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Chevron's filing also cites numerous statutes that refute the plaintiffs» claims that fossil fuels unreasonably interfere with public rights, including the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1992, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Mining and Minerals Policy Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, and the Federal Lands Policy Management Act, all of which specifically call for the production of oil and natural gas within the United States:

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Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cities.

The intent of the plan is to assess and define land management practices, policies, and strategies to develop a unified and relevant approach to guide practice.

Conservation and green infrastructure projects would be pursued, along with improved land management policies.

On the environment, an Akufo - Addo government, he said, would implement a policy that will lead to the effective management of forest reserves, the recovery of millions of acres of land devastated by open - cast and alluvial mining, and the protection of water bodies, stressing that «protecting our environment is a necessity, not an option».

The target, it argued, «does not create any obstacles for social and economic development and corresponds to general objectives of the land - use and sustainable forest management policies, raising the level of energy efficiency, reducing energy intensity of the economy and increasing share of renewables in the Russian energy balance.»

Conservation groups allege that the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Department of Energy failed to consider the spirit of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and also violated the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act.

The organization will also identify gaps in research and highlight tools — such as models — for policy - makers looking to apply a scientific approach to decisions on issues such as land management.

While the long - term effects of cannabis cultivation on the environment are unknown, the researchers concluded that land management and agricultural policy informed by further research may reduce these threats in California and in other states and countries where cannabis production can be regulated.

The findings highlight the urgent need for policy - makers worldwide to re-think the issue as many decision - makers, national and internationally, assume that fossil fuel emissions can be offset through sequestering carbon by planting trees and other land management practices.

Dávalos» team is now working to bring together a larger, interdisciplinary team of colleagues to create an intensive conservation management plan incorporating the expertise of conservation researchers, biologist, ecologists, policy - makers, educators, and land and wildlife management experts to save the last surviving native Caribbean mammals.

And in the 20th century the American Dust Bowl, an ecological catastrophe precipitated by drought and compounded by bad land - management policies, displaced 3.5 million people from the Midwest.

Our research highlights a need for increased understanding of interactions among government policies and local forms of land management.

Robert H. Nelson, a professor of public policy focusing on public lands management at the University of Maryland and a proponent of the federal government transferring federal public lands to the states, said that what's most notable about McMorris Rodgers» nomination is that, unlike other Trump cabinet nominees, she does not appear to be a well - known activist.

«A fire policy that would make more sense is to do a better job of land management planning and try to avoid the hazardous areas for building,» Stephens said.

The second was Compact Development, based on possible land use distribution in the region if authorities had implemented growth management and land conservation policies, such as density incentives and urban growth boundaries.

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Signatories to the letter «urge [d] the development of a Department - wide policy opposing Trap - Neuter - Release and the outdoor feeding of cats as a feral cat management option, coupled with a plan of action to address existing infestations affecting lands managed by the Department of the Interior.»

(ABC and TWS were among the signatories to a letter sent earlier this year to Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, «urg [ing] the development of a Department - wide policy opposing Trap - Neuter - Release and the outdoor feeding of cats as a feral cat management option, coupled with a plan of action to address existing infestations affecting lands managed by the Department of the Interior.»)

Channel Islands National Park enabling legislation, the Wilderness Act, and National Park Service Management Policies require that lands within the park be studied for wilderness designation.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (the same group that last year ran ads saying, «Carbon dioxide... They call it pollution... We call it life) last week excoriated federal officials for generations of bad forest management on federal lands and for state and federal insurance policies that encourage building in fire - prone areas.

Southern California's wildfires feed mostly on dry chaparral lands, having few forests of the kind that CEI advocates burning in their proposals to revamp federal forest management policy.

The executive branch has applied the Federal Land Policy and Management Act to protect other places from new claimstaking, including Yellowstone National Park and Oregon's Coos Bay.

Our results clearly show that land use management is the most important policy action needed to prevent further damage and preserve the reef ecosystem.»

Clearly, forests, agriculture, and land governance must be at the center of Myanmar's forthcoming National Land Use Policy to properly address resource management and land conflicts,» said Michael Jenkins, President and CEO of Forest Trends, a Washington - based non-profit organization that released the repland governance must be at the center of Myanmar's forthcoming National Land Use Policy to properly address resource management and land conflicts,» said Michael Jenkins, President and CEO of Forest Trends, a Washington - based non-profit organization that released the repLand Use Policy to properly address resource management and land conflicts,» said Michael Jenkins, President and CEO of Forest Trends, a Washington - based non-profit organization that released the repland conflicts,» said Michael Jenkins, President and CEO of Forest Trends, a Washington - based non-profit organization that released the report.

Sarah has a keen interest in public - land - management policy, particularly as it relates to the development of renewable energy on public lands.

New policies will go a long way at reducing deaths of humans, animals, and plants from forest fires, and dramatically lower the costs of forest management while increasing the amount of forest land available for recreation and harvesting.

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His work has been published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Land Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics and Policy, Decision Analysis, Environment and Resource Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, as well as other scholarly journals and books.

