Sentences with phrase «environmental efforts coming»

Further concerns come to light as Trump continues to put individuals in office with ties to Big Oil, and environment advocates are naturally disturbed at the possibility of the Obama administration's environmental efforts coming undone: «The ship of state is about to be turned into the Exxon Valdez,» Dan Becker, director of non-governmental organization Safe Climate Campaign tells the Washington Post.

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The news comes as scores of UK hospitality firms are beginning to change their policies on plastic waste, while some environmental campaigners are attempting to tax single - use plastic products in an effort to discourage their use.

This scaling up of certification efforts is admirable, but is coming at the cost of maintaining rigorous environmental standards.

This ongoing effort comes as an anti-pesticide push from environmental and public health groups has taken hold recently, targeting the negative side effects of synthetic chemicals.

Without descending into the detail of policy appraisal or the delivery of operational targets — both things that my environmental audit committee will scrutinise — the best snapshot of effort will come from the big policy packages that define the government's agenda, and which have the greatest environmental impact.

«The most recent evidence that came to light was an effort to edit and delay a study that the DEC (Department of Environmental Conservation) commissioned from the U.S. Geological Survey on fracking,» Hawkins said.

While other cities have since come on board, and Richmond's lofty ambitions have been toned down some over time, the plan is still one of the nation's most broad - reaching efforts to make environmental justice a part of city policy.

Indeed, the news comes at a time when the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in Research Triangle Park, N.C., completes an ambitious, two - year, $ 30 - million effort to evaluate the chemical and launches a new set of cooperative research agreements with independent scientists.

One big challenge to U.S. efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions comes this week, as a federal circuit court hears arguments over a challenge to the White House's major climate change initiative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulations targeting emissions from power plants.

The studies, published online this week in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, come as the Obama administration is making a concerted effort to link efforts to tackle climate change with protecting public health.

Proceeds from the sales would come back to the villagers and help fund rural development and education efforts — in hopes, says Dransfield, that the Malagasy people might finally reap some benefit from preserving the environmental resources that remain.

As the first of several national laboratories that China intends to launch in the coming years — others will be devoted to brain research, physics, and environmental science — the Qingdao lab will also be a bellwether for efforts to persuade scientists to accept greater government scrutiny and direction in exchange for ample resources.

This initiative, today led by an Alliance, including science, donors, sponsors and users, is a unique co-design effort to organize and define the science on global environmental change over the coming decades.

The House Science and Technology Committee introduced legislation today that highlights the growing attention on Capitol Hill to the need to strengthen federal efforts to learn more about the potential environmental, health and safety (EHS) risks posed by engineered nanomaterials.Introduction of the bill comes only months after J. Clarence (Terry) Davies authored a report that makes a series of recommendations for improving federal risk research and oversight of engineered nanomaterials at EPA, the FDA and the CPSC.

Despite all your efforts to keep your dog cool during summer and protect it against the searing sun, there may come a point when the environmental temperatures become too much that your dog is already developing heat stroke.

This iteration began with a series of public programs that focused on ways in which grassroots efforts can come together to make a positive impact on environmental stewardship.

The paper describes an effort to identify and propagate social and environmental projects that could reverse a centuries - long pattern in which human prosperity has come at the cost of substantial harm to ecosystems and excluded communities.

Here's the note introducing the effort, which came from Goodstein and three prominent environmental leaders, Bill McKibben, Hunter Lovins and Gus Speth:

Other money for this research effort came from the Environmental Defense Fund, which deserves a lot of praise for organizing this effort.

4:25 p.m. Addendum on methane leaks added Given that government resources for environmental regulation (and just about everything else) will be constrained for a long time to come, I've been enthusiastic about efforts by the public to take a D.I.Y. (do it yourself) role in tracking pollution or resource issues, whether on the ground or online.

Today comes Part III of Ken Ward's response to «The Death of Environmentalism,» in which Ken argues that environmentalists should resist efforts to make environmental justice the core tenant of the movement and instead refocus on the most successful weapon...

The Billion Acts of Green challenge was a success and we can't wait to see how Southwest continues to engage its Employees in its environmental efforts as we work toward a common goal of improving our environment for the generations to come,» said Rogers.

We were even up against phony environmental groups, and I'm a big environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians to stand against any effort, oh that pipeline, that fracking, whatever will be a problem for you, and a lot of the money supporting that message was coming from Russia.»

We were even up against phony environmental groups, and I'm a big environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians to stand up against any effort, «Oh that pipeline, that fracking, that whatever will be a problem for you,» and a lot of that money supporting that effort was coming from Russia.

After distributed computing efforts such as SETI at home, and Climate Project came GLOBE, a world wide effort to involve students in gathering ground truth for environmental and climate studies and Weather Bug, a distributed set of weather stations available to classes, media, and on your Blackberry.

Today comes Part III of Ken Ward's response to «The Death of Environmentalism,» in which Ken argues that environmentalists should resist efforts to make environmental justice the core tenant of the movement and instead refocus on the most successful weapon in their arsenal: protest.

He came to Missoula on Friday to talk about his efforts to reconnect Christian religion with young people, in part through environmental issues.

Sow doubt, make up statistics, call for an «open debate,» claim that you are being «silenced and ignored by the media and politicians,» claim that your opponents are just a «few bureaucrats and environmental activists,» not real scientists — those are the tactics that will be brought to bear in the coming months by the CCDs in their attempt to derail meaningful efforts to respond to global climate change.

Students will come away from this class with an understanding of how public utility regulation interacts with environmental law to facilitate the efforts of states (like California) to decarbonize the electric grid, and to inhibit those efforts in other ways.

Without major changes, the federal coal leasing program will continue to undermine federal, state, and international efforts to reduce carbon pollution; the BLM Wyoming office plans to lease over 10 billion tons of coal in the coming years, dwarfing the emissions reductions expected from the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan.

One single newspaper with a current 2015 circulation of 12,000 is the only one which reported on the ICE campaign during its run, Greenwire (at that time a literally weeks - old environmental news service with minimal subscribers) came out with its alert ten days after the last known date of ICE campaign efforts, the trade journal publication The Energy Daily came out with its first report over two weeks after that last ICE campaign date, and the NYT report was out a day short of a month later.

The effort seems to come from the very top of the company, with a new video narrated by Apple CEO Tim Cook and a letter by Lisa Jackson, Apple's head - honcho of green initiatives and the former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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