Sentences with phrase «health and the environment posed»

The EPA — seemingly defying both common sense and safety concerns — recently issued an analysis concluding that the risks to human health and the environment posed by oil refinery emissions were low enough to warrant no further regulations.

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Opponents say fracking poses a risk to public health and the environment but the industry says it is safe.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Public Services, a superfund site is «any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.&Health and Public Services, a superfund site is «any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.&health and / or the environment.»

Gina Lopez who has the political will to go after destructive mining operations that poses threats to environment and people's health and livelihood,» Roberto Cordova, a farmer leader from Negros.

In addition, all Golden Rice field trials in the Philippines are conducted under permits issued by the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology R&D, after they established that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and the environment.

The field trials were permitted by the Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology research and development, after establishing that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and environment.

We help protect our Australia's productive industries, environment and human health from pests and diseases by assessing the risks they pose, prioritising the pathways of entry and providing new technologies for surveillance and early response through sensor networks and autonomous platforms.

The court finds that the child's living environment poses a danger to the child's physical, mental, or emotional health and the child will benefit from a change in circumstances

A Superfund site is land that has been contaminated and poses a risk to the environment and / or human health, per the United States Department of Health and Human Serhealth, per the United States Department of Health and Human SerHealth and Human Services.

A Superfund site is land that has been contaminated and poses a risk to the environment and / or human health, per the

The governor also said the state will sue the EPA under the federal Ocean Dumping Act, a 1972 law that limits or prevents dumping that could pose a threat to human health and welfare, the marine environment or local economies.

«Its toxicity and persistence in the environment can pose adverse effects to human health and the environment.»

AAAS CEO Rush Holt urged the Trump administration on Tuesday to work with the scientific community to reduce the risk climate change poses to human health and the environment, reiterating that climate change is real and its impacts are already evident.

Unbiased evidence is hard to come by, but the few peer - reviewed studies carried out indicate that the risks fracking poses to human health and the environment are small.

Hazardous waste is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment and generally exhibits one or more of the these characteristics: ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity or toxicity.

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has defined DURC as «life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national security».

In addition to the dangers posed to fetal development, unregulated amounts of nanoparticles in the environment are now known to affect us at the cellular level, and the genetic consequences could be at the root of the greatest public health crises, including heart disease, hypertension, obesity and diabetes.

Guest editor Paul Whaley of Lancaster University Environment Centre said: «When it comes to determining the risk which chemicals pose to human health and the planet, scientists sometimes struggle to come up with a clear answer because there is no universally accepted system for weighing up the available evidence.

This contamination poses a serious threat to the environment and human health.

In particular, concerns that the hydraulic fracturing process (called «fracking») used to capture natural gas could pose a threat to the environment and public health if chemicals used in the operation contaminate underground drinking water.

After three meetings, the 13 - member commission's central finding is that synthetic biology offers promise for producing biofuels and new medicines but doesn't yet pose serious risks to the environment or health.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) in Washington, D.C., yesterday held the first public meeting of a new committee of academic and industry researchers, tasked with forecasting what biotechnologies will emerge in the next 5 to 10 years, and what new types of risk they might pose to the environment or human health.

PCBs may pose the largest danger to the environment and human health, Colgan says, and they could be abundant at Camp Century, although it's hard to know for sure.

The intent of the language in those bills is for the agency to focus only on the risks that a chemical poses to public health and the environment.

In a recent study, University of Missouri researchers found that these particles could pose a potential health risk to humans and the environment.

Although officials say the GE petunias pose no threat to human health or the environment — and likely were unknowingly sold for years — they've asked sellers to destroy the flowers, because it's illegal to sell them in the United States and Europe without a permit.

In such an environment a select few, often motivated by greed without regard to responsible patient care, are able to promote unproven, clearly illegal, and often expensive treatments that offer little hope, and, even worse, may pose significant risks to the health and safety of vulnerable patients.

If passed, the legislation would substantially increase federal research into threats from hormone - disrupting chemicals and require the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to report to the public every two years on the extent to which hormone disruption by chemicals poses a threat to human health and the enviroHealth Sciences (NIEHS) to report to the public every two years on the extent to which hormone disruption by chemicals poses a threat to human health and the envirohealth and the environment.

Bisphenol A (BPA) has been a hot topic in wellness conversations over the past few years because it poses a large problem to our health - and it seems to be everywhere in our environment.

Heavy metals are posing and increasing threat on not only our environment but our health as well.

The 2010 Academy award nominated documentary «Gasland» and its 2013 sequel («Gasland 2») put a spotlight on a controversial method of gas and oil drilling that poses a threat to the environment and human health, particularly drinking water sources.

POPs are chemical substances that persist in the environment, bioaccumulate through the food web, and pose a risk of causing adverse effects on human health and the environment.

But we're all taking part in a great big lab experiment as these chemicals are pumped into the environment and retracted — like lead and PCBs — only after it becomes obvious that they pose serious health risks.

Yet in the US this is still a topic of debate, with industry supporters trying to downplay the inevitable fact that this irresponsible use of antibiotics is most likely posing a serious risk to human health and the environment.

Its ingredients pose fewer health risks for you, your pet, and even the environment.

Feeding introduces unusual food to the environment and may pose a threat to overall health of a fish, thus lowering the resistance to disease.

As defined by the EPA, a Superfund site is any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.

In addition, the chemical is among the six greenhouse gases that the E.P.A. is proposing to regulate under its recent finding that carbon dioxide and other substances pose a risk to human health and the environment.

The document details the EPA's proposed response to the Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and the environment, and the EPA has a responsibility to regulate them.

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.»

«President Obama understands that climate change poses a significant threat to our environment, to public health, and to our economy,» Podesta said.

In the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, critics of nuclear power have questioned how heavily the world should rely on the energy source, due to possible risks it poses to the environment and human health.

«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.»

Health eff ects from changes to the environment including climatic change, ocean acidification, land degradation, water scarcity, overexploitation of fisheries, and biodiversity loss pose serious challenges to the global health gains of the past several decades and are likely to become increasingly dominant during the second half of this century and bHealth eff ects from changes to the environment including climatic change, ocean acidification, land degradation, water scarcity, overexploitation of fisheries, and biodiversity loss pose serious challenges to the global health gains of the past several decades and are likely to become increasingly dominant during the second half of this century and bhealth gains of the past several decades and are likely to become increasingly dominant during the second half of this century and beyond.

The public health community has increasingly acknowledged that climate change poses a significant and complex threat to human health, and has made strides toward improving understanding of the links between the changing physical environment and human health concerns.

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While incineration or «waste - to - energy» is sometimes hailed as a plastic pollution solution, this method poses considerable risk to the health and environment.

Fracking poses serious dangers to both human health and the environment.

The tremendous and unnecessary risk these reactors pose to public health and the environment necessitates that they be shut down.

Natural gas has been the primary fuel of choice in recent years, but shifting to an electricity system dependent on coal and natural gas does not alleviate the myriad risks — to the environment, economy, or public health — posed by coal alone.