Sentences with phrase «based environmental agency»

After a three - year, 200,000 - pound (about $ 360,000) study, the London - based Environmental Agency concluded that disposable diapers have the same environmental impact as reusable diapers when the effect of laundering cloth diapers is taken into account.

After a three year 200,000 pound ($ 419,000) study, the London - based environmental agency concluded that disposable diapers had the same environmental impact as reusable diapers when the effects of laundering cloth diapers is taken into account.»

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The analysis assumed each car drove 15,000 miles — roughly the national average — at a rate of 30 kilowatt hours of electricity per 100 miles, based on the median mileage rate for Tesla Model 3 and Model S vehicles, according to figures reported to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Bangalore - based Solaron Sustainability Services Pvt Ltd, a Big Data and cloud - based rating agency which offers ESG (environmental,...

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), «Sustainability is based on a simple principle.

A: A critical element of Target's efforts to combat food waste is prioritizing strategies based on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Food Recovery Hierarchy.

CSWA Farm Plan Template: The CSWA Farm Plan template is based on the California Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Workbook, Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing, and the LandSmart ® for Vineyards Farm Plan, Version 4.0 developed by the Sonoma Resource Conservation District (RCD), Napa County RCD, Mendocino County RCD and Gold Ridge RCD in collaboration with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), land managers, and environmental agencies.

Park officials said the lake water is tested every weekday, and swimming bans or advisories are based on Environmental Protection Agency guidelines.

Researchers with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claimed that any amount of ingestion of pesticide - laced lanolin by a newborn was unacceptable, and that standards and limits of pesticides shouldn't be arbitrarily set based on regulations used for food.

Those who'll find MAPPR most useful include conservation nonprofits, community - based land trusts, municipal planning departments and conservation commissions, Massachusetts and federal environmental agencies, and educational institutions.

Environmental Protection Agency: «Lead - Based Paint,» «Ten Tips to Protect Children from Pesticide and Lead Poisonings,» «Protecting Children from Pesticides,» «Citizen's Guide to Pest Control and Pesticide Safety,» «Do's and Don'ts of Pest Control,» «Introduction to Indoor Air Quality.»

We also need to get everything sorted for environmental agencies, financial watchdogs, competition authorities and countless other bodies most of us don't think about on a day - to - day basis.

First, after months of resisting the idea, DEC Commissioner Joe Martens announced that Cuomo's health department would undertake a health impact review, based on data collected by his agency, before a much - anticipated environmental impact assessment would be finished.

Martens said based on the information gathered, he directed his agency to complete the State Environmental Quality Review process and to publish a final Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement, or SGEIS, next year.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has developed a checklist to help communities prepare for floods based on the experiences of communities in Vermont's Mad River Valley.

Governor Cuomo has said repeatedly that the matter will be decided on the basis of science and facts, and won't be announced until his environmental agency signals that it is ready.

Updating theses forms will improve the quality of information provided to the lead agency, include more useful information based on existing practices, and help to consolidate information gathering that the Department expects may lead to greater efficiencies in the environmental review process.

Empire State Development, the state's primary business development agency, received board approval last month to enter into a two - year contract with Manhattan - based firm AKRF to provide environmental review support to the Belmont winning developer.

Countdown Begins on Remodeling, Repairing and Paint Rules «New EPA Regs Aimed at Decreasing Lead Poisoning» In less than a month, all contractors who perform renovations, painting and remodeling that might disturb lead - based paint in houses, child care facilities and schools built before 1978 will be required to meet stricter guidelines under the new regulations established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Oneida County Health Department officials said today.

Walter Hang, with the Ithaca - based Toxics Targeting, says his group already found instances where the existing pipeline violated state pollution standards, so the state environmental agency should issue a new certification.

Oneida County's housing stock is among the oldest in New York State, and while sturdy and architecturally aesthetic, is covered with lead - based paints requiring specialized knowledge of lead - safe work practices compliant with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations that went into effect in 2010.

First, after months of resisting the idea, DEC Commissioner Joe Martens announced that Cuomo's health department would undertake a health impact review, based on data collected by his agency, before a much anticipated environmental impact assessment would be finished.

His environmental agency says it will review the pipeline permits and make a decision based on «sound science.»

