Sentences with phrase «adverse environmental impacts»

* Members of the community and the public that are offended by the scenic impairment and other adverse environmental impacts.

In August 2008, however, the DEC affirmed that the Indian Point nuclear power plant's cooling water intake system causes adverse environmental impacts on Hudson River fish.

Last week, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote a Washington Post opinion piece in favor of natural gas development in New York state and awarded a $ 6 million grant from his philanthropic organization to the Environmental Defense Fund for work to minimize adverse environmental impacts from natural gas operations.

The Planning Board conducted a review of the project and on September 10 issued a «negative declaration» under State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) review, meaning that the Planning Board found that there would be no significant adverse environmental impacts from the project, and issued a «preliminary» site plan approval of the project subject to Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) review of «performance standards.»

In its final assessment, the environmental agency says the «construction, drilling, hydraulic fracturing, production, and reclamation phases can result in adverse environmental impacts» which can still be present decades after a well has been drilled and capped.

«We are fully committed to redressing any potential adverse environmental impact in a timely manner,» the Navy said, adding it would announce more detailed plans as they were finalized.

It's equally hard for average citizens to comprehend how more than three years of careful environmental studies are insufficient, especially after the State Department had issued several reports concluding that the pipeline would have only «limited adverse environmental impacts» in areas that are already dotted with oil wells and crisscrossed with oil and gas pipelines.

In an op - ed for the Sacramento Bee, Hickox writes, «The project will conserve enough water for 400,000 Californians each year for 50 years without causing a single adverse environmental impact.

The production of these materials consumes valuable petrochemical resources and in some cases creates adverse environmental impacts.

The goal of the report is to inform policymakers about technology options for transforming energy production, distribution, and use to increase sustainability, support long - term economic prosperity, promote energy security, and reduce adverse environmental impacts.

This report discusses the need for a sustainable intensification» of global agriculture in which yields are increased without adverse environmental impact and without the cultivation of more land.

In a letter to the Army Corps of Engineers, EPA Regional Administrator William Early said the action «reflects the magnitude and scale of anticipated direct, indirect, and cumulative adverse environmental impacts associated with this mountaintop removal mining operation.»

Highly processed and packaged organic foodstuffs have an added adverse environmental impact.

But, because newer solar panels have a smaller adverse environmental impact than older models and as their time of operation increases to mitigate the construction effects, some scientists believe the solar industry could develop a net positive environmental impact by 2018.

On Friday, State Department officials released their final environmental analysis of TransCanada's proposed pipeline, saying the project will have «limited adverse environmental impacts.»

Collart said the department is trying to «make a determination if this relatively unique fracturing technology that has not heretofore been subject to a full environmental analysis has the potential to cause significant adverse environmental impacts.»

The integrity and safety of pipelines and storage tanks is crucial, because ethanol is both flammable and, at certain concentrations, can cause adverse environmental impacts.

Yet if our energy consumption keeps increasing, there is nothing that can mitigate the adverse environmental impacts.

Members of the press, ladies and gentlemen, small scale mining, like any other economic activity, is bound to generate some adverse environmental impact.

Long - story short, in June, the town adopted six resolutions that stated the casino project would not result in any significant adverse environmental impacts.

Quoting acting DEC deputy commissioner Thomas Berkman's reference to the project's «potential for significant adverse environmental impacts,» the document states, «the very large number of affected communities demands a scoping process that can accommodate their effective participation to identify issues of local and regional concern.»

Work on the Lago site near the Thruway between Rochester and Syracuse was halted this summer after an appeals court faulted the way the town board determined that the project would have no significant adverse environmental impacts.

«There are serious environmental impacts underlying these concerns and these adverse environmental impacts need to be prevented, reduced and, where possible, eliminated as soon as possible,» says the report.

The adverse environmental impact of animal agriculture, 2016.

The coal industry and the state of West Virginia challenged the veto, asserting that EPA could only block a permit before issuance — even though the law specifically gives the EPA the authority to veto a mining waste discharge «whenever» it would have adverse environmental impact.

Many environmentalists are concerned that the Peace Conduit will have adverse environmental impacts.

The federal Clean Water Act requires power plants to use the Best Technology Available (BTA) to minimize the adverse environmental impacts of cooling water intake structures.

Currently, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency is responsible for conducting EAs and the Minister decides whether a project is likely to have significant adverse environmental impacts.