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However the "Group of Ten" (or "Big Green") have been preeminent since the late 20th century: Sierra Club, Audubon, National Wildlife Federation, Environmental Defense Fund, Friends of the Earth, Izaak Walton League, The Wilderness Society, National Parks Conservation Association, Natural Resources Defense Council and Earthjustice. [3]
By the end of the day, Live Oak Environmental brought two more large dumpsters. “What is happening at Oak Meadows is injustice. Plain and simple,” said Ho-Sang, “It is a human rights ...
An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces. In this sense the environment may refer to the biophysical environment or the natural environment.
The Kingston Fossil Plant Spill was an environmental and industrial disaster that occurred on December 22, 2008, when a dike ruptured at a coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion US gallons (4.2 million cubic metres) of coal fly ash slurry.
EMS Environmental Management System; ENTRUST The European Trust Scheme Regulatory Body; ENCAMS Environmental Campaigns (umbrella name for former Going for Green and Tidy Britain Group) EP Environmental Permit; EPA Environmental Protection Act or Environmental Protection Agency; EPERN Electronic Packaging Waste Export Recovery Notes
A Southern California environmental group is suing the U.S. Forest Service for allowing bottled water company BlueTriton Brands to pipe water out of the San Bernardino National Forest.
In 1997, GTS Duratek acquired the Scientific Ecology Group (SEG). In 2000, the company purchased the nuclear services business arm of Waste Management Inc. [ 13 ] One year later, the company announced that it was dropping GTS from its name, and was once again known as Duratek .
Quercus douglasii, known as blue oak, is a species of oak endemic to California, common in the Coast Ranges and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. [4] It is California's most drought-tolerant deciduous oak, [5] and is a dominant species in the blue oak woodland ecosystem. It is occasionally known as mountain oak and iron oak. [6] [7]