Sentences with phrase «national environmental program»

Historically, media coverage of climate change has followed international and domestic efforts to take action, starting in the mid-1980s by the United National Environmental Program and World Meteorological Organization.

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Universities receive funding through the Joint Fire Science Program, which is jointly funded by the Interior Department and the Forest Service, and indirectly through other agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the Defense Department's environmental research programs and NASA.

In developing the National OCS Program, which has also been known as a Five Year Program, the Secretary is required to achieve an appropriate balance among the potential for environmental impacts, for discovery of oil and gas, and for adverse effects on the coastal zone.

Specific policies include encouraging job creation and innovation in the new energy economy; improving the fairness of employment standards (including re-establishing the National Minimum Wage; reversing «tax giveaways» to corporations; introducing and maintaining balanced budgets; protecting Canadians from «price gouging» by businesses; implementing income stabilization programs for farmers; promoting long - term economic and environmental sustainability of marine and forestry resources; and re-investing in education, skills training and apprenticeships to help Canadians succeed in the economy.

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My husband and I have been invited to talk about Jesus in unexpected places, including National Public Radio programs, college auditoriums, and environmental conferences.

While the debate continues over potential pesticide accumulation in compost sourced from conventional feedstock, National Organic Program (NOP) Guidance 5016 helps to address the requirements of unavoidable residual environmental contamination (UREC).

In addition to its work in Côte d'Ivoire, Mondelēz International is also supporting national forest - related emission reduction programs in Ghana, where Cocoa Life is implementing its environmental strategy alongside the United Nations Development Program.

The Pork Checkoff funds national and state programs in advertising, consumer information, retail and foodservice marketing, export market promotion, production improvement, technology, swine health, pork safety and environmental management.

There he worked on environmental projects, cultural programs, and community events ranging from adventure triathlons to national conferences.

South Cape Beach State Park is the state - run accessible beach and campground part of the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, which offers marine and environmental education programs alongside its research efforts.

Next year both the European Union Environmental Commission and the U.S. National Toxicology Program will establish panels to examine the health effects of BPA based on recent findings indicating that a new assessment of this ubiquitous chemical is now needed.

Working with the Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust, Lowell Public Schools, Lowell National Historical Park, Community Teamwork, Inc., Girls, Inc. of Lowell, and the Lowell YWCA, Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary offers environmental education programming for Lowell youth in grades 5 - 12.

Earlier in the day, the state departments of Environmental Conservation and Health requested the EPA add the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. plant and other possible sources of contamination in Hoosick Falls to the National Priorities List under the federal Superfund program and investigate contamination sources.

The workshop is sponsored by New York Sea Grant (NYSG) with additional funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Community Climate Adaptation Initiative Program and the Environmental Protection Fund under the authority of the New York Ocean and Great Lakes Ecosystem Conservation Act.

The fifth annual Lexus ECO Challenge is a national contest that encourages middle and high school students to develop and implement environmental programs that positively impact their communities.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics site in Hoosick Falls, NY to the Superfund program's National Priorities List.

We learned through an announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that the USEPA has added the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics McCaffrey Street facility in Hoosick Falls to the Superfund program's National Priorities List.

The $ 1.9 million program began with the AmeriCorps public service group and the Student Conservation Association, a national organization that connects students with environmental stewardship programs.

Beck, who has residences in Florida and Syracuse, ran national water and waste management programs during the late 1970s as assistant administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is known for its scholarly involvement in fields like oceanography and the weather, but one program seeks to increase minority participation in the marine, environmental, and atmospheric sciences by offering internships and academic courses in these fields.

The proposal also calls for deep cuts to the research programs at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and a 5 % cut to NASA's earth science budget.

These cuts, if enacted, will impact science programs and R&D at the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy and more, as well as at the Environmental Protection Agency, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and elsewhere.

A House - Senate deal to fund the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration includes enough cash to stabilize the nation's struggling environmental satellite program, a top agency official said yesterday.

