Sentences with phrase «led environmental groups»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A leading environmental group opposed to nuclear power says no.

Eight of the UK's leading environmental groups have joined forces to urge political parties to adopt a joint approach on green issues.

Not exact matches

He has led campaigns uniting business, labor, and environmental groups, testified before Congress, and been cited in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and other major news outlets.

Mr. Lewis is the director of the Shareholder Rights Group http://shareholderrightsgroup.com and was co-author of «Fooling Investors and Fooling Themselves: How Aggressive Corporate Accounting and Asset Management Tactics Can Lead to Environmental Accounting Fraud.»

TMX Group will contribute funding, resources and leading capital markets expertise to the Centre, and will also work to strengthen programs initiated by the Centre to mobilize private capital to tackle social and environmental problems.

A California environmental group found levels of lead in children's juice products that far exceed state law — and in some cases also exceed federal levels for young children.

Evidence that BPA may be harmful if consumed led consumer and environmental groups to pressure manufacturers and the U.S. government to take steps to protect consumers.

The AD will work closely with the Camp Co-Directors to mentor camp staff in environmental education best practices, lead camp groups in activity, complete the camp schedules and weekly supply lists, organize camp materials, finalize field trip logistics, and co-author the daily «parent page» email communication.

Environmental Working Group: «Health / Toxics: Lead,» «Reducing your exposure to PBDEs in your home,» «Toxic Fire Retardants in American Homes.»

Mayborn Group, proud owner of leading baby essentials brand tommee tippee ®, has been named 2014 National Winner of the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association's (BVCA) prestigious Community & Environmental Action Award.

Joining me in the interview is Green Moms Carnival Founding Member, author, environmental expert, and XRF - gun wielding lead - toy - tester Jennifer Taggert — also known as The Smart Mama — and Lisa Frack, online parent organizer at The Environmental Wenvironmental expert, and XRF - gun wielding lead - toy - tester Jennifer Taggert — also known as The Smart Mama — and Lisa Frack, online parent organizer at The Environmental WEnvironmental Working Group.

But whether or not the agency was trying to bury this news, the announcement quickly led to an outcry among journalists, environmental watchdog groups and Congressional representatives, including New York Senator Charles Schumer (D), Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown (D) and Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D).

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Daren Bakst, a research fellow in agricultural policy at the Heritage Foundation think tank, said sue and settle has led to «egregious antics» that have «effectively handed over the setting of agency priorities to environmental pressure groups,» and has led to rushed rulemaking by the agency.

Four leading good government groups joined the City of New York and numerous environmental and consumer watchdog groups in asking the Public Service Commission to extend the public comment period before voting on awarding up to $ 7B in public subsidies to keep four Upstate nuclear plants operating.

A coalition of groups — led by labor unions, environmental groups and conservative organizations — has formed to oppose the constitutional convention.

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.

Environmental groups and city officials denounced the State Legislature's decision saying it would lead to another year of bags contributing to waste and pollution, but state lawmakers argued more time was needed to study the financial impact of the fee on low income residents.

Some Elmont and Floral Park civic leaders are raising concerns that a development group led by the New York Islanders is paying a Manhattan - based consulting firm to conduct an environmental review before the team constructs an 18,000 - seat arena at Belmont Park.

Environmental groups had been hoping DEC would assume sole - lead status because they believe it would evaluate environmental concerns morEnvironmental groups had been hoping DEC would assume sole - lead status because they believe it would evaluate environmental concerns morenvironmental concerns more rigorously.

Last week, KingstonCitizens.org, the local activist group that led the successful opposition to the Niagara Bottling proposal, last week asked its members to consider whether the group will ask the Kingston Common Council to advocate the DEC taking «lead agency» status in the environmental review.

The lawmaker, said Flanagin, recently led a group of 17 of her House GOP colleagues in introducing a resolution that calls for using «American innovation to improve environmental stewardship.»

The referendum has been opposed by labor unions, environmental groups and other organizations who fear it could lead a stripping of key rights in the existing document.

The decision made by Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant to extend the grant funding for thirty one projects registered with Environment Wales until the end of March 2017, came following a persistent campaign, led by the Environmental groups and with backing from William Powell, Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for the Environment.

Controversial findings say savings on fuel costs lead to spending on other services but cause furore among environmental groups

Elevated lead levels have been found in the drinking water in Newark, N.J., prompting legal action from an environmental group that alleges the city and state aren't doing enough to protect residents.

Environmental groups and the 25 towns and four counties which called for the DEC to be the lead agency had hoped the DEC would evaluate environmental concerns more rigorously than the Thruway Authority, especially since the Thruway Authority would receive some kind of payment from Pilgrim Pipeline, but no figures have bEnvironmental groups and the 25 towns and four counties which called for the DEC to be the lead agency had hoped the DEC would evaluate environmental concerns more rigorously than the Thruway Authority, especially since the Thruway Authority would receive some kind of payment from Pilgrim Pipeline, but no figures have benvironmental concerns more rigorously than the Thruway Authority, especially since the Thruway Authority would receive some kind of payment from Pilgrim Pipeline, but no figures have been divulged.

One of the environmental groups» lead lawyers, Bill Snape of the Center for Biological Diversity, insisted advocacy for controlling lead ammunition will continue.

Less than an hour after the Cuomo administration decided to prohibit fracking, environmental groups were calling on California governor Jerry Brown to follow Cuomo's lead.

In the days leading up to Cuomo's decision, Adam Skelos and lobbyists for Capitol Group — Nick Barrella and Mike Avella — had discussed setting up a meeting with officials at the Department of Environmental Conservation to talk about how to include a provision requiring that water used in the fracking process be reused and recycled — an opportunity for AbTech's filter to be utilized, which would then also benefit Adam Skelos.

But while Democrats say a convention could lead to the dismantling of labor and environmental protections by conservative interests, Republicans say they are concerned that New York City's progressive interest groups would dominate the convention.

«We're quickly reaching the end of the low - hanging - fruit era, and in the absence of real directed policy, those goals are going to be much more challenging,» said Greg Cunningham, who leads the clean energy and climate change program at the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based environmental group.

On the other side, environmental groups led by NextGen Climate, which aspired to spend $ 100 million, unleashed waves of advertising to attack Republican positions on climate change, energy and the environment.

A group of researchers at the University of California, Davis, surveyed 162 farmers in Yolo County, Calif., comparing what growers thought about climate change, their willingness to participate in government - led climate programs and their takes on four different environmental regulations passed in the last 25 years.

«For a long time, processes like this were seen as a «black box» that can not be understood and that can only be effectively exploited with a lot of experience,» says Prof. Christoph Herwig, who leads the research group for bioprocess technology at TU Wien's Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering.

To put that into perspective, the World Health Organization (WHO) puts the threshold for safe air at 25 micrograms per cubic meter, and India's Central Pollution Control Board limits exposure to 60 micrograms per cubic meter, said Cusworth, a member of the Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group led by Daniel J. Jacob, the Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, and Loretta J. Mickley, Senior Research Fellow at SEAS.

«What we see are waves or rings,» said lead investigator Cornelius Fischer, who conducted this research at MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen in the group of Prof. Andreas Lüttge.