Sentences with phrase «health and environmental problems»

In recent years, hundreds of thousands of small pasture - based dairies have disappeared, their production replaced by CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations)-- crowded industrial facilities that use methods linked to a variety of health and environmental problems, from antibiotic resistance to «dead zones» in coastal waterways.

We could say that this is simply paying full cost upfront — that a more expensive green product will avoid future expenses of health and environmental problems.

«The purpose of these plans is to provide policy makers and the public with a technically - and economically - feasible pathway toward a sustainable, secure, and reliable energy infrastructure that eliminates health and environmental problems due to air, water, and soil pollution and global warming.

Those of us in already developed countries should support Africa's aspirations — and help it address real health and environmental problems, by using affordable, dependable energy that truly is the lifeblood of modern societies, and the key to a better future for children everywhere.

However, without proper guidance, the use of wastewater may lead to health and environmental problems.

He truly cares about real public health and environmental problems, plus about the economy.

It's not a panacea for health and environmental problems, advocates concede, but it's not the menace the Controlled Substances Act makes it out to be.

A hugely sensible book about global health and environmental problems, based on the «Copenhagen Consensus» project documented in The Economist.

The results, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, suggest that bad air quality may be contributing to severe droughts in parts of China, as well as causing health and environmental problems.

CAMBRIDGE — The discovery of a powerful new tool capable of addressing health and environmental problems as diverse as malaria, Lyme disease, and invasive species should be a cause for celebration.

Some scientists and activists suspect tinkering with DNA will cause long - term health and environmental problems.

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The problem is that Canada's health and environmental standards make recycling e-waste costly.

Bain & Company partner Norbert Hueltenschmidt told the BBC last year that China faces major health care issues with its aging population, environmental problems, levels of access to health care, and sedentary living — physical activity has dropped 45 % since 1990.

SOCIAL IMPACT X DESIGN From health care and education to housing and environmental degradation, learn how design has been used by businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs to create inclusive products, services, and strategic frameworks that solve «wicked» problems, identify sustainable solutions, and create even greater benefits for the communities they serve.

South32 said there has been no disruption to production following a ruling by the Colombian Constitutional Court that the mine had caused health problems and environmental damage for local communities.

As the charter of the New Urbanism says: «Physical solutions by themselves will not solve social and economic problems, but neither can economic vitality, community stability, and environmental health be sustained without a coherent and supportive physical framework.»

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

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.

Contamination of traditional crops and food systems by under - quality GM seeds are leading to loss of genetic purity, environmental problems and health concerns.

In New Westminster's proclamation, explaining the decision to adopt a Meatless Monday, mayor Jonathan Coté wrote: «Overconsumption of meat, dairy and eggs is associated with many major environmental problems, including climate change, worsened human health outcomes and animal welfare concerns.»

Our goal is to make the transition easier for people and show them they can still enjoy the same flavours and textures they're used to without contributing to animal cruelty, health problems or environmental damage.

This is a serious problem for those who are concerned with environmental protection and health of the people.

*** These environmental stresses negatively influence a child's early experiences and often lead to an increase in mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, poor sleep habits, and behavioral issues.

Not just this, use of chemicals, skin and hormonal problems associated with disposable diapers and its slow disposal rate in the landfills have been raising health and environmental concerns.

«It doesn't take much benzene to make a problem and cause health concerns,» said Ed Cooney, one of two environmental consultants brought in by the park district.

«Lead poisoning is still a big problem, a huge problem,» says Philip Landrigan, MD, a pediatrician and director of the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.

BPA, found in products such as baby bottles and the linings of canned food and infant formula, is an environmental estrogen that can, according to a growing body of research, lead to a host of health problems.

The AAP Committee on Environmental Health has identified these problems with secondhand smoke exposure: decreased lung growth, decreased lung function, and increased frequency of lower respiratory tract infections and respiratory symptoms.

Healthy Schools Network recommends simple activities such as: • Adopting Guiding Principles of School Environmental Quality as a policy for your School; • Distributing information related to Green Cleaning or Indoor Air Quality (IAQ); • Writing a letter or visiting your Principal or Facility Director to ask about cleaning products or pest control products; • Walking around your school: looking for water stains, cracks in outside walls, broken windows or steps, and overflowing dumpsters that are health & safety problems that need attention.

The only way that will change is to protect the environment, or else we'll have more heart attacks, more asthma, and more health consequences to every environmental problem that we're looking at.

Children in the District of Columbia are at risk of serious health problems stemming from hunger, poor nutrition, inadequate physical activity, and environmental degradation in our community.

Facing a chronic problem of raw sewage emptying into NYC waterways during rainfalls, and struggling to meet health regulations, environmental officials are turning to a new method of treating bacteria in sewage: dumping chlorine into sewer pipes leading to the waterways.

«I urge the National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to work with their partners at the New York State Department of Health to offer blood testing to residents of Newburgh, so that they can finally begin to have clarity about the extent of this problem,» she said.

The Commons» environmental audit committee (EAC), publishing a report on the issue today, said the number of health problems and deaths is a «national scandal».

The state's fact sheet does not cite the most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency health advisory on PFOA, which came out in May after five years of research and directly connects a series of health problems to PFOA.

All over the world, groups and individuals are using technology in a variety of innovative ways to increase government transparency, fight corruption, open data, hack on civic problems, strengthen economic development, address environmental problems, improve public health and education, and advance the conditions of women and children.

Given the number of potential environmental problems in and around Gallagher Beach, Poloncarz said public health needs to be a priority in determining whether to open it for swimming.

Many in the Hoosick Falls Central School auditorium viewed the discussion — which included representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, Centers for Disease Control and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences — as a way for Gillibrand to grasp the depth of the problem.

EBICS is working to solve health, security and environmental problems through the construction of living, multi-cellular machines.

Environmental regulators compounded the health problems by failing to acknowledge them and take steps to protect the public's health.

Both local and international environmental and public health groups have tried to address this problem by bringing more efficient stoves into the countryside, which burn only half as much wood and are better at funneling the resulting smoke outside.

«The Administration's budget request stifles innovation, future economic growth, and job creation,» said Dr. Robert Gropp, co — executive director of The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) in Washington, D.C. «These deep cuts to scientific research and education programs will negatively impact our ability to improve public health and solve environmental problems for years to come.»

«This underlines the glaring problem that many of the chemicals that are most widely used today, including pesticides, are simply not adequately tested and may have serious long - term impacts on health and development,» said Barrett, who studies how environmental chemicals affect human reproduction.

When it comes to major environmental problems such as global warming, he believes that our ability to cope depends on a broad - based educational push for earth sciences, of the kind we already have for biology and public health.

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.

For decades, indigenous people in the U.S. and Canada have been burdened with health problems linked to environmental pollutants.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — One of the hottest environmental issues around — whether hormonelike pollutants are causing reproductive and other health problems in humans — got some attention today from the White House, which issued a rough sketch for a federal research strategy on the topic.

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Dear EarthTalk: It is starting to get colder and I'm eager to try out the fireplace in our new home, but we don't want to create health or environmental problems.

Photographs portray the wide variety of environmental health problems that have afflicted people and ecosystems from Ho Chi Minh City to Lake Erie