Sentences with phrase «environmental reports because»

Not exact matches

Hundreds of people have been camping out and standing against the construction of the pipeline, according to reports, because they think the whole project poses a major environmental threat to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its cultural sites.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

But, as scientists report in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology, «fracking» operations could have impacts on water quantity because they are withdrawing these large amounts of water from nearby streams, which house aquatic ecosystems and are used by people for drinking and recreation.

According to a new study, canine sperm quality could be rapidly declining because of environmental contaminants, The New York Times reports.

«The reason we think biofuels can reduce global warming is because we assume the feed crop will take carbon out of the air,» says Tim Searchinger of Princeton, the lead author of a report on biofuels» environmental impact in a February issue of Science [subscription required].

Landfills may be emitting more methane than previously reported because the Environmental Protection Agency may be drastically underestimating how much garbage is being deposited in landfills across the U.S., according to a new Yale University study.

Early spaying may therefore, reduce occurrence of malignant lesions because the procedure removes the source of the hormones that cause some mammary cells to lose growth control, which puts these dividing cells at high risk for mutation and malignant transformation by environmental carcinogens.In fact, recent reports have identified activation of a specific oncogene in a number of canine mammary tumors.

This report is important because it is the first global - scale attempt to systematically translate fragmented data into quantitative environmental impacts of products throughout their life - cycle.»

Laurie Geller, director of the National Research Council's review of the National Climate Assessment, criticized earlier versions of the report for not being «clear enough on how climate change interacts with other environmental problems, because it's not occurring in isolation.»

The inherent safety is a big cost advantage because a lot of nuclear's costs today relate to the extra engineering required to meet safety regulations, note the report's authors who include Breakthrough's Michael Shellenberger, one of the environmental stars of the new pro-nuclear feature film Pandora's Promise.

MOYERS: What do you think when you read that the White House recently ordered our Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA, to leave global warming off its report because it's such a political hot potato?

Because of environmental and air regulations in Europe, products that focus on reducing emissions, like hybrid gensets, are positioned for growth, the report says.

Despite this high level of knowledge and upbeat, positive association with being environmentally conscious, Millennials report they do not always put their knowledge to use because of the high cost of environmentally friendly products, as well as the seeming enormity and insurmountability of environmental problems and doubts about whether they can really make a difference, Generate Insight said.

The report in question — «Post-Partisan Power» — received significant coverage, primarily because of its sponsorship: a combination of a prominent Republican - oriented Washington think tank, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and an equally prominent Democratic - oriented Washington think tank, the Brooking Institution (and a third partner, the Breakthrough Institute, a California - based environmental think tank).

In a letter included as part of Yesterday's 88 - page report on the environment and other issues, Chairman Ford said global warming «stands out from other environmental issues because of its potentially serious consequences and its direct relationship to our industry.»

This association came about in part because of a report issued by the Carbon Tracker Initiative in 2012, which gained notoriety after environmental activist Bill McKibben mentioned the organization in an article in Rolling Stone later that year.

Not just because the federal government missed an opportunity to link food choices with environmental issues, but because there appeared to be significant support for the inclusion of sustainability in the guidelines: one analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity looked at the 29,000 public comments on the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee's report, and found «overwhelming support» for including sustainability.

In short, the Michael Wines, the NYT reporter (who does not specialize in environmental reporting, I might underscore) makes it sound as if we are saying that an impasse in Copenhagen is inevitable because the expectations of both sides are too far off.

The LCO Disabilities Report identifies the following barriers experienced by persons with disabilities because of the attitudes of those that implement the law, at 42 — 43: (1) heavy judgment and negative assumptions experienced by persons with mental health disabilities, particularly the homeless; (2) lack of support systems, stigma and fear experienced by persons with mental disabilities, which may also lead to increased contact with police and contribute to their criminalization; (3) reluctance to acknowledge the validity of (and therefore to accommodate) persons with disabilities, particularly those with learning, environmental, and chronic fatigue disabilities; and (4) suspicion and contempt towards persons with disabilities seeking services and supports, which may lead to persons within the legal system interpreting and applying laws in ways that frustrate or deny people's rights to those services and supports.

Regarding the unit owners» Chapter 21E, Section 5 property damage claims, the SJC ruled that the plaintiffs» claims were not time barred because they could not have known that they sustained permanent property damage until the Massachusetts Contingency Plan (MCP) mandated Phase II / III environmental report was submitted to MassDEP by the city in June of 2012.

In particular, the FCA reasoned that because the outcome of the environmental assessment and regulatory review (the report of the Joint Review Panel in this case) was merely a recommendation to Cabinet under the new legislative scheme, «no decisions about legal or practical interests had been made» and thus no application for judicial review lay from the report.

But because this report's constructive criticisms seem to fall largely on deaf ears in Sacramento and in many courthouses around the state, this year's look at the West Coast's perennial Judicial Hellhole will pragmatically limit its focus to an armful of the state's civil injustices, including precedent - defying state supreme court decisions, the Private Attorneys General Act, Prop 65, food and beverage litigation, innovator liability, the California Environmental Quality Act's impact on affordable housing, courts» expansions of public nuisance law and natural disaster - chasing personal injury lawyers, among others.

TPOs also are much stronger than PVC membranes, and TPOs are not under the environmental attack that PVCs are because of chemicals contained in the material, Gallivan reports.