Lee Raymond, Exxon's CEO before Rex Tillerson, famously called global warming a hoax and the 1997 Kyoto pact "unworkable, unfair and ineffective". In 2009 Tillerson softened the party line to support the imposition of a carbon tax and has long pushed clean-burning natural gas as the fuel of the future.
So let's be a bit careful which paradigm we're pushing: clean is more important than cheap.
A9 NATIONAL A24-25 Planutoon Plan to Expand The Bush administration is pushing clean air policies through regulation rather than legislation.
We have senators that agree with big oil philosophy... and we have senators who are pushing clean energy".
Audi is pushing "clean diesel" engines, and Toyota is working on a hydrogen-based fuel cell technology that would obviate the need for heavy batteries.
His parallel #futureisclean campaign is planning to have a presence at the United Nations Paris Climate Change conference in November, hoping to push clean technology up the agenda.
A generous gift allows Stanford's graduate business school and law school to combine forces in a one-of-a-kind effort to push clean energy technology to deployment through a focus on policy and finance.
The ultimate goal of these policies, the authors note, is to push clean tech so that it can eventually stand on its own and compete with older, more established fossil fuels.
Two prominent skeptics are Audi, the German luxury carmaker, which is pushing "clean diesel" engines, and Toyota, maker of the trail-blazing Prius hybrid, which is working on a hydrogen-based fuel cell technology that would obviate the need for heavy batteries.
Ritter met with the administration last week to discuss the 207-page report, which includes roughly 200 recommendations on how Obama can utilize his executive authority to push clean energy standards…After getting nothing back from Congress, [former climate czar Heather] Zichal said, "we started to focus on what we can do legally" under the president's existing powers.
