Sentences with phrase «said environmental rules»

During the presidential campaign, Trump said environmental rules had «ravaged coal country,» but a coal industry executive said this week it was unlikely anything Trump does would bring back coal jobs.

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Petronas recently said it supports B.C.'s recent environmental and tax rules governing LNG, but is taking more time to review its bottom line before making a final investment decision.

Singh, who has long stood in opposition to the project on the grounds that it was approved under what he calls flawed environmental assessment rules adopted by the previous Conservative government, said Wednesday the Trudeau government should, in tandem with B.C., ask the Supreme Court for a reference to resolve what he calls jurisdictional issues.

South32 said there has been no disruption to production following a ruling by the Colombian Constitutional Court that the mine had caused health problems and environmental damage for local communities.

Last week however, the information commissioner ruled not only that it was in the public interest to release the reports, but also that the government saying HS2 didn't have any environmental implications to prevent release under Environmental Information Regulations was simply environmental implications to prevent release under Environmental Information Regulations was simply Environmental Information Regulations was simply not the case.

The group says the proposed rules «will not result in environmental protection», but will instead «set an unreasonable bar» for drillers, and make New York uncompetitive with other states.

IOGA says the proposed rules «will not result in environmental protection», but will instead «set an unreasonable bar» for drillers, and make New York uncompetitive with other states.

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.»

Cuomo says if communities want fracking, or are against fracking, then home rule should be taken into «consideration», if fracking is in the end allowed by the Department of Environmental Conservation.

Insiders have said the decision could go either way at this point, and whichever way the Department of Environmental Conservation rules could offer a glimpse of its other pipeline decisions to come.

Wilson criticized Stefanik's environmental record, including for what she said was a vote to nullify the Stream Protection Rule, an Obama - era rule that sought to restrict coal companies from dumping waste into waterwRule, an Obama - era rule that sought to restrict coal companies from dumping waste into waterwrule that sought to restrict coal companies from dumping waste into waterways.

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.

Flow control found support, however, on the Ulster County Legislature's Environmental, Energy and Technology Committee where Chairman Carl Belfiglio said he had advocated for the new rules since July.

«If the governor is going to go ahead and green light this anyway, then the Department of Environmental Conservation needs the resources and the staff to oversee the state's laws and regulations,» says Katherine Nadaeu, with Environmental Advocates, who says without the additional staff the new rules would be just «words on paper».

But he says the state's numerous regulations, particularly environmental and labor rules, are a drawback, and he says they drive business out of the state.

The Department of Environmental Conservation says the voluminous technical document was initially posted Wednesday, a day before a deadline for adopting rules for the controversial drilling known as «fracking» or making changes and allowing more comment.

Countdown Begins on Remodeling, Repairing and Paint Rules «New EPA Regs Aimed at Decreasing Lead Poisoning» In less than a month, all contractors who perform renovations, painting and remodeling that might disturb lead - based paint in houses, child care facilities and schools built before 1978 will be required to meet stricter guidelines under the new regulations established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Oneida County Health Department officials said today.

New York City Housing Authority Chairwoman Shola Olatoye said on Friday that the agency has been out of compliance with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules requiring training for work involving lead paint since 2014.

The lawyer for the casino opponents who sued, Daniel Spitzer, said the ruling has ripple effects because other related decisions relied on the town's proper implementation of the state environmental review law.

He says opponents of the new Environmental Protection Agency rules, should take note of that.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says he expects the State's Department of Environmental Conservation will fail to meet a November 29 deadline to propose new rules for the gas drilling process known as hydro - fracking.

A spokeswoman for the DEC says since the environmental assessment is now delayed because of the new health review, the rule making process has also fallen behind.

However, Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered staffers to probe the dumping and the state Department of Environmental Conservation has said the board's action violated clean water rules and regulations.

Since the two skills co-exist in the same population, environmental and genetic explanations could be ruled out, says Michael Krützen of the University of Zurich in Switzerland, proving «beyond reasonable doubt» that imitation occurs in the wild.

«The fact that you could challenge one of the biggest multinational corporations on their home turf, and get the judges to rule that they were not disclosing appropriate information on environmental impacts and exposures, and to de-certify what the city of Richmond had already approved,» he said, «was a significant victory.»

