Sentences with phrase «environmental strategies group»

Holmstead left the George W. Bush EPA in 2005, later joining the litigation firm Bracewell LLP as head of the firm's Environmental Strategies Group (ESG), which Bracewell describes as «a multi-disciplinary group that includes environmental and energy attorneys, public policy advocates, and strategic communications experts — most of whom have had high - level government experience.»

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Environmental groups are employing the same strategy, in a less direct way, on the oilpatch, by raising public opposition to pipelines and low - carbon fuel standards for refineries in California and Europe.

Environmental groups started waking up to this strategy in the fight against Northern Gateway, but it needs to happen on a bigger scale.

He repeats his description of the ways bad charity (the Great Society) drove out good charity (religiously based groups): It reinterpreted the causes of poverty as exclusively material and environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers of poor people with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role of volunteers in favor of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and marriage.

The Murray Darling Basin Authority, Basin States, the scientific community, local groups and others have existing environmental water and aquatic health monitoring and evaluation programs and strategies in place.

Drinks giants Diageo, Pernod Ricard and Bacardi have also pledged to stop using plastic straws and stirrers across their businesses, while drinks industry group the Scotch Whisky Association has also pledged its support as part of its Environmental Strategy.

Mass Audubon President Gary Clayton, Director of Public Policy Jack Clarke, and Legislative Director Karen Heymann met with Senator Edward J. Markey and other groups to brainstorm strategies for working with the incoming Presidential administration and new Congress on critical environmental issues.

The environmental pressure group is calling for the legislation to be improved by calling for amendments ensuring a strategy to insulate more warm homes and a legal minimum standard of energy efficiencies in rented properties.

Dr. Martin Dohrmann and Professor Gert Wörheide of the Division of Palaeontology and Geobiology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now used a new strategy based on the so - called molecular - clock to investigate the chronology of early animal evolution and produce a new estimate for the ages of the oldest animal groups.

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.

In May 2013 the Arctic Council decided to continue its work on the AACA initiative and requested the AMAP Working Group to «produce information to assist local decision - makers and stakeholders in three pilot regions in developing adaptation tools and strategies to better deal with climate change and other pertinent environmental stressors».

The Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice (EJ IWG), which provides leadership and direction to Federal agencies on efforts to address EJ, requested that DOT and all other participating agencies release updated EJ strategies in 2016.

Nick Rogers, JLR's group engineering director, said: «Environmental innovation is at the heart of our strategy to dramatically reduce emissions up to 2020 and beyond.

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Back in late 2009, in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of Los Angeles — area bird advocacy groups against City of Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS), a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found in favor of the bird groups that LAAS programs in support of trap / neuter / return (TNR) as a community cat management strategy was in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the agency had not conducted an environmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming coEnvironmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the agency had not conducted an environmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming coenvironmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming community cats.

The plan was a welcome news to environmental groups, albeit some weren't satisfied with the level of funding and strategies involved.

A conservation strategy for Gili was developed by considering groups of problem sources, the Park's potential values, regulations, as well as environmental and socio - economic conditions of the surrounding communities.

If environmental groups and their backers want to see concrete progress on limiting the risk that humans will propel dangerous global warming, they may need more than just additional money and better organization, but also a hard look at core strategies and a philosophy that has long cast climate change as primarily a conventional pollution problem, not a technology problem.

A blog storm began building Tuesday and broke on Wednesday as environmental groups posted a batch of documents — ranging from tax forms to lists of donors to a 2012 Heartland «climate strategy» — that appeared to expose the group's game plan, budgets and backers in remarkable detail.

I am sympathetic with the objectives of the forum and wish you and other attendees more success than the Aspen Strategy Group and Miller had in working out the problems in the Middle East, but please next time something like this comes up consider reporting on it (if you feel that is warranted) rather than simply facilitating a high - end environmental salon.

Several local and national environmental groups interviewed by InsideClimate News said they'll attempt to sway the election in McAuliffe's favor and are currently formulating their strategies.

Thirty leading environmental and energy groups have written to the new secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy Greg Clark urging the government to maintain its commitment to crucial EU targets on energy post Brexit — including the demand that all new buildings be «nearly zero energy» (NZEB) from 2021.

In a similar argument, Katharina Nett and Lukas Rüttinger in a report for adelphi asserted last month that «large - scale environmental and climatic change contributes to creating an environment in which [non-state armed groups] can thrive and opens spaces that facilitate the pursuit of their strategies.»

Some of these efforts partially succeeded but the recent climategate emails revealed the scope, tenuousness and mendacity of these strategies and the revelations as to the role of environmental advocacy groups in the IPCC has left them without real alternatives except to find the PR equivalent of a «smoking gun».

