Sentences with phrase «health and environment risk»

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Opponents say fracking poses a risk to public health and the environment but the industry says it is safe.

People with jobs forcing them to remain in smoke environments often had no choice but to do so - and why should they be subject to the health risks of secondhand smoke?

«The top three weighted criteria are political and social environment, medical and health considerations, and public services and transport,» explains Griffiths, adding that criteria cover factors such as ease of entry and exit, air pollution, and risk of disease.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Public Services, a superfund site is «any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.&Health and Public Services, a superfund site is «any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.&health and / or the environment.»

In addition to Legal, these include teams responsible for external affairs, compliance, health and safety, the environment, internal audit and risk.

Such a practice reduces the government's motivation to apply its best technology and most vigilant management to the safekeeping of waste; it assumes that the right to increase the risks to public health and the environment can be purchased.

In addition, all Golden Rice field trials in the Philippines are conducted under permits issued by the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology R&D, after they established that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and the environment.

The field trials were permitted by the Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology research and development, after establishing that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and environment.

We help protect our Australia's productive industries, environment and human health from pests and diseases by assessing the risks they pose, prioritising the pathways of entry and providing new technologies for surveillance and early response through sensor networks and autonomous platforms.

Autor said that the field trials would only put the Filipino's health and the environment at risk.

Those technologies that manipulate DNA artificially increase corporate control over seeds, diminish rich, diverse diets of local communities, promote monoculture, increase biosafety risks to health and environment, and need high investment and complicated regulatory frameworks which many countries lack.

Educating parents, players, coaches, and health care professionals on the signs and symptoms of concussion and the long - term health risks if concussions are not identified early and treated conservatively, and the importance of creating an environment in which athletes feel safe in reporting concussion symptoms;

In spite of technology and medical science's ability to manage complex health problems, the current maternity care environment has increased risks for healthy women and their babies.

The primary focus should be on reducing public health risks and promoting a healthy environment.

A broad range of studies have confirmed better health and development in children and more positive environments in home - visit households, and give us reason to hope that home visiting is a strategy that can improve the lives of children at risk.

The Safe Sleep for Your Baby video by the Public Health Agency of Canada provides steps to create a safe sleep environment for your baby and lower the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS.

A recent meta - analysis of 11 studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not designed for infant safety exposes the infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160 Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the concern among public health officials about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165

«Without a full, fair and open review of the potential risks of fracking in the Basin, the public will continue to question the federal government's ability to protect public health and environment.»

«This office will continue to review all options moving forward to ensure that the federal government meets its clear legal obligation to fully study the potential risks to New Yorkers» health, environment and public safety before allowing fracking in the Delaware River Basin,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

A Superfund site is land that has been contaminated and poses a risk to the environment and / or human health, per the United States Department of Health and Human Serhealth, per the United States Department of Health and Human SerHealth and Human Services.

A Superfund site is land that has been contaminated and poses a risk to the environment and / or human health, per the

Health care in the US is broken because of bad laws, a bad business environment, and a bad risk situation on many levels, throughout the industry.

Others used the event as a platform to call out the Trump administration for interfering with federally funded agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tasked with ensuring that people are protected from risks to their health and environment and that federal laws that protect human health and the environment are enforced fairly and effectively, among other things.

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.

Still, he said there are enough uncertainties about the potential risks to public health and the environment to warrant not moving ahead.

The risk of catastrophic danger to the environment, the health of New York State residents and adverse economic impacts that result from hydraulic fracturing far outweigh the potential for job creation and promotion of a natural gas alternative to oil.

AAAS CEO Rush Holt urged the Trump administration on Tuesday to work with the scientific community to reduce the risk climate change poses to human health and the environment, reiterating that climate change is real and its impacts are already evident.

Unbiased evidence is hard to come by, but the few peer - reviewed studies carried out indicate that the risks fracking poses to human health and the environment are small.

The disagreement stems from big differences in the perception of risks and benefits among many developed and developing countries, says David Heymann, chairman of the board of UK Health Protection Agency, and former Assistant Director - General for Health Security and Environment at the WHO, where he also oversaw efforts to eradicate polio.

These four types of chemicals, the EPA said, raise «serious environmental or health concerns» and in some cases «may present an unreasonable risk of injury to health and the environment.»

Once a product has been released for 20 years with no reported risks to human health and the environment, it can continue to be released or placed on the market without further approval.

This practice is clearly damaging the environment and increases the health risks of people living in these areas, and thus should be stopped,» Vengosh said.

► In this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigators.

Sunstein argues that considerations of risks to safety, health, and the environment often lead people to fear the wrong things and sometimes lead to actions that make the situation worse.

And no risk assessments for the environment or human health have been performed.»

A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has identified a novel microbial process that can break down toxic methylmercury in the environment, a fundamental scientific discovery that could potentially reduce mercury toxicity levels and support health and risk assessments.

This past summer, the Natural Resources Defense Council persuaded the agency to launch a criminal investigation of Syngenta for suppressing data on the herbicide's potential risks to the environment and to human health.

Guest editor Paul Whaley of Lancaster University Environment Centre said: «When it comes to determining the risk which chemicals pose to human health and the planet, scientists sometimes struggle to come up with a clear answer because there is no universally accepted system for weighing up the available evidence.

«A more complete understanding of the yeast adaptation response to extreme environments, such as microgravity, and the risks associated with potential infection is vital for long - term crew health and safety.

Harvard University's health and global environment initiative sponsored a talk today among evangelicals and scientists on climate change and will host one on Friday on the health risks of climate change.

«Many diseases, such as Ebola, severe sepsis, dengue, and others are thought to put survivors at increased risk of persistent health problems, but further research is needed,» said Dr. Danielle Clark, lead author on the paper and deputy director of the Austere Environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes at the Naval Medical Research Center.

«Across all countries a substantial number of people who inject drugs are living with HIV or HCV and are exposed to multiple adverse risk environments that increase health harms,» says UNSW's Professor Louisa Degenhardt, lead author of the paper reviewing prevalence of injecting drug use and HIV and Hepatitis in this population.

Since the chemicals were discovered, researchers have found a relationship between PCB concentrations in blood and decreased cognitive and thyroid function, and elevated risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension among the Mohawk Nation, said David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany.

After three meetings, the 13 - member commission's central finding is that synthetic biology offers promise for producing biofuels and new medicines but doesn't yet pose serious risks to the environment or health.

Such work could ultimately aid people affected by future disasters, by identifying factors — such as lack of a social - support network and unstable environments for children — that seem to increase risk of mental - health trauma.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) in Washington, D.C., yesterday held the first public meeting of a new committee of academic and industry researchers, tasked with forecasting what biotechnologies will emerge in the next 5 to 10 years, and what new types of risk they might pose to the environment or human health.

While some environmental leaders now cautiously support development of more nuclear reactors (which are free of fossil fuels) to help stave off climate change, others remain concerned that the risks to human health and the environment are still too high to go down that road.

Baroness Cumberlege, the junior health minister, tells me that her department recognises that passive smoking is a health risk and has attempted to encourage employers, on a voluntary basis, to develop and implement policies to control smoking so that those who wish to can work in a smoke - free environment.

The intent of the language in those bills is for the agency to focus only on the risks that a chemical poses to public health and the environment.

Widespread use of 2,4 - D carries a range of risks to human health, animals, and the environment, the groups allege.