Sentences with phrase «clean air campaign»
«Even in the business community, there are a lot of companies that support moving ahead with carbon standards,» said Peter Altman, director of the NRDC's climate and clean air campaign.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/ Not exact matches
Procter & Gamble has followed up its winking Mr. Clean campaign with another humorous ad around the company's Febreze air - freshener brand.
Environmental campaign group ClientEarth welcomed the call for more clean air zones.
I often share digital best practices at national and regional conferences such as AAPC, Art of Political Campaigning, CampaignTech, Campaigns & Marketing Summit, NTC, Netroots Nation, Organizing 2.0, the Reed Awards, and RootsCamp, webinars for Progressive Majority, Salsa Labs and others, and trainings in - person for small groups around the country including for Wellstone's Advanced Campaign Management School, Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, Center for Progressive Leadership, Clean Air Task Force, Democracy for America, HRC, New Leaders Council and New Organizing Institute.
According to the Campaign for Clean Air London had already registered 35 days of dangerous pollution levels by mid-April, exceeding its calendar - year limit.
«Eric is fighting to preserve New Yorkers» access to affordable healthcare, clean air and water, and a growing, diverse economy that respects New York values,» the campaign said.
He is in charge of the national group's Healthy Air Campaign, which advocates for clean air protectioAir Campaign, which advocates for clean air protectioair protections.
Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standclean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standClean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standarAir Act from meeting new air pollution standarair pollution standards.
Luis Cabrales, who worked for many years as a campaign director for the Coalition for Clean Air, a venerable green group that was instrumental in the passage of California's historic vehicle Smog Check Program in the early 1970s, has spent most of his adult life fighting for environmental justice.
In the past decade, the Coalition for Clean Air has waged a successful campaign to begin cleaning up the deadly diesel pollution emanating from California ports.
Prior to joining the Center, she worked at the Coalition for Clean Air on campaigns to reduce toxic air pollution from ports and freight transportation in the state of CalifornAir on campaigns to reduce toxic air pollution from ports and freight transportation in the state of Californair pollution from ports and freight transportation in the state of California.
In fact, a subsequent study conducted by Liu et al. (2015) and published in Nature Communications, contrasts the CARES measurements with those obtained from the 2012 Clean Air for London (ClearfLo) campaign to show that aerosol coatings influence black carbon absorption and the form and structural details of the mixing state may be specific to the source and region where the mixing occurs.
Much of this campaigning work has focused on people and public health: clean water and air, green spaces, controls on pesticides in food.
«The people of Washington have spoken mdash; this project poses too much of a threat to our clean air, clean water and rapidly changing climate,» said Cesia Kearns, Deputy Campaign Director for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal cCampaign Director for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaigncampaign.
But, after a tense meeting with Republican governors, who threatened to launch a campaign to repeal the Clean Air Act, then - EPA head Carol Browner made the car - pooling voluntary and relaxed the monitoring rules.
The Trump campaign website says the presidential hopeful will «make America energy independent, create millions of new jobs, and protect clean air and clean water.»
The Clean Air Moms Action, part of the Environmental Defense Action Fund, has started a $ 100,000 campaign against President - elect Donald Trump's EPA nominee Scott Pruitt.
Nicolina Angelou, ESMAP, World Bank Yaw Ansu, Africa Center for Economic Transformation Morgan Bazilian, World Bank Yael Borofsky, MIT Steve Brick, Clean Air Task Force Jonah Busch, CGD Afua Djimi, Black Rhino Group Emily Huie, ONE Campaign Ben Leo, CGD Vijay Modi, Columbia University Scott Morris, CGD Philippe Niyongabo, African Union Ted Nordhaus, Breakthrough Institute Queen Nworisara - Quinn, Kupanda Capital Alex Rugamba, African Development Bank Kathryn Russell, ONE Campaign Bill Savedoff, CGD Kartikeya Singh, Fletcher School, Tufts University Peter Teague, Breakthrough Institute Johannes Urpelainen, Columbia University Catherine Wolfram, Energy Institute at Haas, UC Berkeley Davida Wood, World Resources Institute
The industry had a willing booster in George W. Bush, who quickly broke his campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant and appointed coal lobbyists to top positions in his administration, granting the industry a long and now familiar wish list of favors, including gutting the Clean Air Act and easing standards for mountaintop mining.
In the final years of the Obama presidency, despite the attention generated by McKibben and Steyer's campaign strategies, the most significant progress on climate change may occur by way of a traditional insider legal strategy with roots dating to the 1970 Clean Air Act.
Greenpeace India campaigns to protect India's forests, for clean air and water, to promote renewable energy especially solar power, to prevent the dangerous impacts of climate change and nuclear power, for safe food and ecological farming and to protect freedom of speech.
The nation is also considering joining Breathe Life, a campaign run by UN Environment, the World Health Organization, and the Climate & Clean Air Coalition, in which members pledge action on air qualiAir Coalition, in which members pledge action on air qualiair quality.
