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«(The artificial leaf) would provide both energy security and environmental security at the same time because it doesn't contribute to any greenhouse gas pollution while providing us with a domestically abundant source of energy.»

«It's a little bit of an obscure compound,» says chemist Rolf Halden of the Center for Environmental Security at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University.

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

WASHINGTON — The two top officials in charge of security and toxic - waste cleanups at the Environmental Protection Agency have abruptly left their jobs, days after EPA administrator Scott Pruitt told lawmakers that his subordinates were to blame for alleged ethical lapses that have prompted more than a dozen federal investigations of the agency.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's head of security — who signed off on his boss» first - class travel — suddenly resigned before a scheduled appearance at a spending and ethical...

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Csecurities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange CSecurities and Exchange Commission.

Courtney studied Environments and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Melbourne, majoring in «Environmental Geographies, Politics and Culture» and «Food Security».

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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.

Global security, instead, has five dimensions that include human, environmental, national, transnational, and transcultural security, and, therefore, global security and the security of any state or culture can not be achieved without good governance at all levels that guarantees security through justice for all individuals, states, and cultures.»

EMR is vital to attracting low - carbon technologies, as there's little doubt that if left alone, the market would veer towards a short - term approach — building more gas generation — at the expense of our long - term environmental and energy security responsibilities.

State health, environmental, utility and security agencies say they are launching an analysis at Gov. Andrew Cuomo's direction of the safety risks from Spectra Energy's Algonquin pipeline that would run from Pennsylvania to New England.

In Africa alone, the continent with the highest fertility rate and lowest use of modern contraceptives, 26 countries will double their population by 2050, according to the U.N. «Fundamentally if you're looking at World Population Day, it is at heart a women's rights issue,» said Roger - Mark DeSouza director of population, environmental security and resilience at the non-partisan policy Wilson Center, based in Washington, D.C. World Population Day is meant to draw attention to the challenges we face with a human population that is constantly growing.

Jeffrey Stark, director of research at the Foundation for Environmental Security and Studies, said his time in Uganda taught a similar lesson.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

Russell Lundberg of the Department of Security Studies at Sam Houston State University and Henry Willis, Director of the Rand Homeland Security and Defense Center, recently applied a tool originally developed to address risks in environmental policy, the Deliberative Method for Ranking Risk, to aid in strategic planning for sSecurity Studies at Sam Houston State University and Henry Willis, Director of the Rand Homeland Security and Defense Center, recently applied a tool originally developed to address risks in environmental policy, the Deliberative Method for Ranking Risk, to aid in strategic planning for sSecurity and Defense Center, recently applied a tool originally developed to address risks in environmental policy, the Deliberative Method for Ranking Risk, to aid in strategic planning for securitysecurity.

Stephen Schneider, Stanford University environmental biology and global change professor and member of the Bulletin's Science and Security Board, called climate change a «threat multiplier» at Thursday's press conference.

«Assuming that technology will allow ever more shale gas production at low prices — and betting energy policy and the future energy security of the country on it — is risky business,» says geologist David Hughes, who retired from the Canadian Geological Survey and is now doing assessments of shale gas and oil for the nonprofit Post Carbon Institute, a California - based environmental think tank.

Debate about the border wall advocated by President Trump to run along the southern border of the United States has focused on the structure's security effectiveness and cost, but experts at the AAAS Science Diplomacy 2017 conference described a huge set of interrelated challenges in the region, including multiple environmental concerns that have often been confronted bilaterally.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — At least three forms of security depend on inventing a future of cheap, clean energy: national, economic and environmental.

Environmental groups and Democrats have vowed to fight Tillerson's nomination, fearing that he will use America's vast diplomatic apparatus to benefit ExxonMobil's shareholders at the expense of Americans, their security and the stability of their climate.

Changes in precipitation patterns and possibly decreased precipitation in some parts of Africa, which will be unable to support crops and human habitation in the future, would have repercussions, said Roger - Mark De Souza, director of population, environmental security and resilience at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Reduced launch costs, the key enabler, will provide unprecedented access to space and space operations beginning with clean, baseload SSP - reliable power delivery and global energy security at greatly reduced environmental impact.

At USAID there are projects and programs in areas such as global health, food security, water and sanitation, poverty, climate change, environmental degradation, and civil disorder.

What's next: Because of continued interest in plutonium's behavior in the environment, from both environmental and security angles, the researchers will continue to perform research directed at identifying and understanding subsurface reactions involving iron and plutonium.

