"You use an extra layer of protection which says that unless E.P.A. approves a good cleanup plan for it, it doesn't get sold".
The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, mustered enough votes to defeat several destructive amendments while approving a very good one.
Don't feed your dwarf hamsters anything that hasn't been approved by a good hamster book or specialist.
Several officials acknowledged that the gathering, held in the luxurious confines of the beach resort of Nusa Dua on the Indonesian island of Bali, produced even fewer substantive accomplishments than last year's meeting, where the group approved an environmental goods and services accord that called for the tariffs on 54 products, like solar panels, to be reduced to 5 percent or less.
In November 2013, voters in the suburb of SeaTac approved a union-sponsored Good Jobs Initiative' to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for workers in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and at airport-related businesses, including hotels, car-rental agencies and parking lots.
Soon after "1/11", as Bangladeshis call the declaration of a state of emergency on January 11th this year, donors saw a window of opportunity to speed up the process of turning impoverished Bangladesh into a middle-income country.Just this week the Asian Development Bank approved a $150m loan for a good-governance programme.
House Speaker John Boehner has to know that voters will blame the Republicans if Congress cannot approve a bill that's good for the economy and the environment.
"The banks this year kept saying, 'It's a good year,' 'We just approved a lot of hiring,' 'The market is clearing up,' " Mr. Yankson said.
He should say no, and for one overriding reason: A president who has repeatedly identified climate change as one of humanity's most pressing dangers cannot in good conscience approve a project that — even by the State Department's most cautious calculations — can only add to the problem.
Asking Congress to approve anything is a good way to get nothing done (as Obama found out, when he did ask Congress to approve escalating the war in Syria ― and they ignored him).
