Sentences with phrase «state environmental law in»

This July, a state appeals court unanimously uphelda lower court ruling that, indeed, the city violated state environmental law in building the Mott Haven campus.

And California Governor Jerry Brown has manipulated state environmental laws in many, many, many ways for many decades to benefit personally and politically since the 1970s.

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These regulations are handed down from several federal agencies, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and various state agencies, which implement laws in the realms of worker's compensation, employee protection, and other areas.

The United States - Chile FTA eliminates tariffs and opens markets, reduces barriers for trade in services, provides protection for intellectual property, ensures regulatory transparency, guarantees nondiscrimination in the trade of digital products, commits the Parties to maintain competition laws that prohibit anticompetitive business conduct, and requires effective labor and environmental enforcement.

2) Whole industries have moved to places where wages are lower and labor laws and environmental standards less stringent than they are in the United States.

George uses an apt environmental metaphor to support his point: just as the state restricts apparently private activity in order to protect its natural ecology, so also may it legitimately enact laws to protect the «moral ecology.»

Compliance of Glass Packaging with Human and Environmental Health and Safety Toxics, February 2013 Over the past two decades, federal, state, and international laws have sought to limit the presence of certain heavy metals in all forms packaging.

This statewide program guides California «s wineries and winegrape growers to adopt an integrated system for their operations based on tested «best practices» in alternative energy, packaging, transportation, production and farming practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) footprints in the state with the most stringent environmental laws in the country.

Even if a state's concussion safety law does cover community - based, private sports programs, very few states have enacted laws that cover all aspects of youth sports safety, such as requiring more broad - based safety training for coaches in first - aid, CPR, and the use of an AED, and the development and implementation of an Emergency Action Plan (EAP) to be triggered in case of medical emergencies, such as a cardiac event (e.g. sudden cardiac arrest), asthma attack, allergic reaction to a bee sting, or heat stroke, and environmental emergencies (lighting, tornado, or an excessively high heat index).

A California environmental group found levels of lead in children's juice products that far exceed state law — and in some cases also exceed federal levels for young children.

School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitchenin some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitchenIn states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitchenin Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitchens.

The law — a version of which was sponsored by Sen. David Valesky, D - Oneida, in the state Senate, and an identical bill, written by Assemblywoman Francine DelMonte, D - Lewiston, in the Assembly — would allow the state Department of Environmental Conservation to create standards for a legalized crossbow hunting season, as well as allowing the use of one on private property during any deer hunting season.

The New York State Assembly's Environmental Conservation Committee has voted in favor of a law that would defer the issuance of new hydrofracking permits amid increased environmental and health concerns about the controversial natural gas extraEnvironmental Conservation Committee has voted in favor of a law that would defer the issuance of new hydrofracking permits amid increased environmental and health concerns about the controversial natural gas extraenvironmental and health concerns about the controversial natural gas extraction method.

She has counseled clients in balancing ethical considerations in meeting the regulatory framework of environmental protection and continues to counsel State employees in defending against charges of violations of New York's Public Officers Law.

The Environmental Advocates of New York on Friday called on the state's elected leaders to use $ 117 million in settlement money from Volkswagen to implement a decade - old law aimed at reducing diesel emissions in New York.

The Osun State Commissioner for Environment and Sanitation, Hon. Idowu Korede, on Friday disclosed the state government readiness to begin the enforcement of environmental laws that would instil in the people of the state culture of sanitState Commissioner for Environment and Sanitation, Hon. Idowu Korede, on Friday disclosed the state government readiness to begin the enforcement of environmental laws that would instil in the people of the state culture of sanitstate government readiness to begin the enforcement of environmental laws that would instil in the people of the state culture of sanitstate culture of sanitation

Several states, including Pennsylvania and Montana, already have similar environmental protections in their constitutions, which environmental groups have used with varying degrees of success to fight polluters and challenge state laws and regulations.

Phillip Musegaas of Riverkeeper, the influential environmental group whose first prosecuting attorney was Cuomo's former brother - in - law Robert Kennedy Jr., said, «Entergy has needlessly fought the cooling tower for 11 years, and could have chosen the easier option if it followed the state's suggestion 11 years ago.

Filed by Protect the Adirondacks and Adirondack Wild, the lawsuit claims the Adirondack Park Agency and Department of Environmental Conservation broke state law in approving plans for former timber company land centered around the Essex Chain of Lakes between Indian Lake and Newcomb in Essex and Hamilton counties.

