Sentences with phrase «environmental legacies of»

Booker will bring a breath of fresh air to the Senate and carry on the strong environmental legacies of past Senators from New Jersey like Frank Lautenberg, Bob Menendez, Clifford Case, and Bill Bradley.

But today the US is producing no new nuclear weapons, and Rocky Flats closed down in the early 1990s leaving behind an environmental legacy of contamination with plutonium and other toxic chemicals.

Environmental Legacy of the Former Soviet Republics by Ruben A. Mnatsakanian, Centre for Human Ecology, Edinburgh, pp 209, # 20

My recent work deals with climate change, sustainability, and the environmental legacy of the «atomic age.»

The environmental legacy of past presidents tells us much about the current White House, whose occupant author Douglas Brinkley calls «a used car salesman of the worst kind.»

The biggest environmental legacy of the Olympics he said would be «changing people's minds, people's attitudes, helping them to recognize new partnerships for sustainability.»

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Edmonton faces a choice with the design and construction of the Valley Line LRT project — either the project can be designed to include or accommodate a future re-animation of the legacy creek bed and delta — which is a provincial priority according to the Environmental Assessment of the Valley Line — or it can render even more permanent the decisions made in the 1960s and 1970s that transportation infrastructure trumps our natural environment.

The B.C. Liberals» legacy of environmental hypocrisy continues to grow as they push projects like the Enbridge tar sands pipeline that threaten the very way of life in our communities.

Here are just a few examples which show some of the reasons why the B.C. Liberal government will be remembered for its legacy of environmental hypocrisy.

For almost 60 years, her legacy has inspired Drumlin Farm's mission of educating families and children about the importance of community farming and environmental protection.

In a surprising victory for former President Barack Obama's environmental legacy, the U.S. Senate voted to uphold an Obama - era climate change regulation to control the release of methane from oil and gas wells on public land.

The reality of a Bush presidency was however unequivocal: environmental catastrophe, irresponsible tax cuts, which benefited the wealthiest Americans disproportionately, a divisive War on Terror and bequeathed the Obama administration the worst legacy since Franklin Delano Roosevelt replaced Herbert Hoover in 1932.

The EPA's abrupt new direction on legacy chemicals — like PFOA — is part of a broad initiative by the Trump administration to change the way the federal government evaluates health and environmental risks associated with hazardous chemicals, making it more aligned with the industry's wishes.

ALBANY — The Cuomo administration has denied the water quality permits for a controversial pipeline in what has become another political test of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's environmental legacy.

Nixon's visit to Hoosick Falls strikes at the legacy of an environmental disaster that brought widespread criticism on the response to the crisis by Cuomo's administration and subsequently resulted in areas of Hoosick Falls being declared as federal and state superfund sites.

They asked Governor Cuomo to tell his environmental officials not to go ahead with fracking in New York.Debra Winger appealed to the appearance - conscious Cuomo's sense of legacy, and asked him to rethink his plans, and «push the rest button».

It is only now, more than three decades later, that science has the tools to see that this legacy of trauma becomes etched in our DNA — a process known as epigenetics, in which environmental factors trigger genetic changes that may be passed on, just as surely as blue eyes and crooked smiles.

He adds, «It doesn't surprise me that sperm carry some sort of environmental legacy to the next generation.

As one of my legacies, I want to leave a set of students who are informed about environmental issues.

«Given the magnitude of these debts, commitments to reduce emissions and biodiversity loss are unlikely to be realized without specific actions that directly address this damaging environmental legacy.»

Most neglected Romania pollution: Romania, saddled with staggering unemployment, bears some of Europe's deepest environmental scars from its legacy of industrial pollution.

Less under our control is the legacy of environmental pollution and the unforeseen consequences of industry, including rice products containing trace levels of arsenic, antibiotic - resistant bacteria, mercury - laced fish and plastic containers leaching poorly understood toxins.

Trump's judicial appointments rank «pretty high» in terms of his climate change legacy, said Glenn Sugameli, who runs the Judging the Environment project, which tracks judicial nominees» environmental records.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Gina McCarthy on Friday finalized a determination that the landmark fuel efficiency rules instituted by President Barack Obama should be locked in through 2025, a bid to maintain a key part of his administration's climate legacy.

The legacy of poor environmental management and protection efforts during the Soviet period and the lack of financial resources and legal enforcement programs to support and direct clean - up effort in Post-Soviet Russia combine to allow continued use of high radiation homes and water pollution spreading at an alarming rate.

At Southwest Research and Information Center, much of our work over the past 35 years has been to address the enormous legacy of nuclear's past and present — sick and dead people and contaminated land and water from uranium mining and milling, the world's first underground nuclear waste repository, and the political and economic power of the two nuclear weapons laboratories and their environmental impacts.

These challenges include increasing our nation's energy capacity; reducing dependence on imported oil; and detecting, mitigating and preventing the environmental impacts of legacy waste and energy generation and use.

