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Lexology
April 11, 2018
The National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) and the National Historic Preservation Act (“NHPA”) require reviews of the impact on the environment or historic properties, respectively, of proposed construction of wireless communications facilities. By the Order, the Commission facilitates easierÃâà...
EURACTIV
April 11, 2018
... our partnership is based on a level playing field … then we should have strongly mitigated the threat of Brexit to EU environmental policy,” he told MEPs. “There will be no ambitions partnership without guarantees on fair competition, social standards, tax dumping and not least environmental standards.”Ãâà...
New Republic
April 11, 2018
Last November, officials from the Office of Global Change—a State Department division created under President Ronald Reagan in 1988 to oversee the country's international environmental policy—were allowed to attend a series of negotiating sessions over the Paris agreement in Bonn, Germany, whereÃâà...
nwitimes.com
March 26, 2018
VALPARAISO — In tackling environmental issues, should the United States think globally or remain within its borders? Debate teams from Chesterton and Valparaiso high schools took on that issue March 19. Valparaiso Chain of Lakes Watershed Group sponsored the 10th annual environmental policyÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
March 25, 2018
"The current process is dependent on whether the director wants to engage," said Michigan Chamber of Commerce energy and environmental policy director Jason Geer. "That is not what I call a reasonable process for government." Enlisting those groups in DEQ rulemaking, however, is a nightmare forÃâà...
InsideClimate News
March 24, 2018
More than 80 anti-environmental-policy riders had been included in either the original House-passed version of the appropriations bill or in the Senate drafts as Congressional leaders entered into closed-door negotiations. Just as troubling to climate advocates and other public interest groups wereÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 16, 2018
Despite these shifts, China's environmental policy landscape has remained plagued by overlapping agendas and disproportionate power dynamics, which China's new environmental regime seeks to address. Its success will hinge on the ability of new institutions to exert influence in wider debates on theÃâà...
Phys.Org
March 16, 2018
"When it comes to sound environmental policy, facts and data matter. Our efforts to curtail harmful emissions in the US have been guided and validated by environmental monitoring. Reduced air pollution has had tremendous environmental, social, and economic benefits," explains lead author TimothyÃâà...
WVTF
March 12, 2018
Lilia Abron, the first African American woman to receive a PhD in Chemical Engineering, spoke with students at UVA on Monday. Credit Jordy Yager. The first African American woman to ever receive a PhD in chemical engineering told students at the University of Virginia that they've got a job to do.
EcoWatch
March 10, 2018
President Trump has released his 2019 budget proposal, and when it comes to environmental policy, it's full of bad ideas. The proposal he sent to Congress on Feb. 12 threatens our health, safety and economic future through major cuts to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), essentialÃâà...
Travel Daily News International
March 9, 2018
Ryanair launched a new Environmental Policy, which commits to ambitious future environmental targets building on impressive achievements to date, including commitments to address climate change, and the priorities and policies which will allow Ryanair to continue to lower CO2 emissions and noiseÃâà...
NYU Local
March 9, 2018
The federal program proposes to make more than 90 percent of the total offshore acreage in the U.S. available to oil and gas drilling. “Instead of protecting our waters from another oil spill, like the one that devastated the Gulf, this new federal plan only increases the chances of another disaster taking place,”Ãâà...
Scientific American
March 9, 2018
He also has energy credentials—he was a policy analyst at the Massachusetts Energy Office and the Energy Department in the late 1970s and a research associate at Harvard University's Energy and Environmental Policy Center in the early 1980s. His prolific writings and public statements on theÃâà...
The Hill
March 9, 2018
The policy implications go to the heart of several environmental statutes, not only the Clean Water Act but also the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and a host of similar state statutes. There is always potential tension between state and federalÃâà...
Curbed
March 9, 2018
In short, pollution is being outsourced. The study, Consumption-based GHG emissions of C40 cities, recalculated urban carbon emissions based on both production and consumption. Funded by C40, an international coalition of cities seeking to fight climate change and promote better environmental policy,Ãâà...
90.5 WESA
March 9, 2018
Farber acknowledges that President Trump has done a 180 on environmental policy in his first year of office, but he hasn't gained much ground beyond that. “Trump has turned the car around, but he hasn't gone very far down the road in the opposite direction,” says Farber. “He's got a lot of plans. There areÃâà...
