Sentences with phrase «back environmental water»

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The Trump administration has already rolled back a number of environmental regulations and moved toward delaying the Clean Water Rule, which clarified the Clean Water Act to prevent industries from dumping pollutants into waterways and wetlands.

Under the basin authority's $ 9 billion draft plan, released in November, an extra 2750 billion litres of water in the Murray - Darling river system would be set aside for environmental use, mostly through buying back irrigators» water rights.

Nonetheless, state environmental officials downplayed residents» complaints and vehemently disputed local studies that found a link between elevated blood - lead levels among children and the water source switch, until, in October, Snyder conceded the situation had become a «public safety issue» and announced a $ 12m plan to transfer Flint back to its previous supply with the city of Detroit.

«Retrograde actions by the Trump administration — backtracking on COP 21, deregulating Fossil Fuels, rolling back environmental protections — will lead to many Superstorms like Sandy, more contaminated water like Flint and Hoosick Falls, worsening Asthma and respiratory problems, further poisoning the lungs of our Bronx babies,» said Judy Sheridan - Gonzalez, the president of the New York State Nurses Associations.

Trump is expected to sign an executive order today aimed at rolling back one of former Obama's major environmental regulations, a clean water rule known as Waters of the United States.

Gina McCarthy, the administrator for the EPA, fired back at New York's commissioners of health and environmental conservation, who this week accused the federal agency of giving «conflicting guidance» about a toxic chemical that polluted water supplies in eastern Rensselaer County.

A joint statement issued by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and Department of Health pushed back on the comments made by a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday that the state did not act swiftly when warned of a chemical contamination in Hoosick Falls's drinking water.

Mayor Sheehan came prepared with data to back up her successes in environmental planning over the past years — such as the Energy Smart Community Plan, the $ 1.4 million awarded to the city by the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to reduce Albany's carbon footprint and the city's investment in the water and sewer departments.

Enck said that in her final speech to her staff at EPA, before she resigned to become the visiting scholar at Pace University Law school, she urged them to be respectful — but to «fight back internally» if they are asked to not enforce environmental laws or «turn a blind eye» to evidence of drinking water pollution, and then decide what they should do if their efforts don't succeed.

Enck says in her final speech to her staff at EPA, before she resigned to become the visiting scholar at Pace University Law School, she urged them to be respectful, but to «fight back internally,» if they are asked to not enforce environmental laws or «turn a blind eye» to evidence of drinking water pollution, and then decide what they should do if their efforts don't succeed.

The owners also owe $ 52,000 in back water and sewer charges on the two buildings, but have negotiated a 10 - year payment plan with the Department of Environmental Protection, a spokesman said.

Back then, waste management and water treatment were already established environmental fields; he would, he says, very likely have found them «green enough» already.

Dag Hessen underlines that the reduced sulphur pollution and acid rain reduction are environmental victories, even though the unwanted long term effects on the water quality shows that it can take a long time to get back to normal.

The National Rivers Authority, which commissions research mainly into the environmental effects of the water industry, is also cutting back on its work.

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- empowered by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) of 1974 (and amended in 1986 and 1996) to set national safety standards — has urged communities since 1996 to cut back on chlorine, which produces harmful by - products when added to water, including trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, known cancer - causing agWater Act (SDWA) of 1974 (and amended in 1986 and 1996) to set national safety standards — has urged communities since 1996 to cut back on chlorine, which produces harmful by - products when added to water, including trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, known cancer - causing agwater, including trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, known cancer - causing agents.

He said formal collaboration on environmental issues in the region dates back at least as far as 1983, during the Reagan administration, when bilateral cooperation was called on to assure healthy air quality, develop appropriate management of hazardous and other waste, and control water - borne pathogens.

The researchers stress that because reductions in lawn water use are closely related to reductions in water contamination, a greater sense of environmental stewardship could be tied to everyday activities such as cutting back on unnecessary lawn irrigation.

While water resource managers say sucralose in the water appears to have little or no negative environmental impact, some researchers point to the lack of extensive research to back that up.

«We've shown that cropland recycles less water annually back into the atmosphere than native Cerrado vegetation,» said Stephanie Spera, a graduate student at Brown University in the department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Science and a researcher at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES).

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So, needless to say, until the Tea Party stops calling for the abolishment of the EPA, ceases trying to halt all - important regulations that preserve the quality of our air and water, and quits working to roll back every imaginable environmental protection on the books, I will continue to be critical of the group's aims.

A likely answer is that California is so focused and busy on environmental projects that redistribute wealth to various constituencies that they no longer are concerned about public safety (the San Bruno natural gas line explosion in San Francisco in 2010, the constant blow ups of water pipes under the streets of Los Angeles, the retrofitting of the San Onofre Nuke Plant, so that it could be a peaker plant that could ramp up and down to back up intermittent green power, failed and the plant was shut down eventually resulting in the South West Blackout in 2011).

Reducing environmental impact includes reducing energy and water use, cutting back on fossil fuel used in transportation, reducing waste headed to landfill and protecting natural habitats.

The Trump Administration has tried to enable the dumping of dental mercury into water systems, to allow the use of a substance harmful to child brain development, to enable the environmental release of such dangerous toxins as lead, to let gas companies leak poisonous and climate change enhancing methane plumes into the local environment, to allow trucks and automobiles that spew smog, to halt the protection of key species like bumblebees, and to roll back the Clean Power Plan, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Waterwater systems, to allow the use of a substance harmful to child brain development, to enable the environmental release of such dangerous toxins as lead, to let gas companies leak poisonous and climate change enhancing methane plumes into the local environment, to allow trucks and automobiles that spew smog, to halt the protection of key species like bumblebees, and to roll back the Clean Power Plan, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean WaterWater Act.

Despite the fact that water privatization has been linked to skyrocketing rates of illness, economic inequity and environmental degradation, the Bush administration backed the IMF and World Bank's policies.

We should «go back to dealing with real science and real environmental problems such as assuring clean air and water,» he wrote in The Wall Street Journal on Earth Day.

Given the Canadian government's predilection for firing scientists and cutting back environmental protection, gutting the Environmental Assessment Act and the Fisheries Act, and the US congress attempts at getting rid of the Clean Water Act and even the EPA, it should be no surprise that many arenvironmental protection, gutting the Environmental Assessment Act and the Fisheries Act, and the US congress attempts at getting rid of the Clean Water Act and even the EPA, it should be no surprise that many arEnvironmental Assessment Act and the Fisheries Act, and the US congress attempts at getting rid of the Clean Water Act and even the EPA, it should be no surprise that many are ambivalent.

Forty years ago, the great environmental President Richard Nixon and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau signed the international water quality agreement that brought Lake Erie back to life.

Meanwhile, Pruitt — who sued the EPA 14 times to block stronger air, water and climate safeguards during his tenure as Oklahoma attorney general — is now trying to roll back environmental protections from the inside.

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