Sentences with phrase «environmental matters make»

Not exact matches

Whether you're interested in plant - based proteins for health, environmental, or animal protection reasons, any change, no matter how small, can make a big impact.

Moreover, continuing high rates of population growth, especially in Africa and Asia, will make matters even worse, exacerbating environmental degradation as well as retarding economic and social development.

Carbon calculators like the ones from The Nature Conservancy and Conservation International make it easy to quantify your environmental impact in a matter of minutes.

The DOT EJ Order directs the Department to consider EJ objectives when administering the requirements of NEPA; Title VI and related statutes; the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended; planning statutes in Title 23, U.S. Code and Title 49, U.S. Code; and other statutes, regulations, and Executive Orders that address or affect transportation infrastructure planning and decision - making; social, economic or environmental matters; public health; or public involvement.

To complicate matters, I'm in a small, frustrated and endangered minority: a Republican deeply concerned about the environmental sacrifices some are asking us to make to keep our economy powered - up, long - term.

Note that she asks Dot Earth readers to help explore the notion that a history of colonization makes for a worse environmental record, no matter how far back that status changed.

But Roger A. Pielke, Jr., the blogging political scientist at the University of Colorado and a frequent antagonist of the center's environmental blogger, Joe Romm, shot back, asserting that the scientists, by associating with an advocacy group pressing a particular agenda on climate, were making matters worse.

But if you think about the fact that these coffee containers are made of three different types of material and are stuffed with compostable organic matter, it's easy to see the environmental impact add up.

To make matters worse, some scientists, and still more people among environmental and other organizations, made statements not supported by what was reliably known.

Yes, many people repeat Gelbspan's line about reporters giving unfair media balance to crooked skeptic scientists, but it doesn't take much additional digging to see where a Senior Producer at Turner Broadcasting, Teya Ryan, made her case in 1990 with a lengthy opinion in the Society of Environmental Journalists Winter 1990 - 91 newsletter about media balance being «artificial, a matter of giving equal air time or newshole space to dissenting views of questionable merit.

Rigorous Safety Requirements and Inspections: New York State will make annual inspections of the plant relating to key operational, regulatory, and environmental matters.

The counter-argument made by the State Department in its environmental assessment made public Friday is that this concern isn't relevant, because no matter what the United States does, Canada will fully exploit the tar sands anyway:

As I've reported previously on Spiked, the Royal Society has sought an ever expanding role in policy - making, mostly in environmental matters.

Mann's sending of Environmental Defense Fund material to Natuurwetenschap & Techniek and making of slanderous comments is a matter of public record: see http://www.natutech.nl/nieuwsDetail.lasso?ID=2565.

This is environmental determinism summed up; what matters to ecologists is what the climate or science will make us do, not what we decide we want to do about our future.

He can only hear an argument in defence of abundance as an argument for environmental destruction and death based on some mathematically impossible concept of «infinite growth», no matter that the claim he makes finds little substance in reality.

Moreover, continuing high rates of population growth, especially in Africa and Asia, will make matters even worse, exacerbating environmental degradation as well as retarding economic and social development.

According to their website, Collegians For A Constructive Tomorrow is a «student run environmental group led by National Director Bill Gilles, Collegians For A Constructive Tomorrow offers college students an opportunity to acquire knowledge, gain experience and get involved in making a difference on important environmental policy matters both on and off campus.»

The article may have been over-the-top (but, as I've learned, everything is spin and a matter of interpretation), but it made an interesting point to consider: perhaps one of the reasons we see environmental factors, such as extreme weather events, as causing more destruction than ever is because we have so much more to destroy - more people, more goods.

In environmental matters, small is indeed beautiful as there is definitely a correlation between the amount of stuff used and environmental harm — even if considerable effort is made to do the right thing.

Three experts discuss the Gordian knot of wealth, fertility, and environmental impact — and why making do with less stuff matters so much.

