Our data indicate opportunities exist to further explore hydropower mitigation in the areas of environmental flows, fish passage, and water quality.
Democratic lawmakers and various environmental groups hailed the passage of the bill, while saying it could and should be strengthened.
Since the 1970's, as a result of the passage of environmental laws like the federal Clean Rivers Act, rivers have made a comeback.
Environmental improvements since the passage of the Clean Waters Act of 2000 have further improved the water, so that the state deems it swimmable even at the north end of Manhattan and fishable throughout the harbor.
"Silent Spring," a landlubber, is no slouch of a book: it launched the environmental movement; provoked the passage of the Clean Air Act (1963), the Wilderness Act (1964), the National Environmental Policy Act (1969), the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act (both 1972); and led to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, in 1970.
The bride, who will keep her name, works in Washington as the director of the Environmental Defense Fund's Strategic Partners, a program designed to leverage the influence of its members and others in the passage of environmental legislation at the state and federal level.
Whether or not environmental factors influence the passage into a reproductive state of a plant, the transition must be viewed as part of the general development from juvenility to maturity: in this sense, flowering is not a radical alternative to vegetative growth but its culmination.
Unfortunately, environmental loads and the passage of blades past the tower may lead to excitation with frequencies of the same order of magnitude.
It was the upheavals of the 1960s that led to passage of environmental, consumer and health and safety legislation.
In 1975, the US Chamber of Commerce criticized the passage of environmental laws by Congress, including the Clean Air and Water acts, saying "But they went ahead anyway in the spirit of political expediency to ramrod through measures that would affect millions of people and billions of dollars..."...