A land use plan is a set of decisions that establish management direction for land within a BLM administrative area, as prescribed under the planning provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA); it is an assimilation of land - use - plan - level decisions developed through the planning process outlined in 43 CFR 1600, regardless of the scale at which the decisions were develoland use plan is a set of decisions that establish management direction for land within a BLM administrative area, as prescribed under the planning provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA); it is an assimilation of land - use - plan - level decisions developed through the planning process outlined in 43 CFR 1600, regardless of the scale at which the decisions were management direction for land within a BLM administrative area, as prescribed under the planning provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA); it is an assimilation of land - use - plan - level decisions developed through the planning process outlined in 43 CFR 1600, regardless of the scale at which the decisions were develoland within a BLM administrative area, as prescribed under the planning provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA); it is an assimilation of land - use - plan - level decisions developed through the planning process outlined in 43 CFR 1600, regardless of the scale at which the decisions were develoLand Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA); it is an assimilation of land - use - plan - level decisions developed through the planning process outlined in 43 CFR 1600, regardless of the scale at which the decisions were Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA); it is an assimilation of land - use - plan - level decisions developed through the planning process outlined in 43 CFR 1600, regardless of the scale at which the decisions were develoland - use - plan - level decisions developed through the planning process outlined in 43 CFR 1600, regardless of the scale at which the decisions were developed.

Speakers: Kathleen Theoharides, Assistant Secretary of Climate Change, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Massachusetts; Reed Schuler, Senior Policy Advisor to Governor Jay Inslee, Washington State Moderator: Alden Meyer, Union of Concerned Scientists The Big Sink: Large - scale Land Management to Meet Climate Goals Wednesday, November 15th 11:00 - 12:00 Fiji Dome Through a cross-sectoral panel, we will discuss large - scale carbon sequestration through land management, focusing on large landholdLand Management to Meet Climate Goals Wednesday, November 15th 11:00 - 12:00 Fiji Dome Through a cross-sectoral panel, we will discuss large - scale carbon sequestration through land management, focusing on large laManagement to Meet Climate Goals Wednesday, November 15th 11:00 - 12:00 Fiji Dome Through a cross-sectoral panel, we will discuss large - scale carbon sequestration through land management, focusing on large landholdland management, focusing on large lamanagement, focusing on large landholders.

(B) include an assessment of potential for carbon reduction through changes to land management policies (including enhancement or protection of forest carbon sinks);

Among the supporting policies cited by the report are investing in public transportation infrastructure and renewable - based power generation, raising energy efficiency standards, adapting city design and planning, and land and forest management.

Still, the U.S. does need to reform grazing policy and make other improvements to land management.

Parastatal institutions, established in some countries, formulate and implement policies and legislation that coordinate between sectors and to encourage community participation in land and resource management.

The incorporation of climate change adaptation into each urban centre's development planning, infrastructure investments and land - use management is well served by an iterative process within each locality of learning about changing risks and uncertainties that informs an assessment of policy options and decisions.

The adoption of centralized land management policies and legislation system has often brought previously community - oriented land management systems into national frameworks, largely without the consent and involvement of local communities.

Environmental, economic, and social factors have always been among the main considerations of the Santa Margherita Wine Group: we have established land management policies, implemented from Alto Adige down to Sicily; we've made major investments in energy - saving and renewable photovoltaic systems that have revolutionized our largest winery; and we have recently completed a biomass plant.

Land cover information is critical for local, state, and federal managers and officials to assist them with issues such as assessing ecosystem status and health, modeling nutrient and pesticide runoff, understanding spatial patterns of biodiversity, land use planning, deriving landscape pattern metrics, and developing land management policLand cover information is critical for local, state, and federal managers and officials to assist them with issues such as assessing ecosystem status and health, modeling nutrient and pesticide runoff, understanding spatial patterns of biodiversity, land use planning, deriving landscape pattern metrics, and developing land management policland use planning, deriving landscape pattern metrics, and developing land management policland management policies.

(C) changes, if any, to Federal law (including regulations) or policy necessary to address more effectively the siting, development, and management of solar and wind projects on the land.

• Europe — Adaptation policy has been developed across all levels of government, with some adaptation planning integrated into coastal and water management, into environmental protection and land planning, and into disaster risk management.

National policy should require greater emphasis on land areas that are less critical for other productive uses or for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management.

The global ecological overshoot shown in EF calculations [1] has generated an obvious question for policy - makers, scientists, and the public alike: in which ways can we change our natural resource use and land management in order to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, the global overshoot and thereby achieve sustainability?

The National Energy Policy Act of 2005 requires the United States Department of Energy (DOE), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and U.S. Forest Service (USFS), in cooperation with the Departments of Commerce and Defense, to designate new right - of - way corridors on federal lands for electricity transmission and distribution facilities, and oil, gas, and hydrogen pipelines.

In an effort to avoid a repeat of past fire and haze crises, President Joko «Jokowi» Widodo issued several policies governing the management of peatlands, including a land - swap mechanism that allows companies to trade carbon - dense areas in their concessions for lands elsewhere as a means to reduce fire risk.

Socio (s): CBD, IAEA, UNCCD, UNCTAD, UNDESA, UNECLAC, UNHCR, UNU, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aquafed, Conservation International, Global Water Partnership, International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management, International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis, International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation, International Water Association, University of Dundee Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, World Business Council on Sustainable Development, World Water Council

«The role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries; and alternative policy approaches, such as joint mitigation and adaptation approaches for the integral and sustainable management of forests,» is the «+» in «REDD +» — all the other land - use issues associated with farms and fields.

Marland, G., R.A. Pielke, Sr., M. Apps, R. Avissar, R.A. Betts, K.J. Davis, P.C. Frumhoff, S.T. Jackson, L. Joyce, P. Kauppi, J. Katzenberger, K.G. MacDicken, R. Neilson, J.O. Niles, D. dutta S. Niyogi, R.J. Norby, N. Pena, N. Sampson, and Y. Xue, 2003: The climatic impacts of land surface change and carbon management, and the implications for climate - change mitigation policy.