President Bill Clinton outlined the environmental policy view last October, and asked Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to prepare the specific proposal -- which was to be released later Tuesday afternoon in Phoenix.
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Sixty-four percent of voters surveyed view environmental issues as very or somewhat important, according to the poll.
The gains, from the environmental point of view, have not been huge, but neither have the losses.
Davy Jones is in 20 feet of water, which seems good to me from an environmental point of view.
It encourages direct innovation with human needs and environmental imperatives in view.
Built-in measures to make vessels more efficient are increasingly important believes Knudsen, as there is a growing awareness in the industry that it needs to take a long view on its environmental impact.
For example, Merrill Lynch shares the view of many environmental and conservation NGOs that the most effective way to address deforestation which is responsible for 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions is to create a financial incentive to keep forests standing.
Krupp, whose organization is known for its partnerships with corporations like Walmart to advance its environmental goals, takes a more nuanced view.
Now the bad news: many Americans still view solar as a solution to environmental woes rather than high utility bills.
So has the view that the trend could have serious environmental ramifications.
These four principles illustrate that the concept of sustainable development in the Earth Charter embraces the view that the problems of poverty, environmental degradation, ethnic and religious conflict, and social injustice are all interdependent, and that policies that address one problem can impact and improve other issues.
On board PANGAEA, Mike is leading the Young Explorers Program (YEP), an ongoing sailing expedition around the world that exposes teenagers to real-life, harsh environment adventures, while at the same time giving them a personal view and the ability to act on important environmental issues around our planet.
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Martin Palmer, of the British-based Alliance of Religions and Conservation, says faiths often have the clearest view of the social and economic aspects of an environmental problem.
In my view, injecting this post-consumerist perspective into environmental and energy policy would not address the gravamen of the global warming problem, which is not over-consumption but under-consumption.
This view is echoed by Robert Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Duke University in the US, who has published research on ground water contamination through hydraulic fracturing.
And as the Environmental Audit Committee (at 2.15pm) prepares to give its view on whether neonicotinoid pesticides should be banned, the German chemical giant Bayer is summoned back to Parliament to explain inconsistencies in its previous evidence on how long they can linger in the environment.
Depending on the point of view, zombies may result from an act of God, the irresponsible use of science, an environmental disaster, a cosmic event and so forth.
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