Sentences with phrase «national environmental rules»

To get permission for the new well — the first of its kind drilled after new national environmental rules went into effect — Aristech needed to prove to the Environmental Protection Agency that its waste would remain trapped for at least 10,000 years.

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The packaging industry is celebrating after EU negotiations ruled that packaging would retain its Internal Market legal base, making it harder for national governments to introduce unilateral bans for environmental reasons.

Erie County, New York - Legislator Patrick Burke who garnered national recognition for his ban on microbead plastics, has submitted a resolution expressing his opposition to the Trump Administration's proposed elimination of the Clean Water Rule, as well as the stark reductions in Environmental Protection Agency funding that would cut funds for the Great Lakes pollution cleanup by 97 %.

The order gives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the authority to repeal and replace the Clean Power Plan, the set of rules that established goals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil - fueled electricity plants through a national trading system.

Now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is gearing up to tighten federal stormwater rules that have been criticized by environmental groups and deemed ineffective by a national panel ofEnvironmental Protection Agency is gearing up to tighten federal stormwater rules that have been criticized by environmental groups and deemed ineffective by a national panel ofenvironmental groups and deemed ineffective by a national panel of researchers.

The legislation also includes provisions that would continue efforts to open a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada, prevent the Obama administration from moving ahead with new environmental rules aimed at strengthening protections for small streams and wetlands, and bar adding the sage grouse to the endangered species list.

Multiple national level influences, such as rule of law, environmental governance, land tenure or policy are potentially influencing PADDD and further national level studies are needed to better understand these mechanics.

«Cold and snowy winters will be the rule, rather than the exception,» said climatologist James Overland of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, Wash..

However, the Environmental Protection Agency is concerned enough about the chemical that it is finalizing new national rules that will set limits on formaldehyde emissions from composite wood products.

The displays also take a provocative look at cotton's «dirty secrets» - at its human and environmental impact - and at the pivotal political and economic role it has played in establishing national independence from colonial rule.

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«In light of the Aliso Canyon disaster, the case for strong national rules to limit methane pollution from both current and future oil and gas sites has never been clearer,» said Fred Krupp, Environmental Defense Fund President.

Stephen Leahy, «Atlantic Bluefin Going Way of Northern Cod,» Interpress Service News Agency, 24 August 2007; Ted Williams, «The Last Bluefin Hunt,» in Valerie Harms et al., The National Audubon Society Almanac of the Environment (New York: Grosset / Putnam, 1994), p. 185; Callum Roberts, The Unnatural History of the Sea (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2007), p. 280; Konstantin Volkov, «The Caviar Game Rules,» Reuters - IUCN Environmental Media Award winner, 2001; 2007 quota from UNEP, «2006 Ban on Caviar Lifted,» press release (Geneva: 2 January 2007).

In September 2009, the Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule to increase national gas - mileage standards for cars, trucks and SUVs by about 5 percent per year.

Our recommendation is that we should abandon the sky - is - falling and phantom job loss tactic, and lobby the administration with several «asks,» that could include: MLP / REIT status for solar companies; fast - track permitting; reducing environmental studies; tax - free manufacturing zones in the interest of U.S. national security and to revitalize certain cities; a revision of accounting rules that penalize solar project owners; federal policy allowing net metering for homeowners and community solar projects; including solar in the upcoming infrastructure spending bill; and finally increased PV deployment on federal buildings.

«The simplest thing I can say is that we are going to work with local, state, regional and national government groups and look at what we can do in the courthouse,» said Vivian Stockman, of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, which lobbied against the rule change.

European environmental NGOs are calling on Member States to improve their National Allocation Plans for the second phase, with stringent caps as well as credible and transparent allocation rules.

In a significant win for access to justice in environmental matters, the Court's Grand Chamber found that Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights (the right to an effective remedy), read together with the Aarhus Convention, precluded the application of national procedural rules allowing for swift decision - making at the expense of rights granted to environmental NGOs.

Contrary to all the participants in the proceedings, the national court had suggested that EU law was applicable to the case because landscape protection could not be seen to «stand alone as a concept separate from the protection of the environment», as a number of EU rules based on the environmental competence of the Union would show (para 10).

To what degree are Member States free under those rules to formulate PBMs unilaterally to promote environmental and social concerns that arise outside their respective national markets?

The national legislature may thus possess discretion to determine criteria to be satisfied by organisations to be able to challenge an infringement of environmental law; however, the very obligation to guarantee access to justice was, for the Advocate General, sufficiently clear to preclude a rule with the effect of excluding certain categories of non-legislative decisions taken by public authorities from the possible scope of review (para 94).

Our environmental lawyers interact with the regulatory agencies that administer rules and laws imposed by national and state authorities.

Other laws, such as the Social Security Act (including its Medicare and Medicaid provisions), the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Public Health Service Act, Department of Transportation regulations, the Environmental Protection Act and its accompanying regulations, the National Labor Relations Act, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Federal Highway Administration rules, may also contain provisions that require covered entities or others to use or disclose protected health information for specific purposes.

Ongoing pipeline reviews: While there is a strong argument that the FCA may have applied the wrong sections of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 in Gitxaala (given that the Enbridge Joint Review Panel was operating under transitional rules), the analysis of the FCA is certainly applicable to more recent environmental assessments conducted by the National Energy Board — like those for the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain and Energy East oil tanker and pipelEnvironmental Assessment Act, 2012 in Gitxaala (given that the Enbridge Joint Review Panel was operating under transitional rules), the analysis of the FCA is certainly applicable to more recent environmental assessments conducted by the National Energy Board — like those for the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain and Energy East oil tanker and pipelenvironmental assessments conducted by the National Energy Board — like those for the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain and Energy East oil tanker and pipeline projects.