Sentences with phrase «by environmental activists»

The message was extremely well - received by the environmental activists we spoke with, and quite a few people expressed gratitude that the issue was being brought up in this context.

Smith has pushed for the investigation of the attorneys generals» handling of the ExxonMobile case, suggesting they are being unduly influenced by environmental activist groups.

More alarming than any claim made by environmental activists, the Pentagon report canvassed scenarios in which Australia and the United States «are likely to build defensive fortresses around their countries» to protect their resources from desperate outsiders and aggressive states created by rapid and unpredictable climate change.

Gavin Schmidt is an employee of NASA GISS, the agency run by environmental activist James Hansen.

The world's biggest publicly quoted oil company faces a long - running boycott campaign against its Esso petrol brand by environmental activists in Europe.

The concern comes in the wake of complaints by environmental activists and trade unions that this deal and others will erode standards for food, work and industry.

Board of Directors voted unanimously last week to approve the loan — about of which will be at 0 percent interest — despite questions raised by environmental activists and the EPA because it would come from a revolving loan fund traditionally used to pay for local governments» clean water and sewer improvement projects.

The business secretary was liberally doused with the liquid by an environmental activist.

Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, the chairman of the committee, has questioned whether the investigation into ExxonMobile was urged by environmental activists groups and is reviewing whether they played any role in launching it.

The Cuomo administration has been accused by environmental activists of being indecisive in the fight against plastic - bag pollution.

Nixon, who appeared in Hoosick Falls Wednesday afternoon, where she was endorsed by environmental activist and former EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck, reacted succinctly to Cuomo's shift.

Cuomo Administration insiders said they believed details of the report were being leaked Thursday by environmental activists at DEC, who opposed the findings.

In a speech being lauded by environmental activists, yesterday President Barack Obama announced several proposals to limit pollution that is contributing to climate change.

The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) was founded in 1969 by environmental activist David Brower.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would introduce legislation to ban single - use plastic bags throughout New York, a measure long pushed by environmental activists.

He's joined by environmental activist Dustin (Krasinski) to turn the town against Steve and Sue's multinational corporation.

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

The move, which could dramatically boost sales of palm oil in Europe, was sharply criticized by environmental activists, who said that without stronger safeguards, increased palm oil production could increase deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions.

The dismissal was cheered by environmental activists, academics and Democrats, all of whom accused Cuccinelli of political showmanship.

Each of these groups has directed foundation dollars towards a specific and coordinated political agenda, which is then executed by environmental activists and so - called grassroots organizers.»

The story, picked up by the Dallas Morning News and other media outlets, originated from a phony press release issued by environmental activists Rising Tide North America.

The personal risk undertaken by environmental activists was further underscored in March when masked gunmen killed one of last year's Goldman Prize winners, Berta Cáceres, in her home in Honduras.

The Times says that a claim in the 2007 United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that Himalayan glaciers could disappear entirely by 2035 appears to rest on a single source — a 2005 document written by the environmental activist group, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

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 environmental activists.

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

Last year, Andrew Montford wrote a sobering report about its recent capture by environmental activists (see my post here).

This surely makes Hansen as remote from the «consensus» as any «denier», yet he is still celebrated by environmental activists, and we can assume, the CCC.

In February 2017, following months of protests by environmental activists, the Trump administration moved to greenlight the pipeline.

«All too often we see the Agency using flawed science for political purposes, but this report — partially funded by environmental activists no less — shows EPA's emissions estimates from hydraulic fracturing are way off.»

While documenting the very real threats faced by environmental activists in some of the world's most dangerous countries for civic participation, the report also gives a set of recommendations for national governments, companies and investors.

(07/25/2012) A campaign run by environmental activists has helped lead to a 87 percent reduction in palm oil use by eight major food companies in Norway, reports Rainforest Foundation Norway, which led the effort.

Hartnett White, a member of President Donald Trump's economic advisory team during his campaign, also is labeled a climate change «denier» by some environmental activists.

Despite the unrelenting propaganda mounted against it by environmental activists, human carbon dioxide emissions are indubitably a net environmental benefit.

He says global warming is based not on science but on a «hoax» and on «witchcraft» and on «claims dreamt up by environmental activists».