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One such case sought a writ of mandamus requiring the Federal Administrator, an office created by the James Bay and Northern Quebec Settlement Act, i.e., the James Bay Agreement as ratified by Parliament to constitute an environmental impact study as required by the Act.

Higgins is also urging the US Department of Energy to conduct a full Environmental Impact study as a spill of any portion of the 6,000 gallons of liquid radioactive waste could pose threats to the Niagara River and the Great Lakes.

Not exact matches

Most proposals require the consent of the Environmental Protection Agency, with the exception of those deemed to have low environmental impact such as scientific studies or mineral prospecting Environmental Protection Agency, with the exception of those deemed to have low environmental impact such as scientific studies or mineral prospecting environmental impact such as scientific studies or mineral prospecting (section 20).

The results from the case studies show that flexible packaging has more preferable environmental attributes for carbon impact, fossil fuel usage, water usage, product - to - package ratio, as well as material to landfill, when compared to other package formats.

The peer - reviewed study, commissioned by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance (CPA) and conducted by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), measures the environmental impacts of a 1 kg industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2010 and shows substantial improvements over the industry - average product manufactured in 2006, as reported in the industry's first baseline LCA.

On the other side of the debate, the National Irrigators» Council chairman, Tom Chesson, demanded the government release the overdue CSIRO multiple benefits study, which is supposed to improve the understanding of how environmental benefits can be weighed against the economic impact to irrigation - dependent communities such as the Goulburn Valley in Victoria and the Murrumbidgee region in NSW.

After a three year 200,000 pound ($ 419,000) study, the London - based environmental agency concluded that disposable diapers had the same environmental impact as reusable diapers when the effects of laundering cloth diapers is taken into account.»

After a three - year, 200,000 - pound (about $ 360,000) study, the London - based Environmental Agency concluded that disposable diapers have the same environmental impact as reusable diapers when the effect of laundering cloth diapers is taken Environmental Agency concluded that disposable diapers have the same environmental impact as reusable diapers when the effect of laundering cloth diapers is taken environmental impact as reusable diapers when the effect of laundering cloth diapers is taken into account.

Long said fracking risked the possibility of «death by indecision» as the Department of Health and Department of Environmental Conservation put together a health assessment study that could push back the release of the environmental impact statement that was expected to be released by the DEC latEnvironmental Conservation put together a health assessment study that could push back the release of the environmental impact statement that was expected to be released by the DEC latenvironmental impact statement that was expected to be released by the DEC later this year.

Vanderbeek also served as Stony Point Town Engineer and was project manager and engineer in the development of sewer systems in western Ramapo, overseeing environmental impact study, survey and design.

In 2009, a previous version of the Department of Environmental Conservation's report, known as an environmental impact study, recommended allowing hydrofracking in the watersheds; environmental groups intensely cEnvironmental Conservation's report, known as an environmental impact study, recommended allowing hydrofracking in the watersheds; environmental groups intensely cenvironmental impact study, recommended allowing hydrofracking in the watersheds; environmental groups intensely cenvironmental groups intensely criticized it.

ALBANY — Opponents of shale gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing gathered in Albany on Monday to keep up the pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he prepares to decide whether to allow the practice after four years of studying its health and environmental impacts.

The release further explained that the studies would help inform the project's Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) draft as the microgrid is subject to a State Environmental Quality Review under the Department of Environmental Conservation.

«I called for a ban on fracking for natural gas as the Green gubernatorial candidate in 2010 at a time when most environmentalists urged a moratorium so that the health and environmental impacts of fracking could be studied,» Hawkins wrote.

The poll showed only 2 percent of likely voters said hydraulic fracturing for New York's natural gas reserves — commonly known as fracking and tied up in studies of the potential health and environmental impacts — was their top issue.

Two weeks ago, the landowners coalition sent a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo demanding the release of the environmental impact study on hydrofracking, known as the SGEIS.

DeFrancisco said Monday that the state should include the tunnel as one of the options in a draft environmental impact study that will compare each option based on cost, the impact on local businesses and the economy, traffic congestion and other factors.

