Sentences with phrase «sound environmental planning»

But as the faculty assembled and an advisory board for the school was established, pressure mounted to change in ways that reflected sound environmental planning.

A sound environmental plan will help minimize your company's eco-footprint, and encourage green business practices throughout your organization.

Not exact matches

There were, for instance, the backers of a planned natural gas terminal in Long Island Sound who were facing stiff environmental opposition.

New York state has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency opposing a plan to allow dredged sediments to be dumped into the Long Island Sound.

The Suffolk County Legislature approved a resolution to join a lawsuit with New York State against the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to dump dredging materials from Connecticut into the Long Island Sound.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and dozens of Long Island elected officials are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to stop the Army Corp of Engineers» plan to continue to dump dredged materials into Long Island Sound for the next 30 years.

Four sites in the Sound are used for disposal, with two set to close by April unless a management plan is approved, said Jean Brochi, a Long Island Sound project manager at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

«It's unfortunate the Army Corps» plan allows for the continued disposal of potentially harmful materials into the Long Island Sound, despite the strong objections across the board from New York's elected officials, residents and environmental advocacy groups,» he said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, backed by about 30 elected officials, announced on Thursday the state may take legal action against the Environmental Protection Agency to stop a plan to allow dumping in Long Island Sound of materials dug up from dredging.

The dredging plan has support from Connecticut's entire Congressional delegation, and the state's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, but it's a different story across the Sound.

On Wednesday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved a 30 - year - plan for the continued dumping of dredge material in the Long Island Sound.

Why this should be so is not entirely clear, but environmental stresses (including being exposed to «irrelevant sound», the lack of «visual privacy» and a reduced ability to control one's own personal space), as well as the risk of infection, the types of jobs done in open - plan offices and group dynamics might all play a part.

The first book to describe an ecologically sound approach to the planning and design of communities, Design with Nature has done much over the past 25 years to shape public environmental policy.

Just last September, an acoustic monitoring program was established by the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in alliance with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for this very reason: to track whales» seasonal migration patterns and provide information to New York state policymakers who develop strategies and management plans to protect these threatened mammals.This listening system originated with the thirteen high - tech buoys deployed around Massachusetts Bay which sounds an alarm to ship captains warning them of the presence of whales so that they will reduce the sped of their vessels to 10 knots.

MNR insists that the plan complies with all government rules, including the Crown Forest Sustainability Act, 1994, the Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves Act, 2006, the 2004 Forest Management Planning Manual (FMPM) for Ontario's Crown Forests (2004), and the Class Environmental Assessment for Timber Management on Crown Land in Ontario.4 Sounds good, doesn't it?