The U.S. Department of Energy's recently upgraded website contains all things energy related, and can direct you to the many subsites and programs it operates: www.doe.gov For information about all things related to renewable energy in the U.S., try the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's site at: www.nrel.gov Bricker & Eckler produces numerous resources related to Ohio's energy arena, specifically in their Energy & Public Utilities, Environmental, and Green Strategies groups: http://www.bricker.com/services.aspx The Ohio Power Siting Board keeps track of energy installations statewide: www.opsb.ohio.gov To access information about Ohio's certified renewable energy installations, try the PUCO's listing: http://www.puco.ohio.gov/emplibrary/files/util/EnergyEnvironment/SB221/Updated%20Approved%20REN%20Cases.pdf

Master's Projects provide students — before they leave school — with unequaled training and experience in performing professional - level work that involves managing group dynamics, developing strategies, and applying technical expertise to solve complex multidisciplinary environmental problems.

Environmental groups that Whitehouse has consulted on the effort have warned that such a strategy is unlikely to succeed.

She has organized and managed education and advocacy programs dealing with a wide range of energy and environmental issues, such as high level nuclear waste legislation, director of a solar installers» training and energy conservation installation program, coordination for numerous state, local and national conferences / strategy workshops, and has assisted community - based groups in establishing job - training / energy rehabilitation programs.

Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said «clean energy» advocates are getting their «asses kicked» inside the Beltway and is calling on environmental groups to rethink their strategies following the collapse of climate change legislation.

The main story of this chapter (1 of 4 in the report) is how environmental groups, despite a history of differences, came together to coordinate their activities in support of cap and trade and how their composition, strategies, restrictions and activities compared to the longstanding alliance of groups opposed to the legislation.

• the financial resources and spending of environmental groups and their opponents; • the planning efforts and investment strategies of major foundations; • the patterns in news attention and media portrayals of climate change; • the factors shaping the recent decline in public concern and belief in climate change; • the factors influencing how scientists and environmentalists interpret and make sense of climate change politics.

At future joint meeting of funders and agreeable environmental groups, common strategies would be set, and differing roles carved out for the agreeable groups.

The 45 environmental groups were selected from among the major national environmental organizations analyzed by political scientist Christopher Bosso in his book Environment Inc: From Grassroots to Beltway, an award - winning study of the history, financing and political strategies of the U.S. environmental movement.

One of the Locke Institute's criticisms is that the Center for Climate Strategies was founded by an «environmental advocacy group.»

Both the Sierra Club and 350.org eschewed the inside - the - Beltway focus and top - down political strategy of big mainstream environmental groups, as exemplified by the cap - and - trade campaign.

According to documents obtained by environmental group Ozone Action and journalist Ross Gelbspan, ICE messaging strategies included targeting «older, less educated males»... and «younger, lower income women.»

Prior to joining EDF, Mark held a variety of business strategy and environmental management positions within Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), a large electric and gas utility holding company in the United States.

According to documents obtained by environmental group Ozone Action and journalist Ross Gelbspan, ICE messaging strategies included targeting «older, less educated males from larger households who are not typically active information seekers» and «younger, lower income women.»

We also help our clients develop strategies to address the media and the numerous community engagement groups that are typically involved in these high - profile environmental tort cases.

Robinson + Cole's land use lawyers work closely with members of the firm's Environmental + Utilities Group to manage liability risk and to help our clients successfully implement remedial strategies.

Over the course of the semester, students will advise a community group on an environmental justice advocacy strategy, help clients determine whether they have standing to bring an environmental case, negotiate a RCRA enforcement settlement and a regional - scale habitat conservation plan, design a litigation strategy to address changes to air quality standards, and testify at a hearing on water pollution reduction — among many other exercises.

Over the course of the semester, students will advise a community group on an environmental justice advocacy strategy, help clients determine whether they have standing to bring an environmental case, negotiate a RCRA enforcement settlement and a regional - scale habitat conservation plan, design a litigation strategy to address changes to air quality standards, and testify at a hearing on water pollution reduction

Tom Cosgrove, an environmental activist and political media consultant, is founder of New Voice Strategies and The Cosgrove Group, a strategic communications consulting firm.

Advised environmental remediation group involved in the clean - up of Department of Energy Manhattan project era facilities on effective legal strategies involving CERCLA removal actions.

Of a number of published evidence reviews on strategies for preventing childhood obesity, 8 — 15 only one published in 2007 has focused on environmental influences of obesity - related dietary behaviours in children and young people (aged 3 — 18 years).15 It found consistent associations between parental influences (parental food intake and education) and obesity in this age group.15 The early years are a priority population for intervention strategies for two reasons.