«This model makes the destruction of public lands unjustified,» says David Myers, executive director
of nonprofit environmental group the Wildlands Conservancy.
Not exact matches
The outdoor clothing and gear retailer regularly donates 1 percent
of its sales to
nonprofit environmental groups, ranging from New York - based Waterkeeper Alliance to Climate Cycle in Chicago — adding up to $ 74 million since 1985.
That's because nearly three - quarters
of all sunscreens on the market don't work as well as they claim to, or they contain potentially harmful ingredients, according to a recent study from the
nonprofit Environmental Working
Group (EWG).
«I would think that people would put betting on horses and playing bingo on a par with a right to a healthful environment,» said Peter M. Iwanowicz, executive director
of Environmental Advocates
of New York, a
nonprofit lobbying
group based here.
The
group's affiliated 501 (c)(3)
nonprofit organization, the League
of Conservation Voters Education Fund, seeks to encourage participation in the political process and educate the public and policymakers regarding what the
group considers to be significant
environmental issues.
The East Hampton
Environmental Coalition, a new collective comprised
of 11
nonprofit groups, announced this week that all East Hampton Town Board and supervisor candidates have posted responses to the coalition's questionnaire.
The East Hampton
Environmental Coalition, comprised
of 11
nonprofit groups, has released responses from East Hampton Town Board and supervisor candidates.
With a federal lawsuit alleging EPA violations between the
environmental advocacy
group Save the Sound and Westchester County approaching the two - year mark, officials at the
nonprofit are growing increasingly impatient with alleged inaction on the part
of several communities.
Armond Cohen, executive director
of the Clean Air Task Force, a
nonprofit health and
environmental advocacy
group, cautions that the carbon reductions from the gas boom should not induce complacency about the importance
of nuclear, renewable, and other zero - carbon energy sources.
That suggests that millions
of American babies are potentially at risk,» said Anila Jacob, a physician and a senior scientist with
Environmental Working
Group, a Washington, D.C.,
nonprofit that posted the study on its Web site.
To calculate the impact
of these processes, we consulted the results
of the Paper Task Force, a joint project
of the
nonprofit group Environmental Defense, Duke University, and several large corporations.
And if anything, we're starting to go underwater,» said Jordan Lubetkin
of the
nonprofit Healing Our Waters — Great Lakes Coalition, which represents more than 100
environmental and community
groups.
«I appreciate it when people are transparent about their intentions,» said Janis Searles Jones, the CEO
of Ocean Conservancy, a
nonprofit environmental group.
He investigated store receipts as part
of a study by the
nonprofit Environmental Working
Group, based in Washington, D.C..
Twelve days after Donald Trump took office in 2017, the
nonprofit environmental advocacy
group NRDC filed its first lawsuit against the new administration, fighting an EPA rollback
of a protection against mercury pollution.
Teenage bodies burdened with chemicals The debate over the safety
of cosmetic ingredients was reignited in September when the
Environmental Working
Group (EWG), a Washington, D.C.â $ «based
nonprofit, published a report on the subject.
«Make the best choices you can, stay informed, then live your life,» says Jeanne Rizzo, RN, executive director
of the Breast Cancer Fund, a
nonprofit group that identifies
environmental health risks, such as endocrine disruptors, and advocates for their eliimination.
According to the
Environmental Working
Group (EWG), a
nonprofit organization that protects public health and the environment, 30 %
of sunscreens may be ineffective.
In addition, the researchers found higher rates
of chromosome changes in the white blood cells
of the exposed fishermen — changes that have been linked to an increased risk
of cancer in other studies, says Gina Solomon, MD, a senior scientist with the National Resources Defense Council, a
nonprofit environmental group.
The
Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization working to protect human and environmental health, publishes the Dirty Dozen Plus and the Clean Fifteen, based on years of independent research on chemical level
Environmental Working
Group, a
nonprofit organization working to protect human and
environmental health, publishes the Dirty Dozen Plus and the Clean Fifteen, based on years of independent research on chemical level
environmental health, publishes the Dirty Dozen Plus and the Clean Fifteen, based on years
of independent research on chemical levels
of produce.
