Sentences with phrase «environmental impacts humans»

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The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services are also impacted by the orders, which were reportedly handed down this week, and include a prohibition against some of the agencies posting on social media.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

BOEM seeks a wide array of input, including information on the economic, social, and environmental values of all OCS resources, as well as the potential impact of oil and gas exploration and development on other resource values of the OCS and the marine, coastal, and human environments.

The provincial government filed a reference case Thursday in the B.C. Court of Appeal asking whether amendments it is proposing to the Environmental Management Act are valid and if they give the province the authority to control the shipment of heavy oils based on the impact spills could have on the environment, human health or communities.

While protein products developed by these companies are not currently fit for human consumption, methane - based proteins could improve the environmental impact of meat production, and eventually further fuel the meatless revolution by creating another food source for developing economies in Africa and Asia.

These concerns include the impact on our trade relationship, enhanced rights of investors, environmental impacts and China's poor record on labour and human rights.

At GFI, Isaac Emery studies the significant environmental and human health impacts of industrial animal agriculture and evaluates the reduced impact of plant - based and clean meat.

Strip mines are ugly gashes in the landscape, yes, but they don't have a negative environmental impact — or more precisely no impact more negative than that of any large - scale human enterprise.

But even in an environmental - impact statement, it is the effect of the proposed activity only upon human welfare which has legal standing.

If by some way humanity were able to reduce the environmental impact of all its technologies by 10 per cent and there were no increase in per - person affluence, world population growth would return the collective impact of humans to the previous level in about five years.

Instead of thinking of the environmental impact of humans as a long list of components, we get a much better picture from a synoptic approach.

Both the size of the human population and the environmental impact of the average individual must eventually be reduced well below what it is today.

However, the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA), passed by Congress in 1990, requires nonorganic inputs to be vetted to a higher level of assurance in terms of human health and environmental impacts.

«We're doing a lot to understand the components of fishes, like omega - 3 fatty acid, and their impact on human, environmental and animal health.

The cocoa commodity market is rife with poverty and human rights abuses, including child slavery, as well as environmental impacts such as rainforest destruction.

Nor does it stop them from destroying field trials designed to address questions around environmental impact, performance, and effectiveness as a human food.

«For growers and vintners, relating and tracking both practices and measurable outcomes helps prioritize vineyard or winery plans for greatest impact and operational efficiency — reducing inputs, saving money and minimizing adverse environmental and human impacts.»

Scientists haven't been able to adequately study GMOs impact on human, animal and environmental health.

We recognize the challenges faced within the supply chain, including ethical sourcing, compliance, advancing human rights and reducing environmental impacts.

Mass Audubon supports a scientifically based approach to mosquito control focused on protecting human health and minimizing environmental impacts.

Mass Audubon supports a scientifically - based approach to mosquito control focused on protecting human health and minimizing environmental impacts.

Breastfeeding is a lifeline for infants and young children in emergencies, has zero environmental impact, and States have a human rights obligation to ensure that mothers are enabled to make an informed decision on infant feeding, free of conflicts of interests.

On Tuesday, about 40 anti-fracking activists with New Yorkers Against Fracking (a coalition of 60 groups) held a rally in front of the Department of Environmental Conservation «s headquarters in Albany, demanding a human health study be added to the department's ongoing environmental Environmental Conservation «s headquarters in Albany, demanding a human health study be added to the department's ongoing environmental environmental impact study.

The terrible environmental and human impact of a nuclear disaster is overshadowed by the impact of fossil fuels, climate change and natural disasters.

«This is the sort of thing you could possibly have got away with in China in the 1950s but the impact on London, the impact on the city, the environmental cost, the whole human rights, legal challenges that will inevitably ensue will be so great that I don't think it's deliverable.»

In western New York, officials and environmental advocates hope the Trump administration won't suppress a report that warns of the human impact on the climate.

Aggression toward humans and native animal species, the depletion of submerged vegetation in aquatic ecosystems and degraded water quality due to droppings are among the negative impacts of mute swan populations, environmental experts say.

