Environmental Protection
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Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency is a national environmental authority under the Swedish Government and the Ministry of the Environment. Its mission is to coordinate and drive forward environmental work nationally and internationally. SEPA coordinates the implementation of the Convention on Biodiversity in Sweden, and is in particular responsible for the protection…
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Environmental Pollution and Protection
The original EPL entered into force shortly before I moved to Beijing in 1990. I recently found a journal entry written on my second day in the nation’s capital, in which I marveled at the clean air and lack of private cars on the street. I later learned that Beijing had cleaned up in preparation for hosting the Asia Games, a tradition for high-publicity events that has continued…
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Alberta Environmental Protection
Alberta s energy regulator has issued an environmental protection order after a massive pipeline spill in the northern part of the province earlier this week. The order directs Nexen Energy to contain the spill, which saw five million litres of bitumen, sand and water released at the company s Long Lake oilsands facility near Fort McMurray. It also instructs Nexen to alert…
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Georgia Environmental Protection
Judson H. Turner Director, Environmental Protection Division Judson (Jud) H. Turner was appointed Director of the Environmental Protection Division (EPD) of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources effective Jan. 1, 2012. Mr. Turner was former Gov. Sonny Perdue’s executive counsel and also served as the then-governor’s legal representative in negotiations with the U.S. Army…
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Good Deeds, Article
After losing their 4-year-old daughter, Brighton, to RSV on Jan. 24, it would have been easy for Kevin and Bethany Tenney of Saratoga Springs, Utah, to shut the curtains, keep their other five children inside and refuse to answer the phone. The loss of their vivacious youngest daughter was “so shocking, so crushing, we didn’t know how we’d get through it, ” Bethany, 36, tells…
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Environmental Protection Act Victoria
Over the past few years, we’ve earned ourselves a reputation for being a credible, respected and important stakeholder in Victoria water management and river health. As our state’s peak environment group, we’re in a key position to bring the Victorian community’s views to policy reform and government processes. We work closely with other groups to coordinate our efforts, including…
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Doing good deeds For Others
Happiness, health, prosperity, peace, a better world for our children – we all want the same things in life. The key to these lies within us, and a transformation can happen in all of us if we focus on good. By choosing to think good, speak good and do good, you can find your place in the world. Think good, speak good, do Good With life dishing out trials and tribulations to…
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Environmental Protection Act Summary
Protecting human health and the environment Science has shown us that, along with providing benefits, some chemical substances can be a risk to human health and to the environment. For decades, in a number of different ways, the Government of Canada has assessed and managed chemical substances used for specific purposes: for example, those used in the workplace, pesticides…
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Michigan Environmental Protection Act
MLUI Citizens relied on MEPA to produce such stirring public interest victories as halting Shell Oil’s plan to indiscriminately drill for oil and natural gas in the Pigeon River Country State Forest in the late 1970s. Two years after the Michigan Supreme Court ruled on two cases involving industrial development, a review of new environmental cases by the Great Lakes Bulletin…
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Environmental Protection Air Policy 2008
QBH complies with the Queensland Government’s environmental legislation relevant to the operation of its port facility, including the “Environmental Protection Act 1994”. The company undertakes proactive air quality monitoring at sites located on its port facility’s boundary and between its port facility and the suburb of Wynnum North. Coal shipped by QBH has comparatively…
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