Sentences with phrase «clean air and water protections»

Fossil fuel interests seized on the election as a mandate to gut the EPA, strip away clean air and water protections, open up public lands for exploitation, and renege on international climate commitments.

On Sunday the White House released a breakdown of how the sequester will impact each state, and the results showed huge cuts to clean air and water protection with New York and California taking the biggest hits at $ 12.9 million and $ 12.4 million, respectively.

Not exact matches

Indeed, Trump's proposed budget cuts funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 %, and specifically eliminates measures designed to preserve clean air and water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water clean air and water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water Ruair and water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water RuAir Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water Clean Water Water Rule.

«And at a time of increased uncertainty regarding protection of clean air and water and other natural resources, Mass Audubon's mission to protect the nature of Massachusetts has never been more important,» Clayton stressAnd at a time of increased uncertainty regarding protection of clean air and water and other natural resources, Mass Audubon's mission to protect the nature of Massachusetts has never been more important,» Clayton stressand water and other natural resources, Mass Audubon's mission to protect the nature of Massachusetts has never been more important,» Clayton stressand other natural resources, Mass Audubon's mission to protect the nature of Massachusetts has never been more important,» Clayton stressed.

Also at 7 p.m., Long Island Clean Air Water and Soil, alongside the Long Island Progressive Coalition, presents an environmental protection and home energy efficiency meeting, Merrick Golf Course, Clubhouse, 2550 Clubhouse Road, Merrick.

Environmental groups fear a convention could open the door to delete or weaken protections for clean air and water, healthy forests and the 6 - million - acre (2.4 - million hectare) Adirondack Park.

Kahn rips a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report that lists a representative sample of 175 academic institutions that regularly violate the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Emergency Planning and Community Right - to - Know Act, the Resource Conservation Recovery Act, the Toxic Substance Control Act, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, to name just a few.

1) Energy conservation and energy efficiency 2) Renewable energy 3) Cleaner uses of coal, and carbon capture and storage 4) Sustainable transportation, including electric vehicles 5) Modernization of the electrical grid 6) Joint research and development of clean energy technologies 7) Clean air 8) Clean water 9) Natural resource conservation, e.g. protection of wetlands and nature reserves 10) Combating climate change and promoting low - carbon economic gclean energy technologies 7) Clean air 8) Clean water 9) Natural resource conservation, e.g. protection of wetlands and nature reserves 10) Combating climate change and promoting low - carbon economic gClean air 8) Clean water 9) Natural resource conservation, e.g. protection of wetlands and nature reserves 10) Combating climate change and promoting low - carbon economic gClean water 9) Natural resource conservation, e.g. protection of wetlands and nature reserves 10) Combating climate change and promoting low - carbon economic growth

Like last year, his budget is expected to gut funding for environmental protection, decimating our ability to protect safe water and ensure clean air.

«The Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act championed by Sen. Ed Muskie have provided essential protections for our natural resources for generations.

On Capitol Hill today, industry leaders and other experts explained why the upcoming U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) standards on carbon dioxide emissions can benefit U.S. business and help drive innovation while keeping our air and water clean.

In December last year, he dropped «climate change» as an item in the US national security strategy, and during that year he told the Environment Protection Agency to concentrate on clear air and clean water, not on the supposed threats from carbon dioxide.

These benefits include safe water, clean air, ecosystem restoration, soil health, smallholder farmer development, community education opportunities and wildlife and habitat protection.

He has also supported ocean health, focusing on issues such as marine debris, wilderness protection, and clean air and water.

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.

«Together, we have restored every penny of President Trump's cuts to Great Lakes funding, fought against efforts to gut environmental protections, and are making sure every Michigan family has access to clean air and clean water.»

- He helped create the Environmental Protection Agency, and worked on the initial clean air and clean water laws.

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.

She led successful legislative efforts to establish clean energy programs and accompanying funding sources, clean vehicles and fuel technology standards, air and water quality rules, and natural resources protection programs.

These trade bills would give foreign corporations and governments the right to challenge our bedrock protections for clean air, safe drinking water, healthy food and proper chemical safeguards.

Things like clean water, clear air, fertile soil, flood protection via wetlands, and so on, are definite goods, but since market mechanisms can not price them, we trash them, to our detriment.

Good health and well - being: By helping to keep air and water clean, our climate protection projects provide an array of health benefits for people in the project area.

Examples of actions with co-benefits include (i) improved energy efficiency and cleaner energy sources, leading to reduced emissions of health - damaging climate - altering air pollutants; (ii) reduced energy and water consumption in urban areas through greening cities and recycling water; (iii) sustainable agriculture and forestry; and (iv) protection of ecosystems for carbon storage and other ecosystem services.»

The Sierra Club has been involved on a wide variety of issues ranging from the protection of wildlife and wilderness, loss of biological diversity, climate change, sustainable energy, nuclear waste, environmental toxins, clean air and water, and genetic engineering.

Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, for instance, launched the conservation movement early in the last century, and, responding to cough - inducing smog and rivers catching on fire, President Richard Nixon signed the landmark Clean Air and Clean Water Acts and established the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Our members lead campaigns for clean air, water, and the protection of urban, rural and wilderness environments.

Those who insist on the potential for a large - scale, populist movement to bring about significant change often point to the first Earth Day, when 20 million people took the streets and brought about the passage of the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, not to mention the formation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

While not focused specifically on projects related to environmental issues and sustainability, a number of grand prize winners presented innovative ideas aimed at solving problems in clean energy production, air and water pollution and ecosystems protection.

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.

He is currently a member of the Environmental Protection Network, a nonprofit organization of EPA alumni working to protect the agency's progress toward clean air, water, land and climate protections.