Sentences with phrase «in conservation laws»

The story details attempts to evict the bird by taking advantage of lapses in conservation laws as well as how supporters rallied to keep the bird and his family in their cozy nest.

Almost 100 churches are calling for a change in conservation laws because of bat excrement falling from... More

The Conservation Law Center (CLC)(Bloomington, IN) employs Conservation Law Fellows to assist in its conservation law practice.

Not exact matches

In the latter (or, to hear him tell it, middle) portion of his career, those causes have often been philanthropic rather than commercial ones: drug law reform, death penalty abolition, ocean conservation.

They include a small - town conservation biologist and a couple of big - city ex-bankers who met after the easements law was changed — at a moment in the wake of the real estate crisis when investors began looking for ways to salvage value from land whose price had plummeted.

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The Law of Conservation of Attractive Profits1 [was] first explained by Clayton Christensen in his 2003 book The Innovator's Solution:

Netflix has a lot more in common with Uber and Airbnb than you might think: it all comes back to the Law of Conservation of Attractive Profits, a core principle of disruption.

The Law of Conservation of Alpha, * With Liquidity: Before fees, the average performance of the investors that make up the active segment of a market will exceed the average performance of the investors that make up the passive segment, by an amount equal to the market - making profits that the active segment earns in providing liquidity to the passive segment.

According to the Law of Conservation of Alpha, the portfolio's performance will match the average performance of active managers that play in that same universe, i.e., active managers that own stocks in the S&P 500.

The Law of Conservation of Alpha seems to leave us no choice but to conclude that the active funds in our hypothetical system will simply underperform the passive fund by the amount of their fees — in the current case, 1 % — and that the underperformance will continue forever and ever, never being made up for.

So you are saying that you don't believe in the proven Laws of Thermodynamics, Entropy, or Conservation of Mass and Energy??

In the Universe the law of conservation of energy / mass applies.

In such conflict, as well as in the quieter processes of peaceful transformation, cultures may change; conservation of culture is not an absolute laIn such conflict, as well as in the quieter processes of peaceful transformation, cultures may change; conservation of culture is not an absolute lain the quieter processes of peaceful transformation, cultures may change; conservation of culture is not an absolute law.

A classic instance was the beta - decay of the nucleus, in which experimental data seemed clearly to violate the law of conservation of energy.

Church's thesis is a metaphysical generalization like the law of conservation of energy in physics and has almost comparable authority to this law in computer science.

We have these things called Law of Conservation of Matter / Energy in science.

The amount of possible consciousness seems to be governed by no law analogous to that of the so - called conservation of energy in the material world.

But it is possible to assume that ultimately all biological events are determined by laws, mainly by causal laws, in some cases by laws of probability (effective in gene recombination and mutation), the law of conservation of energy and the lawful acting of microphysical constants.

Sorry charlie, we already know that laws of nature are thrown out in cosmic explosions, black holes and can theorize that just because we now have the law of the conservation of energy doesn't mean that it applied 14 billion years ago.

The resulting reduction in carbon emissions is particularly striking given that buildings at the site include restored and refurbished Victorian Mill buildings, some of which are Grade II listed (designated as being particularly important and of special interest and protected by UK law), within a Conservation Area and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).

Mass Audubon coordinated amicus brief filings in support of the Commonwealth with partners from the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions, Conservation Law Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Defenders of Wildlife, and the National Wildlife Federation.

I have found some solace in another law... the law of conservation of energy which states, «that the total amount of energy in an isolated system remains constant, although it may change forms...» And there it is again... although it may change forms...

Our department serves as a leader in advocating for strong conservation laws and programs, and public participation is the key to accomplishing Mass Audubon's objectives at the State House.

The law — a version of which was sponsored by Sen. David Valesky, D - Oneida, in the state Senate, and an identical bill, written by Assemblywoman Francine DelMonte, D - Lewiston, in the Assembly — would allow the state Department of Environmental Conservation to create standards for a legalized crossbow hunting season, as well as allowing the use of one on private property during any deer hunting season.

The League of Conservation Voters Action Fund (LCVAF), the connected federal political action committee (PAC) of the League of Conservation Voters, works to elect candidates who will implement sound environmental laws and policies and to defeat those who stand in the way of progress.

The New York State Assembly's Environmental Conservation Committee has voted in favor of a law that would defer the issuance of new hydrofracking permits amid increased environmental and health concerns about the controversial natural gas extraction method.

