Sentences with phrase «environmental threat to public health»

«Airborne pollutants pose the biggest environmental threat to public health, so we hope these specific estimates help to make the impacts more tangible to concerned citizens.»

«Air quality is leading environmental threat to public health: Switzerland tops the report while India falls to the bottom tier.»

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New Yorkers from Buffalo to Long Island decided that allowing the oil and gas industries the rights to large scale mining of natural gas reserves was simply too much of a public health and environmental threat.

The Erie County Department of Health's («ECDOH») Division of Environmental Health works every day to protect the environment and educate the public about threats to our environment, both big and small.

Public health threats, weather emergencies, environmental issues, protecting children from physical or mental abuse, creating a more inclusive community: all require county government to be involved and at the forefront in working on solutions.

Media titan and former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg has donated $ 300 million to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to fund a public health agenda in line with causes he has long supported: fighting drug addiction, obesity, gun violence, and environmental threats, and promoting adolescent health.

While antibiotic resistance genes are not harmful in themselves, they limit the use of antibiotics for treating bacterial infections and pose a serious threat to global public health if they get transmitted to humans from environmental sources, such as compost.

Studies show that dioxin collects in your fatty tissues, and according to a draft report by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), dioxin a serious public health threat that has no «safe» level of exposure!

If passed, the legislation would substantially increase federal research into threats from hormone - disrupting chemicals and require the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to report to the public every two years on the extent to which hormone disruption by chemicals poses a threat to human health and the enviroHealth Sciences (NIEHS) to report to the public every two years on the extent to which hormone disruption by chemicals poses a threat to human health and the envirohealth and the environment.

Rogers expertly admonishes what she calls «lazy environmentalism» and also «greenwashing» — corporate public relations campaigns designed to soothe and prevent public criticism of corporations over pollution, waste, environmental decimation and health threats.

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More details are emerging about the maneuvers that blocked the Environmental Protection Agency's finding that greenhouse gases were a threat to public health and welfare and should be regulated.

This story highlights the challenges faced by rural environmental justice communities as they try to ensure that ongoing waste disposal and pollution do not pose public health and environmental threats to local residents.

Not only is this an environmental issue but a grave threat to public health.

Pollutants like nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, and mercury are a threat to human health, and Democrats will continue to stand up to polluters in the interest of environmental and public health.

If statistics on environmental harm, economic loss and the threat to public health aren't enough to get you or a loved one to stop smoking, perhaps these images might be enough to give a proper nudge in the right direction.

The Mindanao Examiner reports that Greenpeace, which carried out the protest to call attention to the public health and environmental threats posed by coal ash, is pleased with the court's decision.

While whistleblowers may have a legal right to report wrongdoings, including imminent health and safety threats or environmental crimes, to a «lawful authority,» going public is rarely, if ever, permitted.