If the ruling is upheld in the next phase of the case, which is anything but certain, «it would effectively kill the application of the Endangered Species Act,» says John Echeverria, an environmental lawyer at the Vermont Law School in South Royalton.

While the rules will limit pollution and force some coal ash pond closures, Evans says the new rules fail to address the problem of environmental injustice.

«Any agency's proposed rulemaking must have a rational basis behind it,» says Robert Routh, an attorney for the Clean Air Council, a Philadelphia environmental organization among those challenging the methane rule suspension.

As for medical data, supporters of the bill say names and other private information could be scrubbed — but that would likely be expensive and time - intensive, and thus another factor limiting the number of studies the EPA could use to make its environmental protection rules.

A Government Accountability Office report says environmental regulators are failing to adequately enforce rules for wells used to dispose of toxic waste from oil and gas drilling

Environmental groups that sued to overturn the 4 (d) rule said today that they plan to press their lawsuit.

«If, by the time the case gets to the Supreme Court, there is a Trump - appointed justice sitting on it, the odds of the [current Clean Power Plant rule] surviving there do not inspire confidence,» says Michael Gerrard, an environmental law professor at Columbia Law School who directs the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

«Wal - Mart suppliers are scrambling not only to adhere to new rules, but to proactively use the environmental data to design new products and services,» Khan said.

Although this means Trump still has the power to revoke regulations for the energy industry, it is also likely that environmental groups and others will sue the administration for changing the rules, experts say.

In a May ruling, the 2nd U.S Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said the attacks were an act of war, exempting defendants of liability under a law enacted in 1980 to deal with environmental and health risks caused by industrial pollution.

The court's 5 - 4 ruling said the Bush administration did not adequately assess the threats from global warming when it rejected a petition from environmental groups and 12 states that sought to force federal greenhouse gas limits on motor vehicles.

Of the four remaining Republican candidates, none say they believe that anything should be done to address climate change and all have called for federal environmental rules to be scaled back.

«They want to roll back the rules, cut the budget and paralyse the institution,» says David Doniger, director of the climate and clean air programme at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group based in New York City.

«We're finding that when it comes to natural gas leaks, a 50/5 rule applies: That is, the largest 5 percent of leaks are typically responsible for more than 50 percent of the total volume of leakage,» said study co-author Adam Brandt, an assistant professor of energy resources engineering at Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.

In this issue: Church Rock Chapter Decries NRC Judge's Ruling; Environmental Education in Australia; Volcanoes of Kamchatka — Renewed Efforts to Protect Russian World Heritage Site; New Mexico Says No to High - Level Waste at WIPP; New Mexico - Texas... Nuclear Waste Connection?

«Cold and snowy winters will be the rule, rather than the exception,» said climatologist James Overland of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, Wash..

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... Suffice it to say that until unbiased instruction is provided to children — resulting in equal exposure to challenging material, equal opportunity to respond and demonstrate knowledge, equally nurturing relationships, and the absence of discriminatory labels and barriers to accomplishment — one can not fully rule out environmental explanations for the achievement gaps that are documented.»

Fact # 4: Although Commissioner Esty, the head of Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, had an ethics ruling saying that he did not have any «legal» conflict of interest; he announced that he felt, as commissioner, he had an obligation to meet a higher standard, that being to avoid the appearance of a conflict.

«If we've ruled out fleas and we've ruled out food allergies, and if we still are left with an itchy cat with skin lesions, then we default to environmental allergy,» Dr. Simpson says.

There has been a reduction in energy drilling jobs and many say that environmental rules are to blame.

Environmental groups say the ruling adds urgency to their calls for President Obama to erase some rules favorable to those seeking to expand such mining that were written by the outgoing Bush administration.]

The province's sustainable development minister, Isabelle Melançon, made the announcement in Quebec City, saying that the new rules strike a balance between the needs of farmers and environmental concerns, notes CBC.

I said that the inevitability of a slow rollout, with gaps in the rules fleshed out through the litigation that has become a normal part of how America resolves environmental disputes, justifies Cuomo's signaled decision to proceed.

2007/04/24: Yahoo: EPA won't specify global warming plans The head of the Environmental Protection Agency repeatedly refused to say Tuesday how soon he will comply with a Supreme Court ruling and decide whether to regulate carbon dioxide, the leading gas linked to global warming.