Sentences with phrase «by an environmental group called»

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

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In his testimony obtained by Capital Tonight, Hoylman sides with environmental groups that have called for an extended cleanup of the river by General Electric Co..

The environmental pressure group is calling for the legislation to be improved by calling for amendments ensuring a strategy to insulate more warm homes and a legal minimum standard of energy efficiencies in rented properties.

At 1 p.m., NY Renews, a coalition of community organizations, environmental justice groups, labor unions, faith groups, business leaders, and other advocates fighting for equitable climate policies, holds a telephone press conference to call on Cuomo to step up as a leader for communities hurt most by climate change.

The environmental groups are calling for an investigation of the board, by the state Authorities Budget Office.

Environmental groups were at the Capitol Tuesday calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to put renewable energy ahead of fossil fuels in his effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050.

In a series of phone calls between lobbyists for the Capitol Group, who had been hired by AbTech Industries, an environmental technology firm which employed the younger Skelos, and an official for AbTech, Adam Skelos was confident that the governor would lift the moratorium and allow fracking in the state.

Environmental groups are calling for an investigation of the board by the state Authorities Budget Office.

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

Environmental groups have called for a renewable standard of 25 percent by 2025.

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.

In early 2009 Jonathon Porritt, chair of the government's Sustainable Development Commission, whacked a hornet's nest by calling parents of more than two children «irresponsible» and blasting mainstream environmental groups for «betraying» their members by fearing to call for small families.

The current lack of enthusiasm comes despite high - profile calls for action such as the encyclical letter on the environment released by Pope Francis in 2015 and despite initiatives led by Evangelical Protestant groups, such as the formation of the Evangelical Environmental Network.

That plan was condemned by environmental and wildlife groups, and led to calls for a tourism boycott.

Organized by an Asheville, N.C. - based environmental group called the Dogwood Alliance, the protest is the latest move by activists to draw attention to the wood pellet industry's growth in the South, where they allege forests are being chopped down unsustainably so European nations can meet renewable energy targets.

Yet a group of researchers led by archaeologists and calling themselves historical ecologists have recently come together to determine what we need to know about past human - environmental relationships to build a more sustainable future.

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.

Environmental groups say the ruling adds urgency to their calls for President Obama to erase some rules favorable to those seeking to expand such mining that were written by the outgoing Bush administration.]

The protest, organized by environmental groups, comes after a separate three - day stretch of activities in Washington for young people, called Power Shift 09, including a day of lobbying their elected representatives to pursue meaningful climate and energy legislation.

Guest Post - Tina Johnson, Energy Action Coalition — A Call for Engagement by Environmental Justice Groups in the Geoengineering Conversation

The Independent Online reports that an unprecedented coalition of blue - chip US companies and environmental lobby groups will urge President Bush next week to get serious about global warming, calling for caps on carbon dioxide emissions that would cut greenhouse gases by 10 - 30 per cent over 15 years.

Rising Tide North America, a loose - knit group of students and workers for nonprofit organizations, posed as phony public relations officials and targeted energy reporters around the world on Monday with e-mails and telephone calls claiming that a legitimate group of 33 businesses and environmental groups, the United States Climate Action Partnership, had agreed to slash emissions, blamed for warming the earth, by 90 percent by 2050 and had called for a moratorium on new coal plants, Reuters reports.

A group called the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) tediously tracks and reports these removals and, by doing so, is performing a crucial watchdog role over this administration's irresponsible approach to climate change.

Adding to the conflicts, Hoggan is also chair of the board of directors for the David Suzuki Foundation, a radical environmental activist group run by a man who — ironically — calls for climate skeptics to join Lefebvre in jail.

As a member of the large plaintiff group in Massachusetts v. EPA, we celebrated the Supreme Court's April 2007 decision declaring CO2 a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to take the next step toward regulation by making what's called the «endangerment finding» — an agency determination that a pollutant «endangers public health and welfare,» leading directly to controls on that pollutant.

True believer in college, but started getting turned off by a pair of extremely political, loud and arrogant ecology professors (called Dr. Gloom and Dr. Doom by students) and scientifically ignorant environmental student groups.

by Valerie Richardson Washington Times A Bermuda company has denied funneling Russian money to environmental groups after being named by two key House Republicans in a letter calling for a probe into foreign funding of anti-fracking advocacy.

They were lobbied against by all the so - called environmental groups, the antinuclear groups that wanted to keep nuclear out of that definition of renewables.

, written by Sheryl Eisenberg, writer and long time advisor to the National Resources Defense Council, which the New York Times calls «one of the most powerful environmental groups.»

An analysis by Michael Shellenberger, president of an independent group called Environmental Progress, says that V.C. Summer reactors would reduce coal generation in South Carolina by 86 percent, an amount of coal that produces pollution equivalent to 3.8 million cars.

Following a report commissioned by the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests that found violations and non-compliance with environmental conditions by Adani Group's Mundra Port, NGOs are now calling on the Indian government to withdraw the CDM approval for the project.

ANAHEIM - As tens of thousands of people gather for the opening of the NAMM Show, the National Association of Music Merchants» biggest annual event, musicians and environmental groups called on the industry to change the tune it's singing in Washington by ending its support for illegal logging.

Mr. Trump, who had called the city a «hellhole» while campaigning in 2016, was greeted by a huge coalition of individuals and groups denouncing his dangerous climate policies, devastating rollbacks of social and environmental protections, misogyny, Islamophobia, racism and more.

Because the group is dominated by trees in the late stages of a long life AND we simultaneously have the same environmental effects on each tree, we run into a statistical problem called confounding.

We did so by demanding that so - called environmental groups stop killing our largest source of clean energy.

I suspect conspiracy theory ideation is a root cause of the climate denial problem driven mainly by a dislike of liberals, environmental groups and so called elites.

If environmental groups still prefer an allowance system, let's call it by its proper name: «cap and tax.»

The plan is expected to be finalized later this month, when it will be seen whether environmental groups» calls for mandatory regulations for the California livestock industry have been heard by the ARB, or whether such calls have fallen on deaf ears.

Canada has a Minister of the Environment who calls opposition Members of Parliament who talk to Americans traitors, and a Minister of Natural Resources who complains that environmental groups are supported by foreign «jet - setting celebrities with some of the largest personal carbon footprints in the world.»

The paper informs Uriarte was called by the Deputies Chamber to speak about the effects of the environmental crisis and her responsibility in it, and also said that a group of deputies are planning to present an appeal against her.

When one environmental public interest group called a university professor to speak in opposition to the proposals based on his belief that development of this nature is inimical to Aboriginal culture, cross examination of this witness by a representative of the Nisichawayasihk Cree illustrated the professor's lack of specific knowledge of the Nisichawayasihk Cree, their culture and their physical environment.20 In the result, his testimony was given little or no weight by the Commission in its report.