Sentences with phrase «from environmental pressure»

But concern about the approach of Exxon Mobil has come not just from environmental pressure groups, but from bands of scientists, including the 350 - year - old Royal Society in Britain, which last September sent a letter of protest to Exxon Mobil.

Apart from the environmental pressures on the lions, the dominant maneater also had severe wounds in his mouth and jaw, potentially driving him to prey on humans.

Published in Nature, this review looks into the values of different pollinators on issues including food secutiry and biodiversity, their status and trends, risks from environmental pressures and the consequent management and policy response options to safeguard pollinators.

Undoubtedly there will be those who yawn at yet another conceptual costume design, but I for one found it an entertaining and humorous reminder that we really would be up a certain creek, paddle-less if we fail to protect bees from environmental pressures.

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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.

The research was conducted by dozens of international health and environmental experts and incorporates data from the ambitious Global Burden of Disease project, which highlighted how smoking, blood pressure, poor diet, and environmental factors affect human health earlier this year.

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.

On October 28, 1994 Premier Klein told the media that he had axed the appointment as a result of public pressure from the oil industry and environmental groups who claimed the posting would politicize the regulatory board.

Largely under pressure from one of my sons, Cliff, I was awakened to the environmental crisis.

But the real reason was pressure from environmental groups.

Anxiety arising from unpredictable expectations, pressure, intimidation, variable environmental conditions, and other failings in teaching methodologies is not recovered later by relaxing or hanging out.

Within the EU system, the UK benefits from acceptable environmental standards thanks to the pressures for accountability.

After 18 months of pressure from environmental and community groups, state officials have reversed an earlier position, and will now require a full environmental review of a crude - heating facility that would allow tar sands oil to be shipped down the Hudson River.

Part of New York state sits on the same shale formation, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been hesitant to open the state up to extraction, over pressure from environmental advocates.

Adam Skelos, 33, had sought to profit from fracking through a contract with environmental company AbTech Industries, as Dean — then the Senate majority leader — tried to pressure the state to legalize the procedure.

The letter is evidence of growing pressure from Conservatives to resist Liberal Democrat pressure to promote green policies which many Tories believe have no proved economic or environmental benefit.

Meanwhile, responding to pressure from environmental groups, the FWS has listed some 760,000 acres of Arizona and New Mexico as critical habitat for the jaguar.

After the German Environment Ministry came under pressure from environmental groups, the German Research Ministry ordered that the experiment be put on hold while independent scientific reviews by non-German scientists were done.

Collects data on salinity, temperature, and pressure — fundamental data on all types of environmental change, from varying weather conditions to climate variations.

The EPA has yet to issue its «endangerment finding,» despite pressure from environmental groups who first sued the agency to start the rulemaking process in 2010.

Waring says his «ingredients» for growing environmental cooperation include «a population of tight - knit groups, under high pressure to preserve resources, who have the power to manage them, and who learn from each other's successes and failures.»

But the changes — heavy traffic, loss of nearby stockyards, smog and dust from drilling, growing waste ponds and pits and the pressures on the schools from temporary worker families — have strengthened their environmental commitment.

Along with scientists from the National University of Tucuman in Argentina and the governments of Paraguay and Argentina, he found that populations of tegu are resilient to environmental pressures such as drought.

Might the match result, instead, from the migration of the then «northern German» cod to the north - east Arctic, over the intervening centuries, in response to environmental pressures?

The EPA had been under pressure from environmental groups who first petitioned it to regulate aircraft emissions under the Clean Air Act in 2007 and sued it in 2010.

Environmental pressure groups such as the Genetics Forum are not satisfied that BST is safe and say that more research is needed to demonstrate that milk from BST - treated herds is safe to drink.

Responding to increased expectations from consumers and pressure from environmental organizations, among other motivations, hundreds of corporations have made public promises to help end deforestation.

Reid's pledge follows 48 hours of intense pressure on the White House from major green groups, marking the first time many large environmental organizations have so openly and loudly targeted Obama and Reid — and it produced extraordinarily rapid results.

In particular, IIASA researchers will focus on how potential phosphorus market crises might put pressure on the global food system and create environmental ripple effects ranging from expansion of agricultural land to phosphorus price - induced changes in land management, which could exacerbate the already existing imbalance between carbon, phosphorus and nitrogen.

