Sentences with phrase «remediation efforts in»

Despite these challenges, the authors were still able to emphasize broader trends in heavy metal accumulation in the Providence area, namely decreases in lead concentrations due in part to Environmental Protection Agency regulations but also to targeted remediation efforts in a historically active industrial area.

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The indictment alleges that Skelos, a Republican, doled out legislative favors and influence in an effort to benefit the environmental technology company AbTech, which secured a $ 12 million contract for a stormwater - remediation system in Nassau County, and Glenwood Management, a powerful real estate development company that has financial and personnel ties to AbTech.

By increasing funding for lead inspections and remediation efforts, we are protecting more at - risk children in our community.

In the campaign, he has pointed to the town board's environmental record, including the preservation of hundreds of acres of open space and its work to implement water - quality remediation efforts.

Onondaga Lake has seen major improvement in water quality since remediation efforts began, but some remain dissatisfied and blame corporate influence for preventing a full restoration.

Other preconstruction efforts will range from $ 6.7 million in site remediation work at the brownfield site to $ 9.2 million on site preparation.

Community partners in the lead - abatement and remediation effort include Heart of the City Neighborhood Services, Jericho Road Community Health Center, Belmont Housing Resources, Inc., West Side Neighborhood Housing, and the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo.

The city previously announced a plan in October to spend $ 300 million to make repairs to 100 schools as part of an effort to speed up the remediation of the PCB issue.

All of this construction is on top of the decades of brown field remediation efforts, which have resulted in approximately 1,000 acres of shovel ready land now online and available for further development, and the City of Buffalo's ongoing efforts to over $ 300 million in infrastructure development

Research efforts in remediation and biotreatment focus on the treatment of heavy metals and recalcitrant organics in industrial effluents and contaminated land.

Ms Tanner said monitoring of estuarine CO2 was important for planning and remediation efforts: «As each estuary is different, the potential impacts of climate change and urban development will be different in every ecosystem.»

The methanotrophs identified in this study «open new opportunities to explore how nature detoxifies methylmercury and could improve our prediction of mercury toxicity levels and support better risk assessments and remediation efforts at mercury contamination sites,» Gu added.

PRISM potentially represents a profit in the tens of billions of pounds for UK taxpayers, which can be used to recover past costs of plutonium storage or to accelerate other nuclear remediation efforts.

weak effort or disruption should never result, as it often does today, in suspension and then return to the same class, but rather in separation from the students who are working hard, with intense remediation intended to allow a new start in a new class the next quarter.

In an effort to better to understand how community colleges can better support underprepared students, author Timothy Pratt interviews two SUNY Adirondack students in developmental courses to highlight the ways that these courses serve as an unintentional roadblock, and how collaboration with high schools could help to reduce remediatioIn an effort to better to understand how community colleges can better support underprepared students, author Timothy Pratt interviews two SUNY Adirondack students in developmental courses to highlight the ways that these courses serve as an unintentional roadblock, and how collaboration with high schools could help to reduce remediatioin developmental courses to highlight the ways that these courses serve as an unintentional roadblock, and how collaboration with high schools could help to reduce remediation.

Additionally, the report helps identify gaps in current monitoring efforts, as well as conditions that may require monitoring and potential remediation in the years to come.

Well - known for her «living sculptures» which she calls «biosculptures,» the work of ecological artist Jackie Brookner is a collaborative and cross-disciplinary effort to create water remediation art projects that are public in nature - reclaiming wetlands, rivers, streams and stormwater runoff into revitalized environments - and bringing to awareness the gift of life that water brings.

Finally, we believe that there would be a benefit to the United States if one of the world's largest carbon emitters headquartered here devoted at least some of the money it has invested in climate change denial pseudo-science to global remediation efforts.

Nothing short of an all out effort to reduce the production of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere together with other remediation actions is the path to take.

In this effort they have been joined by the Bipartisan Policy Center, a conservative Washington non-profit, whose report last month rebranded geoengineering «climate remediation» so as to make sulphate aerosol injections into the stratosphere sound healthful.

Clearwater, Riverkeeper, Scenic Hudson and many other environmental groups in the Hudson Valley fought for decades to get GE to clean up the PCBs in the Hudson River, and they remain committed to this landmark remediation effort.

The Complaints Investigation Committee is focusing more effort on personal interaction with lawyers in trouble, and on remediation including consent practice conditions, mentoring and supervision.

However, with proper training and education in what to look for, IT and employees alike can help in reducing the time it takes to begin remediation efforts.

In addition, the bank is required to conduct a transaction review for the sole purposes of remediating any identified current AML deficiencies and the independent consultant's engagement has been extended for up to two years, in order to audit the bank's transaction review results and to oversee the bank's remediation effortIn addition, the bank is required to conduct a transaction review for the sole purposes of remediating any identified current AML deficiencies and the independent consultant's engagement has been extended for up to two years, in order to audit the bank's transaction review results and to oversee the bank's remediation effortin order to audit the bank's transaction review results and to oversee the bank's remediation efforts.

Surpassed Continuous Diagnostic Monitoring (CDM) expectations through maintenance of high FISMA scorecard marks and associated remediation efforts as required by the DHS Performance Plan, resulting in a 50 % increase in CDM score during the first six months of rollout

Collaborative effort in implementing Retina security scanning and remediation software to detect security vulnerabilities and weaknesses and report compliance to Department of Defense DOD vulnerability system.

Program evaluation has supported this multifaceted approach in multiple countries and settings.83 Analyses by Nobel Prize — winning economist James Heckman reveal that early prevention activities targeted toward disadvantaged children have high rates of economic returns, much higher than remediation efforts later in childhood or adult life.84 For example, the Perry Preschool Program showed an average rate of return of $ 8.74 for every dollar invested in early childhood education.85 Targeted interventions foster protective factors, including responsive, nurturing, cognitively stimulating, consistent, and stable parenting by either birth parents or other consistent adults.

With the right information and people in place, brownfield remediation can be a rewarding effort in today's competitive environment.