Sentences with phrase «human health effects»

Meanwhile questions persist about the environmental and human health effects of bamboo product manufacturing.

Some of these compounds have been found to alter hormones or have other potential human health effects.

There is no consistent evidence of human health effects from exposure to extremely low - frequency electromagnetic radiation at much higher levels than is present near wind farms.

Why not just measure it all the time in the international space station, for human health effect and safety if nothing else?

Growing concerns about human health effects give rise to calls for labeling and alternatives.

«The legal process for tolerance setting must be based on human health effects from dietary exposures.

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.

While there is a long - term health study for residents who had been exposed to PBBs, no one is monitoring the residents» exposure to DDT or looking for possible human health effects.

SRM may be expected to result in ecosystem damage and resulting human health effects through indirect mechanisms such as damage to, or contamination of, agricultural products and wildlife.

Searching for human health effects exposes a paradox between how science is conducted and what society allows industry to pump into air and water, according to James Kubicki, chair of the department of geological sciences at University of Texas at El Paso, who didn't participate in the coal - ash study.

The unique human health effect of blue light.

«Those have outsized global warming effects and also outsized human health effects,» said John Podesta, chairman of the Center for American Progress.

«The broader environmental human health effects were pretty compelling.»

Exact human health effects are yet unknown.

Bergman et al author a report published by WHO and UNEP which purported to challenge the 2002 WHO - UNEP State of the Science report on EDCs, claiming numerous human health effects attributed to EDC exposure.

These research findings offer new insight on the overall human health and air quality impacts of African dust, including the climate change - induced human health effects that are expected to occur from increased African dust emissions in the coming decades.

Probiotics mean specific strains which have been characterized to show specific human health effects, while other strains of the same species may not have them and in fact probably don't.

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is now supporting studies to determine whether exposure to endocrine disruptors may result in human health effects including lowered fertility and an increased incidence of endometriosis and some cancers.

We support educating the public and policymakers in government and industry about the harmful human health effects of global climate change, and about the immediate and long - term health benefits associated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions (i.e., heat - trapping pollution) and taking other preventive and protective measures that contribute to sustainability.

Since we often consult on litigation where human health effects are alleged, sometimes on a mass scale, I find this talk helpful.

Responsible for the assessment of potential human health effects from exposure to environmental contaminants at and around hazardous waste sites

Environmental Protection Agency: Information for more than 540 chemical substances, containing information on human health effects that may result from exposure to various substances in the environment.

A new study by researchers in Quebec is one of the first to investigate potential human health effects of pyrethroids, which are used in more than 3,500 commercial products

Out of concern for possible human health effects, the convention in 2009 banned tetrabromodiphenyl ether and pentabromodiphenyl ether.

Human health effects from exposure to low levels of phthalates are unknown.

consider the evidence available from both Australian and international scientific research into the potential human health effects of PFAS exposure; and

In 2011, in response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluents.

Due to their persistence in the environment and evidence of human health effects, pentaBDE, a specific technical mixture of PBDEs was phased out of use in couches, mattresses, carpet padding, and other upholstered products beginning in 2004.

As of last year, nearly 100 epidemiological studies had been published that found an association between BPA and human health effects, including reproductive and metabolic disorders, according to the introductory guide to endocrine - disrupting chemicals published by the Endocrine Society and IPEN.

The new rules would cut down on the use of flame retardants that have been linked to human health effects

The extra radionuclides from Fukushima are simply not enough to create a dose large enough to cause any human health effects outside the immediate vicinity of the stricken nuclear power plant.

Although the potential human health effects are unknown, fly ash fertilization can lead to possible toxic accumulation in crops if not monitored properly, concluded the scientists.

The bill, expected to come up for a vote in the Senate after Thanksgiving, also would require the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct a five - year study on the human health effects of per - and polyfluoroalkyl substances — classes that include the compounds in Airway Heights» groundwater.

The National Institutes of Health says that while the human health effects of phthalates aren't yet fully known, they're actively being studied by several government groups.

The social cost of carbon (SCC) is effectively an estimate of the direct effects of carbon emissions on the economy, and takes into consideration such factors as net agricultural productivity loss, human health effects, property damages from sea level rise, and changes in ecosystem services.

First, externality analyses posited by wind zealots never take into account the true environmental consequences of wind energy (rare earth impacts [see below], human health effects, bird and bat deaths, the CO2 generated from a two million pound concrete base, etc.).

SCC is effectively an estimate of the direct effects of carbon emissions on the economy, and takes into consideration such factors as net agricultural productivity loss, human health effects, property damages from sea level rise, and changes in ecosystem services.

We wrote about a prime example of such a case of self - censorship earlier this year, when the Centers for Disease Control abruptly canceled a large conference on the human health effects of climate change.

Lovett also referenced recent scientific data that confirmed the potential human health effects of mountaintop removal mining.

The rampant air and water pollution resulting from fossil fuel use has garnered considerable attention in recent years, with landmark studies on the human health effects and other costs of coal burning, and alarming accounts of declining air quality in gas - and - oil - drilling boomtowns.

More research is needed to assess the human health effects of exposure to phthalates.