome nature to the fossil fuel industry.
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We shouldn't assume that this very particularly honed tactic will automatically transfer to dismantling fossil fuel infrastructure.
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An infrastructure agenda that doubles as a fossil fuel agenda isn't so surprising coming from this administration.
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If past is prologue, the president's infrastructure legislation could also include direct subsidization for fossil fuel infrastructure.
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Fossil fuel corporations are already are pushing back hard, arguing that American innovation has slashed carbon emissions.
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And he also argued that advertising dollars from fossil fuel companies and politicians shade the networks' coverage.
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Many appear intended to gain support for the administration's efforts to prop up the fossil fuel industry.
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By taking this path, the fossil fuel industry knowingly contributed to climate change and its devastating impacts.
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Cities, states, shareholders, young people, fishing associations, and more are bringing lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry.
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He joins other 2020 Democratic presidential contenders in signing the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge, including Sens.
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Nor can the utility continue to pay fossil fuel producers exorbitant amounts for oil, coal and gas.
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So a few more Trump supporting fossil-fuel plutocrats can add another zero to their bank account?
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The U.S. itself in 85033 contributed 15 percent of the world's fossil fuel combusted carbon dioxide emissions.
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Doing so would also create far more jobs than those lost in the declining fossil fuel sector.
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Meanwhile, buying politicians is a pretty good business investment for fossil-fuel magnates like the Koch brothers.
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His overarching goal has always been to replace the fossil-fuel-powered car with an electric one.
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We know that about 100 fossil fuel companies are to blame for 85033 percent of global emissions.
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It's time we start rejecting all new fossil fuel infrastructure, and instead embrace a clean energy future.
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Subsidies for any kind of energy, whether wind, solar or fossil fuel, hide the cost of energy.
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The International Energy Agency estimated that in 2628 alone, fossil fuel consumption subsidies totaled about $28503 billion.
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We would do better to focus on reducing fossil fuel pollution instead of pitting nuclear against renewables.
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Fossil fuel companies, by sowing doubt and driving division, helped bring partisanship into the climate change conversation.
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And it says fossil fuel companies should "cooperate with active and future investigations into" their climate science.
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He called climate change a "hoax" and promised to remove barriers to fossil fuel production and use.
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The end of the fossil-fuel era was not exactly imminent, but it was no longer unimaginable.
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I know there are student-led university groups encouraging their schools to divest from fossil fuel companies.
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Would £20,000 truly be enough to make us sell our souls for that sweet, sweet fossil fuel?
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The person nominated to be Pruitt's deputy, fossil fuel lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, still hasn't been confirmed yet.
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Most also said they were rejecting support from the fossil fuel industry and from registered federal lobbyists.
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It's common for investment products that claim to be environmentally friendly to actually include fossil fuel companies.
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But the true threat to the fossil fuel industry's power was evident outside Tillerson's own front door.
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The same year, there was a major movement to divest trillions of dollars from fossil fuel companies.
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Investors continue to pour money into renewable energy projects despite Trump's pro-fossil fuel posture, Reuters reports.
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Moreover, fossil fuel companies have known for decades what their products have been doing to the climate.
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Sanders wants to end fossil fuel use completely in power and transport in less than 10 years.
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Biden's critics say he needs to be tougher on fossil fuel interests to achieve his decarbonization goal.
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What America needs is a comprehensive vision for energy security, one that goes beyond fossil fuel independence.
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However, his consistent pursuit of fossil fuel interests is likely to carry over into the Trump Administration.
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Given recent history, many of the nuisance lawsuits against fossil fuel companies will likely be tossed out.
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It applies to fossil-fuel power plants of 25 MW or greater (just shy of 170 facilities).
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Yang hopes the direct democracy in the process will wash out the influence of fossil fuel companies.
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The optics of heading from a climate forum to a fossil fuel executive's fund-raiser are awful.
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The lawsuit was filed by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland against five fossil fuel companies.
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The track record of fossil fuel pipelines suggests such a calamity is only a matter of time.
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" With the escalation of fossil fuel development, there is now a fight for "the soul of Norway.
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Exxon's vast fossil fuel reserves "face little risk" of being left in the ground, the company said.
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And as soon as it's as cheap as fossil fuel, and feasible, I think we should switch.
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He is widely seen to be Trump's vehicle to carry out an aggressive domestic fossil fuel strategy.
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The leadership of these trade groups is dominated by fossil fuel money and loyal to the GOP.
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US fossil fuel companies and utilities are basically gambling on the continued perversity of US energy policy.
