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Brian is a principal author of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education environmental policy, Strategic Plan 2014 Environmental Focus Area, and associated tactical management plans.
Obama organized residents at Altgeld Gardens to pressure the city to improve education and dangerous environmental conditions in the area.
And any soiling will be disposed of and cleaned up by the pet handler, followed by environmental services sanitizing the area.
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The loan will help Belo Monte dam concession owners, Norte Energia, the capital needed to make the required social and environmental investments in the area where the dam will affect local citizens most.
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Eco-towns, intended to tackle the twin problems of housing shortages and climate change, have to be carbon zero as a whole, be an "exemplar" in one area of environmental development and have at least 30% affordable housing.
Britain in Bloom is an annual award ceremony run by the Royal Horticultural Society aimed at encouraging local communities to get involved in horticulture and take environmental responsibility for their local area.
Produced with the participation of children and the head of the school, it also demonstrated how the school considers the importance of protecting the environmental quality of the school area to ensure the wellbeing of young people.
Planners said the development would have an adverse environmental and visual impact on the area.
Cornwall Council said it recognised its duty to review planning and environmental permits in connection with the conservation area.
That same year, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality investigated a complaint that the area around the plant smelled of ammonia.
More important, the scheme would have a devastating economic and environmental impact on not only the immediate area but also other states, including California.
The project had faced opposition from environmental groups concerned about potential damage to the area.
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.
In the Environmental Protection Agency this clearly lies in your area of responsibility, yet if it is about pollution created by airplanes, the Department of Transportation shares oversight.
Devoted to conservation, she was part of the Great Baikal Trail project, an environmental NGO dedicated to promoting ecotourism in the Baikal area.
This is a great opportunity for the public to help shape policy in an important area of science, health, and environmental stewardship.
But recently as the dean of a management school, I found myself called to answer in one area of social responsibility: the environmental sustainability of our own operations.
The oil spill has also rejuvenated a campaign by environmental groups and native coastal villagers to reduce the area of the Arctic open to oil exploration and overhaul drilling regulations.
Craig Pinckney, 34, a shipping manager at a Connecticut environmental laboratory, seriously considered trading in his Alienware Area 51 tower (complete with a cyborg-green paint job) for the new Doom 3 machine, but decided he could just upgrade his processor and video card instead.
Gore blasted back a short while later, saying environmental degradation would be impossible to avoid in the remote area.
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Their results, published in Environmental Pollution, show that as radiation levels in an area rose to 35 microsieverts per hour, the average number of birds dropped by almost a third compared with the areas where radiation levels were only 0.5 microsieverts per hour.
"Up until now, there has been complete uncertainty on the numbers and area of glaciers and the present status of their environmental conditions in the region, " said Basanta Shrestha from Icimod.
Environmental groups have criticised the UK government for allowing exploration in the area.
And with the cash for clunkers program as well as other recent environmental initiatives, there could be more IPOs in the alternative energy area.
To make up for the reduced area in some parts of the Amazon, the Brazilian environmental protection agency, Ibama, said that the government would be increasing preserved areas in other parts of the rainforest.
Although a scheme such as the Russell lagoons would cover about 60% of area affected by the Cardiff-Weston proposal, the environmental group argued that it would leave much of the inter-tidal mudflats and salt marshes unaffected.
The bay's welcome lack of development is partly an effect of environmental progressivism (in 1998, the government declared northern Palawan a protected area) and partly an emblem of the country's late-blooming tourism industry.
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