Sentences with phrase «air and water laws»
As Ranking Member on the House Natural Resources Committee, he's fought attempts to gut clean air and water laws.
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He consistently refutes baseless arguments used by House leadership in their attempts to gut clean air and water laws.
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(d) It further is the policy of the United States that, to the extent permitted by law, all agencies should take appropriate actions to promote clean air and clean water for the American people, while also respecting the proper roles of the Congress and the States concerning these matters in our constitutional republic.
Public Health, Improve Rockland's air, water, housing and environmental quality through application of State and Federal laws by appointment and creation of a County General Inspection Office, which enforces such laws and report to county executive and general public with transparency.
«Over the last year, we have not hesitated to fight back against the Trump Administration's assault on the law and New Yorkers» fundamental right to clean water, air, and environment.
But he must know fracking harms our air, water and health, because as Westchester County executive, he signed a law to ban fracking waste from being treated in his own county.
«I entered this race because women deserve equal treatment under the law, the minimum wage should not be a poverty wage, elections should not be for sale to the highest bidder and our air and water deserve protection,» Kessner said in a statement.
He works with the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, which assists communities around the state, particularly indigenous populations, that are seeking to preserve the health of their air, land and water.
Scaling back our energy consumption significantly, whether voluntarily or as a result of laws and regulations, would go a long way toward achieving our pollution reduction and air and water quality goals
The year was 1970; Congress had just created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and was working on new laws to reduce air and water pollution.
Congressional leaders back in the politically turbulent 1970s managed to pass sweeping laws to ensure clean air and water, protect endangered species and keep toxic substances out of everyday household products.
The current bill also revises earlier provisions that critics worried would have made it tougher for EPA to regulate products (or «articles») that contain a known toxic chemical, as well as murky language that might have inadvertently required EPA to keep considering costs in chemical assessments and blocked certain state air and water pollution laws.
This list contains blogs on natural resource law, water quality law, air quality law, mining law, waste management law and forestry law as well.
Edmonton, Alberta About Blog A champion for strong environmental laws and rights so all Albertans can enjoy clean air, clean water and a healthy environment Frequency about 3 posts per month Since Nov 2009 Website elc.ab.ca / blog + Follow Facebook fans - 702.
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 amended prior law to exclude the following types of facilities from those which can be financed on a tax - exempt basis: sports facilities; convention and trade show facilities; air and water pollution control facilities; privately owned airport, dock, wharf and mass - commuting facilities; and most parking facilities, among others.
The law will also stop the Legislature and local communities from passing laws or ordinances after November 2016 to address any water and air pollution caused by factory farms, harm to other farmers» and residents» land not withstanding.
Edmonton, Alberta About Blog A champion for strong environmental laws and rights so all Albertans can enjoy clean air, clean water and a healthy environment Frequency about 3 posts per month Since Nov 2009 Website elc.ab.ca / blog + Follow Facebook fans - 702.
About Blog Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog is a Seyfarth Shaw blog publication for businesses covering air, land, water pollution and workplace safety, green marketing compliance and other emerging issues in the field.
he wants to eliminate existing laws (Clean Air, Clean Water, etc) and replace them with a loosely regulated market based system of controls.
The passage of the landmark Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act and many other groundbreaking environmental laws soon followed.
The Clean City Law aims at combating pollutions of water, air, sound and the visual.»
Environmental groups have sought to force the federal government to restrict carbon dioxide emissions using the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act (because of threats to polar bears from global warming) and other federal laws, and now they are poised to add the Clean Water Act to the list.
I was born during an environmental revolution when new laws to protect air, water, wildlife, and our nation's natural treasures sprung from bi-partisan efforts and were consecrated by the pen of a Republican President.
Of course, some people will not see it that way, particularly traditional green groups that helped write the laws and regulations that cleaned up the nation's air and water.
And laws protecting the air and water have such broad public backing that it is hard to imagine even the Chaos Caucus going theAnd laws protecting the air and water have such broad public backing that it is hard to imagine even the Chaos Caucus going theand water have such broad public backing that it is hard to imagine even the Chaos Caucus going there.
Millennium would cause a host of harms to our air, water, fish, and health, and the Shorelines Hearings Board upheld the decision that these impacts were simply too great under Washington and Cowlitz County laws.
