Sentences with phrase «brought by environmental groups»

In fact, the applications brought by the environmental groups and Unifor on administrative law grounds were dismissed.

Intervened on behalf of farmers, ranchers, and agricultural entities in numerous federal ESA citizens suits brought by environmental groups;

The panel affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded for further proceedings in an action brought by environmental groups and individuals who challenged a decision by the U.S. Department of Defense to construct a new military base on Okinawa, Japan.

And early in his tenure, he sued to keep the EPA from settling lawsuits brought by environmental groups like the Sierra Club.

The court ruled in a civil case against the government brought by an environmental group called Urgenda.

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The possibile environmental violations were brought to the attention of the state EPA last year by the Friends of the Parks group.

Environmental group Friends of the Earth claimed that air pollution in London breached legal limits in April 2011, despite commitments by both the UK Government and the London Mayor to bring it under control to avoid huge EU fines.

A separate lawsuit — brought by groups including the Urban Justice Center and the New York Environmental Law and Justice Project — is still pending, according to Capital New York.

A 30 percent cut in emissions from 2005 levels by 2030 is a big number — less than environmental groups want but far more than the president can get via Congress, where climate change skeptics rule the House and the Democratic Senate so far avoiding bringing a climate change bill to the floor during Obama's presidency.

We support the lawsuit brought by community groups, individuals, and organizations representing the disabled which would require the MTA and NYC DOT to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act and prepare an environmental impact statement.

Both local and international environmental and public health groups have tried to address this problem by bringing more efficient stoves into the countryside, which burn only half as much wood and are better at funneling the resulting smoke outside.

A new study by WCS and other groups offers a glimmer of hope for some amphibian populations decimated by the deadly chytrid fungus: climate change may make environmental conditions for the fungus unsuitable in some regions and potentially stave off the spread of disease in African amphibian populations struggling to adapt to changes brought about by global warming.

Led by two groups — the Coalition for Mercury - free Drugs and SafeMinds — they have brought the thiomersal «debate» into negotiations designed to address environmental problems.

But the company's hand had been forced by newly assertive Chinese environmental groups, which reported the factory's violations and brought them to the attention of Timberland, the U.S. shoe and clothing seller that is one of Fuguo's biggest customers.

The appeal of the commission's decision was brought in 2012 by a consortium of environmental groups, including the Cape Fear River Watch and the Sierra Club.

Even before the recent push to bring on a full - time marine mammal guard to look out for almost a dozen of the Navy's submarines and 9,500 personnel, the Navy considered bringing dolphin guards to Kitsap - Bangor two decades ago, but the move was stalled by a lawsuit from environmental groups charging that the Navy failed to analyze the effects of the proposed actions on the dolphins themselves and then a loss for security funding in the 1990s.

Global warming will bring increased summer heat waves nationwide that are especially harmful to low - income and minority populations in urban areas and the elderly, according to a new report by environmental and public health groups.

The Injunction The original complaint — filed by the Urban Wildlands Group, Endangered Habitats League, Los Angeles Audubon Society, Palos Verdes / South Bay Audubon Society, Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society, and the American Bird Conservancy — was brought under the California Environmental Quality Act, with the plaintiffs arguing, for instance, that TNR «can cause significant adverse environmental impacts by causing proliferation of rats and raccoons and creating water pollution proEnvironmental Quality Act, with the plaintiffs arguing, for instance, that TNR «can cause significant adverse environmental impacts by causing proliferation of rats and raccoons and creating water pollution proenvironmental impacts by causing proliferation of rats and raccoons and creating water pollution problems.»

Blackadore Caye Development Group, which is leading the development of the project, plans to improve environmental conditions by replanting mangroves, bring in native species to replace invasive ones, and work to improve reef and fish breeding conditions.

We wish to bring awareness of this beautiful area of Bali by bringing small groups of tourists to the area with as little environmental and cultural impact as possible.

Curated by Keliy Anderson - Staley, The Surface of Things brings together a diverse group of contemporary artists who use photo - sensitive materials to explore environmental, aesthetic and cultural questions.

Jessica Stockholder is included in the Palmer Museum of Art's group exhibition Plastic Entanglements, which brings together sixty works by thirty contemporary artists to explore the environmental, aesthetic, and technological entanglements of our ongoing love affair with this paradoxical, infinitely malleable substance.

I do think in the future I will also bring up raptors to keep it in perspective as in «no environmental group worries about sheer number of birds killed» followed by a comparison to put raw numbers into perspective «many do worry about poorly sited wind generators killing endangered birds, especially raptors» tell the story of Altamont farm and the proposed Exxon farm which was quite properly stopped.

However, court records released as part of the discovery process in a lawsuit brought about by environmental groups showed that Millennium hoped to greatly expand their operation from five million to a second phase increase to 20 million tons or even 60 million tons annually.

For example, in 2006, then - Senator Kerry filed an amicus brief on behalf of an ultimately successful federal lawsuit brought by several environmental groups against the Bush administration, challenging the administration's suppression of the National Climate Assessment process.

In January 2011 District Judge Joe Hegel rejected an attempt by Arch Coal and the state of Montana to dismiss lawsuits brought in 2010 by four environmental groups.

Judge Anthony W. Ishii of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California ruled in favor of the state of California and environmental groups Environmental Defense, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club in a case brought by the automobile industry seeking to strike down the state's greenhenvironmental groups Environmental Defense, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club in a case brought by the automobile industry seeking to strike down the state's greenhEnvironmental Defense, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club in a case brought by the automobile industry seeking to strike down the state's greenhouse gas law.

The judge rejected the Navy's request to dismiss a lawsuit brought in March by a coalition of environmental and animal protection groups led by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Any big change by President Trump certainly would bring lawsuits from environmental groups as well as California

A long legal battle waged by road safety and environmental groups had finally brought down the distracting signs.

Whether the alleged exposure involves air, water, soil or groundwater, when a plaintiff or group of plaintiffs brings an environmental exposure claim, an experienced California toxic lawyer at our firm will launch a thorough investigation to determine whether an exposure actually occurred and, if so, the extent to which the exposure may have caused the illness or other harms alleged by the plaintiffs.

Advising BP in its successful defence of English High Court litigation proceedings brought by a group of Colombian landowners claiming for environmental damage to their properties allegedly caused by the construction of an oil pipeline.

Conditionally approved by federal Cabinet in June 2014, the project was the subject of a barrage of legal challenges brought by eight First Nations (including two co-represented by West Coast and Mandell Pinder LLP), four environmental groups, as well as Canada's largest private sector union (which represents both oil sands and fisheries workers impacted by the project).