Sentences with phrase «health impacts from»

The Alliance to Protect Prince Edward County will also be making a presentation on the potential health impacts from the environmental noise produced by the giant wind turbines.

The ride honours the late Jim Hobbs, and the many other miners who, like him, have suffered long - term health impacts from their mandatory exposure to the aluminum dust prophylaxis, McIntyre Powder.

Whether it's the health impacts from increased exposure to diesel exhaust or coal dust or train derailments themselves, increased coal exports come at a cost to our neighborhoods.

«Dolphins are a nice barometer in some ways for understanding contamination of the immediate environment,» said John Kucklick, a research biologist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Charleston, S.C. «If you're concerned about human - health impacts from seafood, that's something to keep an eye on.

This also doesn't including money associated with health impacts from existing congestion and idling.

However, the health impacts from candle - produced soot are not known.One type of candle that has been linked to bad health outcomes is candles with lead core wicks, which are used to make the wicks stand up and to prevent them from falling in the candle wax.

This activity report summarizes the main outcomes of the inter-regional workshop on the Human Health Impacts from Climate Variability and Climate Change in the Hindu Kush - Himalaya Region (India 2005).

A team of scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), RAND Corp., and the University of Washington, has calculated that the economic benefit of reduced health impacts from GHG reduction strategies in the U.S. range between $ 6 and $ 14 billion annually in 2020, depending on how the reductions are accomplished.

«The importance of this result,» says Dev Millstein, Berkeley Lab Project Scientist who participated in the research, «is that avoiding adverse health impacts from particulate matter can help offset the cost of implementing policies that reduce GHG emissions.»

If you consider the damage burning coal does to the atmosphere and the very serious health impacts from the combustion products coal power is a very false economy.

They calculated that the economic benefit of reduced health impacts from GHG reduction strategies in the U.S. range between $ 6 and $ 14 billion annually in 2020, depending on how the reductions are accomplished.

While the Buckeye Institute report catalogs expected costs of the renewable energy standard, it makes no effort to calculate health impacts from lower pollution or other benefits.

Energy efficiency and reducing reliance on coal for electricity generation not only reduces emissions of greenhouse gases, but also reduces emissions of fine particles which cause many premature deaths worldwide as well as reducing other health impacts from the coal fuel cycle.

The positive health impacts from the industrial revolution and the discovery of fossil fuels are incalculable.

Every little step is needed, and ultimately decisions regarding how the United States will achieve these essential emission reductions must take into consideration not only the expected future profits from existing polluting infrastructure, but also consumer benefits from new energy efficiency and renewables, health impacts from carbon dioxide's co-pollutants, and humanitarian (and geopolitical) considerations from climate damage in the United States and around the world.

It finds that the overall economic costs of health impacts from coal combustion in the EU at up to 62.3 billion Euros.

Health - related costs of the current effects of ozone air pollution exceeding national standards have been estimated at $ 6.5 billion (in 2008 U.S. dollars) nationwide, based on a U.S. assessment of health impacts from ozone levels during 2000 — 2002.

Since the Massachusetts study came out last year, the wind industry (including CanWEA and AWEA) have been diligent in proclaiming it everywhere, to be proof positive that there are no health impacts from living near industrial wind turbines.

If the 550 proposal fails to pass, and the Estonian and pro-coal governments get their way, then the Estonian legacy will be one of severe, continuing health impacts from coal power pollution, and a staggering waste of public money.

Such a strategy would certainly eliminate human health impacts from turbines noise, preserve more agricultural land and allow greater turbine density.

Older people are at much higher risk of dying during extreme heat events.136, 50,241,233 Pre-existing health conditions also make older adults susceptible to cardiac and respiratory impacts of air pollution25 and to more severe consequences from infectious diseases; 257 limited mobility among older adults can also increase flood - related health risks.258 Limited resources and an already high burden of chronic health conditions, including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, will place the poor at higher risk of health impacts from climate change than higher income groups.25, 50 Potential increases in food cost and limited availability of some foods will exacerbate current dietary inequalities and have significant health ramifications for the poorer segments of our population (Ch.

This makes the U.S. population more vulnerable.276, 293 Without careful consideration of how to prevent future impacts, similar patterns could emerge regarding the health impacts from climate change.

