Sentences with phrase «national environmental resource»

He did not want to be taken for what he was, a highly successful litigator who had retired to become the director of the National Environmental Resource Fund, a major American activist group.

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«Consumers should be as concerned as the foremost infectious disease doctors are — which is very concerned,» David Wallinga, a senior health officer at the environmental nonprofit the National Resources Defense Council, who contributed to the report, told Time.

Jim Lopez, President and CEO, Tembec John Lounds, President and CEO, Nature Conservancy of Canada David Miller, President and CEO, WWF — Canada; Former Mayor, City of Toronto Lorraine Mitchelmore, co-Chair, Smart Prosperity; former President, Canada Country Chair, Shell Canada Ken Neumann, Canadian National Director, United Steelworkers Merrell - Ann Phare, Founding Executive Director, Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources Vicky Sharpe, Founding President and CEO, Sustainable Development Technology Canada Jean Simard, President, Aluminum Association of Canada; co-Founder and Director, SWITCH Merran Smith, Executive Director, Clean Energy Canada Rick Smith, Executive Director, Broadbent Institute John Stackhouse, Senior Vice-President, Office of the CEO, Royal Bank of Canada Kali Taylor, Founding Executive Director, Student Energy Annette Verschuren, Chair and CEO, NRStor; co-Chair, Smart Prosperity Robert Wesseling, President and CEO, The Co-operators Galen Weston, President and Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Ltd..

Specific policies include encouraging job creation and innovation in the new energy economy; improving the fairness of employment standards (including re-establishing the National Minimum Wage; reversing «tax giveaways» to corporations; introducing and maintaining balanced budgets; protecting Canadians from «price gouging» by businesses; implementing income stabilization programs for farmers; promoting long - term economic and environmental sustainability of marine and forestry resources; and re-investing in education, skills training and apprenticeships to help Canadians succeed in the economy.

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Michael McSweeney, President and CEO, Cement Association of Canada Andrée - Lise Méthot, Founder and Managing Partner, Cycle Capital Management Lorraine Mitchelmore, co-Chair, Smart Prosperity; former President and Canada Country Chair, Shell Canada David Miller, President and CEO, WWF — Canada; Former Mayor, City of Toronto Joe Nemeth, President and CEO, Catalyst Paper Corporation Ken Neumann, Canadian National Director, United Steelworkers Derek Nighbor, CEO, Forests Products Association of Canada Robert Niven, Founder and CEO, CarbonCure Technologies Merrell - Ann Phare, Founding Executive Director, Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources John Risley, Co-Founder, Chairman and President, Clearwater Fine Foods Peter Robinson, CEO, David Suzuki Foundation Ron Seftel, CEO, Bullfrog Power Vicky Sharpe, Founding President, Sustainable Development Technology Canada Jean Simard, President, Aluminum Association of Canada; co-Founder and Director, SWITCH Scott Skinner, Executive Director, Clean Foundation Merran Smith, Executive Director, Clean Energy Canada Rick Smith, Executive Director, Broadbent Institute John Stackhouse, Senior Vice-President, Office of the CEO, Royal Bank of Canada Kali Taylor, Founding Executive Director, Student Energy Ilse Treunicht, CEO, MaRS Discovery District Scott Vaughan, President and CEO, International Institute for Sustainable Development Annette Verschuren, CEO, NRStor; co-Chair, Smart Prosperity Galen Weston, President and Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Ltd..

The National Resources Defense Council and the University of California - Berkeley are teaming up to conduct an environmental study on the impact of ridesharing services Uber and Lyft.

The Vision of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is excellence in the management of Outer Continental Shelf energy and mineral resources for environmental sustainability, economic development, and national security.

These things are problematic to focus on, since they are deeply personal, yet on a societal level they make very little difference — meaning that they can alienate someone very quick, yet, even their perfect application (lifelong marriages between men and women only) would not cure our social ills — what about wars, starvation, national debt, environmental decay, cheating banks, resource depletion, peak oil etc. etc?

Also take a look at the National Farm - to - School Network website, where you won't want to miss the newest resource you can download directly; Evaluation for Transformation: A Cross-Sectoral Evaluation Framework for Farm - to - School explores farm - to - school vis - à - vis public health, community economic development, education, and environmental quality.

