Sentences with phrase «environmental report said»

Human activity is wiping out close to one percent of every other species on Earth every year, a global environmental report said Friday.

Picturesque views of the snow - covered Alps may soon be relegated to picture books due to increasing climate change, a new European environmental report says.

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Companies including Apple, Walmart, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Ikea, Nestle, Proctor & Gamble, Levi Strauss, and Best Buy all say they plan to stick to a 2015 environmental pledge they signed during the Obama administration, Bloomberg reports.

President Donald Trump talked to embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt on Monday evening, the White House says, following reports that the EPA chief is under review for paying cheap rent for a Washington apartment linked to an energy lobbyist.

«If Mr. Trump is unable to reverse the trend towards increasing social polarization, U.S. democracy will be at greater risk of further deterioration,» the EIU said in its report, referring to the extreme divides between Republicans and Democrats on issues such as immigration and environmental regulation.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accused the carmaker of illegally using hidden software to allow excess diesel emissions on Thursday but CEO Sergio Marchionne said the news would not affect the company's financial targets, according to reports in Italy.

In an environmental report... the U.S. State Department says the Keystone XL pipeline poses «no significant impacts to most resources,» and risk of potential environmental impacts are low.

«Social entrepreneurship is about people starting any initiative that has a social, environmental or community objective,» says Siri Terjesen, a professor at American University who co-authored the report, in a press release.

The report came about a year - and - a-half after the department issued a «final» report in August 2011 on Keystone that said the pipeline would cause minimal environmental impact.

After eight years, Ontario's green energy policies have yielded moderate environmental gains while drastically increasing energy prices, says a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.

I asked her about reports that her government is planning to raise Alberta's $ 15 per tonne carbon price to $ 40 per tonne as a means to getting American approval for the pipeline project — a price that environmental critics say would be still too low.

HAZELTON — A federal environmental assessment report that concluded the proposed New Prosperity open - pit mine would have significant adverse effects for the Tsilhqot» in is a condemnation of the B.C. Liberals approach to Aboriginal rights and title, says Stikine MLA Doug...

Amortisations will gradually reduce the issuer's reported environmental impact of a project, but will free up capacity to finance new projects, says Bergstrand.

Report author and SCIAF Policy Officer Jo O'Neill said: «Despite efforts to tackle irresponsible businesses by governments, human rights and environmental abuses continue to take place, and all over the world human rights defenders continue to be threatened and killed.

That's the inference of a new report that says our growing global population will send greenhouse gases into overdrive unless something is done to curb the world's appetite for meat — and links the environmental, health and economic cases for doing so.

«We use cloth diapers for our new baby because I think diapers might be the No. 3 piece of garbage [in terms of environmental damage],» Matthews said at a Live Earth news conference after the band's performance Saturday in New Jersey, People.com reports.

Ben Beach, a spokesman for the Wilderness Society, welcomed attempts to debate environmental issues, but said of the report: «The thrust of what they are saying is unsubstantiated; it is just plain wrong.

Starting in 1988, when a well - publicized report said that disposables were cluttering landfills, diaper services took advantage of a sudden surge of environmental correctness.

Consumer Reports says disposables make up 1.7 percent of the weight in U.S. landfills, and the Environmental Protection Agency reports 3.3 percent by Reports says disposables make up 1.7 percent of the weight in U.S. landfills, and the Environmental Protection Agency reports 3.3 percent by reports 3.3 percent by volume.

Last week however, the information commissioner ruled not only that it was in the public interest to release the reports, but also that the government saying HS2 didn't have any environmental implications to prevent release under Environmental Information Regulations was simply environmental implications to prevent release under Environmental Information Regulations was simply Environmental Information Regulations was simply not the case.

Other initiatives discussed from the Dec. 14th agenda included Brad Hoylman speaking about the negotiations in the NYS Senate regarding the IDC; Laurie Hardjowirigo gave the Voter Reform Committee Report; Nat Johnson gave the Environmental Committee Report by stressing what was learned at the December 4 Future of Renewable Energy Forum; Erik Coler of Affordable Housing recapped the year's achievements by saying this year 42 units had been re-stabilized and he was hoping next year to add 90 more.

