Sentences with phrase «of federal environmental laws»

on How Ongoing Reviews of Federal Environmental Laws Could Change Environmental Decision - Making in Canada

Under Scott Pruitt, the EPA has collected, on average, 49 percent less in civil penalties against violators of federal environmental laws than in the first year of the previous three administrations, according to a new report from the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project.

«Drilling companies have won exemption from just about every piece of federal environmental law except the requirement to get permits if they use diesel in their fracking fluid,» said Dusty Horwitt of the Environmental Working Group.

Not exact matches

These regulations are handed down from several federal agencies, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and various state agencies, which implement laws in the realms of worker's compensation, employee protection, and other areas.

The judge said in a 91 - page decision that, while the Army Corps substantially complied with the National Environmental Policy Act, federal permits issued for the pipeline violated the law in some respects, saying in a court order the Corps did not «adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental juEnvironmental Policy Act, federal permits issued for the pipeline violated the law in some respects, saying in a court order the Corps did not «adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental juenvironmental justice.»

Federal officials drag their feet at every turn, making the implementation of SARA one of the most disappointing aspects of Canadian environmental law.

Some of the risks of investing in real estate include changing laws, including environmental laws; floods, fires, and other Acts of God, some of which can be uninsurable; changes in national or local economic conditions; changes in government policies, including changes in interest rates established by the Federal Reserve; and international crises.

Compliance of Glass Packaging with Human and Environmental Health and Safety Toxics, February 2013 Over the past two decades, federal, state, and international laws have sought to limit the presence of certain heavy metals in all forms packaging.

A California environmental group found levels of lead in children's juice products that far exceed state law — and in some cases also exceed federal levels for young children.

The League of Conservation Voters Action Fund (LCVAF), the connected federal political action committee (PAC) of the League of Conservation Voters, works to elect candidates who will implement sound environmental laws and policies and to defeat those who stand in the way of progress.

Public Health, Improve Rockland's air, water, housing and environmental quality through application of State and Federal laws by appointment and creation of a County General Inspection Office, which enforces such laws and report to county executive and general public with transparency.

And even as multiple wells in nearby Hoosick Falls tested positive for elevated and potentially dangerous levels of the same toxic chemical more than a year ago, state health department employees suggested a delay in reporting results and did not initially recommend a wider outreach to the public, according to emails between state, county and federal officials, some of which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

McKay says the DEC «dramatically undercounted» the number of historic resources in the Marcellus Shale region, and says the environmental impact statement «lacked any reference to state and federal historic preservation law» aimed at protecting those resources.

It says the state Department of Environmental Conservation has held up approval of a water quality permit for the pipeline for so long that it is in violation of two federal laws.

The three voting members of the Public Authorities Control Board must unanimously approve the loan, which has been criticized as a violation of state and federal law by state and local legislators as well as the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Department of Environmental Conservation violated federal law by allowing manure control plans to be certified by the same private experts hired by farmers to craft the plans, and by keeping plans confidential from the public, according to a ruling in Albany this week by Acting State Supreme Court Justice David Weinstein.

The state attorney general, Patrick Morrisey (R), is leading a 24 - state lawsuit to kill it, and the state Legislature last year passed a law that limits the kind of plan that the state's environment agency, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), can write to meet federal goals.

The guidance paper, jointly published this month in ACOEM's Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM) and AAOHN's journal Workplace Health & Safety, summarizes current evidence regarding marijuana consumption; discusses possible side effects, including temporary impairment as it relates to the workplace; reviews existing federal and state laws that impact employers; and suggests various strategies available for monitoring marijuana use among employees.

Indeed, in a 2011 email to ProPublica, Halliburton, a company listed in the congressional investigation as having used 7.2 million gallons of diesel fuel, said it had not violated any laws «because there are currently no requirements in the federal environmental regulations that require a company to obtain a federal permit prior to undertaking a hydraulic fracturing project using diesel.»

Other environmental laws like the Clean Air Act set the federal level of regulation as a minimum, not a maximum, for the states, says Rena Steinzor, a law professor at the University of Maryland.

Us environmental laws apply at the country's scientific bases in Antarctica, according to a panel of federal judges in Washington.

Together with Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, we're keeping track of all the ways the federal government is undermining and restricting climate and environmental science.

In the first part of the special report Sick Schools: A National Problem, Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne describes how environmental conditions in school may make students sick, yet no federal laws protect students from exposure to contaminants that pose potential health risks.

Nearly one - fifth of the nation's population spends its days in school buildings, yet no federal laws protect students and teachers from environmental conditions in or near those buildings that pose potential health risks.

Both authorizations included a number of changes to Federal law intended to streamline the environmental review and permitting processes for many transportation projects across the Federal Government.

Compliance with all federal and state laws and regulations and local ordinances applicable to companion animal breeders and dealers as defined by such laws; building, zoning, environmental and health & safety codes, and a requirement that any violation of such laws, regulations or ordinances shall constitute a nuisance.

A U.S. magistrate has found a Santa Barbara environmental activist not guilty of violating federal law two years ago, when he allegedly fed black rats on Anacapa Island vitamin pellets to counteract poison that park rangers dropped from helicopters to exterminate the rodents.

Again via Twitter, I learned about a 2011 White House report, «Federal Actions for a Climate Resilient Nation,» from Erik Schlenker - Goodrich, the executive director of the Western Environmental Law Center.

