Sentences with phrase «environmental groups took»

Several environmental groups took the federal ministers of oceans and fisheries and the environment to Federal Court seeking a declaration that they must act to protect endangered species.

Environmental groups took to the courts to get those terms enforced.

And sure enough, the aid agencies, civil society movements and environmental groups all took the bait.

Less than a week after construction began on the controversial Bayou Bridge pipeline in Louisiana, a coalition of crawfishers and environmental groups took legal steps to immediately shut down the project.

Already, NARAL Pro-Choice New York in a statement knocked Astorino's conservative stance on abortion, while an environmental group took him to task for his fracking stance.

These groups represent something quite different from of the position of environmental groups taking anti-geoengineering positions like the ETC group, who ground their critique in a broader conversation about which climate solutions are workable and just.

B.C. environmental group takes province to court to block development of ski resort, Canadian Press

Not exact matches

The second part of the Liberal plan is tweaking pipeline reviews, which has taken heavy fire from environmental groups and First Nations critics.

But as Virgin grew through the years, so did our ideas about how to treat employees well, and how to take environmental impact into account, and by 2004, I had come to realize that we at the Virgin Group had a chance to tackle the challenges our society faces in a new, entrepreneurial way.

The most effective tactic environmental groups used to frustrate forest companies was to take the fight to their customers.

Pigs continued to fly in Alberta politics today as energy industry leaders and environmental groups joined Premier Rachel Notley and Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips at a press conference to release Alberta's much anticipated plan to take action against Climate Change.

• From Ecumenical News International: «For the first time in history, Swiss churches, including the Roman Catholic Church and Switzerland's main Protestant churches, have joined forces with environmental groups to launch a petition calling on the Swiss government to take urgent action to combat global warming.»

Evidence that BPA may be harmful if consumed led consumer and environmental groups to pressure manufacturers and the U.S. government to take steps to protect consumers.

This ongoing effort comes as an anti-pesticide push from environmental and public health groups has taken hold recently, targeting the negative side effects of synthetic chemicals.

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Mr McLoughlin said the Government intended the Independent Commission chaired by Sir Howard Davies to be «part of a process that is fair and open and that takes account of the views of passengers and residents as well as the aviation industry, business, local and devolved government and environmental groups.»

As the Republican - controlled Senate Tuesday prepares to vote on legislation that would block New York City from enacting a five - cent fee on plastic bags, an environmental group is urging the Legislature to let the surcharge take effect.

The county started taking comments on a 654 - page draft environmental view Wednesday, alarming a group of environmentalists and members of the Onondaga Nation who said 30 days is not enough time to comment.

Obama hints in his 2013 State of the Union address that he might approve the pipeline; Greens promote the «Green New Deal» and say environmental groups must stop allowing Dems to take support for granted; Obama's «executive action» to curb climate change won't work if he keeps promoting more oil and gas production

While the county and some environmental groups remain in court over similar action taken in 2011, Bob DeLuca, executive director of Group for the East End — which did not take legal action then — said his organization's members are deciding for themselves whether or not to sue.

While the Cuomo administration is pushing the U.S. EPA to test all drinking water sources for dangerous chemicals, environmental groups say the state should take action.

Four environmental groups and two Adirondack towns have written Governor Andrew Cuomo urging him to take immediate action to stop the storage of empty tank cars on a rail line between North Creek and Newcomb.

For now, it's unclear which track Cuomo will take: Either anger environmental groups who want to cut down on waste or upset those — including Democrats — who believe the fee is a regressive tax.

«I take very seriously the need to protect this special land and water and as your next state senator, I look forward to working hand in hand with key environmental groups, such as the Sierra Club, to advocate for environmentally - friendly policies in Albany.»

An anti-GM group, «Take the Flour Back», describing itself as «a grassroots network of individuals», said it was extremely concerned about both the risk of cross-contamination of wild and domestic plants and the unknown health and environmental impacts.

