Sentences with phrase «of environmental campaigners»

The task of environmental campaigners is not to pander to public evasions but to make those evasions untenable, to blast away the pretences people use to blind themselves to the science, to make them see what is coming down the road.

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

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At the same time, opposition is so strong,» said Nikki Skuce, a resident of Smithers, B.C., and a campaigner for the environmental group Forest Ethics Advocacy.

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.

Cristina Grandi, IFOAM Food Security Campaigner, presented a poster on the «Benefits of organic farming systems» examining environmental, economic and social aspects as well as data on soil health, water efficiency, biodiversity, energy efficiency, yields, profitability, nutrition and employment.

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.

Campaigners believe the consultation did not fully take into consideration the impact on communities or the environmental cost of the work.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Campaigners who call for regulation are reacting to evidence of environmental destruction, not causing corporate irresponsibility.

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.»

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

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.

The left - leaning Guardian newspaper of Britain has put the Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg — anathema to many environmental scientists and campaigners for challenging projections of ecological doom — on a list of «50 People Who Could Save the Planet» with the Nobel Peace Prize winners Al Gore and Wangari Maathai, the movie star and environmental filmmaker Leonardo DiCaprio, and NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt.

Carol M. Browner, the new White House coordinator for climate and energy, is a seasoned environmental regulator and campaigner who has focused on cap - and - trade legislation, which would steadily raise the cost of unfettered fossil - fuel use, and rule - making as driving the necessary change (as they did with the 20th - century basket of air pollutants).

I'm running this post by some environmental lawyers and campaigners to get some sense of whether this can take hold in the real world.

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.

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.

The installation above, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, was organized by Vanessa Dalmau, an artist and campaigner who founded 350 Dominicana, a youth group focused on the ethical issues raised by an environmental problem when the source of emissions is mainly rich countries and anticipated impacts are mainly in poorer ones.

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

Through scenes shot in 29 countries, the programs describe Sanjayan's learning curve as a scientist and conservation campaigner, from years when he pursued traditional strategies for environmental protection, like the establishment of parks (read this 1998 Science paper to get the idea), to conservation efforts that foster sustainable land use from the ground up.

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.

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.

Various Updates In a move that environmental campaigners had sought for years (as had I), the Environmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure anenvironmental campaigners had sought for years (as had I), the Environmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure anEnvironmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure and operations.

General Electric in 2002 dropped its decadeslong resistance to efforts by environmental agencies and campaigners to force the dredging of PCB hot spots from the Hudson River.

I'm also asking an assortment of climate and energy experts, environmental campaigners, energy industry lobbyists, other elected officials and Dot Earth participants for their reactions, too.

(Environmental bloggers and climate campaigners have lots of other complaints about the McCain climate plan.)

As they always have, news services began describing the embargoed findings earlier in the evening, prodded by environmental campaigners and some scientists who hoped the results would inspire diplomats preparing to gather next month in Bali for the latest round of climate - treaty talks.

Some environmental and climate campaigners have said they are willing to be «a big fan of a lousy climate bill,» as Joe Romm of Climate Progress described himself not long ago (around the 34th minute in this video)-- as a step toward breaking longstanding gridlock.

Among his most contested findings, Nisbet asserts that a huge influx of contributions and grants to environmental campaigners more than eliminated any advantage once enjoyed by fossil fuel industries and conservatives opposed to restrictions on greenhouse gases.

The lack of progress could be seen in the number of points described as «to be elaborated» in a fresh informal text, copies of which flew around the halls like windblown leaves as environmental campaigners, reporters and delegates copied and disseminated it.

In Politco, Darren Samuelsohn has a solid roundup of reflections by environmental campaigners on why, despite spending tens of millions of dollars, they failed to gain the votes for any climate action in the Senate.

Given the new burst of concern over volatile and rising global food prices from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and various aid and environmental campaigners, late last week I sent some questions to a broad array of scholars and analysts focused on global resources and demands.

I sought reactions to my post on President Obama and the «Alberta tar pit» from a variety of analysts and campaigners examining the economics and environmental impacts of a proposed pipeline linking that Canadian source of oil with American refiners.

But environmental campaigners say it's clear that a little uncertainty goes a long way toward sustaining public inertia on an issue with the time scale and complexity of human - driven climate change.

Those against will be Daniel M. Kammen, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, focused on renewable and «appropriate» energy technology and a senior energy adviser to the Obama campaign; Oliver Tickell, an environmental writer / campaigner in search of what he calls Kyoto2, a framework for controlling greenhouse gases that is effective, efficient and equitable; and Adam Werbach, who gained fame as the youngest president of the Sierra Club (elected at 23), but now is focused on «blue» marketing for business growth framed around sustainability, as the head of Saatchi & Saatchi S. I'll have to ask him about how that works.

A fight had ensued between animal welfare campaigners and a mix of environmental studies students, school administrators and community groups over next steps, which ranged from a semi-tongue-in-cheek recipe for Rabbit Restoration Stew to moving all of the animals to a sanctuary.

I noted that environmental campaigners were in denial for much of the 2000's over prospects for passing comprehensive climate bill.

But environmental campaigners said they were outraged that the document so clearly showed that countries involved in the negotiations are aware of the gap.

Steingraber is a much - lauded environmental * campaigner and public health analyst at Ithaca College who has become a prominent critic of New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo for signaling that he is going to approve limited fracking in the state.

I've heard quite a few environmental campaigners cite the civil rights movement as a model for the kind of bottom - up activism they are trying to trigger around global warming.

The event is the first Aspen Environmental Forum, a conclave of scientists, policy experts, industry executives, environmental campaigners and communicators (I probably left out a category or two) organized by the Aspen Institute and National GeograpEnvironmental Forum, a conclave of scientists, policy experts, industry executives, environmental campaigners and communicators (I probably left out a category or two) organized by the Aspen Institute and National Geograpenvironmental campaigners and communicators (I probably left out a category or two) organized by the Aspen Institute and National Geographic Magazine.