Sentences with phrase «environmental advocacy»

A coalition of environmental advocacy groups is swinging their weight behind an effort that's making end - of - session push for an overhaul of campaign finance laws this year.

She regularly works with federal and state agencies, members from local Native American tribes, the commercial and recreational fishing community, and both regional and national environmental advocacy organizations.

Several environmental advocacy organizations have created handy guides to purchasing and consuming products.

Our non-profit environmental advocacy client Environmental Action has been running a three - message welcome series for years now, but I chose to focus on the last 6 months of data.

Many nonprofits — including those doing environmental advocacy, education reform and good - government work — have such overlapping structures.

And now, certain environmental advocacy groups have learned....

The investigators said the panel also received information «to a more limited degree» from academic experts, policy organizations, environmental advocacy groups and private citizens.

The amendment to the Montreal Protocol phasing down heat - trapping hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which was adopted in the early hours of Saturday in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, is in part the result of 7 1/2 years of lobbying and maneuvering by the Obama administration, environmental advocacy community and U.S. industry bent on using the ozone treaty to phase down the climate - forcing chemicals.

While the report says the numbers of dead birds and bats are similar to other wind farms in North America, Ottawa - based environmental advocacy group Nature Canada says the figures are actually surprisingly large and represent a significant threat to several endangered species.

According to a 1988 report by the Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research, Greening Earth Society and Western Fuels «are located at the same office suite in Arlington, VA..

Heal the Bay, a non-profit organization for environmental advocacy, was formed in 1985 to protect Santa Monica Bay, which extends from Malibu's Point Dume along the entire coastline of Malibu past Santa Monica to the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

The banks made their pledges on renewable energy as part of a campaign called RE100, an effort organized by environmental advocacy groups to get leading companies to commit to shrinking their carbon footprints.

Before coming to American Progress, he spent 25 years working with environmental advocacy organizations and political campaigns.

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.

Twelve days after Donald Trump took office in 2017, the nonprofit environmental advocacy group NRDC filed its first lawsuit against the new administration, fighting an EPA rollback of a protection against mercury pollution.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY — The three leading environmental advocacy organizations in the Hudson Valley — Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Riverkeeper and Scenic Hudson — applauded today the decision by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to resume dredging of PCBs around Fort Edward, NY with enhanced engineering controls at dredging locations to reduce spillage of material back into the river and re-suspension of PCBs.

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The JMG Foundation is a U.K. - based organization (founded by Ben Goldsmith) which funds environmental advocacy campaigns.

Environment America is a federation of state - based citizen - funded environmental advocacy organizations.

Earth Ministry steps up its participation in faith - based environmental advocacy efforts, which include leading a sign - on letter of 65 religious leaders in support of clean - car legislation

Created as Artist - in - Residence with environmental advocacy non-profit Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC), the project debuted at NRDC's booth at EXPO Chicago: the contemporary art fair held each year on Chicago's Navy Pier and attended by over 35,000 people.

Other plaintiffs in the case include environmental advocacy groups Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth.

«The Hudson Valley would get no direct benefit and bear all the risk,» said Scenic Hudson Director of Environmental Advocacy Hayley Carlock.

But Footprint's proposal was only approved in February after several years of debate, culminating in a legal settlement between Footprint and the Conservation Law Foundation, the largest environmental advocacy group in New England.

CLF is a New England - focused environmental advocacy organization.

Tara's impressive history includes working as the CA Director and Legal Coordinator of a wildlife program for Earth Island Institute, clerking for the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center and for In Defense of Animals, serving as a legislative extern for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and managing the Golden Gate Audubon Society.

While Case brought to the Hawaii Department of Land & Natural Resources considerable mainstream environmental advocacy credentials, Cox brings to his case against Case's cat policy considerable credentials of his own.

Her post grad plans are to continue in environmental advocacy through marketing for environmentally focused firms as well as to continue to develop her passion for learning through travel and continued exploration in the field.

In view of this, the PM's preachy environmental advocacy in other areas, such as NAFTA, sounds like politically expedient window dressing to help prop up poll numbers.

Independent environmental advocacy groups have already been warning that benzene levels in some areas of Texas have reached worrying highs, while more than a dozen toxic waste sites were also flooded or destroyed.

Dan has served on the Institute of Brewing Studies Board of Advisors, as director and treasurer of Save the Harbor / Save the Bay, a local environmental advocacy organization, president of the Boston Marine Park Business Association, and founding president of the Massachusetts Brewer's Guild.

The Conservation Law Foundation, which partners with Mass Audubon on environmental advocacy initiatives, will also be presented with a Green Star award, for its work on gas - line leaks and the Salem power plant conversion.

The issue of hydrofracking remains a contentious one in New York, where a vocal environmental advocacy campaign has sprung up to oppose the process.

ELIZABETHTOWN The region's most prominent environmental advocacy organization has painted a foreboding portrait of the Adirondack Park, calling its successes «threatened» by a confluence of internal and external forces.

While environmental advocacy organizations have taken credit for prompting these changes at some of the world's top banks, the shift coincides with crashing commodity prices in oil, coal and natural gas markets worldwide.

«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.

Those ponds already cover an estimated 50 square miles, and an analysis of the industry's seepage records by the Canadian environmental advocacy group Environmental Defense suggests that every day around 3 million gallons of contaminated fluid leaks into the surrounding area.

Climate Coalition, a United Kingdom environmental advocacy group, shows urgency of global warming in clip

Which is why Latino advocacy groups — representing millions of people across the US — have united to oppose the GOP's recent assault on the EPA and the Clean Air Act.Voces Verdes, a nonpartisan Latino environmental advocacy group, organized the effort, and won support from many of the nation's top Latino health, education, and environmental organizations.

With strong environmental advocacy — not greenwashing for fossil fuels by anti-nuclear ideologues — we can fix America's electricity system.

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She is staff executive for the AGA Board of Directors» environmental strategic planning task force and for AGA's environmental advocacy committee and the technical environmental matters committee.

Allison first became interested in environmental advocacy after learning about the links between human rights issues and climate change while working at Amnesty International after college.

The Midwest environmental advocacy group is part of a coalition that's pushing a competing bill to significantly expand the state's renewable energy and efficiency standards (EnergyWire, Feb. 6, 2015).

Industrial polluters have gone to great lengths to stifle environmental advocacy, but their expansion of censorship laws has finally crossed a line for some federal judges.

The result, he says, has been «the greatest environmental advocacy effort in history,» of which battles against the Northern Gateway, and the proposed U.S. - bound Keystone XL pipeline, are just a start.