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Moving outdoors, the Litigation Group uses its Supreme Court expertise to assist environmental groups in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The editorial also highlighted the fact that the NEB had met with business leaders and environmental groups in private, calling the closed - door sessions «questionable».

Ecojustice is leading a coalition of environmental groups in a court challenge against the Canada - Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, which granted an extension of an exploration licence in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, near the Magdalen Islands.

On June 17, 2014, several environmental groups in New Brunswick circulated for comment a draft environmental bill of rights for children.

Technology giant Apple has reportedly been in dialogue with environmental groups in the wake of a scathing August report.

The Canadian government is pushing Northern Gateway, the «plan B» to Keystone XL, and attacking the country's environmental groups in the process.

As news of the project has leaked out, it has triggered protests from environmental groups in the United States, Europe and Japan, who clamor for the protection of South America's great equatorial rain forest because it anchors fragile soil, holds at least half of the earth's animal and plant species and plays a vital role in world climate.

The document is attracting ire from environmental groups in the U.S. and in Europe which say the proposal would be a disaster for the climate.

Most big environmental groups in the state, under intense pressure from multiple directions, are taking an approach I've dubbed «performative non-support,» which means neutrality accompanied by thousands of words of explanation.

Clearwater, Riverkeeper, Scenic Hudson and many other environmental groups in the Hudson Valley fought for decades to get GE to clean up the PCBs in the Hudson River, and they remain committed to this landmark remediation effort.

The WSJ article says that the controversy reflects the different approaches of environmental groups in dealing with corporations.

Indigenous groups, labor, youth, scientists, food justice and clean water activists, religious groups, and civil rights organizations joined environmental groups in calling on world leaders attending the UN Climate Summit in New York this Tuesday to start taking real action to halt climate disruption.

This was where the movement turned after two devastating failures: the fruitless effort for an international climate treaty at Copenhagen in 2009, and the death, shortly afterward, of cap - and - trade legislation in the U.S. Senate, despite enormous investments by mainstream environmental groups in these causes.

The state's environmental agency agreed last week to tighten permit requirements on hog farms to settle civil rights complaints filed by social justice and environmental groups in 2014 and 2016.

It was a particularly satisfying moment for environmental groups in the Hudson Valley — including Scenic Hudson, which I head.

Environmental groups in Russia were unimpressed with their country's intended contribution to the UN Paris deal.

RBF funds or has funded virtually all the radical environmental groups in the United States.

Others will be harder: Senate Democrats and environmental groups in court will fight them tooth and nail, as they did during the Reagan and Bush years.

So thinking back over the last couple of years as the Long Island Power Authority has struggled along with local environmental groups in New York to educate the public about the clear environmental benefits of clean energy and what could be the first offshore wind farm in the US, it seems apparent to me that if area schools had access to a program such as KidWind 15 - 20 years ago the resistance they've encountered today might well be less intense and better informed.

Environmental groups in the climate change regulation debate rely more on accurate science than on negative spin, and I think this is a validation of Realclimates use of accurate science.

Realclimate.org will be known more and more by environmental groups in the near future.

Propaganda: 101 — see page 3 I. Russia works to disrupt U.S. energy markets and Fracking Threatens the Kremlin's Agenda and pg 5 I. Republicans and Democrats agree (quoting Clinton) the Kremlin is manipulating environmental groups in an attempt to carry out their agenda

That review, launched last year by a 27 - member CASAC review panel, is being closely followed by industry and environmental groups in light of mounting research that fine particulates pose health risks at levels below the current limits.

That compound, which EPA scientists in Wyoming said they identified with 97 percent certainty, was suspected by some environmental groups in a 2004 drilling - related contamination case in Colorado, also involving EnCana.

A long list of environmental groups in New York is urging voters not to call a constitutional convention, adding their voices to a growing list of organized groups allied against the measure on November's ballot.

