Sentences with phrase «challenge by environmental groups»

The Bureau of Land Management has leased to the coal industry 400 million tons of coal on federal land in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, and the administration has defended the decision against a court challenge by environmental groups.

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But as Virgin grew through the years, so did our ideas about how to treat employees well, and how to take environmental impact into account, and by 2004, I had come to realize that we at the Virgin Group had a chance to tackle the challenges our society faces in a new, entrepreneurial way.

These groups were less concerned about market fluctuations and more concerned with issues of social equity, environmental health and having fun, which meant they unwittingly epitomised the goals of political ecology, by challenging the dominant agricultural methods of production and marketing.

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.

Discontented with the federal response to global warming, environmental groups joined forces with three cities, one U.S. territory and a dozen states, led by Massachusetts, to challenge the EPA in court.

A number of suits challenge the nascent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) effort to reduce greenhouse emissions, but the agency has actually been prodded into action by lawyers from states and environmental groups from thEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) effort to reduce greenhouse emissions, but the agency has actually been prodded into action by lawyers from states and environmental groups from thenvironmental groups from the other side.

Wynne was the chief author of a joint report, Biodiversity Challenge, published by environmental groups at the end of last year, which proposed more than 500 targets for the conservation of species and habitats.

The new oil port proposals are under study and public hearing process and being challenged by a coalition of environmental and health groups.

When an economist at the Environmental Protection Agency rejected the Obama administration's stance on global warming by writing an unsolicited report challenging the scientific consensus on greenhouse dangers, groups fighting restrictions on greenhouse gases hailed him as a courageous maverick.

Science has a tremendously important role to play in guiding environmental management, not as a decider, but as a resource for deliberative, evidence - based decision making by the public, policy makers, and interest groups on the challenges, trade - offs and possible courses of action in negotiating the environmental challenges of societal development (DeFries et al 2012).

[2] The proposed coal terminal is being opposed by environmental groups, which have filed legal challenges against the county permit approving the project.

For example, in 2006, then - Senator Kerry filed an amicus brief on behalf of an ultimately successful federal lawsuit brought by several environmental groups against the Bush administration, challenging the administration's suppression of the National Climate Assessment process.

The groups, represented by Western Environmental Law Center and Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit in federal district court challenging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's decision to approve 287 oil and gas leases totaling almost 150,000 acres in south central, north central, and southeastern Montana.

An environmental group and a largely African - American church tried to challenge North Carolina's utility monopoly by generating cheap, clean power.

Producing significant amounts of oil from offshore leases in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas is quite a few years away because of permitting delays, serial lawsuits filed by environmental pressure groups, and the physical challenges involved in building the necessary offshore infrastructure in the Arctic Ocean.

The panel affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded for further proceedings in an action brought by environmental groups and individuals who challenged a decision by the U.S. Department of Defense to construct a new military base on Okinawa, Japan.

The United States» federal coal leasing program has come under increased scrutiny in recent years, as communities impacted by coal mining and export proposals, taxpayer advocates, and environmental groups have questioned the ability of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to ensure a fair return to US taxpayers and adjust to newer challenges such as climate change and coal export proposals.

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.

However, experts in industry and environmental groups say that won't be enough, and the situation can provide insight into challenges faced by the coal industry in Ohio and other Midwest states.

While in Jerusalem, the group was briefed by the Environmental Ministry's Dr. Yehuda Bar Or on some of the environmental challenges and projects that the government is shepherding - like water technologies, recycling, and Environmental Ministry's Dr. Yehuda Bar Or on some of the environmental challenges and projects that the government is shepherding - like water technologies, recycling, and environmental challenges and projects that the government is shepherding - like water technologies, recycling, and desalination.

This is bound to be challenged by every single environmental group with a stake here, but it's still really not encouraging: New York Times reports that the Department of Interior has granted Shell conditional approval to start drilling oil exploration wells in the Arctic Ocean starting next summer.

Earthjustice represented three environmental justice groups and challenged the impact statement, which a lower court judge found illegal, whose opinion was upheld by a state court of appeal.

Conditionally approved by federal Cabinet in June 2014, the project was the subject of a barrage of legal challenges brought by eight First Nations (including two co-represented by West Coast and Mandell Pinder LLP), four environmental groups, as well as Canada's largest private sector union (which represents both oil sands and fisheries workers impacted by the project).

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».