Then when we needed someone to push the cause of inner city children struggling to avoid a life of crime, or to bring the benefits of high technology to ordinary Americans, or to clean the environment in a way that created new jobs, or to give small businesses a better chance to make it, John Kerry said: Send me.
For example, learning about health and the environment motivated people to clean roads and to adopt improved farming methods.
When it comes to paying to clean up the environment, 70 percent of teens were willing to pay up to 50 cents more a gallon for clean gasoline.
Thousands of Rwandans have taken the day off work to pick up plastic bags as part of a government attempt to clean up the environment.
After that's all set, the device leaves the clean-room environment and moves on to the general facility.
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We are much more ready to abandon or sell a technology in clean tech today if it fails to be highly differentiated because one has to anticipate a continuing negative clean tech funding environment that will limit the ability to raise equity financing for these companies in the future.
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Together, setting a market for and incentivizing clean energy, we have the ability to take the steps we need to lessen our dependence on foreign oil and to help clean up our environment.
"Business is the entity that is going to do much of the heavy lifting toward a clean energy environment, " Flannery said.
It is clear that the current budgetary environment in the United States presents challenges to the viability of the fast-growing clean energy industry.
On the environment, Capuano will push for more money to clean up superfund sites and will oppose efforts to roll back air and water pollution standards.
While Ms. Tang and the rest of the lonely hearts club flock to the do-it-yourself furniture shop for its clean, homey environment, they pose something of a challenge for IKEA. They sit for hours in the cafeteria, leaving behind orange peels and egg shells they have picked off boiled eggs brought from home.
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According to Pascal Luciani, the technical adviser to the French Environment Minister, results are encouraging but could have been achieved earlier if the clean-up operation had not been hindered by the bombing.
The message to the East Europeans from Margot Wallstrom, the European commissioner for the environment, is blunt: clean up, or stay out.
The fields have been operated for roughly 12 years by Pluspetrol, the country's biggest oil and natural gas producer, and it will be obliged to clean up the contamination, said Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal.
The Council and the Environment Agency said they would continue to ensure that site workers took all appropriate measures to minimise any impact the clean up operations may have on the surrounding residents.
Factor in concerns for the massive fishing industry and the environment, and the fact that the neighboring coast is populated and consists of stretches of marshland that will be difficult to clean (as opposed to the sparsely populated rocky coasts of Alaska) and the ramifications expand dramatically.
An unfailing commitment to protect public health and safety, security, and the environment is essential to ensuring that nuclear power remains part of our diversified clean-energy portfolio.
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Under the terms of the RESTORE Act -- passed last year with historic bipartisan support -- 80% of Clean Water Act civil penalties will go back to restore the environment and economies of the Gulf Coast states.
"It is apparent that many people still have complete disregard for the way they dispose of litter and waste, meaning expensive costs for the taxpayer in clean-up fees and staff having to work in a dangerous environment, " he said.
The current challenges associated with maintaining and sustaining an adequate supply of clean water are spurring opportunities to develop new innovations that will protect the environment and create jobs.
The Clean Water and the Safe Drinking Water Acts have significantly reduced threats to our environment and our health.
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They added the firm's "no-expense-spared clean up" of the River Lark demonstrated its ongoing commitment to the local environment.
Environmental debates generally revolve around balancing clean air and jobs: at what cost to industry do you champion the environment through regulation?
What the people need is action - action to improve public health, action to provide a clean and safe environment in hospitals, action to improve services for people with long-term diseases and action to provide NHS dental services.
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Politicians like New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer have embraced clean coal as fundamental to their energy policy, but even clean coal plants will take five to ten years to have much of an impact on the environment by reducing the level of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere.
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