Sentences with phrase «private environmental groups»

It also comes as the presidential candidates are being pressed by private environmental groups to add more detail to their positions on global warming.

«Perhaps he won't even notice he has changed jobs,» said David G. Hawkins, who directs the climate center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a private environmental group.

Seth Dunn, a climate and energy analyst at the Worldwatch Institute, a private environmental group, said that a key to any initiative this fall will be to show the economic sense of using fuels sparingly and developing new sources of energy that do not add to the atmosphere's greenhouse burden.

«From a pediatric and social hygiene perspective it's been a very important technology,» said Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a private environmental group.

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The firm provides advice to public and private sector groups involved in municipal, environmental, aboriginal, intergovernmental or international public policy.

TMX Group will contribute funding, resources and leading capital markets expertise to the Centre, and will also work to strengthen programs initiated by the Centre to mobilize private capital to tackle social and environmental problems.

Groups readily observe that the hamburger meal is designed for private consumption and entails hidden environmental costs.

Mass Audubon stands with the affected communities and other interested public and private groups in supporting a strong EPA permit governing the implementation of this crucial environmental cleanup project, which may well affect Massachusetts and the Northeast for centuries.

Mayborn Group, proud owner of leading baby essentials brand tommee tippee ®, has been named 2014 National Winner of the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association's (BVCA) prestigious Community & Environmental Action Award.

In the flier, the group praises Lugar for supporting the Keystone pipeline, a proposal that Republicans argue would create thousands of private sector jobs but has faced heavy pushback from Democrats and the president over environmental concerns.

PLATTSBURGH Forestry associations, environmental groups and state lawmakers are asking the governor to prioritize reform of a program designed to preserve timberlands by giving private forest owners tax breaks and other incentives.

The lineup of groups opposing a constitutional convention includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

The lineup of opposition groups includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

Environmental groups have argued that the application should be dismissed because Congress never intended a private facility to be in the waste storage business when it passed the 1982 law governing how to deal with commercial high - level waste.

Koch Industries, a sprawling private corporation based in Wichita, Kan., and run by two brothers, is the primary sponsor of the «climate denial machine,» the environmental group asserts in a 44 - page report.

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She represents private entities and public interest groups on a variety of land use, planning and entitlement matters throughout various stages of the real estate development and environmental regulatory process.

WMI operates like a «finishing school» for university students, researchers, policy makers, the private sector, community leaders and groups interested in good practices in environmental management and peace building.

Where then any nation who provides Govt funding to such environmental non-profit groups or offers Tax deductions to their private donors are threatened with punitive Sanctions by the US Govt?

The committee is composed of community representatives as the municipalities, MRCs, private landowners, environmental protection agencies, land user groups and CLDs.

Environmental groups and other private institutions rarely fund peer - reviewed climate research, Schmidt said, so while they might pay academics to speak at events or to review a report, that's «chump change» compared with the size of government grants.

The president of Wind Concerns Ontario (WCO), a volunteer - led coalition of 30 community groups and many Ontario families, has filed a private prosecution against the Honourable Chris Ballard, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change (MOECC), for violating Ontario's Environmental Protection Act (EPA).

As part of a $ 45 billion buyout by a group of private equity firms, TXU — now named Luminant — settled a series of lawsuits with Environmental Defense and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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 tEnvironmental 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 tenvironmental groups are crying foul over the terms of the agreement.

UNCSD: About the Rio +20 Conference At the Rio +20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, will come together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection on an ever more crowded planet to get to the future we want.

The Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) is a research and advocacy group financed by private contributions based in Arlington, Virginia.

I ask this question not because I doubt the integrity or competence of the researchers and environmental groups who are getting billions of dollars from government agencies, corporations, foundations and private donors concerned about climate change.

After a one - year uptick in deforestation, forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon resumed its downward trend, falling 18 percent for the 12 months ended July 31, 2014... A combination of law enforcement, government policies, new protected areas, forest monitoring, pressure from environmental groups, and private sector commitments — including a moratorium on deforestation for soy production, which was unexpectedly renewed for another 18 months in late November — are credited for the decline.

The environmental groups still are waiting for the federal court's decision on another part of the lawsuit that seeks to force the Energy Department to require large private fleets, such as those run by FedEx or UPS, to buy alternative fuel vehicles.

Founded in 1990, the group describes itself on its website as «a partnership of major environmental groups and private - sector clean energy companies» that «fight for policies that promote global warming solutions and increased reliance on clean, renewable energy sources for California and the West.»

As a member of the Environmental Litigation Group, Ms. Espino MacLean represents private and public entities in litigation to recover costs of removing chemical contaminants from public water supplies, governmental facilities, natural resources and public property.

Among other areas, our litigation experience in the environmental area includes governmental and private - party actions under CERCLA (including serving as lead counsel for PRP groups at major Superfund sites throughout the United States), citizen suits under RCRA, the Clean Water Act and other environmental laws, claims for property damage and personal injury arising from industrial emissions or environmental contamination, and defending clients against state and federal governmental enforcement actions.

Through his work with the Environmental Litigation Group, Mr. Land also represents public water providers and private well owners in litigation involving chemicals that contaminate water bodies and property, including trichloroethylene (TCE), a nonflammable, colorless and highly toxic solvent, and perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs), such as GenX, which was touted by its makers as a «safer» alternative to the original PFC, known as C8.

The editorial also highlighted the fact that the NEB had met with business leaders and environmental groups in private, calling the closed - door sessions «questionable».

In May 2008, for example, a report entitled «Ensuring Access to Environmental Justice in England and Wales», which was produced by an informal working group under Sullivan J, criticised the strict private interest requirement, as applied to environEnvironmental Justice in England and Wales», which was produced by an informal working group under Sullivan J, criticised the strict private interest requirement, as applied to environmentalenvironmental cases.

Possible topics about pedagogy include: • Structuring statutory drafting courses • Simulation courses designed using mock legislatures or committees • Course linkages with real - world legislators and special interest organizations • Service learning or clinical opportunities for law students • Courses focused on law reform efforts • How to employ Plain - English principles in statutory and rule drafting • Theoretical perspectives on statutory drafting • Involving political realities in law school drafting courses • Teaching practical aspects of drafting that addresses theories and principles of statutory interpretation and construction Possible topics about practice include: • Unique challenges of drafting laws and / or regulations in specific areas such as criminal law, environmental, health law, etc. • Lawyering for non-profits, federal and state agencies, local governments, and other clients in frequent need of rule - drafting • Practicing in employment law, health law, environmental law, and other heavily regulated fields where private clients require rule and policy drafting • Non-legal drafting opportunities, such as sports league rules, industry trade group policies, and university rules Possible topics about politics include: • Political influences affecting legislative drafting • Direct democracy and the unique challenges of drafting initiatives and referenda • The implications of special interests driving drafting decisions • Polictics and its influence on legislative history • Lobbyists as legislative drafters.

Conditionally approved by federal Cabinet in June 2014, the project was the subject of a barrage of legal challenges brought by eight First Nations (including two co-represented by West Coast and Mandell Pinder LLP), four environmental groups, as well as Canada's largest private sector union (which represents both oil sands and fisheries workers impacted by the project).

Michael Laas, formerly the director of impact for SH Group, an affiliate of the private investment group Starwood Capital, and currently chief executive officer of the Miami - based environmental consultancy Sustainable Futures Group, said that current Miami development should be viewed as a combination of wishful thinking, clear - eyed realism, and pressure for short - term proGroup, an affiliate of the private investment group Starwood Capital, and currently chief executive officer of the Miami - based environmental consultancy Sustainable Futures Group, said that current Miami development should be viewed as a combination of wishful thinking, clear - eyed realism, and pressure for short - term progroup Starwood Capital, and currently chief executive officer of the Miami - based environmental consultancy Sustainable Futures Group, said that current Miami development should be viewed as a combination of wishful thinking, clear - eyed realism, and pressure for short - term proGroup, said that current Miami development should be viewed as a combination of wishful thinking, clear - eyed realism, and pressure for short - term profits.