Sentences with phrase «from environmental impact studies»
The Museum is a repository for archaeological collections from environmental impact studies and actively curates collections from Channel Islands National Park and Los Padres National Forest.
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Responding to pressure from environmental opponents and fearful residents, shale - rich Quebec, France, New York and New Jersey have all imposed moratoriums on shale gas drilling pending further study of environmental and health impacts.
The results from the case studies show that flexible packaging has more preferable environmental attributes for carbon impact, fossil fuel usage, water usage, product - to - package ratio, as well as material to landfill, when compared to other package formats.
Much less is known about the impact of environmental and psychological exposures, but some potential threats include: • Air pollution: A small study of 60 newborns in New York City found that expectant mothers» exposure to combustion - related urban air pollution — emissions from cars, trucks, residential heating, power generation and tobacco smoking — may alter the structure of chromosomes in their fetuses.
Tom Baldwin from Kingerlee studied «An Investigation into the Financial and Environmental Impact of Site Waste Management Plans (SWMPs) UK Construction Industry.»
Former Hudson Valley Democratic Congressman Maurice Hinchey, in his first major public appearance since retiring from office in January, says he just penned a letter to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo asking him to wait for the results of a study from the Environmental Protection Agency on the impacts of fracking before deciding whether to allow high - volume hydraulic fracturing in the state.
The Department of Environmental Conservation has said for months now that it is still reviewing over 66,000 public comments generated from a draft environmental Environmental Conservation has said for months now that it is still reviewing over 66,000 public comments generated from a draft environmental environmental impact study.
The Pentagon has said it will begin an environmental impact study later this year of potential East Coast sites to comply with a mandate from Congress.
The Keene town board adopted a resolution of the board last Monday evening calling on the U.S. Department of Transportation, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the NY DOT and the NY DEC to impose a moratorium on transport of Bakken Crude Oil by rail from Montreal to Albany, until a comprehensive study determines the public health, safety, economic and environmental impacts of Environmental Protection Agency, the NY DOT and the NY DEC to impose a moratorium on transport of Bakken Crude Oil by rail from Montreal to Albany, until a comprehensive study determines the public health, safety, economic and environmental impacts of environmental impacts of a derailment.
Aside from the Alternative Analysis study, the city would also need to do an Environmental Impact Statement to get the project moving forward, the SIEDC said.
Vet mitigation plans through a formal and collaborative environmental review and impact study and commit to getting approval from Community Boards in the affected neighborhoods before work begins.
Once they gain approval from the city council and the mayor, they'll begin environmental impact studies and will eventually demolish the building.
Researchers at the University have carried out the first ever comprehensive study of the environmental impacts of microwave appliances, considering their whole life cycle, from «cradle to grave».
This could mean the environmental impact from the fallout may last much longer than previously expected according to a new study by a team of international researchers, including scientists from The University of Manchester.
After evaluating data from the field, hydrological models, and Environmental Impact Assessment reports about the small dams, Kibler and Tullos concluded that impacts of the small dams exceeded those of large dams on nine of the 14 characteristics they studied.
Prof Carlos Peres, an author on the study from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, said: «Our analysis shows that even so - called «reduced - impact logging» in tropical forests can rarely be defined as sustainable in terms of forest composition and dynamics in the aftermath of logging — never mind the greater susceptibility of logged forests to catastrophic fires.
He expects it will be a decade or more before ESRU's turbines are ready to be used in earnest in the sea — much more testing must be done, in addition to the environmental impact studies and garnering of support from utility companies.
The study's lead author, Patricia Lopes from the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, says that previous research in wild animals has generally ignored how this change in behaviour may affect social contacts in a group and how, in turn, these changes can impact the transmission of a disease.
It's less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal - fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in Springer's Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.
The study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, examined if ongoing power transmission capacity investment in China — driven largely by concerns over air pollution — could also reduce local adverse health impacts from air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions.
«It is apparent from these studies that environmental temperature or day length has an impact on colostrum quality,» the researchers said.
Poll, head of technology for the British government — funded Omega Project, a division of Manchester Metropolitan University that partners with industry to study the environmental impact of aviation and offer possible solutions, pointed out the need for nonkerosene - powered aircraft «I think nuclear - powered airplanes are the answer beyond 2050,» he said, concluding, «If we want to continue to enjoy the benefits of air travel without hindrance from environmental concerns, we need to explore nuclear power.
«Geothermal energy from EGS represents a large, indigenous resource that can provide base - load electric power and heat at a level that can have a major impact on the United States while incurring minimal environmental impacts,» according to the MIT study.
«In addition to identifying the impacts of the emissions from this particular coal - fired power plant on fetal health, the usefulness of this study's identification strategy is its potential application to other studies examining the impact of upwind states» power plant emissions, which have been the target of a series of environmental regulations, such as the EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule,» adds Yang.
Co-author Dr Friederike Otto, a senior researcher in Oxford's Environmental Change Institute and scientific coordinator of climateprediction.net, said: «For the first time ever, this study doesn't stop at rainfall and river flow but attributes the change in risk from the meteorology down to the direct impact of flooded houses in the river catchment zones.»
In a study published Nov. 6 in PLOS ONE, a team of University of Wisconsin — Madison researchers used modeling tools to explore how switching land from growing an annual corn crop to growing perennial grasses for bioenergy would impact farmer income, energy production, and environmental benefits like greenhouse gas mitigation, biodiversity support and water quality.