American Political Science Association (APSA): The Section on Human Rights was established to encourage scholarship and facilitate exchange of data and research findings on all components of human rights (e.g., civil, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental), their relationship, determinants and consequences of human rights policies, structure and influence of human rights organizations, development, implementation, impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rights reHuman Rights was established to encourage scholarship and facilitate exchange of data and research findings on all components of human rights (e.g., civil, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental), their relationship, determinants and consequences of human rights policies, structure and influence of human rights organizations, development, implementation, impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rights rehuman rights (e.g., civil, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental), their relationship, determinants and consequences of human rights policies, structure and influence of human rights organizations, development, implementation, impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rights rehuman rights policies, structure and influence of human rights organizations, development, implementation, impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rights rehuman rights organizations, development, implementation, impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rights rehuman rights regime.

The hotline volunteers can aid human rights groups in a variety of ways, from reviewing environmental impact assessments to managing data and designing surveys.

Her interests span from microbiology to macro-scale ecosystem modeling, with a goal of reducing human's environmental impact.

Now, to foster a less confrontational way of advancing projects, the hydropower industry, environmental and human - rights organizations, and representatives from banks and governments have negotiated a mechanism for evaluating, and perhaps mitigating, the impact of dams before they are built.

«NEPA [the National Environmental Policy Act] says that agencies must consider and analyze any major federal action that may have a significant impact on the human environment,» he said.

Water shortages are being felt around the world yet impacts vary in different places, said Gleick, adding that the human, economic, and environmental costs of doing nothing, especially in the face of climate change and environmental security threats, are high and require «new thinking.»

The need to foresee the probable consequences of human activities has generated new techniques for monitoring environmental change and for assessing the impact of present and proposed actions upon the natural and social environment.

«At the same time, the severity of flood impacts is not only determined by environmental factors, but also to a significant extent by human decisions: flood defense measures can counteract the increasing flood risk,» says Boettle.

Yet the environmental changes wrought by human activity impact non-human primates as well, she said.

«This underlines the glaring problem that many of the chemicals that are most widely used today, including pesticides, are simply not adequately tested and may have serious long - term impacts on health and development,» said Barrett, who studies how environmental chemicals affect human reproduction.

In this dark place, so far from human eyes, significant environmental change may already be underway, which could impact how quickly the ice sheet slips into the sea and, subsequently, how quickly global sea levels may rise.

History lesson With the advent of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the CEQ was set up to ensure that the federal government adequately conducted the newly required environmental impact statements, resolved disputes on environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the CEQ was set up to ensure that the federal government adequately conducted the newly required environmental impact statements, resolved disputes on environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment environmental impact statements, resolved disputes on environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment came to pass.

«With or without mitigation, there is no quick - fix, single - cause solution for the problem of human vulnerability to socio - environmental change, nor is there a reasonable prospect of attenuating high - impact weather.

«We know that carbon footprint, a popular indicator used in environmental policies, does not correspond well with other environmental impacts such as toxicity to ecosystems and humans, depletion of resources, and land use.

Using an interdisciplinary approach that combined evidence from climate modelling of large 20th - century eruptions, annual measurements of Nile summer flood heights from the Islamic Nilometer — the longest - known human record of environmental variability — between 622 and 1902, as well as descriptions of Nile flood quality in ancient papyri and inscriptions from the Ptolemaic era, the authors show how large volcanic eruptions impacted on Nile river flow, reducing the height of the agriculturally - critical summer flood.

The findings also could help inform the ongoing public debate about the economic impacts of human - made environmental disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and how much polluters should have to pay in reparation.

The U.S. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to conduct environmental impact statements on threats or boons to «the quality of the human environment» as well as the naturalEnvironmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to conduct environmental impact statements on threats or boons to «the quality of the human environment» as well as the naturalenvironmental impact statements on threats or boons to «the quality of the human environment» as well as the natural environment.

She also served as Assistant Scientific Program Director of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, an independent federal agency, where she managed the research program and developed a model of environmental research for monitoring human impacts in Antarctica.

«Large - scale conservation strategies such as Panthera's Jaguar Corridor Initiative, which are instrumental to protect broadly distributed species such as jaguars, maintain their connectivity, and by doing so to ensure their long - term survival, need to incorporate genetic monitoring of wild populations to fully understand how these species respond to environmental changes and increasing levels of human impacts,» Wultsch said.

Mining impacts could affect important environmental benefits that the deep sea provides to human beings.

Funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, researchers are following 200 infants with congenital Zika syndrome and their families to understand the ongoing health impact, why some babies affected by the virus develop more normally than others, and if more positive prognoses are linked with family or environmental characteristics.

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.

She then spent 3 years in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, assessing the impact of global climate change on human health.