Sentences with phrase «environmentalists get»

Alberta gets a pipeline (flowing through B.C.) and environmentalists get carbon pricing.

And from «why not, peeing in drinking water is gross anyway», to «ugh, could environmentalists get any more disgusting» — reactions to urination alternatives seem to be sharply divided.

As auto makers, federal policy makers and environmentalists get ready to craft the next round of U.S. corporate average fuel economy, Tonkin raps an Environmental Protection Agency proposal to improve fuel - economy and carbon - dioxide - emissions reductions equivalent by as much as 62 mpg (3.9 L / 100 km).

Not exact matches

Environmentalists in the U.S., however, might just accomplish what Alberta has failed to do: get companies to invest in Canadian upgraders once again.

Mining, a process by which individuals or groups get paid in new Bitcoins to run complex mathematical equations on high - powered computers in order to confirm the validity of transactions, has drawn scrutiny from environmentalists who say it's sucking up too much electricity.

If this wasn't enough to get environmentalist in an uproar the government then proposed changes to the income tax act that would require that that charities disclose foreign sources of funds and demonstrate that the organization satisfied the 10 per cent rule for political activities.

«What happened in Iguala» — the site of the students» disappearance, allegedly at the hands of crooked cops, acting in cahoots with a cartel — «was a tragedy, and we get the butt of it,» says Robyn Sydney, an Acapulco resident and well - known environmentalist.

Over the years, oil sands production has gotten a bad rap from environmentalists over greenhouse gas emissions.

Environmentalists objected and wanted to find other ways to get the oil transported.

Like Flag Day, Christian environmentalist and «Earth Flag» - creator John McConnell may never get his due.

Calls by kangaroo industry advocates and environmentalists to get more kangaroo meat on the plates of Australians ignore serious issues associated with the industry.

With this positive discipline technique, I have to get off my butt, zip my lips and lead her by the hand (or pick her up and take her if she pulls the tried and true environmentalist protest limp drop) to her room and close the door.

«To have somebody the caliber of Mary Eisenstein and we've got the environmentalist covered with Debbie O'Kane... It's a fabulous ticket.»

A towering structure proposed by LG Electronics is getting a lot of push back from elected officials, community groups and environmentalists.

Environmentalists are charging county lawmakers «illegally raided» funds slated for open space preservation and drinking water protection programs to balance next year's budget without getting voter approval in the form of a mandatory referendum.

When he talked about his idea with environmentalists, ecologists, aboriginal groups and Boy Scout troops, every group asked the same question: What if one of your carp got loose in Europe?

Moreover, although the idea of getting close to the land in small - scale communities has a deep cultural resonance in some schools of environmentalist thought, in reality this is probably the worst thing that anyone can do.

When rational appeals fall short, environmentalists enlist social and economic incentives — and even neuroscience — to get the public in on national efforts to combat climate change

And so critics from left, right and the intellectual center gang up on the handful of environmentalists and other activists who try to get population into national and global discussions.

When the population of Steller sea lions in one area of Alaska declined dramatically, environmentalists had to threaten the government with a lawsuit to get the species put on the threatened list in 1990.

Environmentalists have moved one step closer to getting polar bears listed as endangered under U.S. law.

Stormy and the captain didn't get along, because Stormy was known to be an environmentalist, a protector of the ocean, while fishermen were the ones who consumed and plundered.

We need to get some environmentalists & victims (potenital or actual) of AGW in on the larger debate — people who are SKEPTICAL that the scientists are not telling us the worse, or don't really know yet; people who don't relish maintaining a «wait - and - see, do - nothng policy.»

I am definitely not the stereotypical outdoorsy environmentalist you would envision making this kind of move, and in a lot of ways I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

Very chill, laid back... Artist, self - employed - private chef / caterer, environmentalist, wine enthusiast... What you see is what you get, so if brutal honesty isn't something you're looking for, then step aside... I'm very picky because I plan on spending...

His flock includes a young pregnant woman whose environmentalist husband has advised her to get an abortion in light of widespread climate change.

Andie MacDowell's character was a middle - class [environmentalist] and absolutely wanted that apartment with the greenhouse, so she had to get married because the building [co-op board] said, «We want you married.»

These radical environmentalists hate everything that's a resource - devouring industrial culture and so far, that's all we've really got.

