Sentences with phrase «environmental defense working»

The Environmental Defense Working Group and Burnaby Pipeline Watch received a grant in 2015 from the West Coast Environmental Law Foundation (WCEL) to research and prepare recommendations for legislation to protect public participation in British Columbia.

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The Environmental Defense Fund has been doing the most level - headed and intellectually honest work on this issue, and the EPA has been working toward rules that would force the industry to reduce leakage from natural gas infrastructure.

Hancock's career accomplishments include working on the1990 antitrust case, United States v. Baker Hughes, in which the D.C. Circuit Court set a standard for establishing entry into a market as a defense in a merger challenge, and Omega Environmental v. Gilbarco, a Ninth Circuit case involving the legality of exclusive dealing arrangements.

Emily Lyons is responsible for working with members and government agencies on environmental, worker safety and sustainability issues, as well as food safety and food defense.

Suzanne will set the stage by talking about the changed media environment from her perspective as an experienced political communicator, I'll discuss the ways nonprofits can prepare to take advantage of new outlets both in the short and long term, and Kira will talk about several specific examples from her work at Environmental Defense Fund.

Amalgamated Transit Union, ATU Local 726, ATU Local 1056, ATU Local 1179 ATU Local 1181 - 1061, American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Asian Americans for Equality, Center for Working Families, Citizens Committee for NYC, Common Cause / NY, Construction Industry Council, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, DC 37, DC 37 Local 375B, DC37 Local 1655, Empire State Transportation Alliance, Environmental Defense Fund, General Contractors Association of New York, League of Women Voters of the City of NY, League of Women Voters of New York State, Long Island Contractors» Association, Inc. (LICA), MTA Coalition of Unions, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, New York Building Congress, NY League of Conservation Voters, NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign, NYS Council of Machinists, NY State Legislative Conference Board, NYS Transportation Equity Alliance, PCAC to MTA, Pratt Center for Community Development, Regional Plan Association, Reinvent Albany, Teamsters Local 808, Transit Riders Action Committee, Transportation Alternatives, TWU Local 100, TWU Local 252, TWU Local2001, TWU Local 2054, Transport Workers International Union of America, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, UPROSE, We Act for Environmental Justice, Women's City Club.

Last week, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote a Washington Post opinion piece in favor of natural gas development in New York state and awarded a $ 6 million grant from his philanthropic organization to the Environmental Defense Fund for work to minimize adverse environmental impacts from natural gaEnvironmental Defense Fund for work to minimize adverse environmental impacts from natural gaenvironmental impacts from natural gas operations.

He also has ties to environmental groups, having worked for Riverkeeper, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Council on Environmental Quality at theenvironmental groups, having worked for Riverkeeper, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Council on Environmental Quality at theEnvironmental Quality at the White House.

Michael Hickey, the village resident who tested the water and sounded the first alarm about the contamination three years ago, as well as Loreen Hackett, Emily Marpe and her 12 - year - old daughter, Gwen Young, traveled there on behalf of the Environmental Working Group and Environmental Defense Fund.

The Environmental Defense Fund is working with researchers at Harvard University on the probe

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The new investment in carbon offsets and RECs should match the league's total greenhouse gas emissions, estimated at 550,000 metric tons, according to a league - commissioned report from the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Green Sports Alliance, a nonprofit that works with sports leagues on environmental sustainability.

More work is also needed in consulting with polluters under the system, according to Alvin Lin, climate and energy policy director for China at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental organization based in New York.

Financial support for this work was provided by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, BG Group PLC, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., Pioneer Natural Resources Company, SWEPI LP (Shell), Statoil, Southwestern Energy and XTO Energy, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil.

And it seems to be working: The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) reports that Singapore, London, Stockholm and the three largest cities in Norway have reduced traffic and pollution in downtown areas thanks to congestion pricing.

Across the channel, London is working with the nonprofit Environmental Defense to install upwards of 40 electric recharging stations around town.

Working in tandem with such groups as the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Coalition for a Safe Environment, along with the Teamsters and Longshoremen's unions and local activists like Martha Cota, they've done extensive lobbying in Sacramento and community organizing to push for enforcement of the California Environmental Quality Act and compel the Port of Los Angeles to initiate a suite of pollution - reduction strategies that have cleaned up the air.

«[I] t's worth savoring the present moment, brought to all of us by a rare amalgam of political risk - taking and courage, willingness to seek common ground and compromise, dedication to one's key principles while acknowledging the legitimacy of others», and countless days, weeks and months of plain old hard work,» said Richard Denison, a senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, in a blog post.

«The repeated, frequent and uncoordinated visits by different tour companies does present a problem for sensitive breeding colonies of Antarctic wildlife,» says Bruce Manheim, a lawyer who works for the Washington - based Environmental Defense Fund.

«It is bitter air that you can feel,» says Timothy Hui, a longtime resident of Beijing who works at the local office of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S. - based environmental group.

Paulson received a Ph.D. in environmental science in 1971 before joining the Natural Resources Defense Council to work on air and water pollution issues.

RTI staff worked closely with several of the Board members including the Environmental Defense Fund, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, the U.S. Geological Survey, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, and The Nature Conservancy to develop a scientific basis for establishing the prescribed ecological flows.

Frances Beinecke is the former president of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a leading nonprofit environmental organization that works to curb global warming, protect...

