EPA reverses decision to delay smog rule after lawsuits

Support for green development inside central government organizations like SEPA offers little assurance of an effective countervailing force. We must sharpen our teeth, Pan Yue, SEPA s deputy director, said when the agency halted the dam projects.

We must sharpen our teeth, Pan Yue, SEPA s deputy director, said when the agency halted the dam projects. But China has seen a steady decentralization of power in recent years, making it harder for SEPA to affect policies at the regional and local levels.

Article 15 of the Constitution proclaims the obligation of the State to ensure the protection of the environment.

Director General and Chief Executive of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency

The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reportedly stated that the Agency would ensure that the Department of Defense complies with federal environmental laws.

In January 1996, the National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) established the China Center for Environmental Management Systems (CCEMS), which aims to improve environmental protection programmes in China, to raise the technical standards in pollution control, and to increase the level of public education.

objectives.Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, quot Company environmental management as a basis for a different relationship between companies and governmental authorities quot , 1995, The Hague, Netherlands.

Nor has it helped that China s regulatory agencies lag far behind the growth of its economy. For example, the Beijing office of China s State Environmental Protection Administration has less than 300 employees, whereas the United States Environmental Protection Administration has over 17,000.

The Act is supplemented by guidelines and general provisions laid down by the Minister of the Environment and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency.

(1) The reorganization complies with the state s industrial policy and laws and administrative regulations relating to environmental protection, land management and anti monopoly

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency administers a number of acts including the general Environmental Protection Act of 1991.

211. Environmental and health planning of houses, buildings and premises, are regulated by the Law on Protection of the Environment, the Law on Territorial and Urban Rural Structure, as well as Ordinance No. 5 of 1995, mentioned above, and the Bulgarian State Standard.

(i) Environmental protection at the national and international levels potentials and limits of criminal justice (two volumes) (priority theme A)

Zou Shoumin, Director of the Bureau of Environmental Supervision of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, said on the 22nd in Beijing that on a nationwide basis, 57 cases were subject to consecutive daily fines. The newly amended Environmental Protection Law , implemented at the beginning of this year, has significantly enhanced environmental law enforcement efforts in China.

UNEP will continue to operate its North American node of GRID in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States, the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the United States Forest Service (USFS) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Since the Direction générale de migration does not control border traffic in the eastern part of the country, it is difficult for it to identify and protect revenue generated there.

Two CGE members presented the Integrated Environmental Strategies (IES) programme of the United States Agency for International Development.

UNEP has been assisting the Environment Protection Authority in Yemen and the Regional Organization for the Protection of Marine Environment in developing their frameworks for environmental information system.

The rights and obligations of State and municipal organs in gathering and analysing information on the environment, monitoring and responsibility for punishing those causing environmental damage, are laid out in the Law on Protection of the Environment (State Gazette No. 47 of 1967).

An appeal against a decision by the National Board of Health and Welfare in matters of employment can also be filed with the Government, under section 14 of the 1996 Ordinance relating to the National Board of Health and Welfare.

The Court does not consider that the treaties in question could have intended to deprive a State of the exercise of its right of self defence under international law because of its obligations to protect the environment.

Head, Meteorological and Environmental

Several other agencies of the United States, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Environmental Protection Agency and the forest service, are also cooperating in this project.

General Manager of the Environmental Protection Authority

On December 26, reporters learned from the municipal environmental protection bureau that Lu an City successfully declared a total of 98 national and provincial environmental protection projects of various categories, and received special environmental protection funds worth a total of RMB145.26 million.

1987 As member, UNEP Working Group of Legal Experts on Environmental Law environmental impact assessment.

The stations will serve the information management needs of national and regional environment authorities, as well as UNEP headquarters and regional offices.

Experience gathered to date in different regions have been mixed and particularly effective in those countries where UNEP has a country presence to follow the day to day developments at the national level, or in countries where there was a continuous UNEP presence due to UNEP support for a coherent United Nations response to a post conflict or post disaster situation.

The country's Constitution regulates the guaranteed protection of human rights and equal rights for women and men.

94. UNU also provided expertise for a UNEP United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) training workshop on environmental law and policy, and participated in the UNEP IUCN meeting of legal experts on the teaching of environmental law.

In particular, 55 were national level environmental protection projects, for which special national environmental protection funds of RMB132.46 million were received 43 were provincial level environmental protection projects for which special provincial environmental funds of RMB12.8 million were received.

Dam opponents, including vocal indigenous environmental groups, have waged a seemingly successful battle to protect Tiger Leaping Gorge and the Salween (the Nu River). In early 2005, three years after a new law on environmental impact assessments (EIA s) was passed, the State Environmental Protection Bureau (SEPA), ordered the halt of 30 large projects, including 26 hydropower plants that had failed to submit proper EIA s.

1995 1996 In an UNEP Expert Group Workshop on International Environmental Law aiming at Sustainable Development.

(ii) A workshop entitled quot Environmental protection at the national and international levels potentials and limits of criminal justice quot (priority theme A)

Han Hongyan, deputy director of Qingdao Environmental Protection Bureau, introduces that companies of illegal and excessive sewage must be punished in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations. Illegal enterprises cannot be allowed to circumvent punishment via purchasing emission rights.

The courts and the responsible administrative authorities are obliged to apply the criterion established in case law doctrine No. 43 1999 of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, in accordance with Article 94 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States and article 192 of the law of amparo.

Other laws containing penal provisions to protect the environment cover such topics as public health, national parks, water, hunting and coasts.

UNU participated in a UNEP UNITAR training workshop on environmental law and policy and a UNEP IUCN meeting of legal experts on the teaching of environmental law.

General Directorate for International Law and Foreign Relations

The EPA announced the decision to go ahead with the so called 2015 Ozone Designations late on Wednesday, saying it showed the agency's commitment to working with states.

World Heritage Centre Safeguard and valorization of physical heritage in cooperation with EPA in the countries of the ACCRA Cluster

UNEP, through GRID Sioux Falls, in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States, USGS and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA of the United States), will continue the development of a global database on river basin boundaries.

Some countries reported that there were courts or separate sections of a court for telecommunications law (10 countries), social law (18 countries), fiscal law (15 countries), environmental law (11 countries), town planning law (12 countries) or immigration law (12 countries).D. Revision of judicial review

These stations will serve more information management needs of national and regional environment authorities and UNEP headquarters and regional offices.