Sentences with phrase «by environmental activist groups»

It was accompanied by a symposium upon government policy regarding contaminated land, organised by environmental activist group «ClientEarth».

Science by an environmental activist group — I wonder what kind of results they'll come up with!)

Not exact matches

It may have seemed like a shrewd move by Alberta Premier Rachel Notley last year when she named prominent environmental activist Tzeporah Berman to the new Oil Sands Advisory Group (OSAG).

Major banks CBA and ANZ have urged the repeal of a law which allows activist investors, unions and environmental groups to pursue fringe causes by forcing companies to hold costly shareholder meetings.

This came in response to years of lobbying by environmental health watchdogs like the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Coalition; Healthy Child, Healthy World, The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and The Environmental Working Group; physicians like Dr. Alan Greene; authors like Stacy Malkin of «Not Just a Pretty Face,» Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama's Green Guide, and Nena Baker of «The Body Toxic,» and yes, activists like Moms Rising and bloggers like my Green Moms Carnenvironmental health watchdogs like the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Coalition; Healthy Child, Healthy World, The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and The Environmental Working Group; physicians like Dr. Alan Greene; authors like Stacy Malkin of «Not Just a Pretty Face,» Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama's Green Guide, and Nena Baker of «The Body Toxic,» and yes, activists like Moms Rising and bloggers like my Green Moms CarnEnvironmental Working Group; physicians like Dr. Alan Greene; authors like Stacy Malkin of «Not Just a Pretty Face,» Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama's Green Guide, and Nena Baker of «The Body Toxic,» and yes, activists like Moms Rising and bloggers like my Green Moms Carnival friends.

Thursday afternoon, more than 100 New Yorkers, led by a coalition of environmental activist groups, delivered 11,000 signatures on a petition to the Comptroller's office in Manhattan, urging Thomas DiNapoli to overhaul pension fund investments.

«Explicitly avoiding» policy prescriptions The Risky Businesses analysis has been eagerly anticipated by some environmental groups, businesses and Democratic activists because of the high - powered team behind the document.

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.

The list of speakers this year was dominated by environmental groups such as Friends of the Earth, climate researchers, and self - proclaimed activists, so climate change was inevitably high on the agenda.

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.

In fact all the scary hypothetical scenarios seem to be taken as absolute truths by The Greens Party here in Australia and many environmental activists groups around the world and the silence from the climate science community correcting this misinterpretation is deafening.

The environmental group questioned whether the web site had been created by the Yes Men, activists who specialise in dressing up and pretending to be oil executives and making outrageous statements.

Kate Sheppard at Mother Jones dug up a copy of a presentation presented to coal insiders that documented ways environmental activist groups are winning by highlighting the dangers of coal:

According to a press released disseminated by Singer's organization, «Bolin publicly refuted claims by the Clinton Administration and many environmental activist groups that any floods, droughts, hurricanes, or other extreme weather patterns are the result of rising global temperatures.»

The petition was organized by more than a dozen environmental and activist groups, including CREDO, Climate Hawks Vote, MoveOn, Sierra Club, Avaaz and 350.org.

A world - wide coalition of activist groups mobilized by the environmental movement could yield a very positive long - term outcome: an awareness of the increasing irrelevance of human - drawn borders, the fading out of nationalism as a defining element of one's identity and ultimately an evolutionary step toward more connectedness among human beings.

According to a press release disseminated by Singer's organization, «Bolin publicly refuted claims by the Clinton Administration and many environmental activist groups that any floods, droughts, hurricanes, or other extreme weather patterns are the result of rising global temperatures.»

«This is radically anti-consumer and, ironically, at odds with the grid modernization recommendations of the CES that want to explore integrating smart meters, efficiency and demand response, storage, solar, and other customer - sited resources for numerous grid benefits, including peak - demand management,» said Bill Dornbos, advocacy director and senior attorney for the regional environmental group Acadia Center, which in December spearheaded a statement of principles by energy and environmental activists.

Israeli police arrested 17 Greenpeace activists on Thursday after a group of them infiltrated an Israeli power station by sea to protest the use of coal to fuel power plants, the environmental organization said.

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.

Emails released by conservative legal group Energy & Environmental Legal Institute (E&E Legal) show state attorneys general are not in lockstep with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's investigation into Exxon that's ensnared groups labeled as skeptical of man - made global warming by environmentEnvironmental Legal Institute (E&E Legal) show state attorneys general are not in lockstep with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's investigation into Exxon that's ensnared groups labeled as skeptical of man - made global warming by environmentalenvironmental activists.

In a newsletter to clients titled «Defending Your Company Against an Activist Attack,» Randal Simonetti from the consulting firm EFP Rotenberg, opines that in order to successfully combat an attack by an environmental group you must, «first consider the driving motive that supports the attacker's existence.»

The Times said the assertion actually «was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise,» «authored by two green activists» and lifted from a report from the World Wildlife Fund, an environmental pressure group.

For too long it has been held hostage by a minority of hard left, deep green activists whose anti-capitalist agenda has been given a veneer of respectability by the intervention of high end law firms, glossy environmental consultancies, Hollywood campaigners, «caring» grassroots pressure groups, expert scientific witnesses, «independent» moviemakers and sympathetic mainstream media coverage.

The Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy (CEED) was founded by a group of researchers, educators and community activists who saw the need to affirm and revitalize principles of democracy and social justice in energy and environmental policy.

Sponsored by three activist groups — Oil Change International, Environmental Action, and The Other 98 % — the 30 - second ad was part of a crowd - funded campaign to point out the fatal flaw in ExxonMobil's business model to maximize oil and gas extraction across the globe regardless of the growing threat to the stability of Earth's climate system and thus the livability of the planet for our children, their children, and future generations.

The Environmental Protection Agency stands on one side, along with environmental groups, climate activists and even several large corporations, and on the other side are two dozen states, supported by industry groups aEnvironmental Protection Agency stands on one side, along with environmental groups, climate activists and even several large corporations, and on the other side are two dozen states, supported by industry groups aenvironmental groups, climate activists and even several large corporations, and on the other side are two dozen states, supported by industry groups and utilities.

According to a report released by Republican Party officials, Russian trolls have been behind a wave of support on social media for environmental activist groups, bidding to stop new pipelines and other energy developments in the US.