Sentences with phrase «group environmental progress»

«It's outrageous and it is totally deceptive what PG&E said before compared with what is actually going to happen,» said Michael Shellenberger, president of the Berkeley - based advocacy group Environmental Progress.

«In 2016, renewables received about 100 times more in federal subsidies than nuclear plants,» Michael Shellenberger, founder of the Berkeley, California - based, pro-nuclear advocacy group Environmental Progress, wrote in an email to Grist.

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Barry Callebaut has committed to participate in the environmental working group of AIM PROGRESS.

Environmental groups have long raised questions about this track record, and the U.S. Government Accountability Office recently joined the chorus, releasing a report that charges the agency with taking actions that have «impeded... progress in helping assure the public of safe drinking water.»

He hopes to sell satellite data to investors in oil and gas companies, such as hedge funds, and to government agencies, environmental groups and insurance companies that might want to monitor a company's progress in reducing emissions.

Since 2002, Shellenberger has been president of The Breakthrough Institute, a nonprofit research group focused on propelling environmental and social progress.

If environmental groups and their backers want to see concrete progress on limiting the risk that humans will propel dangerous global warming, they may need more than just additional money and better organization, but also a hard look at core strategies and a philosophy that has long cast climate change as primarily a conventional pollution problem, not a technology problem.

The event, which drew members of the general public as well as representatives from Duke Energy Carolinas, Duke Energy Progress, and local environmental groups, was the first in a series of public input meetings focusing on planning for South Carolina's energy future.

The essay was mostly about the failure of the environmental movement to make much progress on its agenda over the previous decade, but we could just as well have written it about any of the other liberal interest groups over that period.

The report was authored by the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, a climate justice advocacy group, and Redefining Progress, a nonprofit policy institute.

For that reason Environmental Progress submitted an official letter to the Commissioners — with an even larger group of signatories — and is mobilizing pro-nuclear supporters to come to Albany to urge Commissioners to do the right thing.

Previous assessments by the Analysis Group and others of RGGI's earlier years similarly have concluded that RGGI has delivered on its promise of both economic and environmental progress.

We Are Still In is an effort coordinated by The American Sustainable Business Council, B Team, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Center for American Progress, Ceres, CDP, Climate Mayors, Climate Nexus, C40, C2ES, Environmental Defense Fund, Environmental Entrepreneurs, Georgetown Climate Center, ICLEI, National League of Cities, Rocky Mountain Institute, Second Nature, Sierra Club, Sustainable Museums, The Climate Group, We Mean Business, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

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An analysis by Michael Shellenberger, president of an independent group called Environmental Progress, says that V.C. Summer reactors would reduce coal generation in South Carolina by 86 percent, an amount of coal that produces pollution equivalent to 3.8 million cars.

Former critics of the company have admitted that Apple is making significant progress, with environmental group Greenpeace giving Apple high marks for its efforts in promoting clean energy.

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.

Organized by Our Task — a non-profit group dedicated to helping young adults become leaders in creating a more sustainable world — the two - day event featured speakers and representatives from many other organizations as well, including: Climate Progress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Sierra Club, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Center for a New American Dream, Population Institute, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Worldwatch Institute.

In the face of daunting national and global developments threatening the progress of plug - in vehicles, cleantech, and responses to climate change, he's active in groups including Environmental Entrepreneurs http://www.e2.org (see below), the reincarnation of the Alliance for Climate Protection http://climaterealityproject.org/ (watch on Sept. 14) and the global campaign sparked by Bill McKibben http://www.350.org.

The merger also posed concerns among environmental groups, who argued that the merger between Duke and Progress would give the new Duke Energy company such a hold on the electricity market [PDF] as to minimize entry for independent renewables.