Sentences with phrase «environmental bill»
Do you know how your state legislators voted on environmental bills during the 2015 - 16 legislative session?
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The scores are based on a senator's vote — or lack thereof — on major environmental bills.
Environmental Advocates of New York and «Effective New York» released two 30 - second testimonials Thursday, urging Governor Andrew Cuomo next year to take up a new Environmental Bill of Rights in regards to the Hoosick Falls PFOA contamination.
Each session, Mass Audubon identifies a number of important environmental bills as policy priorities.
In a discussion paper posted to the Ontario Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR) registry, the government outlined a strategy to reduce the use of neonic - coated seeds in the province by 80 per cent by 2017.
Several significant environmental bills also passed during informal sessions, including one that regulates phosphorus in fertilizers to reduce harmful algae blooms.
«Yet for their very first environmental bill of the year, the Senate Majority Coalition has chosen to do the bidding of corporate special interests and overturn New York City's plastic bag fee.
Ohio House passes legislation Jim Provance — The Blade — November 22, 2014 COLUMBUS — Ohio's fledgling wind energy industry is balking at a largely ignored provision of a massive environmental bill overwhelmingly approved in the House this week, arguing it is designed to throw one more wrench into its turbines.
«We are dismayed that this proactive environmental bill, which was passed by the Assembly and had the pledged support of the Governor, could not make it past our California State Senate,» says Angela Howe, Surfrider Foundation's Managing Attorney.
On June 17, 2014, several environmental groups in New Brunswick circulated for comment a draft environmental bill of rights for children.
The Legislative Report Card is a compilation of the roll call votes by state legislators on environmental bills or budget items.
The rankings of all senators were lowered because Senate leaders have not brought important environmental bills to the floor for votes, Grahl said.
The Senate is expected to take up that bill — the major environmental bill of the current session — late this week or early next week.
Section 103 of the Ontario Environmental Bill of Rights eliminates the «special damage» requirement for claims in public nuisance causing environmental harm.
Environmental Advocates of New York and «Effective New York» released two 30 - second testimonials, urging Cuomo next year to take up a new Environmental Bill of Rights in regards to the Hoosick Falls PFOA contamination.
Also at 10 a.m., a coalition of good - government and environmental groups as well as state lawmakers will push for the Senate to pass New York's Environmental Bill of Rights.
In Halifax the party adopted policy recommendations that include universal pharmacare, a guaranteed minimum income, an environmental bill of rights, and an employee pension protection strategy.
Start with the environmental bills we've identified as policy priorities, and learn about our positions on critical issues.
The Legislative Report Card is a compilation of the roll call votes taken by state legislators on environmental bills or funding measures.
While the City's other boroughs scored well (with Manhattan taking the top score), two of Staten Island's three council members voted against almost every environmental bill that was examined.
The assemblyman, who is being backed by the Queens Democrats, has supported a wide variety of environmental bills and the state Assembly recently passed Hevesi's bill that aims to create a more comprehensive alternative energy policy for the state.
Over the past 15 years, he has introduced or cosponsored some 40 environmental bills and amendments.
Yes, there are subplots about a re-election campaign, and crime and environmental bills, but what we, the viewers, really care about is whether Sydney Ellen Wade and President Andrew Shepherd will get their happily ever after.
While the bill will likely be supported in McCain's Commerce Committee, and is touted by its authors as an economic bill more than an environmental bill, it will face tough opposition from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, whose new chair, Oklahoma Republican James Inhofe, opposes mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
The legislature also completed action on an environmental bill.
As something of a companion measure, the General Assembly completed passage of an environmental bill.
Perhaps even more difficult, since the environmental bill from 200 years of unchecked of fossil fuel burning has finally come due and Obama will have to deal with the convergence of deep financial crisis and deep environmental crisis at the same time.
Perhaps even more difficult, since the environmental bill from 200 years of unchecked of fossil fuel
Ian Hanna, a property owner from Prince Edward County, Ont., argues the rules don't comply with s. 11 of the Environmental Bill of Rights, which requires the minister of the environment to «take every reasonable step to ensure that the ministry statement of environmental values is considered whenever decisions that might significantly affect the environment are made in the ministry.»
Ontario has an Environmental Bill of Rights, 1993 (EBR) which recites that «the people of Ontario have a right to a healthful environment,» but the EBR only confers procedural rights, such as the right to access information and the right to participate in governmental decision - making.
Does this contravene the preamble to Ontario's Environmental Bill of Rights, 1993, S.O. 1993, ch.
The test for granting leave, under the Environmental Bill of Rights, required that «no reasonable person» could have made the decision appealed from.