Sentences with phrase «environmental health risk»

A World Health Organisation report (summarised in The Guardian) states that air pollution is the world's single biggest environmental health risk.

Matthieu Craye, Jeroen van der Sluijs and Silvio Funtowicz (2005), A reflexive approach to dealing with uncertainties in environmental health risk science and policy, International Journal for Risk Assessment and Management 5 (2), p. 216 - 236.

According to the World Health Organization, it is now considered «the world's largest single environmental health risk,» with more than three million people dying every year as a result.

After an intense week of editing a paper on the need for national academies and royal societies to undertake environmental health risk assessments for climate change AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS, especially to adopt the IPCC's best - case emissions scenario, RCP2.6 (because the IPCC does not and will not make recommendations), followed by a look at the fires burning in Siberia and the sea ice thinning in the Arctic, it struck me...

This confirms that air pollution is now the world's largest single environmental health risk.

This video highlights air pollution as the world's largest environmental health risk.

The World Health Organisation report, mentioned above and summarised in The Guardian, states that air pollution is the world's single biggest environmental health risk.

Curriculum will discuss how poor communities and communities of color have higher exposure to environmental health risk factors like pollution, and less access to the benefits provided by the environment such as clean air and open space.

«We don't yet know what the implications of more PAH oxidation products over the tropics are for future human or environmental health risk assessments.

Air pollution is now the fourth leading cause of death worldwide, weighing in just below smoking, and the top environmental health risk.

He soon learned that air pollution is the world's single largest environmental health risk — and that in 2012, nearly 14 percent of deaths worldwide were attributed to household or ambient air pollution.

The new study, «Media coverage of pediatric environmental health risks and its effects on mothers» protective behaviors,» appeared in the online version of Risk Analysis, a publication of the Society for Risk Analysis.

For their study, Mello and Hornik first examined 2,543 news items about pediatric environmental health risks reported through parenting magazines, websites, and other news sources from September 2012 to February 2013.

Dr. Sattler has also worked at the local level in communities facing environmental health risks associated with lead - based paint, pesticides, Superfund sites, and risks associated with gas and oil extraction.

«Make the best choices you can, stay informed, then live your life,» says Jeanne Rizzo, RN, executive director of the Breast Cancer Fund, a nonprofit group that identifies environmental health risks, such as endocrine disruptors, and advocates for their eliimination.

The National Association of School Nurses wants to help alert officials and remedy problems associated with poor indoor air quality, noting that it is considered among the top public environmental health risks.

Not exact matches

Resolutions address investor concerns around human rights and supply chain accountability, financial practices and risk, health care, food and water sustainability, environmental health, and corporate governance.

It's called Putting Canadians At Risk: How the federal government's deregulation agenda threatens health and environmental standards.

Investor Environmental Health Network is a collaborative partnership of investment managers and nongovernmental organizations concerned about the financial and public health risks associated with corporate toxic chemicals polHealth Network is a collaborative partnership of investment managers and nongovernmental organizations concerned about the financial and public health risks associated with corporate toxic chemicals polhealth risks associated with corporate toxic chemicals policies.

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Beginning in 2003, the Division of Corporate Finance too often has issued no - action letters omitting shareholder proposals that ask management to undertake a risk assessment or review the financial implications of an array of environmental, community, public health and human rights concerns and issues.

In a Glass Lewis Proxy Talk held April 17, 2014, Anne Simpson of CalPERS and Michael Garland of the New York City Comptroller's Office discussed why they think shareholders should vote against the re-election of four Duke Energy Corporation directors for what they believe to be a failure of the directors to fulfill their obligations of risk oversight as members of a committee overseeing health, safety, and environmental compliance at the company.

The projected threefold increase in tanker traffic through Vancouver's harbour that will be required to accommodate the increased oil volume poses environmental and health risks that no amount of marine response money or preparation can mitigate.

Both low - income neighborhoods and communities of color suffer more health risks due to environmental pollution than their more privileged counterparts.

Increasing use of herbicides exposing more women and children to harmful pesticides throughout the Midwest A new project of the Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN) highlights growing concern over sharply rising herbicide use and risks to pregnant women and children living in the rural Midwest.

