Sentences with phrase «federal environmental official says»
The region's top federal environmental official says the project in Ludlow Massachusetts serves as example for reusing the scores of other abandoned industrial sites that dot the landscape.
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A papermaker has agreed to shoulder the financial burden for completing cleanup work on the Fox River in a settlement, federal environmental officials said Tuesday.
Not exact matches
By Jesse McKinley ALBANY — For the second time in two weeks, New York State Department of Health officials sought to blame the Environmental Protection Agency for a contaminated water crisis in upstate New York, saying on Wednesday that they were confused and hamstrung by changing federal standards on perfluorooctanoic acid, a toxic chemical known as PFOA.
McMahon said the county can not proceed with the project until its plan is approved by state and federal environmental officials.
Federal officials have accused Skelos and his son, Adam, of extortion, soliciting bribes and conspiracy, saying the senator compelled a major real estate developer and an environmental company to hire Adam Skelos and send him title insurance and consulting work, amounting to more than $ 200,000 in the past four years.
Asked if they would support the town's goal of meeting all of its electricity needs through renewable sources by 2020, Paul Giardina, a Republican running for town board and a longtime official of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, said that while he supports the goal, solar power is the only option that could be online by that deadline.
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They say New York State environmental officials granted permits for the project in violation of a provision of the Federal Clean Water Act, which prohibits new releases of anything into a lake or river that is included on a list of «impaired» water bodies.
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.
Federal environmental officials have said that if it did that, they would most likely order the cleanup to proceed and levy enormous penalties against the company.