Sentence examples for carbon lobby from inspiring English sources

But there are fewer of them than there used to be, they seem to be getting less money from the carbon lobby (though it is hard to be sure about these things) and they may not now matter that much.

As Guy Pearse pointed out in his book Greenwash "the carbon lobby's hired help", including accountants, lawyers and consultants, are too often overlooked.

While the carbon lobby will always, always claim that climate change is not really so bad, that's not what is lulling the public -- it's the uncertainty about whether it is already happening, which GRACE shows us clearly it is, and whether man-made emissions are the cause, which the ocean acidification data demonstrates beyond a doubt.

Having failed to undermine public acceptance of climate science or turn us against renewable energy, the high-carbon lobby wants to ensure that people have no appetite for the journey to a low-carbon society.

Traditional pro-carbon government support has ranged from legislatively enacted and executive branch policies (in response to powerful pro-carbon lobbies), to using the intelligence apparatus and military in support of carbon-driven market share.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse wrote in Harvard Business Review that "Despite the statements emitted from oil companies' executive suites about taking climate change seriously and supporting a price on carbon, their lobbying presence in Congress is 100% opposed to any action".

All other "solutions" from the green lobby – carbon capture, intermittent renewables and continental connectivity – are either futurology or dodging the issue.

As big anti-carbon replaces big carbon in the lobbying stakes, statistics become gibberish, millions become billions and megawatts become gigawatts submerged in tonnes of CO2.

They laid a mock pipeline in Grosvenor Square from the Canadian High Commission to the US embassy, as a sign of their "outrage at the continued exploitation of high-carbon tar sands", lobby group Campaign Against Climate Change said.

And in 2009, when Congress was considering a cap-and-trade bill, the company came out in favor of a carbon tax and lobbied against the bill that was actually in play.

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