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The #NopeToArms collective signed the Oil Sponsorship Free commitment, refusing fossil fuel money to support their work.
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But they do not dominate the caucus: Fossil-fuel enthusiasts like Mitch McConnell and James Inhofe do.
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The fossil fuel companies have tried to move the cases to the federal courts under federal law.
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State Street created the E.T.F. for investors committed to divesting from fossil-fuel stocks, Mr. McKnett said.
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Money is still the main answer: Almost all prominent climate deniers are on the fossil-fuel take.
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Coal — the dirtiest burning fossil fuel — is dominant in China, producing most of the communist nation's energy.
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No one will die constructing, say, a new headquarters for the fossil fuel industry or Big Tobacco.
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Such regulations could force fossil fuel companies to keep oil, natural gas and coal in the ground.
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"We need to end the fossil fuel age in years, not decades, to keep the planet safe."
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Fossil fuel industry funding of curriculums also poses a huge obstacle to eliminating misinformation about climate change.
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Then he moved to Peru, Argentina and Colombia, always chasing new fossil fuel discoveries that created boomtowns.
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USMCA also offers giveaways to fossil fuel corporations — including new handouts that were not included in NAFTA.
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Instead, politicians influenced by fossil fuel and utility companies are working feverishly to stifle renewable energy growth.
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She also proposed a progressively increasing carbon-pollution fee and putting an end to fossil fuel subsidies.
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So much of the American West these days is under threat of development and fossil fuel extraction.
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Yet even while it altered the landscape, the fossil fuel industry brought much-needed jobs and infrastructure.
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While natural gas is a carbon-emitting fossil fuel, it burns cleaner than coal and heating oil.
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"But it's a company with a purpose to disrupt the fossil fuel industry — it gets the points."
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For more than a century, fossil fuel industries have won these battles, especially in places like Appalachia.
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Nearly 200 nations agreed as part of the Paris accords to limit or cut fossil fuel emissions.
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He is described as a "close ally of the fossil fuel industry," by The New York Times.
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This is to be expected, as the airline, automobile and fossil fuel industries don't want any competition.
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Another stated goal of her plan is an effort to remove corporate fossil fuel influence on politics.
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Fossil fuel-related investments now make up less than 1 percent of its fund, the newspaper said.
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Some parts of the fossil fuel industry will no doubt try to sabotage the electric car revolution.
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Addressing the effects of fossil fuel combustion on climate is a global challenge that requires global participation.
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Imagine an announcement from JPMorgan Chase that it was immediately ending funding for new fossil fuel projects.
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The SEC's Oil and Gas Reporting rules greatly improved the transparency and efficiency of fossil fuel markets.
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Exactly how far out of line is fossil fuel production with goals set to limit global warming?
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"It continues:"Microsoft makes millions of dollars in profits by helping fossil fuel companies extract more oil.
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Fonda believes fossil fuel companies have long known that their output wasn't sustainable but lied about it.
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The real beneficiaries of the repeal include deep-pocketed developers, the fossil fuel industry, and mining companies.
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The fossil fuel industry is hitting President Obama's energy policies before Tuesday night's State of the Union.
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Natural gas plants can quickly feed the fossil fuel into their facilities and address spikes in demand.
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In the process, we will be creating more, better-paying jobs, than the fossil fuel industry creates.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - America's big fossil-fuel companies are taking too simplistic approach to climate risk.
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Compliance would likely mean reductions in fossil fuel burning, which troubles the energy industry, manufacturers and Republicans.
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Both emphasize increased fossil fuel production on federal lands while doubling down on the most polluting ones.
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That's why for now it will continue to rely on natural gas, a cleaner-burning fossil fuel.
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State and local governments, too, are suing fossil fuel companies to recoup the costs of climate change.
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We're also going to need nuclear, geothermal and fossil-fuel plants that capture and store their emissions.
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Certainly the last thing I wanted to do was bring a new fossil fuel into my house.
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Right now, electrifying the residential sector by replacing fossil fuel furnaces with heat pumps is basically ... nowhere.
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His head of the Environmental Protection Agency has turned the E.P.A. over to the fossil fuel industry.
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The Mercer Family Foundation has funded organizations rejecting the scientific consensus around fossil fuel-driven climate change.
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Biden is among many candidates who signed a pledge not to take money from fossil-fuel executives.
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Then on February 7, the plaintiffs filed their injunction against new fossil fuel extraction on government territory.
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Environmental advocates called the level of fines a symptom of the Trump administration's pro-fossil-fuel agenda.
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In tandem, Sanders wants to ban new fossil fuel development in the United States and end exports.