The bill, which delays the fee taking effect for a year, presented a quandary for the governor: Environmental groups wanted the fee in order to cut down on plastic waste; lawmakers from both parties viewed the fee as a regressive tax.

However, it has not taken additional steps to limit oil trains in the way environmental and community groups have requested.

Last week, KingstonCitizens.org, the local activist group that led the successful opposition to the Niagara Bottling proposal, last week asked its members to consider whether the group will ask the Kingston Common Council to advocate the DEC taking «lead agency» status in the environmental review.

ELIZABETHTOWN — With just weeks until president - elect Donald Trump takes office, environmental groups in the Adirondack Park are expressing concerns over an administration they fear may be hostile to the environment.

«Governor Cuomo has taken bold and decisive action by signing into law legislation that protects the Hudson River from barges and tanker ships that carry dangerous petroleum - based products and other hazardous materials,» Ned Hudson, president of the environmental group Scenic Hudson, said Tuesday in a statement emailed to the media.

But the news is alarming environmental groups and mass transit advocates who say the city and state must invest in transportation options that take cars off the streets.

A number of residents, activists and environmental advocates penned a letter to Seggos and EPA Region 2 Administrator Peter Lopez on Friday asking that those agencies take a number of actions, including the creation of a community advisory group.

Sanders has sided with the environmental groups on nearly every major position, while Clinton has taken a more nuanced approach that has angered some activists.

Over 100 groups ranging from unions, environmental organizations, to pro-gun groups and the state's conservative party, all fear that some rights already in the state's constitution might be taken away.

Through the 12 - question survey, the new group hopes to bring local environmental concerns into the forefront this election year and to force candidates to take a public stance on everything from noise pollution and water quality to land preservation and waste management.

The group's scorecard took aim at two other Republicans, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb of Geneva and Assemblyman Christopher Friend of Big Flats, for low scores on environmental votes.

Obama has taken heat from environmental groups for the perception that he hasn't done enough to address climate change.

A group of researchers at the University of California, Davis, surveyed 162 farmers in Yolo County, Calif., comparing what growers thought about climate change, their willingness to participate in government - led climate programs and their takes on four different environmental regulations passed in the last 25 years.

Environmental groups have long raised questions about this track record, and the U.S. Government Accountability Office recently joined the chorus, releasing a report that charges the agency with taking actions that have «impeded... progress in helping assure the public of safe drinking water.»

Environmental groups suspected that the motives were economic, and they pressed the European Commission to take Poland to court.

Environmental groups criticize the EPA, which was granted the authority by Congress in 1996, for taking so long to order manufacturers to test only a small group of chemicals.

Environmental groups are jumping to take advantage of the weakness.

«The Dakota gasification project is creating synthetic gas and taking the CO2 from that process,» then piping it to the Weyburn oil field, observes Kurt Waltzer, carbon storage development coordinator at the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental group based in Boston.

Arguing that environmental regulations haven't kept pace with new science, the Washington, D.C. - based advocacy group Oceana last week petitioned Secretary of Commerce Don Evans to take immediate steps to protect the sea - floor organisms in U.S. waters.

In this episode, Scientific American.com editorial director Kate Wong talks about the anthropology community's latest take on the remains of tiny humans from Flores; chemist Jennifer Mass discusses how she uses her science background artistically; and journalist Paul D. Thacker reveals how what appear to be environmental groups may be wolves in sheep's clothing.

And now an international group of 28 scientists has taken a preliminary stab at setting some concrete environmental thresholds for the planet.

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Others, like Tom Burke, founding director of U.K. - based environmental group E3G, dismissed the Nature piece as «an ivory - tower view of life» that focuses on what is being said in academic literature rather than what is happening on the ground as countries slowly but surely buckle to international pressure to take on climate responsibly.

The Senate language contains controversial provisions, decried by most environmental groups, that would take some powers away from the states.

Now, the team of Frédéric Guillaume of the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences of the University of Zurich, in cooperation with research groups from Grenoble and Vienna, has developed a new model that takes eco-evolutionary mechanisms into consideration, therefore permitting more reliable predictions.