Sentences with phrase «when environmentalists»

When environmentalists and conservatives in Ohio agree on something, it's noteworthy — and could finally shift the way solar policy is discussed in Columbus.

When environmentalists aren't aping the war on terror («you're either with us or against us `, not to mention sexing up documents to generate an unwarranted sense of urgency) they can sometimes sound uncannily like the lunatic extremists that the war on terror is supposed to be against.

When environmentalists organize themselves, fund - raise, and try to spread their message this is considered legitimate democratic activity.

So when environmentalists say standards of living must be reduced they are talking about breaking down poor people even more than they are broken down now.

Villagers often immediately start worrying when environmentalists come that we will want to kick them out, but most understand we want to protect this place together.

There was a time when environmentalists targeted Lego for partnering with oil companies, but from its search for a non-plastic alternative for its bricks to a commitment to run on 100 % renewable energy by 2020, the company has been making significant strides toward sustainability.

When environmentalists learned of this, they poured in.

It's one thing when environmentalists say that fossil fuel companies» positions on climate change are similar to Big Tobacco's past deflections about the hazards of smoking.

When an environmentalist explains to me that it doesn't matter if CO2 isn't a problem, because it is really «about reducing greed», I wonder about this.

When environmentalist ideals had first stirred, around the time of Theodore Roosevelt, they had been scattered across the entire political spectrum.

Not exact matches

Evan Qu, a slim man sporting a designer shirt and Buddhist wrist beads, sells audio equipment; he thinks executives at his biggest customer, CCTV, the central broadcaster, will appreciate the environmentalist aura of the Tesla when he rolls up to their next meeting.

When Justin Trudeau's Liberals won an unexpected majority government last October, Canadian First Nations and environmentalists cheered, while oil and gas executives groaned.

Those reviews are seen by many government agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as environmentalists, as cornerstones to ensuring the environment is taken into account when new construction projects are ordered.

But good lord, if corporate donations are going to be clawed back over something as unimportant as an honourary doctorate to an unpopular environmentalist, what will happen when something really serious happens?

With the exception of the 1989 election, when Liberal Bill Code placed second, only the conservative Reform Party, Progressive Conservative, Alberta Alliance, Social Credit and Wildrose Party, and the environmentalist Evergreen Party have participated in the elections.

When will it hit some of you, and I will admit myself in some ways included, understand that extremist, from Bin Laden company to rabid environmentalist.

As it happens, I coined the original slogan in an attempt to keep together the western environmentalists and the Third World economists and church leaders; and of course I frowned when, subsequently, «the integrity of creation» was substituted, an expression which scientists I know find meaningless.

When James Lee tried to blow up The Discovery Channel, his reasoning that of an Environmental Extremist did you call upon all environmentalists to embrace and repudiate.

The concerns of environmentalists and of social - justice advocates need not be in conflict when it comes to the attack on absolute rural poverty.

A radio host recently opened his interview with my husband as follows: «When I think of environmentalists, I picture long - haired, Birkenstock wearing hippies who rant about recycling and global warming.

Now both groups are environmentalist but there are always going to be the fringes that the only peace is when everyone thinks and acts just as they do.

I don't know about you but this time of year when I go to the store and see lots of plastic Easter grass, plastic eggs, and huge chocolate bunnies... it makes the environmentalist in me cringe?

So when the Government announced in October it was backing expansion at the south west London hub, the environmentalist's fate was sealed.

This is why environmentalists will lament her appointment - and worry that when it comes to this autumn's badger cull, the most controversial issue awaiting her on her desk at Defra, she is unlikely to spend much time resisting the demands of the National Farmers» Union that the culls should continue apace.

The self - proclaimed environmentalist angered business leaders when he dropped out of the Confederation of British Industry's conference.

Cuomo earned international headlines and significant credit with progressives and environmentalists when he banned fracking — a decision that was supported by public polling by the time he made it, more than six years after the state issued a de facto moratorium as it weighed the pros and cons (and polling), and that made New York the first state with a major shale gas deposit to enact a ban.

