Sentences with phrase «federal waters from»

With President - elect Donald Trump pledging to expand offshore drilling, a coalition of environmental groups called on President Obama to permanently protect federal waters from expanded oil leasing.

In its draft leasing plan that will set the boundaries for oil development in federal waters from 2017 to 2022, the Obama Administration proposed allowing offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast between Virginia and Georgia.

Atlantic Sand Assessment Project — To help coastal communities recover from Hurricane Sandy, promote resilient coastal systems, and help build a national offshore sand inventory, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) sponsored offshore surveys to identify new sources of sand in federal waters from Miami, Florida to Massachusetts in 2015 and several site specific surveys in 2016 and 2017.

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On Wednesday, Trump is expected to sign an executive order related to the 1906 Antiquities Act, which enables the president to designate federal areas of land and water as national monuments to protect them from drilling, mining and development, the source said.

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.

Comments from 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.

In the face of blistering criticism from both Florida senators that the federal government was cutting off food and water supplies to Puerto Rico, federal management officials said Wednesday that they will continue...

A week ago, there were still towns in the interior of the island that hadn't received food and water supplies from the federal government.

DENVER — The first report in the Energy Institute's Energy Accountability Series finds that proposals from Hillary Clinton and other politicians to ban oil, gas, and coal production on federal lands and waters would cost America hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions in revenue.

Infrastructure, we're going to start spending on infrastructure big, said Donald Trump days before he unveiled his $ 1.5 trillion infrastructure budget proposed by his administration, but as economists have pointed out, Trump's proposed budget requests only $ 200 billion in federal funds and slashes billions in transportation funding, billions more from water, energy.

Overview of Renewable Energy on the Outer Continental Shelf — BOEM is responsible for offshore renewable energy development in Federal waters and anticipates future development on the OCS from three general sources: offshore wind, ocean wave, and ocean current energy.

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America within a few years could be extracting oil from federal waters in the Arctic Ocean, but it won't be from a remote drilling platform.

After loosing his senate position Rick Santorum earned millions of dollars including payments from a lobbying firm, an energy company engaged in controversial practice which pollutes ground water and endangers the public and a hospital conglomerate that was sued for allegedly defrauding the federal government.

In May Australia said a panel of scientific experts from the Federal Department of Agriculture and Water Resources would review the ban, while loosening restrictions on some other imported prawn products.

Lately, the Australian Federal Department of Agriculture and Water Resources has proposed a compulsory treatment of seeds from crops like broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts and rocket with fungicides when they enter Australia to work against the increasing threat posed by seed - borne pathogens.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

«The assurances that you have been receiving from your water utility that say that your water meets or exceeds all federal safety standards - these assurances in no way should be interpreted as your water is safe to drink,» says Lambrinidou.

The funding includes $ 9.7 million from the Open Space Land Acquisition and Development program and $ 685,000 in federal Land and Water Conservation Fund grants.

Generally, most experts discourage people from flushing drugs down the toilet, as federal and local surveys have found trace pharmaceuticals in drinking water in 30 states and Chicago.

Most reported cases have been ascribed to the use of contaminated well water for preparation of infant formula.1 — 3 Fifteen million families in the United States obtain their drinking water from unregulated wells.4 In a survey of 5500 private water supplies from 9 Midwestern states, 13 % of the wells were found to have nitrate concentrations > 10 mg / L or 10 ppm nitrate nitrogen, 5 the federal maximum contaminant level.6 It is estimated that 2 million families drink water from private wells that fail to meet the federal drinking - water standard for nitrate, and 40000 infants younger than 6 months live in homes that have nitrate - contaminated water supplies.4 In urban areas, municipal wastewater - treatment discharges (a source of nutrients) on surrounding farmland aggravate the problem.7

The water district is currently served by a mix of shallow and deep wells and is operating under a variance from the state because radium levels in the water are greater than allowed by federal standards.

Students in a Brooklyn elementary - school classroom drank from a fountain whose water was more contaminated than Flint, Mich.'s — laden with 1,000 times the amount of lead permitted by federal safety regulations, a December test revealed.

Late last year the federal EPA told local residents to stop drinking and cooking with water from the town water supply.

The governor's office points to a «loophole» in federal regulations that exemptions water systems serving less than 10,000 people from testing for contaminates like 1,4 - dioxane.

«The federal government should provide actionable guidance on best practices for removing 1,4 - dioxane from drinking water, invest in cutting - edge treatment technologies, and set a MCL to protect public health.»

