Sentences with phrase «of environmental groups»

He's been a frequent target of environmental groups, particularly on climate policy.

Nonetheless, getting legislation put forward is a feat in itself — it's something that has been on the agenda of environmental groups for years.

Just as with any political party there is a wide spectrum of beliefs about any issue among the members of any environmental group I am familiar with..

But a variety of environmental groups strongly criticized the proposal.

The opposition of environmental groups was always a given.

The project has drawn the attention of environmental groups around the country.

The top priorities of environmental groups have for 20 years been higher fuel economy standards, new efficiency regulations, renewable portfolio standards, and greenhouse gas limits.

Unfortunately, it's the darling of environmental groups and their political allies.

Fact: The public and the overwhelming majority of environmental groups continue to reject nuclear power.

As a result, he's been a frequent target of environmental groups and scientists focused on slowing climate change.

«It is unfortunately a very common practice and in this case it had catastrophic results,» says Kierán Suckling, executive director of the environmental group Center for Biological Diversity.

That's the none - too - subtle conclusion of «The Death of Environmentalism,» an essay by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, a pair of strategists and organizers who've worked with a number of environmental groups over the last decade.

(04/21/2014) Plantation giant Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) continued to source fiber produced by destruction of high conservation value forests in Sumatra right up until it committed to a new forest conservation policy, according to an investigation by Eyes of the Forest, a coalition of environmental groups in Riau.

The company has brought 50 or so tank cars to the line over the past few weeks and put them in storage in the town of Minerva, a move that has drawn the ire of environmental groups and state agencies, which have questioned the legality of storage there.

On learning of the White House revisions, representatives of some environmental groups said the effort to amplify uncertainties in the science was clearly intended to delay consideration of curbs on the gases, which remain an unavoidable byproduct of burning oil and coal.

A survey of environmental groups finds that Teddy Roosevelt was the president with the highest environmental cred, followed by Richard Nixon.

A High Court judge has ruled against the government and in favour of environmental group Greenpeace in a row over new nuclear power stations.

Starting in the 1980s, the throwaway diaper briefly became a target of environmental groups as they sought to cut the flow of waste to landfills.

It all started, explained Nimrod Dweck, a V15 founder, with the Facebook post of a friend who once organized for the Israeli chapter of the environmental group Greenpeace.

McNerney won the seat thanks to a strong Democratic year and massive spending on the part of environmental groups to unseat the previous incumbent, Rep. Richard Pombo.

«The U.S. cards are already on the table,» said Carlos Rittl, executive secretary of the Observatório do Clima, a consortium of environmental groups in Brazil.

Youth vote stays home Altogether, the alliance of environmental groups consisting of the Environmental Defense Action Fund, NextGen Climate, the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund, LCV and the Sierra Club said it had reached 16 million «drop - off» voters through canvassing, phone calls and mailers.

Drawing upon several surveys of environmental groups and the mass public in the Pacific Northwest, we test these four hypotheses and find that the Douglas - Wildavsky «cultural theory,» although not without its limitations, appears to provide the more satisfactory account of environmental preferences.

«In Europe there is no incentive» said Jonas Helseth, director of environmental group Bellona Europe who chairs a group of scientists and industry experts looking at burying emissions from renewable energy.

Eglin dismissed the claims of environmental groups such as the World Wide Fund for Nature that trade barriers should not be brought down until the GATT had assessed the impact on the environment.

Unfortunately, most of the environmental groups such as EDF, NRDC, Sierra Club, UCS and many scientists such as those often cited here can not see any other factor beyond vehicle and power plant emissions.

In 2016, dozens of environmental groups submitted a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee urging members to reject any language in an upcoming appropriations bill that might deem biomass a carbon - neutral energy source.

But Jim Angell, lead attorney for the Oakland, Calif. — based public interest law firm Earthjustice, which represents a host of environmental groups suing the BLM, says this 1 percent stipulation is «an accounting trick.

Today, a coalition of environmental groups sued the U.S. State Department and Fish & Wildlife Service to stop that work: the clearing of grasslands, the moving of threatened species, and other work they say TransCanada is doing illegally in advance of the proposed $ 7 billion pipeline.Reuters reports that the Center for Biological Diversity, the Western Nebraska Resources Council and Friends of the Earth filed the suit [PDF] in the U.S. District Court in Nebraska.

A deal this fall to cap carbon emissions from global aviation at 2020 levels must be enforceable and set long - term goals in line with the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, a coalition of environmental groups said.

The case was filed in 2016 by a coalition of environmental groups over a plan by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management to lease federally owned land in the Powder River Basin of eastern Montana and Wyoming.

Earlier this week, a coalition of environmental groups called on Cuomo to maintain the ban.

To assess a more complete picture of the funding of the climate debate, CRC reviewed the spending of environmental groups.

Netsch, an avowed protector of the lakefront, has been wedged between the mayor «s wishes and the protests of environmental groups opposing a new lakefront stadium.

And, says Phillip Musegaas, less dredging and less pile driving is a positive in the eyes of environmental group Riverkeeper.

A handful of environmental groups, predominantly in the U.S., knew they needed some catalyst, some new call to action.

Nebraska's decision overrode the objections of environmental groups, Native American tribes and landowners along the pipeline's prospective route.

Congestion pricing has long been a goal of environmental groups and transit advocates.

Our continued membership of the EU allows me to argue instead for zero rates of tax for energy efficiency products and abolishing the «tampon tax» right across the single market and using the campaigning energy of environmental groups and women to help all Europeans.