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It's from 160 leading environmentalists from 44 countries, and, believe me, we all approve of the action.

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Environmentalists and health workers in favor of the CPP will emphasize how the plan would lead to billions of dollars in savings on hospital bills because it also would slash emissions from coal plants.

The environmental audit committee is currently hearing evidence from scientists and environmentalists in the lead up to the Copenhagen summit.

Longtime Capital Region environmentalist Aaron Mair, who cut his teeth on issues from a trash - burning incinerator to toxic lead paint in inner - city homes, will use his voice as the first African - American president of the national board of directors of the Sierra Club.

But substantial recent progress has been made by proactive collaborations among environmentalists, regulators, scientists, and industry, leading to progress in the IMO in the development of guidelines for the reduction of underwater noise from commercial shipping.

The oil sands are still a tiny part of the world's carbon problem — they account for less than a tenth of one percent of global CO2 emissions — but to many environmentalists they are the thin end of the wedge, the first step along a path that could lead to other, even dirtier sources of oil: producing it from oil shale or coal.

Environmental Progress was intensively involved in advocating to save Millstone, publishing an open letter signed by the world's leading climate scientists and environmentalists — as well as Pulitzer Prize - winner Richard Rhodes and Harvard's Stephen Pinker — and publishing an in - depth analysis of the environmental consequences that would result from its closure.

That environmentalist is Stephen Tindale, who led Greenpeace U.K. from 2000 to 2005.

As scientists, policymakers, diplomats and environmentalists begin to converge on Copenhagen for climate talks, the integrity of leading climate change researchers has come under attack; a release of some 1,000 hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia in Britain has created a stir, with some suggesting the e-mails demonstrate hoarding of and manipulation of data by climate researchers.

Among the rogues gallery of leading climate change deniers are (from left to right, top to bottom): Congressman Joe Barton (R - TX), fossil fuel shill Steve Milloy, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, self - styled «Skeptical Environmentalist» Bjorn Lomborg, scientist - turned - denier - for - hire Fred Singer, the inimitable Sarah Palin, conservative funders Charles and David Koch (aka the Koch Brothers), and «swift - boat» architect Marc Morano.

The claim that science has shown that «climate change is real and is happening» leads to an array of political arguments from environmentalists, as though all that need be shown to legitimise drastic action (the more drastic the better) is that mankind has influenced the climate.

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.

Lawmakers and natural gas supporters worry that outcries from environmentalists, led by the influential Natural Resources Defense Council, could led to a regulatory crackdown on methane, a potent greenhouse gas, this fall.

First, as discussed previously on this blog, the BBC's decision to sell the seventh episode of the series — David Attenborough's personal view of climate change and the crysophere — as an option led to screams and shouts from environmentalists.

Leading climate scientists such as Michael Oppenheimer and Robert Watson, environmentalists from Exxpose Exxon, Greenpeace and other organizations join with a former Exxon executive, US government whistle - blower Rick Piltz, and leading authors such as Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Ross Gelbspan to explain how we have gotten to this challenging place, with the climate, and the influence of the world's largest company out of bLeading climate scientists such as Michael Oppenheimer and Robert Watson, environmentalists from Exxpose Exxon, Greenpeace and other organizations join with a former Exxon executive, US government whistle - blower Rick Piltz, and leading authors such as Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Ross Gelbspan to explain how we have gotten to this challenging place, with the climate, and the influence of the world's largest company out of bleading authors such as Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Ross Gelbspan to explain how we have gotten to this challenging place, with the climate, and the influence of the world's largest company out of balance.

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Let's also hear from loonies of the precautionary environmentalist side — the ones who had quite enough evidence in 1990 that AGW was a problem and would likely lead to many problems including increased storms (heat energy could become kinetic energy, they reasoned), so let's start turning off lights not in use & a myriad of other measures that not only save the earth but save us money.