And like most other major metros, the city must use reformulated gasoline to comply with Environmental Protection Agency regulations, which adds about 10 cents per gallon at retail stations, according to AAA estimates.
In comparison, 7% of all adults polled incorrectly associated the decision with school desegregation, 5% associated it with the death penalty, and 5% more thought the ruling dealt with environmental protection, according to a Pew report.
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Tighter diesel fuel standards could help reduce vehicle emissions by as much as 15%, according to Yue Xin, head of the vehicle fuels and emissions lab at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, which is affiliated with the Environmental Protection Ministry.
The next day will include briefings on immigration, gun control and climate change, with former Environmental Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson expected to attend.
The move was forced by a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency, after environmental groups including the Sierra Club brought suit against TVA for air pollution.
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In the U.S. generic companies can sell off-patent products immediately, but they have to compensate the company that originally registered the chemical with the Environmental Protection Agency--Monsanto in this case--for the data showing the product's safety and efficacy.
Earth Day was first celebrated in 1970 and coincided with the founding of the Environmental Protection Agency by the Nixon Administration.
Within EPA, the American Indian Environmental Office (AIEO) coordinates the Agency-wide effort to strengthen public health and environmental protection in Indian country, with a special emphasis on helping tribes administer their own environmental programs.
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The recycling centre, including a wood recycl-ing centre "Woodstock" aims, together with other activities, at promoting environmental protection.
An OSHA spokesman said the agency is working with the Chemical Safety Board and Environmental Protection Agency to determine the cause of the Texas explosion.
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Even more surprising was the decision in February of the federal and Alberta governments to charge Syncrude, a large tar-sands processor, with offences under environmental and bird-protection laws for the deaths of 500 ducks in one of the company's tailing ponds last April.
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To put surplus food to better use, the Environmental Protection Agency is partnering with businesses and organizations in the Food Recovery Challenge, which is helping participants support their communities through food donation and protect their bottom line by reducing waste.
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Their mother's squawks competed with the din of morning-rush bridge traffic as Chris Nadareski, a wildlife biologist with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, gently lifted the fluffy chicks out of their nesting box and used pliers to fasten metal bands around their legs.
The Environmental Protection Agency, together with other federal, state, local, and tribal agencies, developed AIRNow.gov, offering the public daily Air Quality Index forecasts and real-time Air Quality Index conditions for over 300 cities across the country as well as links to detailed state and local air quality cites.
Health Commissioner Nirav Shah also said he met with researchers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania within the past two weeks.
Montana's Department of Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are in negotiations with Blixseth over alleged violations of the Clean Water Act, including the discharge of waste without a permit and the deposit of fill material in wetlands.
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.
If elected officials with oversight authority are looking for activity at the Environmental Protection Agency which reduces economic opportunity, environmental justice should be on their list.
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It was Richard Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency, Ronald Reagan who worked with Democrats to save Social Security.
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Two project developers, First Solar and SunPower, opted to make peace with environmental groups by agreeing to set aside land for wildlife protection.
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.
But the maker of International brand heavy trucks and buses did make an important strategic move Thursday by announcing it will purchase diesel engines and after-treatment components from its rival Cummins, which is already producing engines that comply with emissions rules set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The Environmental Protection Agency has been investigating the practice for years with an eye toward instituting regulations.
With serious endorsements from each of their commissioners and backed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the GSA is bringing a conservation message to the majority of Americans via a trusted channel, professional sports.
The Obama administration has unleashed a massive new regulatory push, with costly new health care regulations, a major expansion by the Environmental Protection Agency that will raise the costs of energy, and a slew of yet unwritten financial services regulations mandated by the Dodd-Frank reform bill.
All that, combined with an industry-wide emissions fine imposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and recessions overseas, led to the big charges last year.
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.
Scientists with the Coast Guard Research and Development Center and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency conducted experiments in a section of the Illinois River called the La Grange Reach, where Asian carp are well established.
At the event, officials from the Departments of Transportation, Labor, Energy, Education, and Agriculture, as well as from the Office of Personnel Management, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency and Corporation for National and Community Service, met with leaders of STEM mentoring organizations and members of the public.
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