Sentences with phrase «environmental harm from»

Technological progress is increasingly decoupling environmental harm from economic growth.

One would be to reduce our trade deficit, and another is the environmental harm from burning fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

This woman and her Fascist Right wing Nazis need to sit in prison for their crimes against humanity because I am not the only one these cold blooded lying murders did this to, and they deliberately will not have anyone obey Court Orders and get me Medical Records together, and get me Medical Doctors to address my Medical Concerns, and get all my Doctors on the same page, because they intended all along on messing up my Medical records while causing me serious medical harm, and then letting me die from Medical Neglect so that they could falsely blame me or environmental factors and they even have the Police deliberate to refuse to investigate why they removed Tests from my Medical Records that showed the harm that they caused.

On Easter Island, the Rapa Nui people committed cultural and environmental suicide by wasting the island's trees and other recourses on building the now famous Moai, the giant stone statues that were supposedly going to please the gods and protect the islanders from harm.

APHIS can not run away from its regulatory responsibilities to protect farmers from environmental and economic harm that are the direct result of GE contamination in the promotion of agricultural biotechnologies.

The plan to drill fire suppression wells would not harm the local ecosystem, environmental groups said, though they added that conducting more «controlled burns» more often would help prevent future fires from getting out of control.

Because of your relentless effort and fierce commitment to keep fracking from polluting our water, air and harming our health, last Wednesday on December 17, 2014, at a public, livestreamed meeting of Governor Cuomo's cabinet in Albany, Governor Cuomo acknowledged the overwhelming science that speaks to the inherent dangers of fracking to public health and the environment presented by Joseph Martens, Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, and Dr. Howard Zucker, Commissioner of the Department of Health, Governor Cuomo banned high volume horizontal fracturing in New York State.

His agenda, particularly dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as rolling back climate and public health protections that New Yorkers benefit from, disproportionately harms low - income communities of color.

Many scientists and environmentalists warn that the government's present strategy of simply storing the plutonium could do more harm than good because it does nothing to reduce the risk of environmental disaster, and, rather than discourage other countries from developing nuclear weapons, it could provoke them to increase their efforts.

«We now know a great deal about the harm from the emissions from fossil fuels,» said Frederica Perera, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health.

And it calls on Congress «to take quick action to prohibit the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] from moving forward with new greenhouse gas regulations that will harm the nation's economy and threaten millions of jobs over the next quarter century.»

ALA also found, by overlaying census data with pollution maps, that Americans with the lowest incomes face higher risks of harm from air pollution, underscoring what environmental justice advocates have been saying for years.

These mutations can be caused by multiple events, some from normal cellular activities and some from environmental harm, such as UV light or chemicals.

Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) summarizes some key points from that 400 + page document in «Body Burden: The Pollution in Newborns: Babies are vulnerable to chemical harm.»

Harm to DNA from free radicals is due to both endogenous factors like a lack of antioxidants and environmental factors like diet, exercise, stress, pollution and even sun exposure (12,13,14).

In fact, any assault on the stratum corneum — either from external damage or as a result of cellular water loss — can lead to sensitized and dehydrated skin that is susceptible to environmental harm, dryness, irritation, breakouts, sagging skin and other signs of aging.

Damaged lipids in the mortar — from harsh detergents, physical harm to the skin, or environmental stress — cause the skin to lose water and dry out.

You should enlist a product with SPF that contains antioxidants to shield it from free radicals and environmental harm.

The synthetics they're made from cause environmental harm and are more prone to greenwashing (more on that here).

All investments are screened to exclude companies that profit from interest, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, pornography, weapons, prisons, war / international conflict, hydraulic fracturing, and other areas that cause societal or environmental harm.

One key concern from environmental groups is that the Sakhalin - 2 project will harm the western gray whale population.

The Otis Sustainability Alliance, founded in 2013 by Brantley, brings together leaders from the creative fields of fashion, design, art, and higher education who are committed to advancing the environmental education to include doing less harm in their design profession.

RE # 37, GW actions have many many other immediate & future benefits: they prevent / reduce many other environmental harms (local air pollution, acid rain, ground & water pollution, etc.), they are good for the health (e.g., cycling & walking), they reduce crime (cycling, walking), they reduce our implication in foreign conflicts & tax money to protect oil supplies, they save money without lowering productivity (even increasing it), they save businesses from folding & households from going into hock.

The only biofuels that don't do more environmental harm than good derive from agricultural wastes like manure and cellulose.

«Over,» formally titled «Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot,» explores themes at the heart of this blog — the harms from persistent high fertility rates, consumption for consumption's sake, disregard for the environmental and social impacts of resource extraction.

To summarize, a quarter century of careful assessment by risk - averse Europe has found no evidence of harm to the environment or health from genetically modified crops, yet environmental activists continue their anti-technology raids and rants.

Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.

Moomaw and Mihaela Papa, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Law School, sent me a short piece proposing ways to invigorate the faltering climate treaty process by shifting the focus from confrontations over emissions to collaborative work encouraging access to modern energy choices while limiting environmental harms.

