Sentences with phrase «national environmental groups say»

National environmental groups say the shift has blunted the edge of Republican attacks.

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Environmental group WWF Scotland said Friday that analysis of data provided by WeatherEnergy showed the country's wind turbines sent 86,467 megawatt hours of electricity to the National Grid on Monday.

«There is no scientific body of national or international standing that rejects the findings of human - induced effects on climate,» Peter Gleick, a scientist and president of the Pacific Institute, an environmental group, said on a conference call on Wednesday.

«It can probably be done in a way that is responsible and will not lead to environmental catastrophes,» says Sax, who is helping organize a group with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation to assess the idea.

Environmental Working Group's director of research, Renee Sharp, said a national standard is necessary to protect people's health.

«With or without German support — or even without the [Ecuadorian] government's support — the initiative remains valid and legitimate, not only for the indigenous people that live within the borders of the national park but for Ecuadorian society and for the world as a whole,» said Ivonne Yanez, president of Acción Ecológica, a Quito - based environmental activist group which has been instrumental in raising the initiative's profile.

However, the amount of carbon loss from drought - driven wildfires has remained high, says lead author Dr Luiz Aragão, leader of the tropical ecosystems and environmental sciences group (TREES) at the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil.

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.

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.

The report by environmental advocacy group the Climate Council said the government needed to do more to reduce carbon emissions harming Australia's beaches, national parks and the Great Barrier Reef.

But Clapp, president of the U.S. group National Environmental Trust, said, «I certainly don't disagree with the urgency.»

They say that now that the «well - heeled national environmental groups out of the picture» by agreeing to the deal, TXU will have an easier time minimizing costly environmental constraints.

Like I said, it is Lindzen... not I... who is proposing a vast conspiracy theory whereby because he can identify a few scientists who have connections to environmental groups or Al Gore or whatever, therefore the entire field of climate science has been hijacked, we can't trust the IPCC, the National Academy of Sciences, AAAS, the Councils of the American Physical Society, the American Meteorological Society, and the American Geophysical Union, the editors of Science and of Nature, etc., etc..

Tom Natan, research director of the National Environmental Trust, a Washington - based advocacy group, said he believes that wind power's benefits outweigh the negatives and that the involvement of heavyweights such as BP and Shell — regardless of their motives — is necessary to accelerate development of wind power.

«This is the snake oil of energy alternatives,» said Peter Altman, a policy analyst at the National Environmental Trust, an environmental adEnvironmental Trust, an environmental adenvironmental advocacy group.

«The simplest thing I can say is that we are going to work with local, state, regional and national government groups and look at what we can do in the courthouse,» said Vivian Stockman, of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, which lobbied against the rule change.

«This is something we have seen over the last several years,» says Ignasiak, national co-chairman of the firm's regulatory, environmental, aboriginal and land group.