Sentences with phrase «for environmental campaigners»

Image copyright Getty Images Good news for environmental campaigners: President - elect Trump has finally nominated someone to his cabinet who actually believes in climate change science.

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At the same time, opposition is so strong,» said Nikki Skuce, a resident of Smithers, B.C., and a campaigner for the environmental group Forest Ethics Advocacy.

Mr Benn confirmed the government will now review plans for a 60 per cent cut in carbon emissions after environmental campaigners warned it was not sufficiently rigorous.

Campaigners who call for regulation are reacting to evidence of environmental destruction, not causing corporate irresponsibility.

The Prince of Wales, a veteran environmental campaigner, has been aware of issues around synthetic fibres for a long time.

For the longest time there's been a presumption among environmental campaigners and some scientists that if the fog of misinformation and disinformation on climate could be cleared, if the science could be laid out better, if the link between present energy choices and future climate risks could be absorbed better by the public, people would jump aboard the decarbonization express, leading the world to a climate - safe future.

Given the glaring yield gaps between rich and poor places, particularly, can campaigners and citizens passionate about environmental conservation (and «green» eating) learn to embrace the need, in many crops and situations, for intensification as a path to a greener, thriving world?

One of the clearest needs is for an overhaul of the Minerals Management Service within the Department of Interior, which many environmental campaigners have pilloried not only for its approval of this project without a detailed environmental review, but for a far too cozy relationship with the extractive industries it's supposed to oversee.

The left - leaning Guardian newspaper of Britain has put the Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg — anathema to many environmental scientists and campaigners for challenging projections of ecological doom — on a list of «50 People Who Could Save the Planet» with the Nobel Peace Prize winners Al Gore and Wangari Maathai, the movie star and environmental filmmaker Leonardo DiCaprio, and NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt.

Carol M. Browner, the new White House coordinator for climate and energy, is a seasoned environmental regulator and campaigner who has focused on cap - and - trade legislation, which would steadily raise the cost of unfettered fossil - fuel use, and rule - making as driving the necessary change (as they did with the 20th - century basket of air pollutants).

For weeks, there's been a growing chorus — from the incoming Obama team to community - welfare campaigners and environmental bloggers — pushing for building the economic revival around «green jobs.&raqFor weeks, there's been a growing chorus — from the incoming Obama team to community - welfare campaigners and environmental bloggers — pushing for building the economic revival around «green jobs.&raqfor building the economic revival around «green jobs.»

Environmental campaigners and many climate scientists had long pressed for this action.

This phenomenon is different from the «false balance» issue that many environmental campaigners have focused on lately in blaming the media for stasis on climate policy.

Through scenes shot in 29 countries, the programs describe Sanjayan's learning curve as a scientist and conservation campaigner, from years when he pursued traditional strategies for environmental protection, like the establishment of parks (read this 1998 Science paper to get the idea), to conservation efforts that foster sustainable land use from the ground up.

Some environmental campaigners began criticizing the deal before it was finished, paying for an advertisement that is appearing in Indonesian newspapers and online.

Notably, the meeting, organized by a coalition called Avoided Deforestation Partners (an offshoot of the Center for International Policy), also saw some environmental campaigners who had long opposed the inclusion of forests in carbon markets strongly endorsing the idea.

This choice would undoubtedly be hailed both by those pushing for development and large - scale testing of nonpolluting energy technologies and by environmental campaigners seeking knowledgeable leadership at the giant agency — which, while it still oversees efforts to boost coal and oil extraction, also has what may be the world's biggest assemblage of scientists pursuing development of renewable power sources.

Various Updates In a move that environmental campaigners had sought for years (as had I), the Environmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure anenvironmental campaigners had sought for years (as had I), the Environmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure anEnvironmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure and operations.

I'm also asking an assortment of climate and energy experts, environmental campaigners, energy industry lobbyists, other elected officials and Dot Earth participants for their reactions, too.

To me, it conveys how environmental campaigners, in trying to engage a public for which global warming has little salience, may be helping sustain the still - common view that greenhouse - driven warming remains uncertain science.

As they always have, news services began describing the embargoed findings earlier in the evening, prodded by environmental campaigners and some scientists who hoped the results would inspire diplomats preparing to gather next month in Bali for the latest round of climate - treaty talks.

In Politco, Darren Samuelsohn has a solid roundup of reflections by environmental campaigners on why, despite spending tens of millions of dollars, they failed to gain the votes for any climate action in the Senate.

Those against will be Daniel M. Kammen, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, focused on renewable and «appropriate» energy technology and a senior energy adviser to the Obama campaign; Oliver Tickell, an environmental writer / campaigner in search of what he calls Kyoto2, a framework for controlling greenhouse gases that is effective, efficient and equitable; and Adam Werbach, who gained fame as the youngest president of the Sierra Club (elected at 23), but now is focused on «blue» marketing for business growth framed around sustainability, as the head of Saatchi & Saatchi S. I'll have to ask him about how that works.

A fight had ensued between animal welfare campaigners and a mix of environmental studies students, school administrators and community groups over next steps, which ranged from a semi-tongue-in-cheek recipe for Rabbit Restoration Stew to moving all of the animals to a sanctuary.

