Sentences with phrase «while environmentalists»

Oil companies are no doubt dreaming of a northern oil rush, while environmentalists face nightmares of devastating spills.

While environmentalists are no doubt welcoming of the apparent decrease, some are awaiting all deforestation data to be consolidated in early 2012 which will better reflect the clearing rate than the current month - by - month figures assessed by PRODES.

And while we environmentalists will no doubt find fault with any one of these corporations on aspects of their current business models, we ought to welcome their rhetorical (and financial) force behind robust climate action.

While environmentalists have worried about mercury pollution for years, at least one recent study suggests that as mercury pollution from power plants has decreased, mercury contamination in bluefish has decreased too.

A funny thing happened while environmentalists were trying and failing to cap carbon emissions in the U.S. Congress.

Animal rights activists cheered the fact that this was a burger that was truly cruelty - free, while environmentalists saw the potential to make meat without the corresponding greenhouse gas emissions, water and energy consumption, and massive land - use demands.

Over the last few decades, many international organisations and governments have aimed to reduce agricultural production while environmentalists, claiming that that «climate change is happening now» worried about decreasing fertility.

While environmentalists and advocates for the widespread adoption of solar power have yet to become bosom buddies (seems counterintuitive, doesn't it?)

While environmentalists protest the plan, labor groups who backed Inslee's campaign are in favor of the project, pitting the two Democratic constituencies against each other.

While some environmentalists have said it isn't tough enough, others have given it positive reviews.

California's Fires Result of a Cooling Pacific, Two Years of La Niña and Environmental Mismanagement Guest Post By Joseph D'Aleo, CCM, ICECAP While environmentalists and clueless politicans like CA Representative Linda Sanchez and not surprisingly Climate Progress» Joe Romm sought to place the blame for the California wildfires on «global warming».

So while environmentalists are enraged by the recklessness of the southeastern utilities» natural gas strategy in an age of climate change, customers who only care about the bottom line on their utility bills have reason to be just as upset.

While environmentalists and native Hawaiians say the sacred ground is in need of protection.

Supporters argue the pipeline will boost the economy, while environmentalists say there could be spillages and that it will encourage the exploitation of tar sands oil, which emits more CO2 than regular oil.

For example, governments can use the maps to manage forests better, while environmentalists might find a drastic graphic handy for pressuring companies not to log primary forests.

Oil companies are no doubt dreaming of a northern oil rush, while environmentalists face nightmares of devastating spills.

It swaggered on the highways of the First World without apology, while environmentalists had kittens.

Labor unions have pushed for approval of the pipeline, saying it would create thousands of construction jobs, while environmentalists opposed it because it would increase greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's oil sands.

Not exact matches

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

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton struggled with how to secure the endorsement of labor unions while announcing her opposition to the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a project they supported but environmentalists opposed, according to leaked emails published by Wikileaks on Friday.

While he's vegan, likes to garden, and drives a battered Prius, he doesn't think of himself as an environmentalist, really, or a cycling advocate.

Democrats, environmentalists, and other protesters demonstrated outside the White House after Trump signed the executive order in March, declaring it would lead to runaway climate change, while many Republican members of Congress applauded the action for promoting energy independence.

Environmentalists were left sputtering Friday while pro-pipeline forces in Congress and industry insisted that this should leave no doubt that the pipeline can be built safely and provide for jobs and a fresh source of North American energy.

While it will still fund expansions of existing oilsands projects, environmentalists likened the new policy to similar announcements by BNP Paribas and ING Group

B.C. Green Party Leader Jane Sterk accused the NDP of trying to «have their cake and eat it too» by appealing to urban environmentalists while leaving the door open to a twinned Trans Mountain pipeline with a different backdoor outlet.

Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio received immediate blowback from some of the companies, while winning praise from environmentalists and others.

