Sentences with phrase «environmental cleanup before»

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Environmental advocates are pressing the state legislature to renew a toxic site cleanup program before the session wraps up in a few days, even though there seems little interest in taking up any big issues in Albany.

He has said Entergy has a «steep hill to climb,» and in July 2011, he won a key decision from the federal government that would require the facility to submit an action and environmental cleanup plan for accidents before being re-licensed.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office today is celebrating a key decision from the federal government that would require the Indian Point nuclear facility to submit an action and environmental cleanup plan for accidents before being re-licensed.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is calling on the federal government to require a comprehensive environmental cleanup plan for Plum Island and to give the state final review of the Island's conditions before it is put up for sale.

In my last blog, I detailed major missteps of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its oversight of the Hudson River Superfund cleanup of toxic PCBs, including allowing the polluter, General Electric, to decommission its massive dredging operations before the agency determined whether the cleanup had met its goals, and ignoring pleas from other federal agencies and evidence that more dredging is needed to restore the river's health.

Secured a victory before the Illinois Pollution Control Board for a global manufacturing client against a State agency, obtaining an order that the state violated the Illinois Environmental Protection Act and must pay for cleanup costs.

To speed property transfer to the redevelopment authority during that period, new regulations under the federal cleanup law offer «early transfer» provisions that permit private entities to take title to property before environmental cleanup is complete.