Sentences with phrase «lead environmental agency»

This includes New York's lead environmental agency, the Department of Environmental Conservation, which has lost hundreds of staff members in the last four years.

The shift suggests there is even more uncertainty among government officials about the safety of fracking after the intensive study by the nation's leading environmental agency.

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The event eventually helped start an environmental movement that led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of a wide range of legislation and regulations designed to protect theenvironmental movement that led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of a wide range of legislation and regulations designed to protect theEnvironmental Protection Agency and the passage of a wide range of legislation and regulations designed to protect the environment.

Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, a climate change denier, as his pick to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and has promised to lift restrictions on fossil fuel companies.

Christine Todd Whitman is arguably the most prominent figure ever to lead the Environmental Protection Agency under a Republican president, and she has critical words for Donald Trump's potentially disastrous pick Scott Pruitt.

Last week, Trump appointed the long - time fossil fuel lobbyist Myron Ebell to lead the transition of the Environmental Protection Agency, and recently Trump's transition team released statements on «energy independence» that unambiguously favor the extractive industries and in which the team promises to «conduct a top - down review of all anti-coal regulations».

Susan Hedman, former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regional director, told committee members the lead contamination should have never happened, and that the EPA had nothing to do with the corrosive water.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has concluded the Keystone XL pipeline will significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions because it will lead to the expansion of Alberta's carbon intensive oilsands.

Legislation is proposed to ban lead use in consumer goods, and the Environmental Protection Agency is taking a close look at stained glass windows.

Countries such as the United States are already leading, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency setting the nation's first ever food waste goal: a 50 percent reduction by 2030.

A recent study from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shows much higher levels of lead in the running water than previously thought.

The latest soil, groundwater, surface water and sediment testing at Sportsman's Park in Naperville found lead concentrations in wells within Illinois Environmental Protection Agency standards for drinking water and groundwater, according to the Naperville Park District.

In June 1998, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency said the park needed to obtain a National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit because the lead shot from shotgun shells may contaminate the ground and run - off water.

Ultimately, one of the tests, conducted by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency last spring, concluded that lead is not a threat to the region's ground water.

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In a draft report released earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency estimated that over 5 percent of children consume more than 6 micrograms per day of lead — the maximum daily intake level set by the Food and Drug Administration in 1993 — in their diet.

But whether or not the agency was trying to bury this news, the announcement quickly led to an outcry among journalists, environmental watchdog groups and Congressional representatives, including New York Senator Charles Schumer (D), Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown (D) and Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D).

The State Thruway Authority and Department of Environmental Conservation are the leading agencies reviewing the project.

The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene previously took samples from 235 and 233 East Fifth Street and 514 East 12th Street managed by Brookhill Properties, the company owned by Toledano, and found that the concentrations of lead dust far exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency's hazard standard, with the lead concentration as high as 15 times what is legally allowed in the building at 233 East Fifth Street.

Daren Bakst, a research fellow in agricultural policy at the Heritage Foundation think tank, said sue and settle has led to «egregious antics» that have «effectively handed over the setting of agency priorities to environmental pressure groups,» and has led to rushed rulemaking by the agency.

Opposition to the state plan for the Thruway Authority to be lead agency in the environmental review of the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline along the superhighway is mounting as the Newburgh City Council is against it.

Leading a coalition of 11 states, AG Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit to compel the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promptly revise national air quality standards for air pollution involving soot.

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The Environmental Protection Agency implemented the Lead and Copper Rule in 1991, and is now considering updating it.

Wisconsin contractors can go to a state department, rather than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to get a license to work on projects that involve lead paint removal.

Republican County Executive Steve Neuhaus had promised the county's parallel analysis after Kiryas Joel officials held a voluntary scoping session as designated lead agency reviewing the environmental impact of a petition advanced by local property owners in the Town of Monroe.

The Town of Ulster two weeks ago affirmed its intent to declare lead agency in the environmental review process of a

Mr. Van Scoyoc got more than 60 percent of the vote, according to the board of elections website, and Ms. Burke - Gonzalez was the top vote - getter in the town board race, with a nearly 15 - point lead over her nearest Republican challenger, Paul Giardina, a nuclear engineer who retired last year from a post at the Environmental Protection Agency.

They are a hangover from a failed 2011 budget agreement and have led to military readiness problems and caused hardship at domestic agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the IRS.

