Sentences with phrase «ongoing response efforts»

Members of a Shoreline Cleanup and Assessment Team removes oil from a beach in Port Fourchon, La. — part of ongoing response efforts to minimize shoreline impacts from the Deepwater Horizon / BP oil spill, May 23, 2010.

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«The company remains in close contact with the governor's office, first responders and associates on the ground to monitor response efforts and assess ongoing needs,» the corporation announced in a statement.

Gillibrand sent a letter urging the agency to expedite its response and take immediate federal action to support and add to the state's ongoing efforts.

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate will travel to New York and New Jersey tomorrow to survey ongoing response and recovery efforts in the wake of tropical storm Irene.

The total would include $ 7.4 billion for the Homeland Security Department's Disaster Relief Fund, which will be used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support ongoing hurricane response efforts.

The case study also recounts and assesses post-disaster monitoring efforts, recent scientific findings from the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP), and explores the implications of these experiences for ongoing and future environmental disaster response.

It builds on several recent and ongoing research efforts to provide high - resolution measurements of behavior and behavioral response of marine mammals to human noise in their environment using controlled exposure experiments.

In this, the most authentic type of project possible, students are simply presented with a problem adults are working to solve and are invited to invent and try out their own responses or join in ongoing adult efforts, learning via apprenticeship.

Ongoing monitoring efforts are measuring changes in amphibian and reptile population biology in response to pig removal on Santa Cruz Island, the number of bats occupying important maternity colonies on Santa Cruz, and mouse population dynamics as they relate to changes in fox numbers on San Miguel Island.

It also contributes to ongoing efforts to foster a common, coordinated response by the United Nations system to climate variability and change, in the light of the 2005 World Summit and a number of newly emerging initiatives and partnerships such as the 2005 G8 Gleneagles Summit to advance the international Climate Agenda.

Unfortunately the Atlanta community has been ranked among one of the biggest markets for child prostitution, sex trade and labor trafficking and in response to the ongoing critical needs the Alston & Bird continues to expand pro bono efforts in this area.

False advertising laws, consumer protection regulations, and (to a lesser extent) unfair competition rules have all been deployed by private citizens, and ongoing efforts in that area may find a more welcome response from the courts now that the scope of these problems is more widely understood.

Although ongoing advocacy efforts to address childhood adversity and to prevent the potential precipitants of toxic stress responses are certainly warranted, so are efforts to improve the capacity of caregivers and communities to promote the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships that assist in turning off the child's physiologic stress in response to adversity.59, 64 However, preliminary data indicate that the level of adversity and risk factors in mothers participating in home visiting programs is very high (oral communication between C. Blodgett and co-guest editors, June 2013).