Sentences with phrase «environmental matters»

More important but less common has been consideration of environmental matters when constructing church buildings.

Extensive experience with environmental matters related to real estate and corporate transactions and alternative energy matters.

If the question about corporations taking primary responsibility for environmental matters points to such voluntary agreements and compliance, it is difficult to be optimistic.

Whether they're first - time buyers or existing homeowners, consumers are showing more desire to learn more about environmental matters in housing.

How can the government guarantee the masses full rights to know, supervise and participate in major environmental matters?

The definition of environmental matters within this context was intended to be broad and comprehensive.

This applied to any claim for judicial review that, in simple terms, engaged environmental matters.

Clients also look to us for guidance with civil environmental matters, including disputes over responsibility for the cleanup of contaminated properties, and commercial environmental litigation between former business partners.

She also has defended companies in white - collar crime environmental matters.

And responsibility for leadership on environmental matters might be concentrated at that level.

We have various options such as modifications to capitalism, better regulation of environmental matters, or alternatives to capitalism.

If it was not obvious ten years ago that neither of the big parties care about environmental matters (and the future of the planet), it is obvious now.

Providing consultations on environmental matters as the Pathfinder North America Environment Champion serving all 50 states and Canada.

The legislation will be sponsored by McIntosh, who chairs the Maryland House Environmental Matters Committee, along with Del..

The government is also considering backtracking on other environmental matters.

She represents AGA in environmental matters at EPA and other federal agencies.

And of course the UK is subject to numerous European Union laws, conventions and regulations governing environmental matters.

Moral of the story: If you decide to take environmental matters into your own hands, do not get caught.

The team is also advising The Bluemantle Group and Horwich Vision on planning and environmental matters relating to the regeneration of the former Loco Works site at Horwich, Bolton; and is advising Lendlease on the planning and compulsory purchase aspects of the extension of a shopping centre in Solihull.

Recent evidence suggests that states that have included a general obligation for the public service board (PSB) to consider environmental matters when issuing a regulatory ruling may be slowing greenhouse gas emissions.

However, in this case, the question is not the administrative body's jurisdiction under its governing statute; rather, the question is a classic federalism question pitting a regulator's authority on environmental matters under provincial jurisdiction against the federal government's jurisdiction over bankruptcy.

To date, 16 states have adopted a general obligation for the PSB to consider environmental matters when issuing a regulatory ruling.

Since the Rio Earth Summit, the World Bank has taken responsibility to give global leadership to environmental matters quite independently of economic growth.

Energy Saving Trust chief executive Philip Sellwood added: «With a network of advice centres across the UK, we will be able to offer millions of people free and impartial advice on environmental matters such as energy efficiency, renewable technologies and greener transport.

Deacon said that experience and her stance on environmental matters make her better suited to tackle energy issues than her opponent, incumbent Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus).

A second point is that, if sections of the public still want to lobby for representation and political action on environmental matters dear to their hearts, there are many campaigning charities, NGOs and activist groups willing to pick up the mantle.

With that formerly dominant environmental matter largely settled in New York, the anti-fracking community has turned its energy to opposing the transport of fracked gas from other states — infrastructure that they argue enables dependency on insufficiently clean energy sources.

Dr. Ruth Patrick (1907 - 2013) probably needs no introduction to the readers of The American Naturalist, or to anyone who has taken an interest in environmental matters over the last half century, for she has become so well known and so influential in her work with water as to become something of a household name.

They now cover environmental matters, including pollutants both inside the home and out, as well as recent hot - button topics, such as Mad Cow disease, Lyme disease, and the West Nile virus.

She is staff executive for the AGA Board of Directors» environmental strategic planning task force and for AGA's environmental advocacy committee and the technical environmental matters committee.

The dirty little secret in many environmental matters is that there is deep uncertainty about how human actions will affect the environment and proof one way or the other is illusive.

The two former — and possibly future — political rivals to President Bush and each other offered their bill to reduce the emissions of heat - trapping gases, saying the administration was stuck in neutral on that crucial environmental matter.

The skeptic view is that science education vis a vis climate and other environmental matters tends to be shallow, or one - sided, or politicized — in other words broken in some way and needing repair.

to make the serious environmental matters go down easier.

Noam Chomsky gives us a useful reminder of how far conservative ideology has drifted to the right regarding environmental matters:

«It seems in the prioritization of things, environmental matters got the short end of the stick.»

Climate Change is not a sub-set of the Economy, nor a campaigning pastime, as is the usual treatment of Environmental matters by the Media.

For example, Connecticut's Public Utility Environmental Standards Act ranks environmental matters as an important part of the state's regulatory mandate.

Brandon Vegter focuses his practice on construction, professional liability, insurance coverage and insurance disputes, construction liens, and environmental matters throughout California.

Mr. Amantea also has extensive experience in resolving environmental matters through mediation and arbitration proceedings, and working with various state and local environmental agencies.

The firm is also strong on the transactional side, advising on the full scope of environmental matters associated with mergers, acquisitions and disposals.

Preeminent zoning attorneys with extensive experience in sophisticated environmental matters, construction issues, zoning laws, land use law, and anticipated future land use.

Nahmod, author of the treatise Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Litigation: The Law of Section 1983, adds that there isn't a great deal of precedent on the subject because environmental matters typically are dealt with in court through enforcement of environmental laws.

Complex commercial litigation matters including: complex business litigation; ERISA litigation and other employee benefit matters; corporate governance and shareholder rights litigation; shareholder and partnership disputes; securities litigation; protection of trade secrets and unfair competition; tort and fraud class action litigation; breach of fiduciary duty, fraud and RICO litigation; consumer fraud actions; breach of contract litigation; and complex environmental matters.

Mr. Peloso has litigated environmental matters involving hundreds of millions of dollars, including serving as lead counsel in a $ 300 million plus Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) action related to a Rhode Island Superfund site.