But a federal district judge, in allowing a suit against the city and other defendants to go forward, noted that city agencies had explicitly assumed responsibility for developing and enforcing health and safety standards, including the use of respirators.
NERC will now be responsible for developing and enforcing mandatory reliability standards, and can impose fines on utilities that fail to come up to scratch.How effective this will be, only time will tell.
The high concentrations measured are considered to be dangerous for the environment and human health and highlight the urgent need for developing and enforcing pleasure boat maintenance guidelines to minimize further soil and nearby water contamination.
If we are to avoid paying a high economic, strategic, and environmental price for its shortcomings, a better system of developing and enforcing internationally agreed energy rules is essential.
They can promote innovation, for example, by developing and enforcing a rules-based institutional framework that protects property rights and sets standards and incentives for risk taking.
While physicians must continue developing and enforcing guidelines for discharging their social responsibility while practicing abroad, the field of medical tourism is less well prepared to develop the tools and guidelines needed for socially responsible medical tourism.
"More effort should be devoted to earthquake hazards analysis and management, including developing and enforcing proper building codes, especially for schools, hospitals, and other public buildings," Liu says.
Meanwhile, local testing organizations also became very active in developing and enforcing standards among their members.
This would require engaging with the food, beverage and alcohol industries, as well as developing and enforcing healthy food and drinking regulation beyond total smoking bans, and creating incentives for the production and marketing of healthy, tasty and affordable food.
The fact remains that our seafood system is broken, and we all bear some part of that responsibility: governments for failing to develop and enforce regulations, the seafood industry for turning a blind eye, and us as consumers for being all too willing to savor what's on our plate without understanding the story of how it got there and demanding better.
