Sentence examples for permitting for mining from inspiring English sources

But others, such as permitting for mining, are beyond its jurisdiction.

In June 2012, House members introduced the Appalachian Communities Health Emergency (ACHE) Act (H.R. 5959), to "place a moratorium on permitting for mountaintop removal coal mining until health studies are conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services, and for other purposes," according to GovTrack.

As a result, permits for mountaintop mines started flowing again last year, with 14 approved in West Virginia, up from just 3 in 2002.

Documentation from the mine shows frequent discharges of waste water with illegal levels of pollutants, including manganese, total suspended solids, sulfates, iron, and acidic water, all in violation of the Clean Water Act and the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System NPDESS) permit for the mine.

Code section 4656 (West 1984), requiring a permit for mining in State forests.

As local districts assumed more power in the early 2000s, the number of nationwide permits for mining activities soared — from 650 in 1999 to more than 8,000 in 2010, according to a report by the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

A recent study by Greenomics, a Jakarta-based policy institute that researches forest management, determined that unauthorized permits for mining and palm oil plantations — meaning they were issued by local officials without approval at the national level — have affected more than 520,000 hectares, or 1.3 million acres, of protected forest in Aceh.

Besides the Department of Transportation, among the agencies that had a say were the city's Department of Environmental Protection, because a branch of a water tunnel runs beneath part of the seminary, and the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, because its Division of Mineral Resources issues permits for mining operations.

The Clinton administration had given the Interior secretary the ability to veto permits for mines on federal lands if the mine could cause "substantial and irreparable harm" to the community.

Honduras is one of the world's most dangerous countries to defend land and the environment, with at least 130 people killed since the 2009 coup ushered in a pro-business repressive government who unleashed a tsunami of permits for mines, dams, model cities and African palm plantations on mainly rural and indigenous communities.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by law issues dredging and filling permits for mines, and generally is inclined to approve them.