Sentences with phrase «environmental effects of»

Fluctuating fuel prices, paired with the clear environmental effects of conventional vehicles, mean that alternatives are more important than ever.

Revisiting the children of twins: Can they be used to resolve the environmental effects of dyadic parental treatment on child behavior?

It is, however, difficult to disentangle shared genetic influences leading to similar temperament traits in parents and offspring, from environmental effects of parenting style on child development.

Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs), which are required in large - scale planning applications, are supposed to ensure that planning decisions take into consideration the environmental effects of any significant development.

To comply with these terms, lenders must carry out social and environmental assessment and make proposals on how to minimize social and environmental effects of the project, including management and mitigation measures.

Even if there were a double aspect, it may be argued that this portion of CEAA 2012, in pith and substance, is a process for the assessment of the environmental effects of a privately owned development on components of the environment which are clearly under Provincial jurisdiction with a view to setting conditions on its operation and that the control of any indirect effect on Aboriginal people is merely incidental to its true purpose and effect.

In that regard, it has already been established, in paragraphs 32 and 36 of the present judgment, that Directive 85/337 confers on the individuals concerned a right to have the effects on the environment of the project under examination assessed by the competent services, and that pecuniary damage, in so far as it is a direct economic consequence of the environmental effects of a public or private project, is covered by the objective of protection pursued by Directive 85/337.

Shaw heard these conclusions in October 1977 at a meeting in Atlanta organized by scientists and officials from the Carter administration who had formed a «study group on global environmental effects of carbon dioxide,» he told Exxon colleagues in a memo two weeks later.

Wikipedia, under Environmental effects of coal burning, states that «Coal - fired power plants shorten nearly 24 000 lives a year in the United States, including 2 800 from lung cancer».

The report goes on to suggest, like our commenter, that there is a slight reduction in greenhouse gas generation from ethanol, but that the other environmental effects of intense corn farming outweigh the gain.

1975 Warnings about environmental effects of airplanes lead to investigations of trace gases in the stratosphere and discovery of danger to ozone layer.

Concurrently, energy efficiency is reducing demand for energy and holds the potential to improve economic growth while reducing harmful environmental effects of all forms of energy production.

The Solar PEIS will examine the environmental effects of solar energy technologies that are ready for deployment at utility - scale.

Issues facing the U.S. biofuels industry include potential agricultural «feedstock» supplies, and the associated market and environmental effects of a major shift in U.S. agricultural production; the energy supply needed to grow feedstocks and process them into fuel; and barriers to expanded infrastructure needed to deliver more and more biofuels to the market....

The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine has promoted a paper on global warming entitled «Environmental effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide», which has had a number of incarnations since 1999.

Belgium: Organization for Forests in Flanders will combat the environmental effects of intensive livestock and agricultural production.

Another study detailing the negative environmental effects of continued tar sands development in Canada, and how independent review finds much greater impact that either the industry or government cares to

Though lucky participants might catch a glimpse of a bottlenose dolphin or two, smokestacks, sewage pipes, and shipping containers are the main attractions on the Urban Ocean Boat Cruise, a two - and - a-half-hour voyage along a part of the Los Angeles coastline not featured on Baywatch.Organized by the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, the trips — which start daily as of Memorial Day weekend — «ply Southern California's most compromised waters to show the environmental effects of trade, fishing, industry, and other human activities,» the Los Angeles Times reported recently.

Wikipedia also discusses bird impact in its article on the Environmental effects of wind power.

[1] The environmental effects of carbon dioxide are of significant interest.

Wikipedia discusses bat impact in its article on the Environmental effects of wind power.

The book examines the environmental effects of oil sands mining in northern Alberta.

Concerned both about the climate impacts and other health and environmental effects of coal, scores of grassroots groups worked to oppose the coal rush, advocating for cleaner sources of energy.

