Sentences with phrase «many environmental fronts»

On the environmental front, big companies must cut carbon emissions and avoid deforestation, and we have exciting innovations popping up, led by the likes of Tesla.

The significance of this vote, particularly to those who have been fighting the Reagan Administration on the environmental front, was that the lone dissenter was the U.S.. However, according to transcripts of the debate on the charter's passage, American objections to it weren't inspired by Interior Secretary James Watt or anyone else in Washington.

On the environmental front, angling opponents argue that it creates a lot of litter, given the array of equipment involved.

Climate change, biological diversity, desertification, land degradation and drought are intricately related on the social, economic and environmental fronts.

On the environmental front, there was, as always, news worth cheering and ruing, developments that prompted reactions of both «süper» (yep, just like in English, but with an umlaut) and «maalesef» (unfortunately): Süper!

There's been incredible progress on many environmental fronts, but huge gaps remain, particularly when the issue is conserving global «commons» ranging from the shared atmosphere — still a free dump for greenhouse gases — to ocean - roaming fish species like bluefin tuna.

On the environmental front, if the status - quo approach persists, there are quite a few commentators who foresee months of unrelenting oil flows and an epic soiling of Gulf coasts.

Myopic leaders and resource based geo - politics are getting us nowhere on the environmental front.

Still, in the main, Canadians thought of themselves as the good guys on the environmental front, striving often as not for a respectable middle ground — a prosperity built on the nation's extraordinary natural bounty that took the necessary steps not to exhaust it in the process.

And of course it's too soon to tell what will actually take effect in the long term, but on the environmental front, so far, so good.

Progress on economic, social and environmental fronts leading to greenhouse gas mitigation amongst the least important global objectives.

I guess the big question that sticks in my mind, in light of the genuine improvements that Walmart has made on the environmental front, whether they can ever live down the stigma of being the big box retailer with a reputation for highly questionable labor practices and being the easy - shot symbol of all that is wrong with US consumerism?

There are many environmental causes one could belong too, spotted owl would not cover the environmental front.

Global head of environment, Vanessa Havard - Williams predicts a greater focus by companies on due diligence concerning the supply chain and third parties, while, on the environmental front, companies face greater exposure under new UK sentencing guidelines from July with fines capped at # 3m.

Not exact matches

And, again, this is the core example of the evolution of environmental bullshit: a long history of industry creation of lies; conservative funding of think - tanks, front groups and the echo chamber; the development of an ideological imperative of denialism; and then the necessity of completely groundless bullshit to shore up the lies.

So they're fighting a battle on two fronts: a PR war to boost paper's environmental and usability credentials, and an innovation race to find new applications for the pulp we no longer want to hold in our hands.

Trace one man's involvement in the Earth Liberation Front, a radical environmental group that the FBI has deemed a top domestic terrorist threat.

And even though these are merely proposed restrictions for now — it's hard to test the constitutionality of a press release, one environmental law academic noted — they could well become a second front in the ongoing battle against transporting bitumen across rivers, alongside lakes and toward oceans.

Nevertheless, a country that is not generating enough income for its citizens is hampered in what it can do on the environmental and social fronts.

In recent years reporters have chronicled the «repentant stance» that characterizes such gatherings of men as Promise Keepers, as participants openly regret their acts or omissions as husbands, fathers, brothers and sons.24 At times, however, a failure to respond to environmental damage mirrors omissions on the home front.

In the packaging business, the subject of environmental impact has been front and center for decades, primarily in terms of products» end - of - life.

I try to make sure environmental considerations are front and center in decisions around IRRI's work and my personal life.

«Winning firms have demonstrated that they are able to keep workplace safety front and center, and the large number of applications for the award process shows that safety truly matters to IDFA's members,» said Dave Crowley, senior environmental health and safety director for HP Hood LLC and chair of IDFA's Environmental Worker Safeenvironmental health and safety director for HP Hood LLC and chair of IDFA's Environmental Worker SafeEnvironmental Worker Safety Committee.

The sleek, slender design and strong, flexible packaging offers 50 % space savings in the front and back - of - the - house, better environmental advantages, lower distribution costs and less fuel to transport.

