Sentences with phrase «protection agency this year»

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The project — which was funded by the American Samoa Economic Development Authority, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Interior — was implemented within one year and commenced operations this week.

But despite the Trump administration's call for urgency, data from the Customs and Border Protection agency actually show that arrests for illegal border crossing has been falling for years and now hovers near the bottom of a 40 - year low.

«The agency has a fair amount of latitude to turn the screws up,» said David Vladeck, the former head of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection who signed the consent order which binds Facebook for 20 years.

Europe is has seen 500,000 migrants enter the region so far this year, many fleeing from civil war in Syria in the Middle East, according to Frontex, the EU's border protection agency.

In 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the results of a three - year study of the region.

Last year, the company agreed to pay $ 5.15 billion to the Environmental Protection Agency as part of a settlement in a suit against an Anadarko subsidiary called Tronox, Inc..

The consumer protection agencies were asked what new laws they would like to see passed this year.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt testifies before the House Appropriations Committee during a hearing on the 2019 fiscal year EPA budget at the Capitol on April 26.

A Washington consultant who was removed from President Trump's transition team for using his business email address for government work played a central role last year in planning a trip to Australia for Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and then took steps to disguise his role, new documents show.

«Since the fourth quarter of last year until most recently, we've added almost 50,000 jobs in the coal sector,» Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said...

Richard Smotkin, a lobbyist who secured a contract with the Moroccan government after helping organize Pruitt's trip to Morocco last year, was also a critical link between Environmental Protection Agency officials and a Washington consultant and former lobbyist who helped plan the trip to Australia, the sources said.

Democratic lawmakers lashed out at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday amid a report that the agency was backing off an investigation into a massive data breach at Equifax last year that exposed sensitive data about millions of people.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reported that in the ten years since it implemented water pollution guidelines for Lake Michigan, the quality of lake water has actually improved.

WASHINGTON, DC — Today the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), as part of a coalition of food, farm and oil industry groups, filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking that it reverse the DC Circuit Court's August 2012 decision to dismiss its challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to allow gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol («E15») to be sold for cars manufactured in the 2007 model year or later.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that businesses lose $ 60 billion per year due to lost productivity.

The US Environmental Protection Agency points out that Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.5 °F over the past century, and is projected to rise another 0.5 to 8.6 °F over the next hundred years.

Trending Story: California releases five - year water plan As California experiences one of the driest winters on record, the California Natural Resources Agency, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture released the final California Water Action Plan, laying out goals and vision for the next five years... Today's News -LSB-...]

California releases five - year water plan As California experiences one of the driest winters on record, the California Natural Resources Agency, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture released the final California Water Action Plan, laying out goals and vision for the next five years...

For the 10th year running, ITW Food Equipment Group is being recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its commitment to energy efficiency.ITW Food Equipment Group has earned the EPA's ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year — Sustained Excellence Award for 2017, the agency's highest industry hoyear running, ITW Food Equipment Group is being recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its commitment to energy efficiency.ITW Food Equipment Group has earned the EPA's ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year — Sustained Excellence Award for 2017, the agency's highest industry Agency (EPA) for its commitment to energy efficiency.ITW Food Equipment Group has earned the EPA's ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year — Sustained Excellence Award for 2017, the agency's highest industry hoYear — Sustained Excellence Award for 2017, the agency's highest industry agency's highest industry honor.

Every year since 2008, ITW Food Equipment Group has been proud to be named the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR ® Partner of the Yyear since 2008, ITW Food Equipment Group has been proud to be named the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR ® Partner of the YearYear.

A 50 - year - tradition will resume in Naperville, now that the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has issued a permit allowing trapshooting at Sportsman's Park.

I / we agree that if any material change (s) occur (s) in my / our financial condition that I / we will immediately notify BSHFC of said change (s) and unless Baby Safe Homes Franchise Corporation is so notified it may continue to rely upon the application and financial statement and the representations made herein as a true and accurate statement of my / our financial condition.nI / we authorize Baby Safe Homes Franchise Corporation to make whatever credit inquiries / background checks it deems necessary in connection with this application and financial statement.nI / we authorize and instruct any person or consumer reporting agency to furnish to BSHFC any information that it may have to obtain in response to such credit inquiries.nIn consideration of the ongoing association between Baby Safe Homes and the undersigned applicant (hereinafter u201cApplicantu201d), the parties hereto have entered into this Non-Disclosure and Non-Competition Agreement.nWHEREAS, in the course of its business operations, Baby Safe Homes provides its customers products and services which, by nature of the business, include trade secrets, confidential and proprietary information, and other matters deemed material or important enough to warrant protection; and WHEREAS, Applicant, by reason of his / her interest in Baby Safe Homes and in the course of his / her duties, has access to said secrets and confidential information; and WHEREAS, Baby Safe Homes has trade secrets and other confidential and proprietary information, including procedures, customer lists, and particular desires or needs of such customers to which Applicant has access in the course of his / her duties as an Applicant.nNow, therefore, in consideration of the premises contained herein, the parties agree as follows Applicant shall not, either during the time of his / her franchise evaluation with Baby Safe Homes or at any time thereafter either directly or indirectly, communicate, disclose, reveal, or otherwise use for his / her own benefit or the benefit of any other person or entity, any trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information obtained by Employee by virtue of his / her employment with Baby Safe Homes, in any manner whatsoever, any such information of any kind, nature, or description concerning any matters affecting or relating to the Baby Safe Homes business, or in the business of any of its customers or prospective customers, except as required in the course of his / her employment by Baby Safe Homes or except as expressly authorized Baby Safe Homes Franchise Corporation, in writing.nDuring any period of evaluation with Baby Safe Homes, and for two (2) years thereafter, Applicant shall not, directly or indirectly, induce or influence, divert or take away, or attempt to divert or take away and, during the stated period following termination of employment, call upon or solicit, or attempt to call upon or solicit, any of the customers or patrons Baby Safe Homes including, but not limited to, those upon whom he / she was directly involved, or called upon, or catered to, or with whom became acquainted while engaged in the franchise evaluation process of a Baby Safe Homes franchise business.

