Sentences with phrase «environmental risks to human health»

They indicate that particulates are the greatest current environmental risk to human health, with the impact on life expectancy in many parts of the world similar to the effects of every man, woman and child smoking cigarettes for several decades,» says study co-author Michael Greenstone, the director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics, the College and the Harris School.

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Beginning in 2003, the Division of Corporate Finance too often has issued no - action letters omitting shareholder proposals that ask management to undertake a risk assessment or review the financial implications of an array of environmental, community, public health and human rights concerns and issues.

Mass Audubon generally opposes most nuisance control practices, including spraying of pesticides to kill adult mosquitoes when there is a relatively low risk of mosquito - borne disease, because of the human health risks of pesticide exposures, harmful environmental effects, and unproven effectiveness of these activities.

For the people of Hoosick Falls who are trying to make sense of what the high levels of PFOA in the bloodstream means, the fact sheet doesn't convey the weight of the health risks detailed in published studies, said Laurel Schaider, an environmental chemist and public health researcher at the Silent Springs Institute, which studies the links between environmental contamination and human health.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

Others used the event as a platform to call out the Trump administration for interfering with federally funded agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tasked with ensuring that people are protected from risks to their health and environment and that federal laws that protect human health and the environment are enforced fairly and effectively, among other things.

In September 2012, after years of study, Martens and the Department of Environmental Conservation formally asked the state Department of Health to review the human health risks of fracking, leading to further dHealth to review the human health risks of fracking, leading to further dhealth risks of fracking, leading to further delays.

For the current study, researchers spiked soil with a mixture of PCBs at concentrations commonly found in soils and sediments — and which pose a potential risk to human and environmental health.

Instead, the bulk of research is focused on developing medical therapies and roughly $ 15 million has been spent to assess human health and environmental risks, according to the Wilson Center.

The test is increasingly used as a method of assessing substances — including drugs and cosmetics — that could pose a potential risk to human or environmental health by causing damage to DNA.

As a result, finding a way to improve nitrogen uptake in agricultural products could improve yields and decrease risks to environmental and human health.

While some environmental leaders now cautiously support development of more nuclear reactors (which are free of fossil fuels) to help stave off climate change, others remain concerned that the risks to human health and the environment are still too high to go down that road.

The project will focus on development of research methods to address human health risk in areas of environmental contamination in the Southwest U.S. and Buryat Republic of Russia.

You may be aware that pesticides pose risks to human and environmental health and I am sure that you don't want them on your food!

Her address, «A New Medical Research Model: Advancing Human and Animal Health Humanely,» will detail the concept of a new research model predicated on a meaningful commitment by both medical and veterinary researchers to work cooperatively together to address disease and disorders in humans and animals — evaluating genetic and environmental risk factors, sensitive diagnostic indicators and novel therapies.

A study conducted by Stanford University's Department of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) found virtually no risk to humans from feral cats.

We want to emphasize that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have all stated that there is no risk expected to California or its residents as a result of the situation in Japan.

Climate change is only one of many types of environmental change effecting Earth's life support systems — in fact, there is now a serious risk that the dramatic gains to public health made since the 1950s could plateau or even reverse as a result of human degradation of a myriad of natural systems.

To ignore these questions is to decide to expose human health and the environment to real risk before changing the risky behavior, that is, a decision to not act on a serious environmental threat has grave potential consequenceTo ignore these questions is to decide to expose human health and the environment to real risk before changing the risky behavior, that is, a decision to not act on a serious environmental threat has grave potential consequenceto decide to expose human health and the environment to real risk before changing the risky behavior, that is, a decision to not act on a serious environmental threat has grave potential consequenceto expose human health and the environment to real risk before changing the risky behavior, that is, a decision to not act on a serious environmental threat has grave potential consequenceto real risk before changing the risky behavior, that is, a decision to not act on a serious environmental threat has grave potential consequenceto not act on a serious environmental threat has grave potential consequences.

«This study highlights the need for countries that are most at risk to actively monitor their populations» nutritional sufficiency, and, more fundamentally, the need for countries to curb human - caused CO2 emissions,» said Samuel Myers, a research scientist in the department of environmental health at Harvard University in the US.

These changes all pose risks for marine life and may affect the oceans» ability to perform the wide range of functions that are vitally important for environmental and human health.

Complaints focus on the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal mining, the projected high costs of carbon capture and storage, the human health dangers of large, rapid releases of carbon dioxide, the global warming risk posed by small levels leakage over long periods, increases in coal mining needed to run scrubbers as well as carbon capture and storage systems.

Maynard et al. say nanotechnology needs to: develop instruments to assess exposure to engineered nanomaterials in air and water within next 3 - 10 years; create and test ways of evaluating the toxicity of nanomaterials in 5 - 15 years; generate models to predict their possible impact on the environment and human health over the next 10 years; develop ways to assess the health and environmental impact of nanomaterials over their entire lifetime, within 5 years; and, enable risk - focused research into nanomaterials, within the next 12 months.

Supporters say limiting heat - trapping gases is needed to protect human health and the environment; the state faces severe economic and environmental disruption from rising sea levels; increased risks of drought and wildfire, and other climate - change impacts.

Climate change poses risks to human health through shifting weather patterns, increases in the frequency and intensity of heat waves and other extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and ocean acidification, among other environmental effects.

The Environmental Working Group specializes in fomenting «health scares» about food, pesticides and other products using a predictable methodology: releasing a study which concludes that exposure to an everyday item — baby food, cosmetics, breast milk, tap water, fruits and vegetables — ultimately poses a risk to human health.

More than 75,000 chemicals are registered currently with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and only a fraction of them have undergone proper testing to assess whether they pose risks to human health.

• Clinically reviewed and conducted risk assessments based on approved industry and regulatory standards, associated with potential / actual exposures to hazardous substances, to determine if human and / or environmental health has been impacted.