Sentences with phrase «project against the impacts»

The Firm represents clients who must develop strategies, whether in permitting or litigation, for dealing with CO2 or other greenhouse gas emissions or evaluating a project against the impacts of climate change.

Not exact matches

«We can longer commit to evaluating the impacts and risks of a single project in isolation against a retrospective, stationary understanding of risk (e.g., the 100 - year flood we've been hearing so much about.)»

The latest economic impacts of the pipeline constraints come amid an intensifying spat between Alberta and British Columbia over the construction of the Trans Mountain project, pitting arguments of economic impact against the importance of protecting coastlines and limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

Now the Pierce Downer's Heritage Alliance, a local environmental group, has filed suit against the Village of Downers Grove and the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board, alleging that both agencies violated a section of the Illinois Natural Preservation Act by failing to consult with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to determine the project's ecological impact on the adjacent preserve.

«The idea of trying to pit neighborhoods against each other or suggest certain projects have impacted that, that's not a productive conversation to have,» Walsh said.

Scores of Floral Park and New Hyde Park residents had spoken against the project — which could last several years and impact traffic among other things — at public hearings.

Five legislators voted against the plan, saying those Oneida Indian Nation funds