Sentences with phrase «concerning environmental requirements»

We offer well - grounded legal advice and counsel in connection with compliance issues, corporate and financial transactions, and disputes concerning environmental requirements and potential environmental damages.

Not exact matches

Environmental concerns led President Obama to institute more stringent regulatory requirements, while cheap natural gas created intense competition.

On the investment side, while the detention of Canadian investors John Chang and Allison Lu for commercial disputes with politically connected counterparts in China has gotten most of the publicity, other practices, such imposing technology transfer requirements on foreign investors, targeting foreign over local firms in enforcing environmental rules, and denying reciprocal treatment of investments in resource projects, banking, telecommunications and professional services are also cause for serious concern.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

Contractors in Oneida County working under new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations concerning lead safe work practices are being offered a free seminar designed to familiarize them with the new requirements and provide them the opportunity to participate in the Contractors» Connections program.

Scientists also expressed concern about the project being exempt from environmental review requirements.

Sense of Senate concerning expeditious completion of environmental reviews, approvals, licensing, and permit requirements

However, the failure of the government and of industry to keep apace of the requirements posed by increased production, storage, and use of natural gas is rather astounding — particularly given California's overall environmental record, and the growing concerns over fracking.

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).

In addition to transactional work, we also advise our clients on a variety of other environmental matters, which has included counseling on corporate governance concerns, developing environmental policies and advising on sustainability issues and emerging regulatory requirements.

Besides transactional experience, Ms. Connolly counsels clients on a variety of environmental and health and safety topics, including climate change, renewable energy projects and concerns, compliance with hazardous waste and hazardous material, wastewater and air emission requirements, occupational safety issues, asbestos, mold and other building concerns, as well as shareholder, successor and lender liability.

• Securing financial and technical assistance available to owners and their communities seeking to redevelop brownfield properties or complete clean energy and conservation projects • Establishing cleanup criteria, institutional controls, financial assurance mechanisms, and other measures required under CERCLA and RCRA • Developing strategies to meet TSCA remediation and disposal standards for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and authorization to use encapsulation and similar abatement methods for PCBs, asbestos, and other building materials • Completing the analysis and application proceedings required for projects» regulatory requirements, including wetlands and other EH+S permitting • Scoping and completing impact assessments and reviews required under the National Environmental Policy Act • Completing surveys and identifying mitigation plans addressing Endangered Species Act concerns

Rising energy costs and concerns about environmental degradation — as well as more and more municipal building code requirements — are transforming what was once a curiosity into a mainstream phenomenon.