Sentences with phrase «leading environmentalists in»

On the same day, Bill McKibben and George Monbiot, leading environmentalists in the United States and Britain, wrote columns in the Guardian laying out completely divergent conclusions.

At one point he was chair of Environmental Conservation Committee and he was the leading environmentalist in the state fighting to protect our environment.»

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Democrats, environmentalists, and other protesters demonstrated outside the White House after Trump signed the executive order in March, declaring it would lead to runaway climate change, while many Republican members of Congress applauded the action for promoting energy independence.

The environmental disaster that ensued led some environmentalists to oppose piping dilbit in the belief that it is less safe.

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 pipeline, which is a project of TransCanada Pipelines, is reviled by environmentalists and clean energy supporters throughout the U.S. who claim that it will lead to the expansion of «dirty» oilsands projects in Alberta.

In this episode of the One Verse Podcast, we see that as followers of Jesus, we should not be condemning the environmentalists, but should actually be leading the way in showing this world how to take care of this eartIn this episode of the One Verse Podcast, we see that as followers of Jesus, we should not be condemning the environmentalists, but should actually be leading the way in showing this world how to take care of this eartin showing this world how to take care of this earth.

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

Environmentalists hoping the state will reject the Constitution argue any decision could also affect the others, at least two of which would be longer and lead to a more dramatic increase in the region's fossil - fuel consumption.

Top attorneys led by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former Vice President Al Gore announced a collective effort to investigate Exxon Mobil over environmentalist claims that the company misled the public about its role in climate change.

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.

In addition to DARPA environmentalists, biosafety experts and leading gene drive researchers say a new approach to mitigation and control is needed for the technology to advance safely.

It also led to a «Wolf Summit» in January, where sport and subsistence hunters, environmentalists, and state officials gathered to present their cases.

The Carbon Tracker Initiative — led by James Leaton, an environmentalist who served as an adviser at the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers — combed through proprietary databases to figure out how much oil, gas and coal the world's major energy companies hold in reserve.

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.

Afterward, she leads him to Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), a bad guy who is posing as an environmentalist in order to take control of a country's water supply.

I just was watching your interview with Michael Shellenberger and reading / listening up on this whole «centrist environmentalist» concept and I have to say, I take issue with people claiming the longtime «left» environmental movement was all about being a culture of restriction and somehow not in tune with the idea that this global warming crisis could lead to newer, alternative, healthy economics of another kind.

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.

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.

«Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), compared Bjrn Lomborg, Danish statistician and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, to Adolf Hitler in an interview with Jyllandsposten, a leading Danish newspaper (Apr. 21).»

With the participation of Ban Ki Moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations and leading USA environmentalist, author and educator, Bill McKibben, this documentary provides critical information to develop an enduring, local food network in a time of climate change.

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.

Environmentalists are claiming victory following General Motors Corp.'s (GM) decision to quit a lobbying group that has led the opposition to a 1997 global warming treaty reached in Kyoto, Japan.

Ever the environmentalist, rather than heading for the huge expanses of wilderness — apparently the largest and least «disturbed» in Europe — he heads for the environmental disaster: people living near lead smelting plants.

DETROIT — AP — Environmentalists are claiming victory following General Motors Corp.'s decision to quit a lobbying group that has led the opposition to a 1997 global warming treaty reached in Kyoto, Japan.

«Yes, the IPCC — which we're told to take seriously because it is a scientific body producing scientific reports — has, in fact, been led by an environmentalist on a mission.

First Nations leaders have been occupying fish farms in the Broughton Archipelago for over 200 days, and now, leading environmentalist David Suzuki, invited top chefs concerned with the wellbeing of wild salmon, to add their voice to the resistance.

In a New Statesman article Stott was bluntly labelled as «Britain's leading climate - change denier and has built a career on criticising environmentalists.

Carbon capture and storage and nuclear energy have significant risks and trade - offs — and face a great deal of uncertainty in their development, cost and eventual deployment, leading many environmentalists to argue that they should be left out of the conversation when debating steps forward on climate change.

Environmentalists, myself included, are often more concerned about the amount of raw methane released in gas development than the much - publicized fracing issue, even though their presentations may lead with the fracing controversy.

Having fought industrial wind development for years in my community, I have come to understand that only a grassroots rebellion, led by rural environmentalists against the wealthy, powerful, special - interest, urban fake - environmentalists will be able to turn the tide.

Bill McKibben, the author and environmentalist leading the fight against the Keystone XL, wrote me the following in an email:

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.

With the advent of the strongly environmentalist Obama Administration in 2009 he found himself at odds with EPA s misguided attempts to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, which led to considerable media attention and his retirement in early 2010.

One leading environmentalist who has been in contact with the White House is «totally confident» that the administration is preparing to move forward with regulations for existing plants — a move that green groups see as crucial in the fight against climate change.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author, Stephen Schneider of Stanford University, has previously rebuked the arguments of political scientist Bjorn Lomborg, contained in his book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, for «selective inattention to inconvenient literature and overemphasis of work that supports his lopsided views».

It's led by acclaimed environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, and in just a few years has ballooned into a leading voice for change.

Embattled president is regularising illegally occupied land at knock - down prices, in a move environmentalists fear will lead to more deforestation

First Nations leaders have been occupying fish farms in the Broughton Archipelago for over 200 days, and now, leading environmentalist David Suzuki, invited top chefs concerned with the wellbeing of wild salmon, to add their voice to the resistance.