Sentence examples for act authority from inspiring English sources

The E.P.A. has never used its Clean Water Act authority to overturn a previously approved permit.

The Environmental Protection Agency would use its Clean Air Act authority to regulate greenhouse gases.

The first prong, he said, would be an argument based on the Clean Air Act authority.

All the agency needs is the support from President Obama to use its Clean Air Act authority.

But further significant reductions have been hard to come by, partly because of friendly court decisions and partly because the George W. Bush administration declined to use its Clean Air Act authority to clean up older plants.

But their ability to slow down the process as the clock ticks down to the imminent sunset of the current Patriot Act authority suggests their tactics have achieved much of what they set out to do.

Micah Zenko (@MicahZenko) Leahy just introduced bill to review or sunset all Patriot Act authorities in June 2015.

The specific questions include: How long has the NSA used Patriot Act authorities to engage in bulk collection of Americans' records?

Has the NSA used USA Patriot Act authorities to conduct bulk collection of any other types of records pertaining to Americans, beyond phone records?

In December, in explaining why the law should be reauthorized, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, said the Fort Lauderdale and Chicago cases were among the "specific cases where FISA Amendments Act authorities were used".

WASHINGTON — More than four decades after being listed as endangered, grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park have recovered to the point that they no longer require protection under the Endangered Species Act, authorities said Thursday.