In 2006 citizens demanded access to the smelter's environmental audits from Mexico's federal environmental protection agency.
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In April 2012, the federal Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice of violation to Green Diesel, alleging it improperly generated credits that track and boost renewable fuel production.
In Texas, the birthplace of the shale-gas revolution, there is currently a stand-off between the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the state Railroad Commission, which regulates oil and gas production.
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Connecticut, tests the limits of the courts to fashion a solution to a problem that is global in scale and, some would argue, already covered by the federal law establishing the Environmental Protection Agency.
The SBA's Office of Advocacy monitors federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Department of Commerce and the Securities and Exchange Commission--in accordance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980--to make sure they aren't creating new rules that place a disproportionate burden on small businesses.
It is a pretty wide-ranging set of discreet policies, subsidies, incentives, disincentives and restrictions that is administered by various federal departments and agencies, including the Department of the Interior, the Energy Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, OSHA, and even the Internal Revenue Service.
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Yet now a federal court has ruled the Environmental Protection Agency is illegally giving the lobby extra benefits that Congress never intended.
Dozens of federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration, have not been able to produce justifiable evidence that links fracking to serious environmental consequences.
Yesterday, the White House Rural Council hosted a Native American Food and Agriculture Roundtable Discussion, bringing together tribal leaders and experts on Native American agricultural economic development with Administration officials from the White House Domestic Policy Council, National Economic Council, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Council on Environmental Quality, and federal agency partners including the Departments of Agriculture, Interior, Commerce, Treasury, and the Small Business Administration.
No other federal agency supports substantial research on the environmental causes of breast cancer.
The EPA said it is working with Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Texas Committee on Environmental Quality to monitor air quality in the area.
The Environmental Protection Agency, together with other federal, state, local, and tribal agencies, developed AIRNow.gov, offering the public daily Air Quality Index forecasts and real-time Air Quality Index conditions for over 300 cities across the country as well as links to detailed state and local air quality cites.
Energy Star exemptions: Federal agencies are required to lease space in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ENERGY STAR-labeled buildings.
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Quite certainly, EPA is not the only federal agency to engage in secret Sue and Settle deals with crony environmental lobbying organizations.
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The national election is centering on the economy, a key component of which is federal powers: Just how much reach should the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have over coal-fired electric generation.
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The greater Salt Lake region had up to 130 micrograms of soot per cubic meter on Wednesday, or more than three times the federal clean-air limit, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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.
Oklahoma's new Republican Attorney General Scott Pruitt has bolstered the cause by challenging the tax penalty provisions of the federal health care law, filing suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and joining a multi-state challenge to the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
In January, he directed the Environmental Protection Agency to review California's request for a waiver from federal law so that it can set higher tailpipe emissions standards.
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In a huge win for backers of biofuels, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today denied a closely watched request to grant Texas a 50% waiver from a federal renewable fuel standard mandate.
While the Environmental Protection Agency would prefer to regulate the byproduct that contains arsenic, mercury and lead under stricter federal hazardous waste laws, the utility sector wants it to remain classified as a solid waste that the states now oversee.
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