The attorneys are calling it a first - of - its - kind federal lawsuit, and should it prove successful, it could turn environmental law on its head.

Environmental groups have sought to force the federal government to restrict carbon dioxide emissions using the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act (because of threats to polar bears from global warming) and other federal laws, and now they are poised to add the Clean Water Act to the list.

It is also a disease in environmental law (EPA, CAA, CERCLA, NRDA etc, etc.) One of my professors in law school joked that in a cubicle in one of the office buildings in Washington DC is a worker whose entire job is coming up with acronyms for the federal government.

In that press release the EPA touted the revival as a demonstration of «the Obama administration's dedicating to ensuring all Americans have strong federal protection from environmental and health hazards... This historic gathering marks a recommitment to advancing the mandate of Executive Order 12898, «Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations,» which states that each agency, with the law as its guide, should make environmental justice part of its mission.federal protection from environmental and health hazards... This historic gathering marks a recommitment to advancing the mandate of Executive Order 12898, «Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations,» which states that each agency, with the law as its guide, should make environmental justice part of its mienvironmental and health hazards... This historic gathering marks a recommitment to advancing the mandate of Executive Order 12898, «Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations,» which states that each agency, with the law as its guide, should make environmental justice part of its mission.Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations,» which states that each agency, with the law as its guide, should make environmental justice part of its miEnvironmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations,» which states that each agency, with the law as its guide, should make environmental justice part of its mienvironmental justice part of its mission.»

The Justice Department, for example, often ignores the misconduct and constitutional violations committed by its own employees, while the federal Energy Department is one of the biggest violators of America's environmental laws.

Adding foreign companies to the litigation is a tactical maneuver to keep the dispute out of state court, where the cities have more favorable prospects, and force it into federal court, said Julia Olson, executive director and chief legal counsel for the environmental law group Our Children's Trust, which isn't involved in the case.

Vote Hemp appreciates your support of our work in educating the public about the environmental and economic benefits of industrial hemp and our efforts to lobby for changes in federal and state laws to allow American farmers to grow low - THC industrial hemp as a commercial crop.

Increasingly, environmentalists have been pressing the federal leasing agency to consider those cumulative impacts, and increasingly judges have been ruling that the 1970 NEPA statute, the foundation of modern environmental law, requires it.

«When you reduce the use of fossil energy in order to reduce carbon, you get a lot of what are known as co-benefits,» Janet McCabe, a senior law fellow at the Environmental Law and Policy Center who used to work at the federal agency and helped write the Clean Power Plan, told Earthlaw fellow at the Environmental Law and Policy Center who used to work at the federal agency and helped write the Clean Power Plan, told EarthLaw and Policy Center who used to work at the federal agency and helped write the Clean Power Plan, told Earther.

A federal district judge ruled Friday that the Bureau of Land Management violated the law when it made 80 billion tons of coal available for leasing and opened up more than 8 million acres for oil and gas development in the Powder River Basin without first assessing the environmental risks or considering any alternatives.

The nonprofit environmental law organization Earthjustice has been staunchly opposed to the project and represented a coalition of groups — Riverkeeper, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Clean Air Council, Delaware - Otsego Audubon Society, Delaware Riverkeeper Network and the Pennsylvania and Atlantic chapters of Sierra Club — in pipeline approval proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC.)

Industry activity is subject to a number of federal and state laws, including the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.

Since federal environmental laws are just a part of global and local environmental protection legislation, I prefer to try to consider the whole picture to assess relative strength or weakness of even national protections.

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

-- Consistent with its authorities under other laws and with Federal trust responsibilities with respect to Indian lands, each Federal department or agency with representation on the National Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel shall consider the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and integrate the elements of the strategy into agency plans, environmental reviews, programs, and activities related to the conservation, restoration, and management of natural resources.

The proposed regulations, lease terms, conditions, restrictions, prohibitions, and stipulations for the leasing program under this subtitle shall require compliance with all applicable provisions of Federal and State environmental law, and shall also require the following:

The groups, represented by Western Environmental Law Center and Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit in federal district court challenging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's decision to approve 287 oil and gas leases totaling almost 150,000 acres in south central, north central, and southeastern Montana.

Industrial polluters have gone to great lengths to stifle environmental advocacy, but their expansion of censorship laws has finally crossed a line for some federal judges.

From compliance of federal and state laws to building timber harvest plans that minimize environmental impact, private forest landowners are taking the necessary steps in their everyday practices to be stewards for the water, soil, and wildlife of working forests.

Julio Legos is «the High Park Group's Director of Regulatory Affairs, whose biography says, «Julio's practice at HPG is focused on federal and provincial energy and environmental law and policy, particularly as they affect Canadian industry.»»

The proposed ALEC model «Environmental Impact Litigation Act,» based on a law passed in North Dakota in 2015, would allow coal, oil, and gas companies to pay into a fund for the state to sue against a number of key federal environmental laws, including the CEnvironmental Impact Litigation Act,» based on a law passed in North Dakota in 2015, would allow coal, oil, and gas companies to pay into a fund for the state to sue against a number of key federal environmental laws, including the Cenvironmental laws, including the Clean Air Act.

This law would radically constrain EPA's ability to issue new environmental regulations as situations and science evolved (to say nothing of what it would do to other federal agencies).