Sentences with phrase «little environmental benefit»

Critics have questioned the efficacy of city - and state - level global warming measures, concerned that plans to cut pollution could hurt the economy while providing little environmental benefit.

In a speech in Las Vegas on January 26, Obama suggested high spending to «upgrade» corporate fleets to natural gas, despite little environmental benefit http://www.whitehouse.gov/­the-press-office/­2012/­01/­26/­remarks-president-american-made-energy.

A new study prepared by the international consultancy ENVIRON for the American Petroleum Institute shows that the new regulations would provide little environmental benefit but will cost consumers and industry billions of dollars.

Consider recycling, which is often just a feel - good gesture with little environmental benefit and significant cost.

Not exact matches

Little Herds, a nonprofit in Austin Texas, aims to educate that community about the environmental and health benefits of eating bugs.

Many of the environmentalists who responded angrily to Steiner beseech readers to, as the Minneapolis non-profit wrote, «think about «profits» a little more broadly» to include the job creation and environmental benefits that recycling brings.

The Foundation undertook a rigorous due diligence process to evaluate the viability of the Little Sun business model and determined that solar powered lamps can provide enormous environmental and social benefits.

Yes as I mentioned in my last post, Romania would benefit little (20 percent of profits) and will potentially have enormous losses to cover in terms of environmental clean up.

While research has shown that nearly one quarter of the global burden of disease can be attributed to poor environmental quality, very little scientific evidence supports the claim that the conservation of ecosystems benefits human health.

Eos looks amazing — the Venice - like Altissia, for example, has benefitted from some stunning environmental design — and it's a classic fantasy - world, full of endearing little quirks, lore and surprises.

Cost / probability weighting of risks and benefits is well - understood and is often raised in issues where economic and environmental interests are at contrary purposes, but for some odd reason it gets little attention in climate change.

«But, as has been seen with large scale mining, logging and palm oil, there is the ongoing concern that it provides very little financial benefit for ordinary people as well as environmental destruction.»

The optimal policy approach to this integral technology is one that recognizes the emissions reductions that industry has and will continue to achieve, recognizes the effectiveness of state regulations, accepts the scientific evidence and avoids additional regulations that could discourage production while providing little or no additional environmental or safety benefits.

He also repeated US claims that corn ethanol was «an efficient producer of energy» despite studies suggesting that it offered little or no environmental benefits over fossil fuels.

Again, these methane emissions reduction trends can be traced to voluntary efforts — not the stringent and costly «one - size - fits - all» federal rules that environmental groups insist are needed, despite the fact that they will provide little climate benefit.

«A benefit to studying child characteristics is that they are perhaps the most easily influenced component of resilience while educators have little influence over a child's family in larger environmental factors it can be said that they have the power to influence certain child characteristics, such as self - concept» (Nesheiwat, & Brandwein, 2011).