Sentences with phrase «from environmental campaigners»

The announcement received widespread criticism from environmental campaigners around the world.

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.

He also implied that he was turning down requests from environmental campaigners that he attend next month's round of talks over a new climate treaty, in Poland, saying he has asked members of Congress who are attending to report back to him.

[Grist has some reactions from an environmental campaigner in India.]

Not exact matches

The real attack on freedom of speech has come from the French state itself and it is directed against those it perceives as potential subversives: the school children who will not say Je Suis Charlie, the Muslim families who are subject to raids by police, the environmental campaigners who want to demonstrate in front of world leaders.

Koenig says environmental campaigners are deeply concerned about stepped up drilling plans in other parts of the Ecuadorian Amazon but they see merit in supporting the Yasuni Initiative as a means by which to enable Ecuador to extricate itself from its current «oil debt trap.»

Environmental campaigners ClientEarth has called on head teachers to «do everything possible» to protect their pupils from toxic air at schools.

Headteachers were today urged by environmental campaigners to «do everything possible» to protect their pupils from toxic air at schools.

[2:27 p.m. Updated The National Journal has posted a revealing roundup o views on the speech from veteran oil lobbyists and environmental campaigners to libertarians and young energy campaigners.]

The fight over how humans should, and should not, interact with whales has moved from the waters off Antarctica, where environmental campaigners have been harassing Japanese whalers, to the White House.

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.»

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.

I'll add more thoughts about Mendes later, from scientists, environmental campaigners, and other people familiar with his life and legacy and the forces shaping tropical forests around the world.

His missive is sent from northern California, not Russia, because he's there to help honor Evgenia Chirikova, a Russian forest campaigner who's the European honoree in this year's Goldman Environmental Prize awards.

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.

General Electric in 2002 dropped its decadeslong resistance to efforts by environmental agencies and campaigners to force the dredging of PCB hot spots from the Hudson River.

Given the new burst of concern over volatile and rising global food prices from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and various aid and environmental campaigners, late last week I sent some questions to a broad array of scholars and analysts focused on global resources and demands.

I sought reactions to my post on President Obama and the «Alberta tar pit» from a variety of analysts and campaigners examining the economics and environmental impacts of a proposed pipeline linking that Canadian source of oil with American refiners.

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.

This stance contrasts both with those of people like Bjorn Lomborg, who say curbing emissions is a waste of time and money, and also with efforts by some environmental campaigners, scientists, and public figures, former Vice President Al Gore included, to assert that the clear and present danger from unfolding climate disruption is the reason to act.

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.

Some climate scientists and environmental campaigners said Mr. Cooney's quick shift from the White House to Exxon was evidence of a near - seamless relationship between the Bush administration and the oil industry.

According to Global Witness — apart from the three forest patrollers slain last month — as many as 20 environmental advocates and campaigners have been killed in Cambodia since 2005.

The developments are likely to fuel concerns among the many environmental campaigners who oppose nuclear power that the industry has unfair access to the government, as well as benefiting from hidden subsidies.

«Environmental campaigners use the so - called ecological footprint — how much area each one of us requires from the planet — to make their point.

The EU's efforts to decarbonise heavy industry are being undermined by ETS benchmarking rules that systematically block cleaner industrial alternatives from getting a foothold, according to environmental campaigner group Sandbag.

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.

Campaigners from Greenpeace, the environmental group, scaled the mountain in November 2002 and held a news conference via satellite with reporters at climate - treaty talks in Morocco.

The Times said the assertion actually «was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise,» «authored by two green activists» and lifted from a report from the World Wildlife Fund, an environmental pressure group.

The environmental campaigners said two climbers also attempted to abseil down from a small roof above the podium, with one stopped by security while the other unveiled a banner to boos from the crowd.