Sentence examples for major statutes from inspiring English sources

By the mid-1990s thEPAPA was enforcing 12 major statutes, including laws designed to control uranium mill tailings; ocean dumping; safe drinking water; insecticides, fungicides, and rodenticides; and asbestos hazards in schools.

In the past 40 years or so, ever since environmental law emerged as a separate field based on major statutes enacted in the 1970s, the Supreme Court has been reasonably receptive to cases brought by environmental groups.

The judges reviewed five other major statutes that directly address the issue of climate change, beginning with the National Climate Program Act of 1978 a generation ago and running through the Energy Policy Act of 2005 passed while this lawsuit was under way.

In 1971, Stern wrote that the Hobbs Act was "one of the major statutes under which the federal government can combat local political corruption where the state is either unable or unwilling to do so," citing the Travel Act as the "other major statute".

After three decades of existence, it is appropriate that TSCA is undergoing significant examination, as the EPA, the chemical industry, environmentalists, and legislators all look at ways to revise this major statute.

The company also agreed never to violate the major antifraud statutes.

Congress has provided explicit protection against retaliation in two major federal statutes.

Still, the major environmental statutes, such as the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, were written with no attention to the unequal vulnerability of poor and minority groups.

Whereas TSCA potentially applies to some 83,000 chemical compounds, five other major U.S. statutes combined currently apply to only 1,134 chemicals and pollutants (Dernbach 1997) (Table 1).

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

For example, Bank of America's securities unit has agreed four times since 2005 not to violate a major antifraud statute, and another four times not to violate a separate law.