Sentences with phrase «with environmental advocacy»

«He's scared, because he knows an unknown law professor ran away with one - third of the vote in 2014,» Matthew Miles Goodrich, an organizer with the environmental advocacy group Sunrise Movement, which endorsed Nixon last Friday, told Gotham Gazette.

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With almost 20 years of experience in shareholder advocacy, Jonas is responsible for leading and coordinating Trillium's extensive advocacy program, which works to engage companies on their environmental and social performance.

Research shows that a majority of global consumers, and especially Millennials, support companies that are committed to minimizing environmental impacts and that prioritize sustainable approaches to operations.2 To share more about its water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on Maenvironmental impacts and that prioritize sustainable approaches to operations.2 To share more about its water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on MaEnvironmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.

OTA's members work together through networking, advocacy, and other initiatives to encourage and protect organic farming practices, and to share messages about the positive environmental and nutritional attributes of organic products with consumers, the media, and policymakers.

Visit fetzer.com/waterfor more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.

Mass Audubon's Advocacy department works with other organizations, legislators, and citizen groups to shape and strengthen environmental laws and regulations.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, which connects people with nature through conservation, education, and advocacy, has received a prestigious Environmental Merit Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / New England Region.

Mass Audubon's Advocacy department works with other conservation organizations, legislators, and citizen groups to shape and strengthen environmental laws and regulations.

The Sanctuaries 100th celebration on April 9 will present an opportunity to look back on how they've evolved as community resources for conservation, nature - based education, and environmental advocacy, and how they are positioned to inspire even more people to forge their own bonds with the natural world.

More often, online organizers and online advocacy staff are put in the technology box rather than allowed to be communicators — for instance, at my old environmental job, people often came to me with their computer problems, when I'm a writer / designer and in no way a real techie (trust me).

He credited advocacy from students with Pace University's Environmental Policy Clinic.

With an emphasis on the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races, the environmental advocacy nonprofit and political action committee created by San Francisco philanthropist Tom Steyer announced Wednesday it will also focus on key congressional districts currently held by Democrat Stephanie Murphy in Central Florida, Republican Brian Mast in the Treasure Coast, and two competitive seats in South Florida — CD 26 and 27.

get involved with and / or donate funds to national environmental advocacy organizations like the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, and 350.org; and local groups like Environmental Advocates of New York and the NY League of Conservenvironmental advocacy organizations like the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, and 350.org; and local groups like Environmental Advocates of New York and the NY League of ConservEnvironmental Defense Fund, and 350.org; and local groups like Environmental Advocates of New York and the NY League of ConservEnvironmental Advocates of New York and the NY League of Conservation Voters.

With a federal lawsuit alleging EPA violations between the environmental advocacy group Save the Sound and Westchester County approaching the two - year mark, officials at the nonprofit are growing increasingly impatient with alleged inaction on the part of several communitWith a federal lawsuit alleging EPA violations between the environmental advocacy group Save the Sound and Westchester County approaching the two - year mark, officials at the nonprofit are growing increasingly impatient with alleged inaction on the part of several communitwith alleged inaction on the part of several communities.

A new report from a non-profit advocacy organization called the Environmental Integrity Project shows that the groundwater near TVA coal - fired power plants is contaminated with a toxic stew of elements.

While environmental advocacy organizations have taken credit for prompting these changes at some of the world's top banks, the shift coincides with crashing commodity prices in oil, coal and natural gas markets worldwide.

Arguing that environmental regulations haven't kept pace with new science, the Washington, D.C. - based advocacy group Oceana last week petitioned Secretary of Commerce Don Evans to take immediate steps to protect the sea - floor organisms in U.S. waters.

A mechanical engineer by training who is now a biology professor at Stanford University, Schneider, 55, says his advocacy began with the heightened environmental awareness that bloomed around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970.

The mapping project — developed with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), an advocacy group based in New York City — aims to pinpoint these problematic spots and encourage gas companies to fix them.

«You can get this information on coal plants or any other polluter,» said Tarah Heinzen, an attorney with Food & Water Watch, an environmental advocacy group that has called for the agency to submit information about CAFOs to the public.

Based in New York City, the NRDC is an environmental advocacy non-profit with over 1.4 million members and online activists, as well as more than 350 lawyers, scientists and other professionals.

Today, the Environmental Working Group, an advocacy nonprofit, released its latest «Dirty Dozen» list of the 12 fruits and vegetables that are most contaminated with pesticides, as an update to its 2010 rankings.

The TVI collaborates with team members to create effective environmental and curriculum related adaptations to support the development of independence, self - advocacy, classroom participation, visual functioning abilities and / or compensatory strategies.

Founded in 1970, NRDC is a non-profit environmental advocacy group with more than 2.4 million members and online activists.

But Roger A. Pielke, Jr., the blogging political scientist at the University of Colorado and a frequent antagonist of the center's environmental blogger, Joe Romm, shot back, asserting that the scientists, by associating with an advocacy group pressing a particular agenda on climate, were making matters worse.

It's worse than we thought — IPCC really is a front for the WWF and other environmental activist groups, with IPCC's periodic reports padded with their advocacy pieces.

With two daughters in tow, author Mallory McDuff traveled across the country to document diverse environmental actions grounded in faith, from installing solar panels at Kanuga Camp and Conference Center to training parishioners in environmental advocacy through the organization Earth Ministry.

Annie learned that by bringing science to bear, meeting with officials and getting visibility for a cause — the basic elements of environmental advocacy — you can achieve results.

The Beijing Energy Network (BEN or 北京能源网络) is a grassroots organization based in Beijing with a mission of promoting networking and collaboration in understanding and tackling China's energy and environmental challenges among individuals and organizations from diverse sectors such as government, finance, industry, media, advocacy, think tanks and academia.

