Sentences with phrase «protect people and the environment»

Also speaking, Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Kehinde Bamigbetan said the visits of the Governor and the decision of the State Government to shut down the site was to protect the people and the environment and to ensure their health and safety.

A diverse set of organizations including MoveOn.org, Families USA, Greenpeace US, New York Communities for Change, Make the Road New York, Planned Parenthood of New York City, Working Families Party, and the New York State Nurses Association, will come together on the eve of the inauguration to make clear to President - elect Trump and Congress what is at stake if they move forward with their suggested policies and remind them that New Yorkers will continue to protect our people and the environment.

«We are extremely worried about this situation and its possible disastrous consequences,» says Francisco Estremadoyro, director of Lima - based ProPurús, a nonprofit that seeks to protect the peoples and the environment in eastern Peru.

Today we are investing about 85 percent of our R&D dollars into improving our ability to grow food, decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels, and protecting people and the environment.

Discovering how to keep radioactive material in the soil and out of the groundwater, whether it is in the United States, Russia, or elsewhere, could protect people and the environment without incurring extreme expenses.

The mission of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is to protect people and the environment by advancing the safe transportation of energy and other hazardous materials that are essential to our daily lives.

PHMSA has engineers and inspectors around the country to oversee the safety of these lines and ensure that companies comply with critical safety rules that protect people and the environment from potential dangers.

In response to the increase of the number of energy movements in this country and the public's awareness of these movements, as well as input from PHMSA's career professionals, PHMSA is transforming to better align resources and capabilities to more effectively deliver on its safety mission: To protect people and the environment by advancing the safe transportation of energy and other hazardous materials that are essential to our daily lives.

PHMSA's mission is to protect people and the environment by advancing the safe transportation of energy and other hazardous materials that are essential to our daily lives.

It provides time to implement measures to protect people and the environment.

Friends of the Earth Europe and Friends of the Earth U.S. are highly concerned that an EU-U.S. trade deal will undermine democracy [1], and safeguards that protect people and the environment.

With this option, coal companies may have successfully bought their way out of meaningful oversight unless the EPA finally wakes up and does the job it is supposed to do, namely protect people and the environment from toxic materials.

Completely understandable that anyone who sets aside the rules and regulations created to protect people and the environment, with no other reason than to protect any industry are taken to court to have their failings put before not only Judges but the community.

My work here has spanned five presidential administrations and a wide variety of important issues — most prominently, protecting people and the environment from pollution of our air and water.

The challenge we now face is how to protect people and the environment from the pervasive and subtle but profound effects of lifelong exposure to multiple chemicals that we now understand have the ability to alter some of the most fundamental building blocks of life on earth — our genes — often at very low levels of exposure.

If this signals a strengthened attack on so - called «red - tape» — which has so far been pushed hardest by the UK — then it could put essential measures to protect people and the environment at risk.

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As part of the Anheuser - Busch InBev family, Labatt is committed to being The Best Beer Company Bringing People Together for a Better World, making a positive contribution through multiple programs that support its communities, promote responsible drinking and protect the environment.

The person who eats 400 pounds of animal meat every year is treading on the environment for others, and so a meat tax could be implemented as a matter of protecting personal liberty.

«British Columbia is taking steps within the law to protect the health of its people, its environment, its economy and its communities,» said Attorney General David Eby.

The renegotiation process has to be transparent and participatory and any NAFTA replacement must ensure respect for human rights, improve peoples» lives and livelihoods, and protect the environment in all three countries,» said Ronald Cameron, coordinator of the Réseau québécois sur l'intégration continentale.

Ultimately, we are promoting a more sustainable fashion system to improve the environment and, crucially — which comes hand - inhand with this — protecting the public health of millions of people.

Just as the emphasis on spiritual experience moves a person beyond differences of ritual and belief, so the urgency of the need to end war and violence and injustice, to bring relief to the hungry, to stand with those who are exploited and to seek to protect the environment unites Christians with people of other faiths.

Our American born corporations have decided to take advantage of people of other cultures with weak governments that do not protect their people or environments and finally we land in China.

But it can also be argued that by taking away the power of local people to protect their environments and encouraging the export of natural resources, it works against this.

I feel the US is very behind the times on this front and we need people over here to start teaching Americans the best ways to fuel their bodies and subsequently protect their environments and their health.

