Sentences with phrase «from environmental accidents»
Wrongful death often arises from a personal injury accident, such as a truck, pedestrian, motorcycle or car accident, or from an environmental accident or medical error.
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The Panel found that, «the likelihood of significant adverse environmental effects resulting from project malfunctions or accidents is very low,» but they did allow that a spill would involve significant adverse environmental effects.
The project's main opponent, the local environmental group Douglas Channel Watch, maintains the risk from either a tanker accident or a pipeline breach is too high for the small number of jobs the pipeline would bring to the community.
The gas projects have encountered somewhat less opposition, in part because of the perceived lower environmental damage from a gas pipeline or tanker accident, but also because the economic fundamentals of gas exports provide more benefits to the local economy because much of the gas will come from BC fields and the need for construction and operation of LNG facilities on the coast.
He has said Entergy has a «steep hill to climb,» and in July 2011, he won a key decision from the federal government that would require the facility to submit an action and environmental cleanup plan for accidents before being re-licensed.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office today is celebrating a key decision from the federal government that would require the Indian Point nuclear facility to submit an action and environmental cleanup plan for accidents before being re-licensed.
After all, no one has ever died in a commercial nuclear power accident on American soil; in contrast, emissions from fossil - fuel plants kill 24,000 Americans each year, according to a 2004 report commissioned by the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental group.
Based on the guidance from the US Environmental Protection Agency and the experience from the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents, populations in the red and orange areas would have to be relocated for many years, and many in the yellow area would relocate voluntarily.
The Centre for Urgent Environmental Assistance, based in Geneva, will provide emergency technical assistance to countries that would not otherwise be able to contain or monitor damage from disasters such as oil spills and chemical accidents.
In hopes of limiting the disastrous environmental effects of massive oil spills, materials scientists from Drexel University and Deakin University, in Australia, have teamed up to manufacture and test a new material, called a boron nitride nanosheet, that can absorb up to 33 times its weight in oils and organic solvents — a trait that could make it an important technology for quickly mitigating these costly accidents.
With assistance from the Missouri Department of Transportation, Praveen Edara, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering in the MU College of Engineering, tested the use of variable advisory speed limit (VASL) systems and the effect they may have on lessening congestion and reducing rear - end and lane - changing accidents on a fairly dangerous stretch of I - 270, a major four - lane highway in St. Louis.
From the perspective of traffic safety, the ways in which the driver obtains environmental information that is relevant to the selection of the driving direction and speed can be a background factor in run - off - road accidents particularly among young and inexperienced drivers.
Thus, the public health and environmental damage from accidents or leaks could be much greater with high level waste.
Environmental loss of hearing results from occupational noise, noise pollution, accidents, or intake of certain drugs.
Besides its role in ensuring that no nuclear explosion escapes detection, the system generates a wealth of scientific data that can be applied, for example, to tsunami warnings, probing the Earth's structure, tracking emissions from nuclear accidents, analyzing meteor blasts and volcano eruptions, listening to whales or environmental monitoring of the atmosphere and oceans.
Environmental costs from coal transportation: noise; waste gas; damage to roads; traffic accidents
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Let us handle the legal details as you recover from the tragedy of a wrongful death caused by an accident, medical malpractice, defective product, or environmental exposure.
The corporate crimes landscape in Brazil ranges from the most complex financial matters, passing through to environmental cases, and to labour accidents.
Clearly, you can appreciate that we have a duty to protect Albertans from a potential catastrophic accident caused by B.C. licensed motor vehicles in Alberta that are not compliant with our environmental, social and safety standards.
The issues to be considered by the JRP include economic considerations, environmental impacts from project operations, impacts from an oil spill resulting from accidents or malfunctions, and impacts to Aboriginal title and rights.
As noted in the previous chapter, health inequalities can be fairly broadly defined to include differences in: specific health outcomes (such as low birthweight, obesity, long - term conditions, accidents); health related risk factors that impact directly on children (such as poor diet, low levels of physical activity, exposure to tobacco smoke); as well as exposure to wider risks from parental / familial behaviours and environmental circumstances (maternal depression and / or poor physical health, alcohol consumption, limited interaction, limited cognitive stimulation, poor housing, lack of access to greenspace).