Some municipal leaders are asking the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to be the lead agency, and the New Paltz Town Board says it's willing to take on the role itself if the environmental departmEnvironmental Conservation (DEC) to be the lead agency, and the New Paltz Town Board says it's willing to take on the role itself if the environmental departmenvironmental department declines.

We pointed put that this violates state Environmental Quality Review Act requirements so, now, the Thruway Authority, who wants (to be the) lead agency and the state Department of Environmental Conservation are walking it back and saying it's just a preliminary draft environmental impact statement and there will be puEnvironmental Quality Review Act requirements so, now, the Thruway Authority, who wants (to be the) lead agency and the state Department of Environmental Conservation are walking it back and saying it's just a preliminary draft environmental impact statement and there will be puEnvironmental Conservation are walking it back and saying it's just a preliminary draft environmental impact statement and there will be puenvironmental impact statement and there will be public scoping.

The Adirondack Park's leading environmental groups and local government officials supported the Adirondack Park Agency's decision to classify the 20,530 - acre Boreas Ponds tract as a mix of Wilderness and Wild Forest.

«Department of Environmental Conservation is currently reviewing the Thruway Authority's Nov. 16 request for lead agency status on the Pilgrim Transportation of New York... application for pipeline construction,» state Department of Environmental Conservation press representative wrote.

«A lead agency has not yet been established and the environmental review process has not commenced,» a spokesperson wrote.

However, a state Department of Environmental Conservation response to questions from the Freeman did say the Thruway Authority is seeking the lead agency role.

He did not speak specifically to any appointees other than Carson, but Democrats have expressed dismay over the selection of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for U.S. Attorney General, fast food executive Andrew Puzder to head the Department of Labor, former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon to lead the Small Business Administration, mega-investor Wilbur Ross for the Department of Commerce, billionaire businesswoman Betsy Devos for the Department of Education, ex-Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin for Department of of the Treasury and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt for the Environmental Protection Agency.

... Regardless of whether DEC is a «lead» or «involved» agency, the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Thruway Authority will continue to ensure this proposal is subject to rigorous review, including that all potential environmental impacts are adequately identified and addrEnvironmental Conservation and the Thruway Authority will continue to ensure this proposal is subject to rigorous review, including that all potential environmental impacts are adequately identified and addrenvironmental impacts are adequately identified and addressed.»

Schneiderman sent a letter seeking a review of regulations on gas drilling as proposed by the Delaware River Basin Commision, an interstate federal body led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and includes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Parks Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's top administrator plans to visit East Chicago as the city wrestles with ongoing remediation work at the U.S.S. Lead Superfund site.

The Ulster Town Board is serving as lead agency on the environmental review.

Once the lead agency accepts the environmental impact statement as complete, each involved agency will have an opportunity to lay out findings, including recommended changes to the project, before the review is complete.

At Thursday's meeting, village attorney Joseph Prokop said the village applied on Sept. 26 to be the «lead agency» for an environmental review process, believing the Village Board could better oversee concerns about the project.

The state Thruway Authority and Department of Environmental Conservation in December announced that they will share «lead agency» status in reviewing the portion of the pipelines that will be in New York, largely along the Thruway corridor.

A very small amount of lead paint dust can result in a house failing inspection under federal Environmental Protection Agency regulations.

Local environmental watchdog and activist agency Riverkeeper adds that dual lead agencies are not the optimal way to set up a review, says Sue Rosenberg, Saugerties CAPP leader.

The climate - changing juggernaut snuck back into town in November via a letter from the New York State Thruway Authority to all «involved agencies» (municipalities that lie along the Thruway, which is the chosen route to transport Bakken crude oil between Albany and the New Jersey refineries) requesting approval as lead agency in the environmental review required before construction of the pipeline can be approved.

«Program Enhances Employment Opportunities» In honor of our local Veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan Oneida County's Lead Primary Prevention (LLP) Program will make available two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) training slots at no cost to returning vets seeking employment in construction, County... Read more

Last week, KingstonCitizens.org, the local activist group that led the successful opposition to the Niagara Bottling proposal, last week asked its members to consider whether the group will ask the Kingston Common Council to advocate the DEC taking «lead agency» status in the environmental review.

A public - private «green partnership» between the county's Lead Primary Prevention Pilot Program and Gro - West, Inc., will again be offering a series of instructional classes on window replacement prior to new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations mandating lead... Read Lead Primary Prevention Pilot Program and Gro - West, Inc., will again be offering a series of instructional classes on window replacement prior to new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations mandating lead... Read lead... Read more