Sentence examples for Environmental defence from inspiring English sources

That, explains Dan Dudek of Environmental Defence, a green group that is helping BP to design and run its trading scheme, is because trading unleashes a surprising amount of ingenuity and can actually invigorate corporate growth.

Basically, this category of non-profits is supposed to cover groups like the Sierra Club, the NRA, and the AARP, which have clear public-benefit programmes (environmental defence and research, gun-use education, and support and social organisation for seniors) but also naturally want to engage in lobbying and some political activity in pursuit of their causes.

Something entirely instinctive: when we see a paid thug in uniform grappling with an idealistic young protester chained to another at, say, a climate change or environmental defence camp, I posit that it is a measure of who you are (generally – not just you, Anne) when you decide whose side, intuitively, you are on.

Tom Graff of Environmental Defence, a green lobby group, hails the CVPIA as the first-ever defeat for the state's powerful farm lobby.The CVPIA not only steeply raised irrigation charges to farmers; it also, for the first time, put the needs of the environment into the equation.

"We want Hollywood, and the powerful thought leaders there, to know Avatar does a great job of exposing the Tar Sands," said Dr. Rick Smith, Executive Director of Environmental Defence Canada, one of 55 groups that signed the ad.

In December, Environmental Defence, an environmental lobby group based in Toronto, estimated that about four billion liters of contaminated water leaked from the ponds each year.

"The Alberta announcement takes away the biggest barrier Canada has had on climate action," said Dale Marshall, national program manager at Environmental Defence, an environmental group based in Toronto.

Leaders of respected environmental outfits such as Environmental Defence and the World Resources Institute have recently made positive noises about nuclear power as part of a response to global warming.Of course, nuclear power is not the only carbon emission-free option.

AC was a director for Environmental Defence, a Toronto-based environmental action organisation.

Western environmental NGOs, such as the Environmental Defence Fund (EDF) and the International River Network (IRN), joined the anti-dam crusade.

And according to Adam Scott of Environmental Defence, the NEB's own environmental assessment process is conducted "entirely on the basis of what the proponent [Enbridge] submits" to the board.