Sentences with phrase «federal environmental efforts»

The White House's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), established under NEPA in 1969 to coordinate federal environmental efforts, is supposed to minimize lapses in federal environmental policies.

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The River Murray system is a key focus of efforts to improve environmental outcomes through the collaborative management of environmental water at federal, state and local levels.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is calling for stepped - up efforts to control nutrient pollution responsible for algae blooms in Lake Erie, but isn't proposing more federal regulations to accomplish the task.

Environmental groups that vowed to fight President Donald Trump's efforts to roll back his predecessor's plans to curb global warming made good on their promise, teaming up with an American Indian tribe to ask a federal court to block an order that lifts restrictions on coal sales from federal lands.

He supports the policy position of Paul Giardina, his running mate on the Republican ticket, of utilizing the federal Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Water State Revolving Fund to pay for water - quality remediation efforts including replacement of failing septic systems, rather than the community preservation fund.

The Governor also spoke about air quality monitoring efforts the Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Health and Hospitals are conducting with the support of the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

New York state, he said, should be a bulwark against what he said was damaging federal policy and must counter efforts to roll back cuts to health care, environmental protections and safeguards of marginalized populations.

The press conference also featured Dr. Claressa Lucas of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and Dr. Jasen Kunz of the National Center for Environmental Health — who will lead the federal Center for Disease Control team dispatched to assist in the anti-Legionnaire's effort.

Transportation emissions threaten to undercut blue states» climate goals, raising questions about their ability to lead U.S. climate efforts at a time when the federal government is rolling back environmental regulations.

Taken together, the maps showing intensity of recreational use as well as environmental stress provide federal and regional officials with an unprecedented scientific foundation upon which to sustainably manage the Great Lakes, where current restoration efforts exceed $ 1.5 billion, the researchers conclude.

Exemptions from federal environmental rules won by the drilling companies have complicated efforts to gather pollution data and to understand the root of health complaints.

President Donald Trump today unveiled a 2019 budget request that — once again — calls for eliminating numerous federal research programs, including a fleet of NASA satellites, energy research efforts, and climate and environmental science programs.

One big challenge to U.S. efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions comes this week, as a federal circuit court hears arguments over a challenge to the White House's major climate change initiative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulations targeting emissions from power plants.

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.

It is the product of a long and contentious debate in Congress that included efforts to eliminate the Transportation Enhancements program (TEP), which for about 2 decades has required states to spend a small portion of their federal transport funds on 12 types of activities, including bike and walking paths, but also «archaeological planning & research,» and «environmental mitigation.»

The government is making strenuous efforts to clean up and redevelop the region, and researchers at the Federal Environmental Agency will be managing research projects associated with this.

In times of environmental crisis, a blueprint for a federal response, called the National Contingency Plan, entitles the EPA to oversee safety and cleanup efforts — but it does not obligate the EPA to do so.

In addition to his commitment to updating federal chemical safety regulations, Dooley has led efforts urging Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ensure the best available science and technology are at the foundation of government science and risk assessment programs.

The bill is intended to strengthen and provide transparency in federal research efforts to understand the potential environmental, health, and safety risks of nanotechnology.

The House Science and Technology Committee introduced legislation today that highlights the growing attention on Capitol Hill to the need to strengthen federal efforts to learn more about the potential environmental, health and safety (EHS) risks posed by engineered nanomaterials.Introduction of the bill comes only months after J. Clarence (Terry) Davies authored a report that makes a series of recommendations for improving federal risk research and oversight of engineered nanomaterials at EPA, the FDA and the CPSC.

The Permitting Council is responsible for leading ongoing government - wide efforts to modernize the Federal environmental review and permitting process for major infrastructure projects and work with Federal agency partners to implement and oversee adherence to the statutory requirements set forth in the FAST Act.

The Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice (EJ IWG), which provides leadership and direction to Federal agencies on efforts to address EJ, requested that DOT and all other participating agencies release updated EJ strategies in 2016.

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But in a report that I wrote about last year, an expert panel convened by the National Research Council sharply criticized the federal government's efforts to identify possible health or environmental risks of nanotechnology.

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Moderate or liberal Republicans are more likely than their conservative counterparts to say that the federal government's environmental efforts are insufficient.

Unfortunately their efforts are undermined by rogue agencies like the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission which is failing to do its job and evaluate the environmental and climate impacts of the massive fossil fuel infrastructure projects it approves.

Requires FERC to lead efforts to coordinate environmental reviews and approvals for proposed projects in states in the Western Interconnection and requires the Department of the Interior to assume such lead with respect to federal land.

But the involvement of the Heartland Institute, which posted a billboard in May comparing those who believe in global warming to domestic terrorist Theodore J. Kaczynski, shows the breadth of conservatives» efforts to undermine environmental initiatives on the state and federal level.

Within months, Secretary Salazar pushed through clarification of jurisdictional disputes between the MMS and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in an effort to simplify the complex labyrinth of environmental and multi-agency procedures that make offshore wind approval an onerous seven - to - nine - year process.

The endangered Steller sea lions, while still victims from large - scale, intensive trawl fishing, are no longer victim to a hostile effort from Stevens to suspend federal environmental laws for the sake of industrial fishing special interests.

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's executive director Margaret Hoffman said, «As a result of this joint investigation and cooperative effort between state and federal officials, Texans will enjoy cleaner air.

Without major changes, the federal coal leasing program will continue to undermine federal, state, and international efforts to reduce carbon pollution; the BLM Wyoming office plans to lease over 10 billion tons of coal in the coming years, dwarfing the emissions reductions expected from the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan.

Vote Hemp appreciates your support of our work in educating the public about the environmental and economic benefits of industrial hemp and our efforts to lobby for changes in federal and state laws to allow American farmers to grow industrial hemp as a commercial crop.

the federal Environmental Protection Agency also encourages efforts to reduce packaging and household waste, but through low - key exhortation rather than inspections and regulations.

It works by building support for landmark efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency and other local, state and federal efforts to regulate carbon pollution.

That declaration sounds a lot like what Pruitt endorsed at the conclusion of his CPAC speech, but of course he was referring to state efforts to weaken federal environmental safeguards, not strengthen them.

Todd Wynn writes how «ALEC has been at the forefront of the effort to retain state sovereignty over hydraulic fracturing, and our recently adopted model bill, the Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Disclosure Composition Act, aims to preempt the promulgation of duplicative, burdensome federal regulations from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).»

Again, these methane emissions reduction trends can be traced to voluntary efforts — not the stringent and costly «one - size - fits - all» federal rules that environmental groups insist are needed, despite the fact that they will provide little climate benefit.

The federal Conservatives have dramatically narrowed Canada's environmental laws, in a concerted effort to force through approval of oil pipelines, to get Alberta's bitumen to international markets.

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Downstream Emissions in Canada's New Environmental Assessment «Climate Test» In late January 2016, Canada's federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and Minister of Natural Resources, Jim Carr, announced interim changes to environmental assessment processes as part of «efforts to restore public Environmental Assessment «Climate Test» In late January 2016, Canada's federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, and Minister of Natural Resources, Jim Carr, announced interim changes to environmental assessment processes as part of «efforts to restore public environmental assessment processes as part of «efforts to restore public trust.»