Issues of animal health and welfare in the proposed intensive farm rearing systems have also been raised, along with the environmental risks to the Bass River catchment.

While the quantity of any particular chemical linked to health and environmental hazards is in most cases very small, those small doses add up daily and exposure to derived health risk increases.

What are the environmental, social, and health risks of food fraud?

At the same time, there are a number of health concerns and environmental risks when it comes to foods with GMOs.

One large study by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences showed that children who are breastfed have a 20 percent lower risk of dying between the ages of 28 days and 1 year than children who weren't breastfed, with longer breastfeeding associated with lower risk.

We provide answers to the most common questions on mosquitoes, their associated health risk, control methods, and environmental impacts of mosquito control activities.

Mass Audubon generally opposes most nuisance control practices, including spraying of pesticides to kill adult mosquitoes when there is a relatively low risk of mosquito - borne disease, because of the human health risks of pesticide exposures, harmful environmental effects, and unproven effectiveness of these activities.

Mass Audubon supports a scientifically based mosquito - borne disease management program to protect public health while minimizing environmental and public health risks associated with some forms of mosquito control.

Below are some of the most common questions on mosquitoes, their associated health risk, control methods, and environmental impacts of mosquito control activities.

Prior to that, Polly provided comprehensive research and grants administration for a portfolio of externally funded projects, including a $ 3 million Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Center for Risk Science and Public Health at The George Washington University.

Recently, researchers from Harvard and Mt Sinai found that both environmental chemicals and environmental stress can disrupt the development of a fetus» brain and negatively impact the baby's long - term health, even increasing the risk of autism spectrum disorders.

Children in the District of Columbia are at risk of serious health problems stemming from hunger, poor nutrition, inadequate physical activity, and environmental degradation in our community.

The resolution condemning the Pilgrim Pipeline project as an environmental risk and public health hazard carries no legal weight.

Long said fracking risked the possibility of «death by indecision» as the Department of Health and Department of Environmental Conservation put together a health assessment study that could push back the release of the environmental impact statement that was expected to be released by the DEC later thisHealth and Department of Environmental Conservation put together a health assessment study that could push back the release of the environmental impact statement that was expected to be released by the DEC latEnvironmental Conservation put together a health assessment study that could push back the release of the environmental impact statement that was expected to be released by the DEC later thishealth assessment study that could push back the release of the environmental impact statement that was expected to be released by the DEC latenvironmental impact statement that was expected to be released by the DEC later this year.

According to the Environmental Working Group, «many of the 250 - plus contaminants detected through water sampling and testing are at levels that are perfectly legal under the Safe Drinking Water Act or state regulations, but well above levels authoritative scientific studies have found to pose health risks.»

Astorino, Health Commissioner Sherlita Amler, MD, and Assistant Commissioner for Environmental Health Peter DeLucia will explain the county's prevention strategies and demonstrate what residents can do at home to reduce their risk of mosquito bites.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration is banning hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in New York, citing concerns about health and environmental risks.

State health, environmental, utility and security agencies say they are launching an analysis at Gov. Andrew Cuomo's direction of the safety risks from Spectra Energy's Algonquin pipeline that would run from Pennsylvania to New England.

For the people of Hoosick Falls who are trying to make sense of what the high levels of PFOA in the bloodstream means, the fact sheet doesn't convey the weight of the health risks detailed in published studies, said Laurel Schaider, an environmental chemist and public health researcher at the Silent Springs Institute, which studies the links between environmental contamination and human health.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

An anti-GM group, «Take the Flour Back», describing itself as «a grassroots network of individuals», said it was extremely concerned about both the risk of cross-contamination of wild and domestic plants and the unknown health and environmental impacts.

The review purportedly involves ongoing work by the state health commissioner as well as the D.E.C., studying environmental and health risks.

Though he stated rateables which may be produced by such a project are desirable, the plant was not worth the potential health and environmental risks.

President Bill Clinton then signed a federal executive order covering 17 federal agencies in 1997, asking them to prioritize actions to reduce risks to children's environmental health.