The states involved could eventually figure out ways to cooperate on building transmission lines, giving out permits or filling out
environmental impact analyses, he said.
Fortunately, the battlefields of Fallujah and Kirkuk are a long way from the rolling hills of northeast Missouri, where Lucas now lives with his partner Brooke, a scientist who specializes in
environmental impact analysis.
Moreover, a full - spectrum
environmental impact analysis shows Nevada's existing renewable power mandate promotes some environmentally destructive energy sources at the expense of much greener options,» the report summary reads.
Valid information about jobs impacts is not yet available because the agency has not yet released
its environmental impact analysis nor its proposed rule.
Not exact matches
Unlike «ESG investing,» which adds
environmental, social and governance aspects to the financial
analysis of a company,
impact investing must bring actual social or
environmental returns along with the financial.
Conducting a carbon footprint
analysis reveals the full spectrum of your company's
environmental impact and helps you address it.
Using lifecycle
analysis, a study conducted by Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada found that while all forms of electricity generation have
environmental impacts, solar PV technologies have fewer negative
environmental impacts than traditional fossil - fuel - based electricity production.
We believe that other significant
environmental impacts are overlooked, ignored or minimized in the DEIS
analysis.
An increasing number of studies focused on the
analysis of food waste, related
environmental impacts and mitigation options
Lehrburger, Mullen, James, Diapers:
Environmental Impacts & Lifecycle
Analysis, January 1991 Disposable diapers use 37 % more water than cloth diapers and 70 % more energy.
Carl Lehrburger, Jocelyn Mullen, and C. V. Jones, «Diapers:
Environmental Impacts and Lifecycle
Analysis,» January 1991
An article on the
environmental impact of the production and disposal of millions of plastic and cloth diapers reveals the length to which corporations will go to ensure profit margins: couching advertisements in «scientific studies»; funding studies based on controversial methodologies; using unscientific statistical studies to cook the books on cost - benefit
analyses of
environmental damage; and employing shrewd, manipulative and effective public - relations strategies.
The supporting documentation includes a lengthy
analysis of the costs, business case and
environmental impact of the three alternatives.
The DEC contended the project's owners, led by gas company Williams Partners L.P, didn't provide a comprehensive
analysis of the
environmental impact of the pipeline's burial.
For instance, the Committee for Technical
Analysis, responsible for assessing the
environmental impact of the Canadian project, restarted its operations in April 2013 for the first time since November 2011 but the Ministry of the Environment failed to publicly announce this development.
Republican County Executive Steve Neuhaus had promised the county's parallel
analysis after Kiryas Joel officials held a voluntary scoping session as designated lead agency reviewing the
environmental impact of a petition advanced by local property owners in the Town of Monroe.
Perhaps most egregious is the NRC Staff's issuance of the Final Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS) for Indian Point, which it issued three months after Staff issued the GS - 199
analysis on seismic activity.
Martens, in a lengthy written statement, says he instead will ask Cuomo's health commissioner to review a health
impact analysis that the
environmental agency has already completed.
Cuomo's Department of
Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens caused a stir among pro- and anti-fracking groups when he issued a statement saying that he was rejecting calls for an independent health
analysis of the potential
impacts of the gas drilling process known as hydrofracking.
Martens, in a lengthy written statement, says he instead with ask Governor Cuomo's health commissioner to review a health
impact analysis that the
environmental agency has already completed.
Aside from the Alternative
Analysis study, the city would also need to do an
Environmental Impact Statement to get the project moving forward, the SIEDC said.
«It is another row on a ledger sheet called the «spill
impact mitigation
analysis,»» which assesses various strategies and tools to reduce
environmental and economic damage caused by oil spills.
Prof Carlos Peres, an author on the study from UEA's School of
Environmental Sciences, said: «Our
analysis shows that even so - called «reduced -
impact logging» in tropical forests can rarely be defined as sustainable in terms of forest composition and dynamics in the aftermath of logging — never mind the greater susceptibility of logged forests to catastrophic fires.
«I see it as a best level effort, and hopefully with continued movement in the right direction, we'll be able to get there,» says Jeffery Greenblatt, a greenhouse gas policy analyst in the lab's Energy
Analysis and
Environmental Impacts Division.
A new study linking paleoclimatology — the reconstruction of past global climates — with historical
analysis by researchers at Yale and other institutions shows a link between
environmental stress and its
impact on the economy, political stability, and war - fighting capacity of ancient Egypt.
But the US
Environmental Protection Agency has since questioned this conclusion, arguing that the final environmental impact assessment would need a «more careful review of the market analysis and rail transpor
Environmental Protection Agency has since questioned this conclusion, arguing that the final
environmental impact assessment would need a «more careful review of the market analysis and rail transpor
environmental impact assessment would need a «more careful review of the market
analysis and rail transport options ``.
Such
analyses may be brief overviews called
environmental assessments (EAs) for tightly focused issues or thorough reviews called
environmental impact statements (EISs), required for complex decisions that would significantly affect the environment.
His
analysis suggests that the
environmental impact of tourism may be less than 1 per cent of the total human
impact.
The Overseas Development Administration, in consultation with other relevant government departments, is examining the documentation on the project, particularly the least - cost
analysis study and the reports on safety and
environmental impact assessment.
