Sentences with phrase «us environmental advocacy group»

Independent environmental advocacy groups have already been warning that benzene levels in some areas of Texas have reached worrying highs, while more than a dozen toxic waste sites were also flooded or destroyed.

Jane Kleeb, president of the environmental advocacy group Bold Alliance, said green - lighting the alternative may have helped the commission reach a «middle ground solution.»

After surveying several major grocery stores in the United States, environmental advocacy groups have found that many of them have a bad habit of wasting food.

Concern is mounting among physicians, health professionals, environmental advocacy groups, public safety officials, as well as consumers because of the possible effects of these chemicals on our children.

A coalition of environmental advocacy groups is swinging their weight behind an effort that's making end - of - session push for an overhaul of campaign finance laws this year.

«It's unfortunate the Army Corps» plan allows for the continued disposal of potentially harmful materials into the Long Island Sound, despite the strong objections across the board from New York's elected officials, residents and environmental advocacy groups,» he said.

On Monday, Kevin McAllister, the founder of the environmental advocacy group Defend H2O, repeated his call for restrictions on pesticide use in tidal wetlands.

Representing a smattering of different environmental advocacy groups from around the state, about 250 protesters held signs calling on officials and lawmakers to prohibit any more natural gas pipelines being built in New York, to stop the construction of a proposed liquid natural gas storage facility next to Seneca Lake, and to shift the state's energy production to greener fuel sources....

«He's scared, because he knows an unknown law professor ran away with one - third of the vote in 2014,» Matthew Miles Goodrich, an organizer with the environmental advocacy group Sunrise Movement, which endorsed Nixon last Friday, told Gotham Gazette.

Governor Cuomo made a rare campaign stop in the Third District in October on behalf of Adrienne Esposito, a Democrat and the executive director of an environmental advocacy group.

According to environmental advocacy group Hudson Riverkeeper, between 1947 to 1977 General Electric, GE, dumped more than 1.3 million pounds of cancer - causing PCBs into the Hudson River which has contaminated the waterway, wildlife, and has since been found in humans.

With a federal lawsuit alleging EPA violations between the environmental advocacy group Save the Sound and Westchester County approaching the two - year mark, officials at the nonprofit are growing increasingly impatient with alleged inaction on the part of several communities.

Mr. Matthiessen, 53, a former president of Riverkeeper, an environmental advocacy group, is the political strategist, founder and director of Move NY.

Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit health and environmental advocacy group, cautions that the carbon reductions from the gas boom should not induce complacency about the importance of nuclear, renewable, and other zero - carbon energy sources.

Greg Zimmerman, deputy director of the Center for Western Priorities, an environmental advocacy group, said he came across the slideshow online last summer.

The banks made their pledges on renewable energy as part of a campaign called RE100, an effort organized by environmental advocacy groups to get leading companies to commit to shrinking their carbon footprints.

«Let's not talk about that right now,» curtly replies Seth Factor, Guatemala director of the environmental advocacy group Trópico Verde.

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), an environmental advocacy group, saw this as a federal entity taking the easy road in making a decision that actually warranted an EIS.

«And it is in fact a fact that the polar ice caps are bigger today than they were before,» Cruz said in a video distributed by 350.org, an environmental advocacy group.

«This administration, [Michelle] Bachelet's administration, is really prioritizing climate change in a way that no other previous administration has done, including her first administration,» said Amanda Maxwell, Latin America project director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit international environmental advocacy group based in New York City.

In 1976 an environmental advocacy group, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), hired Perera as a health scientist.

Those ponds already cover an estimated 50 square miles, and an analysis of the industry's seepage records by the Canadian environmental advocacy group Environmental Defense suggests that every day around 3 million gallons of contaminated fluid leaks into the surrounding area.

As a result, the EPA had no authority to rescind the rule without first getting public comment, according to the NRDC, an environmental advocacy group.

This is an inherently risky process, as we learned in 2010 when the BP well exploded,» Jacqueline Savitz, U.S. vice president for the environmental advocacy group Oceana, said in a statement.

