Sentences with phrase «coalition of environmentalists»

But with three weeks until Election Day, it is the No on 23 coalition of environmentalists, investors and Silicon Valley technology companies that is raking in the cash, taking in nearly twice as much money as the Yes on 23 campaign.

That's why a broad and diverse coalition of environmentalists, public health officials, business leaders, labor leaders, faith leaders, academics, low - income advocates, and social justice advocates has come together to call on Maryland's leaders to significantly expand the state's Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) policy.

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.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) >> A broad coalition of environmentalists, anti-hunger advocates and agriculture groups is urging New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign legislation giving farmers a tax break...

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The National Organic Coalition is a national alliance of organizations working to provide a «Washington voice» for farmers, ranchers, environmentalists, consumers and industry members involved in organic agriculture.

Environmentalists are cautiously welcoming the publication of the coalition's controversial planning reforms.

Riverkeeper is an active participant in a broad - based coalition of local elected officials, drinking water and wastewater service providers, state environmental and health administrators, engineers and environmentalists throughout the nation in campaigning for the establishment of a national Clean Water Trust Fund.

The emergent coalition between open democracy advocates, environmentalists, public school proponents, anti-corruption crusaders, trust - busters and net - heads didn't do badly in yesterday's New York Democratic gubernatorial primary, with Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu receiving 34.2 % and 40.1 % of the vote (with 98.3 % of precincts reporting), respectively, in their challenges to sitting governor Andrew Cuomo and his hand - picked running mate former Rep. Kathy Hochul.

The driving force behind the change is not a coalition of liberal environmentalists, but rather a conservator leaning and minority party Assemblyman, Republican Jim Tedisco, who represents parts of Schenectady.

As a result, a coalition of Chinese scientists and environmentalists signed a petition this May calling for a halt to «overdevelopment» of hydropower in the Yangtze River Basin.

In the decades since, the environmental justice movement has grown from a scrappy army of the poor and disenfranchised into a powerful coalition that united the mostly white and college - educated traditional environmentalists, trade unionists, blue - collar workers and residents of some of the nation's most contaminated neighborhoods.

In a recently published interview, Paul Hawken, an environmentalist, and Executive Director of Project Drawdown, a global coalition of researchers, scientists, and economists that models the impacts of global warming, made a spot - on observation about the pitfalls of seeking a simple, single solution to climate change.

California is ruled by a coalition of monopolistic businesses, public sector unions, and the environmentalist lobby.

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GCRA is a coalition of volunteer scientists, divers, environmentalists and other individuals and organizations, committed to coral reef preservation.

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More forecasting and critical evaluation, less dawdling on existing, well studied issues: that, in a nutshell, is the main recommendation made by a broad coalition of 35 scientists, environmentalists,

* A coalition in Washington called SmarterSafer.org, made up of environmentalists, libertarians and budget watchdogs, contends that the subsidies have essentially become a destructive, unaffordable entitlement.

«I think of Bloomberg's millions the same way I do the millions Steyer flushed down the toilet last year — flotsam,» Laura Sheehan of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity said, referring to the millions San Francisco billionaire and environmentalist crusader Tom Steyer spent last year in mostly unsuccessful efforts to elect candidates committed to government programs to combat alleged man - made climate change.

This 2016 creation includes Young Conservatives for Energy Reform, an environmentalist Christian Coalition of America, Citizens for Responsible Energy Reform — and Conservatives for Clean Energy (CCE), launched in 2014 as an «educational» and «charity» organization.

In states where Republican opposition has stunted progress on clean energy, unlikely coalitions of tea party activists and environmentalists are forming to take their arguments to the people through referendums and pressure campaigns.

An environmental documentary due to be broadcast on Channel 4 on Thursday evening has come under attack from a leading American environmentalist who was interviewed for the programme, as well as a coalition of anti-GM campaigners based in the developing world.

A «strange bedfellows» alliance between environmentalists and the state Tea Party — promptly dubbed the «Green Tea» coalition — successfully lobbied the Public Service Commission to force Georgia Southern, the state's dominant power company, to buy 525 megawatts of solar power.

The St. Louis Food Policy Coalition, consisting of environmentalists, policy experts and community leaders, collected 854 responses that came from nearly every neighborhood in the city.

According to Driessen, this group includes among its membership «the Young Conservatives for Energy Reform, an environmentalist Christian Coalition of America, Citizens for Responsible Energy and Conservatives for Clean Energy (CCE).»

... environmentalists pulled together a huge coalition of businesses, religious groups, military groups, unions, and social justice groups.

More forecasting and critical evaluation, less dawdling on existing, well studied issues: that, in a nutshell, is the main recommendation made by a broad coalition of 35 scientists, environmentalists, journalists and policymakers, who were asked to put their collective brainpower together to draw up a list of the 25 future environmental threats that might arise in the U.K. up to 2050 (but could just as well apply to most countries around the world).

New Yorkers for Fair Energy, a coalition of energy providers and environmentalists, were one of the groups suing to stop Cuomo's plan, saying it would cost ratepayers $ 7.6 billion over 12 years.

Environmentalists who provided money, zeal and manpower to Democrats in 2008 are demoralized this campaign cycle, further fraying the coalition that sent Barack Obama to the White House and gave the party majorities in both houses of Congress.

So says the 2008 Secrecy Report Card issued this week by OpenTheGovernment.org, a coalition of journalists, consumers, environmentalists, library groups, labor and others devoted to promoting openness in government.