A dominant theme, with the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster looming, has been nuclear power (a subject that figures prominently on the political agenda in Germany, where a phase-out program is under way).
The increasing role of environmental concerns in the planning and design of Mexico's DDT phase-out program motivated the Mexican Ministry of Health to undertake an alternative program for malaria control maximizing community participation without negatively affecting human and ecosystem health.
Currently faced with a new round of money woes, which Ms. Guaspari pins on recent city budget cuts ("Music is always the first thing to go," she said), Opus 118 has been forced to phase out programs in several schools.
By 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) instituted phase-out programs for all types of PBDE flame retardants (U.S. EPA 2009b).
Donations have slowed, and charities have begun to consider phasing out programs that delivered urgent support.
Others were in the midst of phasing out programs because they believed they would not receive city money.
What they came up with was a plan to phase out the program in an "orderly, lawful wind-down," and to have Sessions make the announcement.
When President Bush pushed for an immigration overhaul in 2007, many unions — long detesting the guest-worker program — helped to persuade the Senate to phase out that program within five years.
This year, however, the Saudis said they would phase out the program because it used too much water.
The Legislature first decided to pay out the bonus over 10 years, then cut the award to $25,000 and decided to phase out the program.
Since 1994, when an agreement was signed with the North Koreans to phase out that program in return for foreign investment in peaceful reactors, the agency has had inspectors permanently stationed in North Korea.
