Sentences with phrase «as environmental cleanup»

Some time this summer, the parking lot at Elmwood Avenue and Bryant Street will start looking like a giant hole in the ground, as environmental cleanup and construction work starts on a major mixed - use building.

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Early in Mr. Reagan's Administration, Mrs. Burford had resigned her post as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency amid charges of mismanagement and favoritism to business in the toxic - waste cleanup program.

Ongoing cleanup of the Buffalo River and the City Ship Canal will continue as the Environmental Protection Agency restored funding for the effort.

The cleanup of the river in a portion of north of Albany, is considered one of the costliest environmental remediation projects in the state's history and is due to conclude as the EPA initiates a review period.

Democratic Sen. Brad Hoylman in testimony to b given to federal environmental regulators urged the cleanup of PCB - laden muck from the Hudson River to continue as the project winds down with a five - year review.

Meanwhile, Cuomo is also called on the state Department of Environmental Conservation to end the state's concurrence with a 2002 record of decision that had been entered into with the federal government as part of the massive cleanup project.

«Pipeline vandalism also damages the environment, health and economic activity of inhabitants of affected areas, as well as complicates environmental cleanup efforts.

The President said that it was in furtherance of the country's commitment to environmental sustainability that Nigeria launched the cleanup of Ogoniland, even as he called on development partners and multinationals to contribute to the Ogoniland Restoration Fund.

Trump plans on slashing the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by a quarter — targeting enforcement, grants for toxic cleanup efforts, as well as air and water protection programs.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday indicated it was nearing the end of its cleanup of PCB - laden sediment from the Hudson River as the agency announced the public comment period for a second five - year review of the project.

Erie County, New York - Legislator Patrick Burke who garnered national recognition for his ban on microbead plastics, has submitted a resolution expressing his opposition to the Trump Administration's proposed elimination of the Clean Water Rule, as well as the stark reductions in Environmental Protection Agency funding that would cut funds for the Great Lakes pollution cleanup by 97 %.

State and local officials, as well as environmental organizations, up and down the river have been calling for additional cleanup since the release of the five - year review.

In the late 1990s, the KeySpan Company (now National Grid) removed the tanks, and, in 2001, it began remediation of the site as per a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Voluntary Cleanup Agreement.

A groundbreaking, attended by more than 100 people, culminated a decade long cleanup project that officials described as a legal and environmental quagmire.

As the Environmental Protection Agency's oversight of the cleanup of this neighborhood stretches into its eighth year, new research has linked PCBs exposure to a high rate of diabetes in this community of about 4,000 people, nearly all African American and half living in poverty.

• The computational design of nano - catalysts from gold and silver alloys for use in energy and environmental science applications, such as in automobile exhaust cleanup.

The profession's cleanup phase waned in the late 1990s and early 2000s as changing political priorities, soaring cleanup costs, and some noteworthy environmental successes led to cutbacks in remediation.

As a precaution, the entire building was covered in protective plastic sheeting, and city environmental officials complained that the cleanup would require more than four weeks of painstaking procedures for outdoor decontamination alone.

The money the clients spend at lunch is put directly back into the community in order to complete projects such as: the Vilcanota river cleanup, environmental education, resident training, and assisting the continued reforestation and protection process of the Qeunua relict forest.

The Environmental Protection Agency has identified the hardrock mining industry as the nation's top polluter: the United States has spent more than $ 2 billion in federal spending on mine cleanup over the past decade.

HUDSON VALLEY — Scenic Hudson President Ned Sullivan praised New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for putting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on notice that General Electric's cleanup of cancer - causing PCBs in the Hudson River has failed to meet the agency's explicit goals and that the EPA can not certify the work as complete under provisions of federal law.

«GE's cleanup of the upper Hudson has left hundreds of acres of sediments contaminated with PCBs at levels that will continue the river's status as America's largest Superfund site — a designation that is based on both environmental and health threats and that impedes economic revitalization of Hudson River waterfronts and communities,» added Mr. Sullivan.

Rod's environmental practice is broad ranging, and includes representing families in cases involving contaminated drinking water, as well as representing businesses involved in cleanup actions ordered by regulatory authorities.

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