Sentences with phrase «against environmental rules»

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Cuomo says if communities want fracking, or are against fracking, then home rule should be taken into «consideration», if fracking is in the end allowed by the Department of Environmental Conservation.

Connecticut's legal conflicts with the federal government over air quality issues escalated again last weekwhen the state joined New York in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce ozone pollution rules.

If the Circuit Court rules against the Clean Power Plan, Trump could decline to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court — although environmental groups and other interested parties would probably do so.

The court ruled in a civil case against the government brought by an environmental group called Urgenda.

RAGA has called the rule «unlawful» and a prime example of the federal Environmental Protection Agency exerting authority that it doesn't have to carry out a political agenda against fossil fuels.

Meanwhile, environmental groups see carbon capture as an industry figleaf to shield the EPA from pushback against its climate rules that will still allow the use of fossil fuels, albeit with lower emissions.

On Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency — and against a legion of state Attorneys General and industry groups — on the EPA's greenhouse gas Endangerment Finding.

The move came after the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), in conjunction with Humane Society International (HSI), launched the report Blood e-Commerce on March 18 exposing Rakuten as the world's biggest online marketplace for elephant ivory and whale meat products, and the day after UN International Court of Justice ruled against Japan's fraudulent «scientific» whaling in the Antarctic.

The funds went to building a network of thinktanks and activist groups that worked to defeat climate bills in Congress and mobilized against Environmental Protection Agency rules to reduce carbon pollution from power plants due to be finalised in the summer of 2015.

Competitive Enterprise Institute (co-authors ALEC reports against U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pollution rules)

In a video touting the new climate rule, Obama's lead environmental advocate, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, said that if the rule moves forward, «We'll know we're doing all we can, together, to take action against climate change.»

Led by Sen. James Inhofe, who has called climate change «the greatest hoax» committed against humanity, the powerful Environment and Public Works Committee plans to explore a wide range of measures that would slow or halt Environmental Protection Agency rules to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Pursuant to Clean Air Act § 307 (b)(1), 42 U.S.C. § 7607 (b)(1), Rule 15 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, and D.C. Circuit Rule 15, Air Alliance Houston, California Communities Against Toxics, Environmental Defense Fund, Environmental Integrity Project, Hoosier Environmental Council, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Natural Resources Defense Council, Ohio Citizen Action, and Sierra Club (collectively, «Petitioners») hereby petition this Court for review of the 2 final action taken by Respondents U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Administrator Scott Pruitt in the attached memorandum from William L. Wehrum, dated January 25, 2018 (Attachment 1), and in the Federal Register notice published at 83 Fed.

«The simplest thing I can say is that we are going to work with local, state, regional and national government groups and look at what we can do in the courthouse,» said Vivian Stockman, of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, which lobbied against the rule change.

Those questions are coming to head this week with a ruling over a suit bought by Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife and other environmental groups, against the US government.

In Stichting Natuur en Milieu, by contrast, Advocate General Jääskinen found that the Commission acted in a legislative capacity when adopting the disputed Regulation 149/2008, mainly because there were no rules of environmental law which could restrict the Commission's competence and serve as a benchmark against which the review procedure introduced by the Aarhus Convention could have been carried out (para 63).

The revised Guidance also incorporates two sets of self - regulatory principles agreed among stakeholders: one will support comparison tools to better comply with the Directive and the other will help the enforcement of unfair commercial practices rules against misleading and unfounded environmental claims.

Representation of client against claim in Connecticut state Superior Court by consumer group appealing the ruling by the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection allowing dentists to use mercury fillings.

He points to examples elsewhere where courts have successfully changed policy on environmental issues, such as cases against deforestation in the Philippines and a supreme court ruling in India that paved the way for Delhi's buses to switch from diesel to compressed natural gas (CNG) to cut air pollution.

A settlement has been reached in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's first enforcement action against a real estate brokerage for failing to comply with the 1996 Lead - Based Paint Disclosure Rule.

The bill, called the Brownfields Revitalization and Environmental Restoration Act, S. 350, would streamline and make permanent federal cleanup rules, double annual funds for cleanup to $ 150 million, and extend protections against liability to owners who try to clean up sites.