Sentences with phrase «into federal waters»

Several years later, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) extended these MPAs into the federal waters of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

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The EPA, a federal agency charged with safeguarding clean, livable air and water, funds and conducts research into the effects of climate change on public health, the environment, and natural disasters.

The Federal Reserve is charting a course into unknown waters as it sizably expands its balance sheet.

Bringing the Seattle - based company closer to the nation's seat of power could be a competitive advantage for Amazon, with growing calls to regulate tech monopolies, billions of dollars in untaxed offshore stockpiles at stake and the habit some tech companies have of getting into hot water for operating on the fringes of state and federal rules.

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Judge Ruben Castillo determined last week in U.S. District Court in Chicago that allowing lead shot to fall into ponds at the site violates the federal Clean Water Act.

It was ruled that a permit was required since lead shot was falling into a water channel in violation of the federal Clean Waterwater channel in violation of the federal Clean WaterWater Act.

In February, Castillo ruled the trapshooting violates the federal Clean Water Act because lead shot falls into ponds in the park.

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Rep. Chris Gibson called on Wednesday for an investigation into the state and federal government's response to the contamination of drinking water in the upstate communities of Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer on Monday became the latest elected official to call for federal hearings into the water contamination issues in Hoosick Falls.

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

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer today became the highest - ranking state Democrat to call for federal hearings into the Hoosick Falls water contamination crisis.

Under state and federal mandate, East Hampton Town must design and implement a comprehensive program to deal with stormwater runoff, ensuring that it does not transport pollutants into water bodies such as...

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.»

In a lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday, Donovan cited damages for lost property value on his home and medical costs associated with a host of problems he blames on the pollutants, called perfluorooctanoic acids, or PFOAs, dumped into the water by Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics and Honeywell International.

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.

Her report also includes some proposed solutions that would see a mix of state, federal and private dollars put to work to ease the discharge of sewage into potential drinking water sources.

An independent review board has found fault with the Cuomo administration's attempts to convert a federal clean water fund loan into construction work for the New York State Thruway's Tappan Zee Bridge.

The Niagara County Legislature has called a special meeting for 6 p.m. tomorrow to vote on asking for local, state and federal criminal investigations of the Niagara Falls Water Board in the wake of a July 29 discharge of black water into the Niagara River near the Maid of the Mist Water Board in the wake of a July 29 discharge of black water into the Niagara River near the Maid of the Mist water into the Niagara River near the Maid of the Mist dock.

He said that while he has confidence in the state DEC's investigation, the EPA should look into the situation, too, because the discharge may have violated the federal Clean Water Act as well as agreements involving the shared waters of the United States and Canada.

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.

This announcement follows an order by the EPA for the Buffalo Sewer Authority to come into compliance with the federal Clean Water Act.

It's the next phase in the $ 87 million consent decree, a water and sewer separation project that is mandated by the state and federal governments to prevent future sewage runoff into Lake Ontario.

ALBANY — Angry residents from Hoosick Falls stormed into the state Capitol on Wednesday to demand a full accounting of why the state, federal and local government took so long to warn them about the dangerous toxic chemicals in their water.

Changes in federal policy may also lead the state into choppy fiscal waters, including President Donald Trump's executive order to stop making scheduled payments to insurance companies, part of his long - standing pledge to repeal «Obamacare.»

The federal complaint against Mr. Skelos claims that he used his position to pressure a developer, believed to be mega-donor Glenwood Management, into getting his son a no - show consultant job at a company that produced water filtration systems for municipalities, a company which Glenwood holds substantial stock in.

Some believe that if the U.S. put a licensing system into place for federal waters out to the 200 - mile boundary, it would bring investment in fish farms and generate revenue.

Federal officials believe the subsidy program could successfully prod ranchers to put hundreds of billions of gallons of water back into the river and help relieve the shortages plaguing states downstream.

«As the Federal Government begins negotiations with the new Senate to repeal the carbon price, any technologies, policies or plans that aim to tackle climate change should take water usage into account, especially in arid countries like Australia,» Dr Wallis said.

