Sentences with phrase «concern from environmentalists»

The Obama administration did indeed place a federal moratorium on all new coal mining leases on public lands across the country in June — but but only out of concern from environmentalists, Congress, and the Department of the Interior that coal companies have spent 30 years cheating taxpayers out of $ 30 billion in royalties.

With the potential for the Hudson River to become a major oil transportation corridor, there's concern from environmentalists as to how complicated cleaning up a spill on the river would be.

Not exact matches

Seventy - five per cent of respondents were very or somewhat concerned that the deal is being negotiated in secret with no input from MPs, labour leaders, environmentalists or other experts.

Finally, there is increased anxiety concerning climate change — with some environmentalists demonising human beings, consumer - based Western cultures castigating poorer nations for their waste and pollution, and little attempt to think more profoundly about what a more ecologically - aware approach to our world may demand from such societies.

Figures from the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply's «Long Term Outlook» now indicate that the country's livestock industry — whose associated greenhouse gas emissions and land use are already a concern for environmentalists — will grow still further in the next ten years.

Residents and environmentalists argued that the development would destroy valuable oak savannahs, high quality wetlands and wildlife - a concern recently echoed by officials from the Army Corps of Engineers, village officials said.

ROMULUS, N.Y. — A packed Romulus High School auditorium was the scene for the Seneca County town's planning board meeting Monday Evening where dozens of concerned residents, and environmentalists from Seneca Lake Guardian attended, attended with hopes for answers on long - lingering question.

Tuesday's protests came on top of years of coordination difficulties and delay as a result of concern from native Hawaiians and environmentalists alike over construction of the $ 1.4 billion telescope on the volcano, which is already home to more than a dozen telescopes.

(The fact that EPA is holding a conference this month on risks from drugs in drinking water seems to be of no concern to environmentalists, public health officials or at Dotearth or here at Green, Inc..)

Which explains why CO2 is a global problem and therefore central to environmentalist concerns and exhaust fumes from smelly buses aren't.

It will be a compelling battle to try and replace the mother of all eco-scares — man - made global warming — but Climate Depot is confident that one of these test - marketed new eco-issues will catch on and you may soon see massive denials from environmentalists and UN officials that claims of a man - made global warming crisis never really existed (echoing the claims that there was no widespread concern about global cooling in the 1970's) See: Spoof: NYT in 2019: Scientists Now Say Global Warming Fears Fading Away — Claim There Never Was Warming Consensus — By Marc Morano

Not counting carbon emissions from burning the coal, scientists, environmentalists, and concerned citizens along coal transport routes are worried that these cumulative impacts will harm public health, disrupt their daily lives, and negatively impact the ecological health of waterways along the path from mine to port.

Since recent events have demonstrated the relative environmental soundness of hydraulic fracturing — a technique for extracting oil and gas from shale formations — Promised Land's script has been altered to make doom - saying environmentalists the tools of oil companies attempting to discredit legitimate «fracking» concerns.

Lovins» basic framework of transitioning from nuclear to renewables was promoted by David Brower and Friends of the Earth and eventually embraced by Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Natural Resources Defense Council, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the German government, Al Gore, and a whole generation of environmentalists.

Over two days this week the Energy and Power Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee heard concerns from scientists, poultry producers, automakers, drivers, restaurant owners, tool makers, store owners, environmentalists and the oil and natural gas industry about problems with E15 and / or the current Renewable Fuel Standard.

From a William L. Anderson piece posted at Mises.org: «Lay, a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a radical environmentalist and anti-free-market organization, supported the disastrous Kyoto Accords on «global warming.»

Environmentalists either know «warmer is better» and seek to hide this inconvenient truth from the public, or the only research they've done is reading the fundraising letters of silly alarmist groups such as Greenpeace and Union of Concerned Scientists.

Saturday, April 20, 2013, Randolph, NH, noon, Durand Lake Recreation Area, off Route 2 Earth Day Event to Stop Tar Sands, Informational Picnic and Pipeline Hike Concerned citizens and environmentalists will come together to draw attention to the possibility of toxic tar sands oil from Canada coming through northern New England via the Portland Montreal Pipe Line (PMLP).

The extension of the permit period from five years has raised concerns among environmentalists about the ecological effects of the growing wind industry.

Environmentalists, who have made stopping Keystone a top priority, and many Democrats oppose the proposal due to greenhouse gas emissions from Alberta's massive oil sands projects and other ecological concerns.

For pragmatic environmentalists Riley's Paradox describes a fundamental concern relative to climate change policy: Economic damage from man - made «climate change» is illusory whereas damage from man - made «policies» to fight the said change is real.

Carbon and soot emissions from cargo ships have long been a concern for environmentalists.