Tara's impressive history includes working as the CA Director and Legal Coordinator of a wildlife program for Earth Island Institute, clerking for the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center and for In Defense of Animals, serving as a legislative extern for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and managing the Golden Gate Audubon Society.

Kristen Hislop is the Marine Conservation Program Director at the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) and also works with Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program as a consulting researcher.

But in the last 20 years farming has changed,» says Eric Holst, the associate vice president of the Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) working lands program.

The Environmental Defense Fund over the past year has repeatedly stated that only by working with industry could they and the Allen et al. team have access necessary to make their measurements.

He added that this work complemented, rather than clashed with, the valuable aerial surveys, some of which the Environmental Defense Fund is also paying for.

I've rounded up some other reactions (including a defense) from a few folks involved in film and / or environmental communication work or analysis.

A particularly powerful thread, the importance of the Pentagon as a driver of innovation and market for effective energy technology, emerged in an earlier discussion involving three of the top figures in the federal government focused on advancing energy choices that will work for the long haul — Cathy Zoi, assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy, Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, and Jeffrey Marqusee, who runs environmental research and development programs for the Department of Defense.

Among them are Dan Whittle of the Environmental Defense Fund, who's been working there for many years, and Erica Goode of The Times, who talked to the class about her 2015 reporting on marine conservation in Cuba.

It's worth noting Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta's remarks on energy, climate and security last night at an Environmental Defense Fund event honoring the Defense Department for its work on the intersection of these issues.

Sara Morris, President of The Beecher's Foundation, will be speaking at the Inaugural Seattle Food Tank Summit, titled «Growing Food Policy,» which will be held in partnership with the Environmental Working Group, Food Action, Garden - Raised Bounty (GRuB), the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Seattle University's Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability on March 17, 2018.

Fred Krupp, executive director of Environmental Defense, said, «To have two senators like John McCain and Joe Lieberman joining across the aisle to say that voluntary methods haven't been enough and that they're going to work to develop a comprehensive cap - and - trade system is very significant.»

In fact, for the past, year Environmental Defense Fund has been drawing up a short - term blueprint for climate action, part of new strategic plan that will guide all of our work for the next five years.

Entanglement's work was part of an effort by the Environmental Defense Fund, a national advocacy group, and the nonprofit Air Alliance Houston to help the city of Houston assess environmental damage from Harvey, protect public health and hold companies accountable for theEnvironmental Defense Fund, a national advocacy group, and the nonprofit Air Alliance Houston to help the city of Houston assess environmental damage from Harvey, protect public health and hold companies accountable for theenvironmental damage from Harvey, protect public health and hold companies accountable for their pollution.

For instance, the school where Brulle earned his Master's in natural resources, brags on its website38 about its alumni's work for politicized advocacy groups like the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice.

She will be speaking at the Seattle Food Tank Summit, «Growing Food Policy,» which will be held in partnership with the Environmental Working Group, Food Action, Garden - Raised Bounty, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Seattle University's Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability on March 17, 2018.

Over the past forty years, Environmental Defense Fund has established itself successfully in the environmental community and on the national stage as one of the most effective member - based, non-partisan organizations working to protect the environment and Environmental Defense Fund has established itself successfully in the environmental community and on the national stage as one of the most effective member - based, non-partisan organizations working to protect the environment and environmental community and on the national stage as one of the most effective member - based, non-partisan organizations working to protect the environment and human health.

The Environmental Defense Fund is working with researchers at Harvard University on the probe

Harvard economist and former Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Chief Economist Robert Stavins claims that the low carbon prices of the ETS, and its little sister cap and trade system in the US Northeast, known as RGGI, prove not that they're failing but rather that they are working as planned.

The Environmental Defense Fund, which works extensively with energy companies to help ensure fossil - fuel production is done safely and with the fewest methane emissions possible, launched a new initiative last summer called Smart Power that promotes renewable energy above all fossil fuels, including natural gas.

The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) are working together on a series of peer - reviewed scientific studies to measure methane emissions in the oil and gas sector.

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John Piotti, President of American Farmland Trust, will be speaking at the Inaugural Seattle Food Tank Summit, titled «Growing Food Policy,» which will be held in partnership with the Environmental Working Group, Food Action, Garden - Raised Bounty (GRuB), the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Seattle University's Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability on March 17, 2018.

... comments like those of James Wang of Environmental Defense, who says that scientists who publish results against the consensus are «mostly in the pocket of oil companies»; and those of the, yes, United Kingdom's Royal Society that say that there «are some individuals and organisations, some of which are funded by the US oil industry, that seek to undermine the science of climate change and the work of the IPCC»

«The gathering and processing sector, a piece of the supply chain that most people don't even know exists, may be the biggest single fraction of emissions coming from natural gas,» said Mark Brownstein, who leads the Environmental Defense Fund's work on methane emissions.

The Environmental Working Group links PTFE to «smaller birth weight and size in newborn babies, elevated cholesterol, abnormal thyroid hormone levels, liver inflammation and weakened immune defense against disease.»

Working with the advice of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Pew Environmental Fund, Bush selected sites that collectively harbor the world's smallest atoll (Rose Atoll - which is home to more than 500 fish species and 97 % of American Samoa's seabirds), several threatened turtle nesting beaches, the deepest ocean canyon in the world (the Mariana Trench, with its otherworldly, undersea volcanoes, acidic thermal vents, liquid sulfur, and incredibly rare life forms), hundreds of species of corals, Hawaiian monk seals, and countless seabirds, rays, sharks, dolphins and whales.