Sentences with phrase «environmental health reporting»

July 1, 2018 is the deadline for the inaugural Lizzie Grossman Grant for Environmental Health Reporting from SEJ's Fund for Environmental Journalism.

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With coal trains already coursing through the Lower Mainland to the much larger Westshore and Neptune terminals, it's not surprising the environmental report behind the port authority's decision found no appreciable impacts on the health of area residents.

In one of the most extensive reports of its kind, environmental health experts have estimated that nine million premature deaths worldwide — 16 % of all deaths — were linked to pollution in 2015, with the majority of deaths coming from air pollution.

«Consumers should be as concerned as the foremost infectious disease doctors are — which is very concerned,» David Wallinga, a senior health officer at the environmental nonprofit the National Resources Defense Council, who contributed to the report, told Time.

It's been raised in an expert panel report on Environmental and Health Impacts of the Oil Sands Industry, commissioned by the Royal Society of Canada.

(e) If test results indicate a specific agricultural product contains pesticide residues or environmental contaminants that exceed the Food and Drug Administration's or the Environmental Protection Agency's regulatory tolerences, the certifying agent must promptly report such data to the Federal health agency whose regulatory tolerance or action level has benvironmental contaminants that exceed the Food and Drug Administration's or the Environmental Protection Agency's regulatory tolerences, the certifying agent must promptly report such data to the Federal health agency whose regulatory tolerance or action level has bEnvironmental Protection Agency's regulatory tolerences, the certifying agent must promptly report such data to the Federal health agency whose regulatory tolerance or action level has been exceeded.

That's the inference of a new report that says our growing global population will send greenhouse gases into overdrive unless something is done to curb the world's appetite for meat — and links the environmental, health and economic cases for doing so.

A new report and campaign by the environmental group finds that slashing our meat intake by 50 per cent by 2050 is an important way to stop the worst effects of climate change, and the best way to alleviate a raft of health issues linked to eating too much meat.

This may not have caused concern in the past — fluoride has always been touted as a dental protectant — but a new report in Environmental Health journal finds a strong link between prenatal and postnatal fluoride exposure and Attention Deficit Disorder occurrence.

In a typical year, the county's environmental health division receives 300 to 400 reports of malfunctioning septic systems; this year's failure rate is expected to be significantly higher.

But according to a 2009 report in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, there isn't nearly enough acrylic acid in disposable diapers to raise concern.

According to a 2009 report in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, the amount of citral in a typical scented diaper should be about a million times too low to cause any trouble.

Clinical report: Organic foods: Health and environmental advantages and disadvantages.

According to a report by Dr. Robyn Cosford (Nutritional, Metabolic and Environmental Influences in Children's Health) childhood asthma rates have doubled over the past twenty years, now affecting up to 35 percent of children.

But according NAMPA's website, Stanton already reported in February that «In just the first four weeks of 2009, more than 150 articles have been published in various trade, environmental, health, and consumer media.

According to reports by the Center for Environmental Health, the New York Times, and the Canadian Broadcasting Association, baby bibs imported from China and available for purchase at Toys «R» Us stores in the United States contain high levels of lead.

Most plastic items leach chemicals that act like the sex hormone estrogen into food products, even if they don't contain BPA, according to a study in Environmental Health Perspectives, reports NPR.

The report released by the Senate Health and Senate Environmental Conservation committees, comes more than a year after state officials responded to cases of chemical contamination of water in rural communities like Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh — the result of the area's industrial past.

In 1987, Archy Kirkwood's Access to Personal Files Act was passed, giving the public access to manually held social work and housing records, which was followed by the Liberal MP's Access to Medical Reports Act in 1988, Chris Smith MP's Environment and Safety Information Act, giving the public access to environmental enforcement notices, and Doug Henderson MP's Access of Health Records Act 1990.

The Commons» environmental audit committee (EAC), publishing a report on the issue today, said the number of health problems and deaths is a «national scandal».

The Green Party of New York (GPNY) and its recent gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins join the chorus of New Yorkers celebrating what appears to be an imminent fracking ban, arising from today's reports from Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens and Acting Health Commissioner Howard Zucker.

Public Health, Improve Rockland's air, water, housing and environmental quality through application of State and Federal laws by appointment and creation of a County General Inspection Office, which enforces such laws and report to county executive and general public with transparency.

