Sentences with phrase «protection agency office»

Today Kathy and Anna joined a crowd of parents marching and delivering more than 10,000 petitions to the Environmental Protection Agency office in Tempe demanding strong clean air protections at NGS.

In 2001, Holmstead was appointed to Assistant Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Air and Radiation, where he played a key role in the George W. Bush administration's efforts to roll back clean air and climate change protections.

I actually got started in the broader field of sustainability ethics and worked at the United Nations under the Clinton administration as the program manager for United Nations organizations at the Environmental Protection Agency Office of International Policy on all the Rio Earth Summit issues, namely Agenda 21, the Biodiversity Convention, the UNFCCC, the Forests agreements, and Toxic Substances.

Not exact matches

A former aide to Scott Pruitt told members of Congress new details about the head of the Environmental Protection Agency's extravagant spending habits, which include the purchase of bulletproof weapons and vests, and leasing art from the Smithsonian for his office.

Since taking office, President Trump has pulled the country out of the Paris climate change accord, proposed cutting the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by 26 percent, and placed tariffs on solar panels imported from countries like China and South Korea.

Find out if the company has received complaints by contacting local and government authorities, such as a local consumer protection agency, the attorney general's office, the FTC and the Better Business Bureau.

«I'd like to set the record straight: Neither I nor anyone in my office has spoken with the president or any high - level member of the Trump administration, including Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, regarding government business since August.»

Last month the UK's data protection agency obtained a warrant to enter and search the offices of Cambridge Analytica — as part of an ongoing investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes which it kicked off in May 2017.

Moews said he was grateful that District Attorney John Chisholm created a witness protection program within his agency, since the county was left without one when Clarke shuttered his office's program.

Located nearby at Kiosk 10 is The United States Patent and Trademark Office, the federal agency responsible for promoting an understanding of intellectual property protection both domestically and globally.

Also responding to the scene were the Central Lincoln County Ambulance Service, Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency, Lincoln County Hazardous Materials Decontamination Team, Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, and Maine Department of Environmental Protection, as well as Blagden Towing, Central Maine Power Co., Clean Harbors, Colby & Gale Inc., Diesel Direct, and Hagar Enterprises Inc..

By Jane Nishida, Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of International and Tribal Affairs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

The organization works cooperatively with provincial Child Find offices and agencies involved in the area of child protection and is governed by a voluntary Board of Directors.

Mass Audubon has collaborated in a National Wildlife Federation (NWF) habitat restoration project on the North Shore, the Great Marsh Resiliency Partnership, which was selected by the New England office of the US Environmental Protection Agency to receive a 2017 Environmental Merit Award.

-- Mass Audubon has collaborated in a National Wildlife Federation (NWF) habitat restoration project on the North Shore, the Great Marsh Resiliency Partnership, which was selected by the New England Office of the US Environmental Protection Agency to receive a 2017 Environmental Merit Award.

New York State is preparing to sue the Environmental Protection Agency over its decision to permanently allow dumping of dredged material in the Long Island Sound, according to a press release from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office.

Today, the federal Environmental Protection Agency's Region 2 office rejected the diversion of $ 481m of these dedicated clean water funds, while approving $ 29.1 m.

If the immigration exemption stays in the Data Protection Bill, agencies including the Home Office will have the virtually limitless ability to process data without transparency or oversight — with no need for suspicion of criminal activity as long as they cite «immigration control».

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt all met with officials from the White House counsel's office and the Cabinet liaison.

Cuomo's office said the state Department of Health worked with local agencies to ensure the toxins didn't exceed the health advisory levels established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Criminal investigators from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Feb. 9 searched the downtown Buffalo offices of Paladino's Ellicott Development Co. and took away a number of documents to determine whether there have been problems with asbestos removal at the company's other projects.

But the governor's office, in turn, has pointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's shifting regulations for safe levels of PFOA in drinking water, a cancer - linked chemical found in the water there.

The deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last night sued President Trump in order to block Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney from taking over as acting director of the agency.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Thursday announced his office would investigate accusations from the Environmental Protection Agency luxury car maker Fiat Chrysler violated clean air standards.

Former Hudson Valley Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey, in his first major public appearance since retiring from office in January, says he just penned a letter to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo asking him to wait for the results of a study from the Environmental Protection Agency on the impacts of fracking before deciding whether to allow high - volume hydraulic fracturing in the state.

Since taking office, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has maintained agency staffing, enhanced funding for the Environmental Protection Fund and provided critical infrastructure funding, which support important environmental programs and projects.