I noted that environmental campaigners were in denial for much of the 2000's over prospects for passing comprehensive climate bill.

Steingraber is a much - lauded environmental * campaigner and public health analyst at Ithaca College who has become a prominent critic of New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo for signaling that he is going to approve limited fracking in the state.

I've heard quite a few environmental campaigners cite the civil rights movement as a model for the kind of bottom - up activism they are trying to trigger around global warming.

We've written plenty exploring that question, and indeed there's no clear answer for CO2 (although environmental campaigners point to success stories like sulfur controls under the Clean Air Act, which ended up far cheaper than forecast).

Moniz is already taking heat from some environmental campaigners for his work directing the M.I.T. Energy Initiative, which — like many university energy and climate research hubs — receives ample funding from industries selling or dependent on fossil fuels.

In regarding the spreading slick and unabated seabed gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, some environmental campaigners and chroniclers are starting to look with concern to the north — at impending efforts to drill for oil in America's Arctic waters.

For the last several years, the public discourse on this momentous, multi-layered economic and environmental issue has largely been shaped from the edges — by vocal and histrionic campaigners seeking a blanket ban on the process and industry groups and property owners resisting regulation and bitterly fighting any talk of a ban.

But the story really only began at the end, given how the battle for Storm King established precedents that have since given environmental campaigners and communities far more influence on such projects.

Marshall has worked for 25 years as a campaigner in environmental movements, including Greenpeace US and the Rainforest Foundation.

«I have found myself increasingly chastised by climate change campaigners when my public statements and lectures on climate change have not satisfied their thirst for environmental drama and exaggerated rhetoric... Why is it not just campaigners, but politicians and scientists too, who are openly confusing the language of fear, terror and disaster with the observable physical reality of climate change, actively ignoring the careful hedging which surrounds science's predictions?»

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«Given the vast profits made by the European fluorochemical industry, it is absolutely scandalous that they are not destroying all HFC - 23 produced by their factories,» said Clare Perry, Senior Campaigner for the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).

I once shared a drink with a campaigner at one of the U.K.'s top environmental charities who confided that in the wake of the Climate Change Act nearly a decade ago, there had been a plan for a new high - profile campaign to decarbonize communities across the U.K. and publicly demonstrate the attractiveness of meeting the goals the law set out.

An environmental documentary due to be broadcast on Channel 4 on Thursday evening has come under attack from a leading American environmentalist who was interviewed for the programme, as well as a coalition of anti-GM campaigners based in the developing world.

Although many climate scientists and environmental campaigners are seriously concerned about the fate of the Arctic sea ice, for other parts of society and other arms of government its degradation presents challenges and opportunities.

One of the unfortunate side effects of which was that (and this is not necessarily your field's fault in the direct sense) every two - bit environmental activist, campaigner, and pressure group took it as license to fully politicize the science with naive and exaggerated claims about the «effects» of global warming (apparently it's responsible for everything), or where the «tipping point» was (30 years, no 20 years, no 10 years, etc.) or how quickly we could «de-carbonize» our economy (50 % reduction in 40 years, no 70 % in 30 years, no 90 % in 15 years).

Hence the need for a fallback position — an environmental theory which would justify the massively expensive and disruptive ongoing decarbonisation programme so assiduously championed by politicians, scientists, green campaigners and anyone making money out of the renewables business.

«The environmental movement in total is all in for the removal of Scott Pruitt,» Lukas Ross, a campaigner at Friends of the Earth, told Bloomberg.

But the memo also criticises environmental campaigners for misrepresenting scientific evidence and says that green groups and the British media «have been guilty of expressing unjustified certainty about the science of climate change».

Clémence Hutin, climate justice and energy campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said, «Today has shown cross-party recognition of the social and environmental benefits of energy savings, for people and the climate.

Even issues where environmental campaigners thought they'd see progress, such as improved management of the high seas which have been rampantly overfished, nations (in this case U.S., Japan, Canada, Russia and Venezuela) were able to kick any meaningful changes down the road for another few years.

For too long it has been held hostage by a minority of hard left, deep green activists whose anti-capitalist agenda has been given a veneer of respectability by the intervention of high end law firms, glossy environmental consultancies, Hollywood campaigners, «caring» grassroots pressure groups, expert scientific witnesses, «independent» moviemakers and sympathetic mainstream media coverage.

The hearings were presided over by three judges: Brett Fleishman, senior finance campaigner for 350.org; Aurélie Trouvé the co-president of the french branch of «Attac», an international movement working towards social, environmental and democratic alternatives, and Marie Toussaint President of «Notre affaire à tous» an organisation that specialises in using law as an advocacy tool to protect the environment and the climate.

This is not to say that environmental campaigners should ditch all existing efforts around closing coal power plants in favor of advocacy for CCS — instead, CCS can provide another valuable option for which these campaigners can advocate in contexts where the rapid shutdown of coal is undesirable and / or politically infeasible.

While that particular change of heart was less than welcome, environmental campaigners are calling for another government u-turn.

On May 29, Brazilian police confirmed the killing of an Amazon environmental campaigner, Adelino Ramos, who was known for openly denouncing those who illegally fell trees in the rainforest.