Sentences with phrase «environmental affairs said»
On the fact that the very existence of climate change is questioned, Buyelwa Sonjica, South Africa's minister of water & environmental affairs said: «All that we do depends on sciences and their validity.
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According to the Jerusalem Post, Prince Turki bin Nasser, the Saudi official in charge of environmental affairs said the UN should establish an Arab - only environment training center instead.
More than 1,000 rhinos were poached for their horns in South Africa in 2013, a record number and an increase of over 50 percent from the previous year, the country's department of environmental affairs said on Friday.
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«This was not a backroom deal,» said Gavin Molloy, United's vice president for corporate real estate and environmental affairs.
The revision process, which includes conducting environmental impact studies and taking public comments, has taken about two years in the past, said Connie Gillette, chief of public affairs for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the unit of the Interior Department that oversees the lease schedule.
«From a manufacturing and financial perspective, we're always looking at crunching numbers and analyzing our production costs per unit,» says Robert Planter, corporate manager of safety and environmental affairs.
«When you discuss sustainability within the California wine community, it is not just a statement of a program but an imbedded philosophy that we live by each and every day,» said CSWA Board Chairman Chris Savage, Senior Director of Environmental Affairs at E. & J. Gallo Winery.
Advancing the practices for sustainability is also a prime motivator for the industry's vintners and growers,» said Chris Savage, Director of Environmental Affairs at E. & J. Gallo Winery and Co-chair of the Wine Institute Technical Committee's Environmental Working Group.
Allison Jordan, executive director of the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance and director of environmental affairs for the statewide Wine Institute, said the alliance's workbook has served as a guide for growers looking to become more sustainable.
Richard K. Sullivan, Jr., Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees all state land conservation, said, «Since taking office, Governor (Deval) Patrick has made a historic $ 230 million investment in land conservation focused on three goals: investing in urban parks, preserving working farms and forests, and protecting large natural landscapes for habitat.
Speaking yesterday, Head of Public Affairs Unit for LASECORPS, Rahmat Alabi, said the arrest was in line with the Environmental Sanitation Law, 2015.
«We fully support this well - conceived proposal, urge the Adirondack Park Agency Board to adopt it at their February board meeting, and look forward to seeing the economic and environmental benefits it will unleash,» said Stuart Gruskin, chief conservation and external affairs officer in a statement.
«It could be a fantastic tool,» says Greg Skomal, a fisheries scientist at the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs in Boston, Massachusetts.
«We found substantial evidence that Appalachian coal communities are working to shed the culture of coal and develop new opportunities and an evolving conception of identity based on these opportunities,» said researcher Sanya Carley of IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
«These are environmental sacrifice zones that the environmental justice movement has been fighting for 30 years,» said Robert Bullard, dean of the Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University, who is considered the «father» of environmental justice.
With this closed - loop system, Dell uses fewer natural resources by «leveraging consumer recycling programs to recover waste electronics, and the plastics from those products are being recycled into new Dell products,» said Scott O'Connell, the company's director of environmental affairs.
«President Trump said on the campaign trail that he would stand up for the people and industries that have been left behind by his predecessor's environmental agenda,» said Chrissy Harbin, vice president of external affairs for Americans for Prosperity.
Her predecessor, Jim Connaughton, now executive vice president for corporate public affairs and environmental policy at Constellation Energy, disputes the anecdote: «If anything, I used a blue pen, because I wanted to make sure our documents were quite clear,» he says.
«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
They also highlight the need for more studies of this nature to give us a better idea of the cities and landscapes that are most affected now and also under additional greenhouse warming,» said co-lead author Michael Oppenheimer, the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Geosciences.
«Reduction in solar generation due to clouds has been a primary focus in the past,» said Denise L. Mauzerall, a professor of Environmental Engineering and International Affairs who serves as Li's faculty adviser and helped develop the study.
«Every additive that we use is very carefully evaluated, not just by the industry, but also independently by government agencies to look at all the materials we use in plastics,» said Mike Neal, a consumer and environmental affairs specialist at PlasticsEurope, an industry trade association, and a co-author of the report.
«Our analysis provides a framework for understanding how such policies would benefit China's water use in the future,» said study co-author Denise Mauzerall, professor of environmental engineering and international affairs.
«Around the world, people are leaving rural areas and moving into cities, potentially creating new opportunities to restore forests on abandoned farmland,» said co-author David Wilcove, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Insaffairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental InsAffairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute.
