Sentences with phrase «environmentalists who»

And by this I don't just mean from environmentalists who are unalterably opposed to any more pipelines from the tar sands (and I use that term advisedly in this context).

Environmentalists who provided money, zeal and manpower to Democrats in 2008 are demoralized this campaign cycle, further fraying the coalition that sent Barack Obama to the White House and gave the party majorities in both houses of Congress.

The study comes as corn - ethanol faces increasing criticism from environmentalists who say the increased corn production is worsening air and water pollution, depleting water supplies, driving record high food prices, and contributing to deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

Environmentalists who say we should accept the scientific consensus on climate change while telling us to ignore it on other issues are the people who are playing into the hands of those who oppose action on climate change.

He told them they created the fur trade and forestry industries as major sources of income and development for First Nations, now they were shutting it all down because they were bullied by environmentalists who offered no evidence to support their demands.

Sure, she wants to open ANWR up for drilling, she's fought to keep endangered species delisted, and she supports the practice of hunting wolves from helicopters — but believe it or not, there are some environmentalists who will be sorry to see Gov. Sarah Palin go.

That's a staggering amount, compared to the average farmer at my local market, and it is precisely this volume that makes farmers like Muller a prime target for environmentalists who want to see a cut in greenhouse gas emissions, pollution and depletion of aquifers.

Environmentalists who think we can have it all (endless growth AND sustainability) are deluded.

Claire Nouvian helped to secure an EU ban on deep - sea trawling and has received a Goldman Environmental Prize, which is given to grass - roots environmentalists who are struggling for change.

Karl's study was welcomed by some scientists and environmentalists who see man - made global warming as the biggest threat to humanity; it was criticized by others in the scientific community.

Putting solar arrays on rooftops saves land, which is comforting to environmentalists who worry about the effect renewable energy infrastructure will have on the region's biodiversity.

«Some of our so - called brothers and sisters in the trade union movement have abandoned solidarity with the working class and are instead throwing in with environmentalists who have co-opted the tribes in their effort to fight pipelines,» O'Sullivan wrote.

The divergence on climate policy disappointed environmentalists who had worked to forge a united platform between the Clinton and Sanders camps.

The wind might finally be at the back of the landowners and environmentalists who for years have warned that the pipeline, which will carry bitumen from Canada's carbon bomb known as the tar sands, is a threat to fresh water supplies and the climate.

Environmentalists who have been briefed on the plan were enthusiastic.

Environmentalists who sincerely believe the planet is endangered need to find a more effective way to respond to climate change.

Unfortunately for those environmentalists who dream of a world powered by solar, wind, and happy thoughts, it was actually hydraulic fracturing that put the final nail in coal's coffin.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper: There are environmentalists who will oppose any of these projects.

Ironically, the environmentalists who pushed global warming policies on the West thought they would be enhancing global security.

They joined a few environmentalists who already claimed only they cared about the environment.

The wealthy developed world, but especially the US West Coast, is filled with liberals and environmentalists who are perfectly willing to drive a Prius and buy organic veggies but raise holy hell if anyone tries to build a bike lane, light rail station, or new housing anywhere near them.

This third and final volume of the «Earth Heroes» books features the youth and careers of eight of the world's greatest environmentalists who championed the protection of wildlife.

WHEN several eminent scientists returned recently from a tourist cruise to the North Pole aboard a Russian icebreaker and reported finding water, not ice, at the top of the world, the image resonated far and wide, providing a call to arms for scientists and environmentalists who for years had been trying to convince politicians and the public that heat - trapping gases from tail pipes, power plants, even methane - belching cattle, could disrupt the climate.

It might seem that environmentalists who fall short as climate hawks are uniquely annoying because they say they prioritize climate change.

SOA represents a diverse consensus - based membership of solar industries and environmentalists who are working hard to build a world - leading sustainable solar industry that will help protect the environment and create thousands of new jobs for the Province of Ontario.

Scientists and environmentalists who point out the true extent of the crisis we face risk being attacked for being alarmist, not least by our Prime Minister and environment minister Malcolm Turnbull.

