Sentences with phrase «ensure public health and the environment»

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«We can ensure the public that we will deliver on the promise to better protect public health and the environment.»

For an economic system to be responsible it is also necessary that it include adequate public health and safety regulations to ensure that industrial practices do not endanger employees or the present or future public welfare, and also that it provide adequate protection of the natural environment.

«This office will continue to review all options moving forward to ensure that the federal government meets its clear legal obligation to fully study the potential risks to New Yorkers» health, environment and public safety before allowing fracking in the Delaware River Basin,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

«We will continue to advance the latest treatment technologies to ensure our public drinking water systems are safeguarded from these unregulated chemicals that threaten the health of citizens and the environment,» Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said in a news release announcing the approval of the Suffolk system.

«The DEC's involvement in the environmental review process is critical to ensure that both the environment and public health and safety will be properly assessed,» said Catskill Mountainkeeper Programs Manager Jessica Roff.

He hopes the lessons learned in Massachusetts will be of value as the ACA becomes implemented nationwide — particularly in ensuring that the essential public health mission continues to survive and thrive in a changing health care environment.

NIH Clinical Center (CC)-- Est. in 1953 The NIH Clinical Center, America's research hospital, provides a versatile clinical research environment enabling the NIH mission to improve human health by investigating the pathogenesis of disease; conducting first - in - human clinical trials with an emphasis on rare diseases and diseases of high public health impact; developing state - of - the - art diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic interventions; training the current and next generations of clinical researchers; and, ensuring that clinical research is ethical, efficient, and of high scientific quality.

The report contained 18 recommendations designed to help ensure that, as synthetic biology advances, the risks and ethical concerns are proactively addressed, the public is continually engaged, and oversight mechanisms are assessed and adjusted as needed to protect public health and the environment.

DOT also remains committed to bringing government decisionmaking closer to communities and people affected by these decisions, and ensuring opportunities for greater public participation in providing input into these decisions relating to human health and the environment.

The Energy Commission shall use these assessments and forecasts to develop energy policies that conserve resources, protect the environment, ensure energy reliability, enhance the state's economy, and protect public health and safety.»

Importantly, safety standards also safeguard public health and the environment, ensuring that communities and habitats surrounding industry sites across the country thrive.

The letter begins, «As leading US environmental and science organizations, we write to express our strong opposition to «fast track» trade promotion authority, and to urge you to oppose any legislation that would limit the ability of Congress to ensure that trade pacts deliver benefits for communities, workers, public health, and the environment.»

The 2009 Integrated Energy Policy Report was prepared in response to Senate Bill 1389 (Bowen, Chapter 568, Statutes of 2002), which requires that the California Energy Commission prepare a biennial integrated energy policy report that contains an integrated assessment of major energy trends and issues facing the state's electricity, natural gas, and transportation fuel sectors and provides policy recommendations to conserve resources; protect the environment; ensure reliable, secure, and diverse energy supplies; enhance the state's economy; and protect public health and safety (Public Resources Code, Section 25301 [a]public health and safety (Public Resources Code, Section 25301 [a]Public Resources Code, Section 25301 [a]-RRB-.

Environmental, health and safety legislation set standards in order to ensure that foreign investments were not detrimental to the environment and the health and safety of the workers and the public.

• First - hand experience in building a community of creative learning practices across the school for each after school program • Track record of facilitating the long term development of creative teaching and learning at a structural level • Well - versed in coordinating development and implementation of afterschool programs based on each student's individual needs • Deeply familiar with utilizing positive strategies to support the social and emotional development of all enrolled students • Exceptionally talented in creating and implementing activities that promote physical and intellectual development of students • Documented success in building and maintaining positive and genuine relationships with students and their families • Qualified to develop procedures and policies for smooth operations of after school programs • Ability to create and maintain records of students and correlating assessments • Especially talented in recruiting, hiring and training staff members to carry out the logistics of after school programs • Proficient in monitoring after school program environments to ensure that all health and safety policies are set in place • Adept at overseeing program staff, operations and services associated with after school programs • Competent in preparing a variety of documents and reports, including incident reports and daily program content • Skilled in facilitating partnerships with appropriate public and private agencies that provide services to both students and their families

Adolescence is characterized by major biological, psychological and social challenges and opportunities, where interaction between the individual and environment is intense, and developmental pathways are set in motion or become established.2 — 4 Furthermore, adolescent psychopathology can have important consequences for education, relationships and socioeconomic achievement in later life.5 — 7 These characteristics of adolescence do not only set high demands for cohort studies aiming to capture the most salient aspects of developmental pathways, they also ensure a great gain in empirical knowledge and an invaluable source of information for public health policy from such studies.

She said the federal government has an «obligation» to «ensure our actions do not favor development that adversely affects the environment and public health.»