WASHINGTON, May 22 — The Energy Department has told lawmakers that it plans to break up its office for environment, safety and health, established 20 years ago as the extent of radioactive contamination in cold war weapons production came to light, and to reorganize its functions.
We thank the Swiss federal office for environment for contributing financial support for the development of the geolocators.
Switzerland's Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and the cantonal authorities have established the National Surface Water Quality Monitoring Program (NAWA4) to assess and evaluate the water quality of surface waters.
Experiments were carried out according to German animal protection laws and were approved by the local animal care committee (State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection of North-Rhine Westphalia, Dept. Animal Welfare).
All animals were handled in strict accordance with good animal practice as defined by the Swiss Federal office for the environment (animal protection guideline 4.03).
All animal work was approved by the Swiss Federal office for the environment and the nature protection agency of Canton of Valais.
All experiments were performed according to institutional regulations (A55/2002 and G34/2005; office for the environment, nature and municipal affairs North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany).
Special thanks to the MfM-U team at the Federal office for the Environment (FOEN) and other MfM-U partners, especially Klaus Kammer, Nicole Bauer, Dimitri Hauri, and Peter Böhler.
All animal procedures were carried out under local and national ethical guidelines and were approved by the regional ethical committee, Regional Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, with the ethical approval ID 87-51.04.2010.A112.
A spokesperson for the NSW office of environment and heritage said December and January had been the dustiest on record.
"A trailer park like this offers absolutely no protection in the winds of a tornado, set down in a valley where it is difficult to see the storm approaching," Dennis Dudley, a severe weather specialist for the Calgary office of Environment Canada, a federal agency, said at a news conference today.