With strong environmental advocacy — not greenwashing for fossil fuels by anti-nuclear ideologues — we can fix America's electricity system.

Before hitting the road in 2010 for Expedition Blue Planet: North America, Cousteau served as the water advisor and spokesperson for the global Live Earth 2010 Run for Water — a project that teams her public advocacy on environmental issues with actress Jessica Biel, musician Pete Wentz, and many more.

With 40 years» experience in engaging communities at the grassroots to address issues of environmental degradation, community empowerment and advocacy, GBM is uniquely positioned to offer an integrated response to climate change through mitigation, adaptation and promotion of sustainable development.

«This is radically anti-consumer and, ironically, at odds with the grid modernization recommendations of the CES that want to explore integrating smart meters, efficiency and demand response, storage, solar, and other customer - sited resources for numerous grid benefits, including peak - demand management,» said Bill Dornbos, advocacy director and senior attorney for the regional environmental group Acadia Center, which in December spearheaded a statement of principles by energy and environmental activists.

The law encourages the utilities to develop the tariffs in an open process, in collaboration with the Hawai'i Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, as well as other stakeholders in the renewable energy industry and environmental advocacy community.

WASHINGTON — Advocacy organizations are as disappointed with the U.S. State Department's revamped version of its environmental evaluation of a much - disputed Canada - to - Texas oil sands pipeline as they were with its first iteration.

She regularly works with federal and state agencies, members from local Native American tribes, the commercial and recreational fishing community, and both regional and national environmental advocacy organizations.

Two separate lists of scientists and economists were sent to EPA by the Heartland Institute, according to documents obtained by the environmental advocacy group Climate Investigations Center and shared today with E&E News.

Some recent history: in 2011, the environmental advocacy groups Friends of the Earth and Public Citizen partnered with climate deniers at the Heartland Institute (which received funding from the Koch Brothers) under the watchful eye of the Taxpayers for Common Sense to produce the non-partisan Green Scissors report.

She has organized and managed education and advocacy programs dealing with a wide range of energy and environmental issues, such as high level nuclear waste legislation, director of a solar installers» training and energy conservation installation program, coordination for numerous state, local and national conferences / strategy workshops, and has assisted community - based groups in establishing job - training / energy rehabilitation programs.

Prior to her current responsibilities, Lori was integrally involved in AGA's pipeline safety and environmental advocacy, including participating in the development of the EPA STAR program to encourage voluntary operations reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, serving on the executive steering team of the Department of Transportation's distribution integrity management program, and participating in the launch of the Common Ground Alliance — a collaborative organization with the goal of reducing excavation damage of underground facilities.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY — The three leading environmental advocacy organizations in the Hudson Valley — Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Riverkeeper and Scenic Hudson — applauded today the decision by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to resume dredging of PCBs around Fort Edward, NY with enhanced engineering controls at dredging locations to reduce spillage of material back into the river and re-suspenenvironmental advocacy organizations in the Hudson Valley — Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Riverkeeper and Scenic Hudson — applauded today the decision by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to resume dredging of PCBs around Fort Edward, NY with enhanced engineering controls at dredging locations to reduce spillage of material back into the river and re-suspenEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) to resume dredging of PCBs around Fort Edward, NY with enhanced engineering controls at dredging locations to reduce spillage of material back into the river and re-suspension of PCBs.

Partnering closely with the wider conservation community in our advocacy work, we bring an important spiritual and moral voice to environmental issues of the day.

It grapples with various national and international issues that Japan is involved — conservation of Nansei Shoto Archipelago (including the coral reef in Shiraho in Ishigaki Island) and tidal flats in many places, promotion of forestry certification scheme and environmental education, prevention of global warming through promotion of natural energy and policy advocacy on the cities.

I have used it for the analysis of CFC - ozone politics (in a book called Transnational Environmental Policy, see here The difference between the two cases are (with regard to positive / negative feedback) that in ozone politics a small group of dedicated advocacy scientists got the process started and was at the centre of a feedback loop.

On a Federal Advocacy Trip to Washington DC in May 2011, organized by Environmental Entrepreneurs to promote CleanTech, from left, David Moyar from MEI Hotels in Cleveland, Felix Kramer, and Laura Berland Shane from Siemens in Santa Monica met with Rep. Jay Inslee of Washington State.

As a member of the Environmental Priorities Coalition, Earth Ministry / WAIPL works closely with the wider conservation community in our advocacy work.

«There was a strong desire on New Jersey's part to have a climate change component to the settlement, and it was consistent with our own company's advocacy,» said Mark Brownstein, PSEG Service Co.'s director of environmental strategy.

«It's outrageous and it is totally deceptive what PG&E said before compared with what is actually going to happen,» said Michael Shellenberger, president of the Berkeley - based advocacy group Environmental Progress.

Partnered with the environmental community to organize a legislative workshop and Environmental Lobby Day, and the religious community to organize Interfaith Advocacy Day and Catholenvironmental community to organize a legislative workshop and Environmental Lobby Day, and the religious community to organize Interfaith Advocacy Day and CatholEnvironmental Lobby Day, and the religious community to organize Interfaith Advocacy Day and Catholic Lobby Day.

Engaged 250 people in two legislative workshops and worked with religious and environmental partners to turn out over 1,500 people at Environmental Lobby Day, Interfaith Advocacy Day, and Cathoenvironmental partners to turn out over 1,500 people at Environmental Lobby Day, Interfaith Advocacy Day, and CathoEnvironmental Lobby Day, Interfaith Advocacy Day, and Catholic Lobby Day