Siliconrepublic.com
March 9, 2018
Apple has released its annual supply chain audit for 2017 and it has identified 44 “core violations” of labour rules, twice the number reported in 2016. These incidents fall under what the company considers the “most serious breaches of compliance”. There were 38 recorded violations of falsifying of work hours data, twoÃâà...
VentureBeat
March 8, 2018
(Reuters) — Apple said on Wednesday that it had found violations of its labor and environmental policies for suppliers, such as falsifying work hours data, as it expanded the scope of its annual audit of conditions of workers making its iPhones and other products. Apple runs one of the largest manufacturingÃâà...
Dope Magazine
March 7, 2018
After rolling back Obama-era federal protections on some of the nation's most pristine National Parks and Monuments in late 2017, the Trump Administration has continued to auction off swaths of the West in an attempt to attract new lease sales for fossil fuel drilling, fracking and mining. Although it's trueÃâà...
InsideSources
March 7, 2018
Under President Trump, environmental policy fights are increasingly being found at the state level, as more liberal states attempt to replace repealed EPA policies. Courts across the country have heard dozens of cases involving energy production, pollution limitations, and other environmental issuesÃâà...
E&E News
March 7, 2018
Still, Cohn's presence never made a significant difference in the trajectory of environmental policy under Trump, said Ben Beachy, director of the Sierra Club's responsible trade program. Although Cohn was a registered Democrat — a fact his detractors who opposed climate action often raised — BeachyÃâà...
Massive
March 7, 2018
They bumped perennial fears, about the economy, government, and terrorism, further down the list. Increased concern about environmental pollution should not necessarily surprise us. In 2017, the Trump administration supported a market shift in US environmental policy and enforcement. That change hasÃâà...
Capital Press
March 7, 2018
The USDA's environmental review of such loans can be challenged as cursory and insufficient under the National Environmental Policy Act. The agency can also be faulted for failing to properly consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about the effect of such loans on protected species, as requiredÃâà...
Independent.ie
March 7, 2018
According to a statement from the airline today, Ryanair will continue to comply with environmental rules and regulations, limit the impact of aircraft noise on the local environment through its investment in new Boeing 737 airplanes, and minimise fuel and energy consumption to limit its emissions ofÃâà...
Vox
March 6, 2018
Upward redistribution is what unites GOP health care policy, tax policy, financial sector policy, and environmental policy. That is why Republicans hate EPA and its rules: They are a burden to industry, but worse, they are a burden to industry that is very obviously worth it. Industry makes a small sacrifice,Ãâà...
Bloomberg BNA
March 6, 2018
Germany's left-leaning Social Democrats voted to enter a coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian bloc, a new government promising renewed dynamism in environmental policy making. But the parties' environmental and energy policies remain incomplete, analysts and attorneysÃâà...
KRWG
March 2, 2018
Commentary: Commentary: At the end of 2017, China was the largest recipient of recyclable products on the globe, consuming 40% of all scrap materials sold in the USA, 55% of all paper/fiber, and 51% of all recovered plastics. But on January 1st, 2018, the People's Republic of China banned the import ofÃâà...
Las Vegas Sun
February 23, 2018
How 2018 is faring for environmental policy. Image. J. Scott Applewhite / AP. In this Jan. 18, 2017, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator nominee Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at his confirmation hearing before the Senate EnvironmentÃâà...
News & Observer
February 21, 2018
The former head of North Carolina's environmental agency might be nominated for a high-level job helping shape environmental policy for the Trump administration. Donald van der Vaart, who led the NC Department of Environmental and Natural Resources and the NC Department of EnvironmentalÃâà...
Science Daily
December 31, 1999
Environmental policy guided by science saves lives, money, and ecosystems. So reports a team of eleven senior researchers in Environmental Science & Policy. Using air pollution in the United States as a case study, they highlight the success of cleanup strategies backed by long-term environmentalÃâà...
Macalester College The Mac Weekly
December 31, 1999
Gina McCarthy, former head of the EPA, speaks on evironmental policy to a crowd in Kagin Commons. Photo by Josh Koh '18. Gina McCarthy, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President Barack Obama, spoke last Thursday in Kagin Commons as the LecturesÃâà...
CapitalGazette.com
December 31, 1999
Annapolis environmental policy director fired ... (Danielle Ohl). Buckley will announce soon a new director of environmental policy, O'Brien said. ... Former Mayor Mike Pantelides confirmed her as the director of environmental policy in 2017, after dissolving DNEP as part of a city reorganization in July 2016.
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