The groups, ranging from the [Rockefeller Brothers Fund - supported] 350.org, Food and Water Watch, Climate Parents, Moms Clean Air Force, The Nation, Sierra Club and others, have asked DOJ to investigate what ExxonMobil knew about climate change and when the company knew it, juxtaposing that insider knowledge, exposed by both InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times, with the climate change denial campaign it funded both in the past and through to the present.»
The lobbying campaign was initiated by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), whose membership includes electric utilities such as Southern Company and American Electric Power, two of largest air - borne mercury polluters in the country.
He said he is now «joining another front for clean air» by contributing to the Sierra Club, and he plans to commit his time and energy to the campaign.
The nonprofit Clean Air Trust named Ebell its «clean air villain of the month» in 2001, citing his «ferocious lobbying charge to persuade President Bush to reverse his campaign pledge to control electric utility emissions of carbon dioxide.&rClean Air Trust named Ebell its «clean air villain of the month» in 2001, citing his «ferocious lobbying charge to persuade President Bush to reverse his campaign pledge to control electric utility emissions of carbon dioxide.&raqAir Trust named Ebell its «clean air villain of the month» in 2001, citing his «ferocious lobbying charge to persuade President Bush to reverse his campaign pledge to control electric utility emissions of carbon dioxide.&rclean air villain of the month» in 2001, citing his «ferocious lobbying charge to persuade President Bush to reverse his campaign pledge to control electric utility emissions of carbon dioxide.&raqair villain of the month» in 2001, citing his «ferocious lobbying charge to persuade President Bush to reverse his campaign pledge to control electric utility emissions of carbon dioxide.»
The campaign list of the Sierra Club Prairie Chapter currently includes the Reduce Vehicle Idling for Clean Air, the Castle Crown Wilderness, Smart Growth and Steer Clear... Go Your Own Way.
Our members lead campaigns for clean air, water, and the protection of urban, rural and wilderness environments.
Clean Power Plan Toolkit To make sure that the plans are created and implemented in an equitable way, EJ Leadership Forum created this website to help community members join in their campaign to educate, empower and engage their community to fight to bring clean air and clean energy to your hClean Power Plan Toolkit To make sure that the plans are created and implemented in an equitable way, EJ Leadership Forum created this website to help community members join in their campaign to educate, empower and engage their community to fight to bring clean air and clean energy to your hclean air and clean energy to your hclean energy to your homes.
We are hopeful that Mr. Trump and his campaign will take a closer look at energy efficiency as an energy resource to promote energy security so that current and future generations are less dependent on imported fuels as well as to ensure that we all have cleaner air to breathe since energy efficiency helps reduce the smog and global warming pollutants emitted from fossil - fueled power plants.
Actress Julianne Moore is on the campaign trail — not for a candidate but on behalf of the Environmental Defense Fund's Mom's Clean Air Force, an organization that brings mothers together to work for a clean and healthy environment for Clean Air Force, an organization that brings mothers together to work for a clean and healthy environment for clean and healthy environment for kids.
Tim Carmichael — President, Coalition for Clean Air Theo Colborn — President, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange Jeremy Jackson — Oceanographer, Scripps Institute for Oceanography Tzeporah Berman — Campaign Director & Founder, Forest Ethics Gloria Flora — Director, Sustainable Obtainable Solutions Mikhail Gorbachev — Founding President, Green Cross International, 1990 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Omar Freilla — Director, Green Worker Cooperatives Wallace J. Nichols — Senior Scientist, The Ocean Conservancy Diane Wilson — Author, An Unreasonable Woman Andrew Weil — Director, Program for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona Thomas Linzey — Executive Director, Community Environment Legal Defense Fund Michel Gelobter — President, Redefining Progress Jerry Mander — Director, International Forum of Globalization William McDonough — Architect, William McDonough & Partners (as Bill McDonough) Bruce Mau — Creative Director, Bruce Mau Designs John Todd — Ecological Designer Rick Fedrizzi — President & CEO, US Green Building Council Greg Watson — Vice President, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Lester Brown — President, Earth Policy Institute Herman Daly — Professor, University of Maryland, Former Senior Economist, World Bank Betsy Taylor — Founder, Center for the New American Dream Wade Davis — Explorer - in - Residence, National Geographic Society Leo Gerard — President, United Steel Workers International Union Mathew Petersen — President & CEO, Global Green USA Peter Warshall — Ecologist, Whole Earth Catalogue Andy Lipkis — President & Founder, Tree People Rest of cast listed alphabetically: David Attenborough (archive footage) George W. Bush (archive footage) Al Gore (archive footage) Arnold Schwarzenegger (archive footage) Brian Williams (archive footage)
The bar complaints have been signed by our board attorney, Kevin Zeese, who also directs the Campaign for Fresh Air and Clean Politics, and Voters for Peace.