The state began to require some permits in the 1950s, but rigorous accounting didn't begin until the Clean Water Act brought federal agencies into play in 1972.

In 2009 the states of Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin filed suit in federal court against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Chicago's Metropolitan Water Reclamation District seeking measures to prevent Asian carp from moving through the Chicago Area Waterway System into Lake Michigan.

But a shift into politically sensitive territory can put the federal funding agency in hot water with Congress.

We also put into each week's «Chemistry Now» content «bundle» any current events news stories related to chemistry — like the story in early January on new federal guidelines for amounts of fluoride in drinking water — plus relevant news stories from the multi-decade treasury of the NBC News archives.

The Trump Administration's proposed $ 167 million funding increase for the federal Charter Schools Fund as well as implement education tax credits into the proposed revamp of the tax code are already dead in the water.

After the federal Lead Contamination Control Act was signed into law in 1988, the Orleans Parish school district tested school water.

US President Donald Trump's «watered down» travel ban has been blocked hours before being put into force by a federal judge.

At the federal level, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has to issue permits to «dredge or fill materials» into waterways and wetlands and must approve any construction in or over «navigable waters.»

Without federal standards to safeguard our water, those plants will keep on sending toxic sludge into rivers and streams, where it threatens swimmers and boaters and anglers, poisons wildlife, wrecks ecosystems, and could even contaminate drinking water.

In a clear sign of the limitations of the initial EPA data, the federal agency released no data on one cement industry leader, CEMEX, which has claimed that the information EPA requested — information directly related to the amount of mercury it releases into our air and waters — is confidential business information.

ACWA, a project of the Earth Island Institute (formerly the Campaign to Safeguard America's Waters (CSAW)-RRB-, works to prevent the degradation of public waters through advocacy, education, litigation, legislation and market campaigns in support of the fundamental goals of the federal Clean Water Act: (1) all Alaska waters should protect aquatic life and be safe for recreation, (2) the discharge of all pollutants into public waters should be eliminated.

They say New York State environmental officials granted permits for the project in violation of a provision of the Federal Clean Water Act, which prohibits new releases of anything into a lake or river that is included on a list of «impaired» water boWater Act, which prohibits new releases of anything into a lake or river that is included on a list of «impaired» water bowater bodies.

By CAROL LINNITT DeSmog Canada Tuesday, April 02, 2013 As Think Progress has just reported, a bizarre technicality allowed Exxon Mobil to avoid paying into the federal oil spill fund responsible for cleanup after the company's Pegasus pipeline released 12,000 barrels of tar sands oil and water into the town of Mayflower, Arkansas.

The goal is to force these hard - working Americans into compliance with federal mandates on climate change — which will surely include new restrictions on their use of water, livestock feed, fertilizers, livestock management techniques, and who knows what all else that violate every principle of real land management ever established through the test of time.

According to a recent news report that got a lot of play around here, federal investigators are once again looking into concerns that atrazine, a common herbicide used on crops in the Midwest and found in what could be potentially hazardous amounts in midwest drinking water, could be linked to birth defects.

Thus, the ease with which Valley farmers replaced both CVP (Central Valley Project — Federal) and SWP (State Water Project) cutbacks with supplements from the Colorado River in 1977, including trades which assured residential continuity to populous Marin County, will instead run into this:

This shortsighted effort to re-open offshore drilling in the federal waters is a glaring example of how Big Oil has its claws dug deep into our nation's halls of power.

I started looking into careers in the Federal Government and was baffled and frustrated by USAjobs, Army Resume Builder and all the competition from those snot - nose kids whose parents paid their way through college while I was enjoying MRE's and bottled water in a place whose name they never will care to learn.

Find employment in Government (State (water, air, food, dairy inspections, solid and hazardous waste), Federal (NOAA, FDA, USDA, EPA) positions that would find me back into food protection or Environmental Health and Safety.