Sentences with phrase «impact environmental resources»

«The DEC as the state environmental agency is best suited to guide the environmental review of this large, multi-jurisdictional project that has the potential to impact environmental resources in six New York counties and 29 towns, and is the agency with the power and expertise to ensure a comprehensive and coordinated review,» town officials wrote.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said that the environmental impacts can include greenhouse gas emissions, the production of solid waste — some of which may be hazardous — and the use of watEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said that the environmental impacts can include greenhouse gas emissions, the production of solid waste — some of which may be hazardous — and the use of watenvironmental impacts can include greenhouse gas emissions, the production of solid waste — some of which may be hazardous — and the use of water resources.

«We would agree that Alberta's historic focus on maximizing oilsands production... rather than optimizing production on the highest quality ore may be having unnecessary environmental impacts on things like greenhouse gas intensity and tailings production and lowering returns to Albertans as the owners of the resource,» said Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute, a clean energy think - tank.

In an environmental report... the U.S. State Department says the Keystone XL pipeline poses «no significant impacts to most resources,» and risk of potential environmental impacts are low.

BOEM seeks a wide array of input, including information on the economic, social, and environmental values of all OCS resources, as well as the potential impact of oil and gas exploration and development on other resource values of the OCS and the marine, coastal, and human environments.

Susan Shaheen, co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, has begun a study with the Natural Resources Defense Council to determine the environmental impact of Uber and Lyft's car - pooling systems.

Using lifecycle analysis, a study conducted by Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada found that while all forms of electricity generation have environmental impacts, solar PV technologies have fewer negative environmental impacts than traditional fossil - fuel - based electricity production.

Oil sands development is a matter of provincial government policy: in a government policy paper (the Mineable Oil Sands Strategy) issued a few years ago (and since recalled), the core area of the oil sands resources in Alberta was designated a «sacrifice zone», within which it was acknowledged that significant and irreversible environmental impact would be permitted to occur, to enable the realization of the significant economic benefits such development promised.

Through process - driven research on financial and impact outcomes of investing and grant - making, Align enables its clients to use their resources to move the needle on the world's greatest environmental and social challenges by building investing and giving strategies that are aligned with its clients personal values.

The National Resources Defense Council and the University of California - Berkeley are teaming up to conduct an environmental study on the impact of ridesharing services Uber and Lyft.

It is recognised that the negative impact of people on environment is the product of thee factors the total population, the amount of resources consumed by each person and the environmental destruction caused by each person.

Independently verified, it enables Ireland's farmers and producers to set and achieve measurable sustainability targets — reducing environmental impact, serving local communities and protecting the extraordinarily rich natural resources that Ireland enjoys.

Provides training resources to help the animal caretaker understand and recognize the impact they can have on preventing environmental problems.

We can reduce our environmental impact since food waste puts unnecessary pressure on land and natural resources and results in additional greenhouse gas emissions.

Appendix D provides general tips, examples, and resources to convey the environmental impacts, nutritional content, or financial implications of lost or wasted food.

Supply of limited resources is being further constrained by more severe and unpredictable climate events and more potent microbes, pests and diseases — causing food producers to more seriously consider the environmental life cycle impact of food production activities.

Resource efficiency can represent an economic opportunity for the food sector with the help of innovative research that takes into account the environmental impact of a food item from its production through to its processing and its eventual disposal.

Food waste contributes to unnecessary resource use and the resulting environmental impact, including contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, worldwide.

It's a renewable resource with minimal environmental impact (ie no packaging or energy costs to manufacture)

The report concluded, «Neither product is clearly superior in all of the resource and environmental impact categories considered.»

The production of these materials consumes valuable petrochemical resources and in some cases creates adverse environmental impacts.

Now the Pierce Downer's Heritage Alliance, a local environmental group, has filed suit against the Village of Downers Grove and the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board, alleging that both agencies violated a section of the Illinois Natural Preservation Act by failing to consult with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to determine the project's ecological impact on the adjacent preserve.

«The most significant environmental impacts for all three nappy systems were on resource depletion, acidification and global warming,» the authors concluded.

She also said the state needs to focus more resources on environmental protection efforts and look at what it can do to reduce the impacts of climate change.

«State - regulated wetlands and other resources that the (state Department of Environmental Conservation) is responsible for protecting and is better equipped to ensure a full and adequate evaluation of environmental imEnvironmental Conservation) is responsible for protecting and is better equipped to ensure a full and adequate evaluation of environmental imenvironmental impacts.»

