Sentences with phrase «health and environmental effects»

That was why they re-set the accident classification at level 7 on the UN's International Nuclear Events Scale - i.e. involving «major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring implementation of planned and extended countermeasures».

Concerned both about the climate impacts and other health and environmental effects of coal, scores of grassroots groups worked to oppose the coal rush, advocating for cleaner sources of energy.

Following this approach, known as chemical data assimilation, the health and environmental effects of atmospheric pollution can be assessed with increased accuracy.

Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) promulgate performance standards (limiting emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, and mercury) for new boilers, integrated gasification combined cycle plants, and combustion turbines; and (2) conduct a comprehensive research and environmental assessment program to enhance understanding of health and environmental effects of particulate matter and mercury and to demonstrate the efficacy of emission reductions under this Act.

Not only would such a carbon tax be relatively easy to scale to a global system, but it would also take the health and environmental effects of fossil fuels into account, putting clean energy — from wind to nuclear — on an equal footing.

The programme ended in 1969 following evidence of DDT resistance in mosquitoes and increased public concern about adverse health and environmental effects.

To avoid, minimize, or mitigate disproportionately high and adverse human health and environmental effects, including social and economic effects, on minority or low - income populations; and

To avoid, minimize, or mitigate disproportionately high and adverse human health and environmental effects, including social and economic effects, on minority populations and low - income populations.

Below is a summary of the story of how DuPont covered up information about the health and environmental effects of PFOA.

Water Pollution from Coal includes negative health and environmental effects from the mining, processing, burning, and waste storage of coal, including acid mine drainage, thermal pollution from coal plants, acid rain, and contamination of groundwater, streams, rivers, and seas from heavy metals, mercury, and other toxins and pollutants found in coal ash, coal sludge, and coal waste.

Against this background, working with Navajo groups and communities to stop new mining and continuing to assess and document the health and environmental effects of past uranium development are the principal focuses of UIAP work.

Following this approach, known as chemical data assimilation, the health and environmental effects of atmospheric pollution can be assessed with increased accuracy.

Little research has been done on their health and environmental effects, and silver kills good microorganisms along with the bad.

Numerous studies have shown that BPA can imitate estrogen, creating the potential for health and environmental effects.

However, unlike conventional agricultural practices which use large amounts of arsenic - based herbicide, insecticide and feed formulations — organic agriculture strictly prohibits their use — as well as a wide range of toxic pesticides with documented negative health and environmental effects that end up on and in our food supply on a daily basis.

The problem Benbrook and Mellon see with the genetically modified food is that Monsanto, for example, is on its fifth - generation seed but the health and environmental effects of the first seed are still unknown.

Atty. Zelda Soriano, Legal Counsel for the Petitioners discussed the grounds on which the appellate court based their favorable decision, which includes the main argument of the petitioners that the field testing is characterized by «serious scientific uncertainty with regard to its health and environmental effects.»

The idea of meddling with something as fundamental to our existence as food can be unnerving, and the long - term health and environmental effects of the products will not be known for quite some time.

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The 10 - year, $ 25 million toxicological studies are the most comprehensive assessments to date of health effects and exposure to radio frequency radiation in rats and mice, according to the online notice from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a unit of the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. medical research ahealth effects and exposure to radio frequency radiation in rats and mice, according to the online notice from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a unit of the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. medical research aHealth Sciences, a unit of the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. medical research aHealth, the U.S. medical research agency.

The state is looking for internal documents and earlier this month asked the judge to force those companies to produce any internal studies or research related to the health or environmental effects of genetically engineered foods.

Environmental water is also being used to improve the overall resilience of the ecosystems — that is, ensuring the rivers and wetlands are in good health so they can withstand the short - term effects of events such as blue - green algal blooms.

Working in partnership with the Safe Food Institute, the Safe Food Foundation is working to promote awareness of the health, social, economic and environmental effects of food production and consumption.

A new report and campaign by the environmental group finds that slashing our meat intake by 50 per cent by 2050 is an important way to stop the worst effects of climate change, and the best way to alleviate a raft of health issues linked to eating too much meat.

It argued that if section 121 was understood to guarantee free inter-provincial trade, it would have far - reaching effects on agricultural supply management, public health prohibitions, environmental controls and similar schemes».

This ongoing effort comes as an anti-pesticide push from environmental and public health groups has taken hold recently, targeting the negative side effects of synthetic chemicals.

Mass Audubon generally opposes most nuisance control practices, including spraying of pesticides to kill adult mosquitoes when there is a relatively low risk of mosquito - borne disease, because of the human health risks of pesticide exposures, harmful environmental effects, and unproven effectiveness of these activities.

Next year both the European Union Environmental Commission and the U.S. National Toxicology Program will establish panels to examine the health effects of BPA based on recent findings indicating that a new assessment of this ubiquitous chemical is now needed.

Any ingredient listed as a «petroleum distillate» or «naphtha» should be suspect as it is a synthetic and likely to cause one or more detrimental health or environmental effects.

