Environmental advocate, civil rights activist, and lawyer Van Jones was born in Jackson.

A water-quality activist raised concerns about possible environmental hazards from the construction of a driveway, but according to Department of Environmental Conservation officials, the work was in compliance.

* Vincent Salafia – Environmental activist and anti-motorway campaigner

Other inspiration for the book likely came from the 1972 book Ecotage !, which was published by the group Environmental Action and was in turn inspired by the actions of an activist in the Chicago, Illinois area who called himself " The Fox ", and engaged in such vigilante actions to protect the environment as plugging smokestacks.

" He was Brazil's first internationally known environmental activist, and the fact he was chosen environment minister in Brazil's first democratically elected government in 30 years was just a spiderman indication of the tremendous mark he made in that area ," said Stephan Schwartzman, senior scientist at Environmental Defense.

He was an activist with the Narmada Bachao Andolan ( 1990 – 1995 ) and he did his PhD in Environmental toxicology from Cornell University ( New York ) ( 1986 – 90 ).

* Anna Rose, Environmental activist

Environmental activist Alexander Arbachakov won a Whitley Award for his work preserving sustainable communities in Shor territory.

He is also a University Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University.

His success as a practitioner of modern architecture and his prominence as an academic, enabled Stone to form bonds with other academics of the era like Walter Gropius ( Chairman of the Department of Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design ), Pietro Belluschi ( Dean of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning ), George Howe ( Chairman of Yale University ’ s School of Architecture ) and William Wurster ( co-founder of the University of California at Berkeley College of Environmental Design ).

Members of the Milltown Borough Council ( with their chairmanship listed in parentheses ) are Council President Richard Ryan ( Public Works and Recycling ), Gary Holsten ( Environmental, Health and Social Services ), George Murray ( Public Safety ), Robert Owens ( Parks and Recreation ) and Joseph Pietanza ( Finance, Planning and Administration ).

For example, from literature: Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and Andrew Breitbart, conservative journalist ; from business: David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo !, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President George W. Bush ; from entertainment: Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Michael Glaser, TV actor of " Starsky and Hutch "; from music: conductor and composer Odaline de la Martinez, who was the first woman to conduct at a BBC Proms concert in London ; from government: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House who famously coordinated the first Congressional Republican majority in 40 years, and Luther Terry, former U. S. Surgeon General who issued the first official health hazard warning for tobacco ; from medicine: Michael DeBakey, inventor of the roller pump, and Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama's Surgeon General ; from science A. Baldwin Wood, inventor of the wood screw pump and Lisa P. Jackson, United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Administrator under President Obama ; from sports: Bobby Brown, former New York Yankees third baseman and former president of the American League.

Christine " Christie " Todd Whitman ( born September 26, 1946 ) is an American Republican politician and author who served as the 50th Governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001, and was the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the administration of President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003.

Whitman was appointed by President George W. Bush as Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, taking office on January 31, 2001.

* Rodway, George W., " Paul Crews ' " Accident on Mount McKinley "— A Commentary ," Wilderness and Environmental Medicine: Vol.

* George W. Bush nominates former NGA chairman and current governor of Utah, Michael O. Leavitt for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Marianne Lamont Horinko served as Acting Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) from July 14, 2003 to November 5, 2003 during the first term of President George W. Bush.

On August 11, 2003, President George W. Bush nominated Leavitt as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency at a press conference in Aurora, Colorado.

She assumed the office of Governor of the State of Utah after previous governor Mike Leavitt was nominated by President George W. Bush to lead the Environmental Protection Agency in 2003.

From its modest beginnings in the 1890s as the first state medical school in Texas, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston ( UTMB ) has developed into a large, sophisticated health science complex with numerous schools and institutes, including: a Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Health Professions, Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Institute for the Medical Humanities, an affiliated Shriners Burns Hospital, the Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine, the Sealy Center for Structural Biology, the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, the Center for Addiction Research, the Educational Cancer Center, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women ’ s Health, the Insyitute for Translational Sciences, the Galveston National Laboratory ( GNL ), the Sealy Center for Cancer Cell Biology, the Sealy Center for Environmental Health and Medicine, the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases, the Stark Diabetes Center, the Center for Biomedical Engineering, the Center for Environmental Toxicology, the Sealy Center on Aging, the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, and the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development.

Deprecating the past efficacy of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and the United Nations Development Programme — as well as the actions of the former George W. Bush administration — Speth writes ( as cited in the TIME article listed in the " References " section ): " The climate convention is not protecting climate, the biodiversity convention is not protecting biodiversity, the desertification convention is not preventing desertification.

The policy was put together by Jim Connaughton, Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, and involved the work of Senators Bob Smith and George Voinovich and Congressmen Billy Tauzin and Joe Barton.

In 2003, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded the school a $ 1 million grant to create a new major in neuroscience ; in 2005, the college signed agreements with The George Washington University to create an early admission program into the university's medical school, and with the University of Rochester to create a direct admissions program into the university's Simon School of Business's MBA program ; in 2007 the Peace Corps launched a new program at Knox, establishing the Peace Corps Preparatory Program, the first of its kind in the country ; Chinese language instruction, Asian Studies, Environmental Studies, and Film Studies were all added ; and new abroad studies programs have been created: the Japan Term, and Knox in New York.

He has also been an astronomer at the Mount Wilson Observatory, a senior scientist at the George C. Marshall Institute, the chief science adviser to the Science and Public Policy Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of the Faculty of Science and Environmental Studies of the University of Putra, Malaysia.