«While both bills are improvements — and people may argue about that — it doesn't create a system where we're going to be able to efficiently get the answers about risks of all the chemicals out there,» says David Konisky, an associate professor of public policy at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
A $ 1 increase would result in 9,700 (9.6 percent) fewer reported cases of child neglect annually as well as a likely decrease in cases of physical abuse, said Lindsey Rose Bullinger of IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
It just makes sense to over-comply early on using relatively inexpensive technology,» says Jim Kliesch, environmental regulatory affairs manager at American Honda Motor Company.
«As air quality standards become more stringent, people are going to be thinking about other technologies that can reduce pollution,» said Jonathan D. Raff, assistant professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Bloomington and an author of the study.
«The Trump administration, and President Trump himself, have made it seem like it will be easy to wipe away environmental protections for the American people,» David Goldston, director of government affairs for the NRDC, said in an interview.
Understanding how much society values those future people should be an influential component of climate policy decisions,» said Noah Scovronick, co-lead author and a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
At the same time policymakers need to know the future of sea - level rise, and they need as robust a prediction as we can give,» said Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton's Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute and first author of the paper.
«Typically when you talk about environmental migrants, everybody has these images of helpless refugees,» said Pratikshya Bohra - Mishra, a postdoctoral scholar at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and lead author of the report.
The Fellows» work has been good for science in many ways, said Kerri - Ann Jones, assistant U.S. secretary of state for oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs, and a 1985 — 86 Diplomacy Fellow.
Scott Faber, Senior VP of Government Affairs for the Environmental Working Group and Executive Director of Just Label It, said that no one is surprised that the House Agriculture committee has landed on the anti-labeling side of the debate.
«We continue to feel that the approach we were arguing in support of at time of decision was an appropriate one,» Ann R. Klee, the company's vice president for environmental affairs, said in an interview on Friday.
«We want to be responsible to the environment and our neighbors and minimize the environmental impact, said Sam Sleiman, director of capital programs and environmental affairs at the Massachusetts Port Authority, which operates Logan.
The Fort McKay First Nation just downstream from Suncor said it has tried to get details from the Alberta government about which chemicals were released, but the data «hasn't materialized,» said Daniel Stuckless, manager of environmental and regulatory affairs for Fort Mackay.
Addressing participants Ms Shamiso Najira, Deputy Director of the Department of Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining said; «Without proper information, or adequate or accurate information, it would be impossible to undertake interventions that would have an impact on the communities»
«Although many engineers, environmentalists and politicians are enthusiastic about electric vehicle technology, this survey reveals that new car buyers, based on early impressions, have little interest in purchasing plug - in vehicles,» said John D. Graham, dean of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and a co-author of the study.
While discussing a UN report about rising carbon dioxide levels, chief environmental affairs correpondent Anne Thompson said that many scientists are worried about these CO2 levels but «some disagree, saying those fears are wildly overblown.»
«We really believe that railways are part of the climate change solution,» says Michael Gullo, RAC's director of policy, economic and environmental affairs.
Julio Legos is «the High Park Group's Director of Regulatory Affairs, whose biography says, «Julio's practice at HPG is focused on federal and provincial energy and environmental law and policy, particularly as they affect Canadian industry.»»
«We're just going back to the rules of the road as we knew them,» said Vince Brisini, director of environmental affairs for Olympus Power, a fossil fuel and renewable energy projects investor and manager.
This hasn't been a great month for Apple: bad publicity for waging war on the little guy and the art of self - repair with the Pentalobe screw, the unfortunate news that Steve Jobs» health has taken a bad turn, and now a report coming out of China that puts the company last in a list of 29 tech giants ranked for their responses on pollution and workers» rights, including occupational health hazards, at their suppliers» factories.The report, written by the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs with a coalition of other Chinese NGOs, says that behind the company's stylish image, «Apple products have a side that many do not know about — pollution and poison.
So far, over 60 million people have been reached and we are continuing the initiative following the great response», says Cecilia Nord, Vice President - Floor Care Sustainability and Environmental Affairs, Electrolux.
Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles said the decision was essential if the United States wants to catch up with Europe and China, which have offshore wind power.
Local REALTORS ® saw it as an unfair burden on the new homeowners, says Tom Larson, director of land use and environmental affairs for the Wisconsin Association of REALTORS ®.