Sentences with phrase «for environmental think tank»

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Lighthizer is expected to try to nix another transnational court for investment disputes, and he has backing from a wide variety of constitutional lawyers, environmental and labor groups, and conservative think tanks that say the special courts encroach on U.S. sovereignty.

Maffei spent the two years in between his congressional terms working for a Washington think tank, Third Way, and teaching at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse.

In the afternoon I joined a workshop on environmental and climate change policy, which was being run by the Green Alliance think tank for a group of my fellow Conservative candidates.

Juha Siikamäki, a fellow at the environmental economic think tank Resources for the Future and lead author of the study, says efforts to maintain mangroves could add an enormous potential for carbon offset projects.

Anne Thompson, NBC's chief environmental affairs correspondent, moderated the expert panel, which included (from left): Heidi Cullen, a correspondent for Climate Central, a nonprofit that reports on climate science; Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico and a board member of the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank; Grady Gammage Jr., a practicing attorney and a senior scholar at the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability; and Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.

«The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) might all lay claim,» Servick wrote, and «many new technologies don't fit neatly into the purview of one office,» according to a report from the Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington, D.C. — based think tank.

Prior to founding Earth Policy Institute, Brown was well known in environmental and policy circles for his work with the Worldwatch Institute, a pioneering environmental think tank he launched back in 1974.

«Assuming that technology will allow ever more shale gas production at low prices — and betting energy policy and the future energy security of the country on it — is risky business,» says geologist David Hughes, who retired from the Canadian Geological Survey and is now doing assessments of shale gas and oil for the nonprofit Post Carbon Institute, a California - based environmental think tank.

The Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, is completing a study for the Environmental Protection Agency on what a three - foot sea level rise would do to Miami.Miami is particularly vulnerable.

Arjun Makhijani, who heads the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, a think tank that advocates against nuclear power, sees disseminating the technology as incompatible with controlling it.

«This is partly about reducing carbon emissions, but it's also an air quality issue that has become very, very urgent,» said Kate Gordon, vice chairwoman for climate and sustainable urbanization at the Paulson Institute, the China - focused environmental policy think tank led by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

«Sustainable food systems and environmental protection may be important, but these issues don't belong in discussions of healthy eating,» wrote Jeff Stier of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C., in an op - ed in The Des Moines Register today.

Electric utilities, environmental advocates and a nonpartisan climate think tank all agree that they dislike the way U.S. EPA sets interim goals for states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a draft rule for the power sector.

Will he call for the deep cuts to climate and environmental science, and research on renewable energy technologies, which some conservative lawmakers and think tanks have long advocated?

«A new paper from the think tank Resources for the Future finds that the NAFTA talks are a chance to solidify the North American energy and environmental relationship.

Driessen is senior policy adviser at the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a Washington, D.C. - based libertarian think tank focused on environmental issues that has received funding from fossil fuel interests such as ExxonMobil and Chevron.

http://www.esquire.com/features/marc-morano-0410-2 Currrently runs the climate website ClimateDepot.com for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a conservative environmental think tank.

Jonathan Porritt, founder of environmental think - tank Forum for the Future, agreed.

Thus, an analysis by the Canadian environmental think tank Pembina Institute found that Keystone XL would be a «key driver for oilsands growth,» increasing production by 36 percent.

Speaking at the Greener Britain Hustings, hosted by environmental think tank the Green Alliance, Davey called the potential for a Conservative government after the election a «nightmare scenario» that would distract from «the most important climate negotiations ever».

He directs the nonprofit Science and Environmental Policy Project, and also acts as a consultant for several think tanks, such as the Heartland Institute.

«The waters are warm — dive on in,» Janet Coit, Director of RGGI member Rhode Island's Department of Environmental Management, said at an event hosted by nonprofit think tank Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES).

And at agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department, Trump transition teams have brimmed with conservative think tank personas who have a history of questioning the science of climate change and standing up for fossil fuels.

(Goals for Mankind)-- Club of Rome premier environmental think - tank, consultants to the United Nations.

Besides being a World Climate Ambassador she is also enrolled as Asia Regional Officer for the Cop In My City Project of CliMates (an international think and do tank on climate change) and Regional Ambassador for Tunza Eco - generation (global environmental networking platform for youths) since 2015.

He also gave speeches at both the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and the Heritage Foundation — two libertarian think tanks known for promoting climate science denial and working against environmental regulations.

For example, in the US, each time the Clean Air Act has been amended since 1972, fossil - fuel power companies and their associated think - tanks screamed bloody murder that sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emission reductions would essentially destroy the economy (all but ignoring the obvious health and environmental benefits that did come to fruition).

There is no need for Big Oil to hire expensive PR and lobbying firms or fund «conservative think tanks», because the environmental movement and politicians do all their own negative PR for them.

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