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But that could also be read to exclude many environmental statutes from the bill's restrictions.

Most business sectors are affected by a number of major environmental statutes and regulations.

House Republicans have passed a law that would weaken the act as part of their broad attack on the country's environmental statutes.

The act is the most controversial of all the landmark environmental statutes enacted in the early 1970's.

As such, the Agency is granted explicit enforcement authority in environmental statutes.

What's the purpose of having this environmental statute if the problem isn't going to be abated?"

Provides information to specific business sectors on the environmental statutes and regulations that affect businesses within their field.

Many environmental statutes call for regulations to be based on public health goals or technological criteria, with costs as a secondary concern.

No other environmental statute is as precise.

Perhaps the most intrusive effects involve the application of a wide range of state and Federal environmental statutes.

All the important environmental statutes delegate enforcement to the states as long as the states meet Federal standards.

Some 100 federal laws, including most civil rights and environmental statutes, allow judges to award lawyers' fees to plaintiffs who are the prevailing parties.

The environmental statutes were clear and unambiguous.

Nevertheless, the establishment of an effective comprehensive body of environmental statutes supported by vigilant administration will take a long time.

Stricter enforcement of whatever environmental statutes already exist."

This was the first vote in the new Congress on amending the major environmental statutes that Republicans have vowed to overhaul.

Those laws, like many environmental statutes, call for anti-pollution rules to be based mainly on considerations of public health and technological feasibility rather than cost.

Several environmental statutes, including the 1972 Clean Water Act, prohibit the Government from taking costs into account.

However, most current major environmental statutes, such as the federal statutes listed above, were passed in the time spanning the late 1960s through the early 1980s.

That bill was intended to sweep aside what industry views as unduly burdensome regulations issued under a generation of environmental statutes.

This sets the stage for regulatory federal agencies being held accountable for noncompliance of environmental statutes and irrational decision making.

East European countries have virtually no body of environmental statutes and no history whatever of pluralist environmental enforcement.

It provides that any cutting "shall be deemed to satisfy" environmental statutes - in short, that those protective laws are suspended.

With a few exceptions, the Administration has stood up to the test, resisting Congressional efforts to weaken environmental statutes and commercialize the public lands.

Several other environmental statutes provide EPA with cleanup authorities to address oil spills and imminent dangers to public health.