By the late 1960s, the United States was confronted with the environmental threat presented by gasoline-powered automobiles.
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Ms. SNIDER: Well, I think for a lot of folks it has to do with the environmental impact.
They reached an agreement with labor, with management, with the environmental groups, to double car mileage in the next few years.
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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Dawn Undurraga, a nutritionist who works with the Environmental Working Group, an organization that released its own analysis of the report Monday, would agree.
With the environmental benefits of a hybrid come environmental costs: 30 extra pounds of copper, mostly in the motor windings, and 22 pounds of nickel in the battery.
The move was forced by a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency, after environmental groups including the Sierra Club brought suit against TVA for air pollution.
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And we will continue to make sure that all is being done to plug the leak and to deal with the environmental and economic consequences of what that pollution has caused.
That's a complex issue which will also be examined in a tribunal hearing on Tuesday about whether privatised water companies have to release data in compliance with the Environmental Information Regulations.
Regular readers of this blog will remember Petropoulos as one of 51 Climate Corp Fellows who trained with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) last summer and interned with host companies to work on energy efficiency solutions.
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In the U.S. generic companies can sell off-patent products immediately, but they have to compensate the company that originally registered the chemical with the Environmental Protection Agency--Monsanto in this case--for the data showing the product's safety and efficacy.
It is not the leadership style in a vacuum that is as important as selecting the right leader based upon aligning style with the environmental, situational and contextual circumstances of the time, along with the mission at hand.
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Mark Brownstein, an associate vice president with the Environmental Defense Fund, said many oil and gas companies claim to be leaders in protecting the environment, and "this can be one opportunity for them to demonstrate that leadership" by submitting to an audit.
Tighter diesel fuel standards could help reduce vehicle emissions by as much as 15%, according to Yue Xin, head of the vehicle fuels and emissions lab at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, which is affiliated with the Environmental Protection Ministry.
The two documents are proof that "EPA officials were aware of the severity of the danger at Ground Zero in contrast to their public statements at the time, " said Joel Kupferman, an environmental lawyer with the Environmental Justice Project who obtained the documents through Freedom of Information Act requests.
All in all, we are confronting the largest environmental disaster in our history with the largest environmental response and recovery effort in our history.
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And we also worked at the time with EMA, the Environmental Media Association.
Earth Day was first celebrated in 1970 and coincided with the founding of the Environmental Protection Agency by the Nixon Administration.
As Mastro and his associates made their way through the trove of material on Donziger, the information that most interested them had to do with the independent environmental-damages expert, Richard Cabrera.
But the Woodland Trust warned that conservation groups were potentially on a collision course with the government over the environmental impact on the HS2 high-speed rail route between London and Birmingham.
The Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) has long-established links with the country including the China Bridge Project, which is aimed at tackling environmental issues like global food security as well as a collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences based on the environmental sciences.
Leaders in the business community are standing with leaders in the environmental community to protect the economy and the planet we leave for our children.
"We are also working on aviation, and have started a discussion with the industry and environmental groups to see how the environmental costs of aviation can be taken account of and where appropriate, reduced, " he said.
Plymouth Bio-Fuels is the only outlet in Devon and there are only about 30 Bio-Fuel factories around the UK at the moment, but they are increasing in number with the support of environmental groups like Friends of the Earth.
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Until the U.S. catches up with Europe in the environmental regulations arena, I would like to congratulate the companies that have earned top honors in the Newsweek 2011 Green Rankings.
What these responses point to, however, is a continued sense of reluctance across senior leadership to combine the social and environmental with the corporate.
"It goes all the way -- the furthest you can actually see, " said Philip Ochieng, a research scientist who is working with the government to mitigate the environmental problems caused by hyacinth.
Beckett Rankine said the location could support a 24-hour airport with four runways and did not have the environmental and logistical issues that came with proposals for an airport in the Thames Estuary.
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Perhaps because safety is one of the criteria, along with progressive environmental policies, the survey favors small to medium-sized cities like Vancouver.
While the panelists highlighted several paradigms that come with infusing the traditional 10-K with environmental and social information, each had a common objective: To explain why they chose to publish sustainability reports and how they countered the challenges that emerged along the way.
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