Sentences with phrase «lands and waters represent»

Oil and gas extraction would drop as well, but more gradually, as federal lands and waters represent a smaller fraction of national production, and these resources take longer to develop.

Not exact matches

It is an excess in an age where almost a billion people go hungry, and represents a waste of the labour, water, energy, land and other inputs that went into producing that food.

The Congresswoman who represents the Adirondack Park also discussed the importance of financing the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

We identified the first divergence in Neoaves, two groups we named Passerea and Columbea, representing independent lineages of diverse and convergently evolved land and water bird species.

The project therefore represents one of the most plausible approaches to enhancing crop yield and increasing resilience in the face of reduced land area, decreased use of fertilizers and less predictable supplies of water.

It has been argued that the land amplification is associated with lapse rate changes (not represented in the UVic model), and it is certain that drying of the land can play a role (not reliable in the UVic model since diffusing water vapor gives you a crummy hydrological cycle, especially over land).

The Nature Conservancy The Nature Conservancy preserves the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.

Landings from Alaskan waters represents half the U.S. catch of fish and shellfish.

Colors represent different land cover categories: terra firme and occasionally flooded forest (dark blue), palm swamp (red), open peatland (pink), pole forest peatland (dark red), river beach and urban areas (white), seasonally flooded forest (light blue) and open water (black).

The global Human — Earth System framework we propose, and represent schematically in Fig. 6, combines not only data collection, analysis techniques, and Dynamic Modeling, but also Data Assimilation, to bidirectionally couple an ESM containing subsystems for Global Atmosphere, Land (including both Land — Vegetation and Land - Use models) and Ocean and Ice, to a Human System Model with subsystems for Population Demographics, Water, Energy, Agriculture, Industry, Construction, and Transportation.

These OMITTED / POORLY Represented processes include the following: oceanic eddies, tides, fronts, buoyancy - driven coastal and boundary currents, cold halocline, dense water plumes and convection, double diffusion, surface / bottom mixed layer, sea ice — thickness distribution, concentration, deformation, drift and export, fast ice, snow cover, melt ponds and surface albedo, atmospheric loading, clouds and fronts, ice sheets / caps and mountain glaciers, permafrost, river runoff, and air — sea ice — land interactions and coupling.

«Literally and figuratively, this is a scorched earth budget that represents an all out assault on clean air, water, and land,» Gina McCarthy, who served as EPA administrator during the final years of the Obama administration, said in a statement.

He has successfully represented clients in matters involving hazardous substances, air and water quality, land use, toxic torts and other environmental matters, including state and federal Superfund liability, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting and compliance issues, California's Safe Drinking Water & Toxic Enforcement Act (Proposition 65) and hazardous waste regulatory iswater quality, land use, toxic torts and other environmental matters, including state and federal Superfund liability, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting and compliance issues, California's Safe Drinking Water & Toxic Enforcement Act (Proposition 65) and hazardous waste regulatory isWater & Toxic Enforcement Act (Proposition 65) and hazardous waste regulatory issues.

Our lawyers represent farmers, land developers, cities and municipalities, property owners, orchard owners and other entities in legal matters involving water rights.

Erika E. Malmen (Boise) is a member of the Environment, Energy & Resources practice, representing clients in permitting, compliance, and litigation under various statutes including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Clean Air Act (CAA), Federal Land Policy & Management Act (FLPMA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Squamish Nation argued that — despite the significant intrusion the project represents on Squamish's people, lands, waters and resources, particularly by the marine terminal and increased vessel traffic traversing their territory — the Crown, through project conditions, deferred obtaining information that is essential to assessing impacts on Squamish.

Mr. Walsh currently represents the Navajo Nation with regard to exposure of its people, water, and lands to contaminants from the August 2015 Gold King Mine spill.

Through his work with the Environmental Litigation Group, Mr. Land also represents public water providers and private well owners in litigation involving chemicals that contaminate water bodies and property, including trichloroethylene (TCE), a nonflammable, colorless and highly toxic solvent, and perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs), such as GenX, which was touted by its makers as a «safer» alternative to the original PFC, known as C8.

This can create fights in our communities as we are forced to put unambiguous contemporary boundaries around our lands and waters that do not (and can not) represent the complex cultural ways that we can look after, inherit and occupy country.

It is important to also keep in mind that the Act has always represented a pragmatic compromise by the legislators of this country, in which the recognition and enjoyment of native title rights are already subjugated to other rights and interests in relation to land and waters.

The theme marks 25 years since the passing of the Native Title Act 1993 and represents the confluence of these laws as they relate to title of land and waters.

Venezia v. Coldwell Banker Sammis Realty (270 A.D. 2d 480)- buyer's action against seller for fraud for failing to disclose toxic contamination of untapped ground water beneath the property and surrounding area dismissed; cause of action against brokers severed; buyer's claim of fraud against seller was extinguished upon closing as a result of specific merger clause in contract of sale; moreover, buyer's failed to allege that seller made any representation about the condition of the land's subsurface or groundwater and did not allege that seller engaged in concealment or otherwise deceitful conduct designed to prevent the discovery of such contamination; seller is under no duty to speak; salesperson of one of the defendant real estate agencies represented to buyer that the house was in good condition