Sentences with phrase «environmental agency denied»

Then, on Earth Day, in April - Governor Cuomo's environmental agency denied a key permit for the Constitution pipeline, which would have traversed Pennsylvania and upstate New York, saying it could not guarantee that the water nearby would be safe.

Then in April, on Earth Day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's environmental agency denied a key permit to the Constitution pipeline, which would have traversed Pennsylvania and upstate New York, saying it could not guarantee that the water nearby would be safe.

Then, on Earth Day in April, Governor Cuomo's environmental agency denied a key permit to the Constitution pipeline, which would have traversed Pennsylvania and upstate New York, saying it could not guarantee that the water nearby would be safe.

On Earth Day this year, the environmental agency denied a similar water quality certification for the Constitution pipeline, which was to be a newly constructed line stretching across vast sections of upstate New York.

Not exact matches

Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, a climate change denier, as his pick to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and has promised to lift restrictions on fossil fuel companies.

Cuomo's environmental agency earlier this year, on Earth Day, denied a similar water quality certification for the Constitution pipeline, which was to be a newly constructed line stretching across vast sections of Upstate New York.

The suit, filed in state Supreme Court in Albany, comes after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency denied the broad majority of the loan — $ 482 million — which state officials at the Public Authorities Control Board and later the Thruway Authority had approved over the summer.

Following a lengthy public session where the Ulster Town Board heard from members of the public concerned about oversight on the proposed Niagara Bottling plant, the town board voted to deny both the Kingston Common Council and Woodstock Town Board involved agency status in the plant's coming environmental review.

On Wednesday, Ulster County Executive Michael Hein said he filed a letter with the DEC asking that the Thruway Authority's request to act as lead agency for the environmental review be denied.

He has said climate change is a hoax and has nominated a climate change denier to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Ever since the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Stephen G. Johnson, denied California's request for a waiver allowing it to put new controls on greenhouse - gas emissions from cars and light trucks, the agency has repeatedly claimed that its new federal standard is more aggressive than California'sAgency administrator, Stephen G. Johnson, denied California's request for a waiver allowing it to put new controls on greenhouse - gas emissions from cars and light trucks, the agency has repeatedly claimed that its new federal standard is more aggressive than California'sagency has repeatedly claimed that its new federal standard is more aggressive than California's plan.

Greenpeace routinely pillories oil sands companies as «climate criminals,» while the US Environmental Protection Agency uses their oil sands CO2 emissions to justify denying Keystone Pipeline permits.

There is «empirical evidence» but it's identified by skeptics despite efforts by government funded agencies and environmental groups to block, deny, and discredit with personal attacks.

In a future in which the Environmental Protection Agency could be led by Scott Pruitt — a denier of climate science who has opposed efforts to reduce air and water pollution and combat climate change — these disparities will only get worse.

The Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board (Siting Board), was created by the Legislature to ensure the siting of needed and least environmental impact energy facilities and was granted the statutory authority to issue a comprehensive approval to an energy facility it has previously approved, where that facility has been denied a permit by any other state or local agency in the Commonwealth.

None of the funds made available to the Environmental Protection Agency by this division or any other Act may be expended for purposes of enforcing or promulgating any regulation (other than with respect to section 202 of the Clean Air Act) or order, taking action relating to, or denying approval of state implementation plans or permits because of the emissions of greenhouse gases due to concerns regarding possible climate change.

Activists will supposedly converge on U.S. Senate offices and demand that their senators «reject Donald Trump's reckless climate - denying cabinet nominees» particularly secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt, and Energy secretary pick Rick Perry (if you're not sure what a denier is, I just wrote about it here for The Hill).

If the mounting, independent scientific evidence hasn't been enough proof yet that burning trees to generate electricity is a climate disaster, the endorsement of biomass last month by Scott Pruitt, the notorious climate denying administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), should be.

He also recommended an avowed climate denier, Myron Ebell, to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

Source: thinkprogress.org 17 climate deniers DeSmogBlog reported that Singer worked with an organization challenging the claims by the US Environmental Protection Agency that second - hand tobacco smoke is bad for human health.

Trump's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, is a prominent denier of climate science, writing in the National Review in May that «the debate is far from settled» over whether human activity has contributed to the warming of the earth.

Trump is a climate denier who has promised to gut the Environmental Protection Agency and withdraw from the Paris Agreement.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said she's done talking to «climate deniers» who don't think human activities are causing global warming.

Guest post By Alan Caruba The Environmental Protection Agency is using its power to advance the objective of the environmental movement to deny Americans access to the energy that sustains the nation's economy and is using the greatest hoax ever perpetrated, global warming — now called «climate change» — to achieEnvironmental Protection Agency is using its power to advance the objective of the environmental movement to deny Americans access to the energy that sustains the nation's economy and is using the greatest hoax ever perpetrated, global warming — now called «climate change» — to achieenvironmental movement to deny Americans access to the energy that sustains the nation's economy and is using the greatest hoax ever perpetrated, global warming — now called «climate change» — to achieve that goal.

Under Phillips» leadership, AFP has campaigned against the Environmental Protection Agency's carbon pollution standards and tax incentives for wind energy, while denying the existence of subsidies for the oil and gas industries.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson yesterday denied California's petition to limit greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, overruling the unanimous recommendation of the agency's legal and technical sAgency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson yesterday denied California's petition to limit greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, overruling the unanimous recommendation of the agency's legal and technical sagency's legal and technical staffs.

The Environmental Protection Agency could deliver a huge Christmas present to climate deniers.

The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) was in touch with climate science denier Myron Ebell during his time as head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team, DeSmog UK can confirm.

Last night, Rachel Maddow asked U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy about the tin hats and the significance of policymakers that deny a top priority problem for the EPA:

President Donald Trump, for example, has claimed global warming is a «hoax,» and he has named well - known climate deniers to lead the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy, among other posts.

It seeks to deny the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) any role in regulating greenhouse gases (GHG), pollutants that are widely acknowledged to be pushing the planet towards uncontrolled climate change.

Ms. Long assists developers, landowners, wireless communications providers, and utility companies with appeals if their projects have been denied by municipal land use boards or state environmental agencies or challenged by abutters.

This came just days after the Trump administration appointed climate change denier Scott Pruitt as head of the US Environmental Protection Agency.