Sentences with phrase «by environmentalist groups»

US President Barack Obama is being hailed as the first leader to cancel a major infrastructure project because of its impact on climate change, following campaigns by environmentalist groups.

The finding contradicts arguments by some environmentalist groups that bitumen, the tar - like substance extracted from Alberta's oil patch, corrodes or clogs pipelines, increasing the risk of ruptures.

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The move comes after months - long protests by environmentalists and Native American groups in North Dakota against Energy Transfer Partners LP's $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, which would bring crude oil from the state's Bakken oil patch through the Midwest and into the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Protesters have been buoyed by the recent success of Native American groups and environmentalists in their campaign against construction of the 1,100 - mile (1,770 - km) Dakota Access pipeline, a project spearheaded by Energy Transfer Partners (etp) that would carry oil from North Dakota's Bakken shale fields into Texas.

Mining, a process by which individuals or groups get paid in new Bitcoins to run complex mathematical equations on high - powered computers in order to confirm the validity of transactions, has drawn scrutiny from environmentalists who say it's sucking up too much electricity.

While it will still fund expansions of existing oilsands projects, environmentalists likened the new policy to similar announcements by BNP Paribas and ING Group

A proposal by a group of MPs for a 25p levy on disposable coffee cups sold in the UK has been welcomed by Christian environmentalists.

One of the outcomes that grabbed the most headlines was the resolution to give high conservation value to secondary, degraded forest, a move that has been welcomed by many environmentalists and campaign groups, including Greenpeace.

Her support for a third runway at Heathrow, as part of her work with the Group, was not welcomed by environmentalists like Zac Goldsmith - especially after the Tories» 2010 manifesto pledge not to build a third runway in the present parliament.

There are ongoing, long standing campaigns against proposed expansions at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted by local residents groups and environmentalists who are particularly concerned about noise and air pollution.

«We don't go anywhere that we aren't essentially invited by community organizations, environmentalists, netroots groups, progressive labor unions.»

A towering structure proposed by LG Electronics is getting a lot of push back from elected officials, community groups and environmentalists.

In addition, Mr. Levy, who described Mr. Amper as a «gadfly» who doesn't represent all environmentalists, said the bill was coauthored by environmental groups Citizen's Campaign for the Environment and The Nature Conservancy.

Top advisers to the billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer helped run a green group, financed in part by Steyer himself, that is at the center of a corruption scandal that could force the Democratic governor of Oregon to resign.

Similar projects to Canada's West Coast have faced delays due to objections by First Nations groups and environmentalists, while the 800,000 bpd Keystone XL pipeline to Texas has been awaiting U.S. State Department approval for years.

Metz's video depicts the use of policy networks by groups with diverse interests — governmental bodies, agricultural groups, industrial associations, and environmentalists — to achieve effective water protection policies.

A hemp revival fueled by unified groups of farmers, doctors, nutritionists, environmentalists, and businesses gained even more momentum with the exciting discovery of the endocannabinoid system in the 1990s.

Title: Confessions of a Failed Environmentalist Author: Jennifer Ellis Genre: Romantic Comedy / Women's Fiction Age Group: Adult Rating: 4 stars Purchase: Amazon Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.

In 2010, a second floor was discovered by a group of environmentalists.

An adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Utah, Richard was named the 2008 Environmentalist of the Year in Latin America by the Latin Trade Group, a major regional publisher.

The former government bombing test site was saved by a group of environmentalists that included famed Sea Explorer Jacques Cousteau.

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 2004, the Dane made his name as a green contrarian with his bestselling book The Skeptical Environmentalist, and outraged scientists and green groups around the world by arguing that many claims about global warming, overpopulation, energy resources, deforestation, species loss and water shortages are not supported by analysis.

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

And crucially, churches in the U.S. have just begun to take up this issue in big numbers, which they see as a moral issue of not just protecting God's Creation, but also not inflicting direct harm on helpless people around the world.A new coalition of environmentalists, aid groups, and churches have been pivotal in changing the momentum for the new «Climate Security Act» co-sponsored by Senator John Warner.

Thanks to the efforts of green groups, however, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan on Thursday moved to preserve the falls, suggesting Trchkan be granted «specially protected area» status by the government, in what ArmeniaNow called «a rare victory for Armenian environmentalists.»

