Environmentalists and other activists continue to oppose the building of new golf courses for environmental reasons, as they may impede corridors for migrating animals and damage sanctuaries for birds and other wildlife, though some courses have become havens for native and non-native creatures.

Environmentalists and those concerned about the health effects of chemicals in the environment traditionally oppose the ACC's initiatives.

Environmentalists rallied cattle ranchers, fishing organizations and other recreational river users to oppose strip mining.

Environmentalists are concerned that this project will endanger the fragile marine ecology of the area through constant dredging to maintain a canal depth of about 10 m. The increase in shipping traffic will inevitably result in an increase in oil spills and marine pollution.

Environmentalists have also argued that many of the problems facing developed countries, such as climate change, also pose significant or even greater threats to developing countries and thus warrant a global response.

Environmentalists became much more influential in American politics after the creation or strengthening of numerous U. S. environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act and the formation of the US Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA in 1970.

Environmentalists have condemned attempts to control the transmitting mosquitoes by spraying pesticide, saying the detrimental health effects of spraying outweigh the relatively few lives which may be saved, and more environmentally friendly ways of controlling mosquitoes are available.

Environmentalists had lobbied for the more inclusive protections of National Park status instead of the Trust model, but then Senator Pete Domenici insisted on the experimental approach as a condition for his support for public purchase.

Environmentalists, scientists, lawyers, recreational river users, families that had lived here for generations, and others that had recently moved to the area, all protested, and among the voices, none seemed more poignant than the artists.

Environmentalists may prefer buying second-hand goods as this uses fewer natural resources and would appear do less damage to the environment than by buying new goods would, in part because the goods are usually collected locally.

Environmentalists have challenged Arnold ’ s “ Wise Use Movement ,” launched at a Reno, Nevada conference in 1988, as inappropriately co-opting the term from utilitarian conservationist and first Chief of the U. S. Forest Service, Gifford Pinchot, who held different views on man and nature than Arnold and his movement.

Environmentalists often clash with others, particularly “ corporate interests ,” over issues of the management of natural resources, like in the case of the atmosphere as a “ carbon dump ”, the focus of climate change, and global warming controversy.

Environmentalists often argue that political freedoms should include some constraint on use of ecosystems.

He is an open member of Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy.

Environmentalists speculate that advanced naval sonar endangers some cetaceans, including whales.

Environmentalists promote Smart Growth by advocating urban-growth boundaries, or Green belts, as they have been termed in England since the 1930s.

Environmentalists advocate the sustainable management of resources and stewardship of the environment through changes in public policy and individual behavior.

Environmentalists blame Israel, Jordan and Syria for extensive damage to the Jordan River ecosystem.

Environmentalists say the practice has almost destroyed the river's ecosystem.

Environmentalists are concerned about loss of biodiversity that will result from destruction of the forest, and also about the release of the carbon contained within the vegetation, which could accelerate global warming.

Environmentalists and fishermen combined their efforts to prevent the closure and successfully pressured parliament to amend the original plan.

Environmentalists garnered great support in reforming the CAP, but it was financial matters that ultimately tipped the balance: due to huge overproduction the CAP was becoming expensive and wasteful.

Environmentalists argue that this may have negative impacts to riparian and aquatic ecosystems, while proponents claim these measures are usually only temporary, since a riverbed is naturally subject to permanent changes during large floods and other events.

Environmentalists and members of the tribe filed some forty lawsuits — eight of which ended up before a federal appeals court — but the project ultimately prevailed after an act of the United States Congress.

Environmentalists were not viewed as credible sources of information during this time and usually discredited.

Environmentalists proposed that the pipeline would have an effect on caribou similar to the effect of the U. S. transcontinental railroad on the American Bison population of North America.

Environmentalists prefer silk to nylon because of health and biodegradability issues.

* Late 1980s: Environmentalists started to pay attention to the Chinese white dolphin population.

Environmentalists promoted strong legislation on environmental protection, through the expansion of the National Park Service in Alaska, creating 103 million new acres of land.

