Sentences with phrase «environmental leaders last»

In response to an open letter sent by climate scientists to environmental leaders last fall, Ralph Cavanaugh told CNN, «I've been in the NRDC since 1979.

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

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After protesting the budget Suffolk County leaders approved last fall, environmental groups have now sued the county over its use of nearly $ 33 million in funds that were raised through the Drinking Water Protection Program, a self - imposed tax that Suffolk residents have voted to levy upon themselves several times since the late 1980s.

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.

City leaders Wednesday condemned a last - minute attempt by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to claim the right to redevelop the neighborhood around Penn Station without having to conduct environmental reviews or abide by local land use laws.

Nuclear energy supporters, renewable power purists and all flavors of environmental activists in between gathered in Paris last December and applauded as world leaders inked a global agreement to combat climate change, the fruit of 20 years of fraught negotiation.

In the last month, officials with the World Wildlife Fund met with White House environmental officials as well as congressional leaders to urge their participation.

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.

We recently caught up with some of the environmental leaders who participated in a Google Earth Outreach training workshop last year at the Institute at the Golden Gate.

On a global level, Crissy Field Center staff attended the last International Conference on Environmental Education in Ahmedabad, India — a gathering of 1,500 delegates from 90 countries, organized by United Nations agencies UNESCO and UNEP — and for the past six years, they have hosted a youth forum for the Goldman Environmental Prize winners to give budding youth leaders a chance to meet and exchange ideas with these courageous activists.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., will bring up legislation reversing one of the last major environmental rules finalized before Barack Obama left office, after a fierce lobbying battle that has left its fate in the hands of a few Senate...

There have been days of discussions over the last month among the committee's leaders and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Indeed, for the last twenty years environmental leaders have on the one hand, said they want a level playing field and on the other, worked hand in glove with solar and wind companies to win special treatment for renewables.

For the last few years I have been working on a book - length manuscript describing everything touched on here and much more, including my skeptic efforts, how the environmental movement lost its way since my days as a Sierra Club activist and leader, and the main legal, journalistic, governmental, scientific, environmental, and economic aspects of the climate issue.

In a letter to U.S. House and Senate leaders last week, 114 of the nation's leading environmental scientists express concern over the proposed U.S. EPA's Tailoring Rule equating biogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with fossil fuel emissions.

Environmental leaders were rather dismayed late last year when upstarts began offering high - profile obituaries of their beloved movement.