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And he squeezed in a boast about the surge in fossil fuel development in the United States.
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Additionally, he pledges to end fossil fuel subsidies, such as through repealing tax credits that benefit the coal, gas, and oil industries; to put a price on climate pollution; and to require federal agencies apply a "climate test" when considering proposals for new fossil fuel infrastructure, including pipelines.
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Fossil fuel money A key fight between Sanders and Clinton spilled out into the open with the recent release of a video showing Clinton angrily responding to a climate activist who accused her of accepting "fossil fuel money" while the candidate shook hands with supporters after an event.
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Sanders's campaign said the plan would pay for itself within 15 years by making the fossil fuel industry pay for their pollution, eliminating federal fossil fuel subsidies, curtailing military spending on maintaining global oil dependence, collecting new income tax revenue from the 20 million new jobs created, and more.
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Continuing to pursue fossil fuel development is a losing proposition in the face of low oil prices, growing competition from renewables, and the scientific imperative to leave 80 percent of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground to avoid a catastrophic two-degree Celsius rise in global temperatures.
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They also wanted it to have subpoena power and to bar members who take fossil fuel money. 2.
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" Chevron: "I think Chevron's a good company, but I'm no longer recommending fossil fuel stocks on the show.
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It almost feels as if you are on the road, hands-free, to a post-fossil-fuel future.
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Trillions of dollars of fossil fuel assets would be rendered worthless if a clean energy "revolution" truly succeeded.
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Fossil-fuel subsidies would need to be removed by 2025, much earlier than in the Sustainable Development Scenario.
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Now is not the time to build fossil fuel power plants that will operate for half a century.
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His goal was to fertilize plankton to absorb carbon dioxide and then sell "credits" to fossil fuel firms.
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And all of these behemoths burn fossil fuel, contributing significantly to the warming atmosphere and shifting climate patterns.
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ENVIRONMENT/ENERGY The Wall Street Journal reports on Saudi Arabia's oil minister praising Trump's fossil fuel friendly policies.
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However, the fossil fuel industry is contributing to the poor health of millions of people around the world.
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Fossil fuel-free bank accounts Aspiration is not just trying to make inroads with dissatisfied Wells Fargo customers.
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Clinton also possess ties to the fossil fuel industry, through the form of donations and private fundraising events.
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Oil: Most fossil-fuel companies have supported Trump's aggressive efforts rolling back most of Barack Obama's environmental regulations.
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What happens if we end all fossil fuel development as House Democrats and their leading presidential candidates propose?
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Crowds, traffic, rich old dudes showing off their expensive toys—it's an altar to fossil fuel–powered excess.
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Natural gas is likely to be the last fossil fuel to remain standing, because of its relative cleanliness.
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The Democratic presidential contenders have traded shots in recent days over contributions from those with fossil fuel ties.
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The world's top fossil fuel companies have voiced support for the Paris agreement reached by nearly 200 countries.
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Sorry, he argues, but we can't rely on fossil-fuel scarcity to get us out of this mess.
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Fossil fuel production is pretty resilient to policy shifts unless they really mess with the underlying market fundamentals.
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We also have an administration deeply devoted to protecting the fossil fuel industry, particularly the ailing coal sector.
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"It was symbolic to fly over the Statue of Liberty being free from fossil fuel," Borschberg told CNN.
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But AP reports that it could be over the call to phase out fossil-fuel use by 2050.
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The president has also tapped well-known climate deniers and fossil fuel executives to lead key cabinet posts.
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"We're in danger of substituting one fossil fuel for another," said Cleetus of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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On Friday, Cramer also touched on the move among investors and money managers away from fossil fuel stocks.
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Then we have the Obama Environmental Protection Agency's new rules, which amount to a war on fossil fuel.
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Yet the array of threats facing the fossil fuel industry in 2020 could make for other strange bedfellows.
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Removing the generous direct and indirect subsidies available to fossil fuel companies could go a long way, too.
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The bill would impose an initial $15-per-ton carbon "fee" on fossil fuel producers, processors and importers.
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For example, last week, the country led a pro–fossil fuel event on the sidelines of the talks.
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Fossil fuel interests even sponsored COP21, an international conference where countries signed onto the Paris Agreement last year.
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"We're getting to the point where solar and wind are becoming cheaper than fossil fuel energy," Cowen said.
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However, the Democratic proposals also aim to help fossil fuel workers and communities transition to other economic sectors.
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"Tax credits to support renewables would be continued, whereas fossil fuel subsidies would be phased out," he noted.
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