Sentences with phrase «environmental policy making»

Anderson, who teaches politics in the context of environmental policy making at the Bren School, and Harbridge, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, based their conclusion on a quantitative analysis of U.S. budgetary spending reports from 1955 - 2002.

Gary is currently a visiting research fellow at the Directorate for Energy, Transport and Climate, EC Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy) where he undertakes research to support European transport and environmental policy making.

While the use of cost benefit analysis in civil engineering and other reasonably quantifiable technical decision making processes goes back to at least the 1930s, the most serious abuse of cost - benefit analysis, at least in U.S. environmental policy making, began with Ronald Reagan.

We would also like to engage the participation of the civil society and let their voices be heard, including those vulnerable and marginalized minorities, in the public environmental policy making processes.

This is true — which is why his dangerous reversals of critical environmental policies make so little sense.

Not exact matches

Jobs bites back after activists accuse Apple of lackluster environmental and recycling policies San Francisco Chronicle, April 2005 They have good taste in picking the iPod, but that doesn't make their false statements true.

Dimon's condemnation of Trump's environmental policy was so brief it was easy to miss, but the point the executive was making was unmistakable.

However, lobbying, advocacy and other political spending by corporations and trade associations can also inhibit good policy - making, hold back progress, undermine critical environmental, social or economic regulations, and offload private costs onto the public.

No one is going to make any long term investments based on a policy that will certainly get reversed, just like the current relaxation of environmental regulations.

The Harper government has dismantled one of the world's top aquatic and fishery libraries as part of its agenda to reduce government as well as limit the role of environmental science in policy decision - making.

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Second, the Liberals have made a number of major policy proposals with respect to environmental policy, although little detail has been provided and most of the proposals have not been costed.

It makes no sense that the provinces would deliberately circumvent Ottawa to produce a policy that is essentially a thumbs - up to pipelines and a bunch of rhetoric about environmental protection or any real goals for reducing our reliance on carbon fuels.

It also makes clear that foreign companies can not claim compensation when they believe a government's environmental regulations or policies harm their business.

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.

«Jobs and the environment» is a good slogan, but in fact we can not have both economic opportunity and a sustainable environmental policy without a fundamental transformation in some of our ideas about how we are related to one another and what makes life worth living.

Despite this consideration, the report, in the same chapter, recognizes the clear advantage of organic schemes in the educational role that they have played: «millions of consumers have been made aware of the way food markets work, and of the environmental impacts of food production, processing and distribution, and of the quality of the foods we eat» and it concludes that organic as well as fair trade and «short - chain strategies» are legitimate and valid options for both farmers and consumers and that policy can support these approaches by helping farmers to achieve higher yields.

Good on ya for making a difference in what I think is the largest policy issue facing our kids... environmental degradation.

Stephanie Hanson, a policy communications director at a Washington environmental nonprofit, went so far as to investigate her cloth diaper service's delivery processes, to make sure the vehicles were fuel - efficient.

In the 2014 Budget, the chancellor made great play of a compensation package for energy intensive industries, which is intended to offset some of the increased costs steel producers face due to his government's energy and environmental policies.

Chris Amato, a staff attorney for Earth Justice and former official with the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, said his organization has experienced delays at that agency and the Public Service Commission that have made it difficult to weigh in on policy proposals.

New York League of Conservation Voters Endorses Brian Kavanagh for New York State Senate District 26 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 CONTACT: Jordan Levine (NYLCV)- 917-392-8965 / [email protected] The New York League of Conservation Voters, which works to make environmental sustainability a top political and policy priority in New York State, has announced its endorsement of Brian Kavanagh, who is running for New York State Senate in District 26.

«These staff cuts must make DEC Commissioner Pete Grannis feel like he's got to clean up New York's toxic chemical spills armed with a toothbrush and a garden hose,» said Alison Jenkins, Fiscal Policy Program Director for Environmental Advocates of New York.

«Until they make a commitment to updating the state's regulations and the legal framework, we would oppose them moving forward in New York,» said David Gahl, policy director of Environmental Advocates of New York.

Teachout spoke to the mostly multi-aged crowd, sprinkled with children, students, adults and senior citizens, saying that she has a vision for New York that will make public higher education affordable; a New York that «should be leading the way in renewable resources» and environmental policies; a New York that bans fracking and all fracking byproducts; and a New York that «supports small local businesses and farms, rather than giving tax breaks to corporate campaign donors.»

