These groups include the Abalone Alliance, Clamshell Alliance, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Antitoxin groups are a subgroup that is affiliated with the Environmental Movement in the United States, that is primarily concerned with the effects that cities and their by products have on humans.

Groups such as the Sierra Club shifted focus from local issues to becoming a lobby in Washington and new groups, for example, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense, arose to influence politics as well.

Environmental groups and NGOs were incorporated in the lending of the bank in order to mitigate the effects of the past that prompted such harsh criticism.

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Environmental groups are asking the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service to determine if any species on the threatened or endangered list were harmed.

Reaction to Vilsack's nomination from agricultural groups was largely positive and included endorsements from the Corn Refiners Association, the National Grain and Feed Association, the National Farmers Union, the American Farm Bureau Federation, and the Environmental Defense Fund.

Environmental and fishing groups have argued that the action to protect fish will ultimately save more jobs in the fishing and tourism industries than will be lost in agriculture.

Several large environmental groups, including Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Ohio Environmental Council, opposed the building of a coal-fired power plant due to the pollution it would cause.

Other Ohio groups, including Ohio Citizen Action and the Ohio Student Environmental Coalition, worked actively to convince municipalities, such as Bowling Green, to live up to their green rhetoric and cancel their participation in the plant.

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

" Environmental groups have sought to make Earth Day into a day of action which changes human behavior and provokes policy changes.

Many students from Tulane ’ s two active environmental groups, Green Club and Environmental Law Society, attended.

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Less than two weeks later, Hart heard arguments from conservation groups that the TAPS project violated the Mineral Leasing Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, which had gone into effect at the start of the year.

Although conservation groups and environmental organizations had voiced opposition to the pipeline project before 1970, the introduction of the National Environmental Policy Act allowed them legal grounds to halt the project.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency is an example of an attempt to make sure the costs of public bads are taken into account, although some groups on the right and left have criticized the value of its efforts.

Environmental groups like Friends of the Clayoquot Sound and the First Nations communities were concerned with the logging companies ’ approach to resource management.

Environmental groups debated the amount and type of land that had been divided, but the First Nations, who composed almost the entire population of the Sound, were concerned that the plan did not consider their spatial, environmental, or economic practices.

Environmental groups and the Green Party oppose its use.

* Environmental Alliance Award, recognizes individuals or groups that have forged partnerships with other non-Sierra Club entities.

Norton was influenced by the works of novelist Ayn Rand, and has been associated with a number of groups in the " wise use " or " free-market environmentalist " movement, such as the Property and Environmental Research Center, of which she is a fellow.

" He points to groups like the World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and to activists such as Rachel Carson and

Environmental groups ( including the Sierra Club and Restore Hetch Hetchy ) still advocate removing the dam and restoring the valley to its former appearance.

By the early 1990s Huntingdon was organized into three business groups: the Life Sciences Group, the Engineering / Environmental Group, and the Travers Morgan Group, which offered engineering and environmental consulting services outside of the United States.

Environmental organizations say that the submarine could be dangerous for fishes, because radioactive material could leak to the sea from its two nuclear reactors.

Environmental damage to the Nile Delta is not yet one of Egypt's priorities, but experts say if the situation continues to deteriorate, it will trigger massive food shortages which could turn seven million people into " climate refugees " by the end of the century.

Environmental groups say that under the Obama Administration the Ex-Im Bank is on a " fossil fuel binge ," which “ makes a mockery ” of President Obama ’ s stated commitment to phase out fossil fuel subsidies.

:" When Ingamells looked over the poetry scene from the standpoint of, say, 1937 – which he delivered his address On Environmental Values to the English Association in Adelaide – he saw very little poetry which satisfied the requirement of Australian inspiration, Australian content and imagery, and when Max Harris surveyed the same scene at the start of the new decade, he saw the burgeoning Jindyworobaks and not much else – nothing that seemed to have much connection with or awareness of the cultural world beyond the antipodes.

