Sentences with phrase «environmental health results»

Analysis of the policy drivers underlying the 2018 EPI rankings makes it clear that income is a major determinant of environmental success, said the researchers, noting that investments in safe drinking water and modern sanitation, in particular, translate quickly into improved environmental health results.

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(e) If test results indicate a specific agricultural product contains pesticide residues or environmental contaminants that exceed the Food and Drug Administration's or the Environmental Protection Agency's regulatory tolerences, the certifying agent must promptly report such data to the Federal health agency whose regulatory tolerance or action level has benvironmental contaminants that exceed the Food and Drug Administration's or the Environmental Protection Agency's regulatory tolerences, the certifying agent must promptly report such data to the Federal health agency whose regulatory tolerance or action level has bEnvironmental Protection Agency's regulatory tolerences, the certifying agent must promptly report such data to the Federal health agency whose regulatory tolerance or action level has been exceeded.

The report released by the Senate Health and Senate Environmental Conservation committees, comes more than a year after state officials responded to cases of chemical contamination of water in rural communities like Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh — the result of the area's industrial past.

The result is a co-opted environmental health consciousness, an awareness of pollution's harm to the environment and human health, mixed with disempowerment to oppose it.

And even as multiple wells in nearby Hoosick Falls tested positive for elevated and potentially dangerous levels of the same toxic chemical more than a year ago, state health department employees suggested a delay in reporting results and did not initially recommend a wider outreach to the public, according to emails between state, county and federal officials, some of which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

Also at 11 a.m., Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin will be joined by Hoosick Falls students, parents, teachers, environmental and health advocates to deliver their PFOA results to the state Senate in person and once again call on the Legislature to hold hearings to find out who knew what and when, outside Senate chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

The legislation is a result of a year's work and discussion by a group that included several Suffolk County legislators, including Bridget Fleming, who represents the East End, as well as representatives of the building industry, environmental groups, and the health department.

And Cuomo says the internal health review could result in hastening an approval of fracking, because it will cut down on the time spent fighting lawsuits that are expected to be filed once the final environmental impact report is released.

«Decreased adiponectin, if it happens in vivo, appears to be a bad thing and could result in increased heart disease,» says environmental health scientist Richard Stahlhut of the University of Rochester Medical Center, who was not involved in the research.

Both local and international environmental and public health groups have tried to address this problem by bringing more efficient stoves into the countryside, which burn only half as much wood and are better at funneling the resulting smoke outside.

«Although the sale of Brazilian Blowout in California violated five separate state health, environmental and consumer laws and resulted in numerous acute injuries, we have not been able to get it off the market,» DiBartolomeis said.

Professor Sir Robert Lechler, President of the Academy of Medical Sciences says: «We can not ignore the significant health challenges facing our society as a result of an aging and growing population, rising obesity levels and environmental and economic change.

For all authors, the citation penalty was greater when the retraction was due to misconduct as opposed to an honest mistake — a result that makes sense to David Resnik, a bioethicist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

The study, published in the journal Environmental Health, focused on illnesses that result from participating in recreational activities on or in natural bodies of water including lakes, rivers and beaches.

Results appear online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

And the team gets its rosy results even though it didn't add in the health and environmental costs of the pollution created by burning fossil fuels.

The issue revolves around high levels of lead in drinking water and a 2007 paper in Environmental Health Perspectives that claimed «no identifiable public health impact» had resHealth Perspectives that claimed «no identifiable public health impact» had reshealth impact» had resulted.

Early results from a larger, ongoing study led by environmental health scientist Richard Pilsner at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that phthalate levels in expectant fathers have an effect on couples» reproductive success via epigenetic modifications of sperm DNA.

Still, when the Dartmouth team published their results in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives in February 2012, they were unprepared for the public outcry.

In a press release, Dr. Norman Edelman, senior scientific adviser for the American Lung Association, said, «Taking steps to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, like the Clean Power Plan proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, can reduce other pollutants at the same time, resulting in immediate health benefits.»

In the Journal of Chemical Safety, lab safety expert Neil Langerman wrote, «The death of Ms. Sangji was the direct result of management failure throughout the UCLA administration, from Chancellor Gene Block through Professor Harran and the [Environmental Health and Safety] department.»

Using a new imaging technique, National Institutes of Health researchers have found that the biological machinery that builds DNA can insert molecules into the DNA strand that are damaged as a result of environmental exposures.

