Sentences with phrase «from federal environmental officials»
He also uses the letter to address a series of questions from federal environmental officials who have raised concerns about the loan.
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But in a sharply worded letter sent Wednesday, an official from the federal Environmental Protection Agency cautioned the loan has not yet received federal approval.
No county officials were charged with wrongdoing, but federal prosecutors allege that Dean and Adam Skelos improperly influenced the awarding of the contract to an environmental company as a way to get Adam Skelos more money from the company — which had hired him as a consultant.
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.
Among other points of contention, health department employees dismissed an advisory limit for human consumption of PFOA set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and argued that their differences with the federal authorities were a matter of «philosophy» and not just science, according to a senior EPA official's handwritten notes from a phone conference with state officials.
New York's environmental regulator has notified federal officials that General Electric Co.'s seven - year, $ 1.6 billion dredging campaign to remove industrial pollutants from the Hudson River has been inadequate.
On Monday, Gina McCarthy, the E.P.A. assistant administrator for air issues, told state environmental officials in a letter that if Texas would not regulate carbon emissions from smokestacks, the federal government would seize control of the state's permitting program on Thursday.
Almasi stressed that federal environmental officials believe lead in drinking water comes mainly from corroding faucets, fittings and pipes containing lead.
BP and federal officials are employing a variety of clean - up techniques to limit the environmental impact of the massive oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Maritime Administration Executive Director Joel Szabat joined federal, state and local officials and environmental groups today to mark the completion of an agreement to remove 57 non-retention vessels from the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet (SBRF) by September 30, 2017.
If the landfill owners wanted to use the natural gas to generate electricity instead, thereby preventing the methane from entering the atmosphere and displacing the fossil - fueled production of electricity, they would have to go through a costly and lengthy process of obtaining permits from regional, state, and federal officials as well as producing environmental impact reports.