With these concerns in mind, several elected officials and the operators of the Peace Bridge asked the state Department of Environmental Conservation this spring to begin enforcing a state law that prohibits trucks from idling for more than five minutes under normal circumstances.

Samuels and other environmental advocates are concerned that while Cuomo has put forth progressive goals and policies, the governor has not been aggressive enough in solidifying them into state laws to push New York ahead.

And even as multiple wells in nearby Hoosick Falls tested positive for elevated and potentially dangerous levels of the same toxic chemical more than a year ago, state health department employees suggested a delay in reporting results and did not initially recommend a wider outreach to the public, according to emails between state, county and federal officials, some of which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

A Hartland real estate company has agreed to pay $ 150,000 in penalties for violating state environmental laws regarding erosion control during construction of a condominium project.

A federal judge has dismissed cases brought by two counties in Utah and Florida alleging Volkswagen's emissions fraud violated their state environmental laws.

The environmental lobbying group says Hanna has «actively undermined» efforts to get a handle on greenhouse emissions and has backed legislation that would repeal pesticide laws in the state.

«New York State is known as an environmental leader in law, protection, and safety,» Hinchey said.

The mayor said the law firm was hired in November at the recommendation of the village's attorney, John R. Patterson, Jr., and that the Village Board has «discussed components of the agreement» with a village citizens group, Healthy Hoosick Water, and received suggestions from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Health.

McKay says the DEC «dramatically undercounted» the number of historic resources in the Marcellus Shale region, and says the environmental impact statement «lacked any reference to state and federal historic preservation law» aimed at protecting those resources.

She says there's nothing in the state laws that say an environmental review must be completed within a certain time frame.

He said, «The trial judge distinguished the Lagos State case from the present one, and held that whereas the court of Appeal so held against Lagos State environmental sanitation days on the ground of same not being a creation of law thus could not be enforced against the plaintiff therein, whereas the Oyo State environmental sanitation days are held pursuant to the provisions of the Oyo State Environmental Law of 2012, 2015, and regulations made thereunder, making the Oyo State exercise legal and constitutional unlike the scenario created in thenvironmental sanitation days on the ground of same not being a creation of law thus could not be enforced against the plaintiff therein, whereas the Oyo State environmental sanitation days are held pursuant to the provisions of the Oyo State Environmental Law of 2012, 2015, and regulations made thereunder, making the Oyo State exercise legal and constitutional unlike the scenario created in the Lagos calaw thus could not be enforced against the plaintiff therein, whereas the Oyo State environmental sanitation days are held pursuant to the provisions of the Oyo State Environmental Law of 2012, 2015, and regulations made thereunder, making the Oyo State exercise legal and constitutional unlike the scenario created in thenvironmental sanitation days are held pursuant to the provisions of the Oyo State Environmental Law of 2012, 2015, and regulations made thereunder, making the Oyo State exercise legal and constitutional unlike the scenario created in thEnvironmental Law of 2012, 2015, and regulations made thereunder, making the Oyo State exercise legal and constitutional unlike the scenario created in the Lagos caLaw of 2012, 2015, and regulations made thereunder, making the Oyo State exercise legal and constitutional unlike the scenario created in the Lagos case.

Abimbola further explained that Kayode Oloyede in his suit urged the court to set aside the environmental sanitation days in the state on ground of not being constitutional and lawful as well as praying to the court to adopt the position taken against Lagos State by the Court of Appeal in a suit which struck down the Lagos State environmental day as being unconstitutional same not having been created by any existingstate on ground of not being constitutional and lawful as well as praying to the court to adopt the position taken against Lagos State by the Court of Appeal in a suit which struck down the Lagos State environmental day as being unconstitutional same not having been created by any existingState by the Court of Appeal in a suit which struck down the Lagos State environmental day as being unconstitutional same not having been created by any existingState environmental day as being unconstitutional same not having been created by any existing law.

It says the state Department of Environmental Conservation has held up approval of a water quality permit for the pipeline for so long that it is in violation of two federal laws.

«We have the mandate to shut down any industry in the state that violates the environmental law; and now, we have taken it upon ourselves to educate them to ensure compliance,» he said.

The Department of Environmental Conservation violated federal law by allowing manure control plans to be certified by the same private experts hired by farmers to craft the plans, and by keeping plans confidential from the public, according to a ruling in Albany this week by Acting State Supreme Court Justice David Weinstein.

