Sentences with phrase «u.s. environmental program»

The couple's choice was easy: They picked the Energy Star home, the U.S. Environmental Program's top energy ranking.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

The study, published by the Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) Climate Corps program, says that solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20 % annually in recent years, and sustainability now collectively represents four to four and a half million jobs in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 2011.

With so many U.S. corporations racing to the bottom — moving manufacturing to foreign countries for cheap labor and no environmental responsibility, taking advantage of the H1 - B Visa program to bring cheap workers in, lowering benefits and eliminating pension plans — it's refreshing to learn that some companies are taking the exact opposite approach.

The LEED rating system, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), is the foremost program for buildings, homes and communities that are designed, constructed, maintained and operated for improved environmental and human health performance.

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.

Emily has also served as a consultant for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, working to tell the stories behind their work and shed light on how public programs and services can make a difference in the lives of Americans from all walks of life.

ELIZABETHTOWN Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) is pushing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to retain funding for a federal program that monitors the impact of acid rain on local bodies of water.

Erie County, NY Department of Health» U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Lauds Erie County's Asthma Intervention & Education Program

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.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Lauds Erie County's Asthma Intervention & Education Program (11/07/13)

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.

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.

The Democrats announced a $ 2 million grant and $ 740,000 loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development's Water and Environmental Program for the Village of Whitehall.

The BUILD Act reauthorizes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Brownfields Program, and modernizes and improves on elements of the program to provide support for communities working to redevelop brownProgram, and modernizes and improves on elements of the program to provide support for communities working to redevelop brownprogram to provide support for communities working to redevelop brownfields.

Green groups have lobbied Stefanik to help retain the funding for the program, and have fretted about the Trump administration's rollbacks on environmental policies, including pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Accord and Pruitt's decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama - era policy designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plants.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science headquarters building has earned gold - level certification through the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED ®) program.

My view is that the U.S. is accomplishing something of significance,» said Robert Stavins, director of the environmental economics program at Harvard University.

«The lack of a modern glossary for resistance was recently brought to our attention by an initiative of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeking input on definitions of terms about resistance,» said Dr. Mark Whalon, one of the co-authors from Michigan State University, who directs the online Arthropod Pesticide Resistance Database and who also serves as the Entomological Society of America's Liaison to the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs.

The findings come as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency faces opposition from the pesticide industry after expanding its Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program, which requires testing of about 200 chemicals found in food and drinking water to see if they interfere with estrogen, androgens or thyroid hormones.

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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stunned scientists by canceling the four - year program less than three weeks before the deadline for grant proposals

The state has long led the U.S. in environmental regulations, from high vehicle - emissions standards to a greenhouse gas cap - and - trade program — and it has done so without sacrificing its economy.

That investigation also disclosed a little - known program overseen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that exempted more than 1,000 other drinking water aquifers from any sort of pollution protection at all, many of them in California.

Emily's background is in ecology and environmental policy, and prior to joining AAAS, she led engagement and outreach efforts at the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

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.

In the Upper Missouri River Basin, that could mean conscripting fields set aside as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), which pays farmers to leave fields fallow for environmental benefits.

Young, former co-chair of the Border Indicators Task Force for the U.S. - Mexico Border 2012 Border Environmental Program, worked on the environmental concerns of the region spanning the border and extending 100 kilometers norEnvironmental Program, worked on the environmental concerns of the region spanning the border and extending 100 kilometers norenvironmental concerns of the region spanning the border and extending 100 kilometers north and south.

Some $ 76 million of the research increase, however would come from giving NSF control of three research programs now at other agencies: the Sea Grant marine research program controlled by the Department of Commerce, and hydrology and environmental education programs run by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Environmental Protection Agency, environmental education programs run by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, respectively.

She also served as Assistant Scientific Program Director of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, an independent federal agency, where she managed the research program and developed a model of environmental research for monitoring human impacts in AntaProgram Director of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, an independent federal agency, where she managed the research program and developed a model of environmental research for monitoring human impacts in Antaprogram and developed a model of environmental research for monitoring human impacts in Antarctica.

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 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the program is based on a flawed and incomplete environmental assessment when it should be based on a thorough and scientifically backed report.

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.

U.S. government climate and environmental research programs and the Smithsonian Institution would see deep budget cuts under a 2014 spending proposal approved today by a U.S. House of Representatives panel.

In a hotly debated move, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected this unassuming rodent as the primary test animal for a vastly complex and comprehensive new chemical - evaluation program.

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.

Funding for NEPAN has been provided through competitive research grants and various programs within the U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Energy, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Department of Defense's Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), the U.S. Navy's Living Marine Resources Program (LMR) and the Naval Operations Energy and Environmental Readiness Division (N45), with some funding provided by the NOAA Ocean Acoustics Program, and the NOAA Office of Protected Resources.

There's two ways that an ongoing program to regulate greenhouse gases by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could get shut down this week by Congress or the White House.

«At one time or another, [fast reactors] were a priority program in the U.S., Japan, France, Germany, Italy and Russia,» notes physicist Thomas Cochran of the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group.

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.

The great - granddaddy of all emission markets — the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Acid Rain Program — «shows how vulnerable such a trade can be to the whims of government.

The U.S. computer industry has responded by adopting a voluntary program called Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) that is designed to provide standards for greener computers as well as to keep discarded electronics out of landfills, where the majority end up.

In addition to his commitment to updating federal chemical safety regulations, Dooley has led efforts urging Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ensure the best available science and technology are at the foundation of government science and risk assessment programs.

Most of his research has been for the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Remediation Sciences Program and its Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) pProgram and its Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) programprogram.

Acknowledgments: This work was supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research, a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education, PNNL's Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program under the Carbon Sequestration Initiative, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

This work was supported by the Genomics: GTL Program of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research.

Sponsor: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research (BER) Atmospheric System Research program.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published today in the Federal Register its plan for the Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

Acknowledgments: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Office of Basic Energy Sciences and PNNL's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program.

Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research and PNNL's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program.