It is not just the environmentalists who have got to accept that mitigation will hurt the economy.

by Michael Shellenberger In 2013, I was featured in a documentary film about environmentalists who had changed their minds and become pro-nuclear.

He was featured in «Pandora's Promise,» an award - winning film about environmentalists who changed their minds about nuclear, appeared on «The Colbert Report,» and debated nuclear on CNN «Crossfire» with Ralph Nader, and at UCLA with Mark Jacobsen.

Depending who you ask, they're either abandoning — or leading — traditional environmentalists who for a half - century have rejected clean - burning nuclear power as too expensive or too dangerous.

The defeatist attitude of environmentalists who oppose all hydraulic fracturing belies the ingenuity of the American people.

Despite his memorable description of the worst possible outcome of the Anthropocene as being «a Frankenstein planet stitched together by geological resurrection men» (p258), Morton's sympathies seem to lie closer to the Promethean scientists who seek to manage an unavoidable (and potentially even «good») Anthropocene, than with more precautionary scientists and environmentalists who use the term as a warning — a reason for humanity to pull back from scientifically identified «planetary boundaries» and lessen our interference.

Perhaps the commie environmentalists who pull your strings are looking for their money's worth.

So its really convenient that environmentalists who help excaberate deadly wildfires can blame everyone except themselves their actions have the predictable effect.

That's one reason why many environmentalists who supported the MSC in the past say you might be troubled to know what the MSC and supermarkets like Whole Foods are not telling you:

This is true not only of the figures Obama has appointed to posts that inherently concern climate change, like the his green appointees to run the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy, but also to general political advisers, like Denis McDonough and John Podesta, both committed environmentalists who will drive Obama's climate focus.

Most — if not all — of the changes will face legal challenges from the same environmentalists who already are fighting to defend Obama's Clean Power Plan in federal court.

But Obama's announcement set up a clash with environmentalists who remain worried about the safety of nuclear power and waste disposal.

A National Post story says that, in an interview published July 1st and appearing in the French - language news weekly L'Express, «Suzuki was asked about Australian environmentalists who oppose immigration to their country because they believe population growth will drain natural resources past their breaking point.»

In his earlier days, he used to be like many other environmentalists who extremely support total withdrawal from nuclear energy.

«Environmentalists who oppose the development of shale gas and fracking,» Muller said of the greenhouse gas fearmongers, «are making a tragic mistake... [and] concerns are either largely false or can be addressed by appropriate regulation... [S] hale gas is a wonderful gift that has arrived just in time.

This year the fight has garnered her a Goldman Environmental Prize — dubbed the Green Nobel — which is given annually to grass - roots environmentalists who are struggling, often against great odds, around the world for change.

A real survey should include only climatologists who study the reasons for climate change, and not environmentalists who want to propagate it.

Solar Action Alliance: Environmentalists who want to spread the word about the most clean, reliable, and abundant source of renewable energy: the sun

Caruba has no scientific credentials whatsoever, but in addition to signing the Oregon Petition he has editorialized on his own website against the science of global warming, calling it the «biggest hoax of the decade,» a «genocidal» campaign by environmentalists who believe that «humanity must be destroyed to «Save the Earth.»

However, it is seriously aggravated by environmentalists who exploit the lack of knowledge and force politicians to inappropriate reactions always at the expense of the economy and people.

And Ed Whittingham, executive director of Pembina Institute, is among the environmentalists who have raised alarms about other aspects of the government subsidies for the project.

It began as an anti-coal movement by environmentalists who roped in «scientists» like Keeling who was willing to fiddle the data by measuring his, I think his, invention the mythical «pristine well - mixed background» from the top of the world's largest active volcano surrounded by active volcanoes producing loads of carbon dioxide indistinguishable from man made from fossil fuels.

In his short tenure, Shaw has rankled environmentalists who had hoped that a fresh day dawned with a scientist on the dais of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality — a frequent target of complaints over its stewardship of the state's air and water.

It's not only environmentalists who are saying this.