The other options, of working for a charity or an environmental task force, may suffer from the same low expectations as the ill-fated Community Programme in the 1980s.
In addition to Shell and Chevron, the participants in the new center include the Environmental Defense Fund, the Heinz Endowments, the Clean Air Task Force, EQT Corp. and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council.
The Clean Air Task Force -- an environmental organization advancing clean technology in the United States and China -- is pivotal to Duke Energy efforts.
The Environmental Protection Agency, for instance, has an array of rules that force refineries to produce a variety of gasolines to meet regional environmental standards, especially during the summer.
Russia has come to rely on spur-of-the-moment environmental laws and fines as leverage to force Western partners to sell at depressed prices.
My Middle Class Task Force and the Council on Environmental Quality recently released a report titled "Recovery Through Retrofit, " that explains some of these hurdles and how we can overcome them: providing homeowners with straightforward and reliable information on retrofitting their homes, reducing their costs to do it, and ensuring that we've got a well-trained workforce ready to make it happen.
An environmental campaigner, considered to be the driving force behind Italy's zero-waste movement, is one of the winners of the 2013 Goldman Prize.
In addition to Shell and Chevron, the participants include the Environmental Defense Fund, the Clean Air Task Force, the Heinz Endowments, EQT Corp.
So in March members of the Mississippi River Collaborative, an environmental group, filed a lawsuit designed to force all those involved to think about ways to solve the problem.
In addition to Shell, Chevron and the Heinz Endowments, the participants in the new center include the Environmental Defense Fund, the Clean Air Task Force, CONSOL Energy, PennFuture and other groups.
Glover-Weiss said the task force consulted with energy executives, environmental groups, labor unions, consumer groups and a wide array of others as it developed the energy policy driving legislation now moving through Congress.
Environmental groups are now suing the agency and trying to force it to draft tougher regs.
The task force is made up of NOAA, the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Michael Laidlow, the wildlife and rural environmental crime co-ordinator for Kent Police said the force had received anonymous information that the parks may be attacked.
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In fact, investors have become a force in arguing that the economic, social and environmental impacts of business are integrally linked.
Oregon, one of the bluest of the blue states, saw voters overwhelmingly pass an initiative that permits property owners to force government to compensate them for losses resulting from environmental or zoning rules.
Under pressure from customers to produce some sort of environmental strategy for his company, he got a small task-force together.
For a decade now, the Environmental Protection Agency has been using a provision of the Clean Air Act to force dirty, older power plants to clean up.
Tom Natan, at the National Environmental Trust, says that in the past, public disclosure has been a powerful force in getting businesses to reduce air pollution.
The order will force the store, in Colnbrook Court, Colnbrook, to remain closed until environmental health officers are satisfied people shopping there are no longer at risk.
Education is the driving force of human development and has strong benefits forhealth, employment, poverty reduction, environmental awareness, and civic participation.
At a Middle Class Task Force meeting earlier this year, the Vice President asked the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to develop a proposal for Federal action to lay the groundwork for a self-sustaining home energy efficiency retrofit industry.
The collaborative work of the EPA, General Services Administration (GSA), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the dozen additional agencies represented on the e-waste task force that developed the National Strategy over the past eight months is an example to all who manufacture and distribute electronic products.
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The Center for Biological Diversity was one of three environmental groups, including Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council, that sued the federal government to force a decision on the status of the polar bears.
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