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Employees volunteer their time at the display tent which showcases the mining processes, final products and the environmental and community initiatives undertaken by Talison Lithium.

The good news, for Enbridge and the federal government anyway, is that they don't really have to; accountability at this stage of the environmental process is primarily intended for the ballot box, not the court room.

California refineries, the largest purchasers of crude from the Ecuadorian Amazon, would be at least partially responsible for the ensuing environmental destruction, rights violations, and possible ethnocide if they continue to process oil from the Amazon.

«How can B.C. commit to ramping up this dangerous, polluting industry when the province has just announced that they will be looking at the environmental impacts of the fracking process through their scientific review?»

Using the Bloomberg BNA audit tool to measure our performance against federal, state and local regulations, as well as gap analyses conducted by our EHS team at each of our sites every two years, we've established a consistent approach to how we allocate resources, assign responsibilities and evaluate our practices, procedures and processes to reduce our environmental footprint.

First asked by the world's leading manufacturer of high - quality cocoa and chocolate products, Barry Callebaut, to consider how their environmental responsibility and waste recovery processes could be enhanced by reviewing their packaging, experts at the 168 year old, family - run mill began a series of trials that soon lead them to their breakthrough.

«Before food even reaches a consumer, we focus on reducing the amount of food waste being generated during the production processes, through standard operating activities at every stage from planning to post analysis,» says Kathleen Cacciola, Senior Director for Environmental Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility.

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An environmental initiative that will deliver greater energy security and a cleaner, greener future at one of Australia's largest beef processing plants was launched recently (Friday, March 7) by Australian Federal Industry Minister and MP for Groom Hon Ian Macfarlane.

The Bombay Sapphire gin distillery at Laverstoke Mill in Hampshire has become both the first distillery and first refurbishment to achieve an «Outstanding» design - stage BREEAM (Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method) accreditation for its distillery process buildings.

Our environmental efforts include many day - to - day activities aimed at reducing waste, recycling, and treating our brewery and restaurant effluent in an engineered water treatment facility that processes our waste stream through a recirculating wetland before returning clean water to the earth.

A spectacular orb - shaped green energy storage facility being installed at one of Australia's largest beef processing plants is helping to demonstrate how industry can profit from environmental initiatives.

With regard to environmental criteria, the assessments are carried out at the landscape and operational level at both the farms and processing facilities.

We also put a huge emphasis on environmental and social accountability, looking at the fiber, spinning and weaving processes, and how they affect the water that leaves our factory.

Current cotton harvesting and treatment processes harm the environment and surrounding areas, but at Estella, we have a firm commitment to environmental stewardship.

Stephanie Hanson, a policy communications director at a Washington environmental nonprofit, went so far as to investigate her cloth diaper service's delivery processes, to make sure the vehicles were fuel - efficient.

ICYMI: Rep. Bob Turner, who is on an upstate campaign swing and headed today to Binghamton — the heart of New York's hydrofracking debate — shrugged off environmental concerns about the controversial natural gas drilling process during a CapTon interview last night, saying the state should «at least start trying it.»

On May 14, the New York State Gaming Commission sent a letter to all «interested and involved» parties requesting each agency detail their «potential jurisdiction» and include any issues that should be considered in the state's environmental quality review act process, or SEQRA, of the proposed expansion at Saratoga Casino and Raceway.

President Donald Trump is at Trump Tower in Manhattan, where he is scheduled this afternoon to participate in an infrastructure discussion, and also will sign an executive order establishing discipline and accountability in the environmental review and permitting process for infrastructure projects.

And while Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens hinted at a possible do over on the rule - making process for fracking, Cuomo says there's «no step back.»

That's when Council is scheduled to vote on North District Common Council Member Joe Golombek's resolution that calls for a federal investigation of the environmental review process undertaken by the state Department of Transportation for its proposed project at -LSB-...]

The Conservation Fund focuses on educating New Yorkers about environmental issues and the environmental decision making processes at the local, regional, state and federal government levels.

Environmental approval for a 10 tonne per hour Dense Media Separation Plant is expected soon from the Madhya Pradesh government, which allows processing of bulk samples at the project site.

At Thursday's meeting, village attorney Joseph Prokop said the village applied on Sept. 26 to be the «lead agency» for an environmental review process, believing the Village Board could better oversee concerns about the project.

Town Supervisor Kate Murray said the environmental review and plan approval process could take at least a month to complete.

Federal prosecutors revealed Mr. Skelos had arranged a meeting between fracking industry leaders and the state Department of Environmental Conservation at the same time that his son both held an alleged «no - show» job at AbTech and was in the process of negotiating the contract to sell filters through his consulting firm Rockville Strategies.

«During the 30 - day period from November 16th to December 16th, 2015, at least 29 towns, cities and counties in the direct path of the two proposed oil and refined products pipelines — over 85 percent of the total — objected to the Thruway Authority's proposal to act as Lead Agency for the (state Environmental Quality Review Act) process,» town officials wrote.

