Sentences with phrase «conservation group against»

A notice of intention to sue has been filed by a bird conservation group against a major wind power installation.

Connecticut v. AEP et al. involves a federal public nuisance claim filed by state attorney generals and conservation groups against utilities for their large contributions to climate change and resistance to lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

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Their group - created strategy included these actions: establishing cooperative links with other churches and groups committed to ecology; developing a Center of Ecology Information and a paperback book table at the church; devising methods to reach decision - makers in the community; exploring the development of a coordinating council of all ecology groups active in that community — Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Zero Population Growth, League of Conservation Voters, Wilderness Society, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, World Population, GASP (Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, group - created strategy included these actions: establishing cooperative links with other churches and groups committed to ecology; developing a Center of Ecology Information and a paperback book table at the church; devising methods to reach decision - makers in the community; exploring the development of a coordinating council of all ecology groups active in that community — Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Zero Population Growth, League of Conservation Voters, Wilderness Society, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, World Population, GASP (Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, etc..

After winning a fracking ban, one of the most significant strikes against fossil fuel usage in the nation, New York's environmental groups are eager to score another victory such as a rejection of proposed natural gas pipelines by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

The League of Conservation Voters is dropping $ 860,000 on an ad buy against Nevada Republican Senate candidate Joe Heck while another group is launching a new ad tying the congressman to his party's presidential candidate.

On Tuesday, about 40 anti-fracking activists with New Yorkers Against Fracking (a coalition of 60 groups) held a rally in front of the Department of Environmental Conservation «s headquarters in Albany, demanding a human health study be added to the department's ongoing environmental impact study.

Councilwoman Jennifer Metzger said the state Department of Environmental Conservation is reducing confidence in the agency by going against its own recommendations to avoid having more than one group in charge of reviews.

Jeff Gohringer, a spokesman for the League of Conservation Voters in Washington, said the group has not decided how much of the $ 1.5 million it will spend against Buerkle during this year's campaign.

Supporters of conservation brought up strategies to stop the sale of the island, including lobbying Congress to revoke the act putting Plum Island up for sale, designating the island as property for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, selling it to New York State or a non-profit group that will focus on preservation, or — if necessary — filing a lawsuit against the government.

This assessment means that species have been checked against a list of criteria published by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, a time - consuming process that has been completed for only three per cent of marine species, with no assessments at all in three quarters of the major groups of marine animals and plants.

Helmut Brucher, who is a member of the German Conservation Association and the Euro - group Against Bird Crime, placed the birds in a temporary home in Germany while deciding where they could be set free.

He has amassed praise from some Western conservation groups in large part because he has repeatedly voted against measures to sell off public lands.

First impressions were good — groups are no bigger than four people per dive master and, not only do they warn against feeding fish or touching anything underwater, but they actively engage in conservation projects like releasing clownfish and organising underwater clean up events.

In a decision that strikes a blow against the federal government's controversial practice of excluding industry from consent decrees with environmental citizen groups, a practice known as «sue - and - settle,» the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned the district court's approval of a consent decree between a coalition of environmental groups and several federal agencies in Conservation Northwest v. Sherman, No. 11 - 35729 (9th Cir.

A group of five «flat Earther» Republican candidates who rejected the climate science were targeted by a group called the League of Conservation Voters, which said it spent $ 3 million campaigning against them.

On September 30, 2010, a coalition of Native American and conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining (OSM) for withholding records relating to Peabody Energy's coal - mining operations on tribal lands in northeast Arizona.

Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana — A coalition of conservation groups today stepped up efforts to safeguard the climate from dirty energy, filing suit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its approval of more than 350 million tons of new coal mining in the Powder River Basin of northeastern Wyoming.

Already, 64 groups — including the Hip Hop Caucus and League of Conservation Voters — released a joint statement against the proposal.

on Conservation groups file suit against Bush administration to compel second National Assessment

Our entries on taking the CCSP and the White House Science Office to federal court on the National Assessment: (November 14) Conservation groups file suit against Bush administration to compel second National Assessment (November 14) Sen. Kerry statement in support of lawsuit on National Assessment of Climate Change Impacts (November 16) Press coverage and comment on the National Assessment lawsuit