Sentence examples for blocking climate from inspiring English sources
There are lots of groups promoting doubt about climate science that have a clear financial stake in blocking climate legislation.
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.
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.
"It just shows that Alec uses lawmakers as lobbyists to block climate legislation at every turn," said Connor Gibson, a researcher for Greenpeace.
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.
Those trying to block climate policy by any means necessary have resorted to trying to make scientists' private emails public, via either hacking or frivolous Freedom of Information Act requests.
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.
Exxon has also continued to fund Alec, which works to block climate legislation in state legislatures, according to figures compiled by the Climate Investigations Center from the oil company's own disclosures in its annual Worldwide Giving Reports and foundation tax filings.