Stephanie Rosenbloom had a story in yesterday's paper on Wal - Mart's plan to cut environmental and social harms from the operations of the thousands of companies that supply its products.

The Environmental Protection Agency is justified in taking action under the Clean Air Act, as it has so often before, to protect Americans from the harms posed by air pollution.

Peter directs the sustainable food and farming program, developing strategies to reduce health, environmental, and climate harms from production of our food and to promote a more environmentally sound agricultural system.

The immediate impetus to the current frenzy apparently came from a secret meeting of veteran environmental activists with the goal of falsely «establish [ing] in [the] public's mind that Exxon is a corrupt institution that has pushed humanity (and all creation) toward climate chaos and grave harm.»

Although oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform site may in fact be creating the greatest environmental and economic harm in U.S. history so far, there is new evidence that another looming environmental problem is likely to produce far worse environmental and economic impacts not only for the United States but particularly for some of the poorest people around the world.

Overall, however, the activity of environmental protection is designed to regulate and reduce harm from industry and motivate environmental and social responsibility.

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

This strong ethical and moral responsibility is derivable both from the universally accepted moral principles including the widely accepted golden rule which requires people to treat others as they wish to be treated, and international law including, but not limited to the «no harm» rule which is a widely recognized principle of customary international law whereby a State is duty - bound to prevent, reduce and control the risk of environmental harm to other states and a rule agreed to by all nations in the preamble to the UNFCCC, the «polluter - pays principle» agreed to by almost all nations in the 1992 Rio Declaration, human rights law which requires nations to assure that their citizens enjoy human rights, and many other legal theories including tort law.

A Maryland developer has agreed not to build 24 turbines and will abandon 31 proposed sites at a West Virginia wind farm, settling a lawsuit by environmental groups worried about potential harm to the endangered Indiana bat, according to a report from ABC News.

(maybe most of you are too cool to remember that sort of moment... but think of something equally bad like the time you accidentally set something on fire and it started getting out of control...) I think it will be worse than that... Seems like to me we need to be much, much, more certain before we go making policy all over the earth that could actually harm us... or maybe not quite so bad, but really not desirable, harm many developing countries and distract them from addressing real environmental land use and energy production problems that would actually help the environment and save human lives now, today... but keep an eye on the future... not suggesting head in the sand stuff... just let's stop the panic... if you have to panic it's probly too late... most people don't behave terribly rationally while panicing...

This strong ethical and moral responsibility is derivable both from the universally accepted moral principles including the widely accepted golden rule which requires people to treat others as they wish to be treated, and international law including, but not limited to: (a) the «no harm» rule which is a widely recognized principle of customary international law whereby a State is duty - bound to prevent, reduce and control the risk of environmental harm to other states, and a rule agreed to by all nations in the preamble to the UNFCCC, (b) the «polluter - pays principle» agreed to by almost all nations in the 1992 Rio Declaration, (c) human rights law which requires nations to assure that their citizens enjoy human rights, and (d) many other legal theories including tort law.

California environmental goals include reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 % from 1990 levels by 2030 and by 80 % by 2050, as well as reducing nitrogen oxides (NOx) and other health - harming pollutants in areas of the state with the highest levels of air pollution by 2032.

Therefore, from the standpoint of the environmental sufficiency goal, the Cancun agreements fail to satisfy the requirement that any post-Kyoto regime must assure that the international community is on a ghg emissions reduction pathway that will prevent dangerous climate change harms.

And, compared with the range of serious health and environmental harms that come from burning coal, natural gas's most immediate substitute, a sensible environmentalist would choose fracked gas any day.

(05/27/2013) A new consensus statement by 520 scientists from around the world warns that global environmental harm is putting at risk the happiness and well - being of this and future generations.

Curry dismisses this attempt to re-define «conflict of interest» as almost solely referring to financial support from business interests that would be harmed by environmental regulations.

We know that a continued increase in global temperature will mean a continued increase in environmental harm resulting from our addiction to and over-reliance on coal, gas, and oil.

The scale of natural disasters has also increased because of deforestation, environmental degradation, urbanization, and intensified climate variables.20 The distinctive health, behavioral, and psychosocial needs of children subject them to unique risks from these events.21 Extreme weather events place children at risk for injury, 22 loss of or separation from caregivers, 21 exposure to infectious diseases, 23 and a uniquely high risk of mental health consequences, including posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and adjustment disorder.24 Disasters can cause irrevocable harm to children through devastation of their homes, schools, and neighborhoods, all of which contribute to their physiologic and cognitive development.25

The bill is geared toward stopping companies from being able to export electronic waste to developing countries — an action that is causing incredible environmental damage and harm to human health in places like Ghana and China.

One of my favorite sayings is that «years from now, environmentalists will look back on the current obsession with global warming and say that it did incredible harm to real environmental progress.»

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