Sentences with phrase «environmental groups working»

Ceres is a national coalition of investors and environmental groups working with companies to address sustainability challenges such as climate change.

Platts Coal Trader summarized Nisbet's work: «According to the report, in 2009, national environmental groups working on climate change generated $ 1.7 billion in revenue, spent $ 1.4 billion on program activities and spent $ 394 million on climate change and energy - specific activities.

Thirteen environmental groups working on clean transportation solutions sent a letter to the United States Postal Service (USPS) urging it to select plug - in electric vehicles (EVs) for the next generation of delivery vehicles (NGDV).

In 2014 - 15, the company raised nearly $ 500,000 for environmental groups working on shark protection.

Thirteen environmental groups working on clean transportation solutions sent a letter to the United States Postal Service (USPS) urging it to select plug - in electric vehicles (EVs) for the next generation of delivery vehicles (NGDV).

«We have environmental impacts now, and these impacts are about to get a lot bigger,» notes oil sands policy analyst Marc Huot of the Pembina Institute, an environmental group working for responsible development.

But so far the industry, tourists, and even this great environmental group working to save the corals, don't seem to think it is essential for coral's survival that the passengers or public have this information.

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If you're trying to decide when to splurge on organic items and when to hold back, the Environmental Working Group's annual «Dirty Dozen» list is generally a good guideline.

The Environmental Working Group, for example, certainly thinks so.

BHT is currently approved by the FDA but has been criticized as unnecessary and potentially dangerous by groups such as the Environmental Working Group.

The environmental group trying to stop work on the state government's Roe 8 project has been refused an interim injunction on construction by the Federal Court, but has vowed to keep fighting.

The Environmental Working Group just came out with their most recent Dirty Dozen list, a ranking of the 12 kinds of produce containing the highest concentration of pesticide residues.

«Instead of working to protect American families, President Trump's plans put the interest of big - money special interests over people,» said Nat Mund, legislative director of the Southern Environmental Law Center, a Virginia - based advocacy group.

«Today's historic action by the EPA will finally begin the process of restricting the remaining sources of asbestos, which is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans,» said Sonya Lunder of the Environmental Working Group Action Fund, which studies toxic substances.

Substantial work has not yet begun, however, thanks to protests from environmental groups and court challenges that aim to prevent construction.

This environmental protection group works with businesses, elected officials and community groups on issues such as global warming, reviving the oceans, clean water and sustainable communities.

That's because nearly three - quarters of all sunscreens on the market don't work as well as they claim to, or they contain potentially harmful ingredients, according to a recent study from the nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG).

We then examined these groups» abilities on cognitive control dimensions that could indicate a breadth - bias in cognitive control at different control loci: the allocation of attention to environmental stimuli and their entry into working memory, the holding and manipulation of stimulus and task set representations in working memory, and the control of responses to stimuli and tasks.

Environmental groups have lauded the Obama administration for its work in slashing emissions from dirty coal - fired power plants in the US.

See how the Environmental Working Group compares Aunt Fannie's to other «natural» brands like Seventh Generation, Mrs. Meyer's, Method and more.

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.

When environmental groups succeeded in getting a federal judge to grant a February 24 order that temporarily halted work in the Atchafalaya Basin while a permit for the pipeline is being challenged, Rosinski wondered whether construction could still legally move forward on her land.

Are you interested in knowing if Health related charities have greater rainy day funds (working capital) than Environmental groups?

Because his research was financed by Buckeye, environmental groups often dismissed his work.

The Advanced Energy Centre (AEC) at MaRS Discovery District, the Water Technology Acceleration Project (WaterTAP) and the China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP) are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their working relationship and to jointly explore potential deployment opportunities for Ontario's advanced energy and water technologies in China.

TMX Group will contribute funding, resources and leading capital markets expertise to the Centre, and will also work to strengthen programs initiated by the Centre to mobilize private capital to tackle social and environmental problems.

He repeats his description of the ways bad charity (the Great Society) drove out good charity (religiously based groups): It reinterpreted the causes of poverty as exclusively material and environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers of poor people with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role of volunteers in favor of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and marriage.

One model that deeply embodies Christian values is a group of families pooling resources so as to reduce expenses and to free some of the adults to work as full - time volunteers for social and environmental causes.

