Sentences with phrase «full environmental impact»
The site has passed a full environmental impact study.
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Tom Vilsack even admitted to concern about the mixing of GMO and organic crops but he seemed to go back on that statement last week when the USDA announced that farmers will be allowed to grow genetically modified sugar beets this season, «while [the USDA] finishes work on a full environmental impact statement on the beets» effect on other crops and the environment.»
Then the USDA started easing off when they announced that farmers be allowed to grow genetically modified sugar beets this season, «while it finishes work on a full environmental impact statement on the beets» effect on other crops and the environment.»
The U.S. State Department must assess the full environmental impact of Keystone XL.
Short of not flying at all (and make no mistake I'm not suggesting that; more travel is on balance a very good thing) both airlines and passengers need to pay for the full environmental impact of the activity and do everything possible to reduce it.
The USDOE prepared a full Environmental Impact Statement as the basis for selecting a site to store tons of mercury which no longer can be legally exported.
«The department has ignored the factual risks of running pipelines through karst geology, and has remained silent when many organizations and thousands of residents requested that FERC do a full Environmental Impact Statement for the Potomac Pipeline.
The agency said that if the wind farm proposals for the area went ahead, they would be subject to a full environmental impact assessment, public consultation and planning processes.
FERC must develop a full environmental impact statement that covers the entire effect of the project.
Higgins is also urging the US Department of Energy to conduct a full Environmental Impact study as a spill of any portion of the 6,000 gallons of liquid radioactive waste could pose threats to the Niagara River and the Great Lakes.
'' [The Department of City Planning] and the Planning Commission should have conducted, or ordered Acadia to conduct, a full environmental impact statement before certifying this project.»
Ritter said she and several other residents filed a petition last week against the developers, the Department of City Planning, the City Planning Commission and the city itself for failing to prepare «a full environmental impact statement.»
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A number of issues were discussed including the impact of the proposed amendments to the Yukon Environmental and Socio - economic Assessment Board Act, which is currently before Parliament and which will among other things, remove set timelines for assessments as well as requiring re-assessments for large scale mining projects, where a full environmental screening has already been positiveEnvironmental and Socio - economic Assessment Board Act, which is currently before Parliament and which will among other things, remove set timelines for assessments as well as requiring re-assessments for large scale mining projects, where a full environmental screening has already been positiveenvironmental screening has already been positively concluded.
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WILMINGTON, Del., June 16, 2016 — Assessing and reducing the environmental impact throughout the full lifecycle of products are central elements of packaging innovation today, according to a group of the industry elite gathered in Wilmington to judge the 28th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation.
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«I started doing it full - time because of the environmental impact because I don't want to create a big mess for him when he's my age or older,» Langhals said.
«State - regulated wetlands and other resources that the (state Department of Environmental Conservation) is responsible for protecting and is better equipped to ensure a full and adequate evaluation of environmental imEnvironmental Conservation) is responsible for protecting and is better equipped to ensure a full and adequate evaluation of environmental imenvironmental impacts.»
Meanwhile, the town planning board in New Paltz has said it will not approve Park Point's environmental impact statement or its site plan unless it agrees to pay full taxes.
«The department must... take into account the cumulative impact to water quality of the full complement of affected water resources in making any determination in connection with any license, order, permit or certification,» state Department of Environmental Conservation officials wrote.
Schneiderman filed a suit in May against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies to force a full environmental review of the impact of fracking on the Delaware River Basin.
Opponents of fracking called on the assembly to pass a moratorium until a full health impact review is completed and until the environmental review of fracking fully corrects what they view as a long list of inadequacies.
After Astorino, a Republican, announced that he would seek to send Cuomo's plan to dismantle a longstanding nuclear power plant at Indian Point into a full - on environmental impact statement, county Board of Legislators Chairman Michael Kaplowitz, a Yorktown Democrat, called the move «dead on arrival.»
Ryan is demanding a full review and environmental impact study.
