Sentences with phrase «in environmental fate»

He also has a Master of Science in environmental sciences and policy from Johns Hopkins University, where he concentrated his research and study in environmental fate and transport, oceanic and atmospheric processes, hydrology and the ecological effects of pollutants.

Not exact matches

A draft environmental impact study released by the department in March concluded construction of the pipeline would not add to greenhouse gas emissions because the oil would find other ways to market regardless of Keystone XL's fate.

An environmental assessment report from the US State Department that landed last week would seem to move TransCanada's hopes forward, but the pipeline's ultimate fate is still very much in limbo.

Moore says Cuomo has not made new environmental initiatives a priority, and that has influenced the fate of bills in the Senate and the Assembly.

«The fates of tropical protected areas will be determined by environmental changes both within and around the reserves,» the researchers wrote in Nature, noting that, essentially, protected areas needed to be better protected.

This sample of recent environmental films includes looks at the ecological effects of roads and top predators, the impact of climate change on a native village in the Arctic, a search for seeds of wild relatives of staple foods, and the fate of solar panels from Jimmy Carter's White House.

Regardless of its fate, a proposal before the U.S. Senate to bar the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs) has raised important questions about the role of science in setting policy.

«While advances in science and technology and improved safety practices have significantly reduced the threat of oil spills in Canadian waters over the past few decades, much about the fate, environmental impacts and remediation of oil spills remain poorly understood,» said Kenneth Lee, the director of Oceans and Atmosphere, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Perth, Western Australia and chair of the seven - member panel.

When environmental engineer David Cwiertny began analyzing the fate of an agricultural chemical called trenbolone acetate in streams across the United States, he and his colleagues stumbled into a B - grade horror film starring a vampire steroid.

In a project funded by the German environment ministry, he has attempted to model the environmental impact of a series of flights from Frankfurt to New York, following the fate of emissions for ten days.

iPS - generated neurons, he says, may be of little use in replicating the fate of motor cells buffeted by a lifetime of drug exposure and other metabolic and environmental influences.

Critical issues include: (i) heterogeneity in stem cell populations (ii) regulation of cell fate choices; (iii) declining tissue performance with age and exposure to environmental injuries; (iv) the use of iPS and Embryonic Stem (ES) cells, and reprogramming methods for phenotyping disease states and potential use of these stem cells in the clinic.

Besseling et al. (2016): «Fate of nano - and microplastic in freshwater systems: A modeling study» in Environmental Pollution, 2016.

· Separated from his family, search the ruins of a» 1986» Seattle and uncover the fate of Randall's loved ones · Solve puzzles and overcome environmental hazards in tense 2D platforming · Decimate zombies with melee combat and weapons, or sneak past using the environment · Combat isn't always the answer, especially when ammunition, weapons, and resources are scarce · Survive endless waves of zombies in the new «Survival Arena» mode!

The White House in February sent out draft guidance to the Department of Interior and other government agencies urging them to reassess how they dispense «categorical exclusions» that allow many projects, including the Deepwater Horizon's ill - fated drilling effort, to avoid having to undertake detailed environmental impact reports required under the National Environmentaenvironmental impact reports required under the National EnvironmentalEnvironmental Policy Act.

Before diving into the report and a host of reactions, positive and negative — along with fresh thoughts expressed to me by both Nisbet and Romm in a group e-mail exchange over the weekend — I'd like to offer a few overarching observations about the report, the fate of the climate bill, American attitudes on energy and the influence of environmental and anti-regulatory forces in Washington.

Wohlforth's next book, «The Fate of Nature: Rediscovering Our Ability to Rescue the Earth» (to be published in June by St. Martin's Press), explores global environmental risks and opportunities.

Chut's death still hangs heavy over the environmental community in Cambodia, and some fellow activists confessed to me their fear that Leng's persistence would one day cause him to meet a similar fate.

A Tale of Two Taxes: The Fate of Environmental Tax Reform in Canada.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., will bring up legislation reversing one of the last major environmental rules finalized before Barack Obama left office, after a fierce lobbying battle that has left its fate in the hands of a few Senate...

The other study, published in 2016 by the U.S. - based National Academies of Sciences on the «environmental fate, effects and responses» of diluted - bitumen spills from pipelines, also cited the need for further study to address «diluted bitumen's behaviour in the environment under different conditions, its detection when submerged or sunken, and the best response strategies for mitigating the impacts of submerged and sunken oil.»

And of course, as anyone who's followed the dispersant saga knows, there's this: «Prior to the Gulf oil spill disaster, no deepwater applications of dispersant had been conducted, and thus no data existed on the environmental fate of dispersants in deepwater.»

Given that Lovelock predicted in 2006 that by this century's end «billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable», this new laissez - faire attitude to our environmental fate smells and sounds like of a screeching handbrake turn.

AECOM is providing technical resources and review for the project, plus financial support for research studies to investigate the environmental fate and transport, toxicity, and safe handling of nanoscale zero valent iron (nZVI)-- a nanomaterial that is proving effective in treating contaminated groundwater and soils.