Sentences with phrase «by environmental advocacy»

Two separate lists of scientists and economists were sent to EPA by the Heartland Institute, according to documents obtained by the environmental advocacy group Climate Investigations Center and shared today with E&E News.

The report by environmental advocacy group the Climate Council said the government needed to do more to reduce carbon emissions harming Australia's beaches, national parks and the Great Barrier Reef.

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.

Not exact matches

However, lobbying, advocacy and other political spending by corporations and trade associations can also inhibit good policy - making, hold back progress, undermine critical environmental, social or economic regulations, and offload private costs onto the public.

ARAMARK seeks to responsibly address issues that matter to its clients, customers, employees and communities by focusing on employee advocacy, environmental stewardship, health and wellness, and community involvement.

Many of NYPIRG's proposals were endorsed by other good government or advocacy groups such as the League of Women Voters, Empire Justice Center, Common Cause, Consumers Union, Environmental Advocates of New York and the Brennan Center for Justice.

By comparison, anti-fracking environmental organizations, unions and advocacy groups spent merely $ 1.9 million on campaign contributions during that period.

Sen. Terrence Murphy, a Republican who backed the measure, said in a statement the measure was spurred by the advocacy of the Pace University Environmental Clinic and its students.

May 5's executive budget will include funding for the facilities, Quinn said, noting, «We have prevented, by the council's advocacy, that backtracking away from that important environmental goal.»

A coalition of environmental and advocacy organizations and Assembly members met via conference call on Thursday to express their dismay over the approval by the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation to use, for the first time, clean water funds for a transportaenvironmental and advocacy organizations and Assembly members met via conference call on Thursday to express their dismay over the approval by the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation to use, for the first time, clean water funds for a transportaEnvironmental Facilities Corporation to use, for the first time, clean water funds for a transportation project.

The environmental group Protect the Adirondacks filed an ethics complaint regarding what it contends was «illegal advocacy and lobbying» by the state DC in support of a 2013 constitutional amendment that cleared the way for a land - swap deal between New York and an Essex County mining operation.

With an emphasis on the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races, the environmental advocacy nonprofit and political action committee created by San Francisco philanthropist Tom Steyer announced Wednesday it will also focus on key congressional districts currently held by Democrat Stephanie Murphy in Central Florida, Republican Brian Mast in the Treasure Coast, and two competitive seats in South Florida — CD 26 and 27.

This spending is listed under anonymous and undedicated funding lines cited as Community Service, Youth and Education, Economic Development, Advocacy and Environmental Protection and were all added to the budget by the Democratic legislators.

ELIZABETHTOWN The region's most prominent environmental advocacy organization has painted a foreboding portrait of the Adirondack Park, calling its successes «threatened» by a confluence of internal and external forces.

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.

A mechanical engineer by training who is now a biology professor at Stanford University, Schneider, 55, says his advocacy began with the heightened environmental awareness that bloomed around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970.

«And it is in fact a fact that the polar ice caps are bigger today than they were before,» Cruz said in a video distributed by 350.org, an environmental advocacy group.

«There are going to be environmental consequences any time you light off a Roman candle that big, but NASA itself has been a very good neighbor to wildlife by minimizing impacts to pristine parts of the wildlife refuge and seashore,» said Charles Lee, advocacy director of Audubon of Florida.

The amendment to the Montreal Protocol phasing down heat - trapping hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which was adopted in the early hours of Saturday in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, is in part the result of 7 1/2 years of lobbying and maneuvering by the Obama administration, environmental advocacy community and U.S. industry bent on using the ozone treaty to phase down the climate - forcing chemicals.

Those ponds already cover an estimated 50 square miles, and an analysis of the industry's seepage records by the Canadian environmental advocacy group Environmental Defense suggests that every day around 3 million gallons of contaminated fluid leaks into the surrenvironmental advocacy group Environmental Defense suggests that every day around 3 million gallons of contaminated fluid leaks into the surrEnvironmental Defense suggests that every day around 3 million gallons of contaminated fluid leaks into the surrounding area.

Whatever time that remains in her busy schedule is devoted to nonprofit organizations focusing on families affected by cancer, helping children, environmental advocacy, planet protection and the Mars Movement.

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC) develops and protects the market by increasing the awareness of the economic, social and environmental benefits of green roofs, green walls, and other forms of living architecture through education, advocacy, professional development and celebrations of excellence.

Protect Our Winters, an environmental advocacy group, accompanied the athletes and presented sobering facts about the economics of the industry: Low snow years have caused the loss of 17,400 jobs and decreased the estimated value to the economy by over $ 1 billion since 2001.

Environmental advocacy group Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) slammed Tata Motors - owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) for saying that the Delhi air which was sucked in by the company's cars was...