Issue 6 October 2013 Advances in nanotechnology for food and beverage processing, proving the origin of produce with «environmental fingerprinting», the mega-trend of sustainable sourcing, what the UK diary code of practice has achieved in its first year, the rise of the organic food market, how the new universal front - of - pack labels in the UK have been received by the industry, and more

«It's not only the health of the consumers, it's also the environmental dumping of the bi-products but it's also animal welfare concerns, so it's three fronts we're concerned about.

These market distortions exacerbate environmental impacts through overproduction on the front end, which leads to excessive landfilling of food waste on the back end.

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.

Yesterday, on November 29th the Indigenous Environmental Network organized a healing ceremony in front of the Bataclan...

Zucker and Martens summarized the findings of their long - awaited environmental and health reviews in front of reporters at the meeting.

On Tuesday, about 40 anti-fracking activists with New Yorkers Against Fracking (a coalition of 60 groups) held a rally in front of the Department of Environmental Conservation «s headquarters in Albany, demanding a human health study be added to the department's ongoing environmental Environmental Conservation «s headquarters in Albany, demanding a human health study be added to the department's ongoing environmental environmental impact study.

Actress Emma Thompson, Tory front - bench spokeswoman Justine Greening and environmental advisor Zac Goldsmith, Liberal Democrat MP Susan Kramer and comedian Alistair McGowan have all purchased land at the site for an undisclosed fee.

According to President Akufo - Addo, the completion of the SDGs in 2030, presents this generation with the great opportunity to fight inequality on all fronts, wipe out extreme poverty, tackle the issues of climate change and reverse the degradation and unsustainable use of our environmental resources.

A new front has opened in the battle against the «big six» energy companies, with environmental charities demanding a full public inquiry into the soaring costs of energy bills.

Also at 10 a.m., Sen. Tony Avella demands that the Department of Environmental Protection seek homeowner approval before installing bioswales in front of their homes, 200 - 15 36th Ave., Queens.

At 11:30 a.m., Senate Democratic candidate Sara Niccoli will be joined by advocates, environmental experts, local property owners, and concerned residents to urge DEC to block the Dominion gas pipeline, NYS Capitol, in front of the Senate chamber.

We've also worked together on front - line campaigns, including living wage campaigns, pipeline protests, and struggles against police brutality, environmental racism, coal trains and fracking towers.

The Green Party represents the political front against the two - party corporate - money political establishment that is allowing the brunt of the environmental and economic crisis to fall on working people and the poor,» said Mr. Funiciello.

Tuesday's ruling comes as the Cuomo administration challenges Indian Point on a number of fronts, including on coastal habitat certifications it needs to operate as well as its environmental impact on the Hudson River fish.

«We want to make people feel like they are taking part in the dramatic events on the front lines of environmental protection,» he says.

Poor communities, such as East Boston, are on the front lines of the environmental disruptions expected as a result of global warming

Thomas Borch, professor of soil and crop sciences with joint appointments in chemistry and civil and environmental engineering, and Amrita Bhattacharyya, a former postdoctoral researcher in Borch's lab, offer evidence for a new origin story for the uranium trapped underground in roll fronts.

We show that rapid light — induced free - radical polymerization at ambient temperature produces multifunctional fluorinated photopolymer coatings that confer luminescent and easy - cleaning features on the front side of the devices, while concurrently forming a strongly hydrophobic barrier toward environmental moisture on the back contact side.

The USGS's Columbia Environmental Research Center (CERC), where Chapman works, is in Columbia, Missouri, near the eponymous river, some 350 miles from Chicago and the front of the invasion.

Tackling antibiotic resistance on only one front is a waste of time because resistant genes are freely crossing environmental, agricultural and clinical boundaries, new research has shown.

Such responses have surprised McMichael, an environmental engineer, who says his goal is to see «what we can do up front to head off pollution problems» by designing products to minimise pollution.

Polls released this week suggest that Macron, the founder of a new center - left party who is campaigning on environmental protection, has soared past two more traditional candidates and is likely to face Marine Le Pen, the leader of the extreme - right National Front, in the 7 May runoffs.

The vice president - turned - environmental crusader takes viewers to climate change's front lines in his documentary sequel

«We make bad decisions all the time,» says Sabine Marx, associate director at the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University, thanks to incomplete information or other barriers to action, like high up - front costs for things like insulation.

Antioxidants are a front - line defender when it comes to protecting your body from harmful environmental offenders such as free radicals and chemicals.