Sentences with phrase «water act since»

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This week, President Obama travels to Wall Street, where he'll demand — in light of the Street's continuing antics since the bailout, as well as its role in watering down the Volcker rule — that the Glass - Steagall Act be resurrected and big banks be broken up.

It was ruled that a permit was required since lead shot was falling into a water channel in violation of the federal Clean Waterwater channel in violation of the federal Clean WaterWater Act.

Cuomo administration officials have said since 2016 that the state would act on its own to set lower limits for PFOA and PFOS for all water systems in the absence of federal leadership.

But she maintained that hearings would not be the right way to go at this time, and praised Cuomo and his administration for acting quickly since the winter to offer residents water filters and blood tests.

I dare you to ask him a question about property taxes, sewers, the clean water act right to his face... the guy is a tool who has people orchestrating everything for him since he can't think a single creative idea or articulate one on his own.

The coastal contingency plan is a potentially powerful chit for New York officials to use in bargaining with Indian Point over its closure, since the federal Clean Water Act gives states control over water quality isWater Act gives states control over water quality iswater quality issues.

On Monday, the EPA acted on what many Hoosick Falls residents have been hoping for ever since the chemical PFOA was found in drinking water there: the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics plant on McCaffrey Street has been named a federal Superfund.

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- empowered by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) of 1974 (and amended in 1986 and 1996) to set national safety standards — has urged communities since 1996 to cut back on chlorine, which produces harmful by - products when added to water, including trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, known cancer - causing agWater Act (SDWA) of 1974 (and amended in 1986 and 1996) to set national safety standards — has urged communities since 1996 to cut back on chlorine, which produces harmful by - products when added to water, including trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, known cancer - causing agwater, including trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, known cancer - causing agents.

She said EPA has been working on wetlands resiliency for 42 years, since President Nixon signed the Clean Water Act, but «we just never called it that.»

The biggest question mark will be for the acting nods, since we all know that without a SAG nomination, your «Best Picture» prospects are pretty much dead in the water.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

As far as this historic period is concerned, the reconstruction of past temperatures based on deep boreholes in deep permafrost is one of the best past temperature proxies we have (for the global regions with permafrost — polar regions and mountainous regions)-- as a signal of average temperatures it's even more accurate than historic direct measurements of the air temperature, since the earth's upper crust acts as a near perfect conservator of past temperatures — given that no water circulation takes place, which is precisely the case in permafrost where by definition the water is frozen.

Mr. Jacoby has dutifully hauled water for every bad conservative idea since the Hawley - Smoot Tariff Act, but here, he is road - testing what to do when denial and obfuscation are no longer viable tactics.

The claim that CO2 immediately increases plant growth and acts as a fertilizer is a highly oversimplified argument, since plant carbon uptake is dependent on water, temperature, and nitrogen suppy.

What I can't work out is why hasn't the Clean Air Act (that classes CO2 as a pollutant but not of course water vapour) got rid of the «bad air» since the 1970s?

Far from a trickle, according to the EPA «110 individual and general mining permits have been issued by the Corps of Engineers since the Obama administration began under section 404 of the Clean Water Act.»

Since basically all catastrophic forecasts depend on water vapour acting to amplify the effect of CO2 it strikes me that knowing what is happening with this gas now, a thrid of the way to a CO2 doubling, would be key to finally validating those predictions.

Since many of these fish are protected under the Endangered Species Act, as much water as possible is brought through the turbines to generate electricity, avoiding contact with air.

In these cases, the prevailing dry conditions set the stage for the heat since the land is dried out, the vegetation is wilted, and all of the heat from the sun goes into raising temperatures, whereas ordinarily, in the process of evaporative cooling, surface water or wetness acts as an evaporative cooler (swamp cooler) of sorts.

Our family arbitrators and parenting arrangements know that since the Family Law Act and Arbitration Act were amended to facilitate the arbitration of family law issues, British Columbia courts and family law arbitrators find themselves in shallow waters given the dearth of case law relating to family law arbitrations.

«Ingress» is just the act of going in or entering, which makes sense since IP ratings depend on how well a device can resist dust or water.

The theme marks 25 years since the passing of the Native Title Act 1993 and represents the confluence of these laws as they relate to title of land and waters.