As streams, rivers and watersheds absorb more small dams, however, surprisingly few scientific studies have considered their environmental impact, and policies or regulations are lacking or largely inconsistent.

Prof Carlos Peres, an author on the study from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, said: «Our analysis shows that even so - called «reduced - impact logging» in tropical forests can rarely be defined as sustainable in terms of forest composition and dynamics in the aftermath of logging — never mind the greater susceptibility of logged forests to catastrophic fires.

However, activists pointed out that military and civilian planes often fly over Pantex, and that a 1983 study of the environmental impact had listed a plane crash as an unlikely, but real, risk.

Studying each product's carbon footprint is a way to assess its social, environmental and economic impact — in other words how sustainable it is — which Ankathi says is «defined as helping current generations without compromising their needs or the needs of future generations.»

«As far as we know, this is the first study that's looked at the environmental impact of these materials,» says Hamers, who collaborated with the laboratories of University of Minnesota chemist Christy Haynes and UW - Madison soil scientist Joel Pedersen to perform the new worAs far as we know, this is the first study that's looked at the environmental impact of these materials,» says Hamers, who collaborated with the laboratories of University of Minnesota chemist Christy Haynes and UW - Madison soil scientist Joel Pedersen to perform the new woras we know, this is the first study that's looked at the environmental impact of these materials,» says Hamers, who collaborated with the laboratories of University of Minnesota chemist Christy Haynes and UW - Madison soil scientist Joel Pedersen to perform the new work.

Instead, the study suggests that biological differences between these two notorious closely related invasive species that are generally perceived as minor, such as the synthesis rate and attachment strength of the threads used by Dreissena to attach themselves to native unionids, can drive profound differences in environmental impacts on native communities they invade.

As climate change continues to be responsible for out - of - sync bee emergence with flowering periods and bee - specific pollination events, pollination ecology has become an ever - increasing valuable field of study that helps us understand the ecological impact of these environmental changes.

«In addition to identifying the impacts of the emissions from this particular coal - fired power plant on fetal health, the usefulness of this study's identification strategy is its potential application to other studies examining the impact of upwind states» power plant emissions, which have been the target of a series of environmental regulations, such as the EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule,» adds Yang.

Because huge expanses of the deep ocean will be exposed to changing environmental conditions as a result of climate change (Mora et al., 2013; this study), the societal impacts of climate change in the deep sea will undoubtedly be widespread, complex and dynamic.

But it turns out the chemicals used to replace BPA may have nearly the exact impact on the human body — hormone disruption — as BPA, according to a new study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Numerous studies confirm that pollutants such as heavy metals and other environmental toxins can have long - term impacts on our immunity, vitality, neurological health and more.

As a credentialed geologist, his background in environmental studies led him to understand the impact synthetic chemicals and environmental toxins have upon the human condition.

Organizations such as The Environmental Working Group and Institute for Responsible Technology are leading the way with research that shows the serious health impacts on the body from the impact of genetically modified (GM) foods There are now multiple animal studies that link GMO's with damage to the GUT, with immune disregulation, inflammation, and an increase in allergies or factors that trigger autoimmune disease.

In particular, these handouts cover the following specific content about tuberculosis in South Africa: Case study of one communicable disease, such as malaria or tuberculosis, at a country scale, either an LIDC or EDC, including: o environmental and human causes of the disease o prevalence, incidence and patterns of the disease o socio - economic impacts of the disease o direct and indirect strategies used by government and international agencies to mitigate against the disease and respond to outbreaks.

Provided as seven separate PDF documents: • Fundamentals of algorithms • Programming • Fundamentals of data representation • Computer systems • Fundamentals of computer networks • Fundamentals of cyber security • Ethical, legal and environmental impacts of digital technology on wider society, including issues of privacy These are ideal to use in the classroom, as homework tasks or for independent study as revision for the examinations.

Complete with environmental as well as socio - political impacts on each of these case studies.

This is PIJAC's largest and most expensive effort in 2017, as it is likely to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to challenge the court's decision and fund the development of an environmental impact study.