Back in late 2009, in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of Los Angeles — area bird advocacy groups against City of Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS), a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found in favor of the bird groups that LAAS programs in support of trap / neuter / return (TNR) as a community cat management strategy was in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the agency had not conducted an environmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming coEnvironmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the agency had not conducted an environmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming coenvironmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming community cats.

Support for this series provided by the Department of Planning and Community Design in Tyler School of Art's Division of Architecture and Environmental Design, the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, Advocacy and Leadership, the General Education Program, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation, the Philadelphia Orchard Project, the Jewish Farm School, the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, TreePhilly, Village of Arts and Humanities, Asociación de Puertorriqueños en Marcha, the Photography Program at Tyler School of Art, the New Kensington Community Development Corporation, The Humane League, Philadelphia Zoo, and Audubon Society.

The programs, which have been instituted throughout Europe, have been referred to as a «methadone program for addicted automakers» by Jos Dings, director of the European Federation for Transport and Environment, an environmental advocacy group in Brussels.

As I write in Chapter 1 of the report, in comparison to the relative diversity in goals among national environmental groups historically, conservative think tanks, advocacy groups and aligned industry associations are marked by a much narrower outlook focused on limited government, reduced regulation and economic growth.

But Roger A. Pielke, Jr., the blogging political scientist at the University of Colorado and a frequent antagonist of the center's environmental blogger, Joe Romm, shot back, asserting that the scientists, by associating with an advocacy group pressing a particular agenda on climate, were making matters worse.

Annie learned that by bringing science to bear, meeting with officials and getting visibility for a cause — the basic elements of environmental advocacy — you can achieve results.

GES was set up by the coal utility cooperative Western Fuels Association (WFA) «as a vehicle for advocacy on climate change, the environmental impact of CO2, and fossil fuel use.»

The memorandum was given to The New York Times by the Environmental Working Group, an advocacy group critical of Bush administration policies.

With strong environmental advocacy — not greenwashing for fossil fuels by anti-nuclear ideologues — we can fix America's electricity system.

Michaels is Editor of the World Climate Report, a blog published by the «advocacy science consulting firm» New Hope Environmental Services [2], which he founded and runs.

According to a 1988 report by the Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research, Greening Earth Society and Western Fuels «are located at the same office suite in Arlington, VA..

Another definition, following the article of Nelson and Vucetich (2009), On Advocacy by Environmental Scientists: What, Whether, Why, and How», argues that we may consider all communication of science not expressly for relaying our work to colleagues a form of aAdvocacy by Environmental Scientists: What, Whether, Why, and How», argues that we may consider all communication of science not expressly for relaying our work to colleagues a form of advocacyadvocacy.

Entanglement's work was part of an effort by the Environmental Defense Fund, a national advocacy group, and the nonprofit Air Alliance Houston to help the city of Houston assess environmental damage from Harvey, protect public health and hold companies accountable for theEnvironmental Defense Fund, a national advocacy group, and the nonprofit Air Alliance Houston to help the city of Houston assess environmental damage from Harvey, protect public health and hold companies accountable for theenvironmental damage from Harvey, protect public health and hold companies accountable for their pollution.

«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.

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC) develops and protects the market by increasing the awareness of the economic, social and environmental benefits of green roofs, green walls, and other forms of living architecture through education, advocacy, professional development and celebrations of excellence.

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

The National Center for Science Education has adopted as part of its mission the task of attacking researchers and commentators who question the biased and alarmist position on global warming staked out by the Obama administration and environmental advocacy groups, so Steven Newton's highly critical essay comes as no surprise.

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.»

We held monthly meetings which included lectures and discussion led by expert speakers on subjects ranging from infrastructure and environmental justice to advocacy and community organizing.

The report was authored by the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, a climate justice advocacy group, and Redefining Progress, a nonprofit policy institute.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY — The three leading environmental advocacy organizations in the Hudson Valley — Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Riverkeeper and Scenic Hudson — applauded today the decision by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to resume dredging of PCBs around Fort Edward, NY with enhanced engineering controls at dredging locations to reduce spillage of material back into the river and re-suspenenvironmental advocacy organizations in the Hudson Valley — Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Riverkeeper and Scenic Hudson — applauded today the decision by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to resume dredging of PCBs around Fort Edward, NY with enhanced engineering controls at dredging locations to reduce spillage of material back into the river and re-suspenEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) to resume dredging of PCBs around Fort Edward, NY with enhanced engineering controls at dredging locations to reduce spillage of material back into the river and re-suspension of PCBs.

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.

As governor of Utah, he appeared in a 2007 ad for an environmental advocacy group in which he said, «Now it's time for Congress to act by capping greenhouse gas pollution.»

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.

The organization has received funding from Exxon, according to company documents posted online by Greenpeace, an environmental advocacy group.

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