Switzerland is also a signatory of the 1998 Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision - making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, though does not seem to have ratified it

«Specifically, once the finding is made, no matter how limited, some environmental groups will sue to make sure it is applied to all aspects of the Clean Air Act.»

to make the serious environmental matters go down easier.

The federal government made a stunning 179,000 «categorical exclusions» that allowed corporations — many with disastrous environmental records — to use stimulus funding to sponsor projects without submitting them to review under the nation's «most basic form of environmental oversight», a new report from the Center for Public Integrity found.Making matters worse, many of these projects were approved under the auspices of being «green» or clean energy projects (many more are transportation - related)-- thus helping to comprise the billions of dollars in funding for green projects that sent progressives» hearts aflutter two years ago.

To make matters worse, I came across the Environmental Working Group's 2015 report on bisphenol - A in canned foods, and both brands of coconut milk I was able to source locally, Thai Kitchen and A Taste of Thai, ranked in the «Worst Players» category for using cans lined with BPA.

Water rage To make matters worse, redirecting water and relocating people doesn't have all kinds of known and unknown environmental problems, but is an easy invitation to social unrest.

Making matters worse, revisions currently proposed for federal dairy programs would further subsidize the entrenchment of CAFOs, just at a time when we should be prioritizing support for organic dairy farms so that we can reap more of their economic, environmental and health benefits.

In a significant win for access to justice in environmental matters, the Court's Grand Chamber found that Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights (the right to an effective remedy), read together with the Aarhus Convention, precluded the application of national procedural rules allowing for swift decision - making at the expense of rights granted to environmental NGOs.

Some effort has been made — one can discuss how successfully — to protect the right of host countries to foreign investment to continue to regulate environmental or labour relations matters without being held to violate foreigners» rights.

Although we make every effort to avoid litigation, Ragsdale Liggett's Environmental Team includes skilled and experienced trial lawyers ready to protect our clients» interests when matters must be adjudicated before courts or administrative bodies.

The Aarhus Convention is an important international environmental convention which contains mainly three «pillars»: (i) access to information; (ii) public participation in decision - making; and (iii) access to justice in environmental matters.

The idea that environmental claims warrant different treatment arises principally from the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision - making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the «Aarhus Convention»), which was ratified by the UK in 2005 and which includes the provision that «each Party shall ensure that... members of the public have access to administrative or judicial procedures to challenge acts and omissions by private persons and public authorities which contravene provisions of its national law relating to the enviroenvironmental claims warrant different treatment arises principally from the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision - making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the «Aarhus Convention»), which was ratified by the UK in 2005 and which includes the provision that «each Party shall ensure that... members of the public have access to administrative or judicial procedures to challenge acts and omissions by private persons and public authorities which contravene provisions of its national law relating to the enviroEnvironmental Matters (the «Aarhus Convention»), which was ratified by the UK in 2005 and which includes the provision that «each Party shall ensure that... members of the public have access to administrative or judicial procedures to challenge acts and omissions by private persons and public authorities which contravene provisions of its national law relating to the environment.»

ACTION under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of the letter from the Commissioner for Health and Food Safety of 16 November 2015 rejecting an application for internal review, based on Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on the application of the provisions of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision - making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters to Community institutions and bodies (OJ 2006 L 264, p. 13), of implementing decisions authorising the placing on the market of the genetically modified soybeans MON 87769, MON 87705 and 305423,

The June 21, 1993 Lugano Convention on civil liability for damage resulting from activities dangerous to the environment, the November 4, 1998 Strasbourg Convention on the protection of the environment through criminal law and the June 23 and 25, 1998 Aarhus Convention on access to information, public participation in decision making and access to justice in environmental matters underline this requirement and give the judiciary a central role in the enforcement of environmental law.

Fred, you also say «ABS may not cure all that ails our legal system, but as with environmental matters, even small steps in the right direction can make a constructive difference.

ABS may not cure all that ails our legal system, but as with environmental matters, even small steps in the right direction can make a constructive difference.