Sentences with phrase «clean water fund»

EverybodyGreen will donate 10 percent of each sale to selected organizations such as Oceana, Earth Resource Foundationa, and The Clean Water Fund.

In recent years, the Republican - led Congress slashed the clean water fund by 34 percent.

Overall, the federal agency received a $ 763 million increase, according to the Adirondack Council, including $ 300 million each for the Clean Water Fund and Safe Drinking Water Fund; $ 63 million for implementation of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act and $ 50 million for new grant programming to address lead in drinking water.

The board voted to approve a $ 255 million loan from the state clean water fund to pay for parts of the $ 4 billion bridge project.

An attempt to use $ 511 million from a clean water fund to pay ongoing costs was rejected by the federal Environmental Protection Agency; the Cuomo administration is appealing that denial.

The E.P.A. contributes money to the state's clean water fund.

A key oversight board approved half of the amount Governor Cuomo had sought for a loan from a clean water fund to help pay for the construction of the Tappan Zee Bridge.

As was the case last month when, on the day State Senator John DeFrancisco of Syracuse joined with members of the Public Authority Control Board to approve the clean water fund raid, a sewer main broke in his hometown and shut down streets.

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Pete Seeger must have rolled over in his grave Monday when Governor Cuomo announced a half - billion dollars from a state clean water fund will be diverted to the $ 3.9 billion Tappan Zee Bridge project.

Environmentalists object to the use of money from the clean water fund for the bridge construction project.

Adam, a $ 10,000 - a-month consultant for AbTech, eventually lost his job with the firm when he couldn't help expedite payments to AbTech from the Nassau contract, despite assurances his father was pushing legislation on public - private partnerships and a potential $ 800 million clean water fund that would have helped the company's bottom line.

The Clean Water fund is a federal grant program that provides loans to eligible recipients.

An independent review board has found fault with the Cuomo administration's attempts to convert a federal clean water fund loan into construction work for the New York State Thruway's Tappan Zee Bridge.

«There is no evidence that borrowing from the Clean Water fund will save money in the long run on the cost of the construction of these two spans across the Hudson River,» says Abinanti.

The TU says just because the state might be legally able to lend the Thruway Authority $ 511 million from a revolving clean water fund doesn't mean it should do so.

The loan was only recently made public by the Cuomo administration, which said the Clean Water Fund money would be used to protect the Hudson River estuary rather than simply support construction.

A scheduled vote today by the Public Authorities Control Board on a controversial plan to move $ 511 million in clean water funds to the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project is being closely watched by federal regulators and lawmakers across the state.

The Cuomo administration had a flip response for Assemblyman Tom Abinanti when he dared question the use of $ 511 million in clean water funds to help pay for a replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge.

Today, the federal Environmental Protection Agency's Region 2 office rejected the diversion of $ 481m of these dedicated clean water funds, while approving $ 29.1 m.

Unfortunately, Governor Cuomo intends to use the clean water funds to tear down the old TZ Bridge and other construction tasks associated with the $ 3.9 billion bridge replacement project.

The clean water funds are a mixture of federal grants and repaid clean water loans, and state officials have contested EPA's authority over the funds.

There have been eight newspaper editorials opposing or questioning the raid on Clean Water Funds.

Governor Cuomo's recent efforts to use $ 511 million in Clean Water funds to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge has been blasted in seven newspaper editorials, as well as by a coalition of environmental and good government groups that includes Reinvent Albany.

Particularly disturbing is that if Cuomo succeeds in taking — mainly federal — clean water funds for a bridge project, he will open the door for other governors to do the same.

The EPA had oversight over the clean water funds, and the administration had to back off its original plan.

ALBANY — A member of the board that will take up a controversial plan to move $ 511 million in clean water funds to the Tappan Zee bridge replacement project is asking that it be withdrawn.

Using clean water funds to build a bridge is not creative leadership, it is behaving like a kid in a candy store.

«It is shameful that as communities across the state struggle to find the funding to repair crumbling sewage systems and drinking water supplies, we learn that the Cuomo Administration was working in secret for more than a year to divert more than a half a billion dollars from clean water funds to pay for a new bridge,» said Peter Iwanowicz, the executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York.

Federal officials have also voiced concerns over using clean water funds for the bridge construction.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan to use clean water funds to help pay for the new Tappan Zee Bridge has been approved by a key state board.

A coalition of environmental and advocacy organizations and Assembly members met via conference call on Thursday to express their dismay over the approval by the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation to use, for the first time, clean water funds for a transportation project.

«We want them to reject what the Cuomo Administration would like to do in terms of raiding these clean water funds for the use of a bridge,» Iwanowicz said.

Newspaper editorials from around the state agree with the environmental groups that using the clean water funds to help build the bridge is a bad idea, using terms like «pilfering,» calling it a betrayal of Governor Cuomo's pledge to conduct a transparent process to build the new bridge.

EFC Chair Matt Driscoll concedes, though that the EPA could force the return of the loan after the fact, if federal officials determine the use of the clean water funds to go towards building a bridge is not appropriate.

«She was the one to back up our claims that they were raiding clean water funds.

We need to see a list before Election Day of the Suffolk County legislators who voted to raid the clean water funds.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency blocked most of this use of clean water funds, saying the money was intended for localities to reduce their wastewater discharges.

State officials have said the clean water funds would help environmental projects associated with the bridge, like river dredging and oyster bed restoration, but would also keep tolls low.

Environmentalists, elected officials and newspaper editorial boards across the state called the loan into question since clean water funds are typically used to pay for sewer repair projects.

The plan to use clean water funds to pay for part of the $ 4 billion bridge project was announced by Governor Andrew Cuomo in June with little advance notice and no chance for public comment.

«From phony budget surpluses to the corruption of his own corruption commission to raiding clean water funds to pay for a bridge, Andrew Cuomo has eschewed substantive policy in favor of playing for positive press - and the results continue to be disastrous for New York.»

And, now that federal authorities have rejected the Cuomo administration's plan to use nearly half a billion dollars in clean water funds to help pay for the new span, any possibility of a reasonably - priced crossing fee would appear slim.

Driscoll concedes, though, that the EPA could force the return of the loan after the fact, if federal officials determine the use of the clean water funds to go towards building a bridge is not appropriate.

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The EPA, a federal agency charged with safeguarding clean, livable air and water, funds and conducts research into the effects of climate change on public health, the environment, and natural disasters.

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For example, Shopify store owner, Ricky Padilla (pictured above) donates $ 1.00 to fund clean water projects every time someone purchases coffee from his ecommerce shop Brown Water Cowater projects every time someone purchases coffee from his ecommerce shop Brown Water CoWater Coffee.

Shared - living space provider CoLive, owned by CoLife Advisory Pvt. Ltd, has raised $ 1.8 million (Rs 11.7 crore) in a round of funding led by Ncubate Capital Partners, a venture capital arm of SAR Group that engages primarily in water purifiers, clean tech and automotive batteries, the startup said in a press statement.