In order to study the different configurations of RWH, the following methodologies were used: exergy
analysis and exergetic efficiency
analysis to determine resource consumption and efficiency; life cycle assessment (LCA) to identify
environmental impacts; life cycle costing (LCC) to find economic feasibility, and data envelopment
analysis (DEA) to identify the frontiers of best - practice towards sustainability.
Finally, a broader
analysis of the
environmental variables in the aggregation sites can inform the long - term
impacts of climate change in the movement of the whale sharks.
«Nicaragua should prepare and publicly vet a detailed economic assessment that includes not only a cost - benefit
analysis but also considers externalities associated with national economic development,
environmental impacts, social equity, human rights and legal and national security issues,» they wrote.
No such
analysis was included in the state's recent supplemental
environmental impact statement.
One limitation to all studies that aim to quantify the
environmental impacts of human diets is that many of the life - cycle
analyses used by researchers are conducted in other countries.
The study published in
Environmental Research Letters is the first global - scale
analysis with a focus on changes in national diets and their
impact on the blue and green water use of food consumption.
In addition to the database, a complementary report was released that provided an in - depth
analysis of the
environmental impacts of wave, tidal and current devices, including on wildlife and overall health of the host water body.
The TEA
analysis will consider the sustainability for hydrogen production including land and water usage, and the potential
environmental impacts of placing a hydrogen plant.
Key facts about the lesson are: The content covered by the lesson are; location of Mt St Helens volcano, identifying the plate boundary that caused the eruption, the primary and secondary
impact of eruption and
analysis of the economic, social and
environmental impact of the eruption.
In CEQ's NEPA regulations, «' tiering» refers to the coverage of general matters in broader
environmental impacts statements... with subsequent narrower statements or
environmental analyses... incorporating by reference the general discussions and concentrating solely on the issues specific to the statement subsequently prepared» (40 CFR 1508.28).
In cases of large corridors, for example, the Tier I EIS could identify the general alignment of a preferred alternative corridor after considering numerous corridors, and the subsequent Tier II
analysis would evaluate in more detail the
environmental impacts of the preferred alternative corridor (or segments of the larger corridor that have logical termini).
There may be certain instances where the Agencies could rely on a State's
analysis for a specific
impact, thereby expediting
environmental reviews.
Investing in growing companies solving sustainability challengesImpact companies: The fund invests in growth companies that directly demonstrate positive
impact in social,
environmental, or economic development.Active strategy: The managers utilize bottom - up research to identify companies with attractive sustainability, fundamental, and valuation characteristics.Veteran team: A dedicated sustainable investing team is backed by Putnam's equity research and quantitative / risk
analysis groups.
Our investment professionals employ a bottom up approach and use fundamental
analysis to assess all risk factors associated with each investment opportunity, which can include issues related to climate change and controlling
environmental impact.
The Sustainable
Impact Fund's sustainable impact investment policy, which incorporates an analysis of environmental, social and corporate governance factors, may result in the Fund foregoing opportunities to buy certain Underlying Funds when it might otherwise be advantageous to do so, or selling its holdings in certain Underlying Funds for sustainable impact investment reasons when it might be otherwise disadvantageous for it to
Impact Fund's sustainable
impact investment policy, which incorporates an analysis of environmental, social and corporate governance factors, may result in the Fund foregoing opportunities to buy certain Underlying Funds when it might otherwise be advantageous to do so, or selling its holdings in certain Underlying Funds for sustainable impact investment reasons when it might be otherwise disadvantageous for it to
impact investment policy, which incorporates an
analysis of
environmental, social and corporate governance factors, may result in the Fund foregoing opportunities to buy certain Underlying Funds when it might otherwise be advantageous to do so, or selling its holdings in certain Underlying Funds for sustainable
impact investment reasons when it might be otherwise disadvantageous for it to
impact investment reasons when it might be otherwise disadvantageous for it to do so.
The obsession restricted focus to higher temperatures and increased CO2, which directed funding of
impact analyses, whether economic or
environmental to cost only, instead of cost / benefit.
Jim Murphy, senior counsel for the National Wildlife Federation, said of the E.P.A.'s letter, «The
Environmental Protection Agency's letter shows that despite multiple tries, the State Department is incapable of doing a proper
analysis of the climate, wildlife, clean water, safety and other
impacts of this disastrous and unneeded project.»
«Utility - scale wind power:
impacts of increased penetration (working paper)» [PDF], Lawrence Pitt, G. Cornelis van Kooten, Murray Love, and Ned Djilali, Resource and
Environmental Economics and Policy
Analysis (REPA) Research Group, Department of Economics, University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada), June 2005
Technical and policy
analysis of the
environmental impact of alternate energy development in the Southern California desert.
S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Regulatory
Impact Analysis for the Proposed Carbon Pollution Guidelines for Existing Power Plants and Emissions Standards for Modified and Reconstructed Power Plants, EPA - 452 / R -14-002 (June, 2014), accessed December 30, 2014.
The topics on which we believe additional information and
analysis are necessary include the purpose and need for the project, potential greenhouse gas emissions associated with the project, air pollutant emissions at the receiving refineries, pipeline safety / spill response, potential
impacts to
environmental justice communities, wetlands and migratory birds.