Sentences with phrase «many environmental campaigners»

Environmental campaigners, who are concerned about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, contaminating groundwater resources and triggering earth tremors, welcomed the decision.

Under the slogan «Fight Climate Change, One Plate at a Time», the lunch begins today at 11 am and runs until 3 pm, with the interactive table set out by environmental campaigners in the Philippines.

The news comes as scores of UK hospitality firms are beginning to change their policies on plastic waste, while some environmental campaigners are attempting to tax single - use plastic products in an effort to discourage their use.

Environmental campaigners have applauded the UK Government's plan to ban plastic straws, cotton buds and drinks stirrers and are now urging Downing Street to take action against all «problem plastic».

The real attack on freedom of speech has come from the French state itself and it is directed against those it perceives as potential subversives: the school children who will not say Je Suis Charlie, the Muslim families who are subject to raids by police, the environmental campaigners who want to demonstrate in front of world leaders.

Among the big losers so far are environmental campaigners, whose arguments and protests about air quality, pollution and environmental issues appear to have been brushed aside by the Government.

Bryony Worthington is an environmental campaigner and Labour life peer.

A group of environmental campaigners have temporarily occupied the premises of lobbying company Endelman.

The UK's renewable energy performance is a «national disgrace», environmental campaigners claim today.

Baroness Helena Kennedy; Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kid's Company; Eve Ensler, founder of V - Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls; Lisa Jardine, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary College and chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Foundation; the barrister Rupert Grey, the environmental campaigner George Monbiot and; to stop things getting dull, the comedians Jeremy Hardy and Sue Perkins.

Mr Benn confirmed the government will now review plans for a 60 per cent cut in carbon emissions after environmental campaigners warned it was not sufficiently rigorous.

Environmental campaigners have claimed a major victory against a plant which has become a symbol of worldwide concern over carbon emissions.

Civil servants advised ministers to seek alternative «statistical interpretations of the target» - prompting environmental campaigners to accuse the government of «wriggling» out of its obligations.

«It's vital that everyone with an interest - private motorists, the business community, central and local government, road safety and environmental campaigners - is given the chance to see how schemes operate in the real world.»

So tweeted the renowned environmental campaigner and journalist George Monbiot earlier this week, after Gove condemned farmers who «drench» their fields in chemicals and damage soil fertility.

Leaked documents indicate the Crown Prosecution Service may also have misled the public and even the courts when the trial of six environmental campaigners accused of planning to break into Ratcliffe - on - Soar power station in Nottinghamshire collapsed earlier this year.

Though the EU has conducted risk and safety tests on the bloc's nuclear plants, environmental campaigners say the tests failed to address risks associated with ageing technology, among other things.

Environmental campaigners argue that simple hydrocarbons such as pentane and butane should replace CFCs in fridges.

Environmental campaigners, who have strongly criticized the German stance, gave a very cautious welcome to the deal, saying at least it provided certainty.

During the last week, three environmental campaigners have been killed in the Amazon.

Environmental campaigner Sauven argues: «Some of the characters involved have previously worked to deny the reality of the hole in the ozone layer, acid rain and the link between tobacco and lung cancer.

Koenig says environmental campaigners are deeply concerned about stepped up drilling plans in other parts of the Ecuadorian Amazon but they see merit in supporting the Yasuni Initiative as a means by which to enable Ecuador to extricate itself from its current «oil debt trap.»

Environmental campaigners want the Colorado river to get the right to sue in US courts.

Environmental campaigners and shareholders have also pressured Shell to drop Arctic drilling.

Despite having their hearts and heads in the right place, environmental campaigners all too often come across as doom - mongering, guilt - tripping party poopers.

The Prince of Wales, a veteran environmental campaigner, has been aware of issues around synthetic fibres for a long time.

Environmental campaigners ClientEarth has called on head teachers to «do everything possible» to protect their pupils from toxic air at schools.

Headteachers were today urged by environmental campaigners to «do everything possible» to protect their pupils from toxic air at schools.

After Tate gallery management appeared before an Information Tribunal to defend their right to withhold details of the galleries» financial relationship with oil company and Tate sponsor BP; the institution has been ordered to give those very details of its BP sponsorship between 1990 - 2006, in a case brought by environmental campaigners.

Alex Gourevitch, a doctoral candidate in political theory at Columbia University, proposed that environmental campaigners were using a «politics of fear» to scare people into action.

For the longest time there's been a presumption among environmental campaigners and some scientists that if the fog of misinformation and disinformation on climate could be cleared, if the science could be laid out better, if the link between present energy choices and future climate risks could be absorbed better by the public, people would jump aboard the decarbonization express, leading the world to a climate - safe future.

One of the clearest needs is for an overhaul of the Minerals Management Service within the Department of Interior, which many environmental campaigners have pilloried not only for its approval of this project without a detailed environmental review, but for a far too cozy relationship with the extractive industries it's supposed to oversee.

[2:27 p.m. Updated The National Journal has posted a revealing roundup o views on the speech from veteran oil lobbyists and environmental campaigners to libertarians and young energy campaigners.]

The fight over how humans should, and should not, interact with whales has moved from the waters off Antarctica, where environmental campaigners have been harassing Japanese whalers, to the White House.

Some environmental campaigners say climate trumps all.]

Environmental campaigners and California officials sharply attacked the decision in a joint news release today.

Now some environmental campaigners are trying to reveal hidden connections using the Web, with the hope that awareness will change consumer's habits or prompt them to press power providers to clean up.

The USA Today story, Study finds toxic chemicals in pregnant womens» bodies, leaves the discussion of the research almost entirely up to Woodruff and environmental campaigners and an industry group.

Sir Richard Branson, the entrepreneur, balloonist, spaceflight booster and social - environmental campaigner, held forth in a conversation with Alan Murray of The Wall Street Journal today, touching on a host of ways to make and lose money and try to build a better planet.

He also implied that he was turning down requests from environmental campaigners that he attend next month's round of talks over a new climate treaty, in Poland, saying he has asked members of Congress who are attending to report back to him.

Environmental campaigners and many climate scientists had long pressed for this action.

Chico Mendes, known internationally as an environmental campaigner, is being honored this afternoon in Washington, D.C., with a memorial service on the 25th anniversary of his assassination in Xapuri, Acre, deep in the Amazon rain forest he had fought to conserve.

Some environmental campaigners had already prepared talking points if his proposal included outlines of a weak climate bill.

This phenomenon is different from the «false balance» issue that many environmental campaigners have focused on lately in blaming the media for stasis on climate policy.

I'll add more thoughts about Mendes later, from scientists, environmental campaigners, and other people familiar with his life and legacy and the forces shaping tropical forests around the world.

Some environmental campaigners began criticizing the deal before it was finished, paying for an advertisement that is appearing in Indonesian newspapers and online.

[Grist has some reactions from an environmental campaigner in India.]

Notably, the meeting, organized by a coalition called Avoided Deforestation Partners (an offshoot of the Center for International Policy), also saw some environmental campaigners who had long opposed the inclusion of forests in carbon markets strongly endorsing the idea.

Would like to see this catch on among the environmental campaigners.

This choice would undoubtedly be hailed both by those pushing for development and large - scale testing of nonpolluting energy technologies and by environmental campaigners seeking knowledgeable leadership at the giant agency — which, while it still oversees efforts to boost coal and oil extraction, also has what may be the world's biggest assemblage of scientists pursuing development of renewable power sources.