How to Use environmentalist in a Sentence

environmentalist

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  • The greatest threat to our forests has been the environmentalists, led by the Sierra Club.
    — WSJ, 11 June 2023
  • As a longtime Maui environmentalist, Tina Lia wants to save the birds.
    — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • But when the agency came knocking, the chance to slow the flow of trash into one of the largest public landfills in the country was hard for O’Keefe, an ardent environmentalist, to turn down.
    — Susan Shain, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
  • But when the agency came knocking, the chance to slow the flow of trash into one of the largest public landfills in the country was hard for Mr. O’Keefe, an ardent environmentalist, to turn down.
    — Susan Shain, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2023
  • But the power of the courts is clearly becoming one more arrow in the environmentalists’ quiver.
    — TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
  • John Weisheit, a river runner and environmentalist, moved from Phoenix to Moab, Utah, decades ago to escape growth and enjoy the river.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Among the crowd that spilled out of the large tent where Hariharan performed was Snigdha Kar, an environmentalist, and her 7-year-old daughter, Shreyashri.
    — Mujib Mashal Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The gift shop at the Louisville Zoo is filled with adventure toys for the tiny environmentalist and animal lover in your family.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Now, there’s a trend that has been gaining momentum in the past few years among gardeners and environmentalists: No Mow May.
    — Ashley Soebroto, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
  • Most environmentalists agree that the 1872 mining law needs to be updated and there are several bills in Congress that would do so.
    — Time, 17 July 2023
  • William became heir apparent less than three months ago with the death of his grandmother, the queen, but he already has been crowned Britain's chief environmentalist.
    — Michael Casey, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The concern now, among the community and environmentalists alike, is that vinyl chloride will leach its way into the 14-state Ohio River Basin.
    — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Feb. 2023
  • But that still isn’t enough for some environmentalists.
    — Andrew Follett, National Review, 14 Dec. 2023
  • City leaders want to remake the Sepulveda Basin with new walking trails and open space, but the plan has been criticized by some environmentalists.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • They’re touted by environmentalists and the government as a way to clear some of the toxic smog that often chokes metropolises across the country.
    — Michelle Toh, CNN, 22 Aug. 2023
  • But environmentalists there and elsewhere have raised alarms about the ability of such public systems to handle some of those toxins.
    — Jesse McKinley Lauren Petracca, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • King Charles was an early adopter of climate change messaging and is a keen environmentalist.
    — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2023
  • Yet the resources and chemicals needed for pristine emerald turf have made the sport an environmentalists’ bête noire.
    — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • On your carbon capture effort you’ve been dissed not just by environmentalists but by your fellow CEOs in the oil industry.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Biden’s critics say the move was made to appease environmentalists during an election year.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The danger to environmentalists in Colombia is real: As of 2022, the nation topped the list of countries that had the most murders of environmental activists.
    — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Timothy Treadwell, an environmentalist and a filmmaker who lived with brown bears in Alaska for thirteen summers, loved the bears, thought of them as his friends, his kith and his kin.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • The fact is, radical environmentalists have locked up our forests, killed Montana timber jobs and are making the wildfire crisis worse.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 21 July 2023
  • Among environmentalists and the companies alike, wind power was a top focus in 2023.
    — Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2023
  • Jet-setting environmentalists should be no exception to elite flight shaming—or flygskam, to use the rapidly spreading Swedish term for it.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 2 May 2023
  • The nonbiodegradable material has been in the crosshairs of environmentalists for decades.
    — Ben Botkin, oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Silva is an environmentalist and a former candidate for the Green Party in past elections in Brazil.
    — Laura Millan, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Tribes and environmentalists cheered the judge’s ruling as a long-overdue remedy.
    — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Germany’s Green politicians are not the only ones who have been forced to make decisions that alienate environmentalists.
    — WIRED, 23 June 2023
  • So, too, are environmentalists, who support renewable energy but want to be assured that the deep ocean turbines are not harming whales, fish and birds.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023

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