Zinke stoked that enthusiasm by announcing the opening of the bidding process for the final 390,000 acres of
federal waters far south of Martha's Vineyard.
Not exact matches
From the shelter, the presidential motorcade travel to First Church to help load
water and food on vehicles bound for flood victims in need, and the president, who was asking Congress for almost $ 8 billion in emergency funding, also repeatedly applauded the
federal relief efforts thus
far.
For example, take the two largest Hurricane Maria
federal contracts awarded so
far: the $ 122 million deal to feed hurricane survivors and the $ 118 million deal to send 80 million liters of bottled
water to Puerto Rico.
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Federal Reserve officials not only rained on gold's parade this week but also threw cold
water on the red - hot rally in gold - and silver - mining stocks so
far in 2016.
The amount released here is
far below
federal safety limits and is not appearing in drinking
water.
Regulators say redundant layers of protection usually prevent waste from getting that
far, but EPA data shows that in the three years analyzed by ProPublica, more than 7,500 well test failures involved what
federal water protection regulations describe as «fluid migration» and «significant leaks.»
The Clean
Water Rule extends
federal authority over smaller streams and marshes, but farmers, builders and others say it goes too
far.
While the law marked a high
water mark of
federal control over K - 12 education, it was still, relatively speaking, not
far from the ocean floor.
Further, despite the
federal government = s willingness to make public lands and
waters available to energy developers, of the 47.5 million acres of on - shore
federal lands that are currently being leased by oil and gas companies, only about 13 million acres are actually Ain production @, or producing oil and gas (Figure 2).
Since that time, conditions have been steadily worsening with agricultural regions drying out, farmers, communities and industries forced to
further deplete limited ground
water supplies, and with reservoirs dropping despite best efforts by
federal and state officials to conserve.
With the late - summer ice edge located
farther north than it used to be, storms produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by ice - rich permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean
waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion, such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap, have been largely unsuccessful.23 Several coastal communities are seeking to relocate to escape erosion that threatens infrastructure and services but, because of high costs and policy constraints on use of
federal funds for community relocation, only one Alaskan village has begun to relocate (see also Ch.
There is a good reason:» According to the
federal transportation department, shipping by
water is
far more energy - efficient.