Sentences with phrase «full environmental review»

After 18 months of pressure from environmental and community groups, state officials have reversed an earlier position, and will now require a full environmental review of a crude - heating facility that would allow tar sands oil to be shipped down the Hudson River.

ALBANY — A federal judge has rejected state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's lawsuit seeking to force a full environmental review before the Delaware River Basin Commission allows natural gas drilling in a watershed that provides drinking water for millions of New Yorkers.

New York state regulators say a proposed dual pipeline from Albany to New Jersey oil refineries requires a full environmental review.

Giambra's argues ECC and Erie County will not conduct a full environmental review before constructing a planned $ 30 - million academic building at Main and Youngs in Amherst.

In May, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman of New York filed a lawsuit against several federal agencies that are affiliated with the Delaware River Basin Commission, a multistate entity including New York that regulates the river basin, to block the commission from issuing final regulations on hydrofracking until a full environmental review could be conducted.

ALBANY — After 18 months of pressure from environmental and community groups, state officials have reversed an earlier position, and will now require a full environmental review of a crude - heating facility that would allow tar sands oil to be shipped down the Hudson River.

Global has threatened lawsuits over delays in the project, and claimed the state could rescind its earlier declaration that the boiler didn't require a full environmental review.

Albany County executive Dan McCoy and Albany mayor Kathy Sheehan have requested a full environmental review of the facility.

Schneiderman filed a suit in May against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies to force a full environmental review of the impact of fracking on the Delaware River Basin.

Westchester County based - Riverkeeper has filed a lawsuit challenging the state Public Service Commission's approval to reactivate the Danskammer Power Plant in the Town of Newburgh without conducting a full environmental review.

On the other side of the country, mountaintop removal coal mining opponents received good news when the Federal Highway Administration announced that the Virginia Department of Transportation will be required to conduct a full environmental review for a controversial 26 - mile section of the Coalfields Expressway that would run through southwest Virginia.

We need a full environmental review to see the potential impacts this pipeline would have on our state.

The change extends by 25 years the permit length in place now, but it was not subjected to a full environmental review because the administration classified it as an administrative change.

They have refused to carry out a full environmental review as permitted under the Clean Water Act.