Sentences with phrase «environmental rules set»

This coffee is certified by both Rainforest Alliance and Smithsonian — rest assured your purchase supports biodiversity if it complies with the strict environmental rules set forth for Smithsonian Bird - Friendly certification.

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New York Times Washington correspondent David Sanger called Trump's climate decision a «strategic gift to the Chinese, who are eager to fill the void that Washington is leaving around the world on everything from setting the rules of trade and environmental standards to financing the infrastructure projects that give Beijing vast influence.»

Although TPP is often seen as another in a line of treaties aimed at liberalizing trade further, a more important goal may have been to «raise the bar» on trade, and to set up a body of rules, including on environmental and labor issues, with which to create pressure for countries like China to comply.

The lawsuit filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, seeks to set aside and hold unlawful the Environmental Protection Agency's effort to weaken the existing clean car rules.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Trading Framework contains a set of Operating Rules that provide clear guidelines on how the CEWH and CEWO staff will behave through the trading process.

State water management legislation sets out the rules that apply to all water entitlements, including those that form part of the Commonwealth environmental water holdings.

The group says the proposed rules «will not result in environmental protection», but will instead «set an unreasonable bar» for drillers, and make New York uncompetitive with other states.

IOGA says the proposed rules «will not result in environmental protection», but will instead «set an unreasonable bar» for drillers, and make New York uncompetitive with other states.

1118 - FCO - For first time in 64 year history the Commonwealth will have a formal Charter setting out core values: democracy; human rights; peace and security; tolerance, respect and understanding; freedom of expression; separation of powers; rule of law; good governance; sustainable development; environmental protection; access to health, education, food and shelter; gender equality; and the importance of young people and civil society.

The order gives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the authority to repeal and replace the Clean Power Plan, the set of rules that established goals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil - fueled electricity plants through a national trading system.

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's new lead in drinking water rules that were set to go into effect in January, hydrants as they're made now would be deemed unusable because they contain too high of an amount of lead.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Transportation (DoT) released rules that set limits on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions allowed and accelerate an increase in overall fuel efficiency to 14.5 kilometers per liter (34.1 miles per gallon) by 2016.

Driven by revelations of lead in children's toys, hormone - mimicking chemicals in plastic baby bottles and controversial flame - retardants in furniture, state environmental officials drafted a set of rules aimed at products with chemicals that have been linked to illness or abnormal development

Electric utilities, environmental advocates and a nonpartisan climate think tank all agree that they dislike the way U.S. EPA sets interim goals for states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a draft rule for the power sector.

Deborah Swackhamer made sure to follow the rules before giving testimony last month to Congress on the role of science in setting policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

However, the Environmental Protection Agency is concerned enough about the chemical that it is finalizing new national rules that will set limits on formaldehyde emissions from composite wood products.

Rosita extra-virgin cod liver oil consistently meets or exceeds the safety standards set by the stringent European Commission and WHO rules on environmental pollutants.

Far (far) beyond a level editor, it allows the modification and manipulation of everything from AI behaviour, to event scripting, to lighting and ambient sound design, to rule - sets, win conditions, and environmental challenges.

Which is why we need the government to set and enforce environmental rules.

In quieter corners, including at environmental groups focused on energy and climate policy as well as land preservation, the goal has never been a ban, but instead a push to create the set of rules, policies, revenue flows and relationships that give the greatest social and economic benefits with the least risk of environmental regrets.

A number of states and several business groups prepare to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the rules to cut carbon emissions, which is expected to set off a large number of law suits.

The pending rules from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are widely expected to set emission - reduction targets for existing power plants and allow states to craft their own plans for how to meet the standard.

The Environmental Protection Agency is set to announce a proposed rule to strictly limit carbon emissions from new power plants, several news sources have reported.

They're a central feature of Obama's efforts to address climate change, but they are also set to become the subject of a massive lobbying war between industry and environmental groups as the administration deliberates over the final rule — a process that could take up much of the rest of the president's tenure in office.

The president's proposed rules, which were dubbed the «Clean Power Plan» when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) formally announced them on June 2, would set new state - by - state carbon pollution reduction goals in the power sector.

The IEA has a longish set of «Golden Rules» that could make fracking a better environmental bet, and McCabe highlights the two most important of them: (1) Eliminate leaks completely from the natural gas production process, and (2) use carbon sequestration to substantially reduce carbon emissions from gas - fired electrical plants.

Under Trump, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking to repeal the Clean Power Plan, a key component of Obama's climate legacy that sets limits on greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation, and has gutted numerous other rules and regulations aimed at drawing down emissions, reducing our use of fossil fuels, and otherwise protecting the environment.

«Finally, the link which the provisions of Chapter 13 of the envisaged agreement display with trade between the European Union and the Republic of Singapore is also specific in nature because a breach of the provisions concerning social protection of workers and environmental protection, set out in that chapter, authorises the other Party — in accordance with the rule of customary international law codified in Article 60 (1) of the Convention on the law of treaties, -LSB-...]-- to terminate or suspend the liberalisation, provided for in the other provisions of the envisaged agreement, of that trade.»

It can not be ruled out that, even where there is no such impossibility, the transfer of water may be regarded as satisfying the conditions mentioned in the preceding paragraph and, in particular, (i) the condition that it serves a general interest and / or the benefits to the environment and society linked to the achievement of the objectives set out in Article 4 (1) of that directive are outweighed by the benefits to human health, to the maintenance of human safety or to sustainable development resulting from the transfer of water and (ii) the condition that the beneficial objectives pursued by that transfer can not, for reasons of technical feasibility or disproportionate cost, be achieved by other means which would be a significantly better environmental option.

The revised Guidance also incorporates two sets of self - regulatory principles agreed among stakeholders: one will support comparison tools to better comply with the Directive and the other will help the enforcement of unfair commercial practices rules against misleading and unfounded environmental claims.

Thus the rule should exclude persons or groups whose interest in the issue is only policy - based: for example, an Environmental Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) speaking about a project in Town X not because it is particularly involved in what happens in Town X but because Town X has an environmental issue and the NGO is interested in environmental issues generally; or, similarly, a Business NGO speaking about the levying of a municipal tax in Town X when the Business NGO or its members would not pay the tax but it does not like the precedent the Town is setting for the Town is setting for the purpose of the possible future enactment of similar taxes in other muEnvironmental Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) speaking about a project in Town X not because it is particularly involved in what happens in Town X but because Town X has an environmental issue and the NGO is interested in environmental issues generally; or, similarly, a Business NGO speaking about the levying of a municipal tax in Town X when the Business NGO or its members would not pay the tax but it does not like the precedent the Town is setting for the Town is setting for the purpose of the possible future enactment of similar taxes in other muenvironmental issue and the NGO is interested in environmental issues generally; or, similarly, a Business NGO speaking about the levying of a municipal tax in Town X when the Business NGO or its members would not pay the tax but it does not like the precedent the Town is setting for the Town is setting for the purpose of the possible future enactment of similar taxes in other muenvironmental issues generally; or, similarly, a Business NGO speaking about the levying of a municipal tax in Town X when the Business NGO or its members would not pay the tax but it does not like the precedent the Town is setting for the Town is setting for the purpose of the possible future enactment of similar taxes in other municipalities.

A federal district judge in North Dakota stayed the final «Waters of the U.S.» rule of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE), which was set to take effect on August 28, 2015.