And even as multiple wells in nearby Hoosick Falls tested positive for elevated and potentially dangerous levels of the same toxic chemical more than a year ago, state health department employees suggested a delay in reporting results and did not initially recommend a wider outreach to the public, according to emails between state, county and federal officials, some of which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

«There are no regulatory requirements for reporting since the testing was done voluntarily,» wrote Timothy Vickerson, public health engineer with the state health department, in an email to Rich Elder, the Rensselaer County environmental health director, on Oct. 20, 2014.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

The report also portrays the board members of Cuomo's Environmental Facilities Corporation, which includes the commissioners of health and environmental conservation and the secretary of state, as disengaged and out of touch, essentially allowing top staff to direct the loan applicaEnvironmental Facilities Corporation, which includes the commissioners of health and environmental conservation and the secretary of state, as disengaged and out of touch, essentially allowing top staff to direct the loan applicaenvironmental conservation and the secretary of state, as disengaged and out of touch, essentially allowing top staff to direct the loan application process.

At 11 a.m., Assembly members hear testimony about state regulation and reporting of sales and use of pesticides during a joint public hearing of state lawmakers on the Assembly's Standing Committee on Environmental Conservation and Standing Committee on Health; Assembly Hearing Room, room 1923, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.

Yesterday it was widely reported that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has agreed to ban fracking after a state environmental review found that the gas drilling method can not be employed without unacceptable risk to public health and the environment.

And Cuomo says the internal health review could result in hastening an approval of fracking, because it will cut down on the time spent fighting lawsuits that are expected to be filed once the final environmental impact report is released.

The Bronx is the most unhealthy county in the entire state of New York, according to a recently released report that measured access to health care, economics, behavior and environmental factors.

In September, Nadeau submitted a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request to view all existing reports on the health impacts of hydrofracking written by either the Cuomo Administration's health department or environmental agency.

The report also portrays the board members of Cuomo's Environmental Facilities Corporation - which includes the Commissioners of Health and Environmental Conservation, and the Secretary of State - as disengaged and out of touch, essentially allowing top staff to direct the loan application process.

The Department of Environmental Conservation will wait for a report on the health protections in its environmental reviewEnvironmental Conservation will wait for a report on the health protections in its environmental reviewenvironmental review of fracking.

As the Daily News reported Monday, Republican Sens. Thomas O'Mara of Chemung County, who Flanagan appointed vice chairman of the Transportation Committee, and Patty Ritchie of St. Lawrence County, who was named deputy vice chairwoman of the Health Committee, each got the higher $ 15,000 chairmen stipends instead of the $ 12,500 they were both due for heading the Environmental Conservation and Agriculture committees, respectively.

The State's Environmental Commissioner Joe Martens, says the report from the advisory committee, will be not be issued next month as originally planned, partly because data on costs of fracking to other state agencies, including the departments of health and transportation, aren't ready yet.

Environmental health assessment director Lisa Letteney says it's common for these reports to start trickling in this time of year.

This environmental success story shows that regulations put in place to protect the bay's health have made a difference, researchers report the week of March 5 in Proceedings of the National Academy of...

This environmental success story shows that regulations put in place to protect the bay's health have made a difference, researchers report the week of March 5 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In 2004, she received an M.A. in journalism from New York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program and began a career in science journalism.

The NRC report inspired another of the initiatives: a new grant competition at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) for investigators lacking enough preliminary data for a full - fledged NIH proposal.

But men from the three cities had higher sperm counts — ranging from 38 % to 75 % higher — than men from Columbia, the team reports in the 11 November online edition of Environmental Health Perspectives.

Up to now, the federal government has failed to support the research needed to prepare for the health consequences of hotter weather, according to a March 2009 report in Environmental Health Perspectives, by Balbus and colleagues around the United Shealth consequences of hotter weather, according to a March 2009 report in Environmental Health Perspectives, by Balbus and colleagues around the United SHealth Perspectives, by Balbus and colleagues around the United States.

The same researchers also reported a link between another long - banned pollutant, hexachlorobenzene (HCB), and implantation failure, in a paper published online in Environmental Health Perspectives in August.

Two chemicals in receipt paper that replace the toxic compound bisphenol A, or BPA, are just as capable of soaking into the human body as their predecessor, researchers report August 25 in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Despite evidence that environmental factors contribute to many health problems, medical students report fewer than six hours of environmental health training, according to University of Texas School of Medicine researchers.

She then enrolled in the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting program at New York University, where she earned a master's degree in journalism.

In 2016 in Environmental Health Perspectives, the researchers reported that people with the most exposure to air pollution were also the most likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia.

And DiChristina, who teaches part - time in New York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, says that the same is true for her students.

A study published in January in Environmental Health Perspectives reported that daily deaths over a decade in metropolitan Boston peaked on days when concentrations of three common air pollutants were at their highest, even though those levels would currently satisfy the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

ScienceInsider reported this week that the U.S. Senate rejected a resolution last week that would have blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions based on its finding that they endanger human health, among other stories.