The result, detailed in July in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, suggests that burning trash isn't just bad for human health — it could pump more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than had been realized.

Professor Rohani Ambo - Rappe of Hasanuddin University, Indonesia, a collaborator on the research stated: «Declining seagrass health is the result of shifting environmental conditions due largely to coastal development, land reclamation, and deforestation, as well as seaweed farming, overfishing and garbage dumping.

As a result, finding a way to improve nitrogen uptake in agricultural products could improve yields and decrease risks to environmental and human health.

The researchers also compared the results to federal safety guidelines for seafood consumption and found that the average levels of contaminants were at or below the health standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Results of the study by Janet Yang, a University at Buffalo expert on the communication of risk information related to science, health and environmental issues, suggest that holding a collective, communitarian belief system contributed to altruistic behavior, while those who hold more individualistic values are less likely to be altruistic regardless of how much risk is triggered.

The findings presented in the paper are the result of a collaboration between two research groups at the University of Milan: the first led by Prof. Ivano De Noni in the Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences (DeFENS), and the second led by Prof. Anita Ferraretto in the Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health.

For example, in response to questions about whether certain environmental chemicals may interfere with the endocrine system and cause negative effects, government and scientific bodies have been working to distinguish between whether a substance is merely endocrine active, or whether, under certain exposure scenarios, a substance goes beyond a simple interaction that is reversible and causes no harm to one that results in adverse health effects — endocrine disruption.

It has been known that high levels of carbon dioxide in the air causes health and environmental hazards, but a new study shows that high concentration of Carbon dioxide might actually be helping plant cycles, resulting to a greener earth.

Resulting environmental problems, including smog, haze, and acid rain, contribute to human health problems like asthma, lung cancer, respiratory diseases, and premature death.

In an accompanying editorial, Allan H. Smith of the University of California, Berkeley and Craig M. Steinmaus of the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment agreed that the study's results reinforce the worldwide dangers of even moderate arsenic exposure.

The results of the ophthalmologic segment of the population - based Gutenberg Health Study (GHS) undertaken by the Mainz University Medical Center provides evidence that environmental factors may outweigh genetic factors in the development of myopia.

The results, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, suggest that bad air quality may be contributing to severe droughts in parts of China, as well as causing health and environmental problems.

Non-military spending includes federal funding for public education, veterans» care, the National Institutes of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, State Department and other programs means that the resulting balance.

The results are published in the February 2009 edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

As a result, many resort to even stronger chemical pesticides, which may have greater consequences for human and environmental health.

Modern agricultural practices are taking a heavy toll on soil and environmental health, and the way we raise animal foods, results in animal products that are far inferior compared to their ancestral past

Researchers behind the study, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, found that preterm births associated with particulate matter — a type of pollutant — led to more than $ 4 billion in economic costs in 2010 due to medical care and lost productivity that results from disability.

It examines the results of years of neglect of infrastructure for children and reveals disturbing information about the environmental health of school occupants....

Public reporting requirements so families will know about school environmental testing results and health program offerings

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Enabling rapid expansion of the zero emission bus market in U.S. and China would result in mutual environmental and public health benefits.

Each OA whose programs, policies, or activities may result in disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority or low - income populations will develop or update OA tools and documents on EJ, consistent with the DOT EJ Order.

The idea returns yet later in discussions of the ongoing, multiple health stresses experienced by the rural poor in Honduras, making them less able to handle the effects of any additional stresses, such as those resulting from environmental disasters like Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

Perhaps this «Conference on Planetary Emergencies» will result in something other than yet another extensive production of rhetorical flourishes and other forms of ever so lyrical «chin music» that we have heard for so long and come to see as nothing more than a litany of unending substitutes for what is needed in our time: action on the real threats to human and environmental health.

We want to emphasize that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have all stated that there is no risk expected to California or its residents as a result of the situation in Japan.

Nine times out of ten when a company gets caught for environmental violations there are parallel issues with safety and health; and, neighbors may be unhappy with pollution exposures - regardless of whether charges do or do not result from those aspects.

Climate change is only one of many types of environmental change effecting Earth's life support systems — in fact, there is now a serious risk that the dramatic gains to public health made since the 1950s could plateau or even reverse as a result of human degradation of a myriad of natural systems.