Since 2013, when the city first took up in earnest the fight to ban polystyrene foam containers, a protracted fight between environmentalists and industry supporters has been waged in the streets, in the courts and in City Hall.

But community groups are concerned about the potential for accidents, and environmentalists about the toll nuclear takes on water resources and the wildlife killed when reactors use river or lake water for cooling — particularly at Indian Point, less than 30 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River.

On the other hand, it's hard not to see where environmentalists came from when they filed the lawsuits.

This was also the time when far - leftists started to court social and ethnic minorities, such as gays, feminists, environmentalists and the growing population of foreign «guest workers».

Brodsky met the 91 - year - old folk singer and environmentalist when he represented him in a successful lawsuit against the nuclear power plant Indian Point.

When news of a potential deal with Entergy, the plant's owner, was leaked on Friday, environmentalists, planners and policymakers praised the move as long overdue, but remained cautious about what would happen once the facility actually closed.

«I called for a ban on fracking for natural gas as the Green gubernatorial candidate in 2010 at a time when most environmentalists urged a moratorium so that the health and environmental impacts of fracking could be studied,» Hawkins wrote.

Environmentalists cheered last December when Health Commissioner Howard Zucker urged Governor Cuomo to prohibit hydraulic fracturing for natural gas because of unknown health risks it posed to New Yorkers.

Environmentalists were stunned this summer when they learned that Iowa Pacific Holdings, which leases / owns the railroad line from Saratoga to Tahawus, was considering storing empty oil tankers along an unused section of the tracks in Essex and Hamilton Counties.

But when discussing funding for the EPA, the lawmaker said it's important to balance safeguarding the concerns of environmentalists with those of farmers, who often argue the agency can be overreaching.

She described how in Mexico (where she served as embassy public affairs officer) environmentalists created what she called «an opening in civil society» that expanded when a devastating earthquake hit their country in 1985.

When the Environmental Protection Agency sought to relax standards on industrial smokestack emissions, environmentalists erupted again, and the administration ordered a retreat.

When he talked about his idea with environmentalists, ecologists, aboriginal groups and Boy Scout troops, every group asked the same question: What if one of your carp got loose in Europe?

The lawsuit began in 2015, when a group of kids, young adults and environmentalists sued the U.S. government and top officials for failing to protect them from the dangers of global warming

When rational appeals fall short, environmentalists enlist social and economic incentives — and even neuroscience — to get the public in on national efforts to combat climate change

«When you think of a marine, the first thing you think of is probably not an ardent environmentalist,» Mabus noted.

This probably wasn't what the environmentalists had in mind when they called for more trade with native communities in forest products.

In a sense, environmentalists and scientists face similar obstacles when it comes to finding partners: They are often uncompromising in their ideals, do not suffer fools gladly, and carve out lives for themselves that may take them to remote spots in which dating options are few.

I think about that scene when I hear the way many of my environmentalist friends talk about genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, an ill - fitting term that has come to stand for plants, animals and other living things whose genes have been directly manipulated in the lab using the techniques of modern biotechnology.

When President - elect Barack Obama pledged in late 2008 to bring U.S. carbon dioxide emissions to their 1990 levels by 2020, environmentalists struggled to swallow their dismay.

European countries and environmentalists argued for incorporation of the «precautionary approach,» which says that it may be necessary to take action even when the scientific evidence is incomplete.

When the population of Steller sea lions in one area of Alaska declined dramatically, environmentalists had to threaten the government with a lawsuit to get the species put on the threatened list in 1990.

Marc Smith - Evans says that when he graduated in the late 1960s, nobody was an environmentalist since «the concept didn't exist»...

Believing that science will eventually prevail over vested denial may be comforting for historians, but is problematic for those who live and die during times when it doesn't, such as environmentalists in the US now.