Sentences with phrase «health and environmental hazards»

Postnuclear physicists still dismiss astrology but could only object to alchemy on grounds such as not being a cost - effective way of turning lead into gold as well as posing serious health and environmental hazards.

These traditional methods create serious health and environmental hazards, leading to renewed efforts to bring cleaner, more efficient stoves to people around the world but particularly in Africa and Southeast Asia where poverty is highest.

It has been known that high levels of carbon dioxide in the air causes health and environmental hazards, but a new study shows that high concentration of Carbon dioxide might actually be helping plant cycles, resulting to a greener earth.

The biological formation of neurotoxic methyl mercury is an enigmatic process underpinning mercury - related health and environmental hazards.

The agency hopes that a large sample of data will provide the science needed to both rule out health and environmental hazards and help establish guidelines to ensure the safe use and handling of chemicals infused with nanosize particles.

While the quantity of any particular chemical linked to health and environmental hazards is in most cases very small, those small doses add up daily and exposure to derived health risk increases.

Other baffling problems arise in relation to health and environmental hazards.

It has also become popular in dry cleaning as a replacement for perchloroethylene, another chemical considered a health and environmental hazard.

Dog feces is more than just a smelly nuisance; it is actually a health and environmental hazard.

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He believes that all Americans deserve the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards.

The resolution condemning the Pilgrim Pipeline project as an environmental risk and public health hazard carries no legal weight.

The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene previously took samples from 235 and 233 East Fifth Street and 514 East 12th Street managed by Brookhill Properties, the company owned by Toledano, and found that the concentrations of lead dust far exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency's hazard standard, with the lead concentration as high as 15 times what is legally allowed in the building at 233 East Fifth Street.

The Erie County Department of Health (ECDOH) Environmental Health Division is dedicated to protecting the citizens and visitors of Erie County from biological, chemical and physical hazards that may be present in the food, water and built environment.

'' You see, these women, who own choice properties and obese bank accounts they do not need, across the world including Nigeria, had the best of opportunities to improve the lives of Nigerians, especially those who suffer health hazards from environmental degradation in the bowels of the Niger Delta where these two come from.

He said aside causing avoidable and needless traffic, the traders were also in the habit of dumping their refuse on the road, thereby causing environmental and health hazards.

Environmental Experts Warn of the Dangers of Giant Hogweed Giant Hogweed is a public health hazard that ranks higher than poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac in respect to its potential to harm humans.

For example, intelligence analysts interpret complex field data, electronics specialists operate tracking equipment, and environmental health technicians monitor the air, ground, and water for bacteria and other health hazards.

«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.

A known health hazard and contributor to acid rain, sulfur dioxide (SO2) is one of six air pollutants regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Hydrogen could therefore help ease pressing environmental and societal problems, including air pollution and its health hazards, global climate change and dependence on foreign oil imports.

By searching existing literature, Lundberg and Willis identified the key attributes of each hazard based on health and economic damages as well as social, psychological, environmental, and political concerns.

The study, which was published earlier this month in the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, compared gender inequality across Europe as measured by perceived exposure to «work - related psychosocial hazards.»

At a global cost of trillions of dollars annually, it carries a steep price tag, not to mention, the potential safety, environmental and health hazards it poses.

A task force meeting on 6 and 7 May in Washington, D.C., will feature «invited speakers from the National Academies, the American Chemical Society, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Board, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oak Ridge National Lab, Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association, and American Biological Safety Association,» according to the announcement.

BASF Corporation, General Electric Company, NanoFilm, Ltd., and PPG Industries are the latest chemical companies to provide data to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of an effort to determine whether nanosize particles they use in products pose health hazards.

Most organic synthesis depends heavily on volatile organic solvents, which typically pose significant environmental and health hazards and also are costly.

«This vulnerability concept requires the determination of the major threats to local and regional water, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function resources from extreme events including climate, but also from other social and environmental issues,» he said in a book chapter he co-authored in «Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective» earlier this year.

By Carey Gillam (Reuters)- The Environmental Protection Agency gave final approval on Wednesday to a new herbicide developed by Dow AgroSciences that has faced broad opposition, ordering a series of restrictions to address potential environmental and heEnvironmental Protection Agency gave final approval on Wednesday to a new herbicide developed by Dow AgroSciences that has faced broad opposition, ordering a series of restrictions to address potential environmental and heenvironmental and health hazards.

«The currently available evidence indicates that the potential risks to public health from exposure to emissions associated with the shale gas extraction process are low if operations are properly run and regulated,» said John Harrison, director of PHE's center for radiation, chemical and environmental hazards.

