Sentences with phrase «environmental nonprofit groups»

In 1999, these foundations commissioned a study and discovered that less than 0.5 percent of all resources spent by environmental nonprofit groups in the United States went to ocean advocacy — an appalling statistic.

I'll be reporting more of my findings on the changing communication environment for environmental nonprofit groups soon.

Not exact matches

The outdoor clothing and gear retailer regularly donates 1 percent of its sales to nonprofit environmental groups, ranging from New York - based Waterkeeper Alliance to Climate Cycle in Chicago — adding up to $ 74 million since 1985.

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).

«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.

The group's affiliated 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, seeks to encourage participation in the political process and educate the public and policymakers regarding what the group considers to be significant environmental issues.

As a 501 (c)(4) nonprofit organization, the group aims to educate the public regarding environmental legislation and support what the group considers to be pro-environmental public policies and political candidates.

The East Hampton Environmental Coalition, a new collective comprised of 11 nonprofit groups, announced this week that all East Hampton Town Board and supervisor candidates have posted responses to the coalition's questionnaire.

The East Hampton Environmental Coalition, comprised of 11 nonprofit groups, has released responses from East Hampton Town Board and supervisor candidates.

With a federal lawsuit alleging EPA violations between the environmental advocacy group Save the Sound and Westchester County approaching the two - year mark, officials at the nonprofit are growing increasingly impatient with alleged inaction on the part of several communities.

Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit health and environmental advocacy group, cautions that the carbon reductions from the gas boom should not induce complacency about the importance of nuclear, renewable, and other zero - carbon energy sources.

That suggests that millions of American babies are potentially at risk,» said Anila Jacob, a physician and a senior scientist with Environmental Working Group, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that posted the study on its Web site.

As vice president for research at the Environmental Working Group, Jane Houlihan oversees scientists at the Washington, D.C., nonprofit's busy labs.

To calculate the impact of these processes, we consulted the results of the Paper Task Force, a joint project of the nonprofit group Environmental Defense, Duke University, and several large corporations.

And if anything, we're starting to go underwater,» said Jordan Lubetkin of the nonprofit Healing Our Waters — Great Lakes Coalition, which represents more than 100 environmental and community groups.

«This model makes the destruction of public lands unjustified,» says David Myers, executive director of nonprofit environmental group the Wildlands Conservancy.

«This administration, [Michelle] Bachelet's administration, is really prioritizing climate change in a way that no other previous administration has done, including her first administration,» said Amanda Maxwell, Latin America project director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit international environmental advocacy group based in New York City.

«I appreciate it when people are transparent about their intentions,» said Janis Searles Jones, the CEO of Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental group.

He investigated store receipts as part of a study by the nonprofit Environmental Working Group, based in Washington, D.C..

Twelve days after Donald Trump took office in 2017, the nonprofit environmental advocacy group NRDC filed its first lawsuit against the new administration, fighting an EPA rollback of a protection against mercury pollution.

Teenage bodies burdened with chemicals The debate over the safety of cosmetic ingredients was reignited in September when the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a Washington, D.C.â $ «based nonprofit, published a report on the subject.

«Make the best choices you can, stay informed, then live your life,» says Jeanne Rizzo, RN, executive director of the Breast Cancer Fund, a nonprofit group that identifies environmental health risks, such as endocrine disruptors, and advocates for their eliimination.

According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit organization that protects public health and the environment, 30 % of sunscreens may be ineffective.

In addition, the researchers found higher rates of chromosome changes in the white blood cells of the exposed fishermen — changes that have been linked to an increased risk of cancer in other studies, says Gina Solomon, MD, a senior scientist with the National Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental group.

The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization working to protect human and environmental health, publishes the Dirty Dozen Plus and the Clean Fifteen, based on years of independent research on chemical levelEnvironmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization working to protect human and environmental health, publishes the Dirty Dozen Plus and the Clean Fifteen, based on years of independent research on chemical levelenvironmental health, publishes the Dirty Dozen Plus and the Clean Fifteen, based on years of independent research on chemical levels of produce.

To counter the damage to the environment, nonprofit environmental groups and palm oil manufacturers gathered in 2004 and established the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a global certification body.10 They have created eight ecological principles with 39 criteria11 to prevent the negative environmental impacts of palm oil production.

According to the Environmental Working Group (a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization) it is a fruit that is less likely to be contaminated with pesticides.

That's because the store - bought options staring back at you from the grocery shelf might contain some questionable ingredients, according to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit research organization.

Beauty and hair products marketed to black women are more likely to contain potentially harmful chemicals and ingredients, according to a new report from a nonprofit environmental research group.