«Yes, we have won countless awards and been featured in National Geographic for our environmental work and yes — 100 percent of our energy comes from renewable resources.

Erie County, NY Department of Health» National Environmental Education Week; To inspire environmental learning and encourage stewardship of our essentEnvironmental Education Week; To inspire environmental learning and encourage stewardship of our essentenvironmental learning and encourage stewardship of our essential resources

Each year, the National Environmental Education Foundation («NEEF») partners with educators, students, government agencies, businesses, communities, nonprofit organizations, and others to inspire environmental learning and encourage stewardship of our essential resources: land, aiEnvironmental Education Foundation («NEEF») partners with educators, students, government agencies, businesses, communities, nonprofit organizations, and others to inspire environmental learning and encourage stewardship of our essential resources: land, aienvironmental learning and encourage stewardship of our essential resources: land, air, and water.

get involved with and / or donate funds to national environmental advocacy organizations like the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, and 350.org; and local groups like Environmental Advocates of New York and the NY League of Conservenvironmental advocacy organizations like the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, and 350.org; and local groups like Environmental Advocates of New York and the NY League of ConservEnvironmental Defense Fund, and 350.org; and local groups like Environmental Advocates of New York and the NY League of ConservEnvironmental Advocates of New York and the NY League of Conservation Voters.

Posed as an important site for the maintenance of national security, this nearly 2000 - mile expanse is also one that bears biodiversity and ecosystem significance on both sides of the border.This panel seeks to better understand the intersection of science and technology with national security, human rights, environmental and cultural resources along U.S. - Mexico border.

The groups supporting the agreement include American Electric Power, Conservation International, Duke Energy, El Paso Corp., Environmental Defense Fund, Disney Corp., Marriott International, Mercy Corps, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, PG&E Corp., Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, Union of Concerned Scientists, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Woods Hole Research Center.

The FDA was forced to make its determination as part of a settlement to a lawsuit filed in August by the National Resources Defense Council, an environmental group based in New York.

The bald eagle's recovery is perhaps the best known example of how our environmental laws worked to restore not just a resource but our very national symbol.

At the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in North Carolina, a key resource for the career fairs are the associates at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.

In addition to being an assistant professor in ecohydrology and geoinformatics in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at U of I, Guan has a joint appointment as a Blue Waters professor affiliated with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Computer time was awarded by the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program; the project also used resources of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

She is talking about Brazil's environmental regulators, including the national park agency, known as the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBIO), and the Ministry of the Environment's administrative arm, known as the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA).

Boyden is a long - serving associate of the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University.

The team used high performance computing resources at two DOE scientific user facilities: EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at PNNL, and NERSC, the National Energy Research Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

«If we want to predict corn or soybean production for Illinois or the entire United States, we have to know where they are being grown,» says Kaiyu Guan, assistant professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois, Blue Waters professor at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and the principal investigator of the new study.

As the first of several national laboratories that China intends to launch in the coming years — others will be devoted to brain research, physics, and environmental science — the Qingdao lab will also be a bellwether for efforts to persuade scientists to accept greater government scrutiny and direction in exchange for ample resources.

The course is offered by Brookhaven Labs Biology and National Synchrotron Light Source departments, and reflects an educational component of the PXRR (Macromolecular Crystallography Research Resource), funded jointly by the National Center for Research Resources a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Department of Energys Office for Biological & Environmental Research.

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The 19 NIH institutes, centers and offices contributing to the contracts are: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Center for Research Resources, National Eye Institute, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of Nursing Research, and the Office of AIDS Research.

Acknowledgments: The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health through the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER).

This work was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (interagency agreement number Y1 - AI - 8401), the NIH National Center for Research Resources, and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research.

The Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung and Goethe University in Frankfurt as well as other, directly involved partners, co ‐ operate closely with regional, national and international institutions in the fields of science, resource and environmental management, in order to develop projections for the future and scientific recommendations for sustainable action.

Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.

User Facilities: Portions of the computational work were performed using resources at EMSL (a DOE Office of Science User Facility sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research and located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) and NERSC (the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the DOE Office of Science and located at Berkeley Lab)

The team used resources at EMSL, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, and NERSC, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center.

She also has interests in environmental issues and supports several «green» organizations, including the National Resources Defense Council.

