Sentences with phrase «u.s. environmental working»

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found in 2015 that Volkswagen manipulated software so that diesel emissions controls worked only when cars were on test stands.

Obama is directing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to work with existing and new power plants to develop emission standards, according to a blueprint for the proposals from the White House.

I'm pleased to have been part of a very constructive discussion on how we can all work together on policies that support a strong and competitive U.S. economy, create jobs and address safety and environmental issues.

BP, the company that caused the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, has opted to funnel tens of millions of dollars through state governments rather than private charities doing the bulk of the work in the Gulf Coast region....

This kind of work is instrumental in getting the message out and helping U.S. households save money and reduce food waste and its environmental impact.

As the voice of the flexible packaging industry, FPA works with regulators at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and other U.S. regulatory agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission and Food and Drug Administration to share industry positions and minimize regulatory burden on the flexible packaging industry.

Organic baby food isn't the reason we still haven't had a female president and some women's decision to use cloth over disposable diapers for environmental reasons isn't having any impact on the fact that working women in the U.S. are often back on the production line only a few weeks after giving birth.

Emily has also served as a consultant for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, working to tell the stories behind their work and shed light on how public programs and services can make a difference in the lives of Americans from all walks of life.

«With the Trump Administration and their allies in Congress working to gut the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and rollback key environmental protections and safeguards that prevent people from getting sick and dying, it is gratifying to know that there are leaders in Washington standing up to prevent such recklessness,» the lEnvironmental Protection Agency and rollback key environmental protections and safeguards that prevent people from getting sick and dying, it is gratifying to know that there are leaders in Washington standing up to prevent such recklessness,» the lenvironmental protections and safeguards that prevent people from getting sick and dying, it is gratifying to know that there are leaders in Washington standing up to prevent such recklessness,» the letter states.

Vanderbeek has a wealth of experience with respect to facilities and water supply planning, having successfully worked with major governmental agencies including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, as well as Rockland Countys towns and villages.

Judith Enck, a former regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who is working with Bennington College on the informal survey, welcomed the additional efforts by the state and characterized the timing of the agency's announcement on Tuesday as «curious.»

Wisconsin contractors can go to a state department, rather than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to get a license to work on projects that involve lead paint removal.

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.

She worked for President Bill Clinton as Deputy Communications Director at the White House during his administration «to help restore Mr. Clinton's image in the aftermath of (his) impeachment and Monica Lewinsky», [2] and as Associate Administrator for Communications at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The only other official whose disclosure form identified outside income was then - environmental deputy secretary Basil Seggos, who was paid between $ 5,000 and $ 20,000 for work in the U.S. Army Reserve.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's top administrator plans to visit East Chicago as the city wrestles with ongoing remediation work at the U.S.S. Lead Superfund site.

Miner testified about the city's deteriorating infrastructure before the U.S. Environmental and Public Works Committee and has unsuccessfully asked Gov. Andrew Cuomo for help.

New York City Housing Authority Chairwoman Shola Olatoye said on Friday that the agency has been out of compliance with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules requiring training for work involving lead paint since 2014.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has responded to a study released by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation that calls for further PCB removal work on the Hudson River.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it will work with the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation to evaluate sediment samples from the upper Hudson River.

The BUILD Act reauthorizes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Brownfields Program, and modernizes and improves on elements of the program to provide support for communities working to redevelop brownfields.

The DOL works with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which has federal responsibility for asbestos exposure generally, under the Clean Air Act and the Toxics Substance and Control Act, and specifically in schools, under the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act.

The ability of scientists to work across borders is clearly essential to U.S. public - health and environmental goals.

A 2016 Environmental Working Group report found that almost 90 percent of U.S. agricultural exports went to developed countries with few hungry people.

Ari Patrinos, associate director of science for biological and environmental research at the U.S. Department of Energy, and Daniel Drell, also with the DOE's office of biological and environmental research, suggest that Jones employ some creative solutions, including «assistance with additional funding sources, perhaps an additional student or postdoc to work in Montgomery's lab (but funded by Jones), an active scientific collaboration, or access to other technologies or resources that Montgomery, on his own, could not command.»

