Sentences with phrase «includes environmental priorities»

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Edmonton faces a choice with the design and construction of the Valley Line LRT project — either the project can be designed to include or accommodate a future re-animation of the legacy creek bed and delta — which is a provincial priority according to the Environmental Assessment of the Valley Line — or it can render even more permanent the decisions made in the 1960s and 1970s that transportation infrastructure trumps our natural environment.

Feeding an estimated 9.8 billion people by 2050 on a rapidly shrinking area of arable land can only be accomplished through a radical transformation that includes a wholesale reinvention of our global environmental priorities, as well as our social ones.

The Upper Murray - centred around Barmah - Millewa Forest and potentially including lower reaches of adjacent tributaries (Goulburn and Campaspe) and parts of the Edward - Wakool system - is one of four priority research sites for the Murray - Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project (MDB EWKR).

The Portfolio Management Plan for the northern unregulated rivers therefore focuses on the opportunities for active management of flows and event - based mechanisms, including water purchase and use on - farm and in - stream infrastructure, and where this could be employed strategically to contribute to the objectives and outcomes of the Murray - Darling Basin Plan and Basin - wide environmental watering strategy and Basin annual environmental watering priorities.

The Lower Balonne Floodplain (including Narran Lakes) is one of four priority research sites for the Murray - Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project (MDB EWKR).

Recognizing that towns and cities may have different environmental priorities, industry has worked as a partner on a range of initiatives, including:

At 8 a.m., NYC Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia addresses a breakfast meeting of trustees of the Citizens Budget Commission, discussing her priorities for the Department of Sanitation, including improving waste management, recycling, and environmental impact, The Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Ave., Manhattan.

«(5) SUPERFUND SITE - The term «Superfund site» means a site included on the National Priorities List developed by the President in accordance with section 105 (a)(8)(B) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9605 (a)(8)(B)-RRB-.

Environmental Advocates of New York, which also included the Child Safe Products Act among its top priorities for this session, has not formally opposed the new version of the bill, but did email lawmakers yesterday expressing its disapproval.

Environmental highlights in the new budget include: Continue reading «New York Lawmakers Approve $ 168B State Budget with Environmental Priorities» →

«Restoration priorities are typically based on the evidence for environmental degradation without explicitly accounting for the benefits people receive from ecosystems, which include recreational opportunities,» said lead researcher David Allan, professor emeritus of aquatic sciences at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment.

The Portal is an online platform including summaries of the state of knowledge on CEP priority issues, the management of those issues and environmental pressures.

This project, including the Montana Institute on Ecosystems, is a response to the Montana University System Science and Technology Plan, targeting Environmental and Ecosystem Science, one of five major research areas identified as a priority for Montana.

Intelligence Squared U.S. energy and environment debates shine a critical light on the most pressing issues spurred by climate change and 21st century environmental priorities, including clean energy, fracking, organic and genetically modified foods, and whether or not global warming poses an immediate threat.

Opening New York's doors to this form of extreme fossil fuel extraction undercuts your pledge to make environmental protection, including initiatives that address climate change, a legislative priority.»

Currently the Director of Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP, Jacqui Patterson, MSW, MPH, has served as a trainer, organizer, researcher, program manager, and policy analyst on international and domestic issues including women's rights, HIV&AIDS, violence against women, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP, Jacqui Patterson, MSW, MPH, has served as a trainer, organizer, researcher, program manager, and policy analyst on international and domestic issues including women's rights, HIV&AIDS, violence against women, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of environmental and climate justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy Start, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of Color United.

(a) Identification of the key sources of marine plastic debris and microplastics; (b) Identification of possible measures and best available techniques and environmental practices to prevent the accumulation and minimize the level of microplastics in the marine environment; (c) Recommendations for the most urgent actions; (d) Specification of areas especially in need of more research, including key impacts on the environment and on human health; (e) Any other relevant priority areas identified in the assessment of the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmentaenvironmental practices to prevent the accumulation and minimize the level of microplastics in the marine environment; (c) Recommendations for the most urgent actions; (d) Specification of areas especially in need of more research, including key impacts on the environment and on human health; (e) Any other relevant priority areas identified in the assessment of the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine EnvironmentalEnvironmental Protection;

The priority areas for intervention identified in the report include: ecosystem conservation and rehabilitation to combat poverty; capacity - building to strengthen environmental governance; and enhance and promote regional environmental cooperation.

-- The Secretary of Energy is authorized to provide grants to organizations to conduct business competitions that provide incentives, training, and mentorship to entrepreneurs, including minority - owned and woman - owned, and early stage start - up companies throughout the United States to meet high priority economic, environmental, and energy security goals in areas to include energy efficiency, renewable energy, air quality, water quality and conservation, transportation, smart grid, green building, and waste management.

The budget includes some priorities which are important to advocates of clean energy and climate progress, and directs money to education, public safety, and environmental protection.

These include our tolerance for risk and the priorities that we assign to economic development, poverty reduction, environmental quality, and intergenerational and geographical equity.