Most monster movies have at least one bleeding - heart environmentalist to argue the case of the monstrous beast, but here we get only Niko Tatopoulos (Matthew Broderick), an expert on the mutant earthworms of Chernobyl, who seems less like a scientist than like a place - holder waiting for a rewrite («insert more interesting character here»).

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But if California's public sector unions were as committed to that pro-growth agenda as they are to their current agenda which is bankrupting California's cities and counties at the same time as it obsesses over race, gender, and environmentalist extremism, they could probably get all of it done.

Nothing will kill the BEV market faster than horrified environmentalists watching millions of batteries getting dumped into the ground every year.

And during Stone's interview with the famous environmentalist, she got a glimpse into Maathai's dedicated personality.

 With many enthusiastic environmentalists turning up for the event, clearing got underway at 6 am, giving participants the entire day to pick up every piece of garbage they could find.

If you've got a sweet tooth for socially - conscious, politically - engaged, radical environmentalists who make art as a means of personal expression and collective activation, YOU»RE IN LUCK.

pat - «Similarly many environmental activists believe that man's influence is a form of sin and nature (Gaea) will soon strike back...» You can phrase the position of a fictitious group any way you want of course, without rebuttal, because they don't really exist, though there are people who fit the description — especially if by «many» you mean more than three — but the more accurate reality is most of the human beings you would lump under the rubric «environmentalist» would more accurately be described as believing that short - sighted and greedy human attempts at total control and domination and complete disregard for the healthof the environment have gotten us out of balance with what was an interlocking web of balanced and dynamic systems, and would appear to have unbalanced many of those systems as well, including the still poorly understood cycles of climate; or weather, as we laymen call it.

It's not really what you mean, and sure as sure, it'll get hung around your neck and mine as evidence that environmentalists are «anti-people.»

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Do the environmentalists, or do the power mongers get to play with the doll.

Complications involving the drift arctic sea ice — precisely the sort of complications that makes such an operation so treacherous in the first place, and so opposed by environmentalists and local residents — forced the operation to cease mere hours after it had gotten underway.

To a few too many self - proclaimed environmentalists, Earth Day is sort of like what Christmas is to non-churchgoing Christians — a day to get involved, feel you're doing your part, and unintentionally leave it at that for the

He didn't allow me to speak much, but I did get in my favorite argument about scientists needing 95 % certainty to make claim and thus being overly cautious (they need to avoid false positives in order to protect their reputations — which is understandable), while those living in the world (environmentalists, potential victims) would want to follow the «medical model» of avoiding false negatives, and would be concerned about possible problems at a much lower standard of certainty (a doctor would not tell her patient that there is only 94 % certainty the lump is cancerous, so we won't operate).

Environmentalists, particular in the US, have been the driving force in getting environmental regulations enacted.

I am sure that people paid as environmentalist journalists don't necessarily like to hear such things, because of their pockets, but it is true that the climate science should be getting roughly 10 times less attention in the media than what it is getting now if the rules about the complexity and space in the media were consistently followed.

We need to get some environmentalists & victims (potenital or actual) of AGW in on the larger debate — people who are SKEPTICAL that the scientists are not telling us the worse, or don't really know yet; people who don't relish maintaining a «wait - and - see, do - nothng policy.»

To be sure you don't get the idea that only investors in nuclear technology are for this, please click back to an important «Open Letter to Environmentalists on Nuclear Energy» signed by 75 notable conservation biologists and posted just over a year ago by Barry Brook, chairman of environmental sustainability at the University of Tasmania and co-author of a paper in Conservation Biology that was the focus of the letter:

In a twist that might irk some gamers and environmentalists, for the first time Electronic Arts has signed on a paying customer to get product placements in the game.

All the knee - jerk «environmentalists are secret socialists» and «Al Gore is a nitwit» comments get incredibly tiresome.

Polar Bear Protection: A federal judge upheld the decision by the George W. Bush administration to grant polar bears threatened status under the Endangered Species Act, but did not pass judgment on environmentalists» argument that the bear should get the act's more protective «endangered» designation, or the argument that the bear's status justified restricting greenhouse gases warming the climate.

I suspect part of the reason why global warming isn't getting more serious political debate is that, unfortunately, for a long time it was the sole province of left - leaning environmentalists, who were so easily tagged as woo - woo space cadets.