Also to his credit, he has insisted on applying cost-benefit analysis to environmental legislation.
Jeffords votes more often for environmental legislation and favors more education spending than many other Republicans, including President Bush.
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With Republicans in charge of the Congress, and a Democrat in the White House, most environmental legislation is stalled.
The Department of the Interior and the Forest Service received new responsibilities under the environmental legislation sought by President Theodore Roosevelt in the early 20th century.
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The SDC added that it was essential for the scheme to be publicly funded and publicly owned in order to ensure compliance to the environmental legislation.
There are good and bad things about Europe, but the British people will not want to see the natural environment further threatened by a weakening of environmental legislation.
This has led to an improved understanding of the causes and effects, and has provided an impetus for new environmental legislation and strategies for remediation in many developed countries.
His Green allies in government will demand more consumer protection and environmental legislation at the European level though these days even the European Commission, weary of criticism, wants Europe to regulate less intrusively.
Cheap gas and environmental legislation under the Clean Air Act, aimed at emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitrous oxide and mercury (but not carbon dioxide) from dirty coal plants, accelerated a trend that is set to continue.
The results of the proposed project should contribute to improve capacity building in environmental monitoring, to assess the extent of contamination in specific regions, to raise environmental awareness among local population and to improve or amend environmental legislation in African countries.
Across town, the abandoned detritus of an industrial past and the ugly scars of the coal mines that still drive the archipelago's economy sit uneasily against the backdrop of a pristine wilderness protected by some of the world's strictest environmental legislation.
Back in the 1970s and early 1980s, he remembers, environmental legislation floundered: the 1970 Clean Air Act, for example, was meant to result in emissions standards being set for 200 toxic chemicals, but after more than a decade only six had been regulated in this way.
The administration has also signalled further measures to weaken some environmental protection legislation, and to toughen up legislation on welfare reform.
Mr. Cote attended a number of White House lunches and dinners organized as part of a campaign to woo business support for environmental and jobs legislation.
The Charity Bill will be dedicated to "increasing public confidence in charities" and the Strategic Environmental Assessment Bill will mean new legislation on assessing the environmental impact of planning applications.
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The rejection by Californians of Proposition 23, which would have suspended the pioneering environmental and energy legislation that the state adopted in 2006, marks a West-coast brand of conservatism.
The pending cap and trade tax legislation and Environmental Protection Agency global warming regulation threaten to cripple the economy with high cost and unproven energy, the specter of which is also is already killing jobs.
Politically, Canada has shifted away from environmental positions, weakening endangered species legislation, backing fuels such as tar sands, and most recently deciding to leave the Kyoto Protocol.
As you might expect, the place that makes the most advanced use of technology in promoting public participation is America, where officials now invite online comments from outsiders when they draw up legislation on subjects like environmental protection.
"There is no environmental regulation in New Caledonia, no legislation and no enforcement, " Hutton said.
Whether that will be done via legislation or unilateral moves by the Environmental Protection Agency, he didn't say.
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They will continue working through fiendishly detailed analysis, including the environmental impact, in order to have the enabling legislation ready for next year's Queen's Speech.
The U.S. Senate is preparing to vote on legislation that would delay or block the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing carbon dioxide restrictions on the U.S. economy.
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Earlier this month a coalition of industry and environmental groups in Illinois announced that they worked together on drilling legislation now pending there.
Budget legislation passed last month by Canadian lawmakers will reduce environmental safeguards for rivers and lakes and make it easier to sell reserve lands, critics say.
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Dr Frank Kelly, professor of environmental health at London's King's College, said legislation worked in the 1950s to deal with pollution but new laws were needed now.
In a letter to Senate leaders last week, nearly 200 companies, industry groups and environmental organizations urged lawmakers to implement a renewable portfolio standard in new energy legislation.
On the other, the model legislation requires that benefit corporations report on their overall social and environmental performance and make them available to the public, using a third-party evaluator.
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The President should push for legislation to clear obstacles, particularly delay-it-to-death environmental lawsuits and regulations.
Critics say the legislation is too watered down because it fails to require entrepreneurs to consider the social and environmental impact of every business decision they make.
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