"environmental provisions" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to specific measures or regulations that are put in place to protect or enhance the natural environment. Example: The company's proposal for a new factory was rejected due to its failure to comply with strict environmental provisions set by the government.
Some contentious environmental provisions regarding Alaska were also scaled back, aides said.
The World Wildlife Federation, an international environmental group, characterized the environmental provisions of the reforms as "two steps forward, one-and-a-half steps backward".
"I have problems with the Central American agreement in its current form," Mr. Kerry said, indicating that he would renegotiate it to strengthen labor and environmental provisions.
"In fact, this agreement fixes some of what was wrong with Nafta by making labor and environmental provisions actually enforceable," he said.
He said Republicans might have to consider a gas-tax rollback or the temporary suspension of some environmental provisions to address supply bottlenecks.
As a start, we should modernize both Nafta and Cafta to upgrade the weak labor and environmental provisions included in both flawed agreements.
Council services are almost all "unprotected" – that is, there has been no government commitment to ringfence social services, local environmental provision, fire and emergency services, leisure and cultural activities, local transport or social housing.
Thus, colleges, universities, the police, the fire brigade, local environmental provision, justice and parts of social care face cuts of 15 to 20% (and in some cases significantly more) over four years.
Thus, spatial analysis techniques improve the understanding of farmland environmental provision, including spatial spillover and correcting heteroskedasticity in the residual.
But the Senate today defeated two amendments by Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, to strip out anti-environmental provisions.
A longer list of anti-environmental provisions had been feared to ride on the separate year-end omnibus spending bill, including measures that would threaten the water quality of streams and rivers and block the new energy efficiency standard for light bulbs.
