Sentences with phrase «environmental track»

There are some positive signs, mostly arising from those departments with established environmental track records.
GE's poor environmental track record includes polluting the Hudson River with toxic waste water from 1947 to 1977 and supplying the nuclear reactors that faltered and led to the Fukushima nuclear plant explosion in 2011.
The United States has the second worst environmental track record by this measure.
All of these missions provide important data for environmental tracking, particularly for climate change — a scientifically validated phenomenon that Trump and some members of his administration have previously denied.
Nearly three years have passed since the CGF resolution; and the world's largest retailer, with revenue of more than $ 460 billion in 2012 and a notable environmental track record greening its supply chain, has failed to make any substantial progress towards keeping its commitment to phase - down HFCs.
It means that idiot eco-evangelists aren't going to look too closely at China's generally appalling environmental track record — not just the smog in Beijing and the other big cities, but also the poisoning and devastation in areas where they mine the rare earth minerals which are a vital ingredient for those bat - chomping, bird - slicing eco-crucifixes the Gwailo imagine are so eco-friendly.
Opponents of the Morales government deliberately misrepresent its strong environmental track record, to advance their own political goals
The palm represents a genus seen nowhere else in the world — and a unique conservation challenge for a nation with a poor environmental track record.
Of these large economies, the United States has the second worst environmental track record.
Legal and General might be the first fund to pull investments due to a company's environmental track record, but it's hardly the first to focus on that aspect of corporate culture.
The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance was jointly established by the San Francisco - based Wine Institute and California Association of Winegrape Growers to improve the industry's environmental track record.
We «re confident that U.S. consumers can add «environmental track record» to many other reasons for choosing California wines, including quality, diversity, value, and significant contributions to local, state, and federal economies through jobs, taxes, charitable donations and tourism.
The company's environmental track record is no better: in 2008 Massey paid the largest EPA fine ever for committing more than 60,000 violations.
«The environmental track record of the industry is good: over the last four decades we have reduced noise by 75 %, eliminated soot and improved fuel efficiency by 70 %.
Canada is once again delaying emissions regulations in the oil and gas sector, despite major pipeline projects that continue to put intense scrutiny on the energy industry's environmental track record
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