Smitha Pillai from the Eawag Department of Environmental Toxicology and her colleagues from EPF Lausanne and ETH Zürich studied the impact of various concentrations of waterborne silver ions on the cells of the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Organizations such as The Environmental Working Group and Institute for Responsible Technology are leading the way with research that shows the serious health impacts on the body from the impact of genetically modified (GM) foods There are now multiple animal studies that link GMO's with damage to the GUT, with immune disregulation, inflammation, and an increase in allergies or factors that trigger autoimmune disease.
DISPATCHES FROM THE GULF 2: Research * Innovation * Discovery — Dir: Hal Weiner Experience remarkable stories from the unprecedented scientific mission to comprehensively study the environmental impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and find new ways to ease the devastatFROM THE GULF 2: Research * Innovation * Discovery — Dir: Hal Weiner Experience remarkable stories from the unprecedented scientific mission to comprehensively study the environmental impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and find new ways to ease the devastatfrom the unprecedented scientific mission to comprehensively study the environmental impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and find new ways to ease the devastation.
The Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies received approval from NEMA to offer training in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Environmental Auditing (EA) after meeting all the requirements set by the Authority.
A negative declaration with regard to CEQA is basically an official statement from a qualified agency stating that CEQA does not apply in a particular case and an environmental impact study is not needed.
Effects of harvest and climate change on polar marine ecosystems: case studies from the Antarctic Peninsula and Hudson Bay C Hoover — 2012 — circle.ubc.ca... Future simulations of the Antarctic Peninsula identify large reductions in ecosystem biomass of all species due changes in environmental conditions and an overall reduction in krill, with minimal ecosystem impacts from harvest.
Dave Slade had tried to add social sciences to the Department of Energy global change budget in 1980, but the incoming DOE secretary for the Reagan Administration (president of a dentistry school from South Carolina, as I recall) stopped that (why would DOE be studying the potato famine in Ireland as an analog for the impacts of climate change on countries)-RRB- and shifted responsibility for the climate change research effort away from Dave Slade and the Office of Health and Environmental Research to the Office of Basic Energy Sciences — so focus on the hard sciences was the lesson.
If peer review is required for all public utterances and assertions about the possible environmental and health effects of fracking, then let's strip all the non-peer review studies from the 1,537 - page planning document for fracking — the supplemental generic environmental impact statement (sGEIS)-- that is the science on which will rest Governor Cuomo's upcoming decision to permit or prohibit fracking.
A new study shows that the environmental impact of shopping for stuff, from from food and clothing to CDs and electrical appliances - far outweighs any efforts to save water and power in the home.
In Texas, for instance, a new study from the Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas, titled Environmental and Community Impacts of Shale Development in Texas, yielded the following findings:
This study draws attention to new «hotspots» that could emerge from the synergies between different sectors and the interplay of economic activity with political and social developments in the context of climate change and cumulative environmental impacts.
It says its report, Food Wastage Footprint: Impacts on Natural Resources, is the first study to analyse the impacts of global food waste from an environmental perspImpacts on Natural Resources, is the first study to analyse the impacts of global food waste from an environmental perspimpacts of global food waste from an environmental perspective.
Researchers from Wageningen University and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research were led by Professor Han Lindeboom as they studied the short term impact of a North Sea wind farm, publishing their findings on the Environmental Research Letters website.
In its first week, fivethirtyeight published a piece from Rodger Pielke Jr. (an environmental studies professor who focuses on climate impacts) in which it was argued that climate change is not causing increased economic losses.
Leading biofuels wreak environmental havoc (1/3/2008) Biofuels made from world's dominant energy crops — including corn, soy, and oil palm — may have worse environment impacts than conventional fossil fuels, reports a study published in the journal Science.
«In addition to our study of global warming, we also compared the two fuels in terms of a range of other environmental impacts — from eco and biological toxicity to ozone layer depletion and acidification,» the authors wrote.
The groups wanted more studies of the environmental impacts of the mine, including the greenhouse gas emissions that will come from the burning of coal.
Dr. Vandana Shiva, an environmental activist, physicist and leader in the International Forum on Globalization, has just returned from a «Climate Yatra,» a research journey to the Himalayas to study the impact of climate change and the glacial melt upon communities in Asia.
The new study follows up on that work by evaluating the greenhouse - gas (GHG) emissions reductions, air - pollution health and environmental impacts, and water - use reductions from large amounts of solar.
(in addition, the Pacific Institute also studied the more recent drought in the report Impacts of the California Drought 2007 - 2009, assessing the state's agricultural, energy, and environmental sectors to evaluate actual consequences of the complicated and serious impacts from the drImpacts of the California Drought 2007 - 2009, assessing the state's agricultural, energy, and environmental sectors to evaluate actual consequences of the complicated and serious impacts from the drimpacts from the drought.)
The other study, published in 2016 by the U.S. - based National Academies of Sciences on the «environmental fate, effects and responses» of diluted - bitumen spills from pipelines, also cited the need for further study to address «diluted bitumen's behaviour in the environment under different conditions, its detection when submerged or sunken, and the best response strategies for mitigating the impacts of submerged and sunken oil.»
When Cynthia Rosenzweig — from the climate impacts group at Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York — and colleges analyzed articles published between1970 - 2004 they reported that 90 % of environmental damage could be attributed to rising temperatures driven by human activities.
BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig was exempted from having an detailed environmental impact study done by the Department of Interior last
But now, a study from Ohio State University found that the life - cycle environmental impacts of carbon nanofiber can be as much as 100 times worse than traditional materials, and another study from the University of Illinois at Chicago shows that loose regulations in nanomaterial manufacturing could mean greater environmental burdens than conventional manufacturing.