Stephen L. Johnson ( born March 21, 1951 in Washington, D. C .) was the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) under President George W. Bush during the second term of his administration.

Galdikas, along with fellow " Angel " Jane Goodall and preeminent field biologist George Schaller, became a recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 1997 for her groundbreaking field research and lifetime contributions to the advancement of environmental science.

He is a former aide to former Congressman Bob Franks and was a special assistant at the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the George H. W. Bush administration.

* George Lucas Educational Foundation profile of The School of Environmental Studies

Cooney joined the George W. Bush administration when he was appointed chief of staff of the Council on Environmental Quality.

* St. George Replacement Airport Environmental Impact Statement

Rosa Whitaker, who served as the first ever Assistant U. S. Trade Representative ( USTR ) for Africa in the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and William J. Clinton took the final lead in developing and implementing the African Growth and Opportunity Act ( AGOA ) following nearly a decade of leadership on the part of activists such as Paul Speck at Environmental and Energy Institute, and lawmakers, including Congressman Jim McDermott ( a former Foreign Service medical officer based in Zaire ) and Senator John Kerry, both senior lawmakers in the area of international trade.

Young Pioneers Environmental Monitoring Station of Daxinglu Primary School, Second Creek Environment Project, Humphrey Bheki Mvula, Green Machine Nature Conservation Club, Robert D. Dyer, Association for the Protection of the Environment, Alwan-Al-Teif, Yokkaichi und Bürgermeister Kanshi Kato, Kyung-Sun Won, Ron G. Watkins, Trees for Africa, Television Trust for the Environment ( TVE ), Safina Z. Siddiqi, George B. Schaller, Serigne Samb, Queen Noor of Jordan, Ricardo A. Navarro, George Monbiot, Anna and Livio Michelini, Tamas Lantos, M. Krishnan, Janis and Bob Jones, Robert John Filmer, Bernardo P. Ferraz, Marti Boada, The Bangkok Post, Father Balemans

* Biological Systems Engineering ( a major which may also be called Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Biological and Environmental Engineering, etc.

Environmental advocates have called for the removal of certain dams in the Columbia system in the years since.

The largest and most influential environmental organizations in the United States, according to Andrew Rowell are the so called Group of Ten: Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Friends of the Earth, Izaak Walton League, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society and the World Wide Fund for Nature

However, recent research published in Environmental Science & Technology, a publication of the American Chemical Society, suggests that many cases of feline hyperthyroidism are associated with exposure to environmental contaminants called polybrominated diphenyl ethers ( PBDEs ), which are present in flame retardants in many household products, in particular, furniture and some electronic products.

The efficiency of what later was to be called the " cap-and-trade " approach to air pollution abatement was first demonstrated in a series of micro-economic computer simulation studies between 1967 and 1970 for the National Air Pollution Control Administration ( predecessor to the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Air and Radiation ) by Ellison Burton and William Sanjour.

Environmental campaigners Art Not Oil have called for a protest against the petrol company's sponsorship of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

The Federal Superfund project called The Federal Creosote Site was cleaned up by the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) with $ 250 Million of public funds.

Both groups, as well as other stakeholders, are part of a Superfund Community Advisory Group called the Palmerton Environmental Task Force.

An environmental lobby group, Friends of the Avon River ( FAR ), has called upon the Federal Fisheries Ministers to instigate a Comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessment Study ( CEIA ) of the complete Avon River Watershed in order to protect the Endangered Atlantic Salmon, the COSWIC listed American Eel and their ' critical habitats '.

Argonne National Laboratory had a smaller facility called Argonne National Laboratory-West ( or simply Argonne-West ) in Idaho next to the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory.

In 2007, a former city councillor, Naresh Bhargava, began working with the St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences on a project called the Community Carbon Reduction Initiative.

In England, where it has declined by 55 % in the past 25 years, the Forestry Commission offers grants under a scheme called England's Woodland Improvement Grant ( EWIG ); as does Natural Englands Environmental Stewardship Scheme.

The Forestry Commission offers grants under a scheme called England's Woodland Improvement Grant ( EWIG ); as does Natural Englands Environmental Stewardship Scheme.

Environmental water quality, also called ambient water quality, relates to water bodies such as lakes, rivers, and oceans.

The Forestry Commission offers grants under a scheme called England's Woodland Improvement Grant ( EWIG ); as does Natural England's Environmental Stewardship Scheme.

In a USA Today editorial by Patrick J. Michaels, a Research Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia and global warming skeptic, Michaels called the film " propaganda ," noting, " As a scientist, I bristle when lies dressed up as ' science ' are used to influence political discourse.

Progress was slow, and as recently as 1990, the United States Environmental Protection Agency called the Blackstone, " The most polluted river in the country with respect to toxic sediments.

After discovery, the Ningyō-tōge Office of Atomic Fuel Corporation ( now called the Ningyō-tōge Environmental Engineering Center of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency ) was built in 1957.

Eccleston writes that as one of the most emulated statutes in the world, NEPA has been called the modern day equivalent of an “ Environmental Magna Carta .”

This document is called an Environmental Impact Statement ( EIS ).

June-Officials from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection approved the remediation plan for Bethlehem Works and called the 1, 800 acre ( 7 km² ) Bethlehem Works and Bethlehem Commerce Center initiatives " a national model for brownfields development.

The agency began working on a green accounting system called Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounts.