Sentences with phrase «when environmental groups»

But I do know that I value the truth more than anything else, and when environmental groups get so caught up in their motivational efforts that they've lost track of the truth, that is when the door is open for serious disaster.

When environmental groups succeeded in getting a federal judge to grant a February 24 order that temporarily halted work in the Atchafalaya Basin while a permit for the pipeline is being challenged, Rosinski wondered whether construction could still legally move forward on her land.

Not exact matches

If you're trying to decide when to splurge on organic items and when to hold back, the Environmental Working Group's annual «Dirty Dozen» list is generally a good guideline.

The groups said the State Department, which granted the permit needed for the pipeline to cross the Canada-U.S. border, relied on an «outdated and incomplete environmental impact statement» when making its decision earlier this month.

It may have seemed like a shrewd move by Alberta Premier Rachel Notley last year when she named prominent environmental activist Tzeporah Berman to the new Oil Sands Advisory Group (OSAG).

I like to choose organic when buying capsicum as they unfortunately feature on the infamous «Dirty Dozen» — the Environmental Working Group's list of the most pesticide ridden produce on the market.

Coca - Cola, Pepsi, Nestle Waters North America and Dr Pepper Snapple Group are all carving new paths for environmental sustainability when it comes to their packaging.

School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitchens.

Certainly environmental groups are trying to reinvigorate interest in climate change, at a time when the general public in many Western countries is climate change - weary.

When I corresponded with the public (and we got a fair number of emails every week), I tried to be conscious of the fact that I was representing not only the organization, but in some sense the environmental movement itself — if someone had a bad experience with us, it could easily color their perception of our issues and of other groups working on them.

When asked about Cuomo's actions and statutes concerning environmental protection and public health, Bill Samuels, head of good government group Effective NY, believes Cuomo has been late in putting forth state mandates.

The start of the hearing was delayed five minutes when a member of an environmental activist group stood up in the audience and started speaking.

Environmental group Friends of the Earth (FoE) has attacked the plans after a climate change amendment - which would have created a statutory requirement to consider climate change when approving major infrastructure projects - was defeated by 15 votes (with 24 Labour MPs rebelling).

When Cuomo first announced the initiative in January, a few environmental groups in the Hudson Valley were disappointed that the Wallkill River was not on the list.

The New York Times reported in 2011 that Cuomo, as New York's attorney general in 2009, used his office to threaten legal action against Chevron when Hinton was being paid $ 10,000 a month as a lobbyist for a group suing the oil giant in a multibillion - dollar court action alleging massive environmental damage in the Amazon.

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 bEnvironmental 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 benvironmental 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.

Cuomo's Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens caused a stir among pro- and anti-fracking groups when he issued a statement saying that he was rejecting calls for an independent health analysis of the potential impacts of the gas drilling process known as hydrofracking.

Environmental groups are concerned the new operators want to keep burning coal, when New York is so close to phasing out all of its coal plants.

Steve: So when you see alcoholism in a cluster in a family group, that's a signal to you that even though there might be an environmental component, perhaps it's at least worth looking for a genetic component?

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.

A group of risk experts is proposing a new framework and research agenda that they believe will support the most effective public warnings when a hurricane, wildfire, toxic chemical spill or any other environmental hazard threatens safety.

When Tom Vilsack was picked to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture, some environmental and organic groups grumbled that the former Iowa governor and proponent of ethanol was too close to large agribusinesses.

Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standards.

But the group of men in the Apollo program experienced different environmental conditions than anyone else in the world when they traveled into deep space.

Environmental groups have been frustrated by the Bush administrations rejection of the Kyoto treaty and what Sohn describes as its tendency to deny, deflect blame and delay when it comes to issues involving global warming.

«It illustrates well the difficulties facing local authorities and stakeholder groups, representing a spectrum of priorities, when attempting to respond to large - scale environmental change.»

BRISBANE, Australia — Environmental groups sounded the alarm when the government of the northeastern state of Queensland announced it would stop funding a zero - emissions power plant.

