April 30, 2009
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Environment Management Newsletter April 30, 2009 |
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Obama reverses Bush`s environmental protection roll back
President Obama this week completed his first 100 days in office much as he began them, by reversing controversial regulations passed by the Bush administration that sought to relax US environmental rules. The White House announced on Tuesday that it had formally overturned an eleventh hour regulation passed in the dying days of the Bush administration that allowed federal agencies to bypass independent advice on the environmental impact of projects. Traditionally, federal agencies and the companies whose projects they approved had to assess the environmental consequences of proposed projects ... |
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UK boosts green building grants
Just a day after the Chancellor pledged to increase investment in building energy-efficiency programmes by GBP 435m, the government has revealed it is to boost grants for householders planning to install insulation and micro-generation technologies. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) said that grants distributed through the Warm Front scheme – which provides money for people qualifying for disability or income-related benefits with grants to install insulation or energy-efficient heating in their homes – will be increased while the list of technologies covered by the scheme will ... |
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