Sentences with phrase «concerns over the environment»

Made before there was concern over the environment, before worries about water conservation, the Tiger Stadium showers are man - sized showers, torrents of water that can't be found anywhere else.

It plays right into the hands of the pro-fossil fuel lobby and anti-environmental screeching hordes who portray concern over the environment as being comparable to wanting to take developed nations back to the Stone Age, and not simply wishing to switch to more sensible energy and materials.

Not exact matches

«If you have concerns stemming from the macro environment and that causes risk to come out of the bond market, then that may spill over to the equity markets,» he says.

Over time, as people became more and more aware of the effects commonly used products can have on the environment, plastic - happy clients who once cared mostly for cost and convenience morphed into savvy customers with real concerns about the impact polyethylene and other petroleum - based products have on the ecosystem.

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The Board of Trade is concerned that B.C.'s attempt to exert jurisdiction over coastal waterways may infringe on federal jurisdiction over navigable waterways and the coastal marine environment.

The tightening economic environment is also fueling concerns over credit quality.

Last year's sluggish start can be partially credited to concern over currencies as well as the emerging markets outlook in a rising rate environment.

«Premier Horgan went to Ottawa citing B.C.'s jurisdiction and concerns over protection of the marine environment, despite his government's recent admission that they were advised by their own legal experts last summer that BC has no jurisdiction to stop the pipeline,» said Chris Gardner, President, Independent Contractors and Businesses Association.

No matter, federal jurisdiction over the environment — including the jurisdiction to impose a national price on carbon — may also be based on its taxation power, or on its residual jurisdiction over matters of «national concern» under the Peace, Order, and Good Governance (POGG) power.

On that occasion Australian bond yields rose significantly more than those in the US, reflecting market concerns that Australia would not be able to maintain control over inflation in an environment of strong global expansion.

According to Mintel's Global New Products Database (GNPD), 52 % of US adults placed taste at the forefront when following a plant - based diet, outranking health (39 % of respondents), the environment (13 %), animal protection (10 %) and concerns over diet (10 %).

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

So many recent cultural shifts — a growing sense of alarm over childhood (and adult) obesity, a new interest in where our food comes from and how its production affects our health and environment, concern about climate change and the need to source food locally — all point in that direction.

Qualitative findings from interviews and focus group discussions with labour ward staff imply that providers do not necessarily know women's preferences, and are hesitant in allowing women to be mobile because of concern over their safety and the restrictive ward environment.

Concerns over income, a safe home environment, dietary needs, and a mom's emotions about her pregnancy can trigger preterm birth.

If you're further concerned about toxic environments, you can swap over for a non-toxic mattress instead.

BASC is raising concerns with the Welsh Environment Minister over attempts by animal rights extremists to block the letting of public land for shooting.

Environmental concerns have only become mainstream in the developed world's political systems in the last 20 years or so, but many still claim that economic objectives are routinely given precedence over the environment.

On top of this, the legal environment promotes litigation over resolving concerns in other ways and stimulates increasing numbers of claims.

The bill was granted a second reading by 3444 votes to three, but several Tory MPs stood to cast doubts on the existence of climate change, raising concerns over the party's commitment to the environment.

ELIZABETHTOWN — With just weeks until president - elect Donald Trump takes office, environmental groups in the Adirondack Park are expressing concerns over an administration they fear may be hostile to the environment.

While many county Democrats have lauded the deal as a win for the environment and public health — the plant, situated atop two fault lines, has been cited for 40 safety and operational «events» since 2012 alone — Republicans and other local community leaders have been quick to raise concerns over the economic impact of its decommissioning.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

In this group the participants felt that they had good jobs but expressed concern that over the past ten years the work environment has deteriorated continuously.

«In my eyes the main ethical issues around GM crops concern deciding what is our vision for agriculture and the environment over the next 20 years, and how we optimise the balance between food production and wildlife.»

It is generally thought that these compounds have reached the aquatic environment for as long as they have been commercially used, but only during the last decade or so has environmental research been widely conducted and concerns over the effects of pharmaceuticals in water bodies been raised.

Co-author, Dr Clement Garcia, an ecologist from the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science in Lowestoft said: «There have been concerns over the gradual erosion of our natural habitat for some time.

Forbidden under organic standards but widely included in mainstream skin and hair care, the use of synthetic volatile silicones has become more controversial since studies have raised concerns over their impact on health and pollution of the environment.

With the support of over 17,000 members we look after 37 nature reserves, campaign on issues which threaten wildlife and encourage everyone to be more concerned about our natural environment.

A concern raised at both school levels included a school's proximity to other schools, community centers, malls and shopping centers, or any public or highly trafficked areas as some of the unacceptable behaviors that can occur in these public environments may carry over into the school environment.

Although I think the concerns over the housing bubble in Canada are warranted, the regulatory and financial environment up there is significantly different than that of what we know in the US.

Contrary to the concerns over income investments declining in an inflationary environment when inflation erodes the return of income instruments, in a deflationary environment, income investments actually look more attractive.

Even though we clean it up and have had the carpets professionally cleaned, its repeated over and over and I can not have my daughter living in this environment without concern for her health as she plays on this carpet.

The biggest influence has been consumer concerns over health, safety and the environment, and the sense that natural and eco-friendly products provide a remedy to these issues.

Though her art has never been overtly political, she has over the years expressed concerns about the environment and the future of the species.

The threat to the environment is a theme in much of the work, reflecting the concern over the rapid development that is present on the island.

Displaying the breadth of his inquiries, the exhibition Painting (Organic) features three interrelated bodies of work: paintings that share concerns with sculpture; a major display of photographs that document abstraction in the built environment; and an installation of colored lights and painted live plants, the latest in a series of plant - related works that he has made over the last decade.

Importantly, Gallup's annual March update on the environment shows a drop in public concern about global warming across several different measures, suggesting that the global warming message may have lost some footing with Americans over the past year.

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third, Elizabeth Tjader (3): Although I understand your frustration and concern over the travesties humanity may have caused to the environment, your constant negativity is distressing to me.

Multiple indicators show less concern, more feelings that global warming is exaggerated By Frank Newport Gallup's annual update on Americans» attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years has become less worried about the threat of global warming, less convinced that its effects are already happening, and more likely to -LSB-...]

Notice that ditching income / company tax immediately solves that problem of a taxeating (opportunity cost) FIRB and any concerns over the Chinalcos or whomsoever else has the rights to extract resources from «our» natural environment.

For over a decade, Wallace chaired the Environment and Conservation Organizations of New Zealand (ECO), an alliance of non-governmental organizations concerned about the eEnvironment and Conservation Organizations of New Zealand (ECO), an alliance of non-governmental organizations concerned about the environmentenvironment.

Pachauri cited concern over rising sea levels, the increased frequency of drought, heat waves and severe storms, as well as threats to agriculture and adverse impacts on the environment.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) secretary has been a vocal opponent of solar subsidies since she entered office last July, citing concerns over losing land for grazing and crops, as well as driving food production overseas.

«With the concerns over fuel costs and the regulatory environment, demand is very high for these trucks.

Pragya Seeds Nepal is a Nepali NGO created by young Nepali entrepreneur that is concerned with spreading Zero Waste over Nepal, supporting the local economy and the environment through a community - approach of the obvious and worrying waste problem of this country.

But it's actually a word that has some importance in our concerns over the state of our environment.

It's a trend that reflects rising concerns over the condition, treatment, and value of the local environment and takes advantage of a clause in Peru's legal code that allows landowners to convert their property to natural reserves.