«You can get this information on coal plants or any other polluter,» said Tarah Heinzen, an attorney with Food & Water Watch, an environmental advocacy group that has called for the agency to submit information about CAFOs to the public.

Twelve days after Donald Trump took office in 2017, the nonprofit environmental advocacy group NRDC filed its first lawsuit against the new administration, fighting an EPA rollback of a protection against mercury pollution.

After surveying several major grocery stores in the United States, environmental advocacy groups have found that many of them have a bad habit of wasting food.

Protect Our Winters, an environmental advocacy group, accompanied the athletes and presented sobering facts about the economics of the industry: Low snow years have caused the loss of 17,400 jobs and decreased the estimated value to the economy by over $ 1 billion since 2001.

Environmental advocacy group Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) slammed Tata Motors - owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) for saying that the Delhi air which was sucked in by the company's cars was...

Founded in 1970, NRDC is a non-profit environmental advocacy group with more than 2.4 million members and online activists.

The programs, which have been instituted throughout Europe, have been referred to as a «methadone program for addicted automakers» by Jos Dings, director of the European Federation for Transport and Environment, an environmental advocacy group in Brussels.

The narrow focus, political ineptitude, and technocratic fixes come not from the environmental advocacy groups, he says, but from the foundations that fund them.

Meanwhile, tomorrow, Wednesday, at 2 pm Eastern, Penn Futures, the state's environmental advocacy group, will be hosting a live Twitter chat called «Ask Dr Mann».

Environmental advocacy groups such as Greenpeace have argued that seabed mining should not be permitted in most of the world's oceans because of the potential for damage to deepsea ecosystems.

Other plaintiffs in the case include environmental advocacy groups Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth.

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 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.

The National Center for Science Education has adopted as part of its mission the task of attacking researchers and commentators who question the biased and alarmist position on global warming staked out by the Obama administration and environmental advocacy groups, so Steven Newton's highly critical essay comes as no surprise.

Mr. Matthiessen, 53, a former president of Riverkeeper, an environmental advocacy group, is the political strategist, founder and director of Move NY.

Two separate lists of scientists and economists were sent to EPA by the Heartland Institute, according to documents obtained by the environmental advocacy group Climate Investigations Center and shared today with E&E News.

Some recent history: in 2011, the environmental advocacy groups Friends of the Earth and Public Citizen partnered with climate deniers at the Heartland Institute (which received funding from the Koch Brothers) under the watchful eye of the Taxpayers for Common Sense to produce the non-partisan Green Scissors report.

Those campaigns fell short of obstructing pipeline projects, but environmental advocacy groups have succeeded in blocking natural gas development in New York and other states.

As governor of Utah, he appeared in a 2007 ad for an environmental advocacy group in which he said, «Now it's time for Congress to act by capping greenhouse gas pollution.»

According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, an environmental advocacy group, that works out to about 65 % of the global population that has never experienced an average or below average year, and about half of the U.S. population.

Ned Sullivan, who heads Scenic Hudson, a Poughkeepsie - based environmental advocacy group, characterizes the review and litigation as «escape hatches» consciously constructed by the corporation as potential outs from its obligation.

The organization has received funding from Exxon, according to company documents posted online by Greenpeace, an environmental advocacy group.

U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Rep. Ted Lieu, Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, a coalition of environmental advocacy groups, and even a group of climate scientists have petitioned the U.S. Department of Justice to use RCIO to launch an investigation of Exxon - Mobil.

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

(06/02/2010) Radical, controversial, ahead - of - his - time, brilliant, or extremist: call Dr. Glen Barry, the head of Ecological Internet, what you will, but there is no question that his environmental advocacy group has achieved major successes in the past years, even if many of these are below the radar of big conservation groups and mainstream media.

Facebook, Opower, and environmental advocacy group the Natural Resources Defense Council today announced a «social energy» application designed to raise awareness of energy use and encourage efficiency.