Sentences with phrase «unprecedented environmental plan»

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A perfect storm of high lake levels, ice formation and unprecedented spring rains flooded shoreline communities along Lake Ontario earlier this year, and that would have occurred with or without the new lake - level regulating Plan 2014, International Joint Commission officials said at an environmental conference in Buffalo.

Due to the terminal's unprecedented risks to the health, safety, local economies and natural resources of Northwest communities, the Washington State Department of Ecology and Whatcom County planned to consider the project's broad impacts in the environmental impact statement, including coal dust around the terminal, rail traffic and coal dust along rail lines and waterways in Montana, Idaho and Washington; and the effects of burning coal overseas on the Northwest, particularly regarding climate pollution and mercury contamination.

In their view, this justifies unprecedented environmental regulations, like EPA's pending «Clean Power Plan» (CPP) to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas - fueled power plants 30 % by 2030.