The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

For example, the administration is repeating its 2018 call to eliminate DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, research programs at the Environmental Protection Agency, and research projects at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey.

The study, which is being conducted under the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund program, is the first time the EPA has undertaken its own water analysis in response to complaints of contamination in drilling areas, and it could be pivotal in the national debate over the role of natural gas in America's energy policy.

But a number of federal research programs and projects remain in Trump's cross hairs, including five of NASA's Earth science missions and various research, including on climate or environmental science, at the EPA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey.

«These scientists combined citizen science observations with data from radar, satellites and weather predictions to understand the cues birds use in their migrations across continents,» said Liz Blood, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research through NSF's MacroSystems Biology Pprogram director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, which funded the research through NSF's MacroSystems Biology ProgramProgram.

The new head of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program is attempting to uncover what role chemicals and contaminants may play in human health

«Given that approximately 12 percent of human cancers worldwide may be attributed to viruses, and there are no vaccines currently available for these five viruses, prevention strategies to reduce the infections that can lead to cancer are even more critical,» said Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and National Toxicology Program (NTP).

«Folks are going out into nature much less and decreasingly every year,» says conservation ecologist Patricia Zaradic of the Environmental Leadership Program and co-author of the report published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Susan Euling, now employed as a biologist with the EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment, found the Environmental Fellows Program to be the perfect way to combine her love of the environment with her laboratory training as a postdoc in developmental biology.

Many U.S. government sources, including programs at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation fund postdocs in environmental Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation fund postdocs in environmental environmental geochemistry.

The proposal also calls for deep cuts to the research programs at the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and a 5 % cut to NASA's earth science budget.

I used the PDN database to locate other offices and check on their programs, I looked at other NIH intramural programs, and drew from my own experiences as a postdoc at NIEHS [National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences] and as a faculty member at an academic institution.»

The Trump administration's fiscal 2018 budget proposal, which Congress must approve, would sharply reduce and in some cases eliminate funding for science programs at the Environmental Protection Agency, climate - related science research programs at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and cut in half research and development programs at the Energy Department.

Additional support provided by the Advanced Scientific Computing Research and Biological and Environmental Research programs within the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, along with the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets at the University of Kansas through National Science Foundation grant ANT - 0424589.

Computer time was awarded by the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program; the project also used resources of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

«It's a significant problem,» says Jef French, acting chief of the Host Susceptibility Branch of the National Toxicology Program at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

A task force meeting on 6 and 7 May in Washington, D.C., will feature «invited speakers from the National Academies, the American Chemical Society, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Board, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oak Ridge National Lab, Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association, and American Biological Safety Association,» according to the announcement.

«The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences was born out of the notion that we were living in a sea of chemicals,» says Gwen Collman, a program manager at the institute who works with Perera today.

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Jagai and her colleagues used the U.S. EPA's Environmental Quality Index, a county - level measure incorporating more than 200 of these environmental variables and obtained cancer incidence rates from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program State CanEnvironmental Quality Index, a county - level measure incorporating more than 200 of these environmental variables and obtained cancer incidence rates from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program State Canenvironmental variables and obtained cancer incidence rates from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program State Cancer Profiles.

Birnbaum, director of both the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Toxicology Program in Washington, D.C., noted that some chemicals, such as those that mimic human hormones, may combine with other hormonelike chemicals at low doses to produce big effects.

«The capabilities of our ancestors and the environmental forces leading to early stone technology are a great scientific mystery,» said Richard Potts, director of the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, who was not involved in the research.

The research was funded by the National Science Foundation, NASA, MSU AgBioResearch, MSU Graduate Office, and the MSU Environmental Science and Policy Program.

This work was supported by the National Insitute of Environmental Health Sciences through the Superfund Research Program at Boston University, the Hudson River Foundation, and a National Science Foundation grant.

It was supported by a National Environmental Research Program Tropical Ecosystems Hub Project grant and an Australian Research Council Linkage, Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities grant.