Sentences with phrase «threaten public health and the environment»
A coalition of environmental organizations is suing the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming federal regulators have for three decades failed to update rules for disposing of fracking and drilling wastes that may threaten public health and the environment.
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«We will continue to advance the latest treatment technologies to ensure our public drinking water systems are safeguarded from these unregulated chemicals that threaten the health of citizens and the environment,» Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said in a news release announcing the approval of the Suffolk system.
The NSABB said that its decision was informed by a new government policy that could facilitate earlier review of «dual - use» research that can both benefit the public and be misused to threaten public health, agriculture or the environment.
«After careful consideration of my responsibility to protect the public health and environment from actual, threatened or potential harm from air pollution, I have decided to deny the Sunflower Electric Power Corporation application for an air quality permit,» Roderick Bremby, KDHE secretary, said in a written statement.
[1] A controversial investor rights clause could give foreign companies the right to sue governments, threatening the ability of states and local authorities to take preventative action to protect public health and the environment.
Sustainably raised meat is fantastic; it tastes great, it's produced without destroying the environment or threatening public health, and its sale supports responsible farmers who choose to use sound agricultural practices.
«The Court's decision, and the special interests working to undermine this plan, threatens our environment, public health and economy.»
These are the very farmers and farms best positioned to grow and strengthen local and regional markets; but they're also the same farms most threatened by failed policies that seek short - term gains and favor large corporations at the expense of public health, the environment, local economies and community well - being...
The free - market think tank, which has a history of intellectually hi - larious denialism, says the «Environment (sic) Protection Agency» silenced an internal dissenter in the course of its endangerment finding, a process that concluded in April that greenhouse - gases threaten public health and can be regulated under the Clean Air Act.