Sentence examples for environmental statutes from inspiring English sources

She is tough, she believes deeply in the country's basic environmental statutes.

The act is the most controversial of the great wave of environmental statutes enacted in the early 1970's.

In spirit, the Endangered Species Act is the noblest of the landmark environmental statutes passed during the Nixon era.

It is equally plain that Ms. Jackson has no intention of abandoning her agenda or her defense of one of the most successful of America's landmark environmental statutes.

State law enforcers, working from state environmental statutes, might step in as well, predicted Tracy D. Hester, who teaches environmental law at the University of Houston Law Center.

All changes under the president's order "will fully comply with the National Environmental Policy Act and other environmental statutes," Mr. McClellan said.

"There's nothing like it in any environmental statute.

It is the only major environmental statute whose core provisions have not been reauthorized or substantively updated since its adoption in the 1970s.

The Legislature has approved changes to an environmental statute that has been broadly criticized as encouraging needless litigation and construction delays.

"The Clean Air Act is the single most expensive environmental statute," said Scott H. Segal, director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, a group from the power industry.

The other point of dispute is how much the company will have to pay in penalties under a different environmental statute for damage caused by the oil to the area: beaches, marshes, wildlife and fisheries.