Today's report also recommends Britain's airports be expanded, saying that even if prices went up to cover the full environmental costs of flights - something Sir Rod backs - «there will remain a strong economic case for additional runway capacity».

The Commons» environmental audit committee (EAC), publishing a report on the issue today, said the number of health problems and deaths is a «national scandal».

Plastic - bag use «is a significant environmental problem in New York state,» said Basil Seggos, DEC commissioner and chair of the NYS Plastic Bag Task Force, which announced the report on Saturday.

A new report from a statewide environmental group says New York's brownfield remediation program is broken.

Grisanti, chairman of Senate's Environmental Conservation Committee, said in an interview he did not read the full report before issuing his statement.

«This report highlights the urgent need to reform fisheries policy and reconnect it with the national and environmental interest,» Mr Herbett said.

Biodiversity loss in England remains severe despite government conservation attempts, an environmental audit committee report said today.

The UK has massively overstated its reduction in carbon emission, say two new reports which casts a harsh light on Britain's environmental policy.

As for the DEC report itself on hydrofracking, Fiala said she was yet to read, but said she hadn't changed her position on the process, insisting that she had always preferred to wait for what environmental regulators would do.

The report concludes that personal carbon trading is not the best option for reducing carbon emissions - something environmental campaign groups have been saying for years.

Its report, Lofty Ambitions, said because three - quarters of all recipients were not classified as fuel - poor and the payments did not provide incentives to reduce CO2 emissions, they were not helping the government's environmental agenda.

«If you read their existing conditions report, it doesn't talk about the complexity of the environmental problems and it never once mentions the word Superfund site,» Ryan said.

«Water quality conditions in the northern two - thirds of the lake are now suitable for swimming,» said the report, issued today by Onondaga County's Department of Water Environmental Protection.

The New York Times reports that senior environmental officials now say they will very likely pursue that strategy.

Cuomo Administration insiders said they believed details of the report were being leaked Thursday by environmental activists at DEC, who opposed the findings.

The Society of Environmental Journalists contest judges said Telvock's «dogged reporting on water contamination and lead poisoning holds local officials accountable on behalf of Buffalo residents.

In a written response, the Environmental Facilities Corporation says the report is filled with inaccuracies and omissions, and cites numerous media stories over the loan as evidence that there was much public discussion of the projects.

A spokesman for Environmental Advocates responded — saying the groups based its report on the information that the DEC reported to the federal government.

And Cuomo says the internal health review could result in hastening an approval of fracking, because it will cut down on the time spent fighting lawsuits that are expected to be filed once the final environmental impact report is released.

Asked when the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) report on the risks of fracking will come out, the assemblywoman said Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is delaying the report until after the Nov. 4 election.

A report by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2009 said suggested the county build fences around a bike trail being built on the waste beds to keep people from being exposed to manganese.

The Journal reports that the charges include conspiracy, extortion and solicitation of bribes, and said the draft complaint against Skelos describes criminal activity involving both a real estate developer and an environmental technology company.

Syracuse, N.Y. — Several Onondaga County legislators said today the public needs more time to study and comment on the massive environmental report on a planned Onondaga Lake amphitheater.

But despite a two - year delay on a draft environmental impact statement detailing the I - 81 replacement options, Syracuse.com reported that Walsh said Cuomo was «moving the process forward» when the governor announced reconsideration of the tunnel option.

«I don't really care what an environmental group is going to give her as a report card, nor do I care that it endorses or doesn't endorse Mike Derrick,» he said.

The State's Environmental Commissioner Joe Martens, says the report from the advisory committee, will be not be issued next month as originally planned, partly because data on costs of fracking to other state agencies, including the departments of health and transportation, aren't ready yet.

Lago Resort & Casino partners Wilmorite and Peninsula Pacific said Wednesday they filed more than 3,000 pages of environmental reports to the Town of Tyre as the small town proceeds for a second time with a state - mandated environmental review.

But the July 15 fundraising report may prove even more crucial for Lazio's chances as potential big - time donors assess his ability to beat Cuomo, said Bill Mahoney, a researcher at the New York Public Interest Research Group, a not - for - profit focused on environmental and government - reform issues.

Environmental health assessment director Lisa Letteney says it's common for these reports to start trickling in this time of year.