Sentences with phrase «on environmental harms»

Economists studying taxes on environmental harms, such as carbon emissions, often suggest that the tax be set according to the damage inflicted by the last unit of emissions.

If statistics on environmental harm, economic loss and the threat to public health aren't enough to get you or a loved one to stop smoking, perhaps these images might be enough to give a proper nudge in the right direction.

Not exact matches

He talked at length about business's responsibility to be aware of its affect on the planet and shared the Patagonia mission statement to «build the best product, do no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.»

This woman and her Fascist Right wing Nazis need to sit in prison for their crimes against humanity because I am not the only one these cold blooded lying murders did this to, and they deliberately will not have anyone obey Court Orders and get me Medical Records together, and get me Medical Doctors to address my Medical Concerns, and get all my Doctors on the same page, because they intended all along on messing up my Medical records while causing me serious medical harm, and then letting me die from Medical Neglect so that they could falsely blame me or environmental factors and they even have the Police deliberate to refuse to investigate why they removed Tests from my Medical Records that showed the harm that they caused.

On Easter Island, the Rapa Nui people committed cultural and environmental suicide by wasting the island's trees and other recourses on building the now famous Moai, the giant stone statues that were supposedly going to please the gods and protect the islanders from harOn Easter Island, the Rapa Nui people committed cultural and environmental suicide by wasting the island's trees and other recourses on building the now famous Moai, the giant stone statues that were supposedly going to please the gods and protect the islanders from haron building the now famous Moai, the giant stone statues that were supposedly going to please the gods and protect the islanders from harm.

Brooklyn Daily article on BP Adams joining students demonstrating the environmental harms of plastic bags at James Madison High School in Madison.

«Volkswagen lied to authorities and their consumers by cheating on emission standards, and they contributed to the air pollution harming the health of all breathers,» said Caitlin O'Brien, an environmental health association at the group.

Because of your relentless effort and fierce commitment to keep fracking from polluting our water, air and harming our health, last Wednesday on December 17, 2014, at a public, livestreamed meeting of Governor Cuomo's cabinet in Albany, Governor Cuomo acknowledged the overwhelming science that speaks to the inherent dangers of fracking to public health and the environment presented by Joseph Martens, Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, and Dr. Howard Zucker, Commissioner of the Department of Health, Governor Cuomo banned high volume horizontal fracturing in New York State.

Environmental groups have cautioned that drilling for natural gas in New York will pollute water sources, increase reliance on fossil fuels and harm human health.

«We saw scores fall across the board for each of the legislative conferences based on a variety of factors, including the lack of action on bills most critical to our environmental health, as well as an increase in the passage of bills that actually do harm to New York's environment,» explained Executive Director Rob Moore.

This research helps the Agency develop its strategy on endocrine - disrupting substances, a mixture of cost - effective action to reduce the risks of harm to the environment, targeted environmental monitoring, further research to address areas of uncertainty, and work to raise the public's awareness of these issues.

And it calls on Congress «to take quick action to prohibit the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] from moving forward with new greenhouse gas regulations that will harm the nation's economy and threaten millions of jobs over the next quarter century.»

For instance, the treaty allows countries to refuse to import GMOs based on a «precautionary principle» — that is, even without «sufficient scientific evidence» that the products could cause environmental harm or threaten human health.

Among many others, Ted's current projects include serving as science director for the Collaborative on Health and Environment (CHE) and active participation in the Health Care Without Harm coalition, contributing to its international campaign to improve the environmental performance of hospitals and other healthcare institutions.

He is also co-author of In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development, which discusses the impact of environmental exposures on neurological development in children, and Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging: With a Closer Look at Alzheimer» and Parkinsoenvironmental exposures on neurological development in children, and Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging: With a Closer Look at Alzheimer» and ParkinsoEnvironmental Threats to Healthy Aging: With a Closer Look at Alzheimer» and Parkinson's Diseases.

The first Ralph S. Abascal Fellow at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, Katie has focused on reducing communities» exposure to environmental harm through policy change, advocacy and activism.

Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.

Phthalates are on the Environmental Working Group's «Dirty Dozen List Endocrine Disruptors,» but what exactly are they and what harm do they cause?

In fact, any assault on the stratum corneum — either from external damage or as a result of cellular water loss — can lead to sensitized and dehydrated skin that is susceptible to environmental harm, dryness, irritation, breakouts, sagging skin and other signs of aging.

The synthetics they're made from cause environmental harm and are more prone to greenwashing (more on that here).