ELIZABETHTOWN — With just weeks until president - elect Donald Trump takes office, environmental groups in the Adirondack Park are expressing concerns over an administration they fear may be hostile to the environment.

When Cuomo first announced the initiative in January, a few environmental groups in the Hudson Valley were disappointed that the Wallkill River was not on the list.

Sierra Club / League of Conservation Voters: The two most powerful environmental groups in the political world spent more than $ 11 million combined during the 2004 election.

The effort has drawn scrutiny and push back from House Republicans, who have raised questions over whether Schneiderman and other state attorneys general are being unduly influenced by environmental groups in the probe.

But Martens said environmental groups in part wanted the DEC to write regulations early.

AQLPA: AQLPA is one of the oldest and largest environmental groups in Quebec.

An environmental group in the Hudson Valley has put the New York State Thruway Authority on notice concerning two alleged violations during construction of the replacement Tappan Zee Bridge.

He said Klein not only opposes hydrofracking outright, but has been endorsed by nearly every environmental group in every election he has ever run in.

Group for the East End is still considering, while a request for comment from the Citizens Campaign for the Environment, another major environmental group in the region, was not immediately returned.

Emily Darling, a marine conservation scientist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, an environmental group in New York, calls the study impressive.

This post was originally published on this siteA partnership between a predominately Black church and an environmental group in North Carolina aiming to provide solar power lost its appeal to the state's highest court after an -LSB-...]

The coordinated national push for carbon cap - and - trade legislation, which had united virtually every major environmental group in the country, proved fruitless.

Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch, an environmental group in Washington, says: «It is the height of hypocrisy for GE to be spending money advertising so - called green locomotives while lobbying behind closed doors against important standards needed to protect our health from train emissions.»

Founded in 1892 by John Muir to «make the mountains glad,» the Sierra Club is the oldest and arguably the most powerful environmental group in the nation.

Bellona, the alternative energy and environmental group in Norway that supports CCS says the health risks should be assessed soon in order to not cause any futher delays with carbon capture technology.

* Katie Slipp is a partner in the Regulatory and Environmental Group in the Calgary office of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.

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.

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The advisory group, in a report submitted to Congress and the U.S. trade representative in late June, suggested the USTR borrow exact language pertaining to the agricultural sector and suggested using the Asiawide trade deal as the basis for text on environmental and labor regulation, with «additional strengthening of measures beyond what was in TPP,» according to a copy of the June 30 letter obtained by CNBC.

Environmental group Clean Wisconsin said in a news release that the withdrawal clearly won't be used for public purposes and the organization was weighing its options.

Similar legislation failed last year, after it pitted environmental scientists against businesses and trade groups that benefit from the $ 2 billion market for sun care products in the U.S.

Industry and civil groups in both Europe and America have proven more engaged in their approach to labour, environmental and human rights concerns in the textile and apparel industries.

«In 2016, renewables received about 100 times more in federal subsidies than nuclear plants,» Michael Shellenberger, founder of the Berkeley, California - based, pro-nuclear advocacy group Environmental Progress, wrote in an email to GrisIn 2016, renewables received about 100 times more in federal subsidies than nuclear plants,» Michael Shellenberger, founder of the Berkeley, California - based, pro-nuclear advocacy group Environmental Progress, wrote in an email to Grisin federal subsidies than nuclear plants,» Michael Shellenberger, founder of the Berkeley, California - based, pro-nuclear advocacy group Environmental Progress, wrote in an email to Grisin an email to Grist.

The outdoor clothing and gear retailer regularly donates 1 percent of its sales to nonprofit environmental groups, ranging from New York - based Waterkeeper Alliance to Climate Cycle in Chicago — adding up to $ 74 million since 1985.

Environmental groups have started a new court battle over protections for an imperiled bird on Western U.S. public lands but called a truce in a separate lawsuit involving the bird's smaller cousin.

Environmental groups have launched a pair of court battles over protections for an imperiled bird on public land in the Western U.S. but called a truce in a third lawsuit involving its smaller cousin.