These actions build upon requirements of earlier transportation authorizations, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP - 21) and the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA - LU), as well as administrative approaches through Executive Order (EO) 13604, Presidential Memoranda and the White House's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) modernization efforts, and DOT initiatives (e.g. Every Day Counts, eNEPA, etc.).

The Ogallala Road By Julene Bair Penguin • $ 17 • ISBN 9780143127079 In this compelling and beautifully written memoir, Bair recounts the rewards and challenges of returning to her family's farm on the Great Plains, where she finds both a promising new romantic relationship and a troubling legacy of environmental transgressions.

The legacy of Wangari Maathai, however, remained incomplete — beyond the valuable and necessary practical applications of her environmental grassroots activism and educational legacy in WMI.

The students were briefed about the institute and informed that it continues to walk the legacy of Prof. Wangari Maathai and therefore keen on training transformative leaders and change agents with a multidisciplinary practical knowledge on resource economy, policy, legal pluralism, community mobilization skills and appropriate participatory approaches handy in assisting communities to sustainably utilize resources besides developing policy and generating research data that would guide integrated environmental governance and management.

The Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies (WMI) continues to walk the works and legacy of Prof. Wangari Maathai of enhancing environmental suEnvironmental Studies (WMI) continues to walk the works and legacy of Prof. Wangari Maathai of enhancing environmental suenvironmental sustainability.

Prof. S.G. Kiama, Director, Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies hosts and gives a talk to the SAWASAWA Delegates from Egypt, Ghana, South Africa and Kenya, the Organization for Intercultural Education (AFS) partners on the legacy of the late Professor Wangari Maathai: Creation of Conservation Awareness on Kenya Environment and the works of the Wangari Maathai Institute.

That said, without the previous large and consistent stream of revenue from her successful career as an environmental attorney, she fully understands the need to effectively manage her risk and not take too many chances with her portfolio in order to leave a lasting legacy for her three grandchildren.

Dracula's Legacy (Joindots, $ 7.99)-- Dracula's Legacy is a hidden object adventure game that tasks the player with solving mysteries and environmental puzzles in an attempt to rescue Isabella's fiancé from the clutches of (presumably) Dracula.

We are already facing widespread economic collapse, environmental ruin, and tragic civil wars as a result of such nineteenth - century legacies.

Intrigued that a mixture of land and liquid in a perlemoen shell can speak of who we were as a species at a crucial stage in our evolution, Parton explores what paint is today and what it may tell to those in the future about us, as we stand at the cusp of an environmental challenge that will determine our legacy.

Frazier's practice spans photography, video and performance and focuses on the artist's deeply rooted and long held concerns exploring the legacies of racism, inequality, economic decline, access to healthcare and environmental justice.

The genesis of the modern environmental movement was the subject of «Earth Days,» the most recent film by Robert Stone, an Oscar - nominated documentarian who has explored subjects ranging from the space race to the legacy of Lee Harvey Oswald's life and death.

I have a piece on the Booming blog of The Times looking back at the complicated environmental and political legacy of the Love Canal toxic waste site 35 years after state and federal officials declared an environmental emergency there.

The easiest way to develop a tax narrative is via income tax increases for the very wealthy — you can easily sell this to the 51 % of voters you need more easily than the technical details about energy security, environmental discourse, science and uncertainty, precautionary principles, climate policy stabalisation assessment, green legacies, global trading schemes, UN COP frameworks ALL of which have to be defended for the policy framework to be politically feasible.

Some of the The Legacy delves into what one may consider environmental mysticism.

September 27, 2010: Dr. David Suzuki, co-founder of the environmental activist group, The David Suzuki Foundation, is now touring Canada promoting his new book, «The Legacy - An elder's Vision for our Sustainable Future».

Through interviews with indigenous leaders, activists and local residents, Belo Monte: After the Flood illustrates how this multi-billion dollar mega-project has left a disastrous legacy of broken promises and socio - environmental damage, and shattered livelihoods among local communities of the Xingu.

For New Yorkers, the choice is ours whether we embrace green infrastructure as a critical solution to our environmental and societal challenges, or whether this technology remains underutilized,» said Rob Crauderueff, Co-Chair of CitiesAlive Legacy Committee and CEO of Crauderueff & Associates.

«President Obama moved to solidify his environmental legacy Tuesday by withdrawing hundreds of millions of acres of federally owned land in the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean from new offshore oil...

Her legacy truly lives on through the Movement which to date remains in the frontline of advocating for environmental conservation in Kenya, and making great progress on reclaiming and restoring forest land.

Students at Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies hosted a two day symposium celebrating Wangari Maathai's legacy and discussed Africa's environmEnvironmental Studies hosted a two day symposium celebrating Wangari Maathai's legacy and discussed Africa's environmentalenvironmental future.

Ken Saro - Wiwa's life has provided a legacy of great inspiration for human rights and environmental activists around the world.

Add legacy of failed institutions to this neglect and you get an all - pervasive picture of environmental callousness, of which polluted [continue reading...]