Sentences with phrase «own environmental legacy»

A planned gift is a wonderful way to safeguard the Earth's treasures for future generations while arranging your own 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.

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.

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.

«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.»

Environmental Legacy of the Former Soviet Republics by Ruben A. Mnatsakanian, Centre for Human Ecology, Edinburgh, pp 209, # 20

My recent work deals with climate change, sustainability, and the environmental legacy of the «atomic age.»

President Obama continues to use his final months in office to firm up a remarkable environmental legacy.

, the committee could be become «a battering ram against the executive branch,» a potentially serious blow to Obama's second - term efforts to leave an 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Not exact matches

In fact, graphene's low environmental impact may turn out to be its true legacy.

In addition, legacy environmental issues created challenges that many potential buyers found daunting.

Edmonton faces a choice with the design and construction of the Valley Line LRT project — either the project can be designed to include or accommodate a future re-animation of the legacy creek bed and delta — which is a provincial priority according to the Environmental Assessment of the Valley Line — or it can render even more permanent the decisions made in the 1960s and 1970s that transportation infrastructure trumps our natural environment.

The B.C. Liberals» legacy of environmental hypocrisy continues to grow as they push projects like the Enbridge tar sands pipeline that threaten the very way of life in our communities.

Here are just a few examples which show some of the reasons why the B.C. Liberal government will be remembered for its legacy of environmental hypocrisy.

For almost 60 years, her legacy has inspired Drumlin Farm's mission of educating families and children about the importance of community farming and environmental protection.

The reality of a Bush presidency was however unequivocal: environmental catastrophe, irresponsible tax cuts, which benefited the wealthiest Americans disproportionately, a divisive War on Terror and bequeathed the Obama administration the worst legacy since Franklin Delano Roosevelt replaced Herbert Hoover in 1932.

«Cuomo risks damaging his environmental and political legacy if he does not stop the project after significant questions have been raised about its approval,» said Pramilla Malick, from Protect Orange County, which opposes the plant.

Your passion on issues such as environmental protection built a legacy... We pledge to continue the progress you made in these critically important areas.»

The EPA's abrupt new direction on legacy chemicals — like PFOA — is part of a broad initiative by the Trump administration to change the way the federal government evaluates health and environmental risks associated with hazardous chemicals, making it more aligned with the industry's wishes.

Nixon's visit to Hoosick Falls strikes at the legacy of an environmental disaster that brought widespread criticism on the response to the crisis by Cuomo's administration and subsequently resulted in areas of Hoosick Falls being declared as federal and state superfund sites.

They asked Governor Cuomo to tell his environmental officials not to go ahead with fracking in New York.Debra Winger appealed to the appearance - conscious Cuomo's sense of legacy, and asked him to rethink his plans, and «push the rest button».

State Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos on Monday said the federal Environmental Protection Agency needs to do more to ensure that PCBs have been thoroughly removed from the Hudson River, reopening a decades - long debate about the area's toxic legacy.

Your passion on issues such as environmental protection and public health has built a noble legacy.

It is only now, more than three decades later, that science has the tools to see that this legacy of trauma becomes etched in our DNA — a process known as epigenetics, in which environmental factors trigger genetic changes that may be passed on, just as surely as blue eyes and crooked smiles.

As one of my legacies, I want to leave a set of students who are informed about environmental issues.

Most neglected Romania pollution: Romania, saddled with staggering unemployment, bears some of Europe's deepest environmental scars from its legacy of industrial pollution.

Less under our control is the legacy of environmental pollution and the unforeseen consequences of industry, including rice products containing trace levels of arsenic, antibiotic - resistant bacteria, mercury - laced fish and plastic containers leaching poorly understood toxins.

This runs counter to the notion that as we age, environmental influences gradually overpower the genetic legacy we are born with — and may have implications for education.

Trump's judicial appointments rank «pretty high» in terms of his climate change legacy, said Glenn Sugameli, who runs the Judging the Environment project, which tracks judicial nominees» environmental records.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Gina McCarthy on Friday finalized a determination that the landmark fuel efficiency rules instituted by President Barack Obama should be locked in through 2025, a bid to maintain a key part of his administration's climate legacy.

Among many others, the new technique also presents broad potential applications in environmental remediation projects, including U.S. DOE legacy sites at Hanford, Savannah River, and Oak Ridge.

The legacy of poor environmental management and protection efforts during the Soviet period and the lack of financial resources and legal enforcement programs to support and direct clean - up effort in Post-Soviet Russia combine to allow continued use of high radiation homes and water pollution spreading at an alarming rate.

At Southwest Research and Information Center, much of our work over the past 35 years has been to address the enormous legacy of nuclear's past and present — sick and dead people and contaminated land and water from uranium mining and milling, the world's first underground nuclear waste repository, and the political and economic power of the two nuclear weapons laboratories and their environmental impacts.