Sentences with phrase «environmental campaign groups»

The report concludes that personal carbon trading is not the best option for reducing carbon emissions - something environmental campaign groups have been saying for years.

The petition, which was launched by environmental campaign group Final Straw, said that charging customers for straws would mean that serves could only hand out straws on request, which could «dramatically reduce waste.»

A project operated by China's largest coal miner, Shenhua Group, has reduced groundwater levels in a region of Inner Mongolia and discharged high levels of toxic wastewater, environmental campaign group Greenpeace said on Tuesday.

This Danegeld will end up being paid to environmental campaign groups of the kind they work for themselves, thus funding yet more vexatious, money - grubbing actions against still more blameless companies.

The attorney generals from 20 states announced plans to work with environmental campaign groups on ongoing or potential investigations into whether Exxon misled investors decades ago about the impact their business had on climate change.

Environmental campaign group ClientEarth welcomed the call for more clean air zones.

It is claimed five undercover officers engaged in infiltrating environmental campaign groups between the mid 1980s and 2010 had relationships with the women lasting from seven months to nine years.

Environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth has calculated that if all bees were wiped out in the United Kingdom — not a likely event despite the multiple sources of attack — it would cost the country # 1.8 billion a year ($ 2.81 billion) to hand - pollinate food crops in their place.

Recently, a group of individuals from tax and environmental campaigning groups wrote a letter in The Observer backing instead a «frequent flyers levy», which would tax travellers based on how regularly they fly.

Environmental campaign group International Rivers said Laos» promise to cooperate with neighbouring countries had never been genuine.

In addition, the article stated that Dr Lewis» concern at the IPCC's use of reports by environmental campaign groups related to the prospect of those reports being biased in their conclusions.

Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has published a report indicating that major food producers, including Kellogg's, PepsiCo and Kraft Heinz, are failing in their promise to eliminate Indonesian palm oil from...

The danger here for the Green Party is that it is squeezed between the kind of legislation it endorses emanating from mainstream parties, and the direct forms of political engagement offered by environmental campaign groups.

A letter sent from HSBC to the environmental campaign group stated that the bank no longer held shares in Golden Agri - Resources — the palm oil arm of the Sinar Mas Group.

BERLIN (Reuters)- Environmental campaign group Greenpeace has found traces of chemicals that can pollute waterways in children's clothing and shoes made by luxury brands, challenging the sector's reputation for higher standards than those of mass fashion.

The claim that Himalayan glaciers are set to disappear by 2035 rests on two 1999 magazine interviews with glaciologist Syed Hasnain, which were then recycled without any further investigation in a 2005 report by the environmental campaign group WWF.

The environmental campaign group has also called for the introduction of green taxes across Europe, especially in the transport sector, and for European governments to dramatically increase investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency as well as research and development in these areas.

The environmental campaign group has compiled photos of people from across the EU who are all demanding political action from governments to fight climate change, while committing to make their personal lifestyles more climate - friendly in return.

The environmental campaign group is calling on the EU and member states to introduce additional measures including:

Without it, he claimed that environmental campaign groups could use the signing of the Paris agreement as leverage in court challenges to other anti-climate measures proposed by the administration.

The environmental campaign group accuses Kansas - based Koch Industries, which owns refineries and operates oil pipelines, of funding 35 conservative and libertarian groups, as well as more than 20 congressmen and senators.