Sentences with phrase «harms human health and the environment»

Pollution from the coal life cycle harms human health and the environment.

Within months, the Sierra Club [led by Michael Blume, left photo] launched its «Beyond Natural Gas» campaign that claims: «Increasing reliance on natural gas displaces the market for clean energy and harms human health and the environment in places where production occurs.»

Not exact matches

Single - use items, such as plastic straws, create untold harm to the environment and human health.

The result is a co-opted environmental health consciousness, an awareness of pollution's harm to the environment and human health, mixed with disempowerment to oppose it.

«The announcement of this grant program highlights Governor Cuomo's commitment to foster collaboration and coordination among state agencies, municipalities, not - for - profits and educational institutions to minimize the harm aquatic invasive species cause to New York's environment, economy, natural resources and human health,» Acting Commissioner Seggos said.

Discovering the power of my environment to harm and to heal, I was inspired to found The Ultimate Human Foundation, a nonprofit organization aimed at utilizing epigenetics and personalized health to improve wellness around the world.

The Foundation supports raising animals on pasture as much of the year as possible, and opposes confinement operations, feedlots, debeaking, growth hormones, routine antibiotics in feed, inappropriate feed such as soy, and other practices that harm animals» health and well - being, harm the environment, and result in animal foods that are not optimally nutritious for humans.

A: There is a great deal of evidence that the use of antibacterial soap in the normal household is unnecessary and causes far more harm than good, both to human health and the environment.

The 1998 Wingspread Statement on the Precautionary Principle provides in part: «When an activity raises threats of harm to the environment or human health, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically.»

The only way to block a project with a renewable energy approval (REA), according to the legislation, is that an appellant must prove the risk posed by the project will cause «serious harm to human health,» or «serious and irreversible harm to plant life, animal life or the natural environment.»

However, certain energy practices, fuel sources and technologies place a heavy toll on human health and the environment, impacting the lives of millions of - people, including those who are most vulnerable to harm.

«The general use of the pesticide DDT will no longer be legal in the United States after today... the continued massive use of DDT posed unacceptable risks to the environment and potential harm to human health.»

This framework considers the coping conditions and critical thresholds of natural and human environments beyond which external pressures (including climate change) cause harm to water resources, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function.

11/30/2015 - Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming 03/31/2014 — Report Finds Global Warming Causes» No Net Harm» to Environment or Human Health 03/24/2014 — Benefits of Global Warming Greatly Exceed Costs, New Study Says 10/15/2013 — Panel of Scientists Says UN Study Retreats, Misleads, and Misinforms 10/14/2013 — The Heartland Institute Replies to Trenberth and Oppenheimer 09/27/2013 — NIPCC, Heartland Institute React to UN IPCC Climate Report Summary 09/16/2013 — Authors of NIPCC Report Discuss Findings 09/06/2013 — Major New Report on Climate Science Says Global Warming Is Not a Crisis

The 1,062 - page report contains thousands of citations to peer - reviewed scientific literature — and concludes rising temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels are causing «no net harm to the global environment or to human health and often finds the opposite: net benefits to plants, including important food crops, and to animals and human health.»

The «Biological Impacts» report finds that rising temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels are causing «no net harm to the global environment or to human health and often finds the opposite: net benefits to plants, including important food crops, and to animals and human health.»

«When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not established scientifically.»

The first is that perturbative field research may cause direct and immediate physical harm to the environment or to human health and safety.

When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically.

Incorporates the use of ecologically friendly materials that minimize harm to the environment and maximize human health.

However, the Tribunal ruled that aboriginal claims and consultation issues could not expand its jurisdiction, which was limited by the EPA to whether the project would cause serious harm to human health or the environment.

However, it could not conclude that the Kent Breeze Wind Farm turbines would significantly harm either human health or the environment, and the REA was upheld.

Jurors often harbor a basic belief that if a big company is on trial, it has probably harmed people or the environment in pursuit of profits and has caused long - term damage to people and the planet — either by directly causing human health effects, polluting the air, water, or ground, or by contributing to global warming.