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From that tone-deaf beginning a more sophisticated response soon developed. [Lois Marie Gibbs] says McDonald's trolled the major environmental groups and found the Environmental Defense Fund (now called Environmental Defense) willing to join in a formal partnership to "green" the company. Environmental Defense studied the company's packaging, and produced a "Waste Reduction Plan." Critics argued that the study's results showed nothing that would not have been known to McDonald's before. Nonetheless, McDonald's announced the end of the styrofoam era and accepted plaudits for its august sense of responsibility, thus neatly deflating a consumers' revolt. "The citizens' campaign dropped off almost immediately?" Gibbs says.
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... its strategy-the creation of private regulations to remedy the ills of a neoliberal economic order ... a monitoring plan outside corporate control, with the necessary transparency to verify progres...Working with a Florida agricultural trade group, McDonald's created an industry front ...
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... and seepage before it escapes his control or his property-alsosupports treating irrigation e... sprinklers that reduce theamount of wastewater returned to the river, thus depriving Montana's ... increasing consumption on existing agricultural acreage.1 Id., at 3-4, ¶¶ 9-12. According to Mo... to guide thedevelopment of state water regulation. See id., at 237 ("[I]t is the dutyof [federal cou...
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... -- except if you do not believe in regulation -- if you continue to believe, despite all the fac... this comes from people who are prepared to waste far more money in other ways to hide an ideologica... off of international policy and agricultural policy, to the gentleman from Texas for one and a ... our performance and ensure our quality control. No matter how much we improve our current program...
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...178-178n). (3) Conduct research on the control of undesirable species of honeybees in cooperation... uses for compost from agricultural wastes, including evaluating the application of compost o...
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...Acid Deposition Regulation v. Stratospheric Ozone Protection b. EPA Monitorin...Penalties IX. TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT A. Purpose B. Elements of a TSCA Offense 1. Vi... of amendments reinforcing the Federal Solid Waste Disposal Act ("SWDA"). (7) Section IX reviews the ... are or may be discharged except agricultural storm water discharges and return flows from irrig...
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On March 21, 2011, the EPA promulgated its final response to the 2001 voluntary remand of the December 1, 2000, new source performance standards and emission guidelines for commercial and industrial solid waste incineration units and the vacatur and remand of several definitions by the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals in 2007. Following that action, the Administrator received petition[s] for reconsideration as well as identified some issues that warrant further opportunity for public comment. In response to the petition[s], the EPA is reconsidering and requesting comment on several provisions of the final new source performance standards and emission guidelines for commercial and industrial solid waste incineration units. In addition, the EPA is proposing amendments to the ...
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...(1) Related to agricultural marketing. (i) Exercise the functions of the Secre... activities necessary to prevent, detect, control or eradicate foot-and-mouth disease and other fore...(i) Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservat...
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... Rules and Regulations . Page 15703-15790 . From the Federal Register On... Sources: Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste. Incineration Units; Final Rule. Page 15704 . ENV...MACT Maximum Achievable Control Technology. MDL Method Detection Level mg/dscm Mil...Removing the definition for ``Agricultural waste'', ``Commercial or industrial waste'', ``Con...
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... of the commodity to prevent spoilage or waste of the commodity. For preparation of the Operation...(1) Plan, organize, implement, control, and evaluate programs involving distribution of c...may otherwise agree in writing, agricultural commodities donated by A.I.D. shall not be distrib...
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The dissemination of birth control was only one of a host of interventions into the intimate and everyday practices of ordinary Egyptians that aimed at creating reformed and modernized families and productive citizens. [...] the adoption of a population program based on contraception entailed the recognition of Egyptian women as reproductive subjects for whom using birth control was to constitute part of the duties of citizenship even as it simultaneously delineated the normative parameters within which reproductive choice could be exercised.
... Egypt's "transition" from a backward agricultural economy to a modern industrialized one, as had hap... of "overproduction" that resulted in "human waste." The biological impetus to reproduction, left unr...