Sentences with phrase «important public health protections»

Legislative and policy experts close to the issue said that if Inhofe's proposal had been passed, it would have removed vitally important public health protections more than two decades in the making that every year prevent up to:

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Efforts to undermine the Clean Water Act and other federal initiatives must be strongly opposed, and I have led the charge against legislative proposals to roll back important clean water protections that may benefit some special interests, but risk public health and will damage the broader U.S. economy.

It is shown repeatedly that the general public is largely unaware of important consumer health protection topics, such as pyrrolizidine alkaloids in teas and honey, or wrongly classifies them as being of no concern, such as food hygiene in private households.

Equally important, well - crafted legislation will insulate community cats from licensing requirements, feeding bans, pet limits or other punitive laws that often impede the progress of sterilization efforts and public health protection.

They are not only educated to protect the health care of pets, livestock as well as zoo, exotic, competition and laboratory animals but they play an important role in environmental protection, food safety and public health.

«President Obama's plan to reduce climate - disrupting methane pollution is an important step in reining in an out of control industry exempt from too many public health protections,» Deborah Nardone, campaign director of the Sierra Club's Keeping Dirty Fuels in the Ground campaign.

Never mind their statutory duty to «take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker,» don't employers who are vigilant in ensuring their workplaces are free of H1N1 fulfill an important public health objective?