Sentences with phrase «other environmental reasons»

Mind you, they all think that there is good reason to reduce fossil fuel use as early as possible in any case... but more for climate, geopolitical, and other environmental reasons...

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Real Estate — When investing in real estate companies, property values can fall due to environmental, economic, or other reasons, and changes in interest rates can negatively impact the performance.

In our new aims of education for the 1980's and beyond, therefore, we shall have to dedicate ourselves to bringing back, among other things, the civilized use of language (both written and oral), a sensitivity to beauty, powers of analytical reasoning, the intellectual vision of ourselves as historical creatures, the ability to cognitively articulate ideas rather than let communication skills courses degenerate into merely «touchie - feelie» experiences of «affirming the other,» and finally, a sensitivity to the nuances, complexities, and ambiguities of meanings.7 In this way, and only in this way, our educational system will equip its students for the future with an intellectual vision comprised of both knowledge and foresightful adaptability to environmental changes.

Some objected to Islam itself, carrying signs like «MOSQUE LEADERS SUPPORT KILLING CONVERTS,» while others opposed the project for environmental reasons.

We «re confident that U.S. consumers can add «environmental track record» to many other reasons for choosing California wines, including quality, diversity, value, and significant contributions to local, state, and federal economies through jobs, taxes, charitable donations and tourism.

Parents choose to swaddle their little ones in cloth rather than disposable diapers for many reasons: most would like to raise their children with the least environmental impact possible; many worry about rashes or other conditions caused by the chemicals and fragrances in disposable diapers; others have done cost - effectiveness calculations and found that cloth diapers may be more economical for their family; and many are hoping that, yes, cloth diapers would lead to earlier potty training.

As individuals wait for their laundry to dry, they often read these boards, and could be encouraged to consider cloth diapering by health issues, environmental concerns, cost, or any other number of reasons.

Heather McNamara: And then the other big reason is health and people are becoming much more careful and aware of the environmental toxins and chemicals that are around them and just the same in disposable diapers.

But someone else may be in it because of sensitivities to disposable diapers or other chemicals, or perhaps for environmental reasons.

The biggest reason is that China has fewer environmental and efficiency standards for its factories and plants and generates more electricity from coal and other non-renewable sources, the authors said.

There is still, however, a need for more research on the issue, as the risk can be influenced by the time of the treatment and other factors, reasons Karin Leander, researcher at Karolinska Institutet's Institute of Environmental Medicine.

As many of us try to cut back on eating meat (for health or environmental reasons), we're finding our protein from other sources like nuts, beans, and quinoa.

[8] Increased exposure to environmental estrogens and other environmental pollutants during fetal development, as well as during the reproductive years, is suggested as a major reason for the tremendous rise in disorders of development and function of the male sexual system.

According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and other ingredient research, parabens, sulfates, silicones, phthalates, DEA, and synthetic dyes may be harmful for the following reasons:

There can be a number of reasons why the skin's pH levels are compromised — not all of which have to do with diet and products that don't agree with the skin — like, exposure to the sun's harmful UV rays and other environmental aggressors and even washing your skin with hard water at home.

Many students attend SES because of the environmental focus, but Bodette has heard a wide variety of reasons for students» attachment to the school — from being given the opportunity to learn a great deal of information in depth to working together to being known by other students and teachers to being able to present research to outside audiences.

The main reason is the so call American Dream, in other words, the expectation to achieve a socioeconomic level that agrees with a market economy which fulfills the necessity of having and getting more material satisfiers, this means, to have more and better goods and services, mainly made (ironic and paradoxically) in the countries they come from; where environmental restrictions, employment protection, and other laws, are minimal.

Although it is quite easy to see the cost and environmental benefits of using LED lighting rather than traditional lighting, there are many other good reasons to move to LED that are not so obvious but equally important when considering switching.

While the major reason for hip replacement is to treat disabling HD, other disorders can also benefit: Legg - Calvé - Perthes disease, permanent dislocation from trauma, bad fracture of the femoral head and neck, hereditary or environmental defects in union of bone centers, and excision arthroplasties that have failed to solve the problem.

Others are not temporary in the sense that they will continue until you do something about it, such as home environmental reasons.

Other reasons include environmental factors and skin deficiencies.

Currently, as soon as one proposed new coal mine, gasfield, or oil well is successfully stopped as a result of community opposition based around local environmental impacts or other non-climate reasons, another similar proposal nearby or elsewhere takes its place.more...

