Sentences with phrase «environmental leaders at»

«With the U.S. Senate's recent failure to act on comprehensive energy and climate legislation, we need strong environmental leaders at the state level to move the ball forward on new energy policies that will put America on the path to a clean energy future.»

As part of its effort to persuade the United States to accept the Keystone pipeline and the oil sands fuel it would carry from Canada, the province of Alberta is advertising itself as an environmental leader at the cutting edge of clean energy development.

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A former top leader in academia, Rodin has put the idea of «resilience» at the center of the Rockefeller Foundation's work in recent years, helping communities worldwide prepare for and recover from major environmental and man - made shocks.

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.

Nevertheless, the fact that many environmentally favorable actions can be profitable indicates, at least, that goodwill, environmental sensitivity, and moral concern among corporate leaders can lead to some of the urgent changes without violation of their responsibility to stockholders.

Gene drive technology poses serious and potentially irreversible threats to biodiversity, as well as national sovereignty, peace, and food security.This week, international conservation and environmental leaders are calling on governments at the 2016 UN Convention on Biodiversity to establish a moratorium on the controversial genetic extinction... more

The more than 200 Mass Audubon members, other conservation advocates, and environmental leaders assembled in Kirsch Auditorium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took McCarthy literally, rising to their feet on multiple occasions to applaud her message.

At 11 a.m., Rep. Nita Lowey and environmental leaders host a news conference on local effects of President Trump's climate change agenda, Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades.

At 5:15 p.m., labor, business and environmental leaders hold a news conference ahead of New York state Energy Research and Development Authority's public information meetings on offshore wind power for New York, Queens Public Library, 92 - 25 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Queens.

At 10:30 a.m., U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer makes an announcement, Cornell University, Dimock Environmental Control Laboratory, 129 Helios Circle, Ithaca.

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The Environmental Advocates of New York on Friday called on the state's elected leaders to use $ 117 million in settlement money from Volkswagen to implement a decade - old law aimed at reducing diesel emissions in New York.

Environmental groups were joined by community leaders at the capitol Wednesday in regards to the transportation of crude oil through Albany and Hudson River.

The opposition puts him within the same camp of labor leaders and environmental groups who had opposed holding a convention on the grounds constitutionally protected rights and benefits would be put at risk.

That was the phrasing Adirondack Park Agency Chairwoman Lani Ulrich used last week at a forum during the Adirondack Local Government Conference, but state, local government, environmental and economic development leaders also acknowledge seeing a shift.

«Trade deals go well beyond trade,» DeLauro said at a press conference with labor and environmental leaders last week that kicked off a...

Some Elmont and Floral Park civic leaders are raising concerns that a development group led by the New York Islanders is paying a Manhattan - based consulting firm to conduct an environmental review before the team constructs an 18,000 - seat arena at Belmont Park.

Also at noon, a coalition of groups opposed to Trump's agenda, including Food & Water Watch, Sierra Club, 350 NYC, 350 Brooklyn, WE ACT for Environmental Justice urge Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to join their effort, 780 Third Ave., (Schumer's NYC office), Manhattan.

The founder of the struggling environmental services company at the heart of the federal corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, testified at their trial yesterday that days after Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, the senator provided valuable business intelligence that the company felt would be helpful.

Nassau's $ 12 million contract with an environmental company at the center of corruption charges against State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, has hit serious roadblocks, interviews and documents show.

They were greeted at the state capitol by Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R - Canandaigua), State Sen. Tom O'Mara (R - Big Flats), chair of the Senate's Environmental Conservation Committee, Finger Lakes area State Sen. Pam Helming (R - Canandaigua) and by a tweet from Gov. Andrew Cuomo denouncing the incinerator as inconsistent with his administration's public health and environEnvironmental Conservation Committee, Finger Lakes area State Sen. Pam Helming (R - Canandaigua) and by a tweet from Gov. Andrew Cuomo denouncing the incinerator as inconsistent with his administration's public health and environmentalenvironmental goals.

Longtime New York League of Conservation Voters President Marcia Bystryn will step down at the end of next year, ending a nearly 20 - year run as the leader of the environmental organization.

Scenic Hudson joined local leaders and business owners at Shadows Marina on the Poughkeepsie waterfront to continue pushing for an expanded cleanup of the river, touting not only the environmental need for the economic importance of the Hudson's health.

At 1 p.m., NY Renews, a coalition of community organizations, environmental justice groups, labor unions, faith groups, business leaders, and other advocates fighting for equitable climate policies, holds a telephone press conference to call on Cuomo to step up as a leader for communities hurt most by climate change.

Federal prosecutors revealed Mr. Skelos had arranged a meeting between fracking industry leaders and the state Department of Environmental Conservation at the same time that his son both held an alleged «no - show» job at AbTech and was in the process of negotiating the contract to sell filters through his consulting firm Rockville Strategies.

