Sentences with phrase «against the polluter for»

The bill would allow those harmed by contaminants at a Superfund site to bring personal injury claims against the polluter for up to three years after the site is given a Superfund designation.

The bill would have allowed those harmed by contaminants at a Superfund site to bring personal injury claims against the polluter for up to three years after the site is given a Superfund designation.

Not exact matches

A coalition of environmental and conservation organizations on Wednesday released a letter thanking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York for pushing back against Trump administration policies they contend favors polluters.

As many local activists waved signs protesting the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline, she denounced her Republican opponent, former state legislator John Faso of Kinderhook, as a lobbyist for an energy company dealing in fracked gas and promised to «stand up against big polluters who want to pollute our waterways.

But Baker says she's grateful to Senator Marchione for trying to push the bill to expand the time to bring lawsuits against polluters.

It would make it easier for residents of Hoosick Falls, which Marchione represents, to file a lawsuit against the polluters responsible for the village water pollution.

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed two lawsuits this week against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to enforce the Clean Water Act against stormwater polluters in the Baltimore and Los Angeles areas.

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed two lawsuits against the EPA this week for failing to enforce the Clean Water Act against stormwater polluters along Dominguez Channel and Los Cerritos Channel in Los Angeles, CA and the Back River in Baltimore, MD..

One way to reconcile the conflict between honoring the prohibition against allocating a commons resource for private interests and the need to give a ghg emitter some authorization to pollute for a specific amount of time is to make sure that the polluters right to emit at any time under the cap may be rescinded if it is latter determined that an existing allocation is not sufficiently protective of human health or the environment.

This is a major breakthrough for the divestment movement and the thousands of people around the world who have pushed cities to take a stand against polluters who are destroying our climate and the planet.

He's held Big Oil and other polluters accountable for their actions, and fought against expanded offshore drilling in the Arctic, by showing that the industry is not technologically prepared to do so.

In 2009, for example, he advocated against the cap and trade systems that the Obama administration and its overseas partners were trying to install here and globally, calling it «a market - based approach that has been widely praised but does little to slow global warming or reduce our dependence on fossil fuels... [allowing] polluters and Wall Street traders to fleece the public out of billions of dollars.»

When it comes to climate change, Garland has «consistently come out on the side of the environment and against big polluters,» as Tim McDonnell writes for Mother Jones.

Shifting priorities of the EPA can be seen in the contrast between Pruitt's speedy response to petitions from coal polluters seeking regulatory relief and his more deliberate pace in handling state petitions for action against the coal pollution.

He's stood on the side of health, prosperity, and progress for all American families against the reckless agenda of unbridled greed pushed by corporate polluters.

Taking a page from the «death panel» lies, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and energy - funded groups like Americans for Prosperity waged an all - out campaign against the climate bill, indelibly branding common - sense penalties on climate polluters as «taxes.»

The commission makes 100 recommendations featuring six overarching ones: the National Advice and Legal Support Fund mentioned before; prioritising public legal education in schools, alongside financial literacy, and in «education for life»; calling on government to clampdown down «preventable demand» by getting decisions right the first time including a «polluter pays» scheme for the DWP to pay costs on upheld appeals (on average 35 % of appeals against welfare benefits decisions are upheld); an overhaul of the courts to make them better suited for the needs of litigants in person; a national strategy for 2015 — 20, including a «minister for advice and legal support»; and for local authorities to commission local advice and legal support plans.