Sentences with phrase «environmental policy organization»

When pressed, Oliver was not able to identify which scientists he was using as a source, La Pressereported, but his staff pointed to an article by Lawrence Solomon, a Canadian writer and infamous climate - change skeptic and denier, and the founder and executive director of Energy Probe, an environmental policy organization and fossil fuel lobbyist group.

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This isn't the first instance that members have influenced MEC to drop a brand, Labistour said, and the organization has rigorous policies for investigating supply chains with a focus on ethical sourcing and the environmental footprint of the brands it carries.

Environmental sustainability is no longer the exclusive purview of non-governmental organizations and policy wonks.

Investor Environmental Health Network is a collaborative partnership of investment managers and nongovernmental organizations concerned about the financial and public health risks associated with corporate toxic chemicals policies.

Cultivating relationships with other nonprofit organizations, including those focused on environmental, global hunger, public health, free speech, and food safety issues, to build alliances and support for the policies that will be most effective at increasing plant - based options and readying the path to market for clean meat.

I received invaluable assistance from the Center for Science in the Public Interest in getting the letter circulated, and it has now been signed by 29 organizations and individuals, including: CSPI; the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity; the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation; the Environmental Working Group; Healthy, Child, Healthy World; The Healthy Schools Campaign; Chef Ann Cooper; Dr. Yoni Freedhoff and many more.

Her participation at the 118th Annual Meeting of Mass Audubon reaffirms the link between federal environmental policy and citizens at the community level, said Henry Tepper, President of the 100,000 - member organization.

A coalition of environmental and conservation organizations on Wednesday released a letter thanking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York for pushing back against Trump administration policies they contend favors polluters.

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.

At 1 p.m., NY Renews, a coalition of community organizations, environmental justice groups, labor unions, faith groups, business leaders, and other advocates fighting for equitable climate policies, holds a telephone press conference to call on Cuomo to step up as a leader for communities hurt most by climate change.

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.

A statewide environmental organization on Wednesday bestowed its annual «Oil Slick» award on a Capital Region lawmaker slammed for policies that the group cast as pro-polluter.

American Political Science Association (APSA): The Section on Human Rights was established to encourage scholarship and facilitate exchange of data and research findings on all components of human rights (e.g., civil, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental), their relationship, determinants and consequences of human rights policies, structure and influence of human rights organizations, development, implementation, impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rights regime.

Each year, that fellowship sends one mid-career scientist or engineer to a government office or nonprofit organization to work on global environmental policy.

More work is also needed in consulting with polluters under the system, according to Alvin Lin, climate and energy policy director for China at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental organization based in New York.

Unlike O'Malley and Sanders, Clinton is not proposing a nationwide carbon price, the favored policy of many economists and environmental organizations.

SEHN has worked with issue driven organizations, national environmental health coalitions, municipal and state governments, and several NGO / government teams to implement precautionary policies at local and state levels.

She is a founding and active member of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (www.enviRN.org), an international organization that is helping to integrate environmental health into nursing education, practice, research, and policy / advocacy.

Dr. Thomas Cochran of the Natural Resources Defense Council contributes a major environmental organization's views on the present reality and future of nuclear power in the U.S. and alternative policies, especially in the West, that would provide a better energy future.

The environmental movement has a responsibility to integrate this principle throughout its policies, programs, and practices, just as any organization, business, government, and community has.

As the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, Rhea Suh leads the 500 scientists, attorneys, and policy experts that make the NRDC one of the country's most effective environmental action organizations.

Read policy recommendations from scientists and scientific organizations on many aspects of environmental policy.

Berkeley, CA About Blog Environmental Progress (EP) is a research and policy organization fighting for clean power and energy justice to achieve nature and prosperity for all.

The standard of political and moral performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of solidarity among the inhabitants of the country; 2) increase in the practice of social justice by organs of government and civil society; 3) increase in the distribution of income and wealth among the population; 4) increase of measures to preserve and care for nature; 5) increase in policies for integral development of education in accordance with the highest human values; 6) advances in the realization of the collective will of the citizens; 7) improvement of political institutions; 8) success in combating corruption measured by its reduction; 9) increase in the exercise of citizenship with the effective participation of citizens in government decisions and fight for expansion of their rights; and 10) increase of contribution of public and private organizations to the political, economic, social and environmental development of the country.

Civic Enterprises is partnering with numerous organizations and programs, such as the Earth Conservation Corps, EARTH University, and the 21st Century Conservation Service Corp, to strengthen environmental policies and initiatives on a national and global scale.

Established in 2010, MTSNAC is comprised of leaders from commercial transportation firms, ship construction, repair and recycling, trade associations, state and local public entities, labor organizations, academics, and environmental groups that advise the Secretary and the Maritime Administration on policies to ensure that the U.S. Marine Transportation System is capable of responding to projected trade increases.

