Sentences with phrase «environmental advocacy campaigns»

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

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

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Such campaigns form the lifeblood of environmental advocacy.

Since then, Delany has worked as a consultant to help dozens of political advocacy campaigns promote themselves in the digital world, and between 2003 and 2007 was the Online Communications Manager at the National Environmental Trust.

As of January 1, I left my day job at the National Environmental Trust to devote my time to helping a diverse array of advocacy groups, companies and campaigns use the «net to help spread their messages and achieve their political and communications goals.

By comparison, anti-fracking environmental organizations, unions and advocacy groups spent merely $ 1.9 million on campaign contributions during that period.

Some say the bill seeks to stifle contributions to issue advocacy groups that campaign for changes to environmental, education, criminal justice, government ethics, and other policies.

Since then Delany has worked as a consultant to help dozens of political advocacy campaigns promote themselves in the digital world, and between 2003 and 2007 he was the online communications manager at the National Environmental Trust.

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.

The Brooklyn comptroller candidate's campaign has accused Liu of not moving the bill, which has the support of several environmental and transportation advocacy groups as well as the mayor, forward to prevent Yassky from touting it as an accomplishment prior to the September Democratic primary.

Governor Cuomo made a rare campaign stop in the Third District in October on behalf of Adrienne Esposito, a Democrat and the executive director of an environmental advocacy group.

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.

Third, sociopolitical pressures (e.g., fossil - fuel divestment campaigns, environmental advocacy, grass - roots protests and changing public opinion) could create an environment in which carbon - intensive businesses could lose their «license to operate,» thereby stranding assets.

After uniting leaders in the policy, business, construction, utility, low - income advocacy and environmental arenas to win a 30 % efficiency boost in America's model energy code, the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), the Energy Efficient Codes Coalition is now campaigning to put future IECCs on a path of continued progress.

Those campaigns fell short of obstructing pipeline projects, but environmental advocacy groups have succeeded in blocking natural gas development in New York and other states.

In addition to undercover work, EIA has also utilized campaigning expertise, an extensive advocacy network, as well as data and research analysis to propose solutions to some of the world's most pressing environmental problems.

He went on to develop several software applications that help individuals and companies better understand their environmental impact, produced and wrote the Discovery Network's first online news show for Planet Green, and later led digital advocacy for the TckTckTck campaign, a global network of 500 NGOs working to secure an international climate agreement.

LA Business Council Mary Leslie and Brad Cox accepting California Environmental Leadership This honor recognizes the extraordinary leadership of the Los Angeles Business Council to lead a campaign to establish a 600 MW solar feed in tariff for the City of LA, to aggressively oppose the Dirty Energy Prop 23 initiative; host an annual Sustainability Summit, create a report on multifamily rooftop solar and social equity in LA to create and retain jobs and reduce owner and tenant utility costs; and to lead business advocacy for instrumental support of the adoption of LA's green building program.

«Western Fuels Association's Astroturf Empire: Coal industry campaign multiplies efforts to re-spin global warming» (PDF), Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research, November 10, 1998.

«Our message today is clear: Wind power here in Maine is already growing steadily, reducing pollution and helping to reduce the climate crisis,» said Laura Dorle, a campaign organizer for Environment Maine, a Portland - based environmental advocacy group.

In the past two years, UUMFE has brought Earth justice education and action campaigns to their members and congregations (NWEI serving as a primary delivery model) and created an advocacy coalition for environmental justice issues in collaboration with other Unitarian Universalist (UU) partners.

Public opposition to fracking has escalated in recent months, with concerned residents and environmental and consumer advocacy groups campaigning against the practice in New Jersey and the surrounding states, where gas companies have been ramping up plans to drill in the Marcellus Shale, a rock formation which extends up the East Coast.