Sentences with phrase «environmental restrictions in»

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And even though these are merely proposed restrictions for now — it's hard to test the constitutionality of a press release, one environmental law academic noted — they could well become a second front in the ongoing battle against transporting bitumen across rivers, alongside lakes and toward oceans.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

There is pressure to ease restrictions and, thus, the well - known race to the bottom in terms of environmental protection and other standards.

«When we built the facility in Nampa, we anticipated that environmental restrictions such as those dictating phosphorous levels would be tighter in the future,» Planter says.

(CNN)-- Gov. Bobby Jindal said Monday that a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency is «on the table» in efforts to counter the Obama administration's proposed restrictions on carbon emission from power plants.

On Monday, Kevin McAllister, the founder of the environmental advocacy group Defend H2O, repeated his call for restrictions on pesticide use in tidal wetlands.

Research scientists question whether the order will reduce international collaborations and remain troubled by confusion surrounding communications restrictions placed on employees of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture, two agencies that have played vital roles in the collection of scientific data on climate change.

In an unusual exercise of its authority under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on December 30 the establishment of a «chemicals of concern» list and action plans that could prompt restrictions on four types of synthetic chemicals used widely in manufacturing and consumer products, including phthalates used to make flexible plastics, often for toys, household products and medical equipmenIn an unusual exercise of its authority under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on December 30 the establishment of a «chemicals of concern» list and action plans that could prompt restrictions on four types of synthetic chemicals used widely in manufacturing and consumer products, including phthalates used to make flexible plastics, often for toys, household products and medical equipmenin manufacturing and consumer products, including phthalates used to make flexible plastics, often for toys, household products and medical equipment.

Beijing had imposed special restrictions on air pollutants, providing a rare opportunity for researchers to do relatively controlled experiments, says David Rich, an environmental epidemiologist at the University of Rochester in New York.

In February 2009, frustrated by industry restrictions on independent research into genetically modified crops, two dozen scientists representing public research institutions in 17 corn - producing states told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the companies producing genetically modified (GM) seed «inhibit public scientists from pursuing their mandated role on behalf of the public good» and warned that industry influence had made independent analyses of transgenic crops impossiblIn February 2009, frustrated by industry restrictions on independent research into genetically modified crops, two dozen scientists representing public research institutions in 17 corn - producing states told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the companies producing genetically modified (GM) seed «inhibit public scientists from pursuing their mandated role on behalf of the public good» and warned that industry influence had made independent analyses of transgenic crops impossiblin 17 corn - producing states told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the companies producing genetically modified (GM) seed «inhibit public scientists from pursuing their mandated role on behalf of the public good» and warned that industry influence had made independent analyses of transgenic crops impossible.

The main reason is the so call American Dream, in other words, the expectation to achieve a socioeconomic level that agrees with a market economy which fulfills the necessity of having and getting more material satisfiers, this means, to have more and better goods and services, mainly made (ironic and paradoxically) in the countries they come from; where environmental restrictions, employment protection, and other laws, are minimal.

As the quality of life is so often defined in terms of material living standards and national income per person, it might seem paradoxical to claim that environmental restrictions on economic growth need not involve sacrificing our quality of life.

Commodity prices may be influenced by unfavorable weather, animal and plant disease, geologic and environmental factors as well as changes in government regulation such as tariffs, embargoes or burdensome production rules and restrictions.

Chabil Mar employs only experienced local fishermen to ensure that spearfishing and scuba diving in protected waters adheres to all environmental restrictions.

In its mixture of platforming and environmental, often physics - based puzzling Curse of Brotherhood actually closely resembles Trine 2, albeit with a lesser sense of freedom when creating solutions due to the tighter restrictions in placIn its mixture of platforming and environmental, often physics - based puzzling Curse of Brotherhood actually closely resembles Trine 2, albeit with a lesser sense of freedom when creating solutions due to the tighter restrictions in placin place.

I just was watching your interview with Michael Shellenberger and reading / listening up on this whole «centrist environmentalist» concept and I have to say, I take issue with people claiming the longtime «left» environmental movement was all about being a culture of restriction and somehow not in tune with the idea that this global warming crisis could lead to newer, alternative, healthy economics of another kind.

Indeed, in this election candidates have felt free to call for explicitly anti-environment actions like the severe restriction — if not the complete elimination — of the EPA, an organization that is intimately connected to the first Earth Day and the modern environmental movement.»

In the meantime, the United States and China, with the world's biggest economies and greenhouse - gas emissions, rejected the pact's mandatory restrictions on the gases and were often portrayed by environmental campaigners as stifling progress.

Some leading lights in environmental science have been pushing their colleagues, and institutions like the National Academies, to come out swinging against the ongoing barrage of assaults from organized opponents of restrictions on greenhouse gases and climate skeptics / contrarians / denialists / realists (pick your label depending on your worldview).

If Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency does not implement restrictions on pesticides advocated in a recent National Marine Fisheries Services report, environmental activists and commercial fisheries hoping to preserve Pacific Northwest stocks of «salmon, sturgeon, orca and other endangered species»Environmental Protection Agency does not implement restrictions on pesticides advocated in a recent National Marine Fisheries Services report, environmental activists and commercial fisheries hoping to preserve Pacific Northwest stocks of «salmon, sturgeon, orca and other endangered species»environmental activists and commercial fisheries hoping to preserve Pacific Northwest stocks of «salmon, sturgeon, orca and other endangered species» may file...

Environmental activists and government bureaucracies are today shameless as they falsify documents, hide research, mislead and obfuscate as they collude to fabricate a case against glyphosate (the key ingredient in Roundup) and thus subject farmers to further restrictions on their ability to provide food to the tables of the American people.

It seems today that along with government policy initiative on the subject through laws and restrictions, the key to active change taking place in environmental protection belongs to businesses.

In his 2009 book, The Real Global Warming Disaster, Booker argues that environmental restrictions will destroy the Western way of life and put Europe and the United States at an economic disadvantage to Asian countries that have not bought into the climate hype.

Yet, most environmental restrictions on the use of land that don't prevent the land owner from using his or her land are not prohibited by property rights in the United States.

Taylor: You mentioned in your ICCC - 9 speech that an environmental activist group — the Natural Resources Defense Council — wrote the blueprint for EPA's recently proposed power plant carbon dioxide restrictions.

The main story of this chapter (1 of 4 in the report) is how environmental groups, despite a history of differences, came together to coordinate their activities in support of cap and trade and how their composition, strategies, restrictions and activities compared to the longstanding alliance of groups opposed to the legislation.

Although the country still possesses great unexplored hydropower potential, most opportunities are located in the Amazon region, very distant from the main consumption centers and where environmental restrictions impose severe limits for energy exploration.

Vattenfall 1 concerned environmental restrictions imposed on a water use permit for a coal power plant in Hamburg, resulting in a suit of over 1 billion euros.

If the ECJ ruling ultimately results in revisiting and tightening the environmental restrictions imposed on the 2010 water use permit, this may very well result in a re-opening of the proceedings before the ICSID tribunal.

As the result of a settlement before a civil court and the ICSID tribunal (ICSID stands for International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes and is a branch of the World Bank) that seized under the Energy Charter Treaty, the German authorities in question had even further watered down the environmental restrictions imposed under the 2008 water use permit.

Isn't the quote rather: «proportionate restrictions inherent in an environmental agreement, without which that agreement would NOT have been concluded (Albany), and restrictions necessary to carry out an environmental regulatory task (Wouters) fall outside the scope of Article 101 (1) TFEU.»?

proportionate restrictions inherent in an environmental agreement, without which that agreement would not have been concluded (Albany), and restrictions necessary to carry out an environmental regulatory task (Wouters) fall outside the scope of Article 101 (1) TFEU.

Representation of a Maryland - based fund with its sale of a senior housing facility in Washington state and its expedited acquisition of an industrial property in Massachusetts with multiple environmental and use restriction issues but a favorable price and a high upside potential due to the tenant opportunities in the space

The increased restrictions were in response to lobbying efforts from a number of environmental organizations.

These are commonly the preliminary documents I ask to check off, reserving the right to seek additional information: ● The most recent title commitment or policy and all related documents ● The most recent ALTA survey and topographic study for the property ● Copies of all blueprints and as - built drawings ● The Zoning Compliance Certificate and all zoning approvals, variances and pending applications ● Declaration of covenants, conditions, restrictions, reservations and easements ● Any third - party engineering and environmental reports, including, but not limited to Phase I and Phase II reports, mold abatement reports and underground storage tank testing and closure reports, NFR letters, appraisals, With Texas being the top state in the US for contributions to state gross domestic product and jobs created / supported by commercial real estate development, how do you recommend the legal sector should change in order to support this growth?

With the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference behind us, it seems like every front page is still devoting most of its real estate to environmental concerns: battles in the U.S. Senate over the Waxman - Markey bill; CO2 reduction targets for various countries; emissions restrictions on the automotive industry.

We encounter these efforts in the form of «scenic view» easements and access easements, as well as strict environmental bylaws and restrictions as to where and how large you can build your cottage or dock.

In this introduction to the land specialty, aspiring land professionals learn the basics of land brokerage, including the various types of land; the land brokerage process; the 1031 tax - deferred exchange process; market value; property rights and restrictions; subdivisions and assemblage; and environmental and regulatory issues.