At the opposite end of precipitation extremes, drought also poses risks to public health and safety.192 Drought conditions may increase the environmental exposure to a broad set of health hazards including wildfires, dust storms, extreme heat events, flash flooding, degraded water quality, and reduced water quantity.

Despite industry claims that these technologies are safe, this technological frontier poses significant health, safety and environmental hazards, as well as profound social, economic and ethical challenges.

Dr. Zota's work focuses on using innovative, multi-disciplinary methods to: 1) identify sources and consequences of human exposure to environmental contaminants; 2) illustrate how environmental hazards may interact with social disadvantage and psychosocial stressors to exacerbate health disparities; and 3) evaluate the impact of NGO and regulatory action on emerging environmental health problems.

In an accompanying editorial, Allan H. Smith of the University of California, Berkeley and Craig M. Steinmaus of the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment agreed that the study's results reinforce the worldwide dangers of even moderate arsenic exposure.

Environmental hazards such as climate change, waste and pollution from toxic chemicals are undermining global health.

Environmental Injustice: Poor and Minorities Suffer Most from Sick Schools In the second part of the special report Sick Schools: A National Problem, Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne examines how poor and minority school populations are exposed to more environmental hazards and therefore suffer a disproportionate amount of adverse heEnvironmental Injustice: Poor and Minorities Suffer Most from Sick Schools In the second part of the special report Sick Schools: A National Problem, Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne examines how poor and minority school populations are exposed to more environmental hazards and therefore suffer a disproportionate amount of adverse heenvironmental hazards and therefore suffer a disproportionate amount of adverse health effects.

International Horizons offers consulting, planning services, programs, and systems to support schools in the areas of violence prevention, health and safety hazards including environmental issues, and educational accountability.

S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which covers discrimination and landlord responsibilities disclose health hazards.

Defective construction, evidence of continuing settlement, excessive dampness, leakage, decay, termites, environmental hazards, or other conditions affecting the health and safety of occupants, collateral security or structural soundness of the dwelling must render the property ineligible until the defects or conditions have been remedied and the probability of further damage eliminated.

If these operations are even regulated, which many are not, APHIS or a state agency or law enforcement typically turn a blind eye, dithering over their authority to shut them down, pretending these are somehow legitimate «businesses» that should be supported, ignoring that these sleazy operators make their money from animal cruelty and leave communities with unwanted dogs in their shelters, environmental and health hazards from improperly disposed of carcasses and waste, infestation, and wastewater and other sewage problems.

«The importance of preventive health care, exposure to environmental hazards, and the safety and quality of the food we eat are just a few of the areas that will benefit from our collaboration.»

Players can use the creds they collect to buy boosts that can help Styx in a variety of ways such as shortening cooldowns, improving battery life for longer usage, protection from environmental hazards, and extra health.

The local economy failed and its citizens faced critical health challenges caused by the environmental hazards left behind.

After testing 786 name - brand sunscreens to gauge their stated UVA protection, potential health hazards and stability in sunlight, the Environmental Working Group determined that only 17 % of them provide good protection and minimal risks.

Chrome is popular for putting finishing touches on everything from household appliances to military equipment, but it's also known for the environmental and health hazards it comes with.

The pollution and poverty index is a ranking of each census tract as scored by the CalEnviroScreen (CES 2.0)-- it's a combination of poverty, language isolation, and exposure to toxics in both air and water that was generated by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (see oehha.ca.gov/ej/ces2.html for more details).

CES 2.0 a very well researched and documented environmental justice score that is designed to quantify risk of exposure to health hazards based on a number of factors.

In that press release the EPA touted the revival as a demonstration of «the Obama administration's dedicating to ensuring all Americans have strong federal protection from environmental and health hazards... This historic gathering marks a recommitment to advancing the mandate of Executive Order 12898, «Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations,» which states that each agency, with the law as its guide, should make environmental justice part of its mienvironmental and health hazards... This historic gathering marks a recommitment to advancing the mandate of Executive Order 12898, «Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations,» which states that each agency, with the law as its guide, should make environmental justice part of its miEnvironmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations,» which states that each agency, with the law as its guide, should make environmental justice part of its mienvironmental justice part of its mission.»

I quickly scoured federal Web sites on environmental and health hazards for information on the hydrazine fuel (about half a ton was said to be aboard).

This shows a very poor understanding of the propagation of sound, of the inverse square law of physics and the dose - response relationship between environmental hazards and health.

This framework must also include the fair treatment and meaningful community involvement of all people with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of any impacts related to transportation planning and policy to ensure everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and equal access to the decision - making process to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn and work.