I will explain these assumptions primarily in Whitehead's terms while recognizing that other formulations are possible and that others, feminists and environmentalists, for example, make independent contributions of great importance to the contemporary movement.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

Maybe you think environmentalist are those tree - hugging, liberal lunatics who fight for the rights of rainforest birds and Pacific salmon while ignoring the humans and unborn babies.

Kridler notes that while disposable diaper advocates try to cite «a British study that suggested all the washing and drying of cloth diapers meant their environmental impact was about equal to that of disposables», that the study has been criticized by environmentalists who point out that «the combination of chemicals in the diapers and their baby waste make for an unhealthy contribution to landfills and potentially ground water.»

He's going to use NY as a political football, doing cosmetic changes to show he's a tough fiscal manager while being careful not to offend the unions too much, make - nice with the environmentalists, and generally use the Pataki game plan for setting the national stage.

While framing the problem as a question of terrorist financing has helped to garner additional policy resources and international attention, it has been sold as a win - win for environmentalists and counter-terrorists alike.

But here is the problem for Cuomo... while he would like to appease environmentalists, sources say he is very concerned about his veto being overturned by the legislature.

While associated mainly with environmentalist policies, it has a history of support for communitarian economic policies, including well - funded, locally controlled public services within the confines of a steady - state economy, is supportive of proportional representation and takes a progressive approach to social policies.

It has often been viewed as a «single issue» environmentalist party, but while it still maintains its environmental policies and political ecology, it also has a history of support for communitarian economic policies, including well - funded, locally controlled public services within the confines of a steady state economy, and it supports proportional representation.

Hinchey was considered a staunch environmentalist while in office, haven been credited for support of the Clean Air Act and bolstering protections for the Hudson River.

While renewable power sources such as solar can also be expensive, environmentalists argue the more people that use it, the cheaper it will be in the future.

«The economic potential from the Marcellus Shale could provide a badly needed boost to the economy of the Southern Tier and even many environmentalists agree we want to produce more domestic natural gas that reduces the need for environmentally damaging fuel sources such as coal,» his campaign statement said, while adding, «Existing watersheds are sacrosanct, and Andrew Cuomo would not support any drilling that would threaten the state's major sources of drinking water.»

POLITICAL dish: While Candidate Hillary keeps cool under fire, sweat ing is her choruslineful of Dem senatorial replacement hopefuls — Lt. Gov. David Paterson, Rep. Jerry Nadler, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr., etc.... And Michelle Obama, who's heard it and had it with her supposed toughmindedness, has become a Stepford Wife.

Environmentalists are celebrating while gas companies are fuming over Governor Cuomo's decision to ban hydro fracking in New York State for the near future.

The fracking ban demand convinced the many environmentalists to support a ban rather than their positions at that time of promoting fracked gas as the «bridge fuel» to renewable energy or calling for a moratorium while fracking was studied.

The latest finds have prompted environmentalists in Scotland to call for a halt to the reprocessing of nuclear fuel at Dounreay while the site is cleaned up.

While Western countries face political opposition from industry, environmentalists and other stakeholders, China's challenge is to introduce market - based incentives into a planned, top - down economy.

Similar projects to Canada's West Coast have faced delays due to objections by First Nations groups and environmentalists, while the 800,000 bpd Keystone XL pipeline to Texas has been awaiting U.S. State Department approval for years.

Stormy and the captain didn't get along, because Stormy was known to be an environmentalist, a protector of the ocean, while fishermen were the ones who consumed and plundered.

Environmentalists complain that the changing recipes amount to a shell game, where companies make tiny changes and then continue to sell a product while the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) restarts safety protocols.

Environmentalists complain that construction of the two tunnels would cause years of disruption while still failing to protect the delta.

While the health community is celebrating palm oil as a superfood, many environmentalists rally against it.

Summary Capsule: One coincidence takes an environmentalist on a search for the meaning of life, dragging people around him down that path with him while being stalked by detectives and his face is falling apart, too.

Specifically, the diesel - powered TDI, once a darling of environmentalists and enthusiasts alike, has been shelved while VW trudges through the litigious swamp created by their emissions cheating scandal.