Sentences with phrase «environmental agency decision»
Most community activism has focused on trying to influence environmental agency decision - making, and...
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A trade association representing General Motors (gm), Toyota (tm), Volkswagen (vlkpf) and nine other automakers on Tuesday asked new Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt to withdraw an Obama administration decision to lock in vehicle emission rules through 2025.
Western Australia's Environmental Protection Agency today provided a dent to the aspirations of the Gorgon liquefied natural gas project partners off WA's Pilbara coast with confirmation of its decision to block the $ 11 billion project.
This track record likely reflects his disturbing decision to close the environmental enforcement unit in his office while establishing a new litigation team to challenge EPA and other federal agencies.
The 17 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's decision in April to declare U.S. vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency rules through 2025 «not appropriate.»
«This track record likely reflects his disturbing decision to close the environmental enforcement unit in his office while establishing a new litigation team to challenge EPA and other federal agencies,» the former EPA employees wrote in the letter, which was sent by the Environmental Integrity Project to all Uenvironmental enforcement unit in his office while establishing a new litigation team to challenge EPA and other federal agencies,» the former EPA employees wrote in the letter, which was sent by the Environmental Integrity Project to all UEnvironmental Integrity Project to all U.S. Senators.
Canada might learn a thing or two about sustainable development by reading the Trans - Tasman Resources Marine Consent Decision issued by New Zealand's Environmental Protection Agency (NZ EPA) on the same day that Northern Gateway was approved.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), as part of a coalition of food, farm and oil industry groups, filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking that it reverse the DC Circuit Court's August 2012 decision to dismiss its challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to allow gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol («E15») to be sold for cars manufactured in the 2007 model year or later.
Like other state and federal water management agencies, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder must consider these targets when making decisions about using water.
In May, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its decision to ban any residue of the pesticide carbofuran on food.
New York State is preparing to sue the Environmental Protection Agency over its decision to permanently allow dumping of dredged material in the Long Island Sound, according to a press release from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office.
The Adirondack Park's leading environmental groups and local government officials supported the Adirondack Park Agency's decision to classify the 20,530 - acre Boreas Ponds tract as a mix of Wilderness and Wild Forest.
Environmental groups say Cuomo may have meddled illegally in the Adirondack Park Agency's decision to grant permits for a big new resort in Tupper Lake.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says the state will sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over its final decision to allow a new site to dump dredged materials in Long Island Sound.
The decision by President Donald Trump to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord has pushed environmentalists to file several lawsuits against the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has informed General Electric that its decision about whether to formally determine that the Upper Hudson River PCB cleanup is complete is delayed.
On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall joined fellow Democrats to question U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt about his ethical and spending decisions.
His environmental agency says it will review the pipeline permits and make a decision based on «sound science.»
The statement comes as Governor Cuomo says he's not pushing his environmental agency to make a final decision on fracking any time soon.
The Independent Oil and Gas Association issued a brief statement supporting Commissioner Martens decision not to allow an independent health assessment, saying it's the environmental agency's job to assess and promulgate all regulations for fracking.
«The decision implies that at least 30 other states, Senator Schumer and the Obama Administration's Environmental Protection Agency are wrong about the health impacts and do not care about the well - being of millions of American citizens, and discounts the successes that are occurring in Pennsylvania and elsewhere,» Skelos said.
It also would limit animal testing and set deadlines for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for decisions.
Ulster town Supervisor James Quigley was also troubled by the decision to have two agencies in charge of the environmental reviews.
The decision whether to approve the application is left to the state Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner and the Siting Board, an administrative law panel comprised mostly of representatives from state agencies.
«And DEC, the state's environmental agency, is going through an exhaustive scientific review and will make the decision based on the science and the facts,» said Cuomo.
The CEQ also helped shape the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) declaration that it did not have the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as well as its decision not to declare them a danger to public health under the Clean Air Act, despite an internal EPA analysis noting that greenhouse gas emissions endangered public welfare.
Crawford - Brown worked for a while on models of the effects of radiation and chemical exposure on human health, then wandered into decision analysis by the back door when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) started to use some of his scientific models.
According to a company spokesperson, SpaceX is not commenting on the environmental impact of the Boca Chica facility beyond what is in the Environmental Impact Statement, Record of Decision and the USFWS Biological and Conference Opinion, which include long lists of mitigation approaches developed by the company and the agencies through the reenvironmental impact of the Boca Chica facility beyond what is in the Environmental Impact Statement, Record of Decision and the USFWS Biological and Conference Opinion, which include long lists of mitigation approaches developed by the company and the agencies through the reEnvironmental Impact Statement, Record of Decision and the USFWS Biological and Conference Opinion, which include long lists of mitigation approaches developed by the company and the agencies through the review process.
