Sentences with phrase «problem of energy security»

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Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Venkatasubramanian adds, «Discovering and designing new advanced materials and formulations with desired properties is an important and challenging problem, encompassing a wide variety of products in industries addressing clean energy, national security, and human welfare.»

We have enough areas of agreement that I believe we can begin to focus on real solutions to both our energy security and climate change problems and that these solutions will involve, at least to some extent, biofuels.

Many extol the virtues of synthetic biology as providing potential solutions to human health problems, food security, and energy needs.

Research suffers from bad press nowadays, and some of it is justified (data doctoring, nonreproducible published data), so our mission is to remind people that science is still as relevant, fascinating, and useful an endeavor as it has always been and that our society needs science to help tackle the big problems that we are facing, ranging from the transition toward nonfossil - based energies to food security.

«Partnership is crucial if we are to succeed in tackling the undeniable, shared problems of climate change and energy, or food and security,» Poto?nik said.

«By setting this goal, we acknowledge there is a problem,» President Bush told representatives of 17 nations attending the Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change held in Washington, D.C., this week.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is a Department of Energy Office of Science national laboratory where interdisciplinary teams advance science and technology and deliver solutions to America's most intractable problems in energy, national security and the enviroEnergy Office of Science national laboratory where interdisciplinary teams advance science and technology and deliver solutions to America's most intractable problems in energy, national security and the enviroenergy, national security and the environment.

PNNL is a DOE Office of Science national laboratory that solves complex problems in energy, national security and the environment, and advances scientific frontiers in the chemical, biological, materials, environmental and computational sciences.

We apply our scientific expertise to tackle some of the most challenging problems in energy, the environment, and national security.

Working individually or in groups, D&T students addressed some of the common problems associated with cycling, including: safety, load carrying, bicycle security, and energy rich food products.

I've been asked to address the topic of energy security in the context of the climate change problem.

Finally, an item that I hope the Energy Committee can address early in this Congress deals with perhaps the nation's most pressing energy security problem: the vulnerability of the electrical grid to cyber aEnergy Committee can address early in this Congress deals with perhaps the nation's most pressing energy security problem: the vulnerability of the electrical grid to cyber aenergy security problem: the vulnerability of the electrical grid to cyber attack.

Our meeting has been held at a time of higher and volatile oil prices, continuing increases in global oil demand, localised supply problems for some forms of energy, concern about long term security of supply and increasing attention to the environmental impact from energy use.

We can choose to transition to a clean energy economy that addresses a multitude of challenges — oil dependency, energy security, global warming, air pollution — or we can choose to ignore these problems.

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... most of the problems our food system faces today are because of its reliance on fossil fuels, and to the extent that our policies wring the oil out of the system and replace it with the energy of the sun, those policies will simultaneously improve the state of our health, our environment and our security.

His critical thinking has driven people around the globe — from world leaders to the average Joe — to think differently about energy and its role in some of our biggest problems: climate change, oil dependency, national security, economic health, and depletion of natural resources.

Established in 1992, Hull McGuire (www.hullmcguire.com) solves problems in the areas of U.S. and international corporate tax, corporate transactions (including securities), complex federal litigation, ADR, IP, employment practices, environment, energy and natural resources, SOX, SEC, and EPA criminal and civil compliance and defense, and federal legislative affairs.