Sentences with phrase «over past several years»

Drilling for gas in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania has transformed the state into an energy powerhouse and produced economic prosperity from jobs and royalties over the past several years.

I see it as my job to get in there and make use of these new rules or these new positions for environmental justice in decision - making processes, really implementing the fundamental groundwork that's been laid over the past several years.

Over the past several years, a new mechanism for genetic mutation has attracted considerable interest from researchers studying neurological disorders, Kato says.

Over the past several years, the United States and other countries have undergone an energy revolution as new drilling techniques and a process called hydraulic fracturing have made it possible to recover vast amounts of natural gas.

The inefficient technique won't supplant traditional mining, but the idea of using microbes as production facilities for a range of rare and difficult - to - produce materials has been gaining traction over the past several years.

«Over the past several years, many researchers have demonstrated a potential for energy harvesting using triboelectricity, and TENG's expectations as an energy source for wearable or portable devices have increased,» Shin said.

High - profile outbreaks of food - borne illness over the past several years have left regulators scrambling to recall tainted food — and led to the bill, which President Barack Obama signed into law last week.

The two fossils were found over the past several years by farmers in the fossil - rich shale outcrops called the Tiaojishan Formation in northeast China and acquired by the Beijing Museum of Natural History in the form of shale slabs in which the delicate bones were embedded.

«Even among those with insurance, many lacked confidence in aspects of employer - provided insurance that have changed dramatically over the past several years,» Marks said.

Over the past several years, Metcalf and colleagues have developed a «microbial clock» to measure postmortem passage of time by genetically sequencing the population of microbes on the skin and in the surrounding soil.

Over the past several years, the researchers, led by SDSU biologist Roland Wolkowicz, have been developing cell - based platforms that can be used to monitor the biomolecular activity of viruses inside their host cells.

A pile of evidence has amassed over the past several years proving that there are many others.

Over the past several years, British scientists have grown increasingly nervous at the growing political cry for their scientific research to have an economic impact.

«Over the past several years, with advances in technology, radiation to only the surgical bed of the resected lesion has become of interest,» said Anita Mahajan, MD, professor of radiation oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and lead author of the study.

But progress over the past several years has enabled the construction of the world's first prototype systems that can finally test out ideas, algorithms and other techniques that until now were strictly theoretical.

Over the past several years, the hospital has instituted some new policies.

That risk is the impetus behind several other studies published by Crystal over the past several years.

The researchers» new strategy is based on technology that Manalis and others in his lab have developed over the past several years to weigh cells.

Ebola virus has been responsible for numerous deaths in Africa over the past several years.

Compared with the publication of draft human genome 12 years ago — and with initial findings from the ENCODE project published over the past several years — «the questions that we can now ask are more sophisticated,» Green said.

Block polymers, which are two or more polymer chains with different properties linked together, show great promise for many of these applications, and a research group at the University of Delaware has made significant strides in their development over the past several years.

Over the past several years the two groups have achieved broadly comparable null results.

Barbara Beltz, a biology professor at Wellesley College who has hosted three postdocs on her research grants over the past several years, says that at least one Wellesley science department (neuroscience) has funding and a plan in the works to hire postdocs who have an interest in teaching at a liberal arts college.

A string of such beautiful, interventionist mice experiments over the past several years has revealed specific circuit elements involved in a variety of normal and pathological behaviors: depression, behavioral conditioning, Parkinson's disease and cortical oscillations critical for attention, among others.

The discovery of more than 100 cannabis compounds called cannabinoids over the past several years — along with the identification of an innate cannabinoid system in the human brain and the generation of many synthetic cannabinoids in the laboratory — has led to unprecedented insights, they said.

«There has been a tremendous effort over the past several years to block EGFR as a treatment for lung cancer, but this therapy only works in a small subset of patients.

Twiss, a professor of biological sciences and the endowed SmartState chair of the Center for Childhood Neurotherapeutics, and graduate student Ashley Kalinski are building on breakthroughs that they and others have reported on nerve regeneration over the past several years.

But over the past several years, discoveries have begun to yield some tantalizing clues about the end of the Ediacaran.

For example, over the past several years de l'Etoile has studied infants» response to lullabies.

Over the past several years blogger Waldo Jaquith (http://waldo.jaquith.org) set out to make a cheeseburger from scratch, to no avail.

Over the past several years, Widmer says, salmon catches have «gotten worse and worse and worse,» while leatherback sea turtles, in order to find their food, have had to go «farther and farther offshore.»

Pan: You know we have a total number — I think more than a dozen different environmental activists have been imprisoned in China over the past several years for challenging local officials who were polluting.

Such is the case with the evolution of marijuana policy over the past several years as implemented by the states.

Criticized by the left for not seriously helping Democrats take over the Senate over the past several years, Cuomo has now been publicly calling for the Democrats to reunite and put an end to warring factions that have kept the party from controlling both houses of the Legislature.

David pointed out that after such robust growth over the past several years even a slight drop in revenue could be expected and is not cause for alarm.

Over the past several years, having seen their work and gotten to know Judge Rick Meyer and County Clerk Joe Provoncha, I can say that they are two of the most dedicated, hardest working and competent elected officials in North Country.

Over the past several years, Vudu Lounge has drawn the ire of area residents and local elected officials, who claim the velvet - rope club brings late - night noise and rowdy behavior to the area's quiet blocks.

Over the past several years, the jail's inmate population has been significantly reduced to approximately 1,200 inmates by the county's efforts to find safe and cost - effective alternatives to incarceration, such as supervised pre-trial release, credit card bail and other means of supervision.

That mantra has been the repeated wail of pessimists over the past several years.

Funding for the renovation has trickled in over the past several years, coming from Adams, Councilman Stephen Levin and the Department of Cultural Affairs.

I've gotten to know Joe and his family over the past several years.

Also, the IDC did not take into account our assets under management which have fluctuated significantly over the past several years, driving fees.

high levels of property taxation and increasing poverty,» and that «City financial management over the past several years has been an outright disaster.»

disagrees that lawmaker have achieved significant changes to a system that's led to the indictments convictions, and jailing of dozens of lawmakers over the past several years.

While 800,000 jobs have been created in the state over the past several years, areas like the Southern Tier and Syracuse have lagged behind, DiNapoli noted.

By Alex Kratz Over the past several years, the area around Creston Avenue, just north of St. James Park, has built a reputation as a hot spot for the drug trade.

Thomas P. Casey, a frequent Democratic candidate over the past several years, will declare Tuesday that he is a candidate for the 27th Congressional District seat.

Over the past several years, more than $ 106 million in capital improvements have been made to the Grand Island bridges, according to the authority.

«Unfortunately, there have been a number of public corruption cases over the past several years.

Despite its large budget and six figure salaried employees the ECWA has failed to properly address the water infrastructure issues that have plagued the County and have led to the numerous water main issues over the past several years.