Sentences with phrase «leading environmental group»

«CEERT's established partnerships with leading environmental groups like NRDC and Sierra Club allow environmental concerns to be closely considered in all solar development and transmission infrastructure plans,» the proposal reads.

Earth Minsitry / WAIPL is a member of the Environmental Priorities Coalition, a network of over 20 leading environmental groups across the region that influence policy at the state level.

Enderle revealed that Whitehouse has been coordinating with leading environmental groups on the effort.

After issuing its long - awaited proposed rule - under section 316 (b) of the Clean Water Act for all existing power generating facilities and existing manufacturing and industrial facilities - the EPA came under fire by several of the nation's leading environmental groups which blasted the rule as being ineffective and criticized the agency for caving in to industry interests.

Less» international - based offsets are derived from Gold Standard - certified projects, as endorsed by leading environmental groups, including WWF International.

Leading environmental groups including Pew Environment Group and Greenpeace have long objected to the certification of krill fishing, saying that it «falsely advertises the message that all krill are sustainably caught and that consuming krill - based omega 3 supplements or purchasing farmed salmon raised on krill meal is okay.

The Environmental Priorities Coalition is a network of over 20 leading environmental groups across the region that influence policy at the state level.

Conflicts such as this led environmental groups to urge Prime Minister Trudeau to overhaul the NEB in early September.

«What the A.G. said — I thought his statement was not at all inconsistent with what even the leading environmental groups have said about it,» Gennaro said, naming Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The Adirondack Park's leading environmental groups and local government officials supported the Adirondack Park Agency's decision to classify the 20,530 - acre Boreas Ponds tract as a mix of Wilderness and Wild Forest.

New research shows that # 700 million is paid each year to fund the UK's failing farming system, which continuously strains the environment, a leading environmental group has claimed.

Negative press on the poor survival rate of many captive marine fish has led environmental groups and animal - rights groups to put pressure on the aquarium trade.

But the plain result is clear, said Brendan Cummings of the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the lead environmental groups behind the years - long legal push on greenhouse restrictions under existing laws:

Recently released for its debut run on the west coast, Kip Anderson and Keegan Kuhn set out to create a documentary to confront these issues while discovering why the world's leading environmental groups haven't been addressing how animal agriculture contributes to climate change and how the promotion of a plant based diet is a solution.

«At first I thought this was some sort of mistake, that he was playing musical chairs and landed in the wrong chair,» said Márcio Santilli, a founder of Instituto Socioambiental, one of Brazil's leading environmental groups.

In Turkey, a mountainous country largely deforested over the millennia, a leading environmental group, TEMA (Türkiye Erozyona Mücadele, Agaclandirma) has made reforestation its principal activity.

To resolve this question, leading environmental groups and major U.S. corporations (including some of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters) like American Electric Power and Duke Energy convened a negotiating process through Avoided Deforestation Partners, while the Waxman - Markey legislation was being drafted.

Brussels, 23 April 2004: Three leading environmental groups are demanding the European Commission put forward a new target for boosting the share of renewable energy used in Europe to 25 % by the year 2020.

But the prospect of dismantling the Obama administration's climate rules did not sit well with the Natural Resources Defense Council, a leading environmental group.

I engaged in several hours of in - person, off - the - record discussions with senior staff at two of the lead environmental groups in the effort to pass cap and trade legislation.

A leading environmental group welcomed the report as a sign that Ford was taking its role in global warming seriously.

Today, leading environmental groups and corporate campaigning organizations released an open letter to major corporations — the biggest consumers of tar sands, the dirtiest oil on the planet — calling on the corporations to take responsibility for the disastrous effect that lax to non-existent corporate purchasing policies are having on the climate.

A leading environmental group opposed to nuclear power says no.