As Noam Chomsky put it, a consistent libertarian " must oppose private ownership of the means of production and wage slavery, which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

Like Ruskin, Arts and Crafts artists tended to oppose the division of labor and to prefer craft production, in which the whole item was made and assembled by an individual or small group.

Monsanto has contributed $ 4, 208, 000 to oppose the passage of California Proposition 37, which would mandate the disclosure of genetically modified crops used in the production of California food products.

Those socialists who oppose any system of state control whatsoever believe in a more decentralized approach which puts the means of production directly into the hands of the workers rather than indirectly through state bureaucracies — which they claim represent a new elite.

Never one to oppose slavery in concept — both his father and his wife were slaveowners — his property used 105 slaves in its production.

" ³ It is noted that Nazi ideology does not oppose capitalist relations or production, just the supposed excesses of capitalism.

This usage is probably in accordance with the Zoroastrian concept of the Tūrya, which is not primarily a linguistic or ethnic designation, but rather a name of the infidels that oppose the civilization based on the preaching of Zoroaster.

Opponents of the modern usage of these terms in reference to electoral politics include revolutionaries who oppose the existing system as a whole, as well as political moderates who advocate that third parties be given greater exposure in that system.

His views on controversial issues such as censorship and birth control were ambiguous ; after expressing initial support for the Censorship Bill, he eventually went on to denounce it in scathing terms (" I think it is high time the men of this country found some other way of loving God than by hating women "), and while generally professing to oppose the sale of prophylactics, he voiced support for their usage in certain cases.

The " War on Drugs ", a term coined by President Nixon, was a law enforcement effort by US presidents starting from Nixon to oppose the sale, distribution and usage of illegal drugs.

While the usage of Native American-derived names and mascots is opposed by many Native Americans and supporters, Florida State's use of Seminole imagery is officially sanctioned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, while for its part the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma does not oppose it.

In the 1970s, Hollings joined with fellow senators Kennedy and Henry M. Jackson in a press conference to oppose President Gerald Ford's request that Congress end Richard Nixon's price controls on domestic oil, which had helped to cause the gasoline lines during the 1973 Oil Crisis.

Coleman supported additional oil exploration in the outer continental shelf, but maintained a campaign promise to oppose drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ( ANWR ).

In the 1970s, Jackson joined with fellow senators Ernest Hollings and Edward Kennedy in a press conference to oppose President Gerald Ford's request that Congress end Richard Nixon's price controls on domestic oil, which had helped to cause the gasoline lines during the 1973 Oil Crisis.

He continued to oppose foreign, especially British, control of Iran's oil industry while in exile.

Policy differences over Frondizi-era oil contracts, which Illia rescinded, led the MID to actively oppose him, however, and he initially welcomed the 1966 coup against Illia.

They oppose same-sex marriage, pornography, and abortion ; as well as public policy goals such as deregulation of the oil industry and lobbying against the Employee Free Choice Act.

Some in Congress, and various oil and gas industry, and other development interest, continued to oppose passage of the bill, but in the wake of Carter's proclamations most opponents recognized the need to work toward passage of an acceptable bill, rather than no bill at all.

In 2007, the IFTU joined with the other trade union federations to oppose the U. S .- backed national oil law, and supported a planned strike by the Federation of Oil Unions in Iraq to protest the law.

Three members of the administration council ( Michel Sitbon, Gilles Alfonsi and Jean-Luc Guilhem ) resigned in February 2005, over what they consider is an adhesion to the theory of the so-called " Clash of civilizations ," although the Network's publications clearly oppose the theory as a neo-conservative strategy to control the world's last remaining oil reserves, and the instrumentalisation of the network.

A majority of Canadians oppose expansion of the Tar Sands and also oppose offshore oil drilling and shipping in sensitive waters including the BC inner passage, off Newfoundland, and in the high Arctic.

At an OPEC meeting in September 1975 in Vienna, Saudi Arabia continued to oppose sharp increases in the price of oil.