Three environmental permits enabling the operation of a new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point have been granted.
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The Chavez government has approved a feasibility study twice, but, inexplicably, has declined to issue the necessary environmental permits.
Cornwall Council said it recognised its duty to review planning and environmental permits in connection with the conservation area.
The course faced delays obtaining environmental permits, but the permits have been secured and course construction is expected to get under way this year.
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Factories paying for expedited building permits before environmental impact studies can be completed?
From permits for environmental to water to mitigating the impact on some to be extinct insect, it all takes a long time.
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It often takes two years to obtain the environmental health and safety permits to build a modern electronic plant, a lifetime in the tech world.
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I'll give you another example, because this is something that some of you have written about -- the question of how is it that oil companies kept on getting environmental waivers in getting their permits approved.
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Triple Five owners of the Mall of America in Minnesota is currently seeking federal and state permits, and three federal environmental agencies have warned that the complex would negatively affect wetlands.
Finally, the Ohio Department of Agriculture moved to revoke the company's operating permits--not for environmental violations but on the grounds that DeCoster controlled or had the right to control the new company, and should have, but didn't, disclose that fact.
Environmental impact studies are often required, along with permits and licenses.
But before the U.S. Department of Transportation could grant any permits to Mexican truckers, in 2002, environmental and labor groups filed a lawsuit to block implementation on the grounds that the regulations violated U.S. environmental law.
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If the administration were at all interested in getting permits and drill bits going again then it would phase in these new environmental assessments gradually.
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Oregon, one of the bluest of the blue states, saw voters overwhelmingly pass an initiative that permits property owners to force government to compensate them for losses resulting from environmental or zoning rules.
Zak Covar, executive director of the environmental-quality commission, said the fertilizer storage and blending facility had existed since 1962, before permits were required, and was allowed to remain on the site.
The House Natural Resources Committee Thursday approved an amendment to bar new offshore oil and gas drilling permits to BP or any other company with a significant history of violating worker safety or environmental law.
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