In the late 1980s there were, for example, in Bangladesh 1200 indigent grassroots movements, in Brazil 100,000 Christian communities with three million members committed to land reform and the elimination of poverty, and in Indonesia 600 independent groups working on environmental protection (Durning 1989).

This is work that congregations — and land trusts and environmental groups — could do cooperatively, raising the capital to spread such experiments far and wide.

Environmental Working Group Center For Science in the Public Interest Organic Trade Association

If you're looking for a list of food additives to avoid, the Dirty Dozen of Food Additives from Environmental Working Group is a great place to start.

Sustainable Packaging Coalition The Sustainable Packaging Coalition ® is an industry working group dedicated to an enhanced environmental vision for packaging.

Think about this for a second... According to the Environmental Working Group, the average woman uses 12 «beauty» products per day, containing about 168 ingredients.

I like to choose organic when buying capsicum as they unfortunately feature on the infamous «Dirty Dozen» — the Environmental Working Group's list of the most pesticide ridden produce on the market.

Last year, kale was added to the Environmental Working Group's Dirty Dozen.

These are lotions that I've personally used and love and that have safe ingredients and a good rating with the Environmental Working Group:

Reason being that it is considered «Dirty» According to the Environmental Working Group, kale is one of the most likely crops to have residual pesticides.

Don't forget to use organic strawberries — conventionally grown strawberries are No. 6 on the Environmental Working Group's list of the 12 most pesticide - laden fruits and veggies!

In June of 2014, the Environmental Working Group labled non-organic blueberries as a significant concern.

Consultation on the 2017 — 18 plan has occurred with South Australian Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (including the South Australian Murray - Darling Basin Natural Resource Management Board), New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, Victorian Environmental Water Holder, Victorian Catchment Management Authorities, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries - Fisheries, Water New South Wales, the Murray — Darling Basin Authority, the Murray - Darling Wetlands Working Group, Nature Foundation South Australia, Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, Renmark Irrigation Trust, scientists engaged in monitoring the outcomes of Commonwealth environmental water use, the Murray - Lower Darling Environmental Water Advisory Group and various community groups andEnvironmental Water Holder, Victorian Catchment Management Authorities, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries - Fisheries, Water New South Wales, the Murray — Darling Basin Authority, the Murray - Darling Wetlands Working Group, Nature Foundation South Australia, Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, Renmark Irrigation Trust, scientists engaged in monitoring the outcomes of Commonwealth environmental water use, the Murray - Lower Darling Environmental Water Advisory Group and various community groups andenvironmental water use, the Murray - Lower Darling Environmental Water Advisory Group and various community groups andEnvironmental Water Advisory Group and various community groups and individuals.

The Environmental Working Group — creators of the Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists of pesticides in produce — released this morning another exhaustive guide to healthy and green living... this time regarding that bucket o» cleaning supplies in your home.

According to an Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis (2010) of the 10,500 ingredients used in toothpaste, sunscreen, nail polish and personal, hair and skin products, only 13 per cent of them have been reviewed for safety in the last 30 years and that was by the Cosmetics Ingredients Review, which is run by the cosmetics industry.

Although regular potatoes should be purchased organic, (as they fall on the Environmental Working Group's Dirty Dozen list) sweet potatoes and yams do not make the list.

The Lachlan Riverine Working Group, the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, the State Water Corporation and the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office contributed to the development and implementation of this watering action.

950 ML of Commonwealth environmental water was delivered by Murray Darling Wetlands Working Group to the Carrs, Capitts, Bunberoo creeks system and Backwater Lagoon along the NSW Lower Murray floodplain between Lock 9 and Lock 8 in autumn 2016.

The Lachlan Riverine Working Group, the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, the WaterNSW, the NSW Department of Primary Industries - Fisheries and the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office contributed to the development and implementation of this watering action.

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.

A stunning Scottish landscape, hard work and steady environmental innovation encompass the sustainable success of John Dewar & Sons Ltd., one of the most respected names in the world of Scotch whisky and part of the Bacardi group of companies.

This document - developed by Kennedy / Jenks Consultants and underwritten, in part, by the American Vineyard Foundation and Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)- builds on research and other activities undertaken by the Wine Institute Environmental Working Group of the Technical Committee, which guided the development of this publication for managing winery water and energy.