Sentences with phrase «environmental lobby»

Your proposal to build new nuclear plants in place of new coal - fired plants makes sense, except to those people who have been brainwashed by the earlier anti-nuclear fear mongering campaigns by environmental lobby groups like WWF and Greenpeace.

The former Chief Scientific Officer in Brussels, who was fired by Jean Claude Juncker, has slammed the activities of environmental lobby group Greenpeace.

But the vocal environmental lobby, a key consitutency of the Democratic Party both here in New York and nationally, have pointed to fracking's effects on water and property and accidents across the border in Pennsylvania.

The fierce opposition comes chiefly from the U.S. environmental lobby, which has awakened to one of the most colossal environmental mistakes in its history: the ethanol mandate, part of America's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which effectively mandates that 10 per cent of gasoline at the pump consists of ethanol.

But they are also consistent with the cynical view held by some in the US environmental lobby that announcements by car companies about the future development of green vehicles are nothing more than window dressing.

A new paper argues that he «industrialization» of deforestation provides environmental lobby groups with identifiable targets that may be more responsive to pressure on environmental concerns than tens of millions of impoverished rural farmers.

«The world's most high - profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is» undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today» and» a challenge humanity must confront», in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby.»

ABC News (1/23/13) reports: «But Obama faces significant pressure from an engaged environmental lobby to block the plan, particularly in light of his groundbreaking comments on climate change in his second inaugural address... «You can not say the words the president did in his inaugural address, and then turn around and approve the pipeline,» said Jane Kleeb with BOLD Nebraska, an advocacy group opposed to the plan.

The WWF — the world's richest environmental lobby group — has announced that Britain should remain in the European Union.

My long - standing frustration with the more radical environmental lobby is that — even to me as a mostly left liberal in the American sense of those terms — they come across as abusive of the science supporting their main arguments.

According to a November, 1998 report by the Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research (CLEAR) examining the Greening Earth Society and its related entities, Fred Palmer claimed he created the GES because the coal industry was «waging an uphill battle against a well - funded environmental lobby that has coalesced around the scientifically unproven notion the earth may warm to cataclysmic proportions in the next century.»

The international environmental lobby group Greenpeace yesterday opened its first African office in Johannesburg, South Africa.

But cynics see this as President Obama's attempt at placating the environmental lobby in a bid to seal his legacy as the «Greenest President» ever.

In virtually every area where proposals have been made, local campaign groups have developed (eg Hacan Clearskies at Heathrow, Stop Stansted Expansion at Stansted), alongside the «traditional» environmental lobby.

«Unfortunately, this governor has been colonized by the environmental lobby,» he said.

The environmental lobbying group says Hanna has «actively undermined» efforts to get a handle on greenhouse emissions and has backed legislation that would repeal pesticide laws in the state.

Why he wasn't fired by the über - controlling governor speaks to the commissioner's widespread popularity and to the power of the environmental lobby.

When David Cameron hugged a husky on his landmark visit to a Norwegian glacier in 2006, the environmental lobby embraced him with equal enthusiasm.

Former minister Owen Patterson has an axe to grind, and it's not with David Cameron, the man who sacked him, but the environmental lobby

High March 26th: Heathrow's third runway «dead» - Greens celebrated as a high court ruling set back the development of a third runway for years - demonstrating the effectiveness of the environmental lobby.

«I hope the environmental lobby does not think that there's any diminution of safety,» says the official.

David Fullerton, of the Sierra Club, an environmental lobby group, says: «They want to use new technology or more water while we want them to talk about the crops they're growing.

He and many other Colstrip residents feel they are falling victim to the environmental lobby's climate campaign — as Dennehy of Colstrip United put it, «it's sue and settle — and we're the crown jewel.»

The USA will make BP accountable for its actions... A precedent will be set... Environmental lobbying, with our support, will take place internationally... Other countries will follow suit and make the oil companies pay.

Of course, the mere fact that the «totemizing» was propagated by the IPCC, the environmental lobby and especially the authors of this blog as «the scientific consensus» should cause disinterested viewers to wonder as to who is trying to fool who.

Environmental lobby groups will be watching that ball.

I'm all for finding a new source of energy rather than fossil fuels (unfortunately our enemies have most of it, and what we have the environmental lobby blocks from being accessed) for security and economic reasons, but until the market proves that $ 100 + per barrel of oil is not efficient enough to switch, I'm not for the government putting a gun to our heads and forcing us to change.

The environmental lobby has long put almost all of its political eggs in the regulatory basket.

Romm and the rest of the environmental lobby have failed to enact transformational action in Washington, and rather than acknowledge their failures, and reconsider their regulation - centered approach, they are calling for more of the same.

The $ 30m will go towards expanding the environmental lobby group the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, the former New York mayor said in a piece for CNN Money.

New investment comes three years after the former New York mayor gave $ 50m to the environmental lobby group to expand its Beyond Coal campaign

The Senate bill will be the focus of a broad political and lobbying struggle, as industry groups, environmental lobbies, local government officials, universities and advocates for the poor all scramble for advantage in legislation that would rewrite the rules of the domestic energy economy.

They, and environmental lobby groups such as Environmental Defense and the Natural Resources Defense Council, said yesterday they will call for «swift federal action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and speeding the adoption of climate - friendly technology».

The Independent Online reports that an unprecedented coalition of blue - chip US companies and environmental lobby groups will urge President Bush next week to get serious about global warming, calling for caps on carbon dioxide emissions that would cut greenhouse gases by 10 - 30 per cent over 15 years.

In this second of our five - part series in coordination with the Examiner, we look at actual numbers as far as political contributions made by the environmental lobby.

Wherever the environmental lobby wins, people lose.

One need only consider the Clean Water Act, RCRA (resource conservation), CERCLA and amendments (Superfund), SARA (community - right - to - know), Clean Air Act and amendments, Organic and Synthetic Fiber Rules, Montreal Protocol, etc, to show that the environmental lobby has had a lot of success.

To ensure that the disparities do not get publicized, environmental lobbying groups (and their allies in politics and the media) generally refer to the science as «settled.»