Sentences with phrase «environmental advocacy group»

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.

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

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.

Ithaca - based environmental advocacy group Toxics Targeting is calling for the ban on the use of «gelled propane» and liquefied petroleum to frack for natural gas.

Based on these estimates, the USGS findings represent a vast, untapped resource that could help reduce carbon dioxide emissions and mitigate the impact they have on Earth's climate, said Briana Mordick, a geologist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a nonprofit environmental advocacy group headquartered in New York City.

Environmental advocacy groups including Earthjustice routinely sue wildlife management agencies, arguing that some of their management practices — including the cormorant cull — are not adequately grounded in current science.

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.

Several environmental advocacy groups have lodged a formal protest against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan to help pay for a new Tappan Zee Bridge using $ 511 million in loans from a clean water fund.

According to environmental advocacy group Hudson Riverkeeper, between 1947 to 1977 General Electric, GE, dumped more than 1.3 million pounds of cancer - causing PCBs into the Hudson River which has contaminated the waterway, wildlife, and has since been found in humans.

A consulting firm hired by a Boston - based environmental advocacy group estimated that soot from Yates is responsible for 186 asthma deaths and hospitalizations per year, for instance.

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.

«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

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.

Environmental advocacy group Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) slammed Tata Motors - owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) for saying that the Delhi air which was sucked in by the company's cars was...

Founded in 1970, NRDC is a non-profit environmental advocacy group with more than 2.4 million members and online activists.

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.

Environmental advocacy groups such as Greenpeace have argued that seabed mining should not be permitted in most of the world's oceans because of the potential for damage to deepsea ecosystems.

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

I believe the leading environmental advocacy groups go as far as they can within the limits that constrain them.

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.

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).

Environmental advocacy groups strive to influence government.

But environmental advocacy groups said they were confident that the rule would eventually pass judicial muster, and that in the meantime the trend toward greener power would continue.

It seems Viscount Matt Ridley is gaining international recognition for his climate denial as US environmental advocacy group the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC) calls into question his «rational optimism».

Clean Wisconsin, Inc., a state - wide environmental advocacy group, and Kinnard's neighbors, the Cocharts, challenged DNR's decision to reissue the permit without conditions.

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.

Ned Sullivan, who heads Scenic Hudson, a Poughkeepsie - based environmental advocacy group, characterizes the review and litigation as «escape hatches» consciously constructed by the corporation as potential outs from its obligation.

Jane Kleeb, president of the environmental advocacy group Bold Alliance, said green - lighting the alternative may have helped the commission reach a «middle ground solution.»

After surveying several major grocery stores in the United States, environmental advocacy groups have found that many of them have a bad habit of wasting food.

Concern is mounting among physicians, health professionals, environmental advocacy groups, public safety officials, as well as consumers because of the possible effects of these chemicals on our children.

«It's unfortunate the Army Corps» plan allows for the continued disposal of potentially harmful materials into the Long Island Sound, despite the strong objections across the board from New York's elected officials, residents and environmental advocacy groups,» he said.

On Monday, Kevin McAllister, the founder of the environmental advocacy group Defend H2O, repeated his call for restrictions on pesticide use in tidal wetlands.

The report, released Tuesday, by an environmental advocacy group ranks each of the state's cities and towns for solar power development.

«He's scared, because he knows an unknown law professor ran away with one - third of the vote in 2014,» Matthew Miles Goodrich, an organizer with the environmental advocacy group Sunrise Movement, which endorsed Nixon last Friday, told Gotham Gazette.

A petition filed by the environmental advocacy group Earthjustice along with 114 other organizations has convinced the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to hold a 90 - day public comment period on disclosure of chemicals used in the process of hydrofracking.

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.

Washington (CNN)- An environmental advocacy group backed by hedge fund tycoon Tom Steyer is set to unleash a seven - state, $ 100 million offensive against Republican «science deniers» this year, a no - holds - barred campaign - style push from the green billionaire that could help decide which party controls the Senate and key statehouses come November.

With a federal lawsuit alleging EPA violations between the environmental advocacy group Save the Sound and Westchester County approaching the two - year mark, officials at the nonprofit are growing increasingly impatient with alleged inaction on the part of several communities.

Mr. Matthiessen, 53, a former president of Riverkeeper, an environmental advocacy group, is the political strategist, founder and director of Move NY.

Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit health and environmental advocacy group, cautions that the carbon reductions from the gas boom should not induce complacency about the importance of nuclear, renewable, and other zero - carbon energy sources.

They also took the proposal and the results of water quality tests to local and state officials, members of the medical and public - health communities, environmental advocacy groups, and scientists, earning endorsements across a broad base.

Greg Zimmerman, deputy director of the Center for Western Priorities, an environmental advocacy group, said he came across the slideshow online last summer.

«That whole vicious cycle just kept pushing the boundary out and out and then you need greater and greater services,» said Mrowka, who is now a senior scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental advocacy group that has sued to stop Mulroy's effort to import more water from upstate.

«Let's not talk about that right now,» curtly replies Seth Factor, Guatemala director of the environmental advocacy group Trópico Verde.