Sentences with phrase «from environmental groups»

But the real reason was pressure from environmental groups.

The decision could push back a final determination on the project for years and open it up to lawsuits from environmental groups.

Despite the historic nature of the new standards, they earned criticism from environmental groups, who argued that they require less progress from plane manufacturers than market forces would produce anyway.

The coalition government's plans for energy security and meeting climate change targets are facing growing concern from environmental groups.

Any move towards burning more plastic waste, though, would be met with fierce resistance from environmental groups.

The province's announcement met with a mixed reaction from environmental groups and industry members.

But the plan faced opposition from its inception from environmental groups, local residents and members of both boards who were unhappy with the specifics of the deal.

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

There's a long pattern of everyone from environmental groups to the major journals coming out with climate findings, reports or statements just ahead of the climate talks.

The EPA has yet to issue its «endangerment finding,» despite pressure from environmental groups who first sued the agency to start the rulemaking process in 2010.

Example: Oakland, Calif. - based BrightSource Energy Inc. last month scrapped plans to build a solar power plant on 5,130 acres in the Mojave Desert in southern California after months of protest from environmental groups concerned that the project would threaten important habitat for bighorn sheep.

The Export - Import Bank, over which the president has authority, has come under fire from environmental groups for financing coal plants in less - developed countries.

After years of complaints from environmental groups like Riverkeeper, the state concluded that a billion fish a year were being killed through that process, and proposed that Entergy build cooling towers that would cost more than $ 1 billion as a way to mitigate the problems.

But Cuomo also plans to tackle the issue of bag usage statewide through a task force, amid the expected outcry from environmental groups who had pushed for the bag fee.

Being first to market with a true SUV hybrid is important to Ford, which has come under fire from environmental groups for its reliance on gas - guzzling large pickups and sport utilities.

Last year, the Ivanpah plant was the target of legal action from an environmental group despite approval of the project by both the Department of the Interior and the state of California.

Cuomo added he was sympathetic to the support from environmental groups who want to cut down on plastic bag waste, but also the argument the fee amounts to a regressive tax.

The Ivanpah plant, slated for completion in 2013, has been the target of legal action from an environmental group despite approval of the project by both the Department of the Interior and the state of California.

And, already, the EPA is getting swarmed with petitions from environmental groups (and states) to start regulating mobile sources besides cars and trucks — such as airplanes, marine engines, or farm equipment.

Cuomo's proposal earned praise from environmental groups, including the Citizens Campaign for the Environment.

The company has drawn heat from environmental groups claiming Bechtel's processes are unsafe and from officials blasting it for big cost overruns.

Rising pressure from environmental groups like International Rivers, heightened by the approaching Copenhagen climate change conference, ultimately forced the African Development Bank, the World Bank, and the European Investment Bank to withdraw funding from the dam.

State lawmakers Dan Stec and Betty Little joined dozens of state and local officials, as well as representatives from environmental groups, to pay tribute to the late politician.

Any changes to regulations that have existed for some time and moved into implementation, like fuel - efficiency standards for cars and trucks or rules controlling the carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants, would certainly face legal challenge from environmental groups, some state governments, and even industry groups seeking certainty or to protect investments.

The document is attracting ire from environmental groups in the U.S. and in Europe which say the proposal would be a disaster for the climate.

As news of the project has leaked out, it has triggered protests from environmental groups in the United States, Europe and Japan, who clamor for the protection of South America's great equatorial rain forest because it anchors fragile soil, holds at least half of the earth's animal and plant species and plays a vital role in world climate.

Any big change by President Trump certainly would bring lawsuits from environmental groups as well as California

In June 2009, as a response to widespread calls for bans or other anti-bag measures from environmental groups, the city of Toronto required that all local stores charge 5 cents for every plastic bag they handed out.

Other miners face similar demands from environmental groups and money - strapped governments in other jurisdictions.

At the heart of the legal challenge to the loan is an effort from environmental groups to «invalidate» the state's plan.

Cuomo signed the legislation two years ago to great fanfare from environmental groups that advocated for the law.

The pressure against coal in New York is not just coming from environmental groups.

It also is part of a push from environmental groups to make the legal case that fossil energy companies have lied for decades about global warming risks, just as tobacco companies lied about the connection between smoking and cancer.

But there are also unconfirmed reports from both environmental groups and local people that loggers sprayed the trees with pesticides, killing the monarchs so that they could harvest the lumber.

Fracking has already drawn considerable scrutiny from environmental groups, unhappy homeowners, and teams of lawyers who blame the drilling method for polluting pristine rivers, turning bucolic farmlands into noisy industrial zones, and leaking enough methane to make ordinary tap water as flammable as lighter fluid.

Canada's foot - dragging at the 2009 Copenhagen conference earned it a «Fossil of the Year» award from environmental groups.

But those conclusions haven't quelled fears from environmental groups that the fish could become invasive if released into the wild.

Even before the recent push to bring on a full - time marine mammal guard to look out for almost a dozen of the Navy's submarines and 9,500 personnel, the Navy considered bringing dolphin guards to Kitsap - Bangor two decades ago, but the move was stalled by a lawsuit from environmental groups charging that the Navy failed to analyze the effects of the proposed actions on the dolphins themselves and then a loss for security funding in the 1990s.

The 2025 determination is not a new regulation, so the EPA, under Trump, would likely have to go through an extensive process before withdrawing the determination, and could face lawsuits from environmental groups if they took that step.

Cassini also received flak from environmental groups who were concerned that when the spacecraft flew by Earth, its radioisotope thermoelectric generator (nuclear power) could pose a threat to our planet, JPL added.

Alex Williams had an interesting story in the Styles section over the weekend examining whether the cacophony of messaging from environmental groups and leaders in recent years has resulted in meaningful change or amounts more to a sonic barrage that dulls as much as it inspires — what some call «green noise.»

I'll be interested to see any analysis of the paper by Matthew Nisbet of American University, who charted the flow from environmental groups.

Donna has credibility with me, as it was she who discovered how many of the IPCC «sources» were press clippings and such, many from environmental groups.

Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd said he supported the scheme «100 per cent», but his environment spokesman accused the government of stealing the idea from environmental group Planet Ark..

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique to remove natural gas and oil from shale formations, has been under withering assault from environmental groups for much of the last decade.

In June 2016, shark researchers from the environmental group Beneath the Waves and the University of Miami affixed satellite transmitters to the dorsal fins of 10 blue sharks in the northwest Atlantic and collected data on their location over a 110 - day period.