The newly disclosed documents that are evidently authentic are being pored over by many environmentalists and journalists, with a particular focus on the tax reporting of the group — which was clearly the intention of the person who disseminated them.

Within hours after the Daily Mail ran a strongly supportive news piece about our paper, an EU - funded environmentalist extremist group had telephoned round and obtained instaquotes from half a dozen rent - by - the - hour «scientists» about our paper, but, as our point - by - point refutation demonstrates, several of them had not even read it and not one had raised a serious scientific objection to it.

I am thrilled that Houghton Mifflin has chosen to do exactly that, by refusing to bow to environmentalist groups and poison our children's minds with exaggerations, scare tactics and outright lies.

Energiewende» s success is deeply rooted in wide public acceptance, but almost every facet required to ease the transition has been opposed by industry, citizen groups, and environmentalists.

We were even up against phony environmental groups, and I'm a big environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians to stand against any effort, oh that pipeline, that fracking, whatever will be a problem for you, and a lot of the money supporting that message was coming from Russia.»

Plug - in hybrids are now a solution endorsed by leaders in business, government at every level, environmentalists, citizens groups, policy analysts, academics — and car - makers.

States» climate change lawsuit blocked — Primed by various radical environmentalist groups, several US states were trying to use the courts to force energy producers to put out less CO2.

We were even up against phony environmental groups, and I'm a big environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians to stand up against any effort, «Oh that pipeline, that fracking, that whatever will be a problem for you,» and a lot of that money supporting that effort was coming from Russia.

Although the paper was published in a scientific journal, the research was funded by groups with deep ties to the environmentalist movement, including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, and the Wallace Global Fund.

In 2014, environmentalists outpaced skeptical groups by $ 4.6 billion to $ 1.7 billion.

... when they're exonerated by a panel of scientists who are NOT connected to renewable energy sources, environmentalist groups, conservation movements, carbon trading etc..

Brulle knew or should have known that his almost - billion - dollar number would be presented by his allies in the media and the environmentalist movement as the budget of the so - called «denial» effort, not as merely the combined budgets of all groups that Brulle labeled, rightly or wrong, as «deniers.»

I am sure that I have long since been ex-communicated by most «environmental» groups, but I still regard myself as an environmentalist in that I believe that the natural world should be preserved when it can be shown that such action will also be economically beneficial.

Washington Free Beacon — 27 January 2015 Foreign Firm Funding U.S. Green Groups Tied to State - Owned Russian Oil Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 20Groups Tied to State - Owned Russian Oil Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 20groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011....

The UK2020 founder «urged a revolt» against the «Green Blob» of NGOs and environmentalists while promoting genetically modified organisms (GMOs) today at the annual South African agricultural biotechnology media conference, which was hosted by the GMO - funded lobby group ISAAA.

Citation: «Environmentalist Groups Feud Over Terms of the TXU Buyout», by REBECCA SMITH and JIM CARLTON.

The «heat - trapping» version of the greenhouse effect theory is promoted by everyone from environmentalist groups, e.g., Greenpeace, and WWF; to government websites, e.g., Australia, Canada and USA; and educational forums, e.g., Livescience.com, About.com, and HowStuffWorks.com.

The same talking point has been re-iterated again and again by public policy groups and environmentalists, as well as the most influential scientists in the US government.

Written by Gary Cook, crossposted from Greenpeace's The EnvironmentaLIST: Google, other IT companies should end support for climate denying groups like ALEC

Using environmentalist - group press releases and other shoddy «sources,» the report claimed, for example, that Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035 or sooner.

On that front, work on the Belo Monte dam, set to become one the world's largest dams, moved forward after Brazil's Supreme Court set aside complaints raised by rights groups and environmentalists.

Supported by automakers, unions, national security groups, and environmentalists, the standards (known as the» National Program») set fuel economy and global warming emission targets, based on vehicle size, for new cars and trucks sold in the United States.

The California Cars Initiative (http://www.CalCars.org) is a non-profit technology development and advocacy startup formed by a group of entrepreneurs, engineers, environmentalists and consumers to jump - start the market for plug - in hybrids.

The event was attended by a variety of government ministers, journalists, the actor and environmentalist Edward Norton and the founder and Chairman of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson.