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So thinking back over the last couple of years as the Long Island Power Authority has struggled along with local environmental groups in New York to educate the public about the clear environmental benefits of clean energy and what could be the first offshore wind farm in the US, it seems apparent to me that if area schools had access to a program such as KidWind 15 - 20 years ago the resistance they've encountered today might well be less intense and better informed.

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In June 2009, as a response to widespread calls for bans or other anti-bag measures from environmental groups, the city of Toronto required that all local stores charge 5 cents for every plastic bag they handed out.

Primary stakeholders obviously include farmers and consumers, but farmers NGOs, consumers groups, environmental groups and local and regional government agencies may all be involved in the PGS.

Local groups will continue to have the opportunity to influence environmental water management by participating in state processes contributing to implementation of the Basin Plan.

Consultation on the 2017 - 18 plan has occurred with New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, Central Tablelands Local Land Services, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries - Fisheries, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries - Water, the Murray - Darling Basin Authority, the Lachlan Environmental Water Advisory Group, scientists engaged in monitoring the outcomes of Commonwealth environmental water use and various community groups andEnvironmental Water Advisory Group, scientists engaged in monitoring the outcomes of Commonwealth environmental water use and various community groups andenvironmental water use and various community groups and individuals.

This watering action will be managed by Nature Foundation South Australia in collaboration with local landholders, Bookpurnong - Lock 4 Environmental Association, Loxton Waikerie District Council, Loxton Bookpurnong Local Action Planning Group, SA Water and the South Australian Government's Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resoulocal landholders, Bookpurnong - Lock 4 Environmental Association, Loxton Waikerie District Council, Loxton Bookpurnong Local Action Planning Group, SA Water and the South Australian Government's Department of Environment, Water and Natural ResouLocal Action Planning Group, SA Water and the South Australian Government's Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources.

The Murray Darling Basin Authority, Basin States, the scientific community, local groups and others have existing environmental water and aquatic health monitoring and evaluation programs and strategies in place.

If you want to learn more about the work of local environmental water advisory groups and committees or you have any suggestions for the use of environmental water in your region please contact your local or state representative bodies, or alternatively your Local Engagement Offlocal environmental water advisory groups and committees or you have any suggestions for the use of environmental water in your region please contact your local or state representative bodies, or alternatively your Local Engagement Offlocal or state representative bodies, or alternatively your Local Engagement OffLocal Engagement Officer.

An important component of each monitoring and evaluation plan involves the establishment of effective partnerships in environmental water delivery, including with environmental water managers, land and catchment managers, local environmental water management groups and community members.

An important component of the Plan therefore involves the establishment of effective partnerships in environmental water delivery, including with environmental water managers, land and catchment managers, and local environmental water management groups.

An important component of each Plan therefore involves the establishment of effective partnerships in environmental water delivery, including with environmental water managers, land and catchment managers, and local environmental water management groups.

This year, we have developed comprehensive multi-year plans in consultation with our State counterparts, river operators, the Murray Darling Basin Authority, scientists engaged in monitoring as well as local environmental water advisory groups and committees.

A housing subdivision in Bolingbrook will soon have a sorely needed park as a result of a complicated real estate transaction involving the Bolingbrook Park District, a Chicago - based environmental group and a local church.

The Delaware Riverkeeper, Maya K. van Rossum, told lawmakers at the news conference how her group and several municipalities had used the environmental clause in Pennsylvania's Constitution to challenge a pro-fracking law that would have pre-empted local zoning and imposed a gag order on health professionals.

A coalition of local government officials and green groups have criticized the plan as one that creates a «junkyard» in the Adirondack Park, and have expressed concerns over the environmental impacts.

The groups — including the United University Professions, New York State Nurses Association and the Transit Workers United Local 100 — want to see billions spent on renewable energy and infrastructure projects, resources for environmental concerns in poor communities and fair labor and training standards in clean energy.

Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens said last week that he expects the advisory committee of experts, local and state officials and environmental groups reviewing the controversial natural - gas extraction process hydraulic fracturing will meet in «the near fEnvironmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens said last week that he expects the advisory committee of experts, local and state officials and environmental groups reviewing the controversial natural - gas extraction process hydraulic fracturing will meet in «the near fenvironmental groups reviewing the controversial natural - gas extraction process hydraulic fracturing will meet in «the near future.»

Upset with a development project in their community, a local environmental group is seeking to launch a Democratic primary challenge agains the incumbent Southhampton town supervisor.

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.

Local governments and environmental groups have united to blast an executive state budget proposal to use payment - in - lieu - of - taxes agreements instead of market value to calculate taxes on the vast Forest Preserve holdings in the Adirondack Park and the Catskills.

«Our local governments and environmental groups are strongly united in their opposition and have done a tremendous job in Albany explaining why the proposed change would be so detrimental to our North Country economy,» Little said.

According to a study published in the journal Conservation Biology by a group of scientists from the University of Notre Dame, Resources for the Future, U.S. Forest Service, University of Michigan and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Laboratory, if bighead and silver carp were to establish in Lake Erie, local fish biomass is not likely to change beyond observations recorded in the last 3 decades.

Banka Behary Das, who is president of a local farmers» group that campaigns on environmental issues, says the quays will cause a massive increase in fishing near the beach.

Working in tandem with such groups as the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Coalition for a Safe Environment, along with the Teamsters and Longshoremen's unions and local activists like Martha Cota, they've done extensive lobbying in Sacramento and community organizing to push for enforcement of the California Environmental Quality Act and compel the Port of Los Angeles to initiate a suite of pollution - reduction strategies that have cleaned up the air.

«She is the voice of greatness,» says Russel Honoré, the now - retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who became a local folk hero when he led search and rescue and evacuation after Hurricane Katrina and later founded the GreenARMY, a coalition of environmental groups fighting against pollution in the Gulf region.

If bighead and silver carp were to establish in Lake Erie, local fish biomass is not likely to change beyond observations recorded in the last three decades, according to a study published in the journal Conservation Biology on Thursday (Aug. 6) by a group of scientists from the University of Notre Dame, Resources for the Future, U.S. Forest Service, University of Michigan and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Laboratory.

In May 2013 the Arctic Council decided to continue its work on the AACA initiative and requested the AMAP Working Group to «produce information to assist local decision - makers and stakeholders in three pilot regions in developing adaptation tools and strategies to better deal with climate change and other pertinent environmental stressors»In May 2013 the Arctic Council decided to continue its work on the AACA initiative and requested the AMAP Working Group to «produce information to assist local decision - makers and stakeholders in three pilot regions in developing adaptation tools and strategies to better deal with climate change and other pertinent environmental stressors»in three pilot regions in developing adaptation tools and strategies to better deal with climate change and other pertinent environmental stressors»in developing adaptation tools and strategies to better deal with climate change and other pertinent environmental stressors».

Our project partners in delivering environmental & social responsibility projects range from United Nations Agencies, International & Bilateral Organizations, Multinational — National & Local Business, Industries, Civil Society Groups, and also Governments.

So an authentic performance task in environmental science might require a student to investigate the impact of fertilizer on local groundwater and then report the results through a public service campaign (like a video, a radio announcement, or a presentation to a group).

In another example, an authentic environmental science performance task might require a student to research the impact of fertilizer on local groundwater and then report the results through a public service campaign (like a video, radio announcement, or presentation to a group).

Established in 2010, MTSNAC is comprised of leaders from commercial transportation firms, ship construction, repair and recycling, trade associations, state and local public entities, labor organizations, academics, and environmental groups that advise the Secretary and the Maritime Administration on policies to ensure that the U.S. Marine Transportation System is capable of responding to projected trade increases.

Prior to joining Equal Justice Works, he was a Fellow at Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP in San Francisco, where he represented citizen groups and local agencies in environmental litigation and land use and planning issues.

On the Democratic side, unions, pro-choice groups, and environmental groups plan major events and parties during this time and book prime local spaces well in advance (there were still spaces available at the university and at local libraries however).

Hanna works in the non-profit world as a communications and events director a local environmental group and has been working in marketing on the side for over 10 years.

Given the impact on local economies, LATAM Airlines Group has endeavoured to promote sustainable tourism with the development of a responsible operation that preserves both the cultural and environmental heritage in the different locations and countries where LAN and TAM operate.

What started as a small group interested in launching a Green Team has grown into a corporate - wide philosophy of community involvement, local economic success and conserving environmental resources.

I understand why traditional environmental groups stick with litigation as a lever but I see other approaches, particularly building local support for biological vitality and other environmental assets, as more effective in the long haul.

Not much happened until a local Sierra Club chapter was established in 2005 and we started working with community groups, environmental organizations and fisherman groups to turn things around.

Several local and national environmental groups interviewed by InsideClimate News said they'll attempt to sway the election in McAuliffe's favor and are currently formulating their strategies.

It is themed Sustainable and inclusive urban communities through urban agriculture and aims to bring together scientists from different disciplinary perspectives, studying motivations and barriers for individual and group practitioners, social, economic and environmental benefits of urban agriculture for the local communities and cities as a whole, as well as enabling and disabling factors for successful interaction between the local stakeholders in planning, accessing and using urban resources especially land and water.

Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland is the UK's most influential national environmental pressure group and is a unique network of campaigning local groups, working in over 200 communities throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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.

Dr. Martinez has also worked with a range of organizations from local grassroots groups to international organizations engaging in the promotion of sound environmental policy and environmental justice.

With roots in the radical environmental movement of the 1970s, Friends of the Earth Sweden has grown to encompass 11 local groups with more than 2,700 members.

We hosted a series of events in the San Francisco Bay Area, together with allies from Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador; the Indigenous Environmental Network; the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Against REDD and for Life; as well as California environmental justice groups who found common cause with theseEnvironmental Network; the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Against REDD and for Life; as well as California environmental justice groups who found common cause with theseenvironmental justice groups who found common cause with these communities.

She has organized and managed education and advocacy programs dealing with a wide range of energy and environmental issues, such as high level nuclear waste legislation, director of a solar installers» training and energy conservation installation program, coordination for numerous state, local and national conferences / strategy workshops, and has assisted community - based groups in establishing job - training / energy rehabilitation programs.

Moore said that mining companies in third world countries must deal with «corruption among environmental groups and local governments compounded by yellow journalism.

Created in 1970, they helped build the French ecological movement and helped found the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International, Friends of the Earth France forms a local network gathering 30 autonomous local groups that act according to their own priorities and support the national and international campaigns with a shared vision for social and environmental justice.

It comes amid high food prices and complaints from environmentalists and other groups that crop - based biofuels production in contributing to deforestation abroad and exacerbating local environmental problems, including pollution.

In 2010 we formed a coalition of local, regional and national environmental groups whose collective mission is slowing and ultimately stopping coal mining in the Powder River BasiIn 2010 we formed a coalition of local, regional and national environmental groups whose collective mission is slowing and ultimately stopping coal mining in the Powder River Basiin the Powder River Basin.