And, following a challenge from Transport 2000 and other environmental pressure groups, the decision is to be judicially reviewed.
Decades of pressure from environmental pressure groups have created our calcified permitting process.
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Other attention-getting IPCC assertions turn out to have been based on the work of environmental pressure groups and popular magazines.
But greens are split: Greenpeace, a big environmental pressure group which opposed sending the Clemenceau to India, supports scrapping the ship in Hartlepool instead.
The environmental pressure also raised the prospect of costly delays, to the ire of the customers who have pre-purchased much of the anticipated gas.
Human rights and environmental pressure groups have campaigned against BP, Dow Chemical - which now owns the firm behind the Bhopal gas leak disaster in 1984 - and Rio Tinto.
Ministers planned to publish the bill last year, but when an environmental pressure group won a court case arguing that the government's consultation on nuclear power had been misleading, the bill was shelved and the consultation re-run.
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In its ruling Wednesday, the Hague Civil Court rejected most of a landmark case brought by Nigerian farmers and environmental pressure group Friends of the Earth against Shell, saying the leaking pipelines were was caused by saboteurs, not Shell negligence.
Environmental groups pressure tech companies to locate their data centers in places where green power is available or where less energy will be required to cool the plant.
Some 180 nations and thousands of environmental and industry pressure groups are expected to take part in the conference.
Environmental campaigners say that pressure has forced the commission's hand.
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Thanks to pressure from environmental activist groups, a 2007 law passed by the Democrat-controlled Congress and signed by Republican President George W. Bush will make the sale of standard incandescent 100-watt bulbs illegal effective January 1, 2012, 75-watt bulbs on Jan. 1, 2013, and 60- and 40-watt bulbs as of Jan. 1, 2014.
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Messrs Brennan and Johnson also worry that political activists, such as trade unions and environmental groups, will put pressure on fund managers.
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Right now the focus is on humidity, temperature and barometric pressure, though other environmental variables would be relatively trivial to tack on.
And the grumbling about vehicle fuel economy is getting loud enough that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is coming under pressure to change the way the fuel economy numbers are calculated, something it hasn't done since 1984.
Environmental groups suggest the whaling decision may add to pressure on the economy.
This will also reduce the financial pressure on working families, improve our environmental health, make us a more competitive global economy, and accelerate our efforts to become more energy independent.
The move came in response to a Greenpeace initiative called the Unfriend Coal Campaign, in which the environmental group enlisted 700, 000 online activists to pressure Facebook to power its data centers with clean energy instead of coal.
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Obama organized residents at Altgeld Gardens to pressure the city to improve education and dangerous environmental conditions in the area.
Under pressure from customers to produce some sort of environmental strategy for his company, he got a small task-force together.
Nasdaq OMX and four other bourses said they would pressure listed companies into disclosing details of their environmental and social footprints.
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Kamholz was accused of instructing an employee, prior to a 2009 inspection by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to conceal the fact that an unreported pressure relief emitted coke oven gas directly in the air, a violation of its operating permit.
The Department of Energy is releasing supplies from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to limit disruptions of supplies to oil refineries, which "will help take some pressure off of gas prices, " and the Environmental Protection Agency has waived rules requiring low-pollution blends in some areas in order to increase availability of gas and diesel, he said.
That, along with tougher environmental rules and alternatives such as wind and solar will keep the pressure on coal.
"I think in the 1970s, environmental protection was driven by people who believed in strong advocacy and focused political pressure, " said Paul Portney, economist and president of Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan institute studying the environment.
And despite pressure from on-high, plenty of manufacturers show little regard for the environmental argument, says Satkar Gidda, of the branding and packaging firm Siebert Head.
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