Young, former co-chair of the Border Indicators Task Force for the U.S. - Mexico Border 2012 Border Environmental Program, worked on the environmental concerns of the region spanning the border and extending 100 kilometers norEnvironmental Program, worked on the environmental concerns of the region spanning the border and extending 100 kilometers norenvironmental concerns of the region spanning the border and extending 100 kilometers north and south.

That might sound like a good deal to all kinds of American researchers and foreign scientists currently working in the U.S. in light of massive looming Trump budget cuts at the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey and, of course, the Environmental Protection Agency.

It's clear that eliminating DDT as a common agricultural pesticide has had marked environmental benefits, according to Chandler Robbins, an 89 - year - old wildlife biologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland, who worked directly with Carson in the 1940s.

Environmental Working Group researchers had to rely on data from LabelINSIGHT, a company that gathers U.S. supermarket information.

All of this snake research and much more is possible because Bien, a professor in Drexel's Department of Biodiversity Earth and Environmental Science, and his students, have been welcomed to work in environmental protection on the U.S. Air Force's Warren Grove GEnvironmental Science, and his students, have been welcomed to work in environmental protection on the U.S. Air Force's Warren Grove Genvironmental protection on the U.S. Air Force's Warren Grove Gunnery Range.

Also, insects depend on their surroundings for body warmth or cooling, so changing temperatures make a huge difference in their lives, says coauthor Dilip Venugopal, an applied ecologist working as a policy fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Pests evolving resistance to Bt might do so faster when a warming landscape, for instance, lets them squeeze extra generations into a year and gives earworms a better chance of surviving the winter.

«It remains to be seen in an uncertain U.S. regulatory environment whether companies are going to want to continue to walk down their carbon footprint and whether they're going to continue to get credit for it from Congress and how the Environmental Protection Agency... will give them credit for the work they're voluntarily doing.»

The Texas Department of Agriculture is working with researchers at Texas A&M University in College Station and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop the ants, which, along with biting humans, feed on other insects (including the beloved ladybug) and even eat the hatchlings of a small, endangered grouse called the Atwater prairie chicken.

The work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research and Office of Biological and Environmental Research, and the National Science Foundation.

Claire Berryman, postdoctoral fellow at U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, and Jennifer Fleming, instructor in the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State, also worked on the study.

«It is bitter air that you can feel,» says Timothy Hui, a longtime resident of Beijing who works at the local office of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S. - based environmental group.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is expected to continue working to dismantle science - based environmental regulations.

Clairton, a mill town, is «home to the [U.S. Steel] Clairton Coke Works, which is the largest coke - making facility in the nation,» said Rachel Filippini, executive director of the environmental organization Group Against Smog and Pollution.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state have overseen removal of tainted soil, including work as recently as December, but some remains.

RTI staff worked closely with several of the Board members including the Environmental Defense Fund, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, the U.S. Geological Survey, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, and The Nature Conservancy to develop a scientific basis for establishing the prescribed ecological flows.

The Fellows» work has been good for science in many ways, said Kerri - Ann Jones, assistant U.S. secretary of state for oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs, and a 1985 — 86 Diplomacy Fellow.

Although the oil and gas industry has made important advances in improving the reliability of bolts, there are multiple opportunities for the industry and the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) to work together to further improve reliability and safety culture, the report says.

This work was supported by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and JBEI through the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science.

Acknowledgments: This work was supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research, a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education, PNNL's Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program under the Carbon Sequestration Initiative, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

This work was supported by the Genomics: GTL Program of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research.

The work at PNNL was performed at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy national scientific user facility.

Acknowledgments: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Office of Basic Energy Sciences and PNNL's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program.

Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research and PNNL's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program.

Acknowledgments: The work was supported by the National Institutes of Health through the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER).

Acknowledgments: This work was supported by the Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences and the Office of Biological and Environmental Research, U.S. Department of Energy and PNNL's Transformational Materials Science Initiative, and Chemical Imaging Initiative, funded by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development effort.