Sentences with phrase «by state environmental agencies»

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The document reallocates more than $ 54 billion from government entities like the Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and even NASA to boost defense spending by the same amount.

The following are some facts about diesel car engines, the tailpipe pollution they emit and the «defeat device» software that federal regulators say VW used to circumvent emissions standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state of California.

Countries such as the United States are already leading, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency setting the nation's first ever food waste goal: a 50 percent reduction by 2030.

The annual GEELA program is administered by the California Environmental Protection Agency and Resources Agency in partnership with the State and Consumer Services Agency.

The annual GEELA program is administered by the California Environmental Protection Agency and the Natural Resources Agency, in partnership with the Department of Food and Agriculture, Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, California Integrated Waste Management Board, and the State and Consumer Services Agency.

As one of the most highly regulated food industries in the United States, dairy must comply with regulations issued by multiple federal agencies, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Commerce, among other state and local regulatory bodies.

NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2015 — Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Administrator Stan Meiburg announced the United States» first - ever national food waste reduction goal, calling for a 50 - percent reduction by 2030.

The long - dormant project regained momentum in the 1980s, spurred by conservationists, trails advocates, and the state's environmental agencies.

On its Web site, Nalgene's manufacturer, Nalge Nunc International, refers to research on Bisphenol A by the FDA, the Environmental Protection Agency, the American Plastics Council and «other reliable sources from around the world» to state «we firmly believe in the safety of our products.»

Carol M. Browner, former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and Board Chair of the League of Conservation Voters said: «By building victories in different states and on multiple policies, we can demonstrate strong public support for climate action, demonstrate success that others will want to replicate, and drive down the costs of clean energy».

By Jesse McKinley ALBANY — For the second time in two weeks, New York State Department of Health officials sought to blame the Environmental Protection Agency for a contaminated water crisis in upstate New York, saying on Wednesday that they were confused and hamstrung by changing federal standards on perfluorooctanoic acid, a toxic chemical known as PFOBy Jesse McKinley ALBANY — For the second time in two weeks, New York State Department of Health officials sought to blame the Environmental Protection Agency for a contaminated water crisis in upstate New York, saying on Wednesday that they were confused and hamstrung by changing federal standards on perfluorooctanoic acid, a toxic chemical known as PFOby changing federal standards on perfluorooctanoic acid, a toxic chemical known as PFOA.

Judith Enck, a former regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who is working with Bennington College on the informal survey, welcomed the additional efforts by the state and characterized the timing of the agency's announcement on Tuesday as «curious.&Agency who is working with Bennington College on the informal survey, welcomed the additional efforts by the state and characterized the timing of the agency's announcement on Tuesday as «curious.&agency's announcement on Tuesday as «curious.»

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency failed to meet a Sunday deadline to designate which areas in the United States were being plagued by smog pollution.

Filed by Protect the Adirondacks and Adirondack Wild, the lawsuit claims the Adirondack Park Agency and Department of Environmental Conservation broke state law in approving plans for former timber company land centered around the Essex Chain of Lakes between Indian Lake and Newcomb in Essex and Hamilton counties.

Cuomo's office said the state Department of Health worked with local agencies to ensure the toxins didn't exceed the health advisory levels established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Aldermen had been given a letter from Mayor Steve Noble, who wrote that he declined to accept the Dec. 21 declaration by the two state agencies for shared responsibility over the environmental review.

A recent round of state tests on 145 water wells in the town of Hoosick and village of Hoosick Falls showed slightly less than a third indicated a presence of a toxic chemical at levels exceeding the safety threshold recently set by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Asked about the state's exchanges with USGS and the effect they had on the final report, a spokeswoman provided the following statement: «While the report was drafted by USGS, it simply underwent a technical review by NYSERDA staff and other experts, including experts from other state agencies like the Department of Environmental Conservation.

Among other points of contention, health department employees dismissed an advisory limit for human consumption of PFOA set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and argued that their differences with the federal authorities were a matter of «philosophy» and not just science, according to a senior EPA official's handwritten notes from a phone conference with state officials.

Corps program manager Steven Wolf said at the September public hearing that dredged materials must be signed off on by the Environmental Protection Agency and the state before they're disposed of in open waters.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, backed by about 30 elected officials, announced on Thursday the state may take legal action against the Environmental Protection Agency to stop a plan to allow dumping in Long Island Sound of materials dug up from dredging.

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.

Councilwoman Jennifer Metzger said the state Department of Environmental Conservation is reducing confidence in the agency by going against its own recommendations to avoid having more than one group in charge of reviews.

The three voting members of the Public Authorities Control Board must unanimously approve the loan, which has been criticized as a violation of state and federal law by state and local legislators as well as the Environmental Protection Agency.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has responded to a study released by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation that calls for further PCB removal work on the Hudson River.

