Sentences with phrase «environmental regulators in»

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Instead, Martha Rudolph, who is one of the leading health and environmental regulators in the state as director of environmental programs for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, recommended «taking baby steps» on pushing climate action and cautioned that the City of Boulder's potential climate lawsuit against oil and gas developers might not be the best approach in pushing an environmental agenda.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Intervening in regulators» and governments» decisions to permit new pipelines are environmental considerations and, in Canada, First Nations» desire to assert their territorial rights.

mental 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.

First, I hope it is an indication in the future the AER and other provincial regulators will be willing to use their authority to require offsetting to address the very real environmental impacts that those regulators continue to see and to allow.

The campaign against the oil sands has had the effect of raising awareness of environmental issues, in particular, among the public and, perhaps more importantly, among shareholders, investors, insurers, and regulators.

«How can any regulator, in this case the Nebraska PSC, even begin to make an informed decision about [Keystone XL] without considering pipeline safety, the risk of leaks and spills, and the potential environmental effect of spills?

Amending the Responsible Energy Development Act to include a requirement that the regulator must consider whether resource development applications are in the public interest, and reinstate the right of landowners to appeal environmental decisions affecting their land to an independent Environmental Aenvironmental decisions affecting their land to an independent Environmental AEnvironmental Appeals Board.

She also said the company has suspended a pre-feasibility study of Pascua - Lama, an open pit gold, silver and copper mine in Chile, which regulators ordered permanently closed last year following court battles about environmental concerns.

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.

Many of the states affected by human - caused earthquakes have acknowledged the phenomenon, but, as The New York Times notes, «state regulators around the country have not gone as far in controlling industry practices as environmental groups have asked, and there is little sign that the new federal findings will goad them to go farther.»

The investment in the Dublin NQC will help the company exceed regulator's expectations for the verification of the quality and safety of ingredients, the verification of environmental hygiene and the assurance of finished production quality and safety, the company says.

A prominent feature of the CSWA Sustainable Winegrowing Program is the active participation of vintners, growers, regional trade associations, regulators, academics, environmental and social equity groups and other stakeholders in its development and implementation of the program.

A prominent feature of the sustainable winegrowing program is the collaborative effort in its development and implementation by vintners, growers, regional trade associations, regulators, academics, environmental and social equity groups and other stakeholders.

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 regulatoIn 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 regulatoin a few years time to dismantle an environmental regulator.

Implores Regulators to Listen to Local Stakeholders KINDERHOOK, NY... July 21, 2016 — John Faso implored environmental and health officials in New York to listen to local -LSB-...]

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.

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 AdirondackIn 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 Adirondackin 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 Adirondackin the Adirondacks.

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Whelan noted that federal regulators did not find any major obstacles in their final environmental impact statement and that importing natural gas through Port Ambrose would have softened winter spikes in fuel costs that are passed on to consumers.

State health and environmental regulators have known for decades that at least 62 properties — most in Niagara County — contain varying degrees of radioactivity that tested at levels two to more than 10 times normal for the local environment.

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.

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.»

That local pressure, in turn, could put pressure on the state government's environmental regulators.

Last month, state and federal regulators warned residents not to use the water in the Rensselaer County community and the Department of Environmental Conservation has moved to make it a state Superfund site.

United Water first proposed the Haverstraw Water Supply Project in January 2007 and has since undertaken an incredibly transparent environmental impact review that included input and consultation with regulators and the public each step of the way.

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.

New York Senator Kristen Gillibrand is urging federal regulators to ban microplastics, a move that state environmental advocates are hoping can move legislation forward in Albany.

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.

While GE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency deserve credit for the partial cleanup of some PCB hotspots completed last fall, the unholy alliance of polluter and regulator in fending off calls for additional dredging is the major obstacle to a healthy river and economic revitalization of upriver community waterfronts.

In addition, using methods for the analysis of regulatory networks developed by the Califano lab in the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Systems Biology, the researchers identified a number of transcription factors (gene regulators) that have the potential to mimic the environmental signals that trigger papillae to induce new hair growtIn addition, using methods for the analysis of regulatory networks developed by the Califano lab in the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Systems Biology, the researchers identified a number of transcription factors (gene regulators) that have the potential to mimic the environmental signals that trigger papillae to induce new hair growtin the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Systems Biology, the researchers identified a number of transcription factors (gene regulators) that have the potential to mimic the environmental signals that trigger papillae to induce new hair growth.

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.

A labeling dilemma Some scientists, like Anna Sobek, an environmental scientist at Stockholm University in Sweden, believe these products are making their way into the environment and will continue to, despite the findings of scientists, because regulators don't check for them.

As an example, he said, government regulators can only control the producers whose products cause environmental problems in Indonesia.

In addition to his public service at NIH, he did his postdoctoral training within the NIH - NIEHS Superfund Research Program Center at the University of Kentucky, where he directed the Center's graduate and postdoctoral transdisciplinary training efforts and translated the Center's ongoing environmental health - related research innovations to relevant stakeholders, including state and federal policymakers and regulators, industry partners for technology transfer, and at - risk populations across Kentucky.

Doug Gurian - Sherman, senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, D.C., and a former regulator for the Environmental Protection Agency, likens traditional breeding to rearranging the deck chairs on a familiar ship.

Richard Lazarus, an environmental law expert and professor at Harvard Law School, said courts have played an «outsized role» in climate policy in recent years because regulators are working with an old law to deal with a problem its authors weren't specifically addressing.

With little data on how much excreted and dumped medicines are in the environment, and even less showing a cause - effect relationship between an active ingredient and an adverse effect, researchers, health and environmental agencies, and water - quality regulators have been playing hot potato with the question for decades.

In 40 years of Clean Air Act regulation, she noted, regulators have never been flatfooted enough to allow environmental rules to dim the nation's lights.

In the United States, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the primary regulator of the safety of chemical products in commerce under The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (LCSAIn the United States, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the primary regulator of the safety of chemical products in commerce under The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (LCSAin commerce under The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (LCSA).

The NRC is developing a specific licensing framework for advanced reactor designs, Terrestrial noted, adding it has «confidence in the capability» of the regulator to review and reach safety, security, and environmental findings on the IMSR design, «in a timely manner».

In light of the Volkswagen diesel emission scandal, environmental groups and regulators aren't too pleased with automakers using this loophole.

Flea Pupae - or fleas in the cocoon stage, are resistant to environmental changes such as freezing, drying, and both insecticides and insect growth regulators.

PIJAC is a litigant in recent court cases affecting the fisher trade, and is working with Hawai'i's fishers and state regulators on new research about the environmental sustainability of ornamental fishing.

As well as being present in some spot - on preparations or environmental sprays, flea growth regulators may also be available as an injectable product or as a product that can be given orally.

Taking a global view, there's an advantage to drilling in our backyard, if drilling must be done — it will be carried out with a level of environmental care that does not exist in Africa and many other places where regulatory oversight is not as strict as here (which is not to say that American regulators are as strict as they can and should be).

(Decades ago, emissions from an RSR smelter in West Dallas, Tex., ended up producing a Superfund toxic site; these days the company has been pushing regulators to toughen environmental standards.)