The Suffolk County fire academy in Yaphank, used for training volunteer firefighters, is now on the state's Superfund list after water samples from monitoring wells detected contaminants that exceed federal health advisories.

Congress has launched a federal investigation into the water - contamination crisis in upstate Hoosick Falls — with members demanding answers from Gov. Cuomo's administration.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed Tuesday that his state will file suit to overturn federal approval of plan to allow sludge dredged from harbors in Connecticut to be disposed of in the open waters of Long Island Sound.

«Instead of protecting our waters from another oil spill, like the one that devastated the Gulf, this new federal plan only increases the chances of another disaster taking place,» Cuomo said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo flanked by former Vice Preisdent Al Gore on Friday moved to request that the federal government exempt New York - area waters from off - shore drilling.

The New York Times first reported last week that federal authorities are investigating a $ 12 million storm water treatment contract from Nassau County in 2013 that went to a company that employed Skelos» son, Adam, as a consultant.

The Justice Department warned late Friday in a filing in Manhattan federal court that a lawsuit to prevent President Donald Trump from blocking some followers of his tweets would be «unprecedented» and take the courts «deep into uncharted waters.»

A new amendment from Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D - NY) which would that would ban federal contractors who discriminate against LGBT people attached to an energy and water spending bill passed the House late on Wednesday following days of fury from Dem... Read

Cuomo urged LIPA to approve an offshore wind farm 30 miles from Montauk and said the state would commit to other offshore projects that would place hundreds of turbines in federal waters off the Long Island coast by 2030.

Federal environmental officials today dismissed protests from New York and issued a final ruling that will allow operation of an open - water site in eastern Long Island Sound for disposing of dredged materials from harbors and ports.

I submit that our current crop of office holders on every level of government, in all 50 states, from fire and water districts to school districts, town, counties, cities, states and federal legislatures are so bad that the term limit should be about 30 days.

President Barack Obama has signed an emergency declaration following a request from Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder that would open the door for federal aid to deal with Flint's water crisis.

In its work for General Electric Co. through the years, the public relations firm owned by Mark Behan became entangled in a legal battle between GE and several river communities that filed federal lawsuits against the company when their water supplies were tainted by the PCBs dumped into the river from its plants in Fort Edward and Hudson Falls.

He robs half a billion dollars from an environmental fund that is used to clean up water, to safeguard and strengthen our waste water treatment plants, and he was rebuked by the federal government, who said it was the first time that's ever been requested and it was disallowed.»

The Rensselaer County village is currently dealing with a water contamination crisis after samples taken from public and private water wells detected perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, at levels above federal guidelines.

Mayor Byron Brown proclaimed Wednesday that Buffalo's water is «lead safe» after samples from more than 150 homes showed results below the federal government's standard.

In addition to the services provided to the member municipalities, the District also provides disposal of septage, contaminated water from groundwater remediation sites and landfill leachate from other locations within Oneida County - The Department is also responsible for insuring compliance with Federal pretreatment regulations that apply to all significant industrial users (SIU's) of the WPCP.

Federal officials have extended an emergency declaration for Flint that has provided supplies of bottled water, filters and test kits to the Michigan city suffering from lead contamination in drinking water, the state governor said on Friday.

At Tuesday's state Senate hearing on the water contamination in Hoosick Falls, the federal EPA came in for criticism from some state officials who blamed the agency for failing to lead, and from some lawmakers who said they were disappointed the EPA did not send a representative to the hearing.

The report, by the independent Authorities Budget Office, says the Cuomo Administration mishandled its attempts to use $ 500 million dollars in federal Clean Water monies to help finance work on the massive Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction, including ignoring a warning letter from the EPA that the bridge project was an inappropriate use of the revolving loan fund, which is supposed to go to communities who need to clean up pollution.

«I review what it is that we have done to date in terms of providing assistance initially to the village in determining what they might do to get that out of the water supply, connecting them with guidance from the state and federal governments that they could share with the residents.»

Fallout from the discovery of the toxic chemical in the water supply of Hoosick Falls later erupted into a war of finger - pointing between local, state and federal agencies after questions emerged in late 2015 about why it took at least 14 months before residents were warned to stop drinking from the village's contaminated wells.

The tax cap means local governments can not even afford to take no - interest loans from the federal government to upgrade water and sewer systems.

«As the federal official who alerted the public about the risk of drinking the toxic water in Hoosick Falls, I continue to be concerned that the state of New York has not learned the lessons from their water crisis,» she said in a statement provided to the Times Union late Tuesday.