• Obama, though, is requiring additional monitoring to better ensure that the production methods are safe, citing federal authority to oversee clean water laws.

    FORBES: Can New York and the Nation Frack Safely -- and Profitably?

  • As I discussed in my overview of hydroelectric power in 2008, the main barriers to new hydroelectric facilities are complex environmental studies, permitting issues, and water laws.

    FORBES: Administration Lays the Groundwork for Hydropower Boom

  • Elbow in with new and imagined federal authority, via federal water or land laws.

    WSJ: Strassel: Obama's Imperial Presidency

  • But the committee went further by rejecting a proposal that farmers should lose subsidies if they break laws governing water, pesticides and hormones.

    BBC: Will MEPs scupper greening of EU agriculture?

  • Guernsey Water is investigating whether or not pollution laws have been breached because of the potential risk to the island's water supplies.

    BBC: Guernsey

  • Other agreements to revise laws on land reform and water rights, to reduce their cost to the poor, are unlikely to be fulfilled within the promised 90 days.

    ECONOMIST: Bolivia

  • They performed several experiments: the electrolysis of water, dosing, titration, verifying the laws of circuits in electricity and biology experiments.

    UNESCO: Strenthening Scientific Education in Niger

  • New GOP presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich has gotten into some hot water lately over his comment that child labor laws should be amended or even repealed to allow kids to earn money in school by cleaning bathrooms or working in the cafeteria.

    FORBES: Newt's Right: Put the Kids to Work

  • The laws say growers must provide workers adequate water, shade and rest breaks.

    NPR: Teen Farmworker's Heat Death Sparks Outcry

  • With more than 1 million members, NRDC has won landmark cases and helped pass landmark laws to clean up our air and water, protect our forests and wildlife, and keep our climate safe.

    WHITEHOUSE: 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony

  • Other laws enable you to drain your land of water or to get water onto your land.

    FORBES: Are Property Rights Human Rights?

  • That's how we've made possible scientific research that has led to medical breakthroughs like the vaccine for Hepatitis B, and technological wonders like GPS. That's how we have Social Security and a minimum wage, and laws to protect the food we eat and the water we drink and the air that we breathe.

    WHITEHOUSE: Moving Forward on a New Foundation

  • Under the island's pollution laws had the spill actually caused harmful pollution to the water supply then there would have been a case for legal action, but there is also legislation covering cases where an incident might have potentially caused harmful pollution, even if it actually did not.

    BBC: Guernsey

  • MS. BROWNER: Nothing was taken off the table with respect to enforcement of the laws, whether it be the Oil Pollution Act, the Clean Water Act, and that was made clear.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing on BP Oil Spill

  • The farms feature improvised wiring, heat lamps and water and regularly catch fire so the authorities have been able to use fire safety laws to force home owners to carry out costly safety work.

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • Zane Langman, who works at the farm owned by his in-laws, said the crocodiles tend to be more active at night as they move about looking for water.

    BBC: South African crocodiles hunt 'continues by night'

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