Sentences with phrase «environmental lobby groups»

Political considerations resulting from past fear - mongering by environmental lobby groups against nuclear power make it highly unlikely IMO that this proposal will be implemented.

The hurdle here in a good part of the world seems to be more political than anything else, and the result of fear mongering campaigns by environmental lobby groups, like WWF and Greenpeace.

Could we all agree ot to let overly emotional environmental lobby groups anywhere near policy makers..?

Keeping in mind that windmills are hazardous to birds, be wary of the unintended consequences of the all - knowing environmental lobby groups.

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.

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.

Let's forget for a moment that CAGW (as promoted by IPCC) has become a tax - payer funded multi-billion dollar big business with all sorts of actors (corporations, environmental lobby groups, past and present politicians, climatologists, the media, etc.) all lined up at the trough, and look only at the «science».

In my experience (and that of many many folk I know who volunteer their time in the name of environmental causes and the conservation of significant ecological heritage), the clout and $ $ $ $ wielded by Big Business and environmental lobby groups is simply not even on the same scale, let alone comparable.

And there is a loose collusion of interests (not to be confused with a formal «conspiracy», which I do not believe exists) of environmental lobby groups, corporations, industrialists, scientists, bureaucrats and politicians, all hoping to gain money and / or power from the CAGW hysteria.

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.

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».

Environmental lobby groups will be watching that ball.

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.

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.

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

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.»

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

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

meh (21:19:54): Environmental lobby group International Rivers has... And what has that to do with the topic at hand?

Not exact matches

The Alberta government announced the formation of the group yesterday along with its three co-chairs: Dave Collyer, the former president and CEO of the the oil industry's top lobby group the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Tzeporah Berman, an environmental advocate and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at York University, and Melody Lepine, a member and Director of Government and Industry relations with the Mikisew Cree environmental advocate and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at York University, and Melody Lepine, a member and Director of Government and Industry relations with the Mikisew Cree Environmental Studies at York University, and Melody Lepine, a member and Director of Government and Industry relations with the Mikisew Cree First Nation.

Remember: Without environmental group lawsuits and lobbying, you would be drinking contaminated water.

This came in response to years of lobbying by environmental health watchdogs like the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Coalition; Healthy Child, Healthy World, The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and The Environmental Working Group; physicians like Dr. Alan Greene; authors like Stacy Malkin of «Not Just a Pretty Face,» Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama's Green Guide, and Nena Baker of «The Body Toxic,» and yes, activists like Moms Rising and bloggers like my Green Moms Carnenvironmental health watchdogs like the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Coalition; Healthy Child, Healthy World, The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and The Environmental Working Group; physicians like Dr. Alan Greene; authors like Stacy Malkin of «Not Just a Pretty Face,» Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama's Green Guide, and Nena Baker of «The Body Toxic,» and yes, activists like Moms Rising and bloggers like my Green Moms CarnEnvironmental Working Group; physicians like Dr. Alan Greene; authors like Stacy Malkin of «Not Just a Pretty Face,» Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama's Green Guide, and Nena Baker of «The Body Toxic,» and yes, activists like Moms Rising and bloggers like my Green Moms Carnival friends.

Like environmental and gender equality lobby groups, MSF's ethic of refusal has one goal whichever government is implicated, that of influencing policy according to its philosophical beliefs.

Environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, The Alliance for a Greater New York and the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance have also fought against the bill but they too lobby elected officials on a variety of issues.

There are also citizen organizations which engage in lobbying activity, like environmental or consumer rights groups.

Emails indicate that over the next several months, following NYCO's initial meeting with Mr. Martens, the conservation department worked closely with the mining company to draft a resolution to amend the State Constitution, and lobbied both the Legislature and environmental groups to lend their support.

«I would think that people would put betting on horses and playing bingo on a par with a right to a healthful environment,» said Peter M. Iwanowicz, executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York, a nonprofit lobbying group based here.

A group of environmental campaigners have temporarily occupied the premises of lobbying company Endelman.

«We have to rely on science, and we have to rely on the courts... we have the law on our side,» said Enck, speaking before a supportive crowd at an event for the Albany - based lobbying group Environmental Advocates of New York.