Health - related costs of the current effects of ozone air pollution exceeding national standards have been estimated at $ 6.5 billion (in 2008 U.S. dollars) nationwide, based on a U.S. assessment of health impacts from ozone levels during 2000 to 2002.153,154

On the other side, organizations including the Environmental Defense Fund, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Clean Air Task Force have argued that the new standards will offer an economic boost by encouraging investment in clean energy and efficiency, along with desperately needed action on emissions that will help address climate change and reduce health impacts from air pollution.

If it succeeds it will not only be condemning citizens across Europe to more health impacts from air pollution, it will be throwing billions of taxpayer euros down the drain.

There's been persistent debate about potential health impacts from drilling and related activities.

Sept. 1, 11:30 a.m. Addendum The Green blog reports that environmental groups and others have met with state officials to discuss fresh assessments of potential health impacts from horizontal drilling and fracking.

To provide a basis for discussion, below I'm pasting the I.P.C.C. summary of the anticipated health impacts from human - driven global warming.

She was chosen for the award for her excellent research on «Using GIS to evaluate regional human health impacts from water use» and the platform presentation at the annual conference of SETAC Europe on 23rd - 27th May 2010 in Seville

«As these results and others on the health impacts from hydraulic fracturing become mainstreamed into the consciousness of homeowners and home buyers, the local economic benefits could decrease.»

The authors note that their findings supporting «decentralization» to curb health impacts from air pollution must be «strongly qualified.»

One of the largest health impacts from Chernobyl has been the 6,000 or more cases of thyroid cancer, mostly affecting people who were children at the time of the accident.

More than 99 percent of the negative health impacts from toxic exposures were from lead or chromium, although the authors also looked at cadmium and pesticides such as DDT.

The study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, examined if ongoing power transmission capacity investment in China — driven largely by concerns over air pollution — could also reduce local adverse health impacts from air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions.

But widespread health impacts from the last uranium boom still plague communities around the West, and victims are still fighting for recognition.

You reported the World Health Organization's predictions of health impacts from radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan (9 March, p 4).

You reported the World Health Organization's predictions of health impacts from radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in...

«We are already struggling with the number of cars we have in the streets of our cities; congestion, air pollution, road safety issues, health impacts from people driving all the time,» said Luc Nadal, technical director for urban development at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).

Despite widespread concern about potential human health impacts from hydraulic fracturing, the lifetime toxic chemical releases associated with coal - generated electricity are 10 to 100 times greater than those from electricity generated with natural gas obtained via fracking, according to a new University of Michigan study.

«Despite some reductions in air pollutant emissions in Europe and North America, human health impacts from ozone are still a cause for concern across the world and are rising in parts of East Asia, with the potential for serious health effects on their populations,» said Zo?

While it's unlikely to be passed in the Senate, the action reflects state lawmakers» growing worries about potential health impacts from the natural gas drilling process.

Enck says the point is to document health impacts from the pollution.

Those include possible exposure to chemicals used in hydrofracking, potential contamination of drinking water sources, and health impacts from naturally occurring radium that could be brought to the surface through the gas drilling process.

Grand Island Town Supervisor Nathan McMurray said they often talk about economic impacts of the tolls, but he said there is also a health impact from the stop - and - go traffic to the antiquated way tolls are collected.

Children are particularly at risk given their greater susceptibility to the health impact from excessive vehicular pollution, such as developing asthma.

Not exact matches

... [But] Japanese exporters... face weakening demand from the impact of the Euro - zone crisis, concerns about the economic health of China [and] the persistent strength of the yen... as investors seek a safe haven.»

SES Video's underlying revenue of EUR 321.5 million was EUR 12.2 million (or 3.6 %) lower than Q1 2017 at constant FX including a reduction of EUR 9.2 million from the combined impact of IFRS 15 accounting changes and satellite health.

On an underlying basis, SES generated revenue of EUR 474.5 million in Q1 2018, which was in line with Q1 2017 at constant FX and up 2.3 % excluding the impact of EUR 10.9 million resulting from the changes in IFRS 15 accounting and satellite health on both SES Video and SES Networks.

Everything from taking the stairs at work to getting up from your desk every so often has a positive impact on your overall health, according to new research published in March.

Responding to pressure from environmental opponents and fearful residents, shale - rich Quebec, France, New York and New Jersey have all imposed moratoriums on shale gas drilling pending further study of environmental and health impacts.