Nothing in the Energy Policy Act changes the requirements of environmental laws such as the Endangered Species Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Clean Air Act.
The Sierra Club had long been focusing on this plant with a coalition of allies, including the Coalition for Clean Air South Coast, Toxics Action Center, Clean Water Action, and the Conservation Law Foundation.
These plans help ensure that the public lands are managed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations under the principles of multiple use and sustained yield, recognizing the Nation's need for domestic sources of minerals, food, timber, and fiber while protecting the quality of scientific, scenic, historical, ecological, environmental, air and atmospheric, water, and archaeological values.
Industry activity is subject to a number of federal and state laws, including the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.
Another problem, as has been mentioned before, is that about 98 % of anthropogenic CO2 should be absorbed by the oceans in order to preserve the 1:50 partitioning ratio of CO2 between air and water at earth's average surface temperature that is governed by Henry's law.
The proportional constant is the Henry's Law Constant, giving us a partition coefficient for CO2 between air and water of approximately 1:50 (Revelle & Suess, 1957; Skirrow, 1975; Jaworowski et al., 1992 a; Segalstad, 1996).
Under the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and other environmental laws, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the responsibility and authority to set and enforce emissions limits for pollutants deemed harmful to human health and the environment.
- He helped create the Environmental Protection Agency, and worked on the initial clean air and clean water laws.
«The Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal's investment chapter would allow transnational corporations to challenge environmental laws that protect our air, land and water.
Most of the environmental policy progress in the US over the last 40 years has come through «green drift,» i.e., through agencies like the EPA adapting and expanding America's foundational green laws — the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act — to address new problems.
QUOTE:» There were over 3 million pCO2 measurements of ocean waters in the past decades which confirm Henry's law...» ANSWER: You seem to refer to Takahashi's data; as the exchange of CO2 between air and water is strongly dependent upon the speed of the wind (as the third power of the wind according to Wanninkof & McGillis 1999) it's not Henry law!
This can be done as follows using only the ideal gas law, the heat of vaporization of water, and the specific heat of air.
But over time, new laws, regulations, attitudes and technologies cleaned up our air, water and sloppy -LSB-...]
Even as Frederick Law Olmsted's landscape designs continue to naturally ease urban flooding and improve air and water quality on our cities, just as he imagined they would, few urban dwellers see his works as anything more than ornamental wonders and respite from the harder urban world.
«He consistently fights to ensure that our nation's bedrock conservation laws are protected, and emerging threats to clean air and water are addressed.»
the Industry has used its political power to escape accountability, leaving the American people unprotected, and no Industry can claim to be part of the solution if it supports exemptions from the basic Laws designed to ensure that we have Clean Water and Clean Air» Natural Resources Defense Council.
The legal hammer of these laws would give rise to the Hudson River Fishermen's Association (HRFA — that evolved into the Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper organizations of today) as well as American magna carta laws such as The Clean Air Act (1970) The Clean Water Act (1972) The Endangered Species Act (1973) and others.
Top multinational and Chinese companies are not reporting what pollutants they are releasing into China's air and water, as a new law requires, according to a report by Greenpeace.
Regulation of the industry has been less than reliable, basic environmental protections like the Clean Air and Safe Drinking Water Acts haven't helped much because the oil and gas industry is exempt from these laws, and operators have been allowed by most states to keep secret the chemicals they inject into the ground as proprietary information.
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His environmental and tort litigation experience includes dozens of products liability actions in California State and Federal District Courts and multi-district litigation proceedings in the Southern District of New York that arise out of MTBE contamination of drinking water aquifers, as well as actions brought under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act («CERCLA»), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act («RCRA»), California Proposition 65, the Clean Air Act, and various state and federal criminal laws, environmental laws, or tort doctrines.
Mark represents clients in projects and litigation covering the gamut of environmental laws including air and water quality, the ESA, NEPA, CERCLA and their state equivalents.
â $ œOur laws establish a sacred trust, a responsibility to care for our lands, air and waters.
In private practice, Tom represented clients in a wide range of federal civil and criminal litigation brought under federal environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, while also representing clients in the environmental review and permitting for major energy and railroad infrastructure projects.