Sentences with phrase «environmental attorneys say»

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«Building on prior actions against BP and its subsidiaries by the Department of Justice, this historic resolution is a strong and fitting response to the worst environmental disaster in American history,» U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement.

«Fossil fuel companies are very powerful economic interests,» said Ruth Santiago, an attorney in Puerto Rico working on environmental issues.

«Right now, this gives them a huge leg up by putting everyone else at bay,» said Michael Fleck, an environmental and land - use attorney hired by the Cary citizens group.

«Mary brings to Mass Audubon the keen mind of an environmental attorney and the can - do skills of a manager who has succeeded in positions of increasing responsibility on behalf of the public,» Clayton said.

Chris Amato, a staff attorney for Earth Justice and former official with the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, said his organization has experienced delays at that agency and the Public Service Commission that have made it difficult to weigh in on policy proposals.

Phillip Musegaas of Riverkeeper, the influential environmental group whose first prosecuting attorney was Cuomo's former brother - in - law Robert Kennedy Jr., said, «Entergy has needlessly fought the cooling tower for 11 years, and could have chosen the easier option if it followed the state's suggestion 11 years ago.

Don Boyajian, a municipal and environmental attorney in Saratoga County, raised $ 208,000 ahead of the Federal Elections Commission's third quarter deadline on Sept. 30, a haul the first - time candidate's campaign says makes him the frontrunner for the nomination.

«With this initial round of funding, we are investing in high - quality, locally led projects that will enhance open space, green neighborhoods, foster education and stewardship, and address other environmental improvement priorities of the community,» said Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose office is overseeing the fund, in a statement.

The county attorney says that offer is actually to accept the county's appraised price, plus environmental expenses, for the property.

One party insider said John P. Cahill, the former department of environmental conservation commissioner and 2014 attorney general candidate, is 90 percent committed to running again this year after no major GOP figure showed interest before Schneiderman's departure.

John Cahill, an environmental commissioner under former Gov. George Pataki, said the No. 1 question he is asked in his bid for state attorney general is «Who is your opponent?»

An environmental group and several Democratic senators are demanding a review of the personal email account of Scott Pruitt, the EPA administrator, after he said during confirmation hearings that he never used that account for official business as Oklahoma state attorney general.

At Thursday's meeting, village attorney Joseph Prokop said the village applied on Sept. 26 to be the «lead agency» for an environmental review process, believing the Village Board could better oversee concerns about the project.

The mayor said the law firm was hired in November at the recommendation of the village's attorney, John R. Patterson, Jr., and that the Village Board has «discussed components of the agreement» with a village citizens group, Healthy Hoosick Water, and received suggestions from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Health.

The U.S. attorney says Sen. Skelos instructed his son to cancel key meetings with other state senators that would promote the environmental company's interest.

The county's signs are too much like those along the Hudson River, said John Davis, a scientist in the state Attorney General's Environmental Protection Bureau.

«There's contamination all the way through,» said Alma Lowery, an environmental attorney who works with Heath.

«There are no deliberations or work product from this group,» said Kate Hudson, director of the New York City Watershed Program for the environmental group Riverkeeper and a former regional attorney for DEC Hudson.

Enck, who worked for a time as former attorney general and Governor Eliot Spitzer's environmental advisor, says Spitzer formed the template for state attorneys general suing the federal EPA, bringing court action 15 times against the Bush administration.

Connecticut environmental groups say they oppose President - elect Donald Trump's choice of Oklahoma Republican Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Proteenvironmental groups say they oppose President - elect Donald Trump's choice of Oklahoma Republican Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental ProteEnvironmental Protection Agency.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says his office will aggressively enforce environmental protection laws.

The attorney for the entity which administers the fund, said at the meeting that the EPA does have to okay the deal, but Matt Driscoll, chairman of the Environmental Facilities Corporation, insists it does not.

The 36 - acre Murphy's Island is one of the most polluted areas of the lakeshore, said Alma Lowry, an environmental attorney for the Onondaga Nation.

It will also likely be persuasive to the courts, said Michael Drysdale, an attorney specializing in environmental law with Dorsey & Whitney LLC.

Environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an outspoken vaccine critic, said today that he was asked by President - elect Donald Trump to chair a «vaccine safety and scientific integrity» commission.

For weeks before the hearing, environmental groups campaigned to urge lawmakers to block Pruitt's nomination, saying his litigation as Oklahoma attorney general may have been influenced by energy companies and industry groups that contributed to his election campaigns.

