Sentences with phrase «environmental policy debates»

On the other hand, key technology and environmental policy debates are expected to move forward in 2000.

The government has also secured commitments from a diverse range of organizations, many of whom have stood on opposite sides of agricultural and environmental policy debates in the past, to work together to improve pollinator survival rates.

Through lobbying, advocacy, coalition building, citizen education and policy development, EPL / Environmental Advocates has been New York's environmental conscience - ensuring that environmental laws are enforced; that new measures are enacted when necessary; and that the public is informed of, and participates in, important environmental policy debates.

Dr. Hansen has pushed far beyond the boundaries of the conventional role of scientists, particularly government scientists, in the environmental policy debate.

Not exact matches

Obama offered no indication of whether he'll eventually issue a permit for the pipeline, whose construction has become a flashpoint in the U.S. debate about environmental policy and climate change.

I am certainly in favor of an informed debate on environmental policies across the country.

The Forest Fire «Natural Burn» Policy Debate According to the Environmental Literacy Council, «historically, when fires from natural or other causes began, efforts were made to control them as quickly as possible.

The study, which is being conducted under the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund program, is the first time the EPA has undertaken its own water analysis in response to complaints of contamination in drilling areas, and it could be pivotal in the national debate over the role of natural gas in America's energy policy.

«If environmental scientists truly espouse the ethical value of inclusivity, including diverse groups of people at the tables of research, decision making, policy and public debate, it is not only necessary to share scientific data, it is ethically obligatory,» Elliott said.

While much of the debate around energy is focussed on greenhouse gas emissions, our findings highlight the need to consider the full range of consequences of the world's demand for energy when designing energy and environmental policies.»

«This has profound implications for the current policy debate that frames environmental goals and economic goals as at odds with each other.»

The congress, which wrapped up Saturday, is a place for the group to set its agenda and debate environmental policy.

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We debated global warming and environmental policy in my high school debate class in 1994.

Much less systematic attention — again in the context of the global climate policy debate (as opposed to domestic debates, where thanks to the environmental justice movement the topic is very much in play)-- has been paid to the problem of inequality within nations.

Supply, cost, environmental consequences - these are among the central features of debate over energy policy in the U.S. Those who want to open up more areas to drilling - on land and offshore - and expand the use of fracking to extract natural gas from deep underground argue that we must reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

In climate policy debates, it's a matter of faith among some in the environmental and economics communities that «price is king.»

And what to make of a court opinion that awards a partial victory to these groups — relying not on a finding of environmental injustice but rather on a determination that the state of California failed to engage in a crucial economic debate about policy alternatives?

This issue has been hotly debated in relation to environmental and energy policies in other states, and we flagged it as a potential risk in SB 6203.

However, a debate remains around how best to accomplish that goal and whether carbon pricing policy must also be tasked with addressing broader social and environmental challenges (like other pollution problems, worker displacement, economic inequality, etc.).

The US President made a point about economic leadership in the second debate, one Mitt Romney did not oppose: America's environmental and energy policy is determined by the oil industry; it's future is in wind, solar and nuclear.

Founded in May, 2008, The American Energy Alliance («AEA») is a not - for - profit organization that engages in grassroots public policy advocacy and debate concerning energy and environmental policies.

The authors recognise the problem that they can not win the climate debate through democratic processes — that the case for environmentalism and environmental policy has not been won.

The news center is a special project of CFACT, a Washington, D.C. - based public policy organization that has been working since 1985 to infuse the environmental debate with a balanced perspective, and to promote market - based and safe technological solutions to various public - interest concerns,» Morano stated in the media release announcing the project.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

Mr. Karpinski spoke about environmental issues and debates over future policy affecting the environment in the 2006...

The journal also welcomes analyses of practical applications of environmental, energy technology, regional, and urban policies, as well as theoretically robust discussions of common arguments that appear throughout debates on environment and energy policy, either in the scholarly literature or in the broader civic sphere.

All this is being disturbingly tied in to the climate change debate by hijackers of the environmental movement who have spuriously associated fears over global warming with over-population, suggesting that the solution is to implement depopulation policies and punishments for those who flout them.

The concerns of residents likely to be displaced notwithstanding, environmental policies which will have adverse consequences for the entire UK population have, as we have long been arguing here, gone through the House of Commons almost entirely unopposed and without debate, yet environmental politics have never been tested by the UK democratic process.

What should have been a political debate about energy policy, environmental quality, and reducing vulnerability to weather and climate disasters, became a debate about the nuances of climate science, with climate scientists as the pawns and whipping boys.

«With so much misinformation» put out by the measure's opponents, «we don't think we had a real debate,» said James Clift, policy director for the Michigan Environmental Council.

We've listened to scientists who know their way around the debate within the atmospheric science and climatological communities and they're concerned that publicity about global warming is driving energy and environmental policy instead of good science.

Climate change skeptics like James Taylor, environmental policy fellow at the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, said the pushback in schools and legislatures reflected public frustration at being told «only one side of the global warming debate — the scientifically controversial theory that humans are creating a global warming crisis.»

... [O] ngoing political debate about global energy policy should not stand in the way of common sense action to reduce societal and environmental vulnerabilities to climate variability and change.»

, a Washington, D.C. - based public policy organization that has been working since 1985 to infuse the environmental debate with a balanced perspective, and to promote market - based and safe technological solutions to various public - interest concerns.

In particular, this problem seems pervasive in debates environmental and energy policy.

The environmental scientists can not do the cost / benefit analysis necessary for any rational debate of pubic policy vis - a-vis global warming.

Friends of the Earth worked with local and national groups including the Environmental Law and Policy Center, the Iowa Chapter of the Sierra Club, Green State Solutions, Iowa PIRG, Iowa Environmental Council, Iowa Farmers Union, Iowa Move to Amend, CREDO Action and Physicians for Social Responsibility in the debate about the cost recovery bill, taking out radio and TV ads, phoning more than 100,000 Iowans, and mobilizing thousands of activists who called and wrote their elected officials.

For me, the most valuable addition made by Kingston to the ongoing debate is the very sound theoretical framework she provides, which treats environmental policy and competition law as equals (usually the environment is seen from a competition law perspective or vice versa).

Or, crafting and debating regulatory solutions to any one of the many, vexing policy questions facing modern society, like privacy law, gun control, or environmental protection?