He encouraged his audience of business and environmental executives to lead "by argument and example" to convince people that sustainable growth is the only kind of growth that makes sense in the long run.
In 1994 then-president Bill Clinton signed the environmental justice executive order, which begins in hope ("each Federal agency shall make achieving environmental justice part of its mission") but ends in climb-down ("This order is…not intended to, nor does it create any right…enforceable at law or equity by a party against the United States").
When Bill Ford took over in 2001 he was going to be the auto industry's environmental chief executive.
"It just kind of blew us away," said Simon Locke, an environmental sustainability executive who has spent a decade at the L'Oreal-owned retailer.
Ms. Cervino, the environmental-cleanup executive, added a developer's perspective.
This would give rise to a competitive industry that determines accurate prices for the most efficient and cost effective manner of reining in CO2's environmental threat.Sean GilbertsonChief executive officerglobalCOALLondonSIR – The giant headline proclaiming coal as "Environmental enemy No. 1" is misleading.
The case combined several of the conservatives' pet peeves, which include environmental protection, unilateral executive action, and, especially, Obama himself.
"We're at the threshold of a transformation that will include all 2,740 acres as a model of environmental sustainability," Tim Taylor, executive director of Duke Farms, said last week.
On the environmental side, Gene Karpinski, executive director of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, said the agency is likely to continue to more through regulations than legislation.
As a TUC survey of fund managers found, overseas investors are significantly less interested in how a company is run in terms of its workers, or its environmental impact, or executive pay.
An article in Business Day on Friday about the hurdles delaying the construction of a trans-Siberian oil pipeline misstated the name of an environmental group whose executive director called the project a test case of whether Russia would consider ecological issues in positioning the terminal.
