Sentences with phrase «environmental damage we've done»

The government's policy is also, in part, a reaction to a growing awareness of the environmental damage done by fossil fuels, especially global warming.

4 — Environmental damage doesn't scale upwards: Although it seems like this would have been the easiest thing to fix, the developers decided not to bother, and instead removed almost all of the opportunities for environmental damage from the game.

Coal is usually figured to generate electricity at 5 cents a kilowatt hour, though if you took into account the environmental damage it does that would be more like 45 cents a kilowatt hour.

The truth, of course, is that these industries aren't competitive without massive subsidies and require ignoring the environmental damage they do.

How much environmental damage do we have to see before people like the BDLG say, «yes, we want to do our bit to slow down climate change»?

Since they would have not seen much man - made environmental damage they did not write about the need to protect the environment in the context of their view of God.

If pollutants or other environmental damage done by your company lead to bodily harm or property damage to others, your environmental liability insurance coverage will provide compensation for any accrued costs.

Not exact matches

The Province of B.C. is willing to make significant environmental sacrifices for projects that will bring economic benefits to the Province of B.C.. On the other hand, they will block a project needed by a land - locked sister province, a project that would benefit all of Canada, claiming that they are doing so because they must protect the environment, protect the land from damage and reduce global warming.

But here is the thing... just because we don't want to go off the deep end and idolize nature or damage and destroy human lives for the sake of nature, this does not mean that we can ignore the environmental needs of the world or just consume and destroy the natural resources of this plant in any way we want.

Unless we feel the effects of environmental damage directly, as do so many of the poor, or unless we are enriched by cultural perspectives that are explicitly biocentric rather than anthropocentric, as are many influenced by African, Asian, and Native American traditions, we tend to disregard nature in our social analyses and in our concept of full community.

We must not do irreparable environmental damage.

It is a better prospect than continuation of the trend of the 1980s, but many of us think it is still too large and will extend the damage to the already beleagured Australian environment, unless Australians discover ways of making a smaller environmental impact than they do at present.

China does not have river treaties with other nations, making downstream countries vulnerable to water supply disruptions and other environmental damages.

Recall that the Economic Community Of West African State, ECOWAS, Court of Justice had in December 2012 ordered the government to hold oil companies and other perpetrators of the environmental damage accountable, ensure reparation for the collective harm done to the communities; restore within the shortest possible time the environment of the Niger Delta; and prevent the occurrence of damage to the environment.

The measures «do not address the fundamental implication of the very serious decline in commercial fishing productivity and the damage that present fishing practices and other activities are doing to the marine ecosystem,» Ms Lucas added, commenting on a report by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution 2004.

FEMA and the State Department of Environmental Conservation are doing a damage assessment in the region, and if the damage exceeds $ 27.5 million, it will qualify for federal aid.

Environmental advocates have argued that the previous plan impacted wetlands and did other damage to the environment.

«Cuomo risks damaging his environmental and political legacy if he does not stop the project after significant questions have been raised about its approval,» said Pramilla Malick, from Protect Orange County, which opposes the plant.

«The bright spot of this legislative session was Assemblyman Latimer's fight to repair damage done in year's past to the Environmental Protection Fund.

«While environmental enrichment didn't seem to significantly influence the number of neurons [that were damaged],» explains Tsai, «it does induce the growth of dendrites and high numbers of synapses,» both of which are neuronal structures that underlie how brain cells communicate with one another.

For example, Lawrence B. Lindsey, President Bush's assistant for economic policy, says the Kyoto Protocol, which calls on nations to limit their CO2 production, «could damage our collective prosperity and, in so doing, put our long - term environmental health at risk.»

But fish farms are also notoriously difficult to regulate and prone to accidental release: Asian carp in the Midwest (introduced to clean algae from the farms), Louisiana crayfish in China and Atlantic salmon in the southern Pacific have all done substantial environmental damage after escaping from fish farms.

Jones investigated the environmental effects of every stage in the manufacture and use of each type of powder, and concludes that ordinary powders, which contain phosphates, do no more damage than phosphate - free powders.

BEIJING (Reuters)- China has issued a «behavioural standards» guide to combat pollution and reduce environmental damage, urging people to do everything from walking and riding bicycles to buying goods with less packaging.

«We don't yet know where internal decay and damage rank as a cause of tree mortality,» says Greg Gilbert, lead author of the article and Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

«One of the greatest uncertainties in EU environmental legislation is that we do not know the precise effects of synergistic chemicals when determining the scale of damage to nature from chemical cocktails,» says environmental chemistry professor and lead researcher, Nina Cedergreen.

