In shaping President Bush's Clear Skies air pollution plan, the White House rejected a more stringent proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Forty-five senators and 10 state attorneys general asked the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to withdraw its proposal on how to regulate mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants and replace it with a more stringent proposal.
The government, which has tabled its own watchdog bill, has dismissed elements of Hazare's more stringent and sweeping proposals as unworkable and unconstitutional.
A1 Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, offered proposals far more stringent than those of President Bush and leading Democrats.
African governments that are heavily dependent on oil and mineral extraction fear that the new environmental proposals, like more stringent waste disposal, as well as a possible ban on financing for new oil and coal projects, could harm future investment.
Several proposals are more stringent.
A recent initiative by American College of Rheumatology and EULAR resulted in two proposals for more stringent criteria for remission in clinical trials 15: one is a Boolean-based definition encompassing tender joint count ≤1 AND swollen joint count ≤1 AND C reactive protein (CRP) ≤1 mg/dl AND patient global assessment ≤1 (on a 0 10 scale).
Federal permits for such mining operations could be obtained relatively easily in the past, but in 2009, the agency, citing evidence of ecological harm as well as a growing public outcry, started requiring more stringent environmental reviews of new mining proposals, and started taking stronger action to protect mountain streams under the Clean Water Act.
Mr. Corzine's proposal would require more stringent regulations to be adopted at 52 additional facilities, including water treatment plants and food processing factories, which use deadly chlorine gas.
This would be ruled out under the new proposals, which are far more stringent than have been the postwar norm.
