Sentences with phrase «while environmental groups»

While environmental groups have kicked - off a campaign to target this «climate silence,» the lack of discussion on climate change is a part of a larger trend in the U.S. where media coverage of the issue has declined even as scientists argue that impacts are increasing.

While some environmental groups have applauded the decision, other stakeholders said they would spend the Thanksgiving holiday to ensure all the provisions are understood before lawmakers take it up in a three - day session next week.

While environmental groups generally oppose all fossil fuels, the oil industry has been hurt the least.

An oil industry association in the US attempted to influence climate change reporting by spreading uncertainty about the causes of global warming, while environmental groups can tend to go the other way and highlight the most alarming elements of climate change.

will be out in force come election day and are promoting climate action, while environmental groups are pushing hard to ensure that climate change will not be forgotten in the election.

While environmental groups worry the pipeline will spur further development of the oil sands and add to greenhouse gas emissions, the industry's chief lobbyist rejected that argument.

While environmental groups fighting for action on climate change don't like to include those options, Wheeler said he felt it was important to look simply at what sources produce low or zero emissions.

Not surprisingly, companies churning out products with nanomaterials in them tend to argue that existing regulations and testing are adequate to ensure these materials are safe, while environmental groups tend to call it the other way.

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.

Not exact matches

Environmental groups are suing the Trump administration for selling oil and gas leases on huge swaths of Western U.S. public lands while allegedly ignoring policies meant to protect an imperiled bird.

The Canadian Mining Association could form a similar partnership with Canadian banks, providing training on sustainable practices to Burmese natural resource firms while leveraging the trillions of dollars raised on the TSX for projects that give environmental groups and local residents a say.

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.

When environmental groups succeeded in getting a federal judge to grant a February 24 order that temporarily halted work in the Atchafalaya Basin while a permit for the pipeline is being challenged, Rosinski wondered whether construction could still legally move forward on her land.

While not a complete victory for the company, Ken Winston, a lawyer representing environmental groups against the pipeline, explained that the alternative route presents the same kind of environmental problems as the preferred one.

While counter-messages from the oil industry and environmental groups set the tone internationally, opposition to the pipeline by a handful of rural landowners in Nebraska is what ended up tying the pipeline project in the courts.

David Suzuki calls economists brain damaged while grossly misrepresenting and denigrating the growing group of environmental economists who put a price on climate change, solution and a host of other extrenalities.

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.

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.

Group for the East End is still considering, while a request for comment from the Citizens Campaign for the Environment, another major environmental group in the region, was not immediately retuGroup for the East End is still considering, while a request for comment from the Citizens Campaign for the Environment, another major environmental group in the region, was not immediately retugroup in the region, was not immediately returned.

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.

While the storage facility has been opposed by environmental groups and businesses in the area, others like the state Business Council expected to be an economic boost for the area.

Ultimately, the group will work with the state Department of Environmental Conservation to determine how to protect the forests while also ensuring the lands will continue to supply timber to local mills that support about 100 jobs

Ulster County Legislator Manna Jo Greene, who is the environmental director for the environmental protection group Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, said Hinchey was a tireless advocate for a sustainable economy, a healthy environment, world peace and social justice while in the state Assembly and Congress.

While Dorego and Small divorced in 2011, the maneuvers by Small's firm are likely to bolster claims by environmental justice groups that contend Glenwood was secretly bankrolling efforts to kill the waste removal program.

A second coalition, called Growing Together New York, and joining dozens of labor, environmental and community groups, will focus more directly on opposing Mr. Cuomo's cuts, while also agitating for the extension of the income - tax surcharge.

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.

But while Democrats say a convention could lead to the dismantling of labor and environmental protections by conservative interests, Republicans say they are concerned that New York City's progressive interest groups would dominate the convention.

Indian Point nuclear power plant has been called on by environmental groups to shut down while officials investigate the source of its latest leak.

Some environmental groups have called on rich nations to assess how much carbon the world can continue to emit while still having a shot of keeping temperatures below 2 C above preindustrial levels, and then make the case for using up whatever it cites as a «fair share» of those gigatons.

Environmental groups praised the new policy document, while Republican lawmakers and industry groups expressed dismay that adding another layer of analysis to environmental reviews would slow down what they argue is an already glaEnvironmental groups praised the new policy document, while Republican lawmakers and industry groups expressed dismay that adding another layer of analysis to environmental reviews would slow down what they argue is an already glaenvironmental reviews would slow down what they argue is an already glacial process.