McKay says the DEC «dramatically undercounted» the number of historic resources in the Marcellus Shale region, and says the environmental impact statement «lacked any reference to state and federal historic preservation law» aimed at protecting those resources.

This action follows the release of the New York State Plastic Bags Task Force report in January, which outlined the environmental impact of plastic bags, single - use bag reduction measures, and proposed actions that the state could take to reduce pollution and protect New York's natural resources, including a ban on single - use plastic bags.

The resolution was adopted one day after Rosendale passed a similar request for the state Department of Environmental Conservation to be lead agency, noting that impacts are also possible on significant state resources.

«The department must... take into account the cumulative impact to water quality of the full complement of affected water resources in making any determination in connection with any license, order, permit or certification,» state Department of Environmental Conservation officials wrote.

While calling for a mobilization of «law enforcement resources to all threatened areas» to address the problem, they also called for an environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in various areas believed to be affected by Galamsey.

In Design for the Environment: Life - Cycle Approach Using a Newsvendor Model, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Gal Raz and research colleagues investigated which segments of a product's life cycle create the biggest environmental impacts and where firms should invest their resources in order to reduce those impacts.

«Oftentimes, we know the initial impacts of invasive species but we don't know the long - term impacts — if things will get better or worse,» said Morin, a distinguished professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.

«We know that carbon footprint, a popular indicator used in environmental policies, does not correspond well with other environmental impacts such as toxicity to ecosystems and humans, depletion of resources, and land use.

«This reduction in environmental flows would exacerbate the long - term impacts of water resource development,» says Professor Kingsford.

ECO2 developed a generic approach for estimating consequences, probability and risk associated with sub-seabed CO2 storage based on the assessment of the environmental value of local organisms as indicated for example by the Natura 2000 network of nature protection areas or the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North - East Atlantic (OSPAR), the vulnerability of environmental resources and possible impacts on them as well as consequences and risks.

It's resource - intensive to grow, creates many environmental impacts, and is more useful as food.

The Principal Investigator of the study, Dr Felix Eigenbrod, Associate Professor (Spatial Ecology) at the University of Southampton's Centre for Biological Sciences, says: «The growing geographic disconnect between energy demand, the extraction and processing of resources, and the environmental impacts associated with energy production activities makes it crucial to factor global trade into sustainability assessments.

Computer time was awarded by the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program; the project also used resources of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

«The Obama administration has serious concerns about the impacts of mountaintop removal mining on our natural resources and on the health and welfare of the Appalachian communities,» said Nancy Sutley, chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Geyer and Zinc are experts in life - cycle assessment (LCA), which quantifies the environmental impacts of products and services throughout their life cycle, from resource extraction through use and end of life.

In order to study the different configurations of RWH, the following methodologies were used: exergy analysis and exergetic efficiency analysis to determine resource consumption and efficiency; life cycle assessment (LCA) to identify environmental impacts; life cycle costing (LCC) to find economic feasibility, and data envelopment analysis (DEA) to identify the frontiers of best - practice towards sustainability.

«Geothermal energy from EGS represents a large, indigenous resource that can provide base - load electric power and heat at a level that can have a major impact on the United States while incurring minimal environmental impacts,» according to the MIT study.

While water resource managers say sucralose in the water appears to have little or no negative environmental impact, some researchers point to the lack of extensive research to back that up.

More efficient irrigation management has become a primary focus in sustainable container plant production as growers look for ways to improve resource use and mitigate negative environmental impacts of fertilizers and pesticides that are often found in nursery runoff.

«We're going to learn from those biological processes to improve the methods and find solutions for infrastructure - related construction, maintenance and operations; to reduce the carbon footprint of our construction methods; to reduce the ecological and environmental impact of industries like mining and construction; and to make better and more sustainable use of the non-renewable resources we have,» she said.

Although it's easy to assume that people tend to disastrously impact environmental health,» says Armstrong, «through studying the archaeological record and working with Indigenous collaborators, we see many examples of ancient societies that have successfully responded to environmental instability by conscientiously managing their resources and behaving in ways that promote resilient and biodiverse habitats.»

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Resource utilization, sustainability, and environmental impact can all be assessed as well.

the challenge of simultaneously maintaining environmental and economic sustainability and how countries of the GCC are likely to be impacted by shifting preferences for low carbon energy resources in the developed world, including the economic and geopolitical stresses that may follow (forthcoming).

SEA, Inc. is working with a number of conventional and alternative energy companies on the acquisition and application of scientific data to better understand and minimize the environmental impact of resource acquisition.