The environmental group Protect the Adirondacks filed an ethics complaint regarding what it contends was «illegal advocacy and lobbying» by the state DC in support of a 2013 constitutional amendment that cleared the way for a land - swap deal between New York and an Essex County mining operation.

A second point is that, if sections of the public still want to lobby for representation and political action on environmental matters dear to their hearts, there are many campaigning charities, NGOs and activist groups willing to pick up the mantle.

However, Quinn's use of the term «environmental racism» was slammed by Pledge 2 Protect, a lobbying group that opposes the garbage station, which argued that it would unfairly burden the Upper East Side's diverse residents.

Green groups have lobbied Stefanik to help retain the funding for the program, and have fretted about the Trump administration's rollbacks on environmental policies, including pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Accord and Pruitt's decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama - era policy designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plants.

The findings underscore what a cadre of environmental and utility groups have been saying as they lobby for the inclusion of tropical rainforest offset funding in U.S. climate legislation.

Steve: So, is this a trend we are seeing where industry - backed people are setting up what appear to be pro-environment groups, but are actually lobbying for the kind of legislation that industry rather than your typical environmental groups would like to see enacted?

Environmental groups are still fighting the battle against the sonar, lobbying the government to curtail testing, at least during peacetime, or to at least ramp up testing gradually to give marine wildlife a better chance to flee affected areas.

Working in tandem with such groups as the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Coalition for a Safe Environment, along with the Teamsters and Longshoremen's unions and local activists like Martha Cota, they've done extensive lobbying in Sacramento and community organizing to push for enforcement of the California Environmental Quality Act and compel the Port of Los Angeles to initiate a suite of pollution - reduction strategies that have cleaned up the air.

Together with a coalition of animal rights, environmental, religious and farm groups, Rifkin is also planning to lobby the US Congress.

Leaked TTIP Documents Expose Chemical Industry's Toxic Agenda A report published Monday by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and ClientEarth shows how a leaked proposal from chemical lobbying groups could damage future protective legislation on toxic chemicals.

A report published Monday by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and ClientEarth shows how a leaked proposal from chemical lobbying groups could damage future protective legislation on toxic chemicals.

The environmental working group, a watchdog organization behind the Skindeep database, has a great site with frequently updated information about ongoing studies, research and lobbying efforts

The Sierra Club and other environmental groups also lobbied heavily to kill diesels because of emissions concerns.

By «environmental lobby» I'm referring to the big groups — Environmental Defense, NRDC, Sierra Club, UCS, NET — that have clout in Washington, write the climate legislation, and have budgets in the hundreds of millions to run ads, mobilize memberenvironmental lobby» I'm referring to the big groups — Environmental Defense, NRDC, Sierra Club, UCS, NET — that have clout in Washington, write the climate legislation, and have budgets in the hundreds of millions to run ads, mobilize memberEnvironmental Defense, NRDC, Sierra Club, UCS, NET — that have clout in Washington, write the climate legislation, and have budgets in the hundreds of millions to run ads, mobilize members, and lobby.

Environmental groups like Environmental Defense, NRDC, the Sierra Club, National Environmental Trust and UCS — the groups that have the most clout in Washington — have simply never seriously lobbied for a massive investment in clean energy.

In July 2008 alone, oil sands companies held a total of 36 meetings with Canadian ministers and government officials, while only seven environmental groups and associations reported lobbying activity.

The protest, organized by environmental groups, comes after a separate three - day stretch of activities in Washington for young people, called Power Shift 09, including a day of lobbying their elected representatives to pursue meaningful climate and energy legislation.

In his eagerness to appear green (because environmental organizations are now a large and wealthy lobby group in their own right) the president of the United States ignored these warnings and instead made Solyndra a poster child for his vision of the future.

In 2005, the European Association for Renewable Energy — yet another green lobby group — gave him a prize, This apparently transformed him into a «major environmental award» winner.

They're a central feature of Obama's efforts to address climate change, but they are also set to become the subject of a massive lobbying war between industry and environmental groups as the administration deliberates over the final rule — a process that could take up much of the rest of the president's tenure in office.

According to the notes, Michael Whatley, policy adviser of the fossil fuel lobby group Consumer Energy Alliance, which receives funding from Peabody Energy along with other coal, oil, and gas companies, underlined the industry's urgent need to mobilize state public officials, including legislators, attorneys general, environmental and public utility commissioners, and energy officials in many states.