In the mid-1970s a teen from the town created a plan for an environmental commission and presented it to the council.

"This is a decision that we came to with a heavy heart," said Ms. Emr of the environmental commission.

None of us are on the environmental commission to kill animals.

An environmental commission mapped the township's wetlands last year.

Perhaps no other American environmental commission produced such a persuasive case for action.

Municipal officals disagree, and the matter is before the local environmental commission.

Administration officials said last spring that the United States wanted the three-nation labor and environmental commissions to be nearly identical.

A regional environmental commission is weighing whether the subway line would damage the city or the environment, and is to decide by mid-April.

If in the early 1990's, state environmental commissions rejected one in three projects, now fewer than 3 percent of projects are turned down.

Since 2004, he has been the spokesperson of his parliamentary group and president of the environmental commission.