One reason is that the stakes are incredibly high: On the one hand, mainstream climate scientists and environmental advocates who believe that there are severe consequences to failing to curb greenhouse - gas emissions; on the other, a loose coalition of skeptical or contrarian scientists, conservatives, industry interests, and outright cranks who may disagree on specific issues, but tend to believe the costs, economic and otherwise, of acting are staggering.

Donations are made (primarily for tax reasons) from all sorts of individuals and companies, including oil and other natural resource companies, to the charitable foundations, who then pass it on to the funding organisation that donates money to the environmental NGO.

The Trump administration's further elimination of climate change consideration in environmental impact statements has attracted additional criticism of the process (for the opposite reason)-- placing the United States at odds with the other two countries.

Environmental groups say that's one of several reasons why dilbit corrodes pipelines more easily than conventional crude oil, although the oil industry says dilbit poses no more risk than other oils.

Other compelling reasons to begin taking action include the potential for catastrophes that defy the assumption that climate change damages will be incremental and linear; the risk of irreversible environmental impacts; the need to learn about the pace at which society can begin a transition to a climate - stable economy; the likelihood of imposing unconscionable burdens and impossible tasks on future generations; the need to create incentives to accelerate technological development the address climate change; and the ready availability of «no regrets» policies that have very low or even no costs to the economy.

Another thing is that any attempt to use environmental concerns to bring about actions wanted for other reasons damages credibility.

For these and other reasons, conservative and libertarian intellectuals who embrace what is known as «free market environmentalism» have long argued that pollution is a trespass on private property that is best dealt with whenever possible by common law action — not by legislators acting to referee such trespasses via sweeping environmental laws with (heavily politicized) utilitarian calculations in mind.

Currently, as soon as one climate - damaging project is successfully stopped as a result of community opposition based around local environmental impacts or other non-climate reasons, another similar proposal nearby or elsewhere takes its place.more...

Bettelheim wants environmental regulations for the same reason that General Motors believes in stop signs and other rules for driving: he says they are good for business - and for the environment.

So there are plenty of other reasons for which the government will be pushing very hard on environmental legislation.

For no apparent reason, the state of California, Environmental Defense, and the Natural Resources Defense Council have dragged Lindzen and about 15 other global - warming skeptics into a lawsuit over auto - emissions standards.

Others who are involved for economic development reasons understand that the real reason consumers choose this product is its environmental and social qualities.

Some of these choices bring performance or comfort improvements, others are purely about aesthetics, and some are harder to pinpoint... Bottom line, there are all kinds of reasons for picking one vehicle over another, and these can certainly include environmental reasons, technological ones (early adopters wanting to be first to ride this wave), or psychological ones (on top of the other benefits, many find it more pleasurable to drive plug - in vehicles than gas ones).

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· Regulation is often preferred to economic incentives for two reasons: 1) industry prefers to protect plants that are already built, and 2) some environmental groups oppose taxes because they make the cost of environmental protection transparent, ie the very factor which others argue is a positive asset is seen by some as being negative.

The Rio declaration, signed by the UK and 171 other states, defines it as follows: «Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost - effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.»

While some birth defects occur for unknown reasons or because of genetic factors, and may be unpreventable as such, others occur because of environmental factors, such as the developing fetus» exposure to certain chemicals or medications.

It can not be ruled out that, even where there is no such impossibility, the transfer of water may be regarded as satisfying the conditions mentioned in the preceding paragraph and, in particular, (i) the condition that it serves a general interest and / or the benefits to the environment and society linked to the achievement of the objectives set out in Article 4 (1) of that directive are outweighed by the benefits to human health, to the maintenance of human safety or to sustainable development resulting from the transfer of water and (ii) the condition that the beneficial objectives pursued by that transfer can not, for reasons of technical feasibility or disproportionate cost, be achieved by other means which would be a significantly better environmental option.

For this reason, and because the Council thought that the PCA covered other areas than development cooperation, it added Articles 91 and 100 TFEU (transport), 79 (3) TFEU (readmission of third - country nationals), and 191 (4) TFEU (environmental protection) as additional legal bases to Articles 207 (Common Commercial Policy) and 209 TFEU.

If you think that you have a greater risk of developing cancer due to environmental, lifestyle or other reasons.

Although a dedicated cancer - specific insurance product has its own advantages, industry experts opine that such a product is most beneficial for those falling in the high - risk category — i.e. due to family health history, environmental, lifestyle (smoking / tobacco) or other such contributory reasons, he / she is at a greater risk of developing cancer.

Some of the other collections use oak from sustainable sources for environmental and ethical reasons, while still creating wonderfully complimentary ranges of furniture that our customers love so much.