Sentences with phrase «environmental oversight»

One year out of grad school, my family and I made a life - changing decision between staying on to teach at a university in Massachusetts, and returning to Alaska «just temporarily» to help with environmental oversight of Trans - Alaska (oil) Pipeline construction (1974 - 77).

That pact has been accused of syphoning manufacturing jobs from the U.S., while expanding employment overseas, often with poor conditions for workers and weak environmental oversight.

It's instituted quotas and restricted exports of the minerals in recent years, in part because the government has ramped up environmental oversight, though many suspect the move was also intended to drive up prices.

Most industry groups are closely following U.S. EPA's efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Hackney said, but even agencies historically uninvolved with environmental issues have started assuming environmental oversight responsibilities.

Regulatory experts say stricter marketing guidelines would fit into the Obama administration's efforts to expand environmental oversight by the executive branch.

U.S. EPA has released two studies on the effects of mountaintop - removal mining in Appalachian states, which provide the backbone of the agency's justification for increased environmental oversight of the practice.

Ona's efforts led to an unprecedented victory for civil society in Gabon, with the government adopting new environmental oversight regulations and significantly reducing the size of the mining concession.

But for the quality, robust environmental oversight and versatility (and considering most jeans seem to start at $ 175 nowadays and don't fair well on the bike), they seem like a pretty good investment.

The committee will enable enhanced environmental oversight of the Pacific NorthWest LNG Project and the active engagement of local First Nations.

Managed and directed corporate projects in multiple plants throughout USA and Mexico providing engineering, manufacturing, quality, safety and environmental oversight of $ 300MM + automotive Tier - 2 company, manufacturing forged and machined components for commercial vehicle OEM and service markets.

Billions of dollars already have been spent on existing border fencing, with little to no environmental oversight, Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement.

Whereas much of China's early industrial development took place along the coast, factories more recently have been locating where labor is cheaper and environmental oversight is less strict, pushing the so - called «cancer belt» inland.

More 2006: In May 2006, a group of Exxon's large institutional investorssent a letter requesting a meeting with Michael Boskin, a Stanford University economics professor and chairman of the Exxon board committee in charge of environmental oversight.

What's more, Canada came to be seen as a leader in the emerging political art of reining in an industrial economy's environmental oversights and excesses.

The Honourable Mary Polak, Minister of Environment, British Colombia, said: «Having both provincial and federal governments and First Nations leading this committee not only provides for stronger environmental protection, it also increases confidence in the rigour of the environmental oversight.

Successfully coordinate oilfield activities, including manpower disbursement, industrial cleaning, environmental oversight and equipment maintenance.