environmentalist
noun
en·vi·ron·men·tal·ist
in-ˌvī-rə(n)-ˈmen-tə-ləst 
-ˌvī(-ə)r(n)-
plural environmentalists
: an advocate of environmentalism : a person who is focused on the preservation, restoration, and improvement of the natural environment
While dams have been touted in the name of water conservation and clean, renewable energy, environmentalists have long challenged the claim that dams are "green" technology. The deleterious ecological impacts of dams, they insist, have been profound.—
Patrick Joseph
Patrick JosephMeanwhile, environmentalists have responded that climate change and habitat loss due to development should require builders to think even more carefully about their projects.—Emma Cotton et al.
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The project has sparked outrage because of the location’s pristine nature and unique habitat that would be irreversibly devastated, according to environmentalists.
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Zana Cimili,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2026
In France, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party has opportunistically seized on air-conditioning, portraying it as an urgent quality-of-life issue that moralizing environmentalists and overreaching technocrats have ignored.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
The project has sparked outrage because of the location's pristine nature and unique habitat that would be irreversibly devastated, according to environmentalists.
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ABC News,
28 June 2026
Sediment concerns Sediment from dredging is a concern for environmentalists as well.
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Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
28 June 2026
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Zana Cimili,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2026
In France, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party has opportunistically seized on air-conditioning, portraying it as an urgent quality-of-life issue that moralizing environmentalists and overreaching technocrats have ignored.
—
Thomas Chatterton Williams,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
The project has sparked outrage because of the location's pristine nature and unique habitat that would be irreversibly devastated, according to environmentalists.
—
ABC News,
28 June 2026
Sediment concerns Sediment from dredging is a concern for environmentalists as well.
—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
28 June 2026
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environmentalist
noun
en·vi·ron·men·tal·ist
-ˌvī-rən-ˈment-ᵊl-əst
-ˌvī(-ə)rn-
: a person concerned about environmental quality and especially with controlling pollution
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environmentalist
noun
en·vi·ron·men·tal·ist
-ᵊl-əst
1
: an advocate of environmentalism
2
: one concerned about environmental quality especially of the human environment with respect to the control of pollution
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