Green groups would rather government money went into protecting the environment than producing crops.
The program is backed by such aggressive Green groups as WWF and Greenpeace, and no wonder.
And the main green groups have called an emergency joint congress for June 13th.
The broadest criticism comes from green groups, who say that the government's entire policy is misguided.
But green groups are suspicious that the government may be trying to pick a populist fight with Brussels.
But whereas green groups and rail lobbyists queued up to praise the idea, more traditional Tory supporters were aghast.
With courageous exceptions, American green groups also remain deeply suspicious of market forces.
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European industry felt too much was being asked of it, while green groups thought industry had gained rather too many concessions.
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Green groups say he should be recycling these funds into energy saving.
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Yet it is not just green groups that think limits are helpful.
Even some green groups opposed to all things fossil say they are willing to accept sequestration as a bridge to a renewables-based hydrogen future.
However ludicrous the arguments, the Obama administration remains influenced by green groups and is the cultural prisoner of the lifestyle left, with its powerful organic foodie contingent.
The agreement was broadly supported by the parliament's centre-right, Social Democrat, liberal and Green groups, who said it would increase transparency and improve market functioning.
The reefs, the second biggest system in the world after Australia's Great Barrier Reef, are under threat from nickel mining on New Caledonia, Green groups say.
Green groups are concerned that runoff from the mining operations is flowing into the lagoons and waters which support the reef, threatening their currently pristine state.
And major green groups like the Environmental Defense Fund have begun collaborating with industry leaders to educate the public about the various benefits of this fuel.
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Thanks to a pact with the Socialists, one of the many green groups, the Verts, could also, for the first time, get a handful of seats.
CANBERRA, Australia -- Global Green groups have begun a campaign to have the coral reefs of the Pacific island of New Caledonia nominated for World Heritage listing.
Green groups are opposed to building a relief road over the coastal Gwent Levels, but business leaders say the south Wales economy badly needs improved motorway links.
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Green groups are drawing that conclusion following a bizarre "Yes Minister" exchange I've had on the issue with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
These and other green groups are also separately strongly opposing plans for almost 200 new road schemes in the countryside, which businesses say will help stimulate the economy.
You might expect green groups to applaud this belt-and-braces approach.
It has passed more than 20 environmental laws directing the government to pay the legal fees of green groups that sue the government, even when the government-subsidized plaintiffs would lose.
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The book exposes through hundreds of detailed, meticulously footnoted examples a pattern of exaggeration and statistical manipulation, used by green groups to advance their pet causes, and obligingly echoed through the media.
Third, a carbon tax is bound to become more punitive over time, stifling growth and job creation, and not only because green groups would continually lobby to increase the tax.
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The contractor, Able UK, has poured scorn on environmentalists' concerns - which are backed by green groups in the UK - as "scaremongering", and insisted the ships are safe to sail.
He also said the media were to blame for ignoring climate change, although he said green groups also had a role to play in keeping that issue in the public eye.
From apples supposedly poisoned by the growth chemical Alar to the alleged commercial viability of wind power, green groups have been wrong at least as often as they have been proved right.
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