Judith Enck, regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, declined comment because she said her office has not received a copy of the agreement.

The board also shrugged off concerns raised by the regional office of the Environmental Protection Agency, which has since disallowed $ 482 million of the spending.

These functions include a variety of activities which assist both governmental agencies and the general public, such as: (1) Review and approve and sign street acquisition and damage maps for Department of Transportation (DOT) and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP); (2) Review and approve street alteration maps; (3) Review and ensure the maintenance of survey monument information; (4) Review and ensure maintenance of street grade and elevation data for the Borough; (5) Issuance of street house numbers and the management of the topographical record room; (6) Present new revenue stream ideas and develop the fee structure for topography services and a system to collect, maintain and reconcile said fees; and (7) Work with the Office of Management and Budget, the Comptroller's Office and other Borough President's Offices to ensure that the fee structure and collection system is compatible and appropriate.

«And this is why I appealed directly to the inspectors general of both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission so that they could review all the steps of the permitting process that were possibly tainted by the undue influence from a top - ranking person in the governor's office.»

Rep. Elise StefanikElise Marie StefanikYoung GOP lawmakers push for fresh approach GOP lawmakers back discharge petition to force immigration votes House Republicans reserve millions in early air time MORE (R - N.Y.) is calling on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittHillicon Valley: Facebook, Google struggle to block terrorist content Cambridge Analytica declares bankruptcy in US Company exposed phone location data Apple starts paying back taxes to Ireland Overnight Energy: Pruitt taps man behind «lock her up» chant for EPA office Watchdog to review EPA email policies Three Republicans join climate caucus Six steps Pruitt must take on his legal defense fund to avoid another scandal MORE to resign.

2011 - 12 AMS Legislative Branch Fellow Richard Yamada is the new deputy assistant administrator for the Office of Research and Development at the Environmental Protection Agency.

«Heat has the ability to affect so many people,» says Rupa Basu, an epidemiologist with the California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment in Oakland.

«The lack of a modern glossary for resistance was recently brought to our attention by an initiative of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeking input on definitions of terms about resistance,» said Dr. Mark Whalon, one of the co-authors from Michigan State University, who directs the online Arthropod Pesticide Resistance Database and who also serves as the Entomological Society of America's Liaison to the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs.

Update: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) submitted a draft rule on «Strengthening Transparency and Validity in Regulatory Science» to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the White House's Office of Managment and Budget on 19 April, reports E&E News.

«The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) might all lay claim,» Servick wrote, and «many new technologies don't fit neatly into the purview of one office,» according to a report from the Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington, D.C. — based think tank.

The research was conducted by Ray Grizzle, research professor of zoology at the UNH School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering; Krystin Ward, research assistant at the UNH Jackson Estuarine Laboratory; Chris Peter, research associate at the UNH Jackson Estuarine Laboratory; and Mark Cantwell, David Katz, and Julia Sullivan with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development.

Robert Walker, the Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the House of Representatives Science Committee, wants to create a Department of Science, merging NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the US Geological Survey, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and parts of the Department of Energy into a mega cabinet aAgency, the US Geological Survey, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and parts of the Department of Energy into a mega cabinet agencyagency.

Apart from the nine members of the Coronavirus Study Group, the authors include Zaki, Fouchier, Saudi Deputy Minister for Public Health Ziad Memish, Caroline Brown of the World Health Organization's (WHO's) European office in Copenhagen, and Maria Zambon of the U.K. Health Protection Agency, who identified the second known coronavirus case in September.

Although the act remains on the books, the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Noise Abatement and Control lost its funding in 1982.

Federal protections are difficult to enforce and improve effectively throughout the federal government, in part because no single authority or office oversees research protections across all government agencies and departments.

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131 pp., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, Washington, D.C. URL Detail ↩

The National Association of Science Writers sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week to comment on an unusual and restrictive press office episode that affected science reporters at several environmental news organizations.

On the opposite hand, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has mentioned that silver - mercury amalgam scraps from dental offices is poisonous waste and can't be put in the trash or sewer.

Sponsors: The research was funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science's Integrated Assessment Research Program, National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, and the EPA STAR Graduate Fellowship.

The Office of Planetary Protection is like an interplanetary Environmental Protection Agency, with a mission «to minimize the biological contamination that may result from exploring the solar system.»

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards and Office of Research and Development.

If your office generates too much for staff to haul once a week, ask your local environmental protection agency to recommend a private carter or hauler.

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