Today, the Environmental Working Group, an advocacy nonprofit, released its latest «Dirty Dozen» list of the 12 fruits and vegetables that are most contaminated with pesticides, as an update to its 2010 rankings.

The nonprofit group Climate Central, which pursues a novel mix of original research and climate communication, is behind the new work, which is being published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

The nonprofit group Ecoartspace has posted a sampler of the more than 200 works of art generated in response to my February post asking a variety of environmental thinkers to state, «What Matters Most?»

Since 2002, Shellenberger has been president of The Breakthrough Institute, a nonprofit research group focused on propelling environmental and social progress.

On Friday, Meighan Speiser at ecoAmerica, a nonprofit group involved in shaping environmental campaigns, appeared to get Randy Olson's message well before his post, writing:

Cramp is now the program manager for the Pacific Islands Conservation Initiative, a nonprofit environmental group based in the Cook Islands:

The typed and pencil - edited draft was sitting deep in the files of the René Dubos Center for Human Environments, a nonprofit group formed by Dubos and William and Ruth Eblen in the 1970's to foster constructive approaches to solving environmental problems.

Today, the nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility issued a call for justice, noting that an earlier go - easy approach to some of the anti-government organizers camped at the refuge simply energized them.

On Friday, the Environmental Investigation Agency, a nonprofit group, issued an update on the booming trade in illegally harvested rosewood in the region, much of which ends up smuggled into China to supply manufacturers of antique - style furniture.

We're trying a similar approach at my academic home, Pace University's Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies, in our new undergraduate Environmental Policy and Practice Clinic — a course in which students work with nearby communities or nonprofit groups to advance environmentalEnvironmental Studies, in our new undergraduate Environmental Policy and Practice Clinic — a course in which students work with nearby communities or nonprofit groups to advance environmentalEnvironmental Policy and Practice Clinic — a course in which students work with nearby communities or nonprofit groups to advance environmentalenvironmental initiatives.

Rising Tide North America, a loose - knit group of students and workers for nonprofit organizations, posed as phony public relations officials and targeted energy reporters around the world on Monday with e-mails and telephone calls claiming that a legitimate group of 33 businesses and environmental groups, the United States Climate Action Partnership, had agreed to slash emissions, blamed for warming the earth, by 90 percent by 2050 and had called for a moratorium on new coal plants, Reuters reports.

Local environmental advocates are using the findings by the nonprofit think tank, Frontier Group, to argue that providing more carbon - neutral transportation options could improve public health and safety.

He observed that nonprofit groups have «very substantial» limitations on their lobbying and political activities, and objected to the way Nisbet's study counted «total spending,» which is unfair because the environmental groups «don't spend a lot of their funding on politics» but on unrelated expenses.

This point, frequently made by lawyers from Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental legal group, combined with widely expressed public opposition to any more coal - fired power plants in Florida, led to the quiet withdrawal of four other coal plant proposals in the state.

The nonprofit environmental law organization Earthjustice has been staunchly opposed to the project and represented a coalition of groups — Riverkeeper, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Clean Air Council, Delaware - Otsego Audubon Society, Delaware Riverkeeper Network and the Pennsylvania and Atlantic chapters of Sierra Club — in pipeline approval proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC.)

Entanglement's work was part of an effort by the Environmental Defense Fund, a national advocacy group, and the nonprofit Air Alliance Houston to help the city of Houston assess environmental damage from Harvey, protect public health and hold companies accountable for theEnvironmental Defense Fund, a national advocacy group, and the nonprofit Air Alliance Houston to help the city of Houston assess environmental damage from Harvey, protect public health and hold companies accountable for theenvironmental damage from Harvey, protect public health and hold companies accountable for their pollution.

The report was authored by the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, a climate justice advocacy group, and Redefining Progress, a nonprofit policy institute.

As the investigators reveal, the billionaires» green network transfers millions of dollars from individual, corporate, and «charitable foundation» donors... through tax - exempt «educational» nonprofits that do not have to disclose donor names... to activist and pressure groups that work to influence elections, legislation, regulations, legal actions and public perceptions on energy and environmental issues.

«Everybody's looking for a scapegoat,» said Ken Barrett, a member of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, a nonprofit environmental group based in Montana.

As of August 2007 the Council had 10,688 member organizations, including corporations, government agencies, environmental groups, and other nonprofits.

Veteran housing and urban policy writer Andre F. Shashaty is also president of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, a San Francisco — based nonprofit education and advocacy group focused on the social, economic and environmental...