Sentences with phrase «environmental progress»

It would lock in the problem we have of environmental progress being dependent on which party is in power.

In any case, it's terrible for environmental progress.

Thus, it is not just a waste of time but is actually detrimental to making any real environmental progress.

The biggest shift since the earlier gathering may be the end of a presumption that international tools like treaties should be a central focus of efforts to drive environmental progress.

By encouraging development of green technologies and services, the federal government aims to leverage environmental progress for an overall economic benefit.

Even so, I'm still convinced that a key to social and environmental progress lies in testing new ways to share insights and observations and shape ideas using online and mobile media.

All of the above points to important environmental progress — cleaner air and lower emissions of key greenhouse gases.

The findings suggest that measuring the total size of the ozone hole says little about ozone depletion, and that it's misleading to use the hole's extent alone to measure environmental progress.

And it is technological progress which is the key to economic progress and thus environmental progress.

The movement has failed to articulate a compelling and attractive vision for environmental progress, and fails to communicate in the language of values rather than obligations.

One - quarter to two - thirds of all U.S. nuclear plant reactors are at - risk of being closed prematurely, according to a new analysis by Environmental Progress.

In a new Environmental Progress report, the «The High Cost of Fear,» we calculate a minimum impact of $ 10 billion per year, thousands of avoidable deaths from air pollution, and failure to achieve South Korea's Paris climate commitments.

«The High Cost of Fear,» a new in - depth Environmental Progress report, uses publicly available data, the best - available peer - reviewed scientific research and simple methods to calculate economic and environmental impacts of a nuclear phase - out in South Korea.

New Jersey's state legislature today passed legislation that will subsidize solar at a rate 18 to 28 times greater than a state subsidy for nuclear, a new Environmental Progress analysis finds.

You can see from this chart created by a team of scholars including Environmental Progress Senior Science Advisor, James Hansen, and published last year in the journal Science, that the decades of peak nuclear deployment generate two to ten times more electricity than did peak decades of solar and wind deployment.

Instead, by taking a dogmatic, anti-intellectual point of view on many issues and demonizing those who disagree with him (though not much in this particular book), he has become a polarizing force, taking us further from the crucial compromises that are needed to pave the way to real environmental progress in a democracy.

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.

President Trump's continues his attack on environmental progress by reversing the Obama administration's ban on sale of disposable plastic water bottles at National Parks.

«How does the governor justify supporting only the upstate nuclear power plants and not Indian Point,» Cesar Penafiel, Director of Analytics at Environmental Progress, asked Richard Kauffman, Cuomo's energy czar at meeting last April.

«In 2016, renewables received about 100 times more in federal subsidies than nuclear plants,» Michael Shellenberger, founder of the Berkeley, California - based, pro-nuclear advocacy group Environmental Progress, wrote in an email to Grist.

Released to the public in June 2017, the latest corrugated industry life cycle assessment (LCA) confirms continued environmental progress through increased efficiencies in mill energy systems, increased use of low - impact fossil fuels, and increased recovery for recycling.

Environmental Progress discovered this after a federal criminal indictment was filed by Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, on September 22, 2016.

Either company could potentially get the one - third - finished reactors for pennies on the dollar, insiders told Environmental Progress

Environmental Progress applauds the citizens jury for choosing wisdom over ideology, and praises South Korean President Moon Jae - in for honoring their decision.

Therefore, it made more sense to take a holistic approach along the entire value chain where bigger emissions take place and focus more on policy and advocacy work,» said Christopher Wellise, in charge of Global Environmental Progress at HP.

The film's release was greatly helped when, one week earlier, four of the world's leading climate scientists, including Environmental Progress Senior Science Advisor, James Hansen, published an open letter urging the leaders of anti-nuclear environmental groups NRDC, EDF, Sierra Club and others to reconsider their stance.

[A former anti-nuclear activist has become pro-nuclear — Shellenberger, President of Environmental Progress]

Several recent government reports, however, have underlined China's poor performance in meeting its own environmental targets (see China admits failure to make environmental progress).

Environmental Progress organized three open letters signed by over 60 climate scientists and environmental leaders.

Yesterday Environmental Progress introduced a motion [pdf] and exhibits to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) arguing that it should suspend action on Pacific Gas & Electric's proposal to close California's largest source of clean energy, Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, until:

A few days later, Environmental Progress challenged Cuomo's staff on its proposal to protect nuclear plants but exclude nuclear.

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«The rules of the game are so rigged against nuclear in Illinois,» said Michael Shellenberger, a nuclear energy supporter and founder of Environmental Progress who rode with Hansen.

At a tense debate in February at UCLA where Jacobson argued over the merits of supporting nuclear versus ramping up renewables, sharing the stage with nuclear supporters like Environmental Progress» Shellenberger and fellow Stanford climate scientist Ken Caldeira, the question - and - answer session with the audience devolved into a shouting match.

Repurposing that wasted gas is the focus of a new study published in the journal Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy by chemical engineers from Michigan Technological University.

But we're in total sync on most points, particularly in the value of focusing less on the «woe is me, shame on you» approach to pursuing environmental progress and more on building environmental understanding, engagement and the capacity to make a difference.

To mark the occasion, Olav Kjorven, assistant secretary general of the United Nations for development policy, submitted a comment on my recent post asking if the world's wealthiest people need new goals even as rich countries work to foster human and environmental progress elsewhere.

Twice before on Dot Earth, I've offered and solicited ways in which President Obama could foster environmental progress on a budget:

Hits what many people no doubt feel, that Brazil has made some great environmental progress in some areas, but the approval of this project very nearly cancels all of that out.

A new, two - year investigation by Environmental Progress concludes that no American politician has killed more clean energy than Gov. Jerry Brown — and in ways that often benefited his own family financially.

Environmental Progress wanted to take a closer look at what happened to nuclear in Ohio, and so over the last three months we conducted painstaking archival research into the history of the war on Ohio's nuclear plants.

«Over the last forty years, we really have seen significant environmental progress.

Environmental Progress coordinated an open letter signed by Rhodes and climate scientists including Jim Hansen, urging peace talks.

EDN works year - round through a combination of education, public policy, activist and consumer campaigns, bringing together citizens, governments, and businesses to create inclusive environmental progress.

Environmental Progress investigated the problem to see how the problem compared to the much more high - profile issue of nuclear waste.

There are other victims, too, as Environmental Progress Fellow Jemin Desai recently discovered.

Next Monday Environmental Progress President Michael Shellenberger (left) will give labor union and Oswego leaders the «James Hansen Courage Award,» named after climate scientist James Hansen (right) for their tenacious and successful effort to save Fitzpatrick.