Cuomo has said repeatedly that the matter will be decided on the basis of science and facts, and will not be announced until his environmental agency signals that it is ready.

The Falls Creek Gorge in Ithaca will get attention from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency due to lead at the base of the gorge.

«And DEC, the state's environmental agency, is going through an exhaustive scientific review and will make the decision based on the science and the facts,» said Cuomo.

The Adirondack Park Agency has asked the Chicago - based firm to submit a jurisdictional inquiry, and the state Department of Environmental Conservation has said they will «closely evaluate» any storage proposal.

Fellow Session: Community - Based Social, Ecological, and Health Assessments 10:00 - 11:30 am Room 306 (Hynes Convention Center) Wendy Heiger - Bernays, 2015 - 16 Executive Branch Fellow at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Maryann Cairns, 2015 - 17 Executive Branch Fellow at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Margaret Murphy, 2015 - 17 Executive Branch Fellow at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

ScienceInsider reported this week that the U.S. Senate rejected a resolution last week that would have blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions based on its finding that they endanger human health, among other stories.

«The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) might all lay claim,» Servick wrote, and «many new technologies don't fit neatly into the purview of one office,» according to a report from the Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington, D.C. — based think tank.

«Any agency's proposed rulemaking must have a rational basis behind it,» says Robert Routh, an attorney for the Clean Air Council, a Philadelphia environmental organization among those challenging the methane rule suspension.

The study, published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, is based on a new high - resolution model that maps flood risk across the entire continental United States, whereas the existing regulatory flood maps produced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) cover about 60 percent of the continental U.S.

Environmental Fellows are based at the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) headquarters in D.C..

Or as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency put it in a June 23 statement, «EPA has no data, information or scientific basis that suggests that oil mixed with dispersant could possibly evaporate from the Gulf into the water cycle.»

Based on the guidance from the US Environmental Protection Agency and the experience from the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents, populations in the red and orange areas would have to be relocated for many years, and many in the yellow area would relocate voluntarily.

Notably, under Smith, the Science Committee has railed against U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations that are based on what he often refers to as «secret science.»

Based on observed cancer rates at high exposures, studies have estimated the increased cancer risk from lifetime exposure at the 1 ppm level to be between 0.7 and 2.5 percent, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A lack of rules regulating the registration of raw ivory and the licensing of importers, wholesalers, manufacturers and retailers has allowed illicit stocks into Japan's domestic market, according to the report by the independent London - based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).

«Due to advanced technology used at U.S. - based coal burning power plants, mandated by the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency, most of these nanoparticles and other tiny particles are removed before the final emission of the plant's exhaust gases,» Hochella said.

The Secret Science Reform Act of 2014, which would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from making regulations based upon science that is not «transparent or reproducible,» contains terms that could be misinterpreted, according to a letter to Congress from Alan I. Leshner, AAAS Chief...

«It's a double - edged sword,» says Julian Newman, a senior campaigner with the London - based Environmental Investigation Agency, which has tracked the ivory trade extensively.

It turns out that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been underestimating how much natural gas leaks based on its own surveys.

-- Test procedures for bottle type water dispensers shall be based on «Energy Star Program Requirements for Bottled Water Coolers version 1.1» published by the Environmental Protection Agency.

What's more, all units had formaldehyde at levels above risk - based screening levels set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Interior volume shall be based on the method shown in the Environmental Protection Agency's «Energy Star Program Requirements for Commercial Hot Food Holding Cabinets» as in effect on August 15, 2003.

And yet the current administration is quietly and deliberately dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency, along with its scientific expertise, information systems and consensus - based policy recommendations.

For example, in 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as a form of air pollution, based on evidence that such emissions were changing Earth's climate.

The researchers say their figures are based on provincial - level data from the Chinese Environmental Protection Agency.

Researchers gave each piece of produce a score based on its level of detectable pesticides, its level of pesticides that exceeded the tolerance level established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and whether the produce had three or more types of detectable pesticides.

There is actually a chart put out by the Environmental Protection Agency that talks about how much tuna you should eat based off your weight and if you look at your chart — let's assume, Ace, for example you're about a 150 lb man.