Sentences with phrase «environmental groups continue»

As Democratic lawmakers and environmental groups continue to complain about Bush administration edits of Senate testimony on health risks from global warming, the White House today took the unusual step of having President Bush's science adviser, John Marburger III, issue a detailed explanation.

Despite their funding troubles, many environmental groups continue to provide core services.

Enbridge's Northern Gateway project was next up, but stiff opposition from First Nations and environmental groups continues to keep it in limbo.

Not exact matches

The protest also comes amid continued activism by indigenous groups across the U.S., who have rallied over issues ranging from sports mascots to environmental causes such as the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines.

Pigs continued to fly in Alberta politics today as energy industry leaders and environmental groups joined Premier Rachel Notley and Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips at a press conference to release Alberta's much anticipated plan to take action against Climate Change.

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Local groups will continue to have the opportunity to influence environmental water management by participating in state processes contributing to implementation of the Basin Plan.

As summarised below, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office will continue to work with the Murray Darling Basin Authority, state agencies, research organisations, regional organisations, local groups and others, such as landholders to collect and collate relevant monitoring information that facilitates evaluation and reporting of the use of water under the Basin Plan.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office regularly attends community forums, events and committees within the catchments and we are continuing to forge local partnerships that allow community groups, including Aboriginal Traditional Owners, to help shape the regional planning and management of environmental water delivery over tEnvironmental Water Office regularly attends community forums, events and committees within the catchments and we are continuing to forge local partnerships that allow community groups, including Aboriginal Traditional Owners, to help shape the regional planning and management of environmental water delivery over tenvironmental water delivery over the long term.

Elected officials and an environmental group used the occasion to continue their call on the Department of Defense to stop PFOS discharges from Stewart Air National Guard base.

«The Nature Conservancy in New York applauds Governor Cuomo for his continued leadership on combating climate change, the most pressing environmental challenge facing our world,» said Jessica Ottney Mahar, the group's policy director.

Ultimately, the group will work with the state Department of Environmental Conservation to determine how to protect the forests while also ensuring the lands will continue to supply timber to local mills that support about 100 jobs

He says his group continues to have faith that Cuomo's environmental agency will issue the right regulations to ensure safe drilling.

«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.

Environmental groups across Wales are celebrating the news that the Welsh Labour Government have reversed their decision to withdraw the existing funding scheme which many of them are dependent upon to continue their community projects and activities.

And as environmental issues continue to be closely monitored by voters and green groups in the Adirondack Park, critics often point out the lawmaker has received a 27 percent lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters, an environmental organization.

One of the environmental groups» lead lawyers, Bill Snape of the Center for Biological Diversity, insisted advocacy for controlling lead ammunition will continue.

He said environmental groups will continue to «crank up the heat» until they get a response.

Some environmental groups have called on rich nations to assess how much carbon the world can continue to emit while still having a shot of keeping temperatures below 2 C above preindustrial levels, and then make the case for using up whatever it cites as a «fair share» of those gigatons.

But this one continues to grow because of the indolence of governments, the prevarication of shipping companies and the inattention of environmental groups who, had they waged a serious campaign, would surely have prevailed by now.

«Another lesson is that idealism matters,» said Weitz, continuing, «A small group of cooperating individuals can, over time, change the social and environmental context for all and for the better.»

A new report by the environmental group Greenpeace reveals that residents living in areas affected by the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters continue to suffer from the adverse effects of radioactive contamination.

SRIC's community - sensitive technical assistance services are the reason that individuals and groups continue to seek out the Center's staff on a wide range of environmental and resource development issues.

Against this background, working with Navajo groups and communities to stop new mining and continuing to assess and document the health and environmental effects of past uranium development are the principal focuses of UIAP work.

In May 2013 the Arctic Council decided to continue its work on the AACA initiative and requested the AMAP Working Group to «produce information to assist local decision - makers and stakeholders in three pilot regions in developing adaptation tools and strategies to better deal with climate change and other pertinent environmental stressors».

Closer to home, the Institute continued its work welcoming environmental and government groups to hold their meetings at beautiful Fort Baker.

In keeping with their philanthropic philosophy, the company will continue to donate 1 % of its customers» phone charges to various environmental, peace and human rights groups (at no extra charge to them, of course).

So, needless to say, until the Tea Party stops calling for the abolishment of the EPA, ceases trying to halt all - important regulations that preserve the quality of our air and water, and quits working to roll back every imaginable environmental protection on the books, I will continue to be critical of the group's aims.

The company will continue its tree - planting program by committing to planting one tree with each new customer sign - up; it will also give its users the option of donating 1 % of their charges to environmental groups only.

This reviewer questioned the motivation behind the Indonesian research — but declined to be quoted for attribution, showing just how sensitive this issue has become — and noted the eagerness of major environmental groups «to show how and why and under what circumstances continued logging of natural forests can be deemed «sustainable.

«Every year we host one of NWEI's discussion courses and open the courses up to the community... The group will continue its grassroots work encouraging individual action and reducing our environmental footprint.»

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Information has continued to pile up confirming many of the concerns raised by NRDC and other environmental groups: pipelines moving tar sands are more likely to leak, leak detection systems are unlikely to detect tar sands spills when they happen, tar sands spills are significantly more damaging than conventional spills, and conventional spills response measures are inadequate for containing and cleaning tar sands spills.

Three environmental groups file lawsuits against BP in federal court, charging that the gulf oil spill continues to harm endangered and threatened species.

Outraged and angered local front - line communities and environmental justice groups get little media attention, and Gov. Jerry Brown continues his posture as a global climate leader.

The term dirty oil has clearly resonated with environmental groups both in the US and in Europe and will continue to be used by those who seek to limit our access to important markets.

Nevertheless environmental groups charge TXU with engineering loopholes in the deal which would allow them to continue building new carbon dioxide - intensive coal plants.

Environmental groups will continue to push the government to acquire the remaining land in the Northeast Ecological Corridor.

But the cost difference has narrowed, and if the trend continues, recycling could end up being cheaper than trash disposal within five years, according to an analysis released on Wednesday by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group.

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.

A number of environmental groups have decried the continued crop subsidies, which they say favor big ag.

It remains to be seen how this will apply to a broader public consultation on a complex area by an expert decision - maker, particularly in the context of environmental decision - making, where the Aarhus Convention and Mr Justice Sullivan's report on environmental justice [Ensuring Access to Environmental Justice in England and Wales; report of the working group on access to environmental justice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to environmental decision - making, where the Aarhus Convention and Mr Justice Sullivan's report on environmental justice [Ensuring Access to Environmental Justice in England and Wales; report of the working group on access to environmental justice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to environmental justice [Ensuring Access to Environmental Justice in England and Wales; report of the working group on access to environmental justice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to Environmental Justice in England and Wales; report of the working group on access to environmental justice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to environmental justice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to consultation.

However, environmental groups received the government's announcement with some apprehension, particularly as the current NEB hearings for Kinder Morgan continue.

Robert Weitz, a certified microbial investigator and founder of RTK Environmental Group in Stamford, Conn., is often hired when a client detects a continuing bad odor or someone in the family develops respiratory problems or headaches.