Sentences with phrase «funded by environmental activists»

«All too often we see the Agency using flawed science for political purposes, but this report — partially funded by environmental activists no less — shows EPA's emissions estimates from hydraulic fracturing are way off.»

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Thursday afternoon, more than 100 New Yorkers, led by a coalition of environmental activist groups, delivered 11,000 signatures on a petition to the Comptroller's office in Manhattan, urging Thomas DiNapoli to overhaul pension fund investments.

These hearings were far more extensive because the commission did not want to repeat the embarrassment of being told by a federal appellate court that it had failed to develop an adequate record, and because there was now a much larger and better funded community of environmental activists intervening to oppose the plant.

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.

Sponsored by three activist groups — Oil Change International, Environmental Action, and The Other 98 % — the 30 - second ad was part of a crowd - funded campaign to point out the fatal flaw in ExxonMobil's business model to maximize oil and gas extraction across the globe regardless of the growing threat to the stability of Earth's climate system and thus the livability of the planet for our children, their children, and future generations.