Sentences with phrase «over environmental rule»

«Perhaps most importantly, we need to stay away from tribunals that allow big corporations to sue governments over environmental rule making.

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New environmental rules complicate and delay already tricky negotiations over control of Freeport - McMoRan's Grasberg mine.

On the investment side, while the detention of Canadian investors John Chang and Allison Lu for commercial disputes with politically connected counterparts in China has gotten most of the publicity, other practices, such imposing technology transfer requirements on foreign investors, targeting foreign over local firms in enforcing environmental rules, and denying reciprocal treatment of investments in resource projects, banking, telecommunications and professional services are also cause for serious concern.

Lodi Rules ™ is California's first 3rd - party - certified sustainable winegrowing program and has received significant recognition over the years, having been awarded the Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) in 2006 and again in 2014.

Created in 2005, LODI RULES ™ is California's first 3rd - party - certified sustainable winegrowing program and has received significant recognition over the years, having been awarded the Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA) in 2006 and again in 2014.

And while Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens hinted at a possible do over on the rule - making process for fracking, Cuomo says there's «no step back.»

Schneiderman, who has concentrated heavily on environmental cases like Indian Point and the contentious debate over high - volume hydrofracking in the Southern Tier, said the ruling confirms extra caution is needed before re-licensing the plant.

Connecticut's legal conflicts with the federal government over air quality issues escalated again last weekwhen the state joined New York in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce ozone pollution rules.

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is busy girding itself for a fight over new greenhouse gas emissions rules, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case on whether lawsuits over climate ought to be permitted.

I see it as my job to get in there and make use of these new rules or these new positions for environmental justice in decision - making processes, really implementing the fundamental groundwork that's been laid over the past several years.

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A number of states and several business groups prepare to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the rules to cut carbon emissions, which is expected to set off a large number of law suits.

They're a central feature of Obama's efforts to address climate change, but they are also set to become the subject of a massive lobbying war between industry and environmental groups as the administration deliberates over the final rule — a process that could take up much of the rest of the president's tenure in office.

The Hill reports, «Republican lawmakers are planning an all - out assault on Obama's environmental agenda, including rules on mercury and other air toxics from power plants, limits on ground - level ozone that causes smog, mountaintop mining restrictions and the EPA's attempt to redefine its jurisdiction over streams and ponds.»

Since the proposed rule was issued as a draft over a year ago, utilities, state regulators, consumer advocates, and environmental groups have speculated about the final form, and what it might require.

State environmental regulators finalized a rule requiring large industrial emitters to gradually reduce carbon emissions over time.

Given Citizens United, the uncertainty over spending rules in upcoming elections, and the vast revenue base for environmental groups described in the chapter, it is not clear what conservative versus enviro / progressive spending will be in the 2012 election or future elections.

Earth Island's Cultivate Oregon, along with Center for Environmental Health, Center for Food Safety, and International Center for Technology Assessment, filed a complaint yesterday, March 21, in the Northern District of California the US Department of Agriculture over its withdrawal of the widely - supported Organic Livestock and Poultry Practice Rule.

On September 27, 2016, the entire United States District Court for the District of Columbia will hear oral arguments in West Virginia, et al. v EPA, to which E&E Legal is party, challenging the EPA's «Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units» rule under section 111 (d) of the Clean Air Act, over the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) regulation that will cripple, and in many cases, shut down coal - fired power plants.

We should see a lot more environmental rules coming out of China over the next few years.

In a letter to U.S. House and Senate leaders last week, 114 of the nation's leading environmental scientists express concern over the proposed U.S. EPA's Tailoring Rule equating biogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with fossil fuel emissions.

Over the next year, states will be working with stakeholders to submit plans to implement the new federal Clean Power Plan and submit comments on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed federal implementation plan and model rules.

The new rules, which will be overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency, should cut carbon pollution from the energy sector by 32 percent below 2005 levels over the next 15 years.

Representative Fred Upton, the Michigan Republican who has taken over as chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, said last weekend that he would consider a variety of legislative weapons to undo environmental regulations, including the new E.P.A. rules on greenhouse gases.

Those questions are coming to head this week with a ruling over a suit bought by Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife and other environmental groups, against the US government.

In MacQueen, for instance, the court ruled that any negligence stemming from steel plant emissions would have occurred over decades, during which time environmental standards have drastically changed.

Todd R. Berman, Brian C. Freeman, Robert S. Melvin, and Emilee Mooney Scott provided a comprehensive overview of environmental rules, exposures, and trends likely to emerge or strengthen over the course of the year and how Connecticut environmental professionals can navigate these choppy waters.

The session provided a comprehensive overview of environmental rules, exposures, and trends likely to emerge or strengthen over the course of the year and how Connecticut environmental professionals can navigate these choppy waters.

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