Sentences with phrase «as environmental defenders»

As environmental defenders, Goldman Prize winners have also been impacted by this alarming trend.

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As is observed by J. Baird Callicott, a contemporary environmental philosopher and defender of Leopold, what is noteworthy about this principle «is that the good of the biotic community is the ultimate measure of the moral value, the rightness or wrongness, of actions» (AL 318).

While exploiting the fear of environmental disaster, ecologists dismiss their opponents as short - sighted defenders of capitalist class interest.

Francis Morales, or Tatay Francis as he is fondly called, has been recognized as one of the country's environmental defenders by the award - giving body, Gawad Bayani ng Kalikasan (GBK).

Judith is well known among environmental activists and has a reputation as a relentless defender of the environment.

Antioxidants are a front - line defender when it comes to protecting your body from harmful environmental offenders such as free radicals and chemicals.

The Clean Power Plan's defenders treat it as if it were a seawall holding back a tide of environmental ills.

As of early March, nine environmental defenders have been killed this year, including Purépecha activist Guadalupe Campanur Tapia, who was one of the leaders of an indigenous movement against illegal logging in Cheran, Mexico.

Defenders of regulation of greenhouse gases and strong climate policy were an articulate minority at a recent House hearing designed, as usual, mainly to beat up on the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Smarter Safer Coalition, an effort to reform the National Flood Insurance Program by top insurers, environmental organizations including American Rivers, the Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, Environmental Defense Fund, Defenders of Wildlife, Ceres, and the Nature Conservancy, alongside conservative groups such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute, American Conservative Union, and Americans foenvironmental organizations including American Rivers, the Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, Environmental Defense Fund, Defenders of Wildlife, Ceres, and the Nature Conservancy, alongside conservative groups such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute, American Conservative Union, and Americans foEnvironmental Defense Fund, Defenders of Wildlife, Ceres, and the Nature Conservancy, alongside conservative groups such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute, American Conservative Union, and Americans for Tax Reform.

The NRDC and such sister environmental organizations as the Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society, Defenders of Wildlife and the Center for Biological Diversity met repeatedly with the bureau and fast - track solar developers throughout the approval process, Wald says.

Some of the volunteering I have undertaken has involved conducting research as a group for both the Environmental Defender's Office and the PNG Supreme Court through the UQ Pro Bono Centre.