The agreement was signed onto by Shell Oil and the Environmental Defense Fund, among others.
Glen Lavy, spokesman for the conservative Alliance Defense Fund, explained his group's opposition this way.
And beyond the purely esoteric, she's donating proceeds from Air to the Environmental Defense Fund.
We're joined know by Ted Shaw, director counsel and president of the NAACP legal defense fund.
Mr. TED SHAW (Director-counsel, and President of NAACP Legal Defense Fund): Well, it does, Ed.
"It's huge, " said Cecilia Chen, staff attorney for the Asian American Legal Defense Fund.
"It's a mistake to rush headlong into this, " said Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund.
It's already made one investment with its bio-defense fund and five investments in the Green Techologies fund.
Surprisingly, the IRS has never publicly ruled on whether legal defense fund contributions are income to a politician.
Though the account has been closed, O'Mara said he intends to open a legal defense fund for Zimmerman.
Earlier, the organization tweeted that Assange was to be extradited and asked for donations to his defense fund.
Like, for example, EarthJustice (formerly the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund), Greenpeace USA, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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Monica's father defended the need for a legal defense fund to help pay for his daughter's growing legal bills.
O'Mara on Friday revealed a new website, www.gzlegalcase.com, and another site, not yet live, that will host a defense fund.
Regardless of what happens to the contributions, O'Mara intends to open a legal defense fund for his client, he said.
Months later, a federal investigation was launched following a formal civil rights complaint filed by the Asian American Legal Defense Fund.
"This should not be considered any sign of disrespect, " said Susan Benn of the Julian Assange Defense Fund, who read the statement.
Mr. GLEN LAVY (Senior Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund): When children are raised without a mom or a dad, they are missing something.
With nothing but time, he set up a legal defense fund and took his appeals to the internet, where few saw them.
The environment suffers too, in the opinion of the Environmental Defense Fund.
While a few groups such as the Environmental Defense Fund have been supportive, this is unacceptable to many others in the environmental movement.
Wal-Mart, which partnered with the Environmental Defense Fund on this project, tapped solar installer SolarCity of Foster City, Calif. to handle the installation.
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Leland, of the Environmental Defense Fund, said the patchwork of federal agencies managing the oceans in the United States contributes to the problem.
In addition to Shell and Chevron, the participants include the Environmental Defense Fund, the Clean Air Task Force, the Heinz Endowments, EQT Corp.
As president of the Environmental Defense Fund, Fred Krupp helped establish a market-based cap-and-trade system to limit acid rain pollution in the late 1980s.
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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Today was day two of training for 26 of the 51 fellows selected by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) for the 2010 class of Climate Corps.
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"You can't be a seafood business and not sell salmon and shrimp, " says Tim Fitzgerald, a scientist in the oceans program at the Environmental Defense Fund.
Zaccagnini and Murtha have been representing Tripp for free, but a legal defense fund set up to pay for her legal expenses "has become rather active, " Murtha said.
The Environmental Defense Fund responded to the Sierra Club criticism by noting that the new plan is meant to be a complement to strong regulations, not a replacement.
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