Sentence examples for environmental votes from inspiring English sources

Most of the other environmental votes ranged from the depressing to the truly outrageous.

Still, he said, the administration is likely to win future environmental votes.

Albanese favors gay rights and the death penalty, he has strong ties with the police despite his demands for reform; he has cast some conspicuously anti environmental votes.

The environmental votes referred to mostly involved shareholder resolutions aimed at forcing companies to adopt Ceres, a set of environmental standards.

Among these environmental votes, today's may be a less substantive blow than the Congressional actions that forced the administration to scale back its plans for energy exploration off Florida, as an example.

These are by far the worst environmental votes cast in any Congress in American history.

Mr. Sarkozy is already moving to try to attract the environmental vote.

"This is the environmental vote of the decade," said Melinda Pierce, a lobbyist for the Sierra Club.

Michael Wines (NYT) NORWAY: PREMIER QUITS -- Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, 52, quit after losing a key environmental vote in Parliament.

[Associated Press] Fodder for reflection: a look at Arlen Specter's environmental voting record from 1993 to 2010, when he represented Pennsylvania as a senator (first as a Republican, and then as a Democrat).

Because the GOP has been so unreasonable, the president clearly feels he can take the environmental vote by staying silent, which means the odds that he'll do anything dramatic in the next four years grow steadily smaller.