In her capacity as Vice President of Responsible Care and Value Chain Outreach at the American Chemistry Council (ACC), Ms. Phillips is responsible for the management of ACC's Responsible Care initiative, a comprehensive environmental, health, safety and security performance program implemented by all ACC members.

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While at FTA, Ron litigated environmental, drug testing, and FOIA cases, reviewed and enforced Federal grants, earned a Secretarial award for work on transit security, and counseled FTA's Lower Manhattan Recovery Office on the oversight of FTA's post-9 / 11 recovery projects.

Today, the U.S. Coast Guard Station Golden Gate, located at Horseshoe Cove, is responsible for search and rescue missions, homeland security, maritime law enforcement, maritime environmental protection and boating safety.

«Reducing easily avoidable methane leaks from the natural gas system is important for domestic energy security,» said Robert Harriss, a methane researcher at the Environmental Defense Fund and a co-author of the analysis.

A nonpartisan research team, drawing on recommendations from scientists, business leaders, environmental foundations and others, has put together a proposed action plan for the next president's first 100 days in office, aimed at fostering climate and energy security.

I recently moderated a conversation on climate, food and security at the Asia Society involving some informed and influential figures, including Maria Blair, who's directing analysis of climate adaptation for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

In the end, to achieve sustainable food security we will probably need many different techniques — including organic, conventional, and possible «hybrid» systems — to produce more food at affordable prices, ensure livelihoods for farmers, and reduce the environmental costs of agriculture....

It's worth noting Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta's remarks on energy, climate and security last night at an Environmental Defense Fund event honoring the Defense Department for its work on the intersection of these issues.

That EPA letter certainly played a part — as did sustained grassroots advocacy efforts, exposes on conflicts of interest between State and the pipeline's profiteers, and relentless debunking of false jobs and energy security promises — in the State Department's move to punt the decision for a year, take a fresh look at the proposals, and go back to the drawing board to create a new supplemental environmental impact statement.

We conclude that this scenario offers three attractive characteristics: environmental security, because the global carbon budget is set at a level which keeps global warming below 2 degrees; economic efficiency, because carbon trading allows the reductions to be made for least overall cost; and global social justice, because emission rights are allocated equally to all people.

This flurry of research and review is of course timed to help world leaders at Davos concentrate on the longer - term problems of climate change, environmental degradation, and food security, in addition to immediate problems of economic stagnation, poverty, conflict and so on.

It will look at ways in which the energy sector can help or hinder the broader reform process, and also look at the potential implication of different pathways for energy markets, global environmental goals and energy security.

Biographical notes: Koko Warner is a Section Head (Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability, and Adaptation) and Executive Director (Munich Climate Insurance Initiative) at the United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU - EHS).

The global environment and economic security are indelibly intertwined, with increasing greenhouse gases, environmental degradation and natural - resource depletion putting sustainable growth and existing business models at risk.

Janos Bogardi, director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the United Nations University in Bonn, said creeping environmental deterioration already displaced up to 10 million people a year, and the situation would get worse.

I've wondered this myself I fear it is an army of NGO soldiers urban rangers armed with tax free status self and mutually assured in their righteousness unknown and without fealty to any electorate huddled with false security on the rung of the ladder just beneath those that appointed them gifted in memo prose tolerant of endless policy meetings with the endurance of a Tour de France rider Phds in engineering who can't change a car tire Drs of French Poetry expert in environmental policy unbiased like no generation before washed vaccinated coiffed getting just the right amount of exercise as to not get too muscular their best athletic skill is typing whilst walking on a treadmill atheistic or at least agnostic suspicious of others who are not in therapy...

«With millions of people forced to move each year by rapid - onset climate - related hazards and slow - onset environmental degradation, social wellbeing, human rights, economies and even state stability are at risk... at the highest level, climate change is being assessed as a risk to national security and potentially to global stability.»

The program seeks to incorporate water science into assessment and planning studies at the nexus of water, food, energy, and environmental security.

Our meeting has been held at a time of higher and volatile oil prices, continuing increases in global oil demand, localised supply problems for some forms of energy, concern about long term security of supply and increasing attention to the environmental impact from energy use.

Primary policy goals at local and national levels are poverty alleviation, economic development, energy security, and local environmental protection.

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In addition to its human and environmental costs, the nuclear power disaster at Tokyo Electric Power's Dai - ichi plant in Fukushima is having dramatic repercussions on Japan's electricity production and energy security.

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