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Manufacturing CEOs Take to Airwaves to Support Cap on Global Warming Pollution
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Tony Kreindler of the Environmental Defense Action Fund, +1-202-572-3378, +1-202-210-5791 Business Leaders See Promise of New Jobs, Economic Growth WASHINGTON, March 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Chief executives from top American manufacturing companies are taking to the airwaves in an unprecedented national advertising campaign that calls on...
Tags: advertisement, CEO, ENVIRONMENTAL, job, manufacturing, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-03-17
Noontime dumping: why states have broad discretion to regulate onboard treatments of ballast water.
Ballast water discharges from shipping vessels are responsible for spreading numerous forms of aquatic invasive species, a form of biological pollution that leads to billions of dollars in annual costs. In the wake of inaction from the federal government and inaction from the shipping industry, several...
Tags: benefit, cargo, Cir, COMP, Environmental, industry, Michigan, regulation, species, statute, U.S., U.S. Congress, United States Coast Guard, vessel
Research articles 2007-10-01
World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2007; restoring our natural habitat; proceedings
World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2007; restoring our natural habitat; proceedings. (CD-ROM) World Water and Environmental Resources Congress (2007). Am. Society of Civil Engineers 2007 $180.00 CD-ROM TD201 Presented here on CD-ROM are the proceedings of the 2007 World Environmental and Water...
Tags: CD-ROM, Environmental, habitat, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-09-01
The can-do Congress? With Democratic control comes a flood of climate and energy initiatives
The word "logjam" was coined to address a problem that developed in the last century when loggers floated their timber downriver to be processed. It was a dangerous job to remove the "key log" holding the jam in place, allowing the rest of the wood to float free. Something similar...
Tags: emission, Environmental, industry, senator, U.S., U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-05-01
Environmental Defense Praises Introduction of 1st Major Agriculture Bill in New Congress by Reps. Kind, Gerlach, Sens. Menendez, Boxer
To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Meg Little, +1-202-572-3387, mlittle@environmentaldefense.org, or Sharyn Stein, +1-202-572-3396, sstein@environmentaldefense.org, both of Environmental Defense WASHINGTON, March 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Environmental Defense praised the introduction today of the first major agriculture legislation in the new Congress for proposing to dramatically increase funding for voluntary conservation programs in this year's...
Tags: conservation, ENVIRONMENTAL, FINANCE, Manufacturing, senator, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-03-15
Appendix A: Department of Defense legislation for fiscal year 2007
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2007 President Bush signed into law the Department of Defense DoD Appropriations Act, 2007, on 29 September 2006. (1) The Act appropriates over $453 billion (2) to the DoD for fiscal year FY 2007, an amount which includes a $70 billion "bridge fund" (3)...
Tags: Air Force, Environmental, Government, Iraq, procurement, Pub, Reserve, training, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2007-01-01
National Environmental Trust Statement on Passage of the Magnuson- Stevens Act Reauthorization of 2006
To: National Desk, Environmental EditorContact: Dave Bard of the National Environmental Trust, 202-486- 4426WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a statement by Matt Rand, marine fisheries campaign director, National Environmental Trust, on passage of the Magnuson-Stevens Act Reauthorization of 2006:"By passing this bill, Congress has agreed that...
Tags: ENVIRONMENTAL, Piracy, SALES, U.S., U.S. Congress
Research articles 2006-12-09
Agency evolution, New Institutionalism, and 'hybrid' policy domains: lessons from the 'greening' of the U.S. military.
Students of bureaucracy applying the logic of rational choice institutionalism RCI have offered important and thought-provoking explanations of how and why public agencies are designed and evolve over time in the United States (e.g., Bender & Moe, 1985; Brehm & Gates, 1997; Epstein & O'Halloran, 1999;...
Tags: agency, domain, Environmental, MARKETING, Pentagon, regulator, U.S., U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Defense, Wood
Research articles 2006-11-01
Environmental economics: a market failure approach to the commerce clause.