He comes to United Spay Alliance after more than a decade serving as a senior policy attorney for a national environmental nonprofit organization.

I actually got started in the broader field of sustainability ethics and worked at the United Nations under the Clinton administration as the program manager for United Nations organizations at the Environmental Protection Agency Office of International Policy on all the Rio Earth Summit issues, namely Agenda 21, the Biodiversity Convention, the UNFCCC, the Forests agreements, and Toxic Substances.

Settling at the head of a long table ringed by young researchers new to the policy world, Kareiva, chief scientist of the Nature Conservancy, the world's largest environmental organization, cracked open a beer.

The Planetary Health Alliance will be grown into a consortium of universities, non-governmental organizations, governmental entities, and other partners, working together to build a community of stakeholders to foster research, training, and policy action at the intersection of human - driven environmental change and public health.

However the policies need to be homegrown and designed to help some really poor people, not promote membership in an USA based high brow environmental organization.

The Climate Investigations Center monitors individuals, corporations, trade associations, political organizations and front groups who work to delay the implementation of sound energy and environmental policies that are necessary in the face of ongoing climate crisis.

Over the last year, Environmental Progress discovered that major environmental organizations including the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC) have accepted contributions from, or made investments in, fossil fuel and renewable enerEnvironmental Progress discovered that major environmental organizations including the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC) have accepted contributions from, or made investments in, fossil fuel and renewable enerenvironmental organizations including the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC) have accepted contributions from, or made investments in, fossil fuel and renewable enerEnvironmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC) have accepted contributions from, or made investments in, fossil fuel and renewable energy companies.

The 17 organizations are: Sustainable FERC Project, Natural Resources Defense Council, Acadia Center, American Wind Energy Association, Clean Wisconsin, Conservation Law Foundation, Earthjustice, Environmental Defense Fund, Environmental Law & Policy Center, Fresh Energy, NW Energy Coalition, Sierra Club, Southern Renewable Energy Association, Union of Concerned Scientists, Vote Solar, Western Grid Group, and Wind on the Wires.

It is now a project of three organizations: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, The Heartland Institute, and Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP).

Currently the Director of Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP, Jacqui Patterson, MSW, MPH, has served as a trainer, organizer, researcher, program manager, and policy analyst on international and domestic issues including women's rights, HIV&AIDS, violence against women, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP, Jacqui Patterson, MSW, MPH, has served as a trainer, organizer, researcher, program manager, and policy analyst on international and domestic issues including women's rights, HIV&AIDS, violence against women, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of Color Upolicy analyst on international and domestic issues including women's rights, HIV&AIDS, violence against women, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of environmental and climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of Color UPolicy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of Color United.

A certified GHG emissions expert, Howie has been working with companies and organizations for nearly a decade in helping them assess and manage their environmental footprint, with over five years of experience in greenhouse gas emissions accounting, carbon markets and international climate policy.

Nineteen Senate Democrats will attack specific organizations in what they are calling a «web of denial,» according to a schedule of floor speeches circulated by Emily Enderle, a top environmental policy adviser to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.), who is spearheading the effort.

The scholarly reports produced by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), an international network of climate scientists sponsored by three nonprofit organizations: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), and The Heartland Institute.

Dr. Martinez has also worked with a range of organizations from local grassroots groups to international organizations engaging in the promotion of sound environmental policy and environmental justice.

The long list of sins committed by major environmental organizations — narrow policy perspectives, tech - oriented solutions, finely delineated problem statements, incremental approaches, and the failure to draw bright lines — is a letter - perfect description of the conditions that attach to virtually every environmental foundation request for proposal.

«Entergy is pleased to receive this award from the American Carbon Registry, an organization that has worked with us for more than a decade to explore innovative emission reduction project opportunities,» said Chuck Barlow, vice president, environmental strategy and policy for Entergy Corporation.

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.

Most environmental organizations accepted the criticism, reviewed recruiting and staffing policies, and added environmental justice issues to their program agenda.

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.

Pollution Probe is a national, non-profit organization that exists to improve the health and well - being of Canadians by advancing policy that achieves positive, tangible environmental change.

In 1997 Global Possibilities and UC Santa Barbara co-hosted the US Solar and Renewable Energy Policy Symposium entitled «The Back Burner Status of Solar» attended by leading experts from government, utilities, business and environmental organizations examining renewable energy markets, the current business climate, including transportation, land use planning and technology development.

The head of Illinois anti-nuclear organization Environmental Law and Policy Center — which is funded by fossil fuel interests and other energy companies that would benefit from closing nuclear plants — has doubled down on his efforts to increase carbon emissions by closing nuclear power plants and replacing them with fossil fuels.

NIPCC is a project of three independent nonprofit organizations: Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (CO2 Science), and The Heartland Institute.

The Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest (ELCP), a left - leaning lobbying and litigating organization, fêted the regulatory victories of colleagues in the Obama...