«More than 90 percent of international agreements the U.S. has joined have followed the same executive process the president just completed for the Paris Agreement, and did not require a trip through the Senate,» said Alex Hanafi, an attorney at the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund.

«Any agency's proposed rulemaking must have a rational basis behind it,» says Robert Routh, an attorney for the Clean Air Council, a Philadelphia environmental organization among those challenging the methane rule suspension.

Tim Preso, attorney for the environmental law firm Earthjustice, said grizzlies have made a comeback in that region thanks chiefly to habitat protections that curb human activities such as logging.

«Consumers will not have to make a choice between environmental preservation and their pocketbooks,» says senior attorney Dale Bryk of the New York City — based environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council, which supports such market - based mechanisms for pollution control.

«What's problematic is that this is an industry that is self - reporting and self - policing,» said Mary Greene, senior managing attorney for the environmental organization.

But Jim Angell, lead attorney for the Oakland, Calif. — based public interest law firm Earthjustice, which represents a host of environmental groups suing the BLM, says this 1 percent stipulation is «an accounting trick.

«This is bittersweet vindication,» says attorney Joel Kupferman of the New York Environmental Law and Justice Project, who is representing affected residents, workers, and students in the World Trade Center area.

Avinash Kar, senior attorney at environmental activist group the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the overall decline offers a «glimmer of hope» that the growing epidemic of drug - resistant infections can be beaten.

But David Azoulay, managing attorney for the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) in Geneva, Switzerland, says that the global ban is a good step.

«The emphasis and tone have moved far away from the conservation and recovery of an endangered species and seems to be preparing the public for its eventual extinction in the wild,» says Sierra Weaver, an attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Although SEC filings would no longer be required, communities could still learn something about its waste management and production practices because the company would need to provide information for various kinds of environmental permits, says Tarah Heinzen, an attorney with the Environmental Integenvironmental permits, says Tarah Heinzen, an attorney with the Environmental IntegEnvironmental Integrity Project.

«You can get this information on coal plants or any other polluter,» said Tarah Heinzen, an attorney with Food & Water Watch, an environmental advocacy group that has called for the agency to submit information about CAFOs to the public.

That said, without the previous large and consistent stream of revenue from her successful career as an environmental attorney, she fully understands the need to effectively manage her risk and not take too many chances with her portfolio in order to leave a lasting legacy for her three grandchildren.

«We have a case here of someone trying to circumvent the efforts of scientists to eradicate what they have determined to be an environmental pest,» said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.

Nobody knows what the next step is,» said Michael Panfil, an attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund's Clean Energy Program.

Today's victory confirms that each of these towns is on firm legal ground,» said Helen Slottje, an Ithaca - based attorney whose legal research inspired New York's local fracking ban groundswell and who was honored with the 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize.

President - elect Donald J. Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general and a close ally of the fossil fuel industry, to run the Environmental Protection Agency, a transition official said, signaling Mr. Trump's determination to dismantle President Obama's efforts to counter climate change.

«This is radically anti-consumer and, ironically, at odds with the grid modernization recommendations of the CES that want to explore integrating smart meters, efficiency and demand response, storage, solar, and other customer - sited resources for numerous grid benefits, including peak - demand management,» said Bill Dornbos, advocacy director and senior attorney for the regional environmental group Acadia Center, which in December spearheaded a statement of principles by energy and environmental activists.

Sébastien Duyck, Senior Attorney, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), said: «As another COP closes, Parties find themselves with considerable work ahead of them as they only have thirteen months to deliver on the Paris promises by creating a robust, rights - based Paris Rulebook.

«He is treating this issue like a smart defense attorney,» says John Holdren, a prominent environmental scientist and past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Friday's ruling is «the first time [that] a U.S. court not only recognized the extraordinary harms young people are facing due to climate change, but ordered an agency to do something about it,» said Andrea Rodgers, an attorney with the Western Environmental Law Center who represents the young plaintiffs.

«This is going to increase rates,» said attorney Michael Panfil of the Environmental Defense Fund.

The remarks put Perry at odds with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and White House chief political strategist Steve Bannon but in the same camp as Trump son - in - law Jared Kushner and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, along with a group of 15 state attorneys general who say fighting pollution is a public health matter.

«The relief that plaintiffs seek would require a single judge sitting in San Francisco to unilaterally change the nation's energy and environmental policies,» Joshua Lipshutz, an attorney for Chevron, said on a call with reporters.