The exhibit also includes memorabilia from the 50 - plus years of Schulz's work, such as strips featuring «Farmer Snoopy» at work outdoors and Charlie Brown's battle with the Environmental Protection Agency in the late 1970s.

OAK PARK — The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has directed Commonwealth Edison and Nicor Gas to revise the plan for removing coal tar and benzene from the site of a former gas manufacturing plant in south Oak Park that for years has been a community park.

In a draft report released earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency estimated that over 5 percent of children consume more than 6 micrograms per day of lead — the maximum daily intake level set by the Food and Drug Administration in 1993 — in their diet.

And a 1998 study by the Environmental Protection Agency found that diapers made up 3.4 million tons of waste, or 2.1 percent of U.S. garbage in landfills that year.

MPs also raised concerns that the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre is having its budget cut by ten per cent over four years and warned that it could lose its focus when it is merged with the National Crime Agency.

Trump's Environmental Protection Agency head, Scott Pruitt, is in hot water for spending much of his first year in Washington, D.C. living in a Capitol Hill townhouse co-owned by the wife of a major energy lobbyist.

Algae amounts detected by the Cayuga County Health Department in the Auburn water supply last year were «below the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency health advisory level for short - term exposure,» per Syracuse.com.

A former staffer at the Environmental Protection Agency, «I have 40 years of experience as an environmental leader,» he said.

This year, Borough President James Oddo said he worked to restore some brush fire units to FDNY houses in the borough and was working on restarting talks to develop a new Community Wildfire Protection Plan with city and state agencies.

ALBANY — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been at odds with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration over a number of high - profile issues in recent years, including a Tappan Zee bridge construction loan, oil trains in the Port of Albany and the cleanup of the Hudson River.

Michelle Baker, who lives outside the village limits, attended a rally at the New York State Capitol in November 2016 — the one - year anniversary of when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency first warned the Village of Hoosick Falls to issue a do - not - drink order.

This year's First Congressional District candidates both agree more needs to be done to protect the area's natural resources, but how the Environmental Protection Agency goes about making that happen is where they disagree.

Mr. Van Scoyoc got more than 60 percent of the vote, according to the board of elections website, and Ms. Burke - Gonzalez was the top vote - getter in the town board race, with a nearly 15 - point lead over her nearest Republican challenger, Paul Giardina, a nuclear engineer who retired last year from a post at the Environmental Protection Agency.

And even as multiple wells in nearby Hoosick Falls tested positive for elevated and potentially dangerous levels of the same toxic chemical more than a year ago, state health department employees suggested a delay in reporting results and did not initially recommend a wider outreach to the public, according to emails between state, county and federal officials, some of which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

The state's fact sheet does not cite the most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency health advisory on PFOA, which came out in May after five years of research and directly connects a series of health problems to PFOA.

The House oversight chairman is blasting the head of the Environmental Protection Agency for allowing a dangerous water contamination problem to spiral out of control in New York for nearly a year before the agency took aAgency for allowing a dangerous water contamination problem to spiral out of control in New York for nearly a year before the agency took aagency took action.

«Earlier this year, Governor Cuomo joined Governor Peter Shumlin of Vermont and Governor Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire in calling on the federal Environmental Protection Agency to acknowledge that PFOA contamination is not a state or regional problem, but rather a national problem that requires consistent federal guidelines.

And in recent years they have resisted attempts to introduce an independent environmental protection agency, instead proposing to introduce an advisory division within the environment department.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday indicated it was nearing the end of its cleanup of PCB - laden sediment from the Hudson River as the agency announced the public comment period for a second five - year review of the prAgency on Thursday indicated it was nearing the end of its cleanup of PCB - laden sediment from the Hudson River as the agency announced the public comment period for a second five - year review of the pragency announced the public comment period for a second five - year review of the project.

Multiple law enforcement and city and state consumer protection agencies jointly announced a broad - ranging indictment of nine fuel oil companies in a multi-year scheme to shortchange New York City residents, businesses and city agencies for the costs of heating oil to the tune of $ 18 million a year.

Turner said that if it were up to him, he would cut federal spending by 35 percent — including gutting the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and slashing the budget of the U.S. Department of Education — which he said would take about seven to 10 years to accomplish.

«We have had more than 100 days of President Trump, and I can not point to one positive accomplishment,» said Judith Enck, a Poestenkill resident who was a regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the Obama administration until this year.

In 2014, the DEC and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a $ 136 million, 15 - year plan to reduce the amount of combined sewer overflows by up to 90 percent.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and dozens of Long Island elected officials are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to stop the Army Corp of Engineers» plan to continue to dump dredged materials into Long Island Sound for the next 30 years.

A study last year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency raised similar concerns about groundwater contamination.

DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos says dredging improved the Hudson but the federal Environmental Protection Agency needs to re-evaluate the six - year project and get objective analysis in its ongoing review of fish, water and sediment data.

The House oversight chairman, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, is blasting the head of the Environmental Protection Agency for allowing a dangerous water contamination problem to spiral out of control in New York for nearly a year before the agency took aAgency for allowing a dangerous water contamination problem to spiral out of control in New York for nearly a year before the agency took aagency took action.

Dr Sheldon Stone presented the findings from a major three - year trial led by researchers at University College London, in partnership with the Health Protection Agency, showing that giving one - to - one feedback to healthcare workers makes them twice as likely to clean their hands or use soap.