Sentences with phrase «other environmental groups»

It is also what sets us apart from other environmental groups.

Since there was no opportunity for public comments, Surfrider Foundation Georgia, together with other environmental groups, organized an opposition room.

Peter Iwanowicz, with Environmental Advocates, along with several other environmental groups, says the use of the clean water money to build a bridge is inappropriate and urges the board to vote no at its next meeting, when the bridge loan will be considered.

Clearwater, Riverkeeper, Scenic Hudson and many other environmental groups in the Hudson Valley fought for decades to get GE to clean up the PCBs in the Hudson River, and they remain committed to this landmark remediation effort.

That prompted the Natural Resources Defense Council and a coalition of other environmental groups to sue the Navy in federal court, claiming the sonar poses an unacceptable risk to marine life.

Greenpeace and other environmental groups warn that workers, who wear little or no protective gear when they handle the devices, breathe in toxic heavy metals that include lung - damaging cadmium as well as lead and mercury (both known to cause brain damage).

Pointing to the fact that New York State had not yet issued a permit, Earthjustice and other environmental groups called FERC's move premature and illegal.

Pollution Probe and other environmental groups say the rail industry will need to invest in technology and alternative fuels if it wants to reduce emissions long term.

Last October the Sierra Club and two other environmental groups sued Kern County over its approval of a 300 - megawatt NextEra Energy Resources wind farm that state and federal officials warn poses a high risk to condors (2).

The Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the League of Conservation Voters and 41 other environmental groups sent a letter to Congress this week, asking them to oppose «fast track» trade promotion authority for upcoming trade agreements like the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP).

In «Dirty Deals ``, Friends of the Earth Europe and other environmental groups reveal how U.S. negotiators at the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks work to undermine the EU's Fuel Quality Directive and unleash exports of dirty fuels, including tar sands oil, a highly intensive source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Of course, the info was released only after we and a few other environmental groups filed a Freedom of Information Act request to have these sites revealed.

For instance, when NRDC and other environmental groups pushed for acid rain reductions, the industry stonewalled, claiming that it would bankrupt them.

Public comments — from Climate Reality and several other environmental groups — urged the USFS to consider a healthy future supported by sustainable industries, not an environmentally detrimental business with diminishing returns.

Coal plant in Kosovo Meanwhile, for many other environmental groups, the fight at the World Bank against coal isn't over.

Friends of the Earth, along with a coalition of other environmental groups, is also expressing concerns about wastewater discharge from ships, and invasive species like mollusks that could attach to ship hulls.

Friends of the Earth and campaigners from other environmental groups will be protesting outside the «major economies» talks in Washington on Friday September 28th by holding «wrong way» road signs to signal to President Bush that he needs a new approach to fighting global warming.

The Natural Resources Defense Council, along with other environmental groups, has come out in support of closing Diablo Canyon.

Robert enjoys sharing his knowledge and passion for the natural world and is a frequent trip leader and lecturer for Mass Audubon and other environmental groups.

During Real Diaper Week we are inviting bloggers, manufacturers, retail stores, organizations, and other environmental groups to join our Real Simple, Real Diapers Blog Hop.

They belong to all Americans and the public wants them preserved and protected, not sold off to multinational oil companies,» read the statement, which was signed by leaders of the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, League of Conservation Voters and other environmental groups.

After being attacked by Greenpeace and other environmental groups, Neste began to modify its process.

Other environmental groups are a bit more optimistic.

The law is a win for the Sierra Club and other environmental groups that have long criticized the plant's impact on the climate, air and water quality.

CIEL and other environmental groups were disappointed that the European Union was granted a 5 - year exception for using HBCD in expanded and extruded polystyrene insulation in buildings.

CTA and other environmental groups have written the EPA Administrator demanding that the agency implement the Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts, et al v. EPA (CTA Global Warming Case) by issuing proposed regulations and an endangerment finding.

The move followed intensifying pressure from Greenpeace and other environmental groups, which had exposed destructive practices starting with a 2010 report, «Pulping the Planet.»

Sierra Club and other environmental groups are urging members of Congress to reject these polluted - led attacks on public health and instead focus on real solutions that grow the economy, not cost lives.

Heartland repeatedly has asked «Forecast the Facts» and other environmental groups, bloggers, and liberal advocacy groups to take the fake memo off their Web sites and retract false and defamatory statements based on it.

The Sierra Club, other environmental groups and some affected landowners had challenged the commission's environmental review of the project.

In comments we recently submitted, NRDC, other environmental groups, consumer advocates, customers, and electricity generation and supply companies detailed numerous errors in the ISO's assumptions, including its assumptions about future growth in gas and electricity demand, energy efficiency, and renewable energy, which skew the study results toward a grid that appears more susceptible to fuel security risks.

Other environmental groups and civil society organizations said that the ADP meant that we were locking ourselves into almost a decade of inaction when science told us that we should be decarbonizing our economies in the next few years if we didn't want to miss the small window of staying below 2C degrees of warming.

While the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense claimed victory Monday when Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Texas Pacific Group announced plans to take TXU private, other environmental groups are crying foul over the terms of the agreement.

Pollution spiked in 2013 when California officials, at the pleading of Friends of the Earth and other environmental groups, forced the closure of the San Onofre nuclear power station.

Sinar Mas Group, the conglomerate that controls the palm oil company that lost Nestle, responded with an aggressive campaign of its own, targeting Greenpeace and other environmental groups.

The Network also applauds Bill Bigelow from ReThinking Schools and the other environmental groups that worked to present a resolution to stop the fossil fuel industry from diluting the scientific fact of climate change presented in school textbooks.

The American Bird Conservancy and other environmental groups are working with the U.S. Green Building Council, which administers the LEED system, to develop a pilot program giving architects credit for designing bird - friendly structures.

The company has also instructed non-governmental groups, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, to keep communications related to climate change they have had with the attorneys generals coalition, other environmental groups, former Vice President Al Gore and the media.

In other words, even if claims by EDF and virtually every other environmental group that U.S. oil and gas methane emissions are underestimated — they are almost certainly not a significant percentage of global emissions.

EDF has a relatively solid reputation compared to other environmental groups, which is based largely on its comparatively pragmatic stance on fracking and natural gas, as well as its willingness to work with industry on methane research.

The dams were turned down by the Federal Government in 1968 after a nationwide campaign by the Sierra Club and other environmental groups.

Those questions are coming to head this week with a ruling over a suit bought by Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife and other environmental groups, against the US government.

Greenpeace has said it will join the councils in the fight, and other environmental groups are eyeing up the possibilities for legal action as well as protest and campaigning work.