Hawkins has long faulted Cuomo's DEC for failing to require a formal environmental review of the expansion of oil shipments and crude oil boiler processing at the Port of Albany, which will total an estimated 2.8 billion gallons of crude oil annually.

The Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], has ordered the shut down of the plastic processing unit of the Shinefeel Ghana Company Limited at Asutsuare in the Shai Osudoku District of the Greater Accra Region.

Ignoring the ongoing health and environmental review processes by rushing new rules that have to be finalized by the end of February appears to be either politically motivated or messy administration at the expense of all New Yorkers.

The state's Environmental Commissioner said last week that the process to permit hydrofracking on some private lands in New York State may take longer than expected, and DEC Commissioner Joe Martens even cast doubt on whether permits would be issued in 2012 at all.

In the days leading up to Cuomo's decision, Adam Skelos and lobbyists for Capitol Group — Nick Barrella and Mike Avella — had discussed setting up a meeting with officials at the Department of Environmental Conservation to talk about how to include a provision requiring that water used in the fracking process be reused and recycled — an opportunity for AbTech's filter to be utilized, which would then also benefit Adam Skelos.

David Skeval of Cornell Coorperative Extension of Onondaga County said after an internal review at the DEC, officials realized their process of issuing deer culling permits is cumbersome, and also not following environmental law.

Annette Fredette, 4FRI planning team leader at the Forest Service's Flagstaff office, said forcing discussion among different interests throughout the National Environmental Policy Act process is «both the challenge and the value» of the initiative.

Yet Franz Litz, an analyst at the World Resources Institute, said the governor must go through a new rulemaking process with the state Department of Environmental Protection that could take time and prompt legal challenges.

In a forthcoming article in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS), authors Dr. Richard Anthes, President Emeritus at University Corporation of Atmospheric Sciences (UCAR) and Dr. Alan Robock, Professor at Rutgers University's School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, describe the two - decade - long process to form an active meteorological partnership with the Meteorological Institute of Cuba (their National Weather Service).

«For a long time, processes like this were seen as a «black box» that can not be understood and that can only be effectively exploited with a lot of experience,» says Prof. Christoph Herwig, who leads the research group for bioprocess technology at TU Wien's Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering.

At a minimum, a R - SEA process should be required for the Ring of Fire before project - based environmental assessments and approvals can proceed.

Caterpillars that nibble through polyethylene plastic cultivate a diverse community of digestive bacteria that process the plastic, researchers reported November 13 at the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America.

A new recycling process developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Critical Materials Institute (CMI) turns discarded hard disk drive (HDD) magnets into new magnet material in a few steps, and tackles both the economic and environmental issues typically associated with mining e-waste for valuable materials.

«The Dakota gasification project is creating synthetic gas and taking the CO2 from that process,» then piping it to the Weyburn oil field, observes Kurt Waltzer, carbon storage development coordinator at the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental group based in Boston.

The guidelines are voluntary at this point, but U.S. wind developers interested in a smoother ride through various permitting processes and the blessing of environmental groups — several were consulted extensively in drawing up the new guidelines — are doing their best to make their designs and implementations comply.

«More than 90 percent of international agreements the U.S. has joined have followed the same executive process the president just completed for the Paris Agreement, and did not require a trip through the Senate,» said Alex Hanafi, an attorney at the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund.

Now, Seema Singh and colleagues at the Joint BioEnergy Institute and other US institutions have developed a closed - loop system that could potentially reduce the cost and environmental impact of making ionic liquids suitable for biomass processing.

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.

«He may be announcing a bunch of things on his first day, it's totally possible for him to sign a bunch of executive orders that say he's going to do things,» says Jody Freeman, a professor of law at Harvard University and director of its Environmental Law and Policy Program, «But it's very difficult to effectuate everything without going through the process.»

«We found that poultry waste processed as hydrochar produced 24 percent higher net energy generation,» says student researcher Vivian Mau and Prof. Amit Gross, chair of the Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology at BGU's Zuckerberg Institute.

«Given how widespread low - oxygen zones are in coastal waters worldwide, understanding these processes will allow us to predict the acidification of estuaries under expected increases in carbon dioxide and ongoing mitigation of nutrient inputs by management actions,» said Jeremy Testa, assistant professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

Second, apart from these shared genetic and environmental liabilities, there are causal processes at play: your own drinking phenotype causes you to select peers based on their drinking, and your peers» drinking influences your own drinking.»

As Lau explained to an audience at the International Workshop on Land Surface Multi-sphere Processes of the Tibetan Plateau and Their Environmental and Climate Effects Assessment — held in August in China — there are two pollutant transportation pathways into the tropopause, one from India and the other from central and eastern China.