He hailed the pollution control legislation as the most impor tant in the history of the search for cleaner air.
Other subjects covered are pollution control legislation, nature and conservation management, zoning and land-use planning, liability questions and judicial remedies.
Instead, his administration has sought to use pollution control legislation to circumvent political opposition with executive actions that are underpinned by supportive supreme court rulings.
Maryland is more reliant on coal-fired power plants than are the other states in the regional pact, and the enactment of such tough pollution control legislation there is considered a major environmental victory.
The Clean Air Act of 1970 and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency the same year ushered in a wave of enormously successful pollution-control legislation.
After decades of extolling state governments as the best laboratory for new ideas, Republicans in Washington have been resisting state experimentation in areas ranging from pollution control to antispam legislation to prescription drugs.
Clean Water Act (CWA), also known as Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, U.S. legislation enacted in 1972 to restore and maintain clean and healthy waters.
A period of legislation — 1955's Air Pollution Control Act, 1963's Clean Air Act and 1970's Clean Air Act extension — held the birds to their cleanest levels.
Unfortunately, current legislation is such that pollution control has largely been a matter of shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Revised legislation passed in the summer of 2010, mandating that the pollution control board issue new rules by July 2012.