The project, first announced by the County Executive in the fall of 2012, utilizes funding from a two - year grant awarded the state's Center for Environmental Health by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, (ATSDR) and was one of only two awarded nationally in that grant round.

And they say their concerns about potential pollution, overreliance on fracked gas and encroachment of historic sites and endangered species» habitats have been ignored by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and other state and federal agenState Department of Environmental Conservation and other state and federal agenstate and federal agencies.

That view was reinforced by two developments last week: Cuomo's aides proposed a new energy plan for the state's future that, unlike previous plans, made no mention of fracking in the Southern Tier, and Cuomo himself named former New York City Councilman James Gennaro, a fierce fracking opponent, as a deputy commissioner at Martens» environmental agency.

While many on the left embraced the Environmental Protection Agency's new rules to reduce coal - burning power plant carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030, some red state Democrats couldn't put enough distance between themselves and the Obama administration.

One of the agencies involved in that project was the state's Environmental Facilities Corp., led by former Syracuse Mayor Matthew Driscoll.

Last year, the group filed an open records request with the state Department of Environmental Conservation seeking the MWBE study performed by the agency for a project in Buffalo.

The proposal has not yet been formally submitted to the state, but will be reviewed by a Siting Board made up of officials from state environmental and health agencies, according to James Denn, a spokesman for the board.

The Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to reduce carbon pollution nationwide means a goal of reducing carbon emissions in New York state by more than 40 percent.

As Tuesday's water quality hearing began, the state commissioners of health and environmental conservation sent a letter to the EPA requesting that the agency pick up the tab for expenses related to the Hoosick Falls response not covered by the polluters.

Cuomo has said his health and environmental agencies will decide by the end of February whether to open up the state to gas drillers.

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The state's Business Council will make a push in early May to upgrades to energy infrastructure and to win swifter approval of energy pipelines, which are often stalled due to reviews by the Cuomo administration's environmental agency.

They say their concerns about potential pollution, overreliance on fracked gas and encroachment of historic sites and endangered species» habitats have been ignored by Governor Andrew Cuomo's Department of Environmental Conservation and other state and federal agencies.

Agreed to lift a moratorium by the state environmental conservation agency declaring that mute swans are a «prohibited invasive species.»

The newest addition to the Adirondack Park State Forest, Boreas has not been formally classified by the Department of Environmental Conservation in collaboration with the Adirondack Park Agency.

You'll be happy to know that Mama Bear detergent is EPA Safe, a designation created by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

The estimates presented in this study are also 15 % larger than global estimates provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), only slightly smaller than estimates provided by the EPA for the US, 4 % larger than EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) global estimates, 3 % larger than EDGAR estimates for US and 54 % larger than EDGAR estimates for the state of California.

«The lack of a modern glossary for resistance was recently brought to our attention by an initiative of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeking input on definitions of terms about resistance,» said Dr. Mark Whalon, one of the co-authors from Michigan State University, who directs the online Arthropod Pesticide Resistance Database and who also serves as the Entomological Society of America's Liaison to the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs.

But a 2007 study by Ohio State and Johns Hopkins University researchers found that levels of chemicals in breast milk were far below U.S. Environmental Protection Agency maximum acceptable levels for even drinking water, and that indoor air in typical American homes contains as much as 135 times as many contaminants as mother's milk.

The study, published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, is based on a new high - resolution model that maps flood risk across the entire continental United States, whereas the existing regulatory flood maps produced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) cover about 60 percent of the continental U.S.

The new emissions data from the United States, culled from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, are, by contrast, lower than expected.

The order, which the White House did not immediately make public, will kick off what will likely be a lengthy process to undo the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 2015 to clarify which bodies of water are covered by the Clean Water Act.

A number of suits challenge the nascent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) effort to reduce greenhouse emissions, but the agency has actually been prodded into action by lawyers from states and environmental groups from thEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) effort to reduce greenhouse emissions, but the agency has actually been prodded into action by lawyers from states and environmental groups from the otherAgency (EPA) effort to reduce greenhouse emissions, but the agency has actually been prodded into action by lawyers from states and environmental groups from the otheragency has actually been prodded into action by lawyers from states and environmental groups from thenvironmental groups from the other side.

A new study of 60 million Americans — about 97 % of people age 65 and older in the United States — shows that long - term exposure to airborne fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone increases the risk of premature death, even when that exposure is at levels below the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) currently established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

«Washington State will need to respond vigorously to ocean acidification if we are going to avoid significant and possibly irreversible losses,» concluded the report from the Blue Ribbon Panel, which was co-chaired by former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief William Ruckelshaus.