Sentence examples for buffer rule from inspiring English sources

This one halts work on a "stream buffer rule" to protect waters from industrial activity.

The Bush administration also weakened a longstanding regulation known as the stream buffer rule that had prevented mine operators from depositing debris within 100 feet of a stream.

Third, the White House announced today that its review of the Bush-era "stream buffer rule" is finally within sight, after years of regulatory banter and litigation.

The Basel proposals allow high-grade corporate bonds too.Banks have counter-attacked, arguing that "trapping" liquidity in subsidiaries would reduce their room for manoeuvre in a crisis and that the buffer rules are too restrictive; some, unsurprisingly, have called for bank debt to be eligible.

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In its brief, the Justice Department argued that Judge Charles H. Haden II of United States District Court in Charleston, W. Va., ruled properly in October that the buffer zone rule of the surface mining law prohibited the dumping of mountaintop coal waste near streams.

In 2004, confronted with yet another obstacle — the so-called stream buffer zone rule prohibiting any mining activity within 100 feet of a stream — the administration decided that the rule only required companies to respect the buffer zone "to the extent practicable," in effect green-lighting further dumping.

The nettlesome buffer zone rule still remained in place, so in 2004 the administration began a systematic effort to weaken it as well.

But beginning in the late-1990s, citizensd citrieds toied to slow things by invoking the so-called stream buffer zone rule, which seeks to protect water quality by prohibiting any mining activity within 100 feet of flowing streams.

Since 1983, coal companies have had to follow a stream buffer zone rule, which said their mining could not disturb areas within 100 feet of streams.

Reversing that bad Bush buffer zone rule is a cornerstone of the Obama administration's expressed commitment to right the wrongs of mountaintop removal.