Internationally, the Cites international wildlife summit in Bangkok awarded protection against the finning trade to five shark species, but failed to halt the polar bear trade.
The treatment is the fruit of an extraordinary public-private partnership between a British company and the American government, which financed clinical trials and awarded protection from competition after the drug's patent expired.
Drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is but a piece of a plan that makes oil and gas exploration and development fair game on nearly all of our public lands, even extraordinary places that were awarded protection as national monuments by the previous administration.
Japan, the world's most energy-efficient country, is far and away the leader in cleantech innovation, accounting for 37.1% of the inventions in the fields of clean energy and environmental technologies awarded protection under patent laws from 2000 to 2005 according to the study, which is the most comprehensive assessment to date of global standings in cleantech innovation.
Once a species has been awarded protection, and funds are allocated for survival and recovery, an early step in any management plan is to assess how many populations there are, what state each is in, how they are demographically and genetically connected on the landscape, and where genetic diversity lies.
He led the U.S. delegation in Montreal during the 2007 International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO Assemblyly, defending the U.S. position on aviation and climate change, for which he was later awarded the Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award (now known as the Montreal Protocol Award) from the Environmental Protection Agency.
During the dinner, NRDC gave an Environment Protection Award to Tom McCall, former governor of Oregon.
Houston won this year's U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Award.
Deron Lovaas, the transportation policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, was a judge for the climate protection award.
And although Houston is a huge oil producer, Parker won the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Award in 2011.