It must implement energy price reforms, make dramatic improvements in corporate transparency and energy efficiency while ensuring proper safeguards against the adverse environmental effects of increased energy production and use.

Many automobile companies are working hard to develop more sustainable vehicles in order to combat fuel costs and the harmful environmental effects of petroleum as a fuel source.

The national interest is not to satisfy various interest groups but to supply energy at the lowest possible cost after fully taking into account the adverse environmental effects of each alternative.

In order to insure that the environmental effects of each source are fully taken into account it is necessary that the full social costs of these adverse effects be taken into account by those making the choices.

Basic physics predicts that that rematerialization would significantly increase the environmental effects of generating energy.

Yet no significant adverse environmental effects of fracking have been proved to date.

The study examines environmental costs for cars» entire life cycle, including where power comes from and the environmental effects of building batteries.

One estimate of the losses are that more than 50 million deaths and widespread debilitating disease have resulted when they could have been avoided, all because of unwarranted fears concerning the environmental effects of a very safe pesticide, DDT.

Following this approach, known as chemical data assimilation, the health and environmental effects of atmospheric pollution can be assessed with increased accuracy.

This is obviously a key feature, since it determines the environmental effects of the system.

Yet the environmental effects of human behavior are ubiquitous.

The GRACE Energy Program promotes clean energy and educates consumers about the environmental effects of conventional power generation.

The GRACE Energy Program promotes clean energy, focusing on renewable energy, distributed generation and energy efficiency, and describes the environmental effects of conventional power generation.

Part III the negative environmental effects of continued subsidization of windpower, including the «cleanliness» standard of the Baucus proposal.]

Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) promulgate performance standards (limiting emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, and mercury) for new boilers, integrated gasification combined cycle plants, and combustion turbines; and (2) conduct a comprehensive research and environmental assessment program to enhance understanding of health and environmental effects of particulate matter and mercury and to demonstrate the efficacy of emission reductions under this Act.

Not only would such a carbon tax be relatively easy to scale to a global system, but it would also take the health and environmental effects of fossil fuels into account, putting clean energy — from wind to nuclear — on an equal footing.

The negative environmental effects of this land clearing and burning may be greater than the potential benefits of using biodiesel produced from soybeans and palm oil trees.

«I think this movie actually did a very good job in going around the world and showing how people are grappling with the social economic and environmental effects of climate change already,» he said.

That strong action be taken at all levels, including government, industry, and individuals to substantially reduce the current levels of greenhouse gas emissions and to mitigate the likely social and environmental effects of increasing atmospheric CO2.

The nation's current energy portfolio has raised concerns about the adverse environmental effects of energy generation — particularly greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired and oil - fired power plants and the long - term storage of spent nuclear fuel.

It is unlikely that DOE's current level of R&D funding or the nation's current energy policies will be sufficient to deploy alternative energy sources in the next 25 years that will reverse our growing dependence on imported oil or the adverse environmental effects of using conventional fossil energy.

Specifically, government leadership is needed to overcome technological and market barriers to deploying advanced energy technologies that would reduce the nation's vulnerability to oil supply disruptions and the adverse environmental effects of burning fossil fuels.

Other countries cutting down large areas of trees will also face the environmental effects of deforestation, including flooding.

One year after plans were announced for a new system to monitor the environmental effects of the Alberta tar sands, there is still no sign of any formal data...

From a global perspective, we are faced with daunting challenges as documented in World Resources, 1996 - 97: the accelerating confluence of population expansion, increased demand for energy, food, clean drinking water, adequate housing, the destructive environmental effects of pollution from fossil fuels and nuclear waste, plus the growing divergence between the haves and have - nots and the potential for ensuing conflicts.

Present - day observational capabilities lack sufficient capacity to monitor the environmental effects of an albedo - modification deployment.

Or does the community just ignore the Bass River record entirely because plankton abundance and / or sedimentation could have been temporarily and drastically disrupted at this site in response to the environmental effects of the PETM?