Sentences with phrase «of environmental activist»

Now that the Sierra Club has joined with a coalition of environmental activist groups, labor unions, and other left - liberal groups to form the Democracy Initiative, the Sierra Club has an even more powerful platform to promote its radical agenda.

Opponents of biofuels read like a Who's Who of environmental activist groups.

We can only hope that the other side is as diligent in discovering the extent of environmental activist money funding alarmist research.

September 27, 2010: Dr. David Suzuki, co-founder of the environmental activist group, The David Suzuki Foundation, is now touring Canada promoting his new book, «The Legacy - An elder's Vision for our Sustainable Future».

The petitioners consist of environmental activist organizations ranging the alphabet from Action Against Climate Change Liberia to the Zona Especial Indigena de Nicaragua.

She's also planning to pick the brains of environmental activist Derrick Crowe, a former Capitol Hill staffer who placed third in the race and immediately endorsed her.

The odd coupling of environmental activist Robert Kennedy, Jr. and former President Bill Clinton received one vote as well.

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.

The start of the hearing was delayed five minutes when a member of an environmental activist group stood up in the audience and started speaking.

Congressional reform efforts, supported by a coalition of environmental activists and free - market advocates, have largely been thwarted by waterfront real estate interests.

There's a segment of environmental activists that won't be happy unless Cuomo blocks every single natural gas project in the state.

A company that has long sought to convert salt caverns on the shoreline of Seneca Lake into a storage facility for liquefied petroleum gas is celebrating last Tuesday's election results, arguing they're a rebuke of environmental activists that have intensely fought the project.

Nuclear energy supporters, renewable power purists and all flavors of environmental activists in between gathered in Paris last December and applauded as world leaders inked a global agreement to combat climate change, the fruit of 20 years of fraught negotiation.

Save The Buckeye, a coalition of environmental activists and outdoor enthusiasts doesn't have any evidence that the buckeye's range has been pushed north but says global warming threatens to make that happen.

Jesse Eisenberg (in his second festival appearance, the first being The Double) and Dakota Fanning play Josh and Dena, a pair of environmental activists who, with the help of an ex-Marine accomplice named Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard), blow up a dam in Oregon, and then wade through the dark world of paranoia, guilt, and suspicion that descends upon them following their extreme, costly actions.

Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.

These hearings were far more extensive because the commission did not want to repeat the embarrassment of being told by a federal appellate court that it had failed to develop an adequate record, and because there was now a much larger and better funded community of environmental activists intervening to oppose the plant.

Every year since 1970, we have been treated to self - righteous, humanity - deriding antics of environmental activists... who usually leave mountains of garbage behind after their celebrations of Earth conclude.

What were allegedly the most important decisions to be made about the future of the world ended up being made on the hoof, at the last minute, by sleep - deprived representatives of governments, harangued by an army of environmental activists, in a debating chamber that represents nobody except bureaucrats and NGOs.

Yet these no - longer - new ideas have hardly penetrated the thinking of environmental activists, which seems oddly fixed in the concepts and rhetoric of the 1970s.

It is this dread of unknown and unknowable ecological consequences that suffuses the writings of environmental activists.

It is filing its own suit in Texas «to investigate potential claims of abuse of process, civil conspiracy, and constitutional violations» and is seeking to depose a number of environmental activists who took part in that meeting.

At a news conference in February 2015 in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, then executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.

A group of environmental activists hold a traditional ceremony during an event called Marry a Tree, in the community of San Jacinto Amilpas, Mexico, on February 25th, 2018.

(Related: «The Canadian Oil Boom: Scraping Bottom» and Photos: Canadian Oil Sands) Because of the emissions and an array of other environmental concerns, including tailing ponds, water consumption, and risk of leaks, the operations have become a target of environmental activists.

In 2012, in La Jolla, California, UCS and CAI co-sponsored a meeting of environmental activists and organization heads, titled «Establishing Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Lessons from Tobacco Control.»

