Sentences with phrase «further environmental impact studies»

But their passionate opposition to the chemical plant generated an explosion of public anger that forced a halt in construction, pending further environmental impact studies by authorities in Beijing, and produced large demonstrations June 1 and 2, drawing national publicity.

Not exact matches

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.

«After the last board meeting, [Nadler] stopped in my office to ask me for $ 70 million of Port Authority money for a further [environmental impact statement] study for the Harbor freight tunnel,» Degnan said.

The release further explained that the studies would help inform the project's Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) draft as the microgrid is subject to a State Environmental Quality Review under the Department of Environmental Conservation.

Where other studies have linked weather phenomena to HABs, this study goes a step further to look at how environmental drivers impact each other, and «ranks» them by their relative importance in promoting HABs, said Song Liang, formerly of Ohio State and now an associate professor of environmental and global health at the University of Florida.

«As far as we know, this is the first study that's looked at the environmental impact of these materials,» says Hamers, who collaborated with the laboratories of University of Minnesota chemist Christy Haynes and UW - Madison soil scientist Joel Pedersen to perform the new work.

While significant research has explored the environmental impacts of climate change, far fewer studies have considered its psychological effect on humans, said UA researcher Sabrina Helm, an associate professor of family and consumer science in the UA's Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

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.

He hopes this will facilitate further development of the wind project, including supporting the environmental assessments and interconnection studies needed to assess the impact of additional electricity on the grid.

We continue to make this data freely available for research, and so far our decade - by - decade analysis has been cited in at least six peer - reviewed studies on the environmental and public health impacts of MTR.

However, Mark S Brownstein, vice president at the Environmental Defense Fund's climate & energy program, tells Carbon Brief that further study is required to better understand the specific impacts of the various factors at play:

A separate study, published in Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, found that Brazilian mega-dams flooded far larger areas than projected in the dams» environmental impact assessments, resulting in higher carbon emissions and economic losses.

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.»