Congressional authority to enact environmental legislation has been called into question by recent Supreme Court cases suggesting that Commerce Clause regulation is valid only if Congress is regulating economic activity. This Note proposes a market failure approach to guide the new economic inquiry. Under this approach, statutes that correct market...
Tags: Cir, Environmental, externality, Government, LLC, Morrison, pollution, Pub, regulation, Regulations, Robert, species, Stat, statute, U.S., U.S. Congress
Research articles 2006-11-01
Congress All Talk on Global Warming
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSTo: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS
Tags: Environmental, global warming, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-07-11
Up the creek without a paddle: the U.S. Supreme Court decides little in deciding Rapanos and Carabell.
LOOKING FOR THE CASE OF THE YEAR Each term of the U.S. Supreme Court, land use and environmental planners, public officials, and lawyers latch onto the "big" case and have fun with it--intellectual Wiffle Ball if you will--not too serious, not too competitive, something to play...
Tags: ENVIRONMENTAL, Government, nexus, regulation, Regulations, Richard, SOFTWARE, U.S., U.S. Congress
Research articles 2006-08-01
The people's agent: executive branch secrecy and accountability in an age of terrorism.
INTRODUCTION The increase in government secrecy is an important and troubling policy trend. Although the trend predates it, the movement toward government secrecy has accelerated dramatically since the 2000 presidential election. The Bush Administration has initiated significant legislative and administrative changes that have...
Tags: accountability, agency, agent, Bush, Cir, Environmental, exemption, government, Government, MARKETING, president, principal, Pub, Richard, Stat, statute, terrorism, Transparency, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2006-06-22
Administration Falls Short in Protecting Wetlands: Congress Must Act
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSTo: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS
Tags: Environmental, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-06-05
Federal sovereign immunity versus state environmental fines
I. INTRODUCTION II. BACKGROUND A. Fiscal Law Concerns B. History of Sovereign Immunity III. OVERVIEW OF MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION A. Acts Not Subjecting Federal Facilities to State ...
Tags: agency, Cir, ENVIRONMENTAL, Federal Reserve Board, Government, immunity, MARKETING, officer, Ohio, pollution, Pub, regulation, Regulations, sanction, U.S., U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, waiver
Research articles 2006-03-22
Congressional Descent: The Demise of Deliberative Democracy in Environmental Law
ABSTRACT In recent years, the formal environmental lawmaking dimension of Congress has become effectively moribund. Earlier Congresses were, by contrast, celebrated for enacting sweeping, demanding environmental laws and for passing significant and increasingly detailed amendments in response to subsequent developments in executive branch agencies, federal courts, and the states. Now,...
Tags: agency, Environmental, MARKETING, pollution, U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Senate, upshot
Research articles 2006-03-01
Governor Rendell Says Congress Should Not Block Right of States to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Improve Air Quality
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSTo: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS
Tags: Environmental, greenhouse gas, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-06-08
Environmental Defense Campaign Urges Congress to Put a Cap on Carbon
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSTo: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS
Tags: Environmental, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-03-29
As Damage Mounts From Invasive Species, Congress Delays, Prompting Coalition to Endorse Shipping Moratorium in Great Lakes
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSTo: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS
Tags: Environmental, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-05-23
The risk in technology-based standards.(The Clean Air Act's Technology-Based Standards)
A. Legislative History: A Similar Shift from Health-Based to Technology-Based Standards EPA failed miserably in its efforts to regulate hazardous air pollutants under the early health-based scheme of the Clean Air Act, which required the Agency not only to identify the pollutants that were...
Tags: agency, BAT, benefit, Cir, emission, Environmental, Federal Reserve Board, industry, Pub, Robert, standards, Stat, Technology, technology, U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2005-09-22
Members of Congress Announce Bipartisan Bill to Curb Illegal Timber Trade
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSTo: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS
Tags: Environmental, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2007-03-13
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