New York has a law for that, but the Department of Environmental Conservation isn't enforcing it, Dan Telvock of Investigative Post reports in the current edition of City & State.

In 2007, the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, acting on behalf of the Bronx Committee for Toxic Free Schools, a coalition of parents, neighborhood residents and community organizations, successfully sued the School Construction Authority and the Department of Education for violating the Public Authorities Law and the State Environmental Quality Review Act by not disclosing a Site Management Plan.

In March 2015, FERC approved the application, granting Spectra broad authority that supersedes New York State Environmental Law to take additional parkland in Blue Mountain Reservation by eminent domain as part of the pipeline upgradIn March 2015, FERC approved the application, granting Spectra broad authority that supersedes New York State Environmental Law to take additional parkland in Blue Mountain Reservation by eminent domain as part of the pipeline upgradin Blue Mountain Reservation by eminent domain as part of the pipeline upgrade.

A vestige of a long - ago past, the n - word — fully spelled out — still lingers in NY state environmental conservation laws classifying bodies of water.

In 2007, with this new environmental law in place and the renewable energy law under consideration in the state Legislature, environmental scientists at Duke University seized the opportunity to reimagine swine farmIn 2007, with this new environmental law in place and the renewable energy law under consideration in the state Legislature, environmental scientists at Duke University seized the opportunity to reimagine swine farmin place and the renewable energy law under consideration in the state Legislature, environmental scientists at Duke University seized the opportunity to reimagine swine farmin the state Legislature, environmental scientists at Duke University seized the opportunity to reimagine swine farms.

«Although the sale of Brazilian Blowout in California violated five separate state health, environmental and consumer laws and resulted in numerous acute injuries, we have not been able to get it off the market,» DiBartolomeis said.

The guidance paper, jointly published this month in ACOEM's Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM) and AAOHN's journal Workplace Health & Safety, summarizes current evidence regarding marijuana consumption; discusses possible side effects, including temporary impairment as it relates to the workplace; reviews existing federal and state laws that impact employers; and suggests various strategies available for monitoring marijuana use among employees.

The Southern Environmental Law Center is suing the state of North Carolina over its approval of an 11,500 - acre expansion of phosphate ore mining by PCS Phosphate in wetlands along the Pamlico River.

«The Clean Air Act is arguably the most important and successful environmental law in the United States, both from a human health standpoint and the environment,» said Sickman, a professor of hydrology and the chair of the Department of Environmenenvironmental law in the United States, both from a human health standpoint and the environment,» said Sickman, a professor of hydrology and the chair of the Department of EnvironmentalEnvironmental Sciences.

The research was conducted in collaboration with the Ecological Flows Science Advisory Board that was formed in response to 2010 North Carolina state legislation (NC Session Law 2010 - 143) directing the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality to identify the river flows necessary to maintain the ecological integrity of each of the 17 major river basins in the Sstate legislation (NC Session Law 2010 - 143) directing the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality to identify the river flows necessary to maintain the ecological integrity of each of the 17 major river basins in the StateState.

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Statement on behalf of Climate Action Network Europe, Carbon Market Watch, European Environmental Bureau, Sandbag, Transport & Environment, and WWF European Policy Office EU governments must step back from irreparably weakening Europe's biggest climate law, six of Europe's leading environmental NGOs have said, after talks between member states and the European Parliament ended iEnvironmental Bureau, Sandbag, Transport & Environment, and WWF European Policy Office EU governments must step back from irreparably weakening Europe's biggest climate law, six of Europe's leading environmental NGOs have said, after talks between member states and the European Parliament ended ienvironmental NGOs have said, after talks between member states and the European Parliament ended in deadlock...

TMT has diligently followed the state's laws, procedures and processes in its efforts to build TMT on Maunakea, including the preparation of a very extensive environmental impact statement.

That's getting easier to do, thanks to new laws that many states have passed against lighting up; meanwhile, the Clean Air Act prevented 160,000 early deaths in 2010 alone, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates.

Our Vendor Code of Conduct specifically states Stein Mart will not knowingly accept product which was manufactured: using convict, forced, indentured labor or child labor; or in violation of any applicable labor, workplace safety or environmental law or regulation.

He has extensive experience in representing developers and municipalities in land use, zoning and environmental law matters including litigation and appeals in the New York State and Federal Courts.