As a result, environmental issues were debated in the Senate for the first time, laying the foundation for the US Environmental Protection Agency.
The day's focus was on environmental protection and the need for Latin America to do more to protect the natural environment, despite the pressures of population growth and deforestation.
Last week, GOP senators delayed confirmation votes on two of his nominees for cabinet posts: Gina McCarthy for the Environmental Protection Agency and Thomas Perez for labor secretary.
It is doing to the agency for Democrats what right-wing criticism is doing to the Environmental Protection Agency for Republicans: stripping both of scientific legitimacy.
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The project breached environmental protection acts and raised concerns for the rights of local tribes, the authorities said.
Now the Environmental Protection Agency has cleared the way for stricter emission controls.
The Beijing News notes that progress on environmental protection was an entire chapter for the first time in the white paper.
For years green groups have been trying to persuade the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set a limit for the amount of nitrogen and phosphorus allowed in the states whose rivers feed the Mississippi.
That is a small price to pay for environmental protection and the health of a promising industry.
The U.S. Embassy in Beijing publishes AQI values for Beijing and other cities in China, and the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection provides its own air quality data for cities throughout the country.
The Environmental Protection Agency has been investigating the practice for years with an eye toward instituting regulations.
The Federal environmental team for the project, led by FTA and including the Environmental Protection Agency and the General Services Administration, has proactively been working with GDOT and other partners to minimize environmental and archeological impacts through proper project siting and design.
Advocates from the National Healthy Nail Salon Alliance ( www.nailsalonalliance.org) and officials from the Environmental Protection Agency, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Food and Drug Administration and the Small Business Administration will discuss recommendations on how to improve working conditions for AAPI nail salon workers.
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Even more surprising was the decision in February of the federal and Alberta governments to charge Syncrude, a large tar-sands processor, with offences under environmental and bird-protection laws for the deaths of 500 ducks in one of the company's tailing ponds last April.
The municipalities are now looking for private help as the Environmental Protection Agency imposes standards on water quality that municipalities cannot satisfy without outside financing and expertise.
In such an economic environment, the up-front costs of environmental protection can appear daunting, particularly for officials in the less-developed interior of the country with far fewer economic resources.
In July, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gave the go ahead for a gm blight-resistant potato crop to be tested in County Carlow.
The words climate change or global change or global climate change, whatever - none of them appear in the DOE budget, for that matter, not the Environmental Protection Agency budget, either.
Jones, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances of the Environmental Protection Agency, vice Stephen Alan Owens, resigned.
In the U.S. generic companies can sell off-patent products immediately, but they have to compensate the company that originally registered the chemical with the Environmental Protection Agency--Monsanto in this case--for the data showing the product's safety and efficacy.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had to all but eliminate the mandate for 2010 because no commercial plants had been built, and it has proposed rules for 2011 that would likely cut the requirement 90%.
The five most active rule-producing agencies the departments of the Treasury, Health and Human Services, Commerce, Agriculture, along with the Environmental Protection Agency account for 1, 820 rules, or 43% of all rules in the Unified Agenda pipeline.
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The dispersant that has been used in the largest amounts on this spill, Corexit 9500, is among the most toxic to certain organisms of all those approved by the Environmental Protection Agency for use in oil spills, according to EPA tests.
Jim DiPeso, policy director at Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP), draws an even more important lesson for the big picture.
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Overall responsibility for the design and implementation of the study was given to the National Institute of Child Health and Development, with input from a number of advisory and oversight committees, the Director of the NIH, and with the involvement of other government agencies (the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Environmental Protection Agency).
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The environmental liabilities contributed to its need to file for Chapter 11 protection, the settlement said.
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And yet the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) frequently moves the goalposts further away for companies and industries trying to abide by countless federal regulations.
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Dr Jill Meara is affiliated to the Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards at the Health Protection Agency.
The Environmental Protection Agency has granted a nationwide waiver for fuel blends to make more gasoline and diesel fuel available throughout the country.
For example, the Environmental Protection has thrown out a rule classifying saccharin as a dangerous substance.
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