Sentences with phrase «environmental impact studies for»

Also at 9 a.m., Staten Island Assemblyman - elect Ron Castorina, Jr., NYC Councilman Joe Borelli and Perth Amboy Mayor Wilma Diaz highlight «the need for major improvements to the Outerbridge Crossing» and call on the Port Authority to commence an environmental impact study for the potential project, overpass of Tyrellan Avenue, between Veterans Road West and Boscombe Avenue, Staten Island.

Also Friday, Cuomo announced that the Cross Harbor Freight Movement Project, a plan to move train cargo between New Jersey and New York, had reached a milestone: issuance of a request for proposals to conduct an environmental impact study for the project, which aims to ease truck traffic.

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The revision process, which includes conducting environmental impact studies and taking public comments, has taken about two years in the past, said Connie Gillette, chief of public affairs for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the unit of the Interior Department that oversees the lease schedule.

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The results from the case studies show that flexible packaging has more preferable environmental attributes for carbon impact, fossil fuel usage, water usage, product - to - package ratio, as well as material to landfill, when compared to other package formats.

The peer - reviewed study, commissioned by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance (CPA) and conducted by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), measures the environmental impacts of a 1 kg industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2010 and shows substantial improvements over the industry - average product manufactured in 2006, as reported in the industry's first baseline LCA.

«Understanding Economic and Environmental Impacts of Single - Stream Collection Systems» (December 2009) 2009 study conducted for the Container Recycling Institute

This study was a top news story across the UK when it was released yesterday, May 19, 2005, concluding that «there was no significant difference between any of the environmental impacts» for the diaper systems studied.

Kridler notes that while disposable diaper advocates try to cite «a British study that suggested all the washing and drying of cloth diapers meant their environmental impact was about equal to that of disposables», that the study has been criticized by environmentalists who point out that «the combination of chemicals in the diapers and their baby waste make for an unhealthy contribution to landfills and potentially ground water.»

He's calling for developers to honor the standards already found in the Environmental Impact Study, which determined the need for some 1,500 parking spaces.

Clayton residents had said during the Town Board meeting that a moratorium would allow more time for the exploration of other options and environmental impact studies.

Kearns sent a letter to New York State DOT Commissioner Joan McDonald Tuesday requesting an Environmental Impact Study and cost estimate for removal of the Buffalo Skyway.

Former Hudson Valley Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey, in his first major public appearance since retiring from office in January, says he just penned a letter to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo asking him to wait for the results of a study from the Environmental Protection Agency on the impacts of fracking before deciding whether to allow high - volume hydraulic fracturing in the state.

The document lays out issues to be studied and reviewed for inclusion with a draft environmental impact statement.

The Department of Environmental Conservation is nearing completion on an environmental impact study and new regulations for gas drilling using horizontal drilling and high - volume frackinEnvironmental Conservation is nearing completion on an environmental impact study and new regulations for gas drilling using horizontal drilling and high - volume frackinenvironmental impact study and new regulations for gas drilling using horizontal drilling and high - volume fracking technology.

The document lays out issues to be studied and reviewed for inclusion with a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS).

Governor Cuomo's environmental commissioner is rejecting calls by environmentalists for an independent health impact study on hydro fracking.

«After the last board meeting, [Nadler] stopped in my office to ask me for $ 70 million of Port Authority money for a further [environmental impact statement] study for the Harbor freight tunnel,» Degnan said.

The Department of Environmental Conservation has said for months now that it is still reviewing over 66,000 public comments generated from a draft environmental Environmental Conservation has said for months now that it is still reviewing over 66,000 public comments generated from a draft environmental environmental impact study.

«I called for a ban on fracking for natural gas as the Green gubernatorial candidate in 2010 at a time when most environmentalists urged a moratorium so that the health and environmental impacts of fracking could be studied,» Hawkins wrote.

Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster asked state environmental regulators in November 2013 for a study to determine the public health impacts of air pollution in and around Niagara Falls.

The poll showed only 2 percent of likely voters said hydraulic fracturing for New York's natural gas reserves — commonly known as fracking and tied up in studies of the potential health and environmental impacts — was their top issue.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's environmental commissioner is rejecting calls by environmentalists for an independent health impact study on hydrofracking.

«While we do have a lot of work left to do - we do have $ 6 million for the environmental impact study that will tell us exactly how, and how much it will cost, to restore our community.

He emphasises that the precise economic and environmental advantage for an individual household depends on the building's specific thermal conditions, but that the result of the study will under all circumstances have an impact on the construction industry.