Back in late 2009, in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of Los Angeles — area bird advocacy groups against City of Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS), a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found in favor of the bird groups that LAAS programs in support of trap / neuter / return (TNR) as a community cat management strategy was in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the agency had not conducted an environmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming coEnvironmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the agency had not conducted an environmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming coenvironmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming community cats.

The new rules are expected to come as EPA finishes its two year study on the environmental impacts of fracking.

As a starting point in reviewing procedures, I encourage leadership at the University of Texas Energy Institute and similar centers focused on energy, the environment and health to consider the structure of the 32 - year - old Health Effects Institute, which was created to conduct independent studies of health impacts of air pollution and is co-funded by the Environmental Protection Agency and the worldwide motor vehicle industry.

How comprehensive was the environmental impact statement, which was drafted by an Indian consulting firm called WAPCO (for Water and Power Company) as part of its feasibility study for the project?

Dave Slade had tried to add social sciences to the Department of Energy global change budget in 1980, but the incoming DOE secretary for the Reagan Administration (president of a dentistry school from South Carolina, as I recall) stopped that (why would DOE be studying the potato famine in Ireland as an analog for the impacts of climate change on countries)-RRB- and shifted responsibility for the climate change research effort away from Dave Slade and the Office of Health and Environmental Research to the Office of Basic Energy Sciences — so focus on the hard sciences was the lesson.

Africa is a good case study on this - there is a direct correlation between for - market farming and environmental problems, while more traditional farming methods (subsistence farming, which would be better described as «needs plus») have little impact (and in some cases can be shown to be beneficial to the environment).

Researchers from Wageningen University and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research were led by Professor Han Lindeboom as they studied the short term impact of a North Sea wind farm, publishing their findings on the Environmental Research Letters website.

Long and Iles (1997) point to the US Department of Transportation's Climatic Impact Assessment Program (aimed not at the greenhouse effect but aircraft emissions) for producing, in 1975, «the first assessment to focus on social and economic measures,» (p. 6) and the 1989 US Environmental Protection Agency study as «the first extensive appearance of an economic analysis of impacts.»

Otherwise, we should use the reanalyeses for these impact studies, with, as one set of applications, perturbations prescribed in the impact models to assess at what level of change in climate statistics would result in a negative threshold being crossed in one or more key societal and / or environmental resources.

«These examples showcase the responsiveness, consistency and multisectoral capability of our approach, which we believe represents a promising direction for the climate impact modeling community,» says Sergey Paltsev, a co-author of the study and deputy director of the MIT Joint Program, as well as a senior research scientist at the MIT Energy Initiative and the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.

As many comparative studies have done before, the analysis includes an assessment of the environmental impacts associated with the fuel cycle (primary production, extraction, transportation, refining, and vehicle operation) for each of the modes includes in the tool.

Analyses of these measures by the American Council for Capital Formation, which studies economic and environmental policy, show that they will raise electricity rates as well as gas prices - costing jobs and hurting the economy - even as the EPA admits that these choices will have an insignificant impact on global climate change (a point former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson confessed during a Senate hearing in 2009).

The study, published by the brand new SUNY Buffalo's Shale Resources and Society Institute and titled «Environmental Impacts During Shale Gas Drilling: Causes, Impacts and Remedies,» was also, as we pointed out, based on likely purposefully flawed methodology.

But now, a study from Ohio State University found that the life - cycle environmental impacts of carbon nanofiber can be as much as 100 times worse than traditional materials, and another study from the University of Illinois at Chicago shows that loose regulations in nanomaterial manufacturing could mean greater environmental burdens than conventional manufacturing.

The dissenter, Alan Carlin, works as a research analyst in Washington at the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), which conducts a variety of economic analysis, including cost - benefit studies, risk assessment, and economic impact modeling.

-- which can be found here, draws upon the results of a series of UK Government - sponsored studies which employed the IPCC's emissions scenarios to project future climate change between 1990 and 2100 and its global impacts on various climate - sensitive determinants of human and environmental well - being (such as malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and habitat loss).