Sentences with phrase «much of the public land»

Several Republican lawmakers want to give much of the public land that is now under federal protection to the states.

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Whether it is Lutheran social service agencies in the Midwest or Presbyterian parochial schools in New Mexico (founded because the Catholics so dominated the territory's few public schools) or Jewish philanthropies in New York or the ubiquitous Catholic hospitals and Protestant colleges throughout the land, religions have provided much of the social (and financial) capital for building local communities.

The city of Chicago, Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail, Chicago Park District and The Trust for Public Land have joined forced to convert abandoned railroad space along the once bustling Bloomingdale Line into much - needed community green space for residents and visitors.

«It's about a party that is as much the party of the private sector as the public sector, a party of south as well as north, a party determined to fight for the future of the United Kingdom, and a party rooted in every community of our land.»

Since so much information was presented, no consensus was reached on any particular approach, but another public meeting will be scheduled, featuring a panel of local architects, land - use planners and engineers.

The county wants Honeywell, the state of New York and others to give permanent rights for the public to use their land along the lake, much of which is now clean enough for swimming.

A study by The Trust For Public Land shows that 99 percent of New York City residents are within an 10 minute walk of a park — a much higher number than the national average of 54 percent.

Leasing of town land is subject to permissive referendum, which gives the public 30 days to submit a petition demanding the town to hold a public vote on the matter much like a bond issue.

They'll discuss a range of environmental issues including expanding the bottle bill, brownfields, access to public land, global warming and much more.

The Department of the Interior has proposed requiring the disclosure of chemicals used during hydraulic - fracturing operations on public lands, but much of the current oil and gas development is taking place on private land.

But as much as public lands may serve as part of a climate change solution, they are also sources of the emissions causing global warming.

That left the parcels in rural and southern Utah that nobody wanted or cared about, much like the vast majority of our public lands.

Bradley Campbell and Deanna Moran of the Conservation Law Foundation write, «Much of this land belongs to the public, on «loan» or licensed to private developers so long as they are serving public purposes.

Land Rover has given the new Range Rover a public viewing in London and delivered details of price, performance, economy and much more.

«It's fitting that we've been able to release the full potential of the iconic Defender, whose much - loved shape remains synonymous with Land Rover, 70 years since it was seen in public for the first time,» said Tim Hannig, Jaguar Land Rover Classic Director.

«It's fitting that we've been able to release the full potential of the iconic Defender, whose much - loved shape remains synonymous with Land Rover, 70 years since it was seen in public for the first time,» said Jaguar Land Rover Classic director, Tim Hannig.

Jaguar Land Rover Classic Director Tim Hannig said, «It's fitting that we've been able to release the full potential of the iconic Defender, whose much - loved shape remains synonymous with Land Rover, 70 years since it was seen in public for the first time.

Her campaign against land grabbing (illegal appropriation of public lands by developers) and the rapacious re-allocation of forest land received much attention in Kenya and the region.

But USDA Wildlife Services works primarily on public lands, much of it far from feral cat habitat.

One you land in Sorong you'll need to get to the port (a taxi won't cost you much) and then jump on one of the public ferries to Waisai on the island of Waigao.

As a nature reserve it remains the most protected of public lands, and today the sheer abundance and diversity of birdlife gives testimony to the decades of careful management, good planning and much hard work.

Like so many of you, I will miss Frank very much, but I am pleased to know that his warm personality and unique skills will continue to serve the cause of public lands.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

But funding is not, and also what we are asking the women to do in terms of planting trees on public land is so much more demanding.

Despite this, the U.S. government has a long history of giving away our public land to coal companies — so much that today,

Despite this, the U.S. government has a long history of giving away our public land to coal companies — so much that today, 40 percent of the coal mined in the United States belongs to taxpayers.

The outcome of those lawsuits will determine just how much the Trump administration is able to abdicate its responsibilities to protect public land and institute climate policy.

Indeed, much of our new - found energy is drawn from lands and waters that we, the public, own together.

First they need to figure out how much of our energy comes from public land.

Having a public blockchain ledger would allow for everyone to be aware of who owns which parcel of land, and it would make the exchange of ownership much easier and more equitable.

The stereotype of the seller of swamp land in Florida, or of the Brooklyn Bridge remain in the general lexicon of public mythology, much in the same way that the snake oil salesman of lore exists.

«Using public land for affordable housing is much harder to do if each project is sort of a separate idea,» Fisette said.