GBK honors the individuals and groups protecting and defending the environment and peoples» rights.

We are calling on the government to immediately halt the use of Glyphosate in our farms and protect the health of the people and environment!

The company believes that by collaborating with customers, governments, NGOs, and thought leaders we can help find solutions to such global challenges as providing enough healthy food for people everywhere, decreasing dependence on fossil fuels, and protecting life and the environment.

When discussing the problems associated with commodity coffee, and why you need to pay a little more to make sure people and the environment are protected, I've actually had people tell me they have a «right» to cheap coffee.

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A series of short reports on over a dozen different products, shows how people's shopping choices - as well as government policy - can protect the environment, enhance social justice and improve health.

People chose to home educate for so many reasons, and a big one for me is a ferocious desire to protect my children from tedious, inappropriate academic learning and to place them in an environment where their pace of learning is followed and their play is given all the respect it deserves.

Organic farming practices ensure no chemicals or pesticides are used in the production of most Equal Exchange products — which protects the farmers, the surrounding environment, birds and other wildlife, as well as the people who enjoy these products.

Buying organic is still the best bet for people concerned about avoiding chemical pesticides, protecting the environment and farm workers, animal rights and taste.

«It's about hope of decent working conditions across Europe, about hope and free movement of people, about hope on environmental protection across the whole continent - you can't protect the environment within national borders.»

In 2011, people from all over New York came forward to help us raise over $ 2 million in support of a more progressive agenda that will protect women's rights, safeguard the environment and ensure that those who can most easily afford it pay their fair share.

Planning is also one of the best ways to bring about genuinely sustainable development that involves local people and protects and enhances the environment.

Voters are clamoring for a progressive Senate majority that will defend working people, protect women's health and preserve our environment.

«And that we have to have the kind of oversight and accountability that society needs so that we can protect people in the workplace, that people can function without having an unsafe work environment.&raqAnd that we have to have the kind of oversight and accountability that society needs so that we can protect people in the workplace, that people can function without having an unsafe work environment.&raqand accountability that society needs so that we can protect people in the workplace, that people can function without having an unsafe work environment.»

«My focus is on the people of the 21st District, and I will support the candidate for speaker that is best equipped to stand up to the radical Trump agenda by fighting for universal health care, standing up for Social Security and Medicare and protecting our environment,» Boyajian said in a statement.

«Instead of protecting the autonomy of the New York City Council and our legislative process, Gov. Cuomo has added to the rampant dysfunction that is Albany by putting cheap politics ahead of our environment and the will of the people who actually live in New York City,» Levine said.

Beals said providing Medicare for all, creating economic equality for working people, protecting the environment and addressing climate change, and protecting the human rights of all people are his priorities.

«I would like to take this opportunity to applaud the government and the good people of Ghana for their determination and resolve to tackle the issue of illegal mining (Galamsey) in the country... Being blessed with such a beautiful country, it behooves us to protect and preserve the environment for future generations.

He said he understands the history of the community and the issues that concern people living here: a desire to get good jobs, protect the environment and have access to affordable healthcare.

«The question is can you generate the jobs and do it safely and protect people and protect the environment.

«Our review of Global's application has focused on protecting the health of people living around the facility and the environment,» D.E.C. commissioner Joe Martens said in a statement.

And this is our message to the people of the UK: if you value parliamentary sovereignty, our legal system, public services or democratically made rules to protect society and the environment, tell your MEP and MP that they must stop this toxic trade deal before it's too laAnd this is our message to the people of the UK: if you value parliamentary sovereignty, our legal system, public services or democratically made rules to protect society and the environment, tell your MEP and MP that they must stop this toxic trade deal before it's too laand the environment, tell your MEP and MP that they must stop this toxic trade deal before it's too laand MP that they must stop this toxic trade deal before it's too late.

Others used the event as a platform to call out the Trump administration for interfering with federally funded agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tasked with ensuring that people are protected from risks to their health and environment and that federal laws that protect human health and the environment are enforced fairly and effectively, among other things.

Her record on protecting the environment and the health of the people throughout our state is terrible.»

«We believe that we share the governor's objectives on a number of issues such as ensuring a reliable electric system in New York, protecting the environment and ensuring that people can afford their electric bills,» he said.