Sentences with phrase «at high environmental costs»

Generating energy using coal, oil, and gas also comes at high environmental costs by decreasing air quality, impacting our water resources, and negatively affecting our health.

The second reason that the Green Revolution has reached its limits is because the increase in production and productivity has come at a high environmental cost.

Coal and fossil fuels can lift people out of poverty but at a high environmental cost.

Not exact matches

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.

Poor sanitation can demand high environmental cleanup costs, and are a major drag on economic growth, notes Jaehyang So, manager of the Water and Sanitation Program at the World Bank.

«People don't realize how much time boats are spending trawling around,» says Jennifer Burney, an environmental scientist at UC San Diego who was not a party to the study, and she's not surprised to see the high climate costs of crustaceans and large pelagic species.

«We make bad decisions all the time,» says Sabine Marx, associate director at the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University, thanks to incomplete information or other barriers to action, like high up - front costs for things like insulation.

«I am almost sure that in ten years all the research on biodiversity will be done with DNA, because it will be so easy to get this type of information and the cost is not very high,» says Pierre Taberlet, a geneticist at Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, and co-editor of the April issue of Molecular Ecology, which is devoted to the emerging field of studying environmental DNA.

The highest markup is for nitrogen in your tires; it costs the dealer, at most, $ 5 per tire, but is often presented as an environmental charge.

At Hartsfield - Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), our mission is «to provide the Atlanta region a safe, secure and cost - competitive gateway to the world that drives economic development, operates with the highest level of customer service and efficiency, and exercises fiscal and environmental responsibility.»

Jeffrey R. Holmstead, a lobbyist at Bracewell & Giuliani representing energy companies and other clients, who was formerly Mr. Bush's lead regulator of air pollution at the Environmental Protection Agency, said he thought Mr. Bush could have done a better job pointing out the high costs of climate bills being pushed by Senate Democrats and some moderate Republicans.

A project led by graduate students at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara with support from the Institute for Energy Efficiency untangles the real cost of purchasing a high efficiency vehicle.

To the extent that there is model validity in saying relative profitability can be expressed as a comparison of profit / cost, then as environmental costs are pegged at or near zero, the relative profitability of environmental goods is perceived in the market as «very high», if not infinite.

Ignoring the huge environmental impact of exploration, spillages, refining and usage of oil for a second... We have to import vast amounts of oil from all over the world, some from particularly unstable areas, at a high financial cost.

The transition from a low - energy, biomass - dependent agricultural life to a high - energy, fossil - fuel - dependent industrial one came at a high human and environmental cost but also delivered significant progress.

The more we expect that we should be able to control our physical environment in all situations — and air conditioning allows us to do this with temperature and humidity, albeit at a high environmental and social cost, as authors like Stan Cox have repeatedly demonstrated — the more we psychologically need that level of control.