Sentences with phrase «campaign by environmental groups»

It's also the target of a high - profile campaign by environmental groups over its climate impacts and propaganda.

A new report and campaign by the environmental group finds that slashing our meat intake by 50 per cent by 2050 is an important way to stop the worst effects of climate change, and the best way to alleviate a raft of health issues linked to eating too much meat.

Not exact matches

The initiative was devised by environmental group WildAid as part of its 5 To Do Today campaign, which, like Meat Free Monday, is trying to effect environmental change by encouraging people to make changes at an individual level.

The petition, which was launched by environmental campaign group Final Straw, said that charging customers for straws would mean that serves could only hand out straws on request, which could «dramatically reduce waste.»

I received invaluable assistance from the Center for Science in the Public Interest in getting the letter circulated, and it has now been signed by 29 organizations and individuals, including: CSPI; the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity; the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation; the Environmental Working Group; Healthy, Child, Healthy World; The Healthy Schools Campaign; Chef Ann Cooper; Dr. Yoni Freedhoff and many more.

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.

As signers of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, and as members of the Organic Trade Association, Nature's Baby Organics adheres to the manufacturing standards set forth by The Environmental Working Group.

and also join the global campaign for a toxic - free world by reading the FAQ Sheet, Towards Healthy Environments for Children: Frequently asked questions about breastfeeding in a contaminated environment which emerged out of the combined efforts of breastfeeding and environmental health and justice groups in addressing breastfeeding in a contaminated environment.

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

The New York League of Conservation Voters has launched a fundraising campaign to refill the coffers of its Climate Action PAC in hopes of rebuilding «environmental leadership in state government,» according to an e-mail sent to the group's supporters by board member Theodore «Teddy» Roosevelt V.

That's according to a coalition of more than 70 environmental, faith and labor groups have launched a campaign on this Earth Day to require New York to transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2030.

Supporters are pushing for the amendment as there is a concern it could be voted down amid a broader campaign against a referendum over whether to hold a constitutional convention, which is being opposed by environmental groups.

The decision made by Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant to extend the grant funding for thirty one projects registered with Environment Wales until the end of March 2017, came following a persistent campaign, led by the Environmental groups and with backing from William Powell, Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for the Environment.

Rep. Jerry McNerney (D) ran a competent campaign but was significantly aided by millions of dollars worth of ads pumped into the district by environmental groups attacking Rep. Richard Pombo (R).

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.

The report was released by Alliance for Clean Energy New York, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environment America, Environment New York, Environmental Advocates of New York, HealthyPlanet, Long Island Solar Energy Industries Association, National Wildlife Federation, New York Building Congress, New York League of Conservation Voters, New York Public Interest Research Group, Renewable Energy Long Island, and Sierra Club.

For weeks before the hearing, environmental groups campaigned to urge lawmakers to block Pruitt's nomination, saying his litigation as Oklahoma attorney general may have been influenced by energy companies and industry groups that contributed to his election campaigns.

BERLIN (Reuters)- Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has found traces of chemicals that can pollute waterways in children's clothing and shoes made by luxury brands, challenging the sector's reputation for higher standards than those of mass fashion.

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.

But this one continues to grow because of the indolence of governments, the prevarication of shipping companies and the inattention of environmental groups who, had they waged a serious campaign, would surely have prevailed by now.

The occasion was the announcement of a new campaign to protect the world's rain forests, Guyana's included, organized by the environmental group Conservation International.

This amendment is supported by many environmental pressure groups, including Friends of the Earth's «Fix It or Ditch It» campaign.

«Gas Firm Funded Sierra Club Campaign --» From 2007 to 2010, Chesapeake Energy poured $ 26 million into the anti-coal campaign by the Sierra Club, a tax - exempt environmental group.»Campaign --» From 2007 to 2010, Chesapeake Energy poured $ 26 million into the anti-coal campaign by the Sierra Club, a tax - exempt environmental group.»campaign by the Sierra Club, a tax - exempt environmental group.»»

Cut - rate competition aside, it's only a matter of time before Canadian environmental groups, many of them supported by the same U.S. funders backing the anti-ethanol campaigns south of the border, take it on.

Gore is spearheading the Reality Campaign, a countereffort with environmental groups like the Sierra Club featuring an ad by the Coen brothers that's known as «No Country for Coal Men.»

Along the way, it acquired a lot of enemies, not the least were the mainstream media that have thrived on the endless scare campaigns generated by environmental groups.

In spite of EPW's focus on Vitter's billionaire's club and political spending by environmental groups, Senator Vitter has refused to support campaign finance reform, or efforts aimed at reducing the wealthy's influence in politics, like the DISCLOSE Act.

«These Applications were based on a public campaign by Energy Probe, a Toronto - based environmental group.

In 2008, the environmental group NRDC created a website, COAL POWER: Warming America, Warming the Planet, parodying the «America's Power» campaign sponsored by ABEC, the predecessor to ACCCE.

Your proposal to build new nuclear plants in place of new coal - fired plants makes sense, except to those people who have been brainwashed by the earlier anti-nuclear fear mongering campaigns by environmental lobby groups like WWF and Greenpeace.

Both the Sierra Club and 350.org eschewed the inside - the - Beltway focus and top - down political strategy of big mainstream environmental groups, as exemplified by the cap - and - trade campaign.

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.

Without it, he claimed that environmental campaign groups could use the signing of the Paris agreement as leverage in court challenges to other anti-climate measures proposed by the administration.

The hurdle here in a good part of the world seems to be more political than anything else, and the result of fear mongering campaigns by environmental lobby groups, like WWF and Greenpeace.

In the face of daunting national and global developments threatening the progress of plug - in vehicles, cleantech, and responses to climate change, he's active in groups including Environmental Entrepreneurs http://www.e2.org (see below), the reincarnation of the Alliance for Climate Protection http://climaterealityproject.org/ (watch on Sept. 14) and the global campaign sparked by Bill McKibben http://www.350.org.

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.

Jane Trowell, of environmental arts campaign group Platform, said: «BP is trying to repair its tarnished reputation and buy our approval by associating itself with culturally important institutions like Tate.»

In addition, the article stated that Dr Lewis» concern at the IPCC's use of reports by environmental campaign groups related to the prospect of those reports being biased in their conclusions.

But last week, over 60 international civil society groups at Cochabamba's alternative climate summit lent their collective voices in a grassroots campaign to unanimously oppose geoengineering and are urging the public to join with Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E.) by «lending a hand» in their photo petition.With support from environmental and social justice luminaries like David Suzuki, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Naomi Klein, Herman Daly and Frances Moore - Lappé, the petition hopes to raise more public awareness about the issue prior to the next climate change convention slated for December.

According to a new report released by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), commissioned by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, seventeen name brand perfume products were found to contain a «complex cocktail of natural essences and synthetic chemicals - often petrochemicals,» including diethyl phthalate, a chemical linked to sperm damage in adult men and abnormal development of reproductive organs in baby boys.

That had led to major protest by PV companies and environmental groups, with a «Cut don't Kill» campaign emerging, founded by a coalition of 20 major companies from across the solar industry.

She cites also the campaign by green groups and Traditional Owners against the $ 21 billion Adani Carmichael coal mine in Queensland, where the Federal Government sought to remove the right of most environmental organisations to challenge developments under federal laws unless they can show they are «directly affected».