Sentences with phrase «federal moratorium»

But IF Congress can not «fix» their mistakes now, after being aware of them for a decade, a two - year federal moratorium on all federally mandated testing except NAEP (National Assessment of Education Progress) is reasonable given what we know.

During estimates last November, Energy Minister Blair Lekstrom confirmed that he was continuing to press the federal government to lift the ban, saying «there's a federal moratorium on this issue, but we do try and move that file forward as we can.»

Pushing for coastal drilling: In their energy plan, the B.C. Liberals promise to work «to lift the federal moratorium on offshore exploration and development and reiterate the intention to simultaneously lift the provincial moratorium.»

Seek legislation to impose a federal moratorium on new uranium development until environmental pollution from previous mining and milling is cleaned up, workers are appropriately compensated, and community health studies conducted.

The Obama administration did indeed place a federal moratorium on all new coal mining leases on public lands across the country in June — but but only out of concern from environmentalists, Congress, and the Department of the Interior that coal companies have spent 30 years cheating taxpayers out of $ 30 billion in royalties.

We strongly support reinstatement of the federal moratorium on new offshore oil drilling.

Enough Already: Meeting 2 °C Powder River Basin Coal Demand Without Lifting the Federal Moratorium

In light of last week's explosion of the Deepwater Horizon and subsequent oil spill, the Surfrider Foundation is urging President Obama to withdraw his recent plans to open up our coasts to offshore drilling and to restore the federal moratorium.

«The Surfrider Foundation considers anything short of a complete reinstatement of the federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling a loss.

In response to this announcement, the Surfrider Foundation has release the following statement: «The Surfrider Foundation considers anything short of a complete reinstatement of the federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling a loss.

The primary goal of our Not the Answer campaign is to reinstate the federal moratorium on new drilling that was in place for decades until President Bush lifted it in 2008 and Congress subsequently allowed a federal ban on drilling to expire.

In January, the coal industry received a major blow when Interior Secretary Sally Jewell issued a federal moratorium on the issuing of new coal mining leases on public lands across the United States as her department conducts a review of the program, the first in more than three decades.