We were able to show that under [presumed] Enceladus - like conditions and the given environmental parameters, biological methane production did occur in the lab,» and that a «microoorganism from a hydrothermal vent system on Earth could be grown in the presence of [presumed] inhibitors in combination with high pressure.»

Apart from the obvious advantages of reducing your environmental impact and providing a healthier alternative to a meat heavy diet, the low carbon diet will lighten the pressure on your hip pocket.

In a study in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, people with more heart disease risk factors — including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes — were also more likely to suffer from shoulder pain or rotator cuff injuries.

From which we may deduce that an individual can be «modified» merely by the effect of environment, but that fresh characters will not be transmitted by heredity or will be transmitted only with difficulty and perhaps even then only because of some sustained environmental pressure repeatedly exerted upon a large number of generations.

The study, by researchers at the University of Texas and URS, a consulting firm — with the cooperation of (and some funding from) the oil and gas industry and Environmental Defense Fund (more on that below)-- shows that much of the pollution problem lies in a small subset of poorly operating systems or faulty processes — in this case valves run pneumatically using the pressure of extracted gas and operations that clear liquids from older wells.

But they are also under pressure from consumers, particularly younger ones, to take action, and many companies have begun to see their environmental efforts as a core part of their business strategy.

It's clear that the European Commission and many politicians know that this is wrong, but there's been a lot of pressure from some nations — notably the heavily forested Nordic countries that are normally leaders on environmental issues — to leave the carbon accounting loophole in place, because it's making it so much easier for everybody to hit their climate targets.

Here are a few highlights from Environmental Journalism Today: House Democrats to Let Ban on Drilling Expire: «Congressional Democrats bowed to political pressure yesterday and agreed to let the ban on offshore oil drilling expire, a decision that would allow exploration just three miles off the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines unless the next president reinstates an executive branch order that prohibits drilling.

The move followed intensifying pressure from Greenpeace and other environmental groups, which had exposed destructive practices starting with a 2010 report, «Pulping the Planet.»

Marine environments are under pressure from overfishing and environmental degradation.

In concluding that Mann might be able to prove that NRO acted with «actual malice,» for example, Judge Combs - Greene writes that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigated Michael Mann's work «as a result of constant pressure» from Steyn and National Review.

Despite the environmental hoops the State Department still seems to have to jump through, watchdogs fear authorities are intent on giving a thumbs - up to Keystone XL in the name of energy security and in response to pressure from oil interests.

The ethanol industry, already reeling from a draft plan for cuts in the ethanol mandate for this year, will now face more pressure as everyone from conservatives and environmental activists...

«Changes in the atmosphere, specifically atmospheric pressure around the world, and the motions of the winds that may be related to such climate signals as El Niño are strong enough that their effect is observed in the Earth's rotation signal,» said David A. Salstein, an atmospheric scientist from Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., of Lexington, Mass., who led a recent study.

Pressure came from environmental activists, indigenous leaders and key institutional investors, including APG Asset Management and Dutch asset management firm Robeco, who all questioned the high risk, high cost of Arctic drilling.

«We continue to see pressure from a public policy standpoint and from environmental issues,» Bear said.

The USEPA did do thorough research on the issue, but the EPA Administrator at the time chose to ignore the findings, allegedly in response to pressure from a national environmental organization.

The lease sales come after Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke removed 17,000 acres of public lands near Yellowstone National Park from the auction block from the March sale in response to intense public pressure from conservation groups and in order to address environmental concerns.

CEI President Lawson Bader writes that their reasoning is to gain access to information they have failed to retrieve from theEPA including «cell phone and text message records that we believe will show the degree to which left - leaning environmental pressure groups have had unfettered, back - channel access to EPA leadership.»

Most big environmental groups in the state, under intense pressure from multiple directions, are taking an approach I've dubbed «performative non-support,» which means neutrality accompanied by thousands of words of explanation.

As the investigators reveal, the billionaires» green network transfers millions of dollars from individual, corporate, and «charitable foundation» donors... through tax - exempt «educational» nonprofits that do not have to disclose donor names... to activist and pressure groups that work to influence elections, legislation, regulations, legal actions and public perceptions on energy and environmental issues.