Sentences with phrase «environmental protests»

However, airport expansion is at the same time one of the biggest subjects of environmental protest of recent times.

Many commentators look to recent environmental protests as hopeful signs of a rising civil society.

Strong environmental protests were a driver for CCS on many of these proposed new coal - fired power plants.

«Fashioned From Nature» Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Road London The complex relationship between fashion and the natural environment since 1600 is explored here through 300 objects, encompassing nature - inspired historical garments and contemporary designer wear, sustainable practices by Stella McCartney and Erdem, and worn environmental protests by Vivienne Westwood and Katharine Hamnett.

While the proposed expansion of the Algonquin Natural Gas Pipeline through Connecticut forges ahead, environmental protests in New York and Rhode Island states are gaining steam and making headway while those in Connecticut are seemingly just getting...

For the past seven weeks, Romanians have been leading one of the largest environmental protest movements in the world.

At the heart of the food / water / energy nexus, a proposed pipeline draws what may have been the largest environmental protest the White House has seen in decades.

The complex relationship between fashion and the natural environment since 1600 is explored here through 300 objects, encompassing nature - inspired historical garments and contemporary designer wear, sustainable practices by Stella McCartney and Erdem, and worn environmental protests by Vivienne Westwood and Katharine Hamnett.

So when she got a call out of the blue from Karen Radford, executive vice-president of Enbridge — a lightning rod for environmental protest — she was ready.

As pipeline protests continue to delay and, sometimes, stop energy projects in their tracks, the fossil fuel industry and Republican lawmakers are looking for new ways to clamp down on environmental protest.

While environmental protests against both projects will continue, the head of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said the main barrier to Keystone XL has always been the president's desk.

When the Keystone XL Pipeline, slated to bring especially carbon - heavy tar sands from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast, was killed thanks to years of fierce environmental protests, the stakes were raised for the Dakota Access Pipeline.

If their aim really is to prevent «eco-terrorism», as they warned us last year, they're going about it in exactly the wrong way by pre-emptively stopping or crushing any unlawful environmental protest.

While there's nothing new about civil disobedience and other environmental protests, in 2013 they seemed to intensify and spread globally.

McKibben also leads major environmental protests — especially Tar Sands protests — throughout the U.S., but most notably in Washington, D.C.

In his post Let's End Hippie - Style Environmental Protests.

Yesterday's event saw the biggest turnout yet — in fact, Bill McKibben, a head organizer, said that NRDC founder (who was also in attendance) John Adams had speculated that it was the biggest environmental protest that the White House has seen in decades.

Increasingly brutal policing of environmental protests is starting to raise questions about the force's competence and judgement.

In the United States, there have been environmental protests in states like New Jersey, where a company is planning to pipe CO2 from a coal plant to a storage spot in the ocean near Atlantic City.

What is really remarkable about that convergence is less the numbers, whatever they turn out to be, and more that this march will not look like any environmental protest I've ever seen.

Plans to turn one of South America's major waterways into a grand shipping canal have provoked a storm of environmental protests

BEIJING (Reuters)- Around 100 villagers attacked a police station in southwestern China on Friday as part of an environmental protest, state media said in a rare report about what are increasingly common demonstrations.

Why labor rather than environmental protests, and why Matthew Barney yet again?

Though the unrest roiling Turkey began as an environmental protest, the police brutality in response and the prime minister's imperious reaction have brought hundreds of thousands out into the streets to protest the government's social policies, urban - planning agenda, assaults on press freedom, and heavy - handed approach to its critics — to name just a few of the grievances.

It's also why millions of Chinese are starting to come out in force in environmental protests, demanding the hitherto unresponsive state to take heed, so far to little avail.

She went Green as that vision was running out of steam, in spite of its success (and she closed far more coal mines than any environmental protest could wish for).

After 8 years of delay due to environmental protests, China also just announced its Yunnan province.

They allow a lot of environmental protests, because the government in China understands that pollution and the impact of this rampant economic growth on the environment is the number one issue for Chinese people.