In theory it could be one of the most far-reaching environmental regulatory programs in American history.
The environmental regulatory process has always played out in that context, and that's not going to change".
"This is rooted in the fact that California is the center of the environmental regulatory universe," said Christopher Preuss, a spokesman for General Motors, which opposed the legislation.
He has used his environmental regulatory powers to close 7,865 acres around reservoirs to development, and to impose buffers along 69 miles of rivers and streams.
That is no small feat given the environmental, regulatory and financial hurdles involved in building runways and terminals, as well as community opposition to planes flying overhead.
Zak Covar, the executive director of the state environmental regulatory agency, has said his office is not responsible for tracking ammonium nitrate.
Michigan's state environmental regulatory agency has submitted a formal request to Detroit Bulk Storage, the company holding the material for Koch Carbon, to change its storage methods.
With these nominations, the White House is trying to install judges it hopes will be more ideologically sympathetic on a court that has overturned some important initiatives of the president's first-term agenda on environmental, regulatory and labor issues.
Dr de Planque has been remembered for her substantial contribution to the BHP Billiton Board, and particularly her deep scientific knowledge and significant experience with nuclear and environmental regulatory issues.
Recycling companies in developed countries face strict environmental regulatory regimes and an increasing cost of waste disposal and thus may find exportation to small traders in developing countries more profitable than recycling in their own countries.
Green campaigners point out that, while it suited the SNP during the referendum debate to cast fracking as a Westminster imposition, the Scottish government already has the planning and environmental regulatory powers to effectively eliminate the practice north of the border.
