Sentences with phrase «one's environmental legacy»
Booker will bring a breath of fresh air to the Senate and carry on the strong environmental legacies of past Senators from New Jersey like Frank Lautenberg, Bob Menendez, Clifford Case, and Bill Bradley.
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A planned gift is a wonderful way to safeguard the Earth's treasures for future generations while arranging your own environmental legacy.
«Given the magnitude of these debts, commitments to reduce emissions and biodiversity loss are unlikely to be realized without specific actions that directly address this damaging environmental legacy.»
President Obama continues to use his final months in office to firm up a remarkable environmental legacy.
With the Obama Administration willing to sacrifice jobs and economic development for some perceived environmental legacy, it is time for unions to abandon the historic allegiance to the Democrat Party and realize that it is the Republicans who advocate for policies that protect the jobs in construction, manufacturing, mining, and energy — all well - paying positions that are often filled by union members.
The biggest environmental legacy of the Olympics he said would be «changing people's minds, people's attitudes, helping them to recognize new partnerships for sustainability.»
As President Obama and EPA Chief Administrator Gina McCarthy assess his administration's otherwise distinguished environmental legacy, a clean Hudson River and respected federal Superfund program will not be on the list.
Environmental Legacy of the Former Soviet Republics by Ruben A. Mnatsakanian, Centre for Human Ecology, Edinburgh, pp 209, # 20
It illustrates the challenge President Donald Trump faces in defending his deregulation agenda against a torrent of lawsuits after swiftly moving last year to wipe out much of his predecessor's environmental legacy.
In a surprising victory for former President Barack Obama's environmental legacy, the U.S. Senate voted to uphold an Obama - era climate change regulation to control the release of methane from oil and gas wells on public land.
«It threatens local businesses, the economic gains we've made in the Southern Tier and the environmental legacy we wish to leave for the region,» Damiani said.
At a time when Trump is working to dismantle former President Barack Obama's environmental legacy, more than a dozen House Republicans — including several from New York — are calling for action to confront the threat of a changing climate.
With tons of these particles entering our waterways annually, there was no time to waste in moving to protect our environmental legacy.
ALBANY — The Cuomo administration has denied the water quality permits for a controversial pipeline in what has become another political test of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's environmental legacy.
The wide - ranging order seeks to undo the centerpiece of former President Obama's environmental legacy and national efforts to address climate change.
«Gov. Cuomo's energy goals, the foundation of his environmental legacy, will not be achieved without the inclusion of each and every one of our upstate nuclear power plants,» said Kevin Caraccioli, the city attorney for Oswego and Scriba.
Hanna's former boss, Governor Pataki, takes great pride in his environmental legacy and often cites Teddy Roosevelt as his hero.
But today the US is producing no new nuclear weapons, and Rocky Flats closed down in the early 1990s leaving behind an environmental legacy of contamination with plutonium and other toxic chemicals.
He adds, «It doesn't surprise me that sperm carry some sort of environmental legacy to the next generation.
The Kennebunk Fire Chief shares some off - the - brochure tips, then Tom Bradbury, Head of the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust, explains the area's cultural and environmental legacy.
Out of a practice that engages with contemporary issues of the sublime, cultural and environmental legacy have become rising issues in her work.
My recent work deals with climate change, sustainability, and the environmental legacy of the «atomic age.»
The environmental legacy of past presidents tells us much about the current White House, whose occupant author Douglas Brinkley calls «a used car salesman of the worst kind.»
Whether we keep exploiting our environment or turn towards sustainable development, it will have an effect on the environmental legacy that future generations receive.
«President Obama moved to solidify his environmental legacy Tuesday by withdrawing hundreds of millions of acres of federally owned land in the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean from new offshore oil...
That's why when planning our Climate Reality Leadership Corps trainings, including the Cedar Rapids training this week, we strive to create an innovative event with a positive social and environmental legacy that matches the message onstage.
Along the way, Pruitt has begun to dismantle former president Barack Obama's environmental legacy, halting the agency's efforts to combat climate change and to shift the nation away from its reliance on fossil fuels.
Never the less, Obama delayed a decision regarding the pipeline for 7 years and then rejected it shortly before an international conference converged in Paris to hammer out a climate agreement that Obama viewed as part of his environmental legacy.
Not only are you protecting Oregon's environmental legacy, but you're inviting and inspiring others to share in that responsibility.
Its workplace and online giving options are easy ways for you to share responsibility for stewarding Oregon's environmental legacy.
The recent move shows Trump is likely to dismantle President Barack Obama's environmental legacy.
The Trump administration also may target regulations to curb ground - level ozone and industrial emissions that were hallmarks of President Obama's environmental legacy.
«It is clear that the cornerstones of President Obama's environmental legacy will be under siege by the Trump White House and the Republican Congress,» said Larry Pearl, News Director, Environment and Energy, Bloomberg BNA.