Environmental Impact Statement
The National Environmental Policy Act (1969) made all federal agencies responsible for analyzing any activity of theirs "significantly affecting the quality of ...
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Environmental Impact Statement
The U.S. National Environmental Policy Act of 1970 (NEPA) requires that all federal agencies prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) prior to making decisions th...
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Long-term management plans for national forests will no longer go through a formal environmental impact statement, the U.S. Forest Service announced Tuesday.The Forest Service said writing the 15-y...
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Regional Plan Association conference, suggested the present Governor's political patronage had led to labor-management strife at the M.T.A., if not the actual strike in December:
For much of thei...
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notes today (subscription required) how the last-minute endorsement by Mayor and Governor for a Yankee Metro-North station (paid for by M.T.A. taxpayers and riders) was all that was needed to convi...
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Seven former National Park Service directors say raising the limit on the number of snowmobiles allowed in Yellowstone National Park would harm the park's environment.In a letter released Monday, t...
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Critics of a Navy plan to use dolphins and sea lions to guard waters off the coast of a major submarine base say the ocean is too cold for the plan to work.Other critics who showed up at a public o...
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The Defense Department gave the Navy permission Tuesday to keep training with sonar for another two years, a move denounced by activists who say the sound waves can harm dolphins and other marine m...
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The Defense Department gave the Navy permission Tuesday to keep training with sonar for another two years, a move denounced by activists who say the sound waves can harm dolphins and other marine m...
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The U.S. Forest Service has issued a draft report with proposed plans to curtail prairie dogs on national grasslands through poisoning and other means.Conservation groups condemned the list of five...
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The Bureau of Land Management could go ahead with plans to allow drilling in a sensitive area near Teshekpuk Lake on the North Slope, an agency spokeswoman said.The BLM added to its environmental i...
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A state justice this afternoon dismissed one of two remaining major lawsuits brought by critics of Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards project, clearing a potential stumbling block for the $4 billion complex...
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