To mitigate the impacts of the fence and Border Patrol activity, the Department of Homeland Security has committed to spend $ 50 million for environmental enhancement projects and field studies, but few projects have materialized.

Because environmental exposures have not had time to impact IBD progression in children, researchers have a clearer genetic picture of the disease allowing them to pick out additional genes overlooked in adult research, says senior study author Hakon Hakonarson, director of the Center for Applied Genomics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

«If anything, that's probably fairly large,» said Richard Armstrong, a senior research scientist at the Boulder, Colo. - based Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), who studies melt impact in the Himalayas.

«While the study didn't measure environmental impacts, it is a very valid reason for producers to adopt no - tillage and or cover crops,» said Boyer.

«It's a timely thing to do and imaginative, and I applaud them for that,» says Peter Thorne, an environmental health scientist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, who studies the public health impacts of traditional livestock.

Environmental scientists and synthetic biologists have for the first time developed a set of key research areas to study the potential ecological impacts of synthetic biology, a field that could push beyond incremental changes to create organisms that transcend common evolutionary pathways.

She also ran its product - stewardship program for 3 years, studying the life cycle of products and finding ways to reduce their environmental impact.

They indicate that particulates are the greatest current environmental risk to human health, with the impact on life expectancy in many parts of the world similar to the effects of every man, woman and child smoking cigarettes for several decades,» says study co-author Michael Greenstone, the director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics, the College and the Harris School.

The Principal Investigator of the study, Dr Felix Eigenbrod, Associate Professor (Spatial Ecology) at the University of Southampton's Centre for Biological Sciences, says: «The growing geographic disconnect between energy demand, the extraction and processing of resources, and the environmental impacts associated with energy production activities makes it crucial to factor global trade into sustainability assessments.

Zebrafish embryos are used for the assessment of chemicals and for investigations of environmental impact, so we hope that in future our study will contribute to an awareness of the need to incorporate Abcb4 transport processes in toxicological testing directives.»

A UCLA study has found that dogs and cats are responsible for 25 to 30 percent of the environmental impact of meat consumption in the United States.

Poll, head of technology for the British government — funded Omega Project, a division of Manchester Metropolitan University that partners with industry to study the environmental impact of aviation and offer possible solutions, pointed out the need for nonkerosene - powered aircraft «I think nuclear - powered airplanes are the answer beyond 2050,» he said, concluding, «If we want to continue to enjoy the benefits of air travel without hindrance from environmental concerns, we need to explore nuclear power.

The California Department of Transportation is nearing the review phase for environmental compliance, having donated $ 200,000 to the environmental impact study.

As climate change continues to be responsible for out - of - sync bee emergence with flowering periods and bee - specific pollination events, pollination ecology has become an ever - increasing valuable field of study that helps us understand the ecological impact of these environmental changes.

The transit authority, Caltrans, is nearing the review phase for environmental compliance, having donated $ 200,000 to the environmental impact study.

Co-author Dr Friederike Otto, a senior researcher in Oxford's Environmental Change Institute and scientific coordinator of climateprediction.net, said: «For the first time ever, this study doesn't stop at rainfall and river flow but attributes the change in risk from the meteorology down to the direct impact of flooded houses in the river catchment zones.»

The study, published today in Nature Climate Change, demonstrates the potential environmental, economic, and energy impacts of negative emission technologies for addressing climate change.

In a study published Nov. 6 in PLOS ONE, a team of University of Wisconsin — Madison researchers used modeling tools to explore how switching land from growing an annual corn crop to growing perennial grasses for bioenergy would impact farmer income, energy production, and environmental benefits like greenhouse gas mitigation, biodiversity support and water quality.

More specifically, researchers led by the University of Idaho's Tara Hudiburg merged the DayCent ecological model with another, BEPAM, originally designed to study environmental and economic impacts of proposed biofuel policies, forming a combined model that simultaneously accounts for market forces, land use, transportation costs, and a variety of other factors.

Organizations such as The Environmental Working Group and Institute for Responsible Technology are leading the way with research that shows the serious health impacts on the body from the impact of genetically modified (GM) foods There are now multiple animal studies that link GMO's with damage to the GUT, with immune disregulation, inflammation, and an increase in allergies or factors that trigger autoimmune disease.

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Additionally, the applicant should provide any environmental studies or other documents (preferably by way of a website link) that describe in detail known project impacts and possible mitigation for these impacts.

The Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies was honored to award the certificates to six participants who successfully completed the short course in Integrated Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Audit in a ceremony held today the 15th May 2015 at 10:00 am at the Wangari Maathai Institute, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences, University of Nairobi, Upper Kabete Campus.