Environmental and health groups were outraged, but finally scored a victory in 2014, when a court ordered that the Obama administration finalize a new ozone rule no later than today.

«I appreciate it when people are transparent about their intentions,» said Janis Searles Jones, the CEO of Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental group.

«She is the voice of greatness,» says Russel Honoré, the now - retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who became a local folk hero when he led search and rescue and evacuation after Hurricane Katrina and later founded the GreenARMY, a coalition of environmental groups fighting against pollution in the Gulf region.

The court's 5 - 4 ruling said the Bush administration did not adequately assess the threats from global warming when it rejected a petition from environmental groups and 12 states that sought to force federal greenhouse gas limits on motor vehicles.

Professor Graham Shields - Zhou (UCL Earth Sciences), one of the co-authors and Dr Tostevin's PhD supervisor, said: «We honed in on the last 10 million years of the Proterozoic Eon as the interval of Earth's history when today's major animal groups first grew shells and churned up the sediment, and found that oxygen levels were important to the relationship between environmental conditions and the early development of animals.»

The non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) lists a «dirty dozen» of fruits and vegetables with the highest pesticide load so that consumers know to look for organic varieties of them when possible.

Even given government incentives and a price on carbon, however, ArborGen must satisfy concerns from regulators and environmental groups that its engineered trees will not, especially when gifted with the ability to resist cold, spread untrammeled through forests.

Cassini also received flak from environmental groups who were concerned that when the spacecraft flew by Earth, its radioisotope thermoelectric generator (nuclear power) could pose a threat to our planet, JPL added.

This is an inherently risky process, as we learned in 2010 when the BP well exploded,» Jacqueline Savitz, U.S. vice president for the environmental advocacy group Oceana, said in a statement.

DR ANDREW WAKEFIELD: Well this work started just over a year ago when we were contacted by a group of mothers who complained that their children had been developing perfectly normally until they had encountered an environmental insult, in many cases they claimed it was the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, and then had lost their... all their acquired skills, such as speech, language, developmental milestones.

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.

Just try to eat organic when consuming foods listed on the Environmental Working Group's Dirty Dozen (Plus) list: apples, bell peppers, blueberries, celery, cucumbers, grapes, lettuce, imported nectarines, peaches, potatoes, spinach, and strawberries.

We usually make our own detergent, but for times when we are traveling or I haven't had time to make it, I've found a few good brands of eco friendly laundry detergent that actually work (all received an «A» by the Environmental Working Group):

Using the Environmental Working Group's excellent research as a guide, we compiled the top 3 ingredients you should avoid when choosing a sunscreen.

That's when I turn to the Environmental Working Group.

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When we joined the Health Liberty Coalition last year, FAN had just helped convince the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to phase out ALL sulfuryl fluoride pesticides from the U.S. food supply after a vigorous nine - year effort together with the Environmental Working Group and Beyond Pesticides.

Strolled through your local health food stores beauty aisle, picked up a bottle of sulfate - free shampoo that says something like «made with pure acai berry extract,» then looked up the ingredients when you got home and realized they were flagged as likely to be harmful by the Environmental Working Group?

There is far too much variability among the needs of different groups of people sick and healthy at a time when autoimmune disease is tripling, quadrupling and more for reasons not yet made clear, but assumed to be of an environmental cause.

That's when I rely on the «dirty dozen,» a catchy phrase popularized by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) which refers to the top 12 fruits and vegetables most commonly treated with pesticides.

It reflects the values Volvo buyers look for when they choose a car for an active lifestyle and exciting adventures, without compromising on safety, environmental care and fuel - efficiency,» says Anders H Gustavsson, Vice President Special Vehicles at Volvo Car Group.

He worked for a time for an environmental group attempting to stop construction of a large dam across the Mekong, and when the effort failed, he wrote publicity materials for a cement exporter.

When she spotted a job opening with a Kingston - based public policy group that specializes in environmental issues, she sent off her résumé and landed the position.