On the contrary, it has encouraged it by freeing most developers from environmental-impact fees.
All of which is creating a handy new line of business for Japan's environmental-protection industry.
She has stakes in construction firms, as well as water and environmental-protection companies.
Kurita Water Industries, one of Japan's leading environmental-engineering firms, started building its soil remediation skills over a decade ago.
Environmental - captures incidents where individuals and groups have an impact on their surroundings, including natural, built and social environments.
Today Mr. Saied, who is applying for U.S. citizenship, helps run an environmental-testing firm in Hialeah owned by his wife's family.
The report reveals an increase in both the number of environmental-related shareholder proposals as well as the shareholder support of these proposals.
Edison is very concerned about local ambient air quality and environmental-justice issues.
This struck Mastro as potentially significant, because after the meeting in question Beristain had gone to work for the independent environmental-damages expert.
Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, two environmental-lobbying groups, have given warning that biofuels may not be as eco-friendly as they seem.
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Mr. Saied, now an executive at a Florida environmental-testing firm, underwent a conversion to a less orthodox form of Islam in 1998.
Officials abandoned that method of frogicide amid complaints of animal cruelty and because of environmental-regulation hurdles, according to frog experts and official reports.
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In 2006, an odor complaint was received by the environmental-quality commission.
The NRDA process, authorized by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, only funds environmental-restoration projects and uses scientific research to assess spill damage and decide how to fix it.
It is possible that the long-marginalised scientists of the environmental-health field are right, and that these endocrine disrupters do play a part in explaining the ongoing trends in obesity.
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.
As Mastro and his associates made their way through the trove of material on Donziger, the information that most interested them had to do with the independent environmental-damages expert, Richard Cabrera.
Lack of evidence has not slowed the environmental-justice bandwagon.
Mr Wu, who is 40, was found guilty in August of extorting money from an environmental-equipment manufacturer by threatening to inform the authorities that products supplied to a steel company were substandard.
Lisa Jackson, who heads the EPA, has issued environmental-justice guidelines to the agency's offices, and Gwen Keyes Fleming, administrator for the EPA in the south-east, recently met Mr Bullard and other environmental-justice advocates.
Moreover, even if the speculation proves to be valid and the benefits of some genetically engineered crops do decline over time, that doesn't diminish the prodigious gains--humanitarian, economic and environmental--that will already have accrued.
Two days earlier the Dutch environmental-assessment agency announced the results of a report it had been asked to produce on possible errors in the most recent review by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
What really accounts for our federal budget is Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, defense, interest on the national debt, and then everything else, from national parks to the environmental -- the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Neither Texas nor the federal government restricts where facilities storing ammonia or chlorine can operate, said Neil Carman, a former inspector for the environmental-quality commission who is now the director of Sierra Club's clean-air program in Texas.
It is hard to escape the conclusion that the energy and brains of many of these brilliant hotspot scientists might be put to better use if they looked at the really difficult problem of how governments, private industry and innovative environmental-finance schemes could help fund conservation.
The surest sign that the momentum in Ecuador had shifted against Chevron came on November 26, 2008, when a geological engineer named Richard Cabrera, who had been appointed to serve as an independent environmental-damages expert, delivered a report recommending that the court find Chevron responsible for twenty-seven billion dollars in damages.
In an oral history of Overhills, produced by the Army as part of its environmental- and cultural-impact work in connection with acquiring the property, Rockefeller family members and people who worked at the estate describe regular afternoon teas on the course, sometimes in a gazebo at the course's highest point, near the fifth tee.
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One of the most controversial aspects of the Defense Transformation Act is among its most commonsensical: The military needs to be able to train as it intends to fight -- something that it is increasingly unable to do on the lands and in the waters set aside for that purpose due to creeping (in some cases, galloping) environmental-related strictures.
Insofar as renewables have desirable environmental attributes (and some notably corn-based ethanol may not), the preferable approach is to price these attributes and let the market choose the technologies that produce the best balance between environmental and non-environmental considerations.
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Now President Obama's administration is thinking of doing the same thing, although he might expand reconciliation to include two major policy initiatives -- national health-care reform and environmental regulations -- that go well beyond the budget.
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