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The city lawyers said the environmental impact statements used to justify the 49 co-locations «were issued in a timely fashion» and in «full compliance with education law.»
Perhaps one solution is for states and school districts to require the equivalent of an environmental impact statement, so local leaders, communities and families can understand the full impact a new charter school will have on the existing educational «ecosystem.»
Well - chosen full - color photographs help readers grasp the enormity of projects and provide evidence of environmental impact.
«Tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities.»
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It will be some time until the full toll of this hurricane can be assessed, but the devastating human and environmental impacts are already obvious.
Fish Washing Up Dead, Geese Coated in Oil Though experts say it's too early to assess the full environmental damage, dead fish are washing ashore, Canada geese have been spotted coated in oil, and the expected impact on invertebrates, amphibians and any mammals coming into contact with oil at water's edge is likely to be significant.
And, as far as health impacts are concerned, when the Director of the CDC's National Center for Environmental Health admits that more research is needed on the health impacts on fracking (and Rob Jackson of Duke University says in this same article that it will take three to five years to determine fracking's health impacts), it shows just how serious these questions are — especially outside New York, in communities where fracking is already going full - bore.
Solar energy is a renewable source, of course, but it's essential to examine the full supply chain to gauge its total environmental impact.
Our view is OK, we'll pull back and do an (environmental impact statement) that everyone can participate in, so everyone gets their full innings on the issue of coal.»
As businesses start to talk about becoming net positive — delivering positive social and environmental impacts through their business operations — we believe it is essential that they first take full responsibility for their unavoidable negative impacts.
«None of us are paying the full cost of our fossil fuel energy in terms of health and environmental impacts,» said Erica Zweifel, a Northfield City Council member trying to develop community solar there.
The CEQA was enacted in 1970 to provide for full disclosure of environmental impacts to the public before issuance of a permit by State or local public agencies.
Comparing the full lifecycle emissions of greenhouse gases by the two fuels from production through combustion in cars, Eric Johnson, editor of Environmental Impact Assessment Review, and Russell Heinen, Vice President of SRI Consulting, found that «biodiesel derived from rapeseed grown on dedicated farmland emits nearly the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions (defined as CO2 equivalents) per km driven as does conventional diesel.»
A full string of turbines would reduce the tidal flow by 30 %, and although more work must be done, experts expect the environmental impact to be low.
Statements such as «we will be in full compliance with the law» and «we will minimize our environmental and social impacts» are not visions.
«It is important that the full greenhouse gas emissions «cost» of biofuel production is made clear to the consumer, who may otherwise be mislead into thinking that all biofuels have a positive environmental impact,» said co-author Susan Page, also of the University of Leicester.
Cynthia Giles, the EPA assistant administrator for enforcement and compliance assurance wrote in the memo «While the (supplemental draft environmental impact statement) has made progress in responding to EPA's comments on the (draft EIS) and providing information necessary for making an informed decision, EPA believes additional analysis is necessary to fully respond to our earlier comments and to ensure a full evaluation of the potential impacts of proposed Project, and to identify potential means to mitigate those impacts.»
And, as businesses start to talk about becoming net positive and delivering positive social and environmental impacts through their business operations, we believe it is essential that they first take full responsibility for their unavoidable negative impacts.
The difference between Professor Nordhaus's optimal carbon tax policy and a fifty - year delay policy is insignificant economically or climatologically in view of major uncertainties in (1) future economic growth (including reductions in carbon emissions intensity); (2) the physical science (e.g., the climate sensitivity); (3) future positive and negative environmental impacts (e.g., the economic «damage function»); (4) the evaluation of long - term economic costs and benefits (e.g., the discount rate); and (5) the international political process (e.g., the impact of less than full participation).
«As it stands, without a full and proper review and analysis of the environmental impact of this pipeline, MDE is failing to uphold its responsibility to all Marylanders,» said David Smedick, Policy Director for the Maryland Chapter of the Sierra Club.