Sentences with phrase «environmental front»

• On the hope for a united environmental front: «Too often the hunters and flower huggers won't even speak to each other, and fishermen are seen by both as too weird and snobbish to deal with.»

There's been incredible progress on many environmental fronts, but huge gaps remain, particularly when the issue is conserving global «commons» ranging from the shared atmosphere — still a free dump for greenhouse gases — to ocean - roaming fish species like bluefin tuna.

First, a new University of Tennessee report finds that the RFS and its ethanol mandates fall short on a number of environmental fronts, and that without mandated ethanol use the corn ethanol industry couldn't survive commercially.

Among Levi's suppliers, AI was known for its ingenuity on the environmental front — they'd found new ways to save water, and made a whole collection of jeans sans chemicals — why not innovate on the people side as well?

On the environmental front, big companies must cut carbon emissions and avoid deforestation, and we have exciting innovations popping up, led by the likes of Tesla.

The significance of this vote, particularly to those who have been fighting the Reagan Administration on the environmental front, was that the lone dissenter was the U.S.. However, according to transcripts of the debate on the charter's passage, American objections to it weren't inspired by Interior Secretary James Watt or anyone else in Washington.

On the environmental front, angling opponents argue that it creates a lot of litter, given the array of equipment involved.

Also on the environmental front, the state budget, which passed nine days late, continues allocating $ 300 million to the Environmental Protection Fund.

Climate change, biological diversity, desertification, land degradation and drought are intricately related on the social, economic and environmental fronts.

There's a lot of noise on the environmental front right now — besides the nuclear crisis in Japan, there's an attack on climate science led by US politicians and widespread conflict in the Middle East driving up the price

On the environmental front, there was, as always, news worth cheering and ruing, developments that prompted reactions of both «süper» (yep, just like in English, but with an umlaut) and «maalesef» (unfortunately): Süper!

On the environmental front, if the status - quo approach persists, there are quite a few commentators who foresee months of unrelenting oil flows and an epic soiling of Gulf coasts.

Still, in the main, Canadians thought of themselves as the good guys on the environmental front, striving often as not for a respectable middle ground — a prosperity built on the nation's extraordinary natural bounty that took the necessary steps not to exhaust it in the process.

As incredible as it may be that a country managed to get its citizens to march into the murderous folly of Nazism some 85 years ago, a similar phenomenon is happening today on the environmental front: there's now the mad march into environmental murder.

But things are still popping on the environmental front as we once again wrap up some of the month's eco-news from Turkey, developments that prompted reactions of both «süper» (yep, just like in English, but with an umlaut) and «maalesef» (unfortunately): Süper!

And of course it's too soon to tell what will actually take effect in the long term, but on the environmental front, so far, so good.

In the past few years - ever since Tim Cook became CEO, really - Apple has been cleaning up its act on the environmental front.

It's hardly a monumental innovation, but as is often the case when considering large corporations» progress on the environmental front, it's a step in the right direction — just last year Coca - Cola spent $ 3 million on green upgrades.

I guess the big question that sticks in my mind, in light of the genuine improvements that Walmart has made on the environmental front, whether they can ever live down the stigma of being the big box retailer with a reputation for highly questionable labor practices and being the easy - shot symbol of all that is wrong with US consumerism?

There are many environmental causes one could belong too, spotted owl would not cover the environmental front.

Global head of environment, Vanessa Havard - Williams predicts a greater focus by companies on due diligence concerning the supply chain and third parties, while, on the environmental front, companies face greater exposure under new UK sentencing guidelines from July with fines capped at # 3m.

In the news, Trump's Picks (15 out of 21 to be confirmed by the Senate) for Cabinet Positions has riled many stakeholders in the clean energy space; of special interest on the environmental front is EPA Director pick, Scott Pruitt; and the current political scrutiny regarding Trump administration requesting names of all participants and documents on climate change.