In addition, the researchers found higher rates of chromosome changes in the white blood cells of the exposed fishermen — changes that have been linked to an increased risk of cancer in other studies, says Gina Solomon, MD, a senior scientist with the National Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental group.

Fifth grade students travel to NatureBridge in Olympic National Park, engaging in a number of adventure activities and studying environmental science and conservation of natural resources.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the California Air Resource Board (CARB) today took the first step in the mid-term evaluation of the National Program for greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards for light duty cars and trucks by releasing a draft Technical Assessment Report (TAR) for public comment.

In 2000, Global Resources For Environmental Education and Nature (GREEN), DBA as National Tiger Sanctuary was founded.

This site allows the Center to continue using the natural and cultural resources of the national park, especially the outdoor areas of Crissy Field and marsh, for its science and environmental programs that serve youth, schools, and the greater community.

(2) A military activity carried out by DOD as of the effective date of these regulations and specifically identified in the section entitled «Department of Defense Activities» of the FMP / FEIS is not considered a pre-existing activity if: (i) It is modified in such a way that requires the preparation of an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement under the National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., relevant to a Sanctuary resource or quality; (ii) It is modified, including but not limited to changes in location or frequency, in such a way that its possible adverse effects on Sanctuary resources or qualities are significantly greater than previously considered for the unmodified activity; (iii) It is modified, including but not limited to changes in location or frequency, in such a way that its possible adverse effects on Sanctuary resources or qualities are significantly different in manner than previously considered for the unmodified activity; or (iv) There are new circumstances or information relevant to a Sanctuary resource or quality that were not addressed in thenvironmental assessment or environmental impact statement under the National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., relevant to a Sanctuary resource or quality; (ii) It is modified, including but not limited to changes in location or frequency, in such a way that its possible adverse effects on Sanctuary resources or qualities are significantly greater than previously considered for the unmodified activity; (iii) It is modified, including but not limited to changes in location or frequency, in such a way that its possible adverse effects on Sanctuary resources or qualities are significantly different in manner than previously considered for the unmodified activity; or (iv) There are new circumstances or information relevant to a Sanctuary resource or quality that were not addressed in thenvironmental impact statement under the National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., relevant to a Sanctuary resource or quality; (ii) It is modified, including but not limited to changes in location or frequency, in such a way that its possible adverse effects on Sanctuary resources or qualities are significantly greater than previously considered for the unmodified activity; (iii) It is modified, including but not limited to changes in location or frequency, in such a way that its possible adverse effects on Sanctuary resources or qualities are significantly different in manner than previously considered for the unmodified activity; or (iv) There are new circumstances or information relevant to a Sanctuary resource or quality that were not addressed in thEnvironmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., relevant to a Sanctuary resource or quality; (ii) It is modified, including but not limited to changes in location or frequency, in such a way that its possible adverse effects on Sanctuary resources or qualities are significantly greater than previously considered for the unmodified activity; (iii) It is modified, including but not limited to changes in location or frequency, in such a way that its possible adverse effects on Sanctuary resources or qualities are significantly different in manner than previously considered for the unmodified activity; or (iv) There are new circumstances or information relevant to a Sanctuary resource or quality that were not addressed in the FMP / FEIS.

The National Park Service is committed to protecting park resources and values by demonstrating environmental leadership when designing, developing, and operating facilities within Katmai.

The wealth of natural resources in Channel Islands National Park offers the public unparalleled opportunities for solitude, tranquility, wildlife viewing, outdoor recreation, appreciation of natural history, and environmental education.

However, their implementation and enforcement by the National Environmental Appraisal Committee (NEAC) is not always effective due to its limited resources.

Sharon has also worked as an ecologist and resource specialist with the National Park Service, a resource planner with the Presidio Trust, and as an environmental consultant.

Its mission is: «To promote the sustainable development of tourism in Guyana that produces maximum economic, social, cultural and environmental benefits, while minimizing negative impacts as part of an integrated national development strategy through the optimal use of human resources and the provision of a product of the highest quality.»

Puerto Morelos, Q.R. — A civil group led by Greenpeace and the Mexican Center for Environmental Law (Cemda) are asking officials from the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) to withdraw a breakwater project that will see artificial reef structures placed in the National Reef Park of Puerto Morelos.

The regulatory and fiscal framework needs to find the right balance between the need to minimise adverse environmental and social impacts, and the need to supply energy and to capitalise on national resources.