Here he takes on environmental issues when a mermaid attempts to change the mind of a young billionaire who is being manipulated by outside forces to commit harm to ocean life.

In order to avoid environmental obstacles you will need to use the Wii remote to draw vines for Ivy to run on and jump off of to avoid spikes, pits, and anything else that would do the titular birdie any harm.

Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.

Stephanie Rosenbloom had a story in yesterday's paper on Wal - Mart's plan to cut environmental and social harms from the operations of the thousands of companies that supply its products.

Whereas, if left unaddressed, the consequences of a changing climate have the potential to adversely impact all Americans, hitting vulnerable populations hardest, harming productivity in key economic sectors such as construction, agriculture, and tourism, saddling future generations with costly economic and environmental burdens, and imposing additional costs on State and Federal budgets that will further add to the long - term fiscal challenges that we face as a Nation;

July 25, 2011 — Reactions came on the heels of an Environmental Review Tribunal (ERT) decision that the Kent Breeze wind farm project in Ontario may proceed because there will be no «serious» harm to human health.

«The procedure for banning DDT reflected the method described by Stanford biology professor Stephen Schneider, who appeared on the scene during fraudulent anti-pesticide debates, predicting grave environmental harm.

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

If there are in fact serious environmental problems with fossil fuels it would be in the public interest to put resources into addressing these problems instead of wasting efforts and money on limited inefficient and costly alternatives which only serve to harm the economy and a failed economy can not properly look after the environment

The key challenges are to restructure existing energy tax systems to directly target the source of environmental harm (e.g., by taxing emissions or driving on busy roads rather than electricity consumption or vehicle sales), to better align tax levels with the scale of environmental harm, and to overcome practical challenges of higher energy and transportation costs.

(maybe most of you are too cool to remember that sort of moment... but think of something equally bad like the time you accidentally set something on fire and it started getting out of control...) I think it will be worse than that... Seems like to me we need to be much, much, more certain before we go making policy all over the earth that could actually harm us... or maybe not quite so bad, but really not desirable, harm many developing countries and distract them from addressing real environmental land use and energy production problems that would actually help the environment and save human lives now, today... but keep an eye on the future... not suggesting head in the sand stuff... just let's stop the panic... if you have to panic it's probly too late... most people don't behave terribly rationally while panicing...

Therefore, from the standpoint of the environmental sufficiency goal, the Cancun agreements fail to satisfy the requirement that any post-Kyoto regime must assure that the international community is on a ghg emissions reduction pathway that will prevent dangerous climate change harms.

The 71 - page document on the government's National Environmental Policy Act, uncovered by DeSmogBlog, declares that greenhouse gases are a «non-existent harm».

The starting point of environmental economics is that pollution creates negative externalities — that is, polluting imposes harm on others in a way not reflected in its price.

We know that a continued increase in global temperature will mean a continued increase in environmental harm resulting from our addiction to and over-reliance on coal, gas, and oil.

While most college students spend their spring break hungover on the beaches of Cancun, West Virginia University student Ivan Stiefel took a different route: He founded West Virginia Mountain Justice Spring Break (MJSB), an organization of students that spend their vacation week working toward environmental change and social justice for Appalachian communities harmed by the coal industry.

Time to Scrap «Sacrifice» The idea seems so obvious, but it still often seems as if environmental campaigns focus on harms rather than happiness.

But since experiences are, by definition, less predicated on material possessions they are likely, overall, to create less environmental harm.»

One of my favorite sayings is that «years from now, environmentalists will look back on the current obsession with global warming and say that it did incredible harm to real environmental progress.»

Environmental groups have cautioned that drilling for natural gas in New York will pollute water sources, increase reliance on fossil fuels and harm human health.

Environmental leadership is something that anyone can do by taking the first step in creating awareness, consciousness, and action on reducing harm to our planet.

Brosnan — who was named «Best - Dressed Environmentalist» in 2004 and serves on the board of the Environmental Media Association — has long fought for dolphin - safe tuna rules and protested the U.S. Navy's widespread use of sonar, which can harm whales and other cetaceans.

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Rider, based in McLean, Virginia, practices in the area of insurance coverage, with an emphasis on environmental claims and cases in which injury or harm occurs years after the circumstances surrounding a claim.

Her practice is focused on advising States in investor - State arbitrations and State - to - State disputes concerning mineral resources, environmental harm, territorial and maritime claims, as well as human rights.

SI reports too often focus on individual staff failings without considering the wider organisational and / or environmental factors that enabled the error to occur, limiting learning and the opportunity to prevent future harm.