Researchers are divided over how much damage environmental exposure to low doses has done since Chernobyl.

The French steadfastly deny that any significant environmental damage is being done.

You also gain natural vitamins and minerals, as well as antioxidants and enzymes that assist your body in working to flush toxins and combat the damage done by poor food choices, stress, lack of sleep, and exposure to environmental toxins.

Not only do they protect your eyes from UV damage, but they can shield your eyes from the glare of the sun, wind, dust, and other environmental conditions that can encourage puffy eyes.

There is some dispute about the long - term environmental damage, but according to an article in the NY Times, «a 1993 study sponsored by UNESCO, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the United States found the spill did «little long - term damage»... About half the oil evaporated, a million barrels were recovered and 2 million to 3 million barrels washed ashore, mainly in Saudi Arabia.»

There are additional risks related to large institutional purchases or sales, changes in exchange rates, government regulation, world events, economic and political conditions in the countries where energy companies are located or do business, and risks for environmental damage claims.

There are additional risks related to commodity investments due to large institutional purchases or sales, changes in exchange rates, government regulation, world events, economic and political conditions in the countries where energy companies are located or do business, and risks for environmental damage claims, as well as natural and technological factors such as severe weather, unusual climate change, and development and depletions of alternative resources.

They have undertaken a self imposed Marine Environmental Plan to ensure their day cruises program does not damage the Great Barrier Reef's fragile environment.

I'm going to wait for more developed footage to judge on other aspects such as wall fighting and environmental damage, but neither of them have anything to do with this game being next gen.

Considering they revolved around powering machinery or fixing parts damaged by rebels, they all felt natural instead of being there for the sake of it; they didn't feel like puzzles in a video game, but instead environmental challenges as a result of events in the world.

Luckily the majority of missions don't rely on your eggs surviving, but all eggs are prone to being damage or even destroyed by enemy attacks or environmental factors, such as lava.

Level 6 - B was also a pain, with a lot of environmental damage, but by the time you can reach that level you should be able to do it without too much hassle.

Demonstrating that the overall environmental damage is less than that from coal does not imply that gas production and use is cost - free, and the sooner we reduce our dependence on fossil fuel sources of energy of all kinds the better.

As the New Jersey legislature votes to ban fracking, some word on what the EPA is doing to minimize the environmental damage which could be caused with unregulated hydraulic fracturing: Natural Gas Watch

As the New Jersey legislature votes to ban fracking, some word on what the EPA is doing to minimize the environmental damage which could be caused with unregulated hydraulic fracturing: Natural Gas Watch reports that EPA head Lisa Jackson has said that there may soon be Federal regulations dealing with air pollution caused by the natural gas extraction process.On the air quality issues, Jackson said:

What I mean is: I get so sad for the state of our planet and the environmental damage we've done to it, and I'm actively doing what I can to minimize my «footprint» on the Earth.

Although we noted that the ad included information setting out the environmental benefits of wearing fur, which were intended to form the basis for the headline claim «it's eco-friendly to wear fur», because we considered that that headline claim would be understood as an absolute environmental claim, and because we did not consider that we had seen sufficient evidence that the product would cause no environmental damage, taking account of the full life cycle of the product from manufacture to disposal, we concluded that the ad was likely to mislead.

The plaintiffs contended that the fossil fuel development plans for the vast Miles City, Montana, and Buffalo, Wyoming, federal tracts violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing to account fully for the damage the coal, oil and gas would do to the environment, including the climate.

Nor did I find any evidence of environmental damage that could be attributed to global warming.

Lighting the Way: The Sierra Club's Look at First Steps Toward a Clean Energy Future The energy - delivery system in North America is in trouble, and the harmful effects of this are being felt today in the form of health problems, environmental damage, and a system that doesn't meet today's needs.

It helps to remember once a while what huge environmental damage was done under the Soviet and Maoist regimes, leaving Russia and China paying for that to this day.

McKitrick wants a tax which is driven by the environmental damage GHGs are causing; I'd prefer something that increased dramatically as catastrophe approaches (or doesn't approach).

The article was called «The End of Cheap Oil», and was written from the perspective of oil supply, but if it is true, then there's really a limit of how much environmental damage can be done.

We expect our mapping will allow researchers to conduct more robust studies on the long - term environmental and health impacts of surface mining, which in turn will help mining - impacted communities hold industry and government accountable for repairing the damage done to Appalachian landscapes, ecosystems and public health.