Sentence examples for block climate from inspiring English sources

"It just shows that Alec uses lawmakers as lobbyists to block climate legislation at every turn," said Connor Gibson, a researcher for Greenpeace.

It calls on business leaders to take a close look at the climate policy of trade associations – and quit those groups if they try to block climate policies.

The oil and gas industry alone spent $175m in 2009 trying to block climate legislation, according Open Secrets, which tracks money in politics.

In the run-up to Paris, and while Obama has been at the summit, Republicans in Congress have repeatedly threatened to block climate aid to developing countries.

Speaking recently to an audience at the University of Vermont, Mr. McKibben painted the fossil fuel industry as an enemy that must be defeated, arguing that it had used money and political influence to block climate action in Washington.

Of course, at the macro level, businesses scrambling to block climate legislation or treaties that, as they see it, will threaten to reduce their profits and hinder their growth would seem to be acting quite rationally.

Also on the legislative docket with the Koch brothers' blessing: proposals to defund or block climate-change initiatives and remove the subsidies for renewable energy, a rival to the Koch fossil-fuel empire.

There are lots of groups promoting doubt about climate science that have a clear financial stake in blocking climate legislation.

"This is a breakthrough as usually business blocks climate action on a national level," he said yesterday.

For five years he felt constrained by congressional conservatives' success in blocking climate legislation.

That may be heresy, but perhaps the only way for this segment of the population to stop blocking climate solutions is to begin adhering to doomsday scenarios backed up by the scientific method.