It has put forward a clean water action plan to deal with runoff from city streets and farms.
Cindy Zipf, the executive director of Clean Ocean Action Inc.
Zach McCue of Clean Ocean Action, a coalition of more than 130 environmental organizations in New Jersey and New York, said the manufacture of thin-film plastic bags consumes millions of trees and barrels of oil, takes up space in landfills for a long time and is harmful to marine life, especially birds and sea turtles that ingest the bags, or pieces of bags, or get entangled in them.
What the people need is action - action to improve public health, action to provide a clean and safe environment in hospitals, action to improve services for people with long-term diseases and action to provide NHS dental services.
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Urging the World Bank to take fresh action to clean up the logging industry, Greenpeace senior forest campaigner Belinda Fletcher said it was "crunch time" for the DRC's rainforest.
The lesson of every big banking crisis in recent history is that rapid and decisive government action to clean up balance-sheets results in a quicker recovery and smaller long-term damage to the public purse.
As such, advocates are rightly focused on creating new clean energy policies through Congressional action (see the debate on a carbon tax).
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The transition away from fossil fuels will take some time, but over the last year and a half, we have already taken unprecedented action to jumpstart the clean energy industry.
Last year a nonprofit organization called the Sacramento Watersheds Action Group was using volunteers to clean up a riverbed in California when a Laborers' Union member noticed some of the workers were using heavy equipment.
Cambridgeshire villagers are to take legal action against a company over a smell caused by clean-up work at a former chemical factory site.
"By reporting any incidents, the council can then arrange for the mess to be cleaned up, erect 'no fouling' signs and install waste bins as required and where possible investigate and take enforcement action against the dog owner who has failed to clean up, " said a spokesman.
So I want this plenary session to understand, America is going to continue on this course of action to mitigate our emissions and to move towards a clean energy economy, no matter what happens here in Copenhagen.
Investors are filing dozens of shareholder resolutions with U.S. companies every year calling for action on strategies that lower their carbon emissions and boost their clean energy efforts.
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"It is these same staff who have played a key role in keeping services clean and safe who are now forced again by their employers to take action for a living wage and recognition of their efforts, " he said.
The OECD identified conditions responsible for that success: ambitious climate policy, political consensus on the need for action, innovative public-private partnerships, and creation of the Copenhagen Clean Tech Cluster and Copenhagen Clean Ttech Park.
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Fortunately for Her Majesty and her subjects, the action in track cycling begins Thursday, and that is where they Brits usually clean up.
West Ham's hopes of keeping a clean sheet were hit just before the interval when defender Ferdinand was forced out of the action with a damaged ankle.
Goalkeeper Ryan Esson was called into action after 50 seconds when he got down well to block from Bryson with the midfielder clean through on goal.
Detractors from the show will say that its slow pacing and clean, albeit relateable, humor will alienate viewers looking for the slower build found in the live-action movie.
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The Safe Stoves project shows a virtuous circle in action, thanks to technology -- environmental protection, improved safety for women, access to clean energy for the poor, enhanced climate security.
At a news conference Sunday, Bremer also discussed the formation of a national "community action program, " which he said would help get local economies moving by hiring workers to clean up neighborhoods and build schools.
That action included making investments in sectors with the greatest potential for private sector job growth -- areas like clean energy and infrastructure.
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