Sentences with phrase «based environmental advocacy»

«Our message today is clear: Wind power here in Maine is already growing steadily, reducing pollution and helping to reduce the climate crisis,» said Laura Dorle, a campaign organizer for Environment Maine, a Portland - based environmental advocacy group.

Earth Ministry steps up its participation in faith - based environmental advocacy efforts, which include leading a sign - on letter of 65 religious leaders in support of clean - car legislation

By and large, New Jerseyans seem to favor renewable sources of energy, at least according to polls, said Matt Elliott, spokesman for Environment New Jersey, a statewide, citizen - based environmental advocacy organization.

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.

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«In 2016, renewables received about 100 times more in federal subsidies than nuclear plants,» Michael Shellenberger, founder of the Berkeley, California - based, pro-nuclear advocacy group Environmental Progress, wrote in an email to Grist.

«Instead of working to protect American families, President Trump's plans put the interest of big - money special interests over people,» said Nat Mund, legislative director of the Southern Environmental Law Center, a Virginia - based advocacy group.

The Sanctuaries 100th celebration on April 9 will present an opportunity to look back on how they've evolved as community resources for conservation, nature - based education, and environmental advocacy, and how they are positioned to inspire even more people to forge their own bonds with the natural world.

Documents housed at the University of California, San Francisco, and analyzed in recent months by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), a Washington, D.C. - based advocacy group, show that the oil and tobacco industries have been linked for decades.

Arguing that environmental regulations haven't kept pace with new science, the Washington, D.C. - based advocacy group Oceana last week petitioned Secretary of Commerce Don Evans to take immediate steps to protect the sea - floor organisms in U.S. waters.

«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.

The mapping project — developed with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), an advocacy group based in New York City — aims to pinpoint these problematic spots and encourage gas companies to fix them.

«This is unprecedented,» says Elizabeth Wilson of the Pew Environment Group, an environmental advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C.

Based in New York City, the NRDC is an environmental advocacy non-profit with over 1.4 million members and online activists, as well as more than 350 lawyers, scientists and other professionals.

The Beijing Energy Network (BEN or 北京能源网络) is a grassroots organization based in Beijing with a mission of promoting networking and collaboration in understanding and tackling China's energy and environmental challenges among individuals and organizations from diverse sectors such as government, finance, industry, media, advocacy, think tanks and academia.

Heartland repeatedly has asked «Forecast the Facts» and other environmental groups, bloggers, and liberal advocacy groups to take the fake memo off their Web sites and retract false and defamatory statements based on it.

Environment America is a federation of state - based citizen - funded environmental advocacy organizations.

The JMG Foundation is a U.K. - based organization (founded by Ben Goldsmith) which funds environmental advocacy campaigns.

and relies on data supplied by the «International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, an advocacy group based in Kathmandu,» and info from «a study by the French environmental group GERES.»

She has organized and managed education and advocacy programs dealing with a wide range of energy and environmental issues, such as high level nuclear waste legislation, director of a solar installers» training and energy conservation installation program, coordination for numerous state, local and national conferences / strategy workshops, and has assisted community - based groups in establishing job - training / energy rehabilitation programs.

While Stott's work priority is to deconstruct environmental narratives, the UK - based Norfolk Genetic Information Network (NGIN) has subjected Stott's advocacy to critical scrutiny.

«Of all the states in the United States, Alaska's certainly on the front lines [of climate change] as the only state in the Arctic,» said Bob Shavelson, the advocacy director for Inlet Keeper, an environmental organization based along Alaska's Cook Inlet, to Earther.

The Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) is a research and advocacy group financed by private contributions based in Arlington, Virginia.

But much of Sea Change's funding comes through Bermuda - based Klein, Ltd., whose sole purpose is to channel money covertly to Sea Change and thence to environmental advocacy and «educational» groups.

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.

«It's outrageous and it is totally deceptive what PG&E said before compared with what is actually going to happen,» said Michael Shellenberger, president of the Berkeley - based advocacy group Environmental Progress.

«While setting methane standards for the first time is an important step, failing to immediately regulate existing oil and gas equipment nationwide misses 90 percent of the methane pollution from the industry,» said Conrad Schneider, advocacy director for the Clean Air Task Force, a Boston - based environmental group.

This year's report features details on the planting of over 4.2 million trees throughout Kenya and the launch of GBM's watershed - based approach to tree planting and advocacy for environmental conservation.

Two University of Victoria law students won last week's Twitter moot, held for a third time by West Coast Environmental Law, a Vancouver - based environmental law advocacy Environmental Law, a Vancouver - based environmental law advocacy environmental law advocacy organization.

Mark Henshall, a project manager at the Environmental Protection Agency, is working with NAR, the National Center for Lead - Based Housing, child advocacy groups, and industry leaders to help property managers and owners gain access to workers trained in lead paint issues.

Veteran housing and urban policy writer Andre F. Shashaty is also president of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, a San Francisco — based nonprofit education and advocacy group focused on the social, economic and environmental...