With the exception of a single gray whale killed in 1999, the Makah people have been prevented from hunting by a series of legal challenges, culminating in a United States federal appeals court decision in December 2002 that required the National Marine Fisheries Service to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement.

According to its Environmental Mission Statement, Bowdoin College " shall seek to encourage conservation, recycling, and other sustainable practices in its daily decision making processes, and shall take into account, in the operations of the College, all appropriate economic, environmental, and social concerns.

This decision under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act ( CEPA ) was based on new information received during the public comment period, as well as more recent information from the risk assessment conducted by the European Union.

: Environmental impact assessment, as a national instrument, shall be undertaken for proposed activities that are likely to have a significant adverse impact on the environment and are subject to a decision of a competent national authority.

Environmental groups, preservationists, and ten Native American tribes had appealed the decision without success.

Growing scientific recognition of the role of private lands for endangered species recovery and the landmark 1981 court decision in Palila v. Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources both contributed to making Habitat Conservation Plans / Incidental Take Permits " a major force for wildlife conservation and a major headache to the development community ", wrote Robert D. Thornton in the 1991 Environmental Law article, Searching for Consensus and Predictability: Habitat Conservation Planning under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

However, the road was the subject of an extensive Environmental Effects Statement ( June 1998 ), which was followed by an extensive public hearing process in April 1999 before the final Government decision to proceed.

# Determine the Evaluation Criteria – this policy sets Environmental impacts / benefits ( reduction of GHG ’ s as a measure to reducing climate change effects ) and Economical efficiency ( the costs of converting to biofuels as alternative to fossil fuels & the costs of production of biofuels from its different potential sources ) as its decision criteria.

This decision represented a compromise recommended by hearing officers for the Environmental Management Commission.

Hinchey is disappointed with General Electric's delays and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ’ s failure to properly enforce a decision to clean up the Hudson River and make GE pay for the removal of PCB pollution.

Under the terms of the National Environmental Protection Act, the Board must take into account in its decision making, the impact of its actions upon Earth's environment-including direct, indirect and cumulative effects.

In an ever changing world, adaptive management appeals to many practices seeking sustainable solutions by offering a framework for decision making that proposes to support a sustainable future which, “ conserves and nurtures the diversity — of species, of human opportunity, of learning institutions and of economic options ”( The Environmental Advisory Council, 2002, p. 1121 ).

In the decision Environmental Defence Society ( Incorporated ) v Auckland Regional Council and Contact Energy, the Environment Court agreed that the predicted annual emissions of 1. 2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide would contribute to climate change via the greenhouse effect.

In April 2011, Charleston County Council voted not to ask the state for $ 500 million for the last eight miles of the road, and the Conservation League and Southern Environmental Law Center both supported this decision.

As of July 3, 2011, the federal government has delayed further work from being done on this highway while it completes a screening under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act ; although environmental assessments were already completed on individual portions of the route, a Supreme Court of Canada decision, MiningWatch v. Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, effectively forced the federal government to rescind these approvals and reassess the project as a whole.

The virtual DOT Center for Climate Change and Environmental Forecasting, an online, interactive knowledge base on transportation and climate change, includes information on greenhouse gas emissions, the potential impacts of climate change on the infrastructure, approaches for integrating climate change considerations into transportation decision making, and ideas for adaptation and mitigation.

In January 2005, three organizations — Oregon Natural Resources Council, Headwaters and Sierra Club — and one individual ( Eric Navickas ) sued USFS in the U. S. District Court alleging that the decision violated the National Forest Management Act ( NFMA ) and the National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ).

Opponents argued that the decision was flawed and possibly illegal as there was no Environmental Impact Assessment — a legal requirement incorporated into British law two weeks after the start of the 1988 public enquiry.

Conti wrote that the department's decision to prepare a less-stringent environmental document prior to cleanup is in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act and noted that the lab ' is located only miles away from one of the largest population centers in the world.