Sentences with phrase «few environmental groups»

... More than a few environmental groups have dipped their hand into the fossil - fuel till, far from view of their donors and the public.

«It would be pretty hard to argue that this technology does not exist when it is standing there on 55 acres and many many stories towering above you,» said John Thompson, who heads the coal transition team for the Clean Air Task Force, one of the few environmental groups endorsing the technology.

When Cuomo first announced the initiative in January, a few environmental groups in the Hudson Valley were disappointed that the Wallkill River was not on the list.

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Only a few weeks after its formal debut, though, the organization has already run into trouble with environmental groups after its subsidiaries produced a couple of TV ads touting the pro-Keystone XL and pro-Arctic drilling positions of two Congressmen they backed.

This accord -; one of the few provisions welcomed by environmental groups -; allows groups and ordinary citizens to accuse member nations of failing to enforce their own environmental laws.

The Environmental Working Group puts out an annual guide on the 12 types of produce with the largest amount of pesticide residues — The Dirty Dozen, and the 15 types that have few, if any, pesticide residues — The Clean Fifteen.

The company has brought 50 or so tank cars to the line over the past few weeks and put them in storage in the town of Minerva, a move that has drawn the ire of environmental groups and state agencies, which have questioned the legality of storage there.

Kink and others spoke at a rally of a few dozen people at the Capitol representing social justice and environmental groups.

Kink and others spoke at rally of a few dozen people at the Capitol representing social justice and environmental groups.

Kink and other spoke at a rally of a few dozen people at the Capitol representing social justice and environmental groups.

Yet a few days before the test, it was delayed amid major backlash from environmental groups.

A few environmental watchdog groups voiced concern that artificial life might somehow escape the laboratory and become an invasive species or pose dangers as yet unforeseen, and President Obama asked the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to explore the implications of Venter's work.

A 2016 Environmental Working Group report found that almost 90 percent of U.S. agricultural exports went to developed countries with few hungry people.

We usually make our own detergent, but for times when we are traveling or I haven't had time to make it, I've found a few good brands of eco friendly laundry detergent that actually work (all received an «A» by the Environmental Working Group):

Recently, I checked out the Environmental Working Group's ratings on various dishwasher detergents and grabbed a few of the top rated detergents off of Amazon to see how they stand up to my dishes.

Paul Lo, president and senior environmental scientist of Materials Management Group, emailed administrators at the Recovery School District and the Orleans Parish School Board to lay out a few different scenarios.

Unfortunately, I thought the book skimmed over this last question by invoking collaboration (between justice groups, environmental groups, corporations and communities), but giving only a few examples on how this might look.

Before diving into the report and a host of reactions, positive and negative — along with fresh thoughts expressed to me by both Nisbet and Romm in a group e-mail exchange over the weekend — I'd like to offer a few overarching observations about the report, the fate of the climate bill, American attitudes on energy and the influence of environmental and anti-regulatory forces in Washington.

The briefing was organized by Representative Edward Markey, the Massachusetts Democrat and chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, and for the first half he was the only lawmaker in a room otherwise packed with congressional interns and staff, representatives of environmental and youth groups and the fossil - fuel industry, and a few reporters.

Unlike the forties, though, now the city's Mayor is one of the few people in San Francisco public office still holding hands with PG&E.; Eight of eleven San Francisco supervisors support a move towards public power, as does the San Francisco Democratic Party and a number of environmental groups.

A few days before the incident, environmental groups filed a petition demanding a moratorium on pending dilbit pipelines.

«Our coalition of environmental, conservation, public health and civil rights groups has achieved a milestone that few thought possible,» says my colleague Verena Owen, a veteran volunteer leader who co-leads the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign.

One key element of this latter program will be to try to forge a new coalition between industry and environmental groups for the use of cleanly - produced natural gas as a bridging fuel to slow global warming over the next few decades — with a particular focus on China.

Wind energy faces turbulent future in desert Sammy Roth — The Desert Sun — November 24, 2014 For renewable energy advocates and environmental groups, few questions are more divisive than the impact of wind turbines on desert wildlife.

Although so - called environmental groups may in the next few weeks pressure you to attend, we believe there are good reasons not to give in to this pressure,» they wrote.

Producing significant amounts of oil from offshore leases in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas is quite a few years away because of permitting delays, serial lawsuits filed by environmental pressure groups, and the physical challenges involved in building the necessary offshore infrastructure in the Arctic Ocean.

Like I said, it is Lindzen... not I... who is proposing a vast conspiracy theory whereby because he can identify a few scientists who have connections to environmental groups or Al Gore or whatever, therefore the entire field of climate science has been hijacked, we can't trust the IPCC, the National Academy of Sciences, AAAS, the Councils of the American Physical Society, the American Meteorological Society, and the American Geophysical Union, the editors of Science and of Nature, etc., etc..

Microgrids that are being touted by environmental groups will increase costs and complexity, with few real benefits.

In a press briefing with India just a few days ago, several different members of civil society (from environmental groups or the press) asked the same question in an accusatory tone: why won't India comply with the EU's «legally - binding treaty»?

«Serendipitously,» Steuber recalls, «the local environmental group I had joined a few years back had formed a book group to read The Transition Handbook and decided they wanted to start a Transition Town in Media.»

Apple Staying Silent About Suppliers And Pollution Problems Financial Times writes, «Although Apple does not directly manufacture anything itself and does not disclose, with very few exceptions, the names of its suppliers, the Chinese environmental groups say they used public information and court documents to form a list of more than 20 Apple suppliers with environmental violations to their name.

Blythe Danner, actress and famous mom (her daughter is Gwyneth Paltrow) took a few minutes to make this video supporting the Environmental Defense Fund's Moms Clean Air Force, a group that brings mothers together to work for a clean and healthy environment.

Environmental groups will be there to oppose the port, noting that policies in both states effectively block new coal - fired plants and that both have plans to close the few that remain.

One of LinkedIn's most important attributes is to offer group members an opportunity to connect with alumni, business, employment, environmental, networking, non-profit, and sports colleagues, to name just a few.

Below, we collected a list of household cleaning products that have earned an «A» rating from the Environmental Working Group, which means the product has few or no known or suspected hazards to health or the environment, as well as a thorough ingredient disclosure.