Sentences with phrase «environmental regulators»

The police can not force someone to talk and then use the answers against them; can environmental regulators do so?

Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster asked state environmental regulators in November 2013 for a study to determine the public health impacts of air pollution in and around Niagara Falls.

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WASHINGTON - Federal environmental regulators announced on Monday they will ease emissions standards for cars and trucks, saying that a timeline put in place by President Barack Obama was not appropriate and set standards «too high.»

Yet Goodyear's emissions are well below the limits set by environmental regulators.

Top Environmental Regulators from CalRecycle, California's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, will discuss possible future changes in the regulatory climate impacting plastics recycling in California at The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) Spring Meeting in Sacramento, CA.

The U.S. environmental regulator argued in court on Tuesday that its rule limiting mercury and hazardous air pollutants is «appropriate and necessary,» not an improper interpretation of the federal Clean Air Act as industry groups and some states contend.

In fact, state environmental regulators said during the community meeting at the Porter Street Library in Buffalo that some of the air toxins they measured near the Peace Bridge were similar to what one might find near Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks.

New York's top environmental regulator, Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens, says his agency will likely finish its review of hydrofracking late next spring.

The tension positions a blue state governor working to burnish his climate credentials on the national stage against the Obama administration and one of its chief environmental regulators.

The team includes both seasoned environmental regulators who see global warming mainly as a traditional pollution problem and Steven Chu, a Nobel laureate in physics who recognizes the need, along with a price on emissions, for big leaps in science and engineering.

The type of people who would be most offended that a car company would flagrantly deceive environmental regulators are precisely the people who would be in the market for a VW clean - diesel vehicle — and hitherto were willing to pay a hefty premium for the environmental cachet it conveyed.

Bennington College and several scientists and former environmental regulators are teaming up to conduct an informal health survey analyzing six illnesses tied to a toxic manufacturing chemical that polluted water supplies in several communities in Rensselaer County and southern Vermont.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The U.S. environmental regulator argued in court on Tuesday that its rule limiting mercury and hazardous air pollutants is «appropriate and necessary,» not an improper interpretation of the federal Clean Air Act as industry groups and some states contend.

Our specialist lawyers defend clients against Environment Agency prosecutions and environmental prosecutions from other environmental regulators.

Democratic Sen. Brad Hoylman in testimony to b given to federal environmental regulators urged the cleanup of PCB - laden muck from the Hudson River to continue as the project winds down with a five - year review.

«It's important for people to know that [state environmental regulators] allow sewer discharges into our waterways every day, every week, every year,» said Jill Jedlicka, executive director of Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper.

As for the DEC report itself on hydrofracking, Fiala said she was yet to read, but said she hadn't changed her position on the process, insisting that she had always preferred to wait for what environmental regulators would do.

Environmental regulators issued a final decision today to keep intact tougher fuel - economy standards, rushing to lock in one of President Barack Obama's signature climate policies a week before Trump assumes office.

Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan is calling on the Thruway Authority to let state environmental regulators take the lead role in overseeing a review of a proposed 170 - mile crude oil pipeline starting at Exit 23 near the Port of Albany.

Development of the Marcellus Shale natural gas formation is underway in Pennsylvania, but has been on hold in New York while environmental regulators study the practice.

After all, while Mr Gove has publicly called for a «Green Brexit» and announced plans for a new environmental regulator post-Brexit, he has also been teaming up with Boris Johnson behind the scenes to press for «regulatory freedom» from the EU — as his recent leaked letter to Theresa May revealed.

Neighborhood residents have been waiting — and worrying — for a decade since state environmental regulators declared several acres of the -LSB-...]

Environmental regulators compounded the health problems by failing to acknowledge them and take steps to protect the public's health.

Volkswagen will be picking up as much as half the tab when Louisiana school districts purchase new buses following the company's agreement to spend billions of dollars in settlements for trying to dupe environmental regulators.

Judy Fahys KUER 90.1 February 1, 2016 State environmental regulators want input from Utahns about reducing the pollution blamed for climate change.

Utah environmental regulators on Wednesday unveiled a revised plan for clearing the skies over the state's national parks, but to environmentalists» dismay it would do nothing to further cut emissions from aging coal - fired power plants.

The extent of exposure to these pollutants, some known to cause cancer, may never be known, but since the skies cleared and floods receded, a small corps of private air monitors have spread out into the neighborhoods near the spills and found that emissions likely reached dangerous levels - in some cases more dangerous than environmental regulators initially acknowledged.

[9] Tenaska also said it still needs Illinois environmental regulators to issue an air permit as well as the U.S. Department of Energy, which agreed to give the project a $ 2.6 billion loan guarantee, to complete an environmental review of the proposed project.

In the 1980s environmental regulators discovered that much of the property had been contaminated with PCB - laced oil from transformers and storage drums, contaminating the soil and groundwater with toxic chemicals.

State environmental regulators finalized a rule requiring large industrial emitters to gradually reduce carbon emissions over time.

California environmental regulators are embarrassed by the blow - out.

«Arkansas - based Murphy Oil Corp. has been meeting with environmental regulators from the State of Wisconsin and the federal government to find out what permits it would need to launch its own $ 6 billion refinery expansion in the lakeside city of Superior.

At present, environmental regulators only have a super-priority claim for remediation costs secured by a charge on the contaminated real property (and contiguous property) that is related to the activity causing the contamination.

Virtually every other key policy role was filled by environmental regulators — former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Carol Browner as climate czar, former Browner aide Lisa Jackson as EPA administrator, and Nancy Sutley as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

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He has also ordered a wide - ranging rollback of Obama - era climate regulations and appointed a self - described climate skeptic, Scott Pruitt, as the nation's chief environmental regulator.

Carol M. Browner, the new White House coordinator for climate and energy, is a seasoned environmental regulator and campaigner who has focused on cap - and - trade legislation, which would steadily raise the cost of unfettered fossil - fuel use, and rule - making as driving the necessary change (as they did with the 20th - century basket of air pollutants).

The Clean Power Plan has been falsely sold as environmental regulation, when it is really an attempt by our primary federal environmental regulator to take over federal and State regulation of energy.

Monsanto (mon) put on hold the launch of a chemical designed to be applied to crop seeds on Wednesday following reports it causes rashes on people, in the latest instance of complaints about a company product that was approved by U.S. environmental regulators.

The type of people who would be most offended that a car company would flagrantly deceive environmental regulators are precisely the people who would be in the market for a VW clean - diesel vehicle — and hitherto were willing to pay a hefty premium for the environmental cache it conveyed.

«As a former environmental regulator, I know that as time passes, new information is gathered, the cost always goes up; it never goes down,» said Enck.

We specialise in defending clients against regulatory investigations, enforcement, Environment Agency prosecutions and environmental prosecutions by the other environmental regulators.

The landowners» announcement comes after Joe Martens, the state's top environmental regulator, told lawmakers in Albany that the state isn't planning to allow fracking for at least another year.

Over the past few decades, wildlife researchers and environmental regulators in the United States have become increasingly alarmed by the intentional misuse of methomyl to kill «nuisance» wildlife including skunks and raccoons.

The Cuomo administration is seeking to lift what has effectively been a moratorium in New York State on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technique used to extract natural gas from shale, state environmental regulators said on Thursday.

U.S. environmental regulators have ordered additional testing to verify gas mileage on the five models Mitsubishi sells in the U.S., including three cars and two SUVs.

In the same way, powers which they currently say they need to transfer functions between public bodies for Brexit could be used in a few years time to dismantle an environmental regulator.