An understanding of the effects of birth weight and gestational age on the regulation of infant growth by genetic and environmental effects may assist in tailoring research, counseling, and possibly interventions in infant growth to specific subgroups in which attaining a health benefit is more likely.

'' National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Explores the effects the environment may have on you and your growing baby.

The public comments range from complaints from environmental groups that the impact statement does not fully address public health effects or the impacts of industrialization on the state's rural areas, to concerns from the Independent Oil and Gas Association, which worries the new rules may be too strict.

Judith Enck, the regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, notes that «from their designation as probable human carcinogens to their well - documented immunologic, neurologic and reproductive health effects, long - term exposure to PCBs is cause for considerable concern.»

He has produced studies on the National Health Service, crime, big government projects, the dynamic effects of tax cuts, Gordon Brown's economic record, hate education in Palestine and environmental policy.

Please scroll down to submit this letter of support (and any additional text) to the offices of NY State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, one of our few elected officials who has demanded that we understand the science and real environmental and health effects of fracking.

The fact sheet is about bio-monitoring, not health effects, and is not the definitive Department of Health position on the way PFOA affects humans, said Dr. Nathan Graber, director of the state Department of Health's Center for Environmental Hhealth effects, and is not the definitive Department of Health position on the way PFOA affects humans, said Dr. Nathan Graber, director of the state Department of Health's Center for Environmental HHealth position on the way PFOA affects humans, said Dr. Nathan Graber, director of the state Department of Health's Center for Environmental HHealth's Center for Environmental HealthHealth.

A staunch proponent for environmental protection and how it directly effects the health of local residents Stratton's most recent advocacy for the residents of his district has been investigating lead concentrations in drinking water due to aging infrastructure and widespread use of lead in plumbing, even in newer homes.

Even a former head of the Health Department's Center of Environmental Health admitted his agency «downplays» risks and stresses uncertainties about PFOA's effects, violating the «precautionary principle» officials are supposed to adhere to.

Speakers will discuss the contributions of the environmental and health communities to mitigating the effects of the release of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents, recognizing that the role of these disciplines varies based on the agent and release method.

Product stewardship includes cradle - to - grave responsibility for the potential health impact, safety, and environmental effects of a company's products.

Cowal said that the combination of environmental and health issues provides opportunities for publics to express their opinions on topics and in ways that are different from before, which is having an effect on public policy questions at the international level.

«Most of the scientific research and legislation efforts have focused on graywater's health risks, while less attention has been given to its environmental outcomes, including its effect on soil properties,» says Prof. Amit Gross, head of the Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology in the Zuckerbeenvironmental outcomes, including its effect on soil properties,» says Prof. Amit Gross, head of the Department of Environmental Hydrology and Microbiology in the ZuckerbeEnvironmental Hydrology and Microbiology in the Zuckerberg Institute.

«Our society would be overwhelmed if we were to have multiple Katrinas in a given year,» says Michael McGeehin, director of environmental hazards and health effects for the CDC's National Center for Environmenvironmental hazards and health effects for the CDC's National Center for Environmental Hhealth effects for the CDC's National Center for EnvironmentalEnvironmental HealthHealth.

Among the primary goals of her study to preserve the island's fauna and unique lemur species, Crowley hopes to shed light on the environmental consequences of forest loss and the effects this will eventually have on the health of the planet.

That we found any [effect] suggests this is occurring at relatively low levels,» said Wright, an associate professor of pediatrics and environmental health at Harvard.

In 2011, in response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinienvironmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high saliniEnvironmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluents.

The researchers then linked the healthcare - related emissions to specific environmental and health outcomes, including global warming; ozone depletion; respiratory disease from air pollutants; cancer from chemical exposure; and the environmental effects of acid rain, among others.

«There are considerable issues about health effects,» said John Deutch, former director of the CIA and a professor of chemistry at MIT, who heads a Department of Energy panel examining the environmental effects of shale gas drilling, with an emphasis on hydraulic fracturing.

In this study in Timothy grass, researchers led by environmental health scientist Christine Rogers of the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) determined the interactive effects of CO2 and ozone at projected higher levels on pollen production and concentrations of a Timothy grass pollen protein that is a major human allhealth scientist Christine Rogers of the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) determined the interactive effects of CO2 and ozone at projected higher levels on pollen production and concentrations of a Timothy grass pollen protein that is a major human allHealth and Health Sciences (SPHHS) determined the interactive effects of CO2 and ozone at projected higher levels on pollen production and concentrations of a Timothy grass pollen protein that is a major human allHealth Sciences (SPHHS) determined the interactive effects of CO2 and ozone at projected higher levels on pollen production and concentrations of a Timothy grass pollen protein that is a major human allergen.

Related sites Resources on the environmental and health effects of nanomaterials The Colvin lab Oberdörster's site

Despite numerous adverse health effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), an association between periodontitis and this «second - hand smoke» in non-smokers remains questionable.