Sentences with phrase «with environmental groups»

The four - person company is still largely in the testing phase, but they think they'll be able to start working with environmental groups and timber companies within the next year.

Everyone — especially in a declining budget environment, where we are now, everyone — we just met with the environmental groups.

If major corporations partnered with environmental groups in announcing their support for cap and trade but did not spend resources lobbying in support, what are the implications?

For example, I worked with environmental groups to help end the ethanol tax credit, and I work with them now to develop the case for eliminating the ethanol mandate.

TARRYTOWN — The state has reached an agreement with environmental groups Riverkeeper and Scenic Hudson on permits that will include extensive environmental protective measures and mitigation funding to protect the Hudson River and minimize environmental impacts during construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge.

Responding to Greenpeace's recent report (a screengrab of which is above) on the wholesale destruction of Indonesian rainforest by Sinar Mas Group affiliate Asia Pulp & Paper, Walmart issued a press statement Wednesday expressing shock that it would be singled out in the report, as it has been in discussions with the environmental group on ways to improve its supply chain.

Sanders has sided with the environmental groups on nearly every major position, while Clinton has taken a more nuanced approach that has angered some activists.

Halfmoon and Waterford partnered with environmental group Riverkeeper to take samples from the river near the site.

Gore is spearheading the Reality Campaign, a countereffort with environmental groups like the Sierra Club featuring an ad by the Coen brothers that's known as «No Country for Coal Men.»

Newspaper editorials from around the state agree with the environmental groups that using the clean water funds to help build the bridge is a bad idea, using terms like «pilfering,» calling it a betrayal of Governor Cuomo's pledge to conduct a transparent process to build the new bridge.

Andrew Derocher, a bear biologist at the University of Alberta who's also affiliated with the environmental group Polar Bears International:

After initial confrontations with environmental groups fighting a wave of shrimp farm development that was damaging coastal ecosystems from Asia to the Americas, Thornton, together with Tim Smith, a biologist working for the World Wildlife Fund, refined methods for controlling feed and water that dramatically cut pollution.

Technology giant Apple has reportedly been in dialogue with environmental groups in the wake of a scathing August report.

Sanders» position is popular with environmental groups, who have pressed for the plant's closure for many years.

Only a few weeks after its formal debut, though, the organization has already run into trouble with environmental groups after its subsidiaries produced a couple of TV ads touting the pro-Keystone XL and pro-Arctic drilling positions of two Congressmen they backed.

But the move also sets up a battle with environmental groups and coastal governors opposed to drilling off the shores of states from California to North Carolina.

Improbably, she brokered a détente with environmental groups and First Nations that would become a template for later peace treaties over the Great Bear Rainforest and the boreal forest, and helped bring the War of the Woods to an end after some two decades of unrest.

They may even already be in the ground or they don't find out until they start digging a hole to lay the pipe,» said Meg Logue, an organizer with the environmental group 350 Louisiana.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has generally had good relations with environmental groups; he shielded them from the kind of large cuts he dealt to hospitals and schools this year.

Richard Amper, executive director with the environmental group Pine Barrens Society, said he was disappointed in state lawmakers for not taking up the bill.

David Baron, an attorney with the environmental group EarthJustice, which took part in the ozone and methane suits, says groups are preparing to spend a lot of time in court trying to compel agencies to enforce their own regulations.

The EPA administrator has been reluctant about meeting with environmental groups throughout his first year in office.

Some scientists are criticizing the findings as neither surprising nor significant — but they have touched off a firestorm, with environmental groups calling for changes in how pesticides are regulated.

«Other options like rail or truck are not feasible for the transportation of large quantities,» said Elizabeth Shope, anti — tar sands advocate with environmental group the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a conference call with reporters, noting that such alternative transportation more than triples the cost of moving tar sands oil.

Avoiding this campaign is the best reason for Realclimate to deny affiliation with environmental groups.

Personally, I've got to agree with a critique offered by a YouTube account holder who was one of many who took up the 10:10 invitation to download and repost the video — in this case with the environmental group's «apology» superimposed on the imagery:

For the moment, the two corporate camps — which have dominated the discussion, with environmental groups largely locked out — have turned to Congress, where an array of influential members from both parties is hoping to seize the initiative in policy making.

But while his fans play up his association with the environmental group, they fail to mention his much stronger ties to fossil fuel - intensive industries: For over 20 years, he's been a paid spokesman for companies involved in «mining, energy, forestry, aquaculture, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing.»

He memorably quotes GM VP for Environment, Energy and Safety Policy Beth Lowery saying» «we share [with environmental groups] the idea that consumers have a role to play.»

The term dirty oil has clearly resonated with environmental groups both in the US and in Europe and will continue to be used by those who seek to limit our access to important markets.

Former critics of the company have admitted that Apple is making significant progress, with environmental group Greenpeace giving Apple high marks for its efforts in promoting clean energy.

Sen. JOHN WARNER (R), Virginia: When I see such an extraordinary cross-section of America's free enterprise system together with the environmental groups come and form a group like this, you've got my attention.

A biography submitted when Ebell testified before Congress celebrates his reputation with environmental groups, noting he and three of his CEI colleagues were included in «A Field Guide to Climate Criminals» distributed at the UN climate meeting in Montreal in December 2005.

The larger problems with environmental groups associating with the IPCC have already been very nicely shown in detail by Donna Laframboise.

That doesn't mean shark advocates aren't expressing concern, including marine scientist Amanda Keledjian with the environmental group Oceana, who expressed concern about the video.

He branded more than 20 major corporations that make up the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) «un-American» for allying with environmental groups he calls «enemies of coal.»

Through this program, over 350 Patagonia staff have been fully paid for two months while working with the environmental group of their choice throughout the world.

Four federal agencies settled a lawsuit with environmental groups Wednesday and agreed to buy thousands of vehicles that run on natural gas, electricity, ethanol, propane and other alternative fuels.

In 2007, the British bank HSBC partnered with the environmental group Earthwatch in order to educate its staff about climate change.

Today, Greenpeace launched its anti-coal campaign with a bang — activists with the environmental group scaled the Bridgeport Harbor coal plant today, and unfurled a 20 X 40 ft banner there, announcing the message «Shut it Down: Quit Coal» to the state of Connecticut.

Environmental Issues: Alex Kaplun of The New York Times writes that Judge Sotomayor is a popular pick with environmental groups.