To counter the damage to the environment,
nonprofit environmental groups and palm oil manufacturers gathered in 2004 and established the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a global certification body.10 They have created eight ecological principles with 39 criteria11 to prevent the negative
environmental impacts
of palm oil production.
Today, the
Environmental Working
Group, an advocacy
nonprofit, released its latest «Dirty Dozen» list
of the 12 fruits and vegetables that are most contaminated with pesticides, as an update to its 2010 rankings.
The
nonprofit group Climate Central, which pursues a novel mix
of original research and climate communication, is behind the new work, which is being published in the journal
Environmental Research Letters.
The
nonprofit group Ecoartspace has posted a sampler
of the more than 200 works
of art generated in response to my February post asking a variety
of environmental thinkers to state, «What Matters Most?»
Since 2002, Shellenberger has been president
of The Breakthrough Institute, a
nonprofit research
group focused on propelling
environmental and social progress.
The typed and pencil - edited draft was sitting deep in the files
of the René Dubos Center for Human Environments, a
nonprofit group formed by Dubos and William and Ruth Eblen in the 1970's to foster constructive approaches to solving
environmental problems.
Today, the
nonprofit group Public Employees for
Environmental Responsibility issued a call for justice, noting that an earlier go - easy approach to some
of the anti-government organizers camped at the refuge simply energized them.
On Friday, the
Environmental Investigation Agency, a
nonprofit group, issued an update on the booming trade in illegally harvested rosewood in the region, much
of which ends up smuggled into China to supply manufacturers
of antique - style furniture.
I'll be reporting more
of my findings on the changing communication environment for
environmental nonprofit groups soon.
Rising Tide North America, a loose - knit
group of students and workers for
nonprofit organizations, posed as phony public relations officials and targeted energy reporters around the world on Monday with e-mails and telephone calls claiming that a legitimate
group of 33 businesses and
environmental groups, the United States Climate Action Partnership, had agreed to slash emissions, blamed for warming the earth, by 90 percent by 2050 and had called for a moratorium on new coal plants, Reuters reports.
He observed that
nonprofit groups have «very substantial» limitations on their lobbying and political activities, and objected to the way Nisbet's study counted «total spending,» which is unfair because the
environmental groups «don't spend a lot
of their funding on politics» but on unrelated expenses.
This point, frequently made by lawyers from Earthjustice, a
nonprofit environmental legal
group, combined with widely expressed public opposition to any more coal - fired power plants in Florida, led to the quiet withdrawal
of four other coal plant proposals in the state.
The
nonprofit environmental law organization Earthjustice has been staunchly opposed to the project and represented a coalition
of groups — Riverkeeper, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Clean Air Council, Delaware - Otsego Audubon Society, Delaware Riverkeeper Network and the Pennsylvania and Atlantic chapters
of Sierra Club — in pipeline approval proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC.)
Entanglement's work was part
of an effort by the
Environmental Defense Fund, a national advocacy group, and the nonprofit Air Alliance Houston to help the city of Houston assess environmental damage from Harvey, protect public health and hold companies accountable for the
Environmental Defense Fund, a national advocacy
group, and the
nonprofit Air Alliance Houston to help the city
of Houston assess
environmental damage from Harvey, protect public health and hold companies accountable for the
environmental damage from Harvey, protect public health and hold companies accountable for their pollution.
As the investigators reveal, the billionaires» green network transfers millions
of dollars from individual, corporate, and «charitable foundation» donors... through tax - exempt «educational»
nonprofits that do not have to disclose donor names... to activist and pressure
groups that work to influence elections, legislation, regulations, legal actions and public perceptions on energy and
environmental issues.
In 1999, these foundations commissioned a study and discovered that less than 0.5 percent
of all resources spent by
environmental nonprofit groups in the United States went to ocean advocacy — an appalling statistic.
«Everybody's looking for a scapegoat,» said Ken Barrett, a member
of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, a
nonprofit environmental group based in Montana.
As
of August 2007 the Council had 10,688 member organizations, including corporations, government agencies,
environmental groups, and other
nonprofits.
Veteran housing and urban policy writer Andre F. Shashaty is also president
of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, a San Francisco — based
nonprofit education and advocacy
group focused on the social, economic and
environmental...