Sentences with phrase «doing environmental advocacy»

Not exact matches

«Environmental advocacy organizations, including Riverkeeper, Scenic Hudson, NRDC, Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and many others have highlighted these widespread expert opinions on the cleanup and concur that more work needs to be done.»

But during her 2008 presidential run, in response to an autism advocacy group's questions, she cited vaccines as one possible environmental cause of autism, despite widespread scientific agreement that vaccines don't cause autism.

«I have a Ph.D and I don't understand it,» said Maria Powell of the Midwest Environmental Justice Organization, an advocacy group.

Advocacy groups use them, as do the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the United Nations.

«This administration, [Michelle] Bachelet's administration, is really prioritizing climate change in a way that no other previous administration has done, including her first administration,» said Amanda Maxwell, Latin America project director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit international environmental advocacy group based in New York City.

That EPA letter certainly played a part — as did sustained grassroots advocacy efforts, exposes on conflicts of interest between State and the pipeline's profiteers, and relentless debunking of false jobs and energy security promises — in the State Department's move to punt the decision for a year, take a fresh look at the proposals, and go back to the drawing board to create a new supplemental environmental impact statement.

Underscoring these problems, the advocacy group behind the initiative, Carbon Washington, did not seriously seek out and incorporate input from environmental and social - justice advocates and community leaders.

The report by environmental advocacy group the Climate Council said the government needed to do more to reduce carbon emissions harming Australia's beaches, national parks and the Great Barrier Reef.

Environmental advocates believe that it is through the rapid deployment of these technologies and energies that the costs will go down — and I think this DOES have some merit, but two (serious) problems remain undiscussed in the advocacy community:

I don't doubt that it's possible to be concerned about the environmental stresses population brings without any racism or xenophobia — I've met many people who fit that description, and there were well - meaning (if quite mistaken) population - focused groups in the»70s and»80s — but in terms of public discussion and advocacy, anyone explicitly expressing that concern starts out behind the eight ball.

For almost 15 years now, I've been doing human rights and environmental advocacy work — most of it in Washington, D.C. Just about anyone who has done that sort of thing for more than a decade in the belly of the beast (a.k.a, the nation's capitol) can attest to how it jades you.

Items listed as «done» included withdrawing implementation of the Waters of the U.S. rule, «Dramatically reduce government funding of environmental advocacy groups,» «Withdraw from the Paris Accord» and also withdrawal from the Clean Power Plan.

Another option is think tanks / advocacy groups (e.g. GWPF, Cato, Environmental Defense, etc.), but they may not want to promote reports that do not originate from their organization, although GWPF seems open to this sort of thing.

Gamers waste a lot of energy simply because they don't turn their machines off when they're not playing, according to environmental advocacy group the National Resources Defense Council and consulting firm Ecos.

Joseph: Do they have a financial interests in green advocacy or are they just concerned about environmental issues?

Do they have a financial interests in green advocacy or are they just concerned about environmental issues?