Sentences with phrase «backed by environmental groups»

Backed by environmental groups and some residents along the route, many Democrats in Congress have urged the Obama administration to either reject the pipeline or delay it by ordering further review.

In addition to encouraging more people onto a low - carbon emissions mode of transport, Locomore has announced a contract with Naturstrom AG (link in German), which will supply electricity certified with the Grüner Strom (Green Power) label, backed by environmental groups Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND).

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NorthVolt is currently backed by a group of European investors in the environmental, energy and transportation industries.

The package of environmental proposals was backed by green groups like the Nature Conservancy.

The effort has drawn scrutiny and push back from House Republicans, who have raised questions over whether Schneiderman and other state attorneys general are being unduly influenced by environmental groups in the probe.

The decision made by Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant to extend the grant funding for thirty one projects registered with Environment Wales until the end of March 2017, came following a persistent campaign, led by the Environmental groups and with backing from William Powell, Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for the Environment.

A group of state and city legislators from Queens today released a letter to Congressman Gregory Meeks urging him to flip his current stance and vote against the Trans - Pacific Partnership — a free trade agreement backed by the Obama administration but opposed by numerous labor and environmental groups.

The alliance, which is headed by the World Resources Institute and the Environmental Investigation Agency, is also backed by the U.S. Agency for International Development and groups including the American Forest & Paper Association, IKEA, Staples Inc. and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Arce supports a bill, the Safe Cosmetics Act, backed by environmental and consumer groups and opposed by the personal care product industry.

«Legal action by environmental groups will be back with a vengeance if Trump carries through with his promises,» says Ann Carlson, a professor of environmental law at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Back in late 2009, in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of Los Angeles — area bird advocacy groups against City of Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS), a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found in favor of the bird groups that LAAS programs in support of trap / neuter / return (TNR) as a community cat management strategy was in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the agency had not conducted an environmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming coEnvironmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the agency had not conducted an environmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming coenvironmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming community cats.

By Claire Kaufman, Environmental and Sustainability Program Manager On Wednesday, April 26, a motley group of scientists, university students, photographers, park service professionals, and GreaterGood.org staff came trudging back to reality.

pat - «Similarly many environmental activists believe that man's influence is a form of sin and nature (Gaea) will soon strike back...» You can phrase the position of a fictitious group any way you want of course, without rebuttal, because they don't really exist, though there are people who fit the description — especially if by «many» you mean more than three — but the more accurate reality is most of the human beings you would lump under the rubric «environmentalist» would more accurately be described as believing that short - sighted and greedy human attempts at total control and domination and complete disregard for the healthof the environment have gotten us out of balance with what was an interlocking web of balanced and dynamic systems, and would appear to have unbalanced many of those systems as well, including the still poorly understood cycles of climate; or weather, as we laymen call it.

Remember the image of the bear struggling in the waves circulated by an environmental group awhile back?

Used as directed, DEET is considered safe by many public health agencies, and it is super effective against mosquitoes and ticks — but science - backed consumer watchdog Environmental Working Group (EWG), and others, are not so convinced about its safety.

But Roger A. Pielke, Jr., the blogging political scientist at the University of Colorado and a frequent antagonist of the center's environmental blogger, Joe Romm, shot back, asserting that the scientists, by associating with an advocacy group pressing a particular agenda on climate, were making matters worse.

Cut - rate competition aside, it's only a matter of time before Canadian environmental groups, many of them supported by the same U.S. funders backing the anti-ethanol campaigns south of the border, take it on.

AGW was always a political meme and slight of hand pseudoscience backed by a third rate group from the «environmental studies» departments with similar green ideology and funding desires across the globe.

Meanwhile, a legislative effort backed by multiple environmental groups has added even more uncertainty, even though its prospects are unlikely.

The documents, unveiled by Dutch newspaper De Correspondent on Thursday, show that the oil giant's researchers flagged that climate change could have major implications for the fossil fuel industry as far back as the 1980s — and predicted that environmental groups could sue following damages from extreme weather.

If you want to compare and contrast tactics, please do, as many of the solutions floated by the Left and professional environmental groups need to be sent back to the drawing board.

Ahead of a Congressional hearing held by House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R - TX), members of Congress, law experts, and environmental groups gathered at the Capitol to highlight all that Exxon knew and buried about climate change, and to push back on the Chairman's overreaching subpoenas.

Ahead of a Congressional hearing held by House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R - TX), members of Congress, law experts, and environmental groups gathered at the Capitol to highlight all that Exxon knew and buried about climate change, and to push back on the Chairman's overreaching...

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