Sentences with phrase «human health and the environment if»

Not exact matches

The provincial government filed a reference case Thursday in the B.C. Court of Appeal asking whether amendments it is proposing to the Environmental Management Act are valid and if they give the province the authority to control the shipment of heavy oils based on the impact spills could have on the environment, human health or communities.

«If we can understand how the landscape has changed over decades and what that does to water quality, human health, and ecosystem health, we can begin to make predictions for the future,» said senior author Kathleen Alexander, professor of wildlife conservation in the College of Natural Resources and Environment and a Fralin Life Science Institute affiliate.

If there had been a centralized database tracking pathogen profiles in animals, food and the environment — information that already exists at some level within disparate agricultural, food and drug, and human health agencies — it wouldn't have taken so long to isolate the cause of the outbreak, says Fisman.

«If we're not there as a pushback, then they're going to just run over us and destroy the environment and all human health in the name of economic development.»

After learning about the devastating effects of plastic pollution on the environment and human health, Oakland accountant Beth Terry began an experiment to see if she could live without buying any new plastic.

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.

When and if organic growers make the case for using a synthetic substance, such as pheromones to prevent crop infestation by insects, it must be «approved according to criteria that examine its effects on human health and the environment,» according to the USDA.

Given inherent uncertainty in assessing new technologies this means that the risks to the environment and human health are much higher than were the case if more certain scientific information were required.

The 1998 Wingspread Statement on the Precautionary Principle provides in part: «When an activity raises threats of harm to the environment or human health, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically.»

-- In promulgating and implementing regulations under this part, the Administrator shall act (including by rejecting projects, if necessary) to avoid or minimize, to the maximum extent practicable, adverse effects on human health or the environment resulting from the implementation of offset projects under this part.

Like improving productivity, employment, infrastructure, education, health and yes, the environment (if it means eliminating poisons, that is, stuff proven to be toxic to humans in its current environmental concentration).

One way to reconcile the conflict between honoring the prohibition against allocating a commons resource for private interests and the need to give a ghg emitter some authorization to pollute for a specific amount of time is to make sure that the polluters right to emit at any time under the cap may be rescinded if it is latter determined that an existing allocation is not sufficiently protective of human health or the environment.

«When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not established scientifically.»

When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically.

If his actions continue in the same direction, during Pruitt's term at the EPA the environment will be threatened instead of protected, and human health endangered instead of preserved, all with no long - term benefit to the economy.

«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.

The Senate can not properly vet Pruitt for EPA administrator if he is concealing information on conflicts of interest that would impact his ability to faithfully perform the EPA's mission to protect human health and the environment.»

Jurors often harbor a basic belief that if a big company is on trial, it has probably harmed people or the environment in pursuit of profits and has caused long - term damage to people and the planet — either by directly causing human health effects, polluting the air, water, or ground, or by contributing to global warming.