Sentences with phrase «water rules»

He claimed that the federal government's clean water rules were costing small communities like the ones in his district a small fortune to enforce.

Some farmers are concerned about the impact that the clean water rule could have on their operations.

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's new lead in drinking water rules that were set to go into effect in January, hydrants as they're made now would be deemed unusable because they contain too high of an amount of lead.

Shortly after, on June 27, 2011, the AP reported that AEP spent $ 2 million lobbying on clean air and clean water rules in the 1st quarter of 2011, according to a disclosure report.

«The notion of returning rules to the messy state they were in prior to the Clean Water Rule as a remedy for some alleged confusion is pretty weird,» Devine said.

The inconvenient truth of Paris: hard to undo The relatively muted response to Paris on the part of many Republicans coincided with a general GOP outcry over a Government Accountability Office finding on Dec. 14 that EPA improperly promoted its controversial water rule on social media.

Therefore the potable water rule effective date is August 14, 2013.

Lobbyists with the energy sector have pushed the EPA to scrap the Obama - era water rules for months.

He also outlines the ACCC's role in ensuring privatisation delivers for consumers, improving the functioning of the financial system given the competition focus of the Murray report, ensuring a smooth transition for consumers to NBN services and reviewing water rules to improve outcomes in the Murray - Darling Basin.

The news of Indian Point's potential closure comes weeks after the state Court of Appeals dealt Entergy a setback in its bid for a new license, interpreting state coastal water rules in a way that gave Cuomo's administration more authority over whether the plant could operate in the Hudson River.

The Trump administration's 42 - page proposal for repealing former President Obama's Clean Water Rule largely builds its case on a 2009 split decision by the Supreme Court on federal regulation of swear words on television.

The Clean Water Rule extends federal authority over smaller streams and marshes, but farmers, builders and others say it goes too far.

But a new NERC report is wrong in finding that cooling water rules could threaten grid reliability.

The crux is the point made by AJB at February 20, 2011 at 10:16 pm: «Until someone shows me otherwise, I maintain water rules the thermosphere — it's a heat pump running at half throttle with a hunting governor (clouds) and a massive heat sink under it.»

The Supreme Court will probably end a stay on an EPA water rule that real estate interests don't like but a new rule should be better.

New national drinking water rules are expected to lead to fewer pathogens flowing out of the tap

On Wednesday, June 10, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 11 - 9 along party lines to advance a measure to kill the Obama administration's controversial water rule.

Implementation: all regulations in this bill will go into effect July 1, 2014, with the exception of the potable water rule, which goes into effect within 60 days after the rule's publication in the Federal Register on June 28th.

Trump has pledged to eliminate what he considers unnecessary regulations, chipping away at decades of efforts not only to control global warming but clean air and water rules as well.

President Trump signed an Executive Order that begins to unwind the Obama administration's controversial Clean Water Rule.

The Trump administration has already rolled back a number of environmental regulations and moved toward delaying the Clean Water Rule, which clarified the Clean Water Act to prevent industries from dumping pollutants into waterways and wetlands.

Indeed, Trump's proposed budget cuts funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 %, and specifically eliminates measures designed to preserve clean air and water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water Rule.

AG Eric Schneiderman, leading a coalition of 11 attorneys general, today sued the Trump Administration for suspending the 2015 «Clean Water Rule» — a federal regulation designed to ensure the nation's lakes, rivers, streams, and wetlands receive proper protection under the federal Clean Water Act.

New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman criticized President Donald Trump's approval of scaling back the Clean Water Rule that protects the nation's water streams from pollution.

Schneiderman is a vocal critic of Trump's policies, recently condemning Trump's executive order on scaling back the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Water Rule and filing lawsuits against his executive orders banning entry from several Muslim majority countries and halting U.S. acceptance on refugees.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office on Thursday announced it will lead a multi-state coalition to sue over a change to the federal Clean Water Rule.

«The Clean Water Rule is a common sense application of the law and the best science to protect our waters.

A proposal to repeal the 2015 Clean Water Rule (Waters of the US) that updated the Clean Water Act in order to apply federal regulation to US waterways.

Erie County, New York - Legislator Patrick Burke who garnered national recognition for his ban on microbead plastics, has submitted a resolution expressing his opposition to the Trump Administration's proposed elimination of the Clean Water Rule, as well as the stark reductions in Environmental Protection Agency funding that would cut funds for the Great Lakes pollution cleanup by 97 %.

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.

The group, led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, said in a statement: «The Clean Water Rule is a measured, reasonable, and lawful application of sound and uncontroverted science to protect our nation's upstream source waters.

Seven scientific societies are speaking out against President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the contentious Clean Water Rule.

Finalized by the Obama administration in May 2015, the Clean Water Rule, also known as the Waters of the U.S. rule, or WOTUS, caught the ire of farmers, land developers and energy companies.

Natural Resources Defense Council attorney Jon Devine characterized the administration's reliance on Fox as an attempt to avoid contending with «the science that underlies the Clean Water Rule.»

Obama's Clean Water Rule — also known as the Waters of the U.S., or WOTUS — sought to clarify which wetlands and small, isolate waterways get protected under the landmark 1972 environmental law, the Clean Water Act.

For example, Reagan's secretary of the interior, James Watt, wanted to sell off public lands and reduce forest protections, and his EPA head, Anne Gorsuch, moved to soften clear air and water rules.

It will be important to watch how these new leaders and their policy decisions affect environmental protections, such as ozone and methane emissions standards, renewable energy fuel and energy efficiency standards and the clean water rule.

Speaking of water, he's working to repeal the clean water rule that ensures protection for wetlands, rivers and streams that provide drinking water to a third of all Americans.

«Jeff Sessions, Trump's Attorney General Pick, Introduced First Bill to Exempt Fracking from Drinking Water Rules,» DesMog, December 7, 2016.

«Protecting our water sources is a critical component of adapting to climate change impacts like drought, sea level rise, stronger storms, and warmer temperatures — which is why EPA and the Army have finalized the Clean Water Rule to protect these important waters, so we can strengthen our economy and provide certainty to American businesses.»

«Clean Water Rule: Definition of «Waters of the United States»» (PDF), Federal Register Vol.

This include wetlands protection, a weakening of clean water rules, a reduction in state funding for recycling, a conclusion for the office of Energy Independence and a removal of a loan and grant system that encourages companies to be energy efficient.

On the same panel, Mark Brownstein, chief counsel of the Energy Program at the Environmental Defense Fund, noted that fracking is already subject to federal clean air and water rules, but a lot of regulation has to come from the states themselves.

Jeff Holmstead's job as their lobbyist is to delay any clean air rules, clean water rules or climate change laws that threaten the billions in profit these companies make by getting to pollute for free.

In tandem, prevent the Trump administration's attempt to repeal the Clean Water Rule, an essential tool for protecting wetlands.

As reported in our prior Update, in a decision issued on January 22, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of Defense, 138 S. Ct. 617, that challenges to the Obama administration's 2015 Clean Water Rule must be brought in federal district courts, rather than directly in the federal courts of appeals.