New York City Department of Environmental Protection officials opened the Gilboa Dam site to government leaders, the media and the public Tuesday to get a firsthand look at reconstruction.

At trial, prosecutors presented evidence that the elder Mr. Skelos, 68, used his position as majority leader to pressure a real estate developer, an environmental technology company and a medical malpractice insurer — firms that depended on his support as senator for legislation that benefited their interests — to provide Adam Skelos with consulting work, a direct payment of $ 20,000 and a job that required him to do virtually no work.

The case against State Sen. Dean Skelos, 67, former majority leader, contends that Glenwood funneled a $ 20,000 payment to the senator's son and helped him get work as a consultant at an environmental technology company, a field in which he had no experience.

ALBANY — The company at the center of the reported federal investigation of Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son has strong connections to an environmental group headed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr..

The group's scorecard took aim at two other Republicans, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb of Geneva and Assemblyman Christopher Friend of Big Flats, for low scores on environmental votes.

Annette Fredette, 4FRI planning team leader at the Forest Service's Flagstaff office, said forcing discussion among different interests throughout the National Environmental Policy Act process is «both the challenge and the value» of the initiative.

«There is overwhelming scientific evidence that the characteristics of extreme rainfall under climate change are going to be different,» said Praveen Kumar, a professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at Illinois and project leader on the study.

As world leaders meet this week and next at a historic climate change summit in Paris, a new study by Michigan State University environmental scientists suggests opponents of climate change appear to be winning the war of words.

«One of the objectives of this project is investigating historical patterns of harmful algal blooms and their linkage to water quality and environmental factors,» explained project leader Jiyoung Lee, associate professor of environmental health sciences at Ohio State.

Schmidt, research group leader at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Zurich and academic associate for the Swiss Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Programme, says, «Our mark - and - recapture data shows that only 13 percent of the infected salamanders survive over a 10 - day period.»

Biologists, chemists, psychologists and a range of other scientists wanted to study the environmental, economic and mental health consequences of the disaster; local scientists wanted to study the effects of the spill on their communities; and leaders at the local and federal government needed guidance on how to respond.

«The bird would have been a cross between a large seagull and a diving bird like a cormorant, but likely had teeth,» says John Tarduno, professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University and leader of the expedition.

Project leader Enno Schefuß from the MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, adds: «The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the priority programme «Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)» with the aim to identify potential mechanisms triggering abrupt changes under current climatic conditions.

Those in the next 10 will be about societal and environmental issues,» said Axel P. Lehmann of Zurich Insurance, at the launch last week of a WEF report that polled the opinions of 900 experts, including researchers, politicians and business leaders.

Joining us to discuss the issue are Debra Shore, a Commissioner on the Board of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago; Aaron Packman, a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Northwestern University; and Seth Snyder, the leader of a new water initiative at Argonne National Laboratory.

However, the amount of carbon loss from drought - driven wildfires has remained high, says lead author Dr Luiz Aragão, leader of the tropical ecosystems and environmental sciences group (TREES) at the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil.

Professor, University of San Francisco Dr. Sattler is a Professor at the University of San Francisco and an international leader in environmental health and nursing.

Tech and environmental heavy hitters like Eric Schmidt (the new Alphabet, formerly Google), Ted Sarandos, Participant founder Jeff Skoll, and former VP Al Gore assembled at investor Tony Pritzker's house on Thursday night to fete leaders from UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.

Founder and President at GEC; UNEP Reform Project Leader at Tema at Linkoping University; SCO Project Leader at Vermont University; My mission is to contribute myself in global environmental and sustainable development governance and act to accelerate transitioning the society to green economy with sustainable development, and to join together with world visionary leaders to fight and combat the climate change that threaten life of all.

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Previously at Harvard for over 20 years — most recently as director of the Center for International Development — Sachs is known as a leader in sustainable development, as well as an expert in economic development, environmental sustainability, and globalization.

John D'Auria, President of Teachers 21, delivered the keynote address at the MSSAA institute, focused largely on the family, social, and environmental factors confronting school leaders.

A Los Angeles book launch event on Dec. 2 featured four Teach Plus Teaching Policy Fellows and contributing writers: Sujata Bhatt, founder of the Incubator School; Kyle Hunsberger, a mathematics teacher at Johnnie L. Cochrain, Jr., Middle School who developed and successfully implemented a 6th - grade basic - skills intervention program; Jeannette Marrone, a founding teacher at Environmental Science and Technology High School; and Stephanie Widmer, a Teach for America Learning Team Leader and humanities teacher at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy.

-- On November 3rd and 4th, Center for Inspired Teaching partnered with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to teach teachers and district leaders at the Maryland Environmental Literacy Partnership's fall workshop.

S and co-authored by Wanjira Mathai, the daughter of Wangari Maathai, project leader at the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace & Environmental Studies at the University of Nairobi.