Sentences with phrase «environmental quality»

The findings of this study also reveal a significantly positive sign for the coefficient of financial development, suggesting that financial development has occurred at the expense of environmental quality.

But the state environmental quality agency approved the request.

You may notice that I have not mentioned embodied energy, green building materials, or improved indoor environmental quality at all.

The reward for slower income growth is better for environmental quality and an improved social safety net.

Markets, property rights, and the rule of law are fundamental to economic growth, and economic growth is fundamental to improving environmental quality.

Increased rates were seen for both males and females, and prostate and breast cancer demonstrated the strongest association with poor environmental quality.

The work includes a field trip to survey local streets and mark them against selected criteria which measure environmental quality.

Our mission is to support the development of principles and practices for protection, enhancement and management of sustainable environmental quality and ecosystem integrity.

If serious cuts are enacted, the pace of innovation will slow, harming the economy, energy security and global environmental quality.

Parental attachment style, but not environmental quality, is associated with use of opposite - sex parents as a template for relationship partners.

Printed or emailed reports can be used as an assessment of environmental quality and a tool for continuous improvement.

Fortunately, there are a number of appliances and technologies that can help to improve indoor environmental quality.

The 2010 draft guidance from the Council on Environmental Quality on implementing the National Environmental Policy Act also called for a comparison of the emissions associated with proposed projects with the emissions associated with potential alternatives, such as renewable energy development, and with the alternative of no project development at all.

White House Council on Environmental Quality Acting Chair Mike Boots and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Mark Schaefer joined U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today to congratulate the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools and District Sustainability Awardees on their achievements at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.

about Scenic Hudson and Pattern for Progress Release Draft Recommendations on State Environmental Quality Review Act

This was confirmed by the Commission on Environmental Quality in Texas, which conducted an extensive study on fracking in the Barnett Shale.

Organic producers utilize and rate strongly Environmental Quality Incentives Programs (EQIP) and the Organic Initiative (OI) within EQIP.

USDA Organic Seal: The USDA Organic Seal indicates that 100 % of the ingredients in this product are produced by certified organic farmers who emphasize the use of renewable resources and the conservation of soil and water to enhance environmental quality for future generations.

He was director of policy and external affairs for the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality under then - Gov.

wPOWER Hub of the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies, University of Nairobi, scopes second position in the best stand demonstrating the application of environmental quality standards, at the 2015 Nairobi International Trade Fair.

The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft EIS) for the proposed $ 1.2 billion Thirty Meter Telescope Project (TMT) will appear Saturday, May 23 in the Office of Environmental Quality Control's (OEQC) Environmental Notice.

Pennsylvania Youth Gain Support For Their Climate Change Petition at Environmental Quality Board Hearing, But Majority of Board Deny the Petition

Dr. Lee Talbot of the President's Council on Environmental Quality said that «during the past 150 years the rate of extermination of mammal species has increased 55-fold.

When the Air Resources Bureau of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality did the CO2 comparison, they found «wildfire CO2 emissions from a devastating fire year won't come anywhere close to what Colstrip burns annually.»

«The committee has fallen into the trap of thinking that the high environmental quality of our national parks has been maintained at the expense of businesses within them,» said Ruth Chambers, acting chief executive of CNP.

Funding for the Healthy Lawns and Healthy Waters Program is provided in part through Clean Water Act grants from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A handful of other teams are taking an immersive, multivariable approach to studying human responses to indoor conditions, using flexible facilities — from the Total Indoor Environmental Quality Lab at Syracuse University in New York, to the SenseLab at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, which should open in December.

The changes include full incorporation of the new Michigan Department of Environmental Quality rules on high - volume hydraulic fracturing, adopted this year.

To mitigate these impacts, drought preparedness that responds to human needs, while preserving environmental quality and ecosystems, requires involvement of all stakeholders including water users and water providers to achieve solutions for drought.

And according to a study, one in five US schools has poor indoor environmental quality including high temperatures and humidity, air quality with high concentrations of various pollutants, exposure to loud noise sources, and inadequate lighting, all of which have been shown to negatively affect children's health and behaviour, and in turn, their academic performance.

They would create an environmental rules committee that could reject or change any rule the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality issues.

He also has ties to environmental groups, having worked for Riverkeeper, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Council on Environmental Quality at the White House.

(This was a superb slap at a disgusting comment made by Council on Environmental Quality chief James Connaughton at a press conference a day earlier, when he had implied that the United States was leading, and other countries needed to «fall in line.»)

The schools and districts being honored today are modeling the best practices in reducing environmental impact and cutting costs, creating a healthier learning environment, and providing students with an education geared toward the jobs of the future,» said Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality Nancy Sutley.

176.1 (1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations establishing programs and other measures for the use of economic and financial instruments and market - based approaches, including without being limited to emissions trading, for the purposes of maintaining or improving existing environmental standards, protecting the environment and achieving environmental quality goals in a cost effective manner.

California Vehicle Retirement Program: The Senate Environmental Quality Committee did not approve legislation to expand the state's program for the retirement and replacement of older passenger vehicles and light - and medium - duty trucks.

Protect environmental quality and promote sustainable economic development of border communities, including the development of binational ecotourism routes on both sides of the US - Mexico border;

Survey questions addressed environmental quality, loss of biodiversity, climate change, limited natural resources, consumption, land use, waste and pollution.

«Poor overall environmental quality linked to elevated cancer rates.»

The Commission and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality describe how Oregonians use goods and services that cause emissions elsewhere — in China to produce sneakers; in Japan or Korea for flat - screen TVs.

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«The improvements we've seen over the years in the Hudson River are a nice example of where environmental quality and public health have been improved, and at much lower cost than originally anticipated.

The White House Council on Environmental Quality censored, and then ceased publication of, a USDA brochure recommending steps that farmers could take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In fact, the U.S. Council of Environmental Quality found that overall cancer risk is 93 % higher in people who drink chlorinated water.