Sentences with phrase «allow environmental rules»

In 40 years of Clean Air Act regulation, she noted, regulators have never been flatfooted enough to allow environmental rules to dim the nation's lights.

Not exact matches

The movie, which weaves together extraordinary feats of engineering and military, environmental and cultural achievements, hit theaters three days before China's rubber - stamp legislature convened to amend the constitution and allow Xi to potentially rule China for life.

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.

Federal environmental officials today dismissed protests from New York and issued a final ruling that will allow operation of an open - water site in eastern Long Island Sound for disposing of dredged materials from harbors and ports.

The Department of Environmental Conservation says the voluminous technical document was initially posted Wednesday, a day before a deadline for adopting rules for the controversial drilling known as «fracking» or making changes and allowing more comment.

The Department of Environmental Conservation violated federal law by allowing manure control plans to be certified by the same private experts hired by farmers to craft the plans, and by keeping plans confidential from the public, according to a ruling in Albany this week by Acting State Supreme Court Justice David Weinstein.

If the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is to allow the rule making process on fracking to conclude by the end of the month, it must first make public its generic environmental impact statementEnvironmental Conservation is to allow the rule making process on fracking to conclude by the end of the month, it must first make public its generic environmental impact statementenvironmental impact statement on fracking.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Transportation (DoT) released rules that set limits on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions allowed and accelerate an increase in overall fuel efficiency to 14.5 kilometers per liter (34.1 miles per gallon) by 2016.

A lack of rules regulating the registration of raw ivory and the licensing of importers, wholesalers, manufacturers and retailers has allowed illicit stocks into Japan's domestic market, according to the report by the independent London - based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).

KAILUA - KONA - «An appeals court has ruled that about 50 Hawaii businesses with permits to catch fish bound for aquariums do not need environmental assessments to receive the state permits allowing them to collect the fish.»

In December 2009 Superior Court Judge Thomas McKnew ruled that the city had «secretly and unofficially» promoted a practice of allowing feral cats to run free, while promising to conduct an environmental review.

Far (far) beyond a level editor, it allows the modification and manipulation of everything from AI behaviour, to event scripting, to lighting and ambient sound design, to rule - sets, win conditions, and environmental challenges.

The pending rules from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are widely expected to set emission - reduction targets for existing power plants and allow states to craft their own plans for how to meet the standard.

While the original Directive allows for linking the EU ETS with other industrialised countries that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol, the new rules allow for linking with any country or administrative entity (such as a state or group of states under a federal system) which has established a compatible mandatory cap - and - trade system whose design elements would not undermine the environmental integrity of the EU ETS.

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.

Our recommendation is that we should abandon the sky - is - falling and phantom job loss tactic, and lobby the administration with several «asks,» that could include: MLP / REIT status for solar companies; fast - track permitting; reducing environmental studies; tax - free manufacturing zones in the interest of U.S. national security and to revitalize certain cities; a revision of accounting rules that penalize solar project owners; federal policy allowing net metering for homeowners and community solar projects; including solar in the upcoming infrastructure spending bill; and finally increased PV deployment on federal buildings.

With the signature of Administrator Gina McCarthy this past Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave final approval of a rule that will allow the use of climate - friendly refrigerants in several end - uses, such as household refrigerators and freezers, stand - alone retail food refrigeration equipment, very low temperature refrigeration, non - mechanical heat transfer, vending machines, and room air conditioning units.

More generally, Article XX of the GATT allows exceptions to trade rules for certain measures with environmental objectives.

The rule includes a provision that allows state environmental permitting agencies to grant one - year compliance exemptions.

There may be interest in addressing public and environmental safety issues concerning last year's Gulf oil spill (so that rules can be clarified and drilling allowed to increase) and nuclear power in light of Japan's recent struggles.

In a significant win for access to justice in environmental matters, the Court's Grand Chamber found that Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights (the right to an effective remedy), read together with the Aarhus Convention, precluded the application of national procedural rules allowing for swift decision - making at the expense of rights granted to environmental NGOs.

This ruling allows regulators to «avoid careful consideration of serious environmental and human health impacts associated with a plan to build new nuclear reactors at the Darlington site on Lake Ontario — including the consequences of a major nuclear accident — during the project's environmental assessment.»

«Perhaps most importantly, we need to stay away from tribunals that allow big corporations to sue governments over environmental rule making.

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.