Decision - makers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Environmental Protection Agency are enthusiastic about NSF's proposed increase in postdoc salaries, says Colwell.
The factors color everything we know about air quality and many of the decisions the EPA and state environmental agencies make, from risk assessment to rulemaking.
Do you want to have an impact in how Congress and Federal Agencies make laws and decisions regarding issues such as software patents, regulating the Internet, stem cell research, climate change, environmental pollution, STEM education, and funding basic research?
It includes information submitted by a wide range of UN agencies on human, socio - economic and environmental impacts as part of a drive to provide a more comprehensive, UN-wide policy brief for decision makers on the interplay between weather, climate and water and the UN global goals.
«ACC strongly supports the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program, and we will continue to contribute meaningful, scientifically - validated data to help policymakers make sound decisions about the safety of chemicals in commerce.»
You can look up fact sheets and other info on specific pesticides online via the National Pesticide Information Center or the Environmental Protection Agency in order to make an informed decision.
In this capacity, she integrates environmental justice in agency decision - making, supports community based action, and fosters administration wide action that promotes healthy, equitable, resilient and sustainable communities for overburdened populations.
Following the Supreme Court's decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S. 497 (2007)-- which clarified that greenhouse gases are an «air pollutant» subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act (CAA)-- the Environmental Protection Agency promulgated a series of greenhouse gas - related rules.
This is a significant step in the tangle of legal proceedings set in motion with the 2007 Supreme Court decision on the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate carbon dioxide under the clean air law.
In a decision that strikes a blow against the federal government's controversial practice of excluding industry from consent decrees with environmental citizen groups, a practice known as «sue - and - settle,» the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned the district court's approval of a consent decree between a coalition of environmental groups and several federal agencies in Conservation Northwest v. Sherman, No. 11 - 35729 (9th Cir.
The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, was behind a controversial decision to block California's attempt to impose tough emission limits on car manufacturers, according to insiders at the government Environmental Protection Agency.
The agency describes it as «a case - by - case decision that takes into account technical feasibility, cost, and other energy, environmental, and economic impacts.»
World Federalists believe that the environmental crisis facing planet earth is a global problem and therefore calls for a «global» solution — a worldwide United Nations Environmental Agency with the power to make its decenvironmental crisis facing planet earth is a global problem and therefore calls for a «global» solution — a worldwide United Nations Environmental Agency with the power to make its decEnvironmental Agency with the power to make its decisions stick.
Salt Lake Tribune August 7, 2017 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott Pruitt announced this week that the agency was moving ahead with defining places that need to do more to reduce ozone pollution, reversing an earlier decision to delay by aAgency Director Scott Pruitt announced this week that the agency was moving ahead with defining places that need to do more to reduce ozone pollution, reversing an earlier decision to delay by aagency was moving ahead with defining places that need to do more to reduce ozone pollution, reversing an earlier decision to delay by a year.
In 2003, during Bookbinder's time as Chief Climate Counsel, the Sierra Club backed ten states that brought a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Bush administration's decision that it does not have the authority to regulate emissions of the greenhouse gasses that cause climate change (Massachusetts v. EPA).
WASHINGTON, DC — The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) praised Japanese internet retail giant Rakuten Ichiba for its decision to end all sales of elephant ivory.
Today, environmental and community groups asked a federal court to stay a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to weaken and delay Clean Air Act protection against toxic pollution from cenvironmental and community groups asked a federal court to stay a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to weaken and delay Clean Air Act protection against toxic pollution from cEnvironmental Protection Agency to weaken and delay Clean Air Act protection against toxic pollution from cement plants.
As a member of the large plaintiff group in Massachusetts v. EPA, we celebrated the Supreme Court's April 2007 decision declaring CO2 a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to take the next step toward regulation by making what's called the «endangerment finding» — an agency determination that a pollutant «endangers public health and welfare,» leading directly to controls on that pollAgency to take the next step toward regulation by making what's called the «endangerment finding» — an agency determination that a pollutant «endangers public health and welfare,» leading directly to controls on that pollagency determination that a pollutant «endangers public health and welfare,» leading directly to controls on that pollutant.
The U.S. National Research Council (NRC) has published a report in 2007 entitled «Models in Environmental Regulatory Decision Making,» which addresses models of particular relevance to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
WASHINGTON — In a sharp rebuke, a federal judge on Friday reversed a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency to revoke a critical permit for one of the nation's largest mountaintop removal mining projects.
On February 9, 2016, the Supreme Court issued a surprising decision to halt implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan until the resolution of the rule's legal challenges.
Launched in 2011, our Finance for Change Initiative helps investors, credit rating agencies, and country risk analysts identify, quantify, and integrate environmental risks into their analysis and decision - making.