But as China's economy continues to grow, so does the country's energy consumption, and with it the scale of the challenge that the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) faces.
They should not be focused just on arguing for broad environmental policies the Administration favors, but going into the nitty-gritty details of the science.
But environmental groups say the administration's own record is mixed.
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.
Huge corporations can cope with the myriad rules issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and their state-level counterparts.
This time-consuming reporting could, in turn, produce additional government oversight and regulation by agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Internal Revenue Service.
In the waning days of the Clinton administration, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an edict that General Electric spend nearly half a billion dollars dredging the Hudson River to remove PCBs, which are supposedly carcinogenic.
Earth Day was first celebrated in 1970 and coincided with the founding of the Environmental Protection Agency by the Nixon Administration.
Why is the Obama Administration investigating an iconic environmental scientist?
Officials think the first wells will be drilled in late 2014 or early 2015, after lengthy reviews from both the state Department of Environmental Protection and the Federal Aviation Administration.
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.
The Obama Administration and those in the environmental community should heed this movement.
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In 1992 the Bush administration created the Office of Environmental Justice.
In addition to Secretary Salazar, the leadership of the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Health and Human Services, Labor, Justice, Transportation, and Treasury, as well as the heads of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Small Business Administration, turned out to report to the tribal leaders on their efforts to help Indian Country move forward.
Many acknowledged the Administration's strong commitment to environmental justice and healthy communities.
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And investigations by the Bush administration's Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency found no criminal conduct by Marine Corps officials and no violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
President Bush's European trip promises to be a major test of his powers of persuasion as he tries to calm European and Russian skepticism about his administration's national security and environmental policies.
At the time, new numerical weather models helped forecasters predict extreme weather events two to four days out, said Louis Uccellini, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
Each scientist or engineer is employed or funded by the Federal government and includes members of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Interior, Veterans Affairs and the Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and National Science Foundation.
Environmental groups felt betrayed by the filing but the administration took a fairly conservative line.
It oversees regulations throughout the government, from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
These perceived concessions made on the part of the Obama administration are at the mercy of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Moreover, dual U.S. and Canadian approval, inhospitable terrain, environmental concerns, long-term financing and tunnel administration will need to be adequately addressed.
The collaborative work of the EPA, General Services Administration (GSA), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the dozen additional agencies represented on the e-waste task force that developed the National Strategy over the past eight months is an example to all who manufacture and distribute electronic products.
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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.
Even so, many environmental, health and consumer activists inside and outside the administration felt that Sunstein was insufficiently radical.
The administration has also signalled further measures to weaken some environmental protection legislation, and to toughen up legislation on welfare reform.
The administration has taken action unilaterally on a couple of environmental fronts.
So it is with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the United States Geological Survey, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
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