Filed by Protect the Adirondacks and Adirondack Wild, the lawsuit claims the Adirondack Park Agency and Department of Environmental Conservation broke state law in approving plans for former timber company land centered around the Essex Chain of Lakes between Indian Lake and Newcomb in Essex and Hamilton counties.

With these concerns in mind, several elected officials and the operators of the Peace Bridge asked the state Department of Environmental Conservation this spring to begin enforcing a state law that prohibits trucks from idling for more than five minutes under normal circumstances.

The pupils from Lacy Garden primary school in Louth listened to talks about safety, gun law and the contribution shooters make to conservation.

All five elected officials were represented in the litigation against LG and in shaping the settlement agreement announced today by Bradley M. Campbell, a nationally known environmental leader and the President - designate of the Conservation Law Foundation.

18 - A (TED Part S) Executive Budget - In accordance with the recommendations of the New York State Tax relief Commission, Part S of the TED Article VII legislation, would reduce the Public Service Law § 18 - a (6) Temporary State Energy and Utility Service Conservation Assessment (Temporary Assessment) by a total of $ 200 million per year by eliminating the assessment on industrial utility customers and accelerate the phase out for all other customers.

It says the state Department of Environmental Conservation has held up approval of a water quality permit for the pipeline for so long that it is in violation of two federal laws.

Senate Democratic spokesman Austin Shafran rejected the GOP claim that the parks / e-waste recycling bill includes new taxes, noting the proposed increases in civil and criminal fines for environmental conservation law violations are for crimes that already exist (estimated revenue generation: $ 1 million), and the same goes for the restructuring of fees for hazardous waste generation (estimated revenue generation: $ 2 million).

The Department of Environmental Conservation violated federal law by allowing manure control plans to be certified by the same private experts hired by farmers to craft the plans, and by keeping plans confidential from the public, according to a ruling in Albany this week by Acting State Supreme Court Justice David Weinstein.

New York has a law for that, but the Department of Environmental Conservation isn't enforcing it, Dan Telvock of Investigative Post reports in the current edition of City & State.

A vestige of a long - ago past, the n - word — fully spelled out — still lingers in NY state environmental conservation laws classifying bodies of water.

The bill also includes a slight bump for conservation easements and open space protection projects; ongoing funds for the Lake Champlain Basin Program and reauthorization for a federal law that provides clean - up funds for contaminated industrial properties — including a site in Plattsburgh.

«We're quickly reaching the end of the low - hanging - fruit era, and in the absence of real directed policy, those goals are going to be much more challenging,» said Greg Cunningham, who leads the clean energy and climate change program at the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based environmental group.

«For example, the law requires the conservation of a 30 - meter strip of forest cover along both banks of any river, but this is not being enforced in most cases,» she said.

She showed that symmetries in nature implied the conservation laws that physicists had discovered without really understanding.

Laws discussed the conservation of angular momentum with her, and how in order to execute the full turn she would have to bring her legs together in line with her torso at the top of her leap, just like for the half - turn — but then hold them there.

In the 1920s, for instance, radioactive beta decay perplexed many physicists because it seemed not to obey the law of conservation of energy.

And if Jupiter and Saturn were locked in some resonance duet — for one to move out, the other must move in — they could not both move out or in without the law of conservation of energy again being violated.

Wildlife law enforcement efforts have failed to keep pace with the increasing sophistication of poaching and trafficking as huge crime syndicates have moved in on the act, according to Elizabeth Bennett, a conservationist at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York.

«We usually say that nothing can be created out of nothing because we think it would violate the law of conservation of energy,» a hallowed principle in physics holding that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, Vilenkin explains.

The results suggest that there should be: improvements to policy and management to champion biodiversity issues; a strengthening of environmental laws and enforcement; recognition of socio - economic issues especially among indigenous and local communities; increases in funding and resource allocation; knowledge, research and development to inform decision making; a greater understanding and protection of the rights of nature and cultural heritage; a more holistic public awareness and participation to bring about change to promote conservation.

Tsung Dao Lee of Columbia University and Chen Ning Yang of the Institute for Advanced Study boldly faced up to an embarrassing but insistent possibility: perhaps the parity - conservation law simply broke down in the realm of particle decays like tau's and theta's!

For example, the science of surfing demonstrates hydrodynamics in a fun and interesting way, and the science of skateboarding does the same for Newton's Law's of Motion and Einstein's Principle of the Conservation of Energy.