While on - air gaffes clearly make great television drama, news editors have at their disposal many information - rich sources that could be used to more routinely question the parties» policies, from economists and academics to legal, medical or environmental experts.

Despite the appeal to strengthen preservation and to make development plans more sustainable, regional housing targets have still been raised and environmental protection policies have weakened.

«It seemed to be a very simple incremental policy to make real environmental change,» she said, «and it has turned out to be an incredibly difficult fight.»

Protecting the environment is important, but enacting harmful policies under the guise of environmental protection simply to make headlines is irresponsible.

No witness to the committee made an environmental case for leaving, and some said the UK has not gone far enough in implementing EU policies and enforcing its laws.

While other cities have since come on board, and Richmond's lofty ambitions have been toned down some over time, the plan is still one of the nation's most broad - reaching efforts to make environmental justice a part of city policy.

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

The impetus for the study comes from a headline - making set of recent policy shifts announced by China, including its toughest - ever set of regulations on local environmental pollution.

«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.

Her predecessor, Jim Connaughton, now executive vice president for corporate public affairs and environmental policy at Constellation Energy, disputes the anecdote: «If anything, I used a blue pen, because I wanted to make sure our documents were quite clear,» he says.

Another beef environmentalists have with the bill is that it would exempt decisions made or actions taken with regard to hunting and fishing on federal lands from federal environmental review and public disclosure regulations established under 1969's National Environmental Policenvironmental review and public disclosure regulations established under 1969's National Environmental PolicEnvironmental Policy Act (NEPA).

The plan, released yesterday after 14 months of deliberation, delivers on an election promise made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party to revisit controversial changes made to Canada's environmental policies by the previous Conservative Party government, led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

The results suggest that there should be: improvements to policy and management to champion biodiversity issues; a strengthening of environmental laws and enforcement; recognition of socio - economic issues especially among indigenous and local communities; increases in funding and resource allocation; knowledge, research and development to inform decision making; a greater understanding and protection of the rights of nature and cultural heritage; a more holistic public awareness and participation to bring about change to promote conservation.

Trudeau has also said his party will embrace «evidence based policy» and «data - driven decision - making,» do more to address climate change, protect endangered species, and review the environmental impact of major energy and development projects.»

Also, insects depend on their surroundings for body warmth or cooling, so changing temperatures make a huge difference in their lives, says coauthor Dilip Venugopal, an applied ecologist working as a policy fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Pests evolving resistance to Bt might do so faster when a warming landscape, for instance, lets them squeeze extra generations into a year and gives earworms a better chance of surviving the winter.

That what the public thinks about energy — what they want, think they want, or think they know — shapes the decisions politicians make about energy and environmental policy: Personal attitudes, concerns, and priorities are determined by more than just «the facts.»

Analysis of the policy drivers underlying the 2018 EPI rankings makes it clear that income is a major determinant of environmental success, said the researchers, noting that investments in safe drinking water and modern sanitation, in particular, translate quickly into improved environmental health results.

«Local and global shocks, such as economic and financial crises, political instability, and environmental disasters require strategies to increase our capacity for resilience,» says Kharrazi, «Policy and decision making should consider both the short and long term growth and resilience of growth based on inclusivity or exclusivity and intensity of trading partners from a network perspective.»

«But the returns are also high, and if we take key principles into account we can begin shaping the policies and practices that could help make cellulosic biofuels a triple win for the economy, the climate and for environmental sustainability in general.»

«He let the moment go by without making any change in his dogged refusal to put real limits on America's global warming pollution,» says David Doniger, climate policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a New York - based environmental group.

Deborah Swackhamer made sure to follow the rules before giving testimony last month to Congress on the role of science in setting policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

In collaboration with scientific colleagues and regulatory scientists, she has worked to develop scientifically valid and transparent tools for assessing the cumulative impacts of chemical and non-chemical stressors to improve regulatory decision - making and environmental policy in ways that advance environmental justice.

Marine policy / fisheries management, marine environmental anthropology, stakeholder participation and local knowledge in policy - making, collaborative fisheries research, ethnographic fieldwork, social impact assessment

«This research can be a starting point for a richer public dialogue on whether new policy is needed to fully value the environmental benefits of growing energy crops and making other land use changes,» says Gary Radloff, director of Midwest energy policy analysis at the Wisconsin Energy Institute.

In collaboration with our partners from research, policy, industrial practice and civil society, we develop responses and recommendations for action for pressing environmental issues and support decision - making processes at the local, national and international level.