Sentences with phrase «public health protection»

But this was followed the next year by amendments to the Quebec Public Health Protection Act, which awarded 20 claimants an average of $ 135,000 over 15 years.

According to a damning House Science & Technology Committee investigative staff report, the leadership of the federal Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR) is responsible for a systematic failure to provide public health protection in connection with assessing... Continue reading →

It also raises the question of what a country should do when the EU does not regulate a given area effectively and allows commercial practices that do not promote the high level of public health protection that the EU has a mandate to ensure in all its policies.

As the death toll climbed and fear grew, so did a worldwide outcry for public health protection and action.

Scheduled preventative maintenance program and other maintenance program that ensured public health protection, increased system reliability and reduced cost of operations.

«This is about public health protection.»

«It would be irresponsible to permit shale fracking anywhere in New York without comprehensive public health protections or liability standards,» Hang said.

Members of Congress need to understand that H.R. 1734 and the recently introduced Senate bill are attempts to gut EPA's basic public health protections.

Legislative and policy experts close to the issue said that if Inhofe's proposal had been passed, it would have removed vitally important public health protections more than two decades in the making that every year prevent up to:

«A Climate Skeptic Converted Main Republican Coal Bill: Just Another Attack on Public Health Protections»

The list was prepared in response to the industry - led onslaught against the EPA's proposed new public health protections: The EPA is moving to curb the amount of mercury and toxic emissions power plants can let fly into the air we breathe, and big business is throwing a fit.

«President Obama's plan to reduce climate - disrupting methane pollution is an important step in reining in an out of control industry exempt from too many public health protections,» Deborah Nardone, campaign director of the Sierra Club's Keeping Dirty Fuels in the Ground campaign.

And should Mr. Pruitt reconsider regulations now in place, this new policy could be a catalyst for the unraveling of existing public health protections if the studies used to justify them could no longer be used by EPA,» McCarthy and McCabe wrote.

The chief medical examiner practices forensic pathology for the city to ensure public health protection and comply with legal requirements in determining the cause, circumstance and manner of death fro deaths not caused by medical reasons within jurisdiction limits.

That advice diverged from the assessment of EPA's policy staff, who wrote in a 2014 analysis that a standard within the 60 to 70 ppb range would improve on the current standard and «could reasonably be judged to provide an appropriate degree of public health protection, including for at - risk populations and lifestages.»

Farnworth's legislation, titled the Public Health Protection Act, amends existing provincial statute to restrict who can own and operate equipment like pill and tablet presses as well as tablet machines.

The bill looks to address issues such as worker protections, overtime pay, public health protection and employer contributions to workers» compensation and unemployment funds and would afford greater rights for over 100,000 migrant farm workers throughout New York State, which boasts a powerful agricultural industry.

The Empire State is not only behind in legislation on environmental conservation and public health protection but the clean energy leadership Cuomo has touted as well.

«We need something better... that will bring us cleaner, safer bays and public health protection,» said Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment.

His agenda, particularly dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as rolling back climate and public health protections that New Yorkers benefit from, disproportionately harms low - income communities of color.

The event not only helps give back to local communities, it provides an unparalleled opportunity to underscore the importance of preventive pet healthcare as well as the veterinarian's crucial role in public health protection.

Equally important, well - crafted legislation will insulate community cats from licensing requirements, feeding bans, pet limits or other punitive laws that often impede the progress of sterilization efforts and public health protection.

Arch Coal has worked to gut basic environmental and public health protections and cheat miners out of benefits, all while while cooking the climate and destroying complex ecosystems across the country.