Sentences with phrase «potential danger to public»

The dispute was ultimately settled but the case underscored the high stakes of labor disputes involving electric utilities, as well as the potential danger to public safety and the need for clarification of the authority of state public utility commissions, Scott said.

But, as the Gannett story reminds us, Pegula is not above using his team to advance the interests of the industry that made him a billionaire, one that many consider a potential danger to public health in the Empire State should Gov. Andrew Cuomo approve hydrofracking.

Few scientists have ever been brought to court for making inaccurate risk assessments, and the case has seismologists worldwide wondering how to communicate potential dangers to the public without facing liability or raising undue alarm.

Not exact matches

In the past week, some state lawmakers, including Marchione and Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, have called for legislative hearings to determine whether health agencies acted swiftly enough in notifying the public about the potential dangers of consuming the contaminated water.

Now a new law signed Monday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo will launch a public service campaign to warn New Yorkers about the potential dangers of top - heavy furniture.

With the contest now in danger of becoming an annual event we wanted to see how some of the potential contenders stack up in the eyes of the general public.

Environmental Experts Warn of the Dangers of Giant Hogweed Giant Hogweed is a public health hazard that ranks higher than poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac in respect to its potential to harm humans.

He also believes that public safety is a huge priority, and wants to meet with all of the schoolbus drivers to get their input on what they see as potential hazards or dangers on the roads as they drive schoolchildren to and from their homes.

«They should work cooperatively with sports organizations to educate the larger public about the nature of their research and its laudable goals, as well as its potential abuses and the dangers it poses.»

«The general public thinks marijuana is harmless, but information revealing the potential health dangers of marijuana use needs to be disseminated to the public, policymakers and healthcare providers,» Jouanjus said.

Firstly, for many years they did not make public fears about the potential danger BSE posed to human health — concerns of an economically damaging public over-reaction took precedence.

The authors want to inform the public of potential dangers of using dietary supplements and advise that supplement producers, government agencies, healthcare providers and consumers work together to improve safety.

The guidelines state that the public should be notified of the potential danger of an asteroid within 72 hours of its discovery — enough time for scientists to verify that the danger is real, says David Morrison at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

On top of the risk of a deadly, engineered virus leaking into public spaces, there are also the environmental dangers of climate change, nuclear war, the potential of an enormous asteroid strike wiping us out, and the problem of humanity's overpopulation of the planet, just to name a few of the biggest challenges when it comes to remaining on Earth.

First, the need to educate the public about the potential dangers posed by the soy formula now fed to 750,000 infants per year.

In an attempt to discourage these people from eating too much, many people — including public health authorities — exaggerate the potential dangers of these foods.

Caramel Coloring: The Center for Science in the Public Interest «the Food Police» have outlined potential caramel coloring dangers that may lead to cancer.

The report contains news stories, criminal records, and other documents to detail abuses such as charter school operators embezzling funds, using tax dollars to illegally support other, non-educational businesses, taking public dollars for services they didn't provide, inflating their enrollment numbers to boost revenues, and putting children in potential danger by foregoing safety regulations or withholding services.

Therefore, the biggest problem that we have with mere statistical inferences like CAPE, are concerned with the potential danger they present to the investing public.

Essentially Sandman argues that risk perception, that is, the public's understanding of the potential danger of something in the environment (the hazard) is not necessarily based on an objective understanding of risk, but on an emotional equation which is created by the relationship between hazard and outrage (an emotional reaction to the hazard).

Since a wide variety of equipment and tools are commonly used when training pets and in their daily activities, the pet - owning public needs to be aware of the potential problems and dangers some equipment may pose.

You believe that NWS does not communicate the urgency of the problem and the potential dangers of global warming to the public.

While a program initiated by a major government would (presumably) be preceded by studies to determine what the potential drawbacks and dangers might be, followed by public scrutiny and debate, none of these billionaires need be constrained in a similar manner.

In the winter of 2016, a terrible crane accident in New York City highlighted the potential dangers of construction sites that are close to public streets.

A product liability case against a pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturer may be appropriate if the manufacturer failed to warn the public about inherent dangers in a drug, hid information about serious drug implications from the FDA, failed to follow marketing protocol, or allowed a product to be introduced to the market when the manufacturer knew or should have known of the product's potential danger.

Though the public policy behind statutes of repose is based on the policy judgment that a potential defendant should have no reasonable expectation of responsibility for injuries that occur after the passage of a number of years, the Court held that such a policy rationale does not apply to asbestos cases because: (1) the potential dangers associated with asbestos exposure were well known by 1971; and (2) the typical latency period from asbestos exposure to disease is much longer than the six - year window for filing personal injury claims under the statute of repose.

The Firestone Tire recall of 2000 brought to the public's awareness the potential dangers of badly manufactured or designed tires.

The exclusion of those who have committed serious crimes may support a number of subsidiary rationales: prevent people fleeing from justice; prevent dangerous and particularly undeserving people from entering the host country; preserve the integrity and legitimacy of the refugee protection system, and, hence, the necessary public support for its viability; deter states from exporting criminals by pardoning them or imposing disproportionately lenient sentences while supporting their departure elsewhere as refugees; allow states to reduce the danger to their society from all serious criminality cases taken together, given the difficult task and potential for error when attempting to determine whether criminals from abroad (on whom they have more limited sources of information than on domestic criminals) are no longer dangerous.

Lehrman says her early interest in science sparked a deep appreciation of accountability and public transparency, pointing to the 1975 Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA, when geneticists debated the potential dangers of biomedical research in an attempt to raise public awareness, as particularly inspirational.