A more exact measure of carbon footprint wanted While Krupp is a presence for environmental groups, the panel has come under fire from some for being too heavily weighted toward gas industry interests.

After the German Environment Ministry came under pressure from environmental groups, the German Research Ministry ordered that the experiment be put on hold while independent scientific reviews by non-German scientists were done.

While they don't know whether the first group of students would have shown a shift in attitudes after the storms, the researchers believe their findings provide evidence that personal experience is one factor that can influence instinctive attitudes toward environmental policy.

Some of the more popular brands that the Environmental Working Group found were completely BPA - free were Amy's Kitchen, Annie's Homegrown and Sprouts Farmers Market, while BPA users included Target's Market Pantry, Bush's, Carnation, Dinty Moore and Eagle Brand.

David Fullerton, of the Sierra Club, an environmental lobby group, says: «They want to use new technology or more water while we want them to talk about the crops they're growing.

According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), the production, processing and distribution of meat requires huge outlays of pesticides, fertilizer, fuel, feed and water while releasing greenhouse gases, manure and a range of toxic chemicals into our air and water.

A coalition of 16 science and environmental groups, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, issued a joint statement praising the assessment, while others said it provided much - needed context for sticky debates on Capitol Hill and in statehouses across the land.

Brian Walker, a former head of Oxfam, said: «While political and economic refugees are usually small groups that can be assimilated, and may eventually go home, environmental refugees will never go back.

While delegates were talking in Asilomar, a body of over 70 environmental, health and social groups published an open letter attacking the meeting.

While the techniques draw from the same pool of knowledge, and travel together in scientific circles, many environmental groups do not oppose molecular breeding, while stridently critiquing current GM crops, according to Marco Contiero, the European biotech policy director for the environmental group GreenpWhile the techniques draw from the same pool of knowledge, and travel together in scientific circles, many environmental groups do not oppose molecular breeding, while stridently critiquing current GM crops, according to Marco Contiero, the European biotech policy director for the environmental group Greenpwhile stridently critiquing current GM crops, according to Marco Contiero, the European biotech policy director for the environmental group Greenpeace.

While the Obama administration made a late push to control methane, environmental groups often referred to the regulations on the books as a good jumping - off point but not nearly strict enough to match the threat, particularly over the short term.

Yet approval of the State Environmental Expertiza for Kamgold's Aginskoe mine was announced July 6, 2004, while the exchange group was in Petropavlosk.

While tap water might look clear and clean, it could be hiding more than 300 pollutants, according to my good friends at the Environmental Working Group (EWG).

'» Another group of researchers agrees, writing in Dermatology Research and Practice that there are two theories for aging: the first «focuses on reduced cellular lifespan, decreased responsiveness and functionality, and dysfunctional immune responses,» while the second «points towards environmental damages, focusing on DNA damage, inflammation and free radical formation.»

In addition, HB 515 establishes a holding period for both stray animals and those surrendered by their families, it gives the person surrendering the animal the ability to change their mind and reclaim the animal, it bifurcates the holding period to incentivize adoptions and rescue transfers, it allows «shelters» to transfer animals to rescue groups right away to free up cage and kennel space thus reducing costs while increasing lifesaving, it mandates prompt and necessary care and environmental enrichment, and for those who are irremediably suffering, rigorously defined, it puts in place a mechanism to end their lives in as kind and compassionate a manner as possible and one that meets the dictionary definition for «euthanasia.»

In addition to focusing on minimizing our carbon footprint in rooms and restaurants, Radisson Hotel Group is committed to providing comprehensive green meeting opportunities while balancing the environmental, economic and social impacts of our client's business needs.

While not often a target of environmental groups due to the increased preparation and safety it promotes, a firefighters training regiment is anything but green.

In the meantime, top White House officials today, echoing calls from the Senate and environmental groups, said any plans to move forward with new offshore drilling were on hold while the Deepwater Horizon spill was dealt with and investigated.

I hear echoes of «Wilson's Law» above, and also some resonance with articles I've written focusing on how environmental and animal - welfare groups, while often working toward shared goals (an end to whaling, for instance) rarely use the same arguments, with one focused on population statistics and the other on ethics.

While large Beltway environmental groups support it, a galaxy of smaller ones say the House bill has been mortally weakened by giveaways just getting out of its first committee.