One particularly troubling item that was publicly exposed in recent days provides evidence of a secret meeting in January of environmental activists and plaintiff's attorneys to coordinate strategy for an assault on ExxonMobil's reputation.

The Daily Mail does take a more sceptical view of the basic science, to the fury of environmental activists.

In recent years, a bold new wave of environmental activists has stepped up to stop the fossil fuel industry before it's too late.

Save The Buckeye, a coalition of environmental activists and outdoor enthusiasts doesn't have any evidence that the buckeye's range has been pushed north but says global warming threatens to make that happen.

Hundreds of environmental activists (described as «angry», as if that is their permanent state rather than a reasonable response to Will's column), but only a few scientists?

Can you take two minutes today to call upon your Representative to act and end the murder of environmental activists in Honduras?

Not exact matches

An environmental activist with no business training and a resume that was little more than a string of odd jobs, he was drawn to the idea of running a business with a strong social mission.

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe and environmental activists have been protesting construction of the 1,100 - mile (1,886 - km) pipeline in North Dakota for several months, saying it threatens the water supply and sacred sites.

Jobs bites back after activists accuse Apple of lackluster environmental and recycling policies San Francisco Chronicle, April 2005 They have good taste in picking the iPod, but that doesn't make their false statements true.

The concern comes in the wake of complaints by environmental activists and trade unions that this deal and others will erode standards for food, work and industry.

WASHINGTON — Environmental activists plastered the nation's capital on Friday with hundreds of posters offering a cheap luxury condo, mocking embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt.

Tom Steyer, environmental activist and former hedge fund manager extraordinaire, has fully embraced the new anti-Keystone mantra, which goes something like this: the U.S. is going to be simply a conduit for Alberta's oilsand crude, which would flow to Gulf of Mexico refineries and then be promptly exported, with Canadians pocketing most of the profits.

The reports that Trump had decided to exit immediately unleashed a torrent of criticism from Democrats, environmental activists, and some business leaders.

The (small number of) ardent climate - change environmental activists I follow on Twitter were not expecting Barack Obama to say a word about Keystone XL today.

April 7, 2016 - Climate Change 2016: As Proxy Season Arrives, Shareholder Activists File Record Number Of Environmental Resolutions - International Business Times

Levinson has worked in corporate marketing and is the author of the Guerrilla Marketing series of books, the first of which appeared in 1984; Horowitz, who lives in Hadley, is a marketer and environmental activist / organizer and author of eight previous books.

In their latest book, Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green: Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits and Your Planet, Jay Conrad Levinson, originator of guerrilla marketing, and award - winning marketing author and lifelong environmental activist Shel Horowitz stress that CSR, sustainability and profitability can go hand in hand.

Jay Conrad Levinsonoriginator of Guerrilla Marketing, Uniteds Friendly Skies, and Allstates Good Handsand award - winning marketing author / lifelong environmental activist Shel Horowitz team up to prove these naysayers wrong.

Environmental and racial - justice activist Siwatu - Salama Ra was unjustly prosecuted and imprisoned, and, now in the third trimester of a high - risk pregnancy, is serving a two - year sentence.

There were librarians and archivists focused on copyright term extension and digital locks; several doctors spoke to the impact of the TPP on public health and access to medicines, food experts highlighted the dangers associated with food security, environmental activists focused on the TPP and climate change, and speakers of all ages (including a 92 year old woman) expressed concern with the investor - state dispute resolution provisions.

Jay Conrad Levinson — originator of Guerrilla Marketing, Uniteds Friendly Skies, and Allstates Good Hands — and award - winning marketing author / lifelong environmental activist Shel Horowitz team up to prove these naysayers wrong.

In 2001, he sued the Akron Beacon Journal for $ 1 billion after a critical profile; that same year, he was acquitted of assault charges after allegedly throwing an environmental activist against a wall.

Symmetry: the University of Alberta plans to confer an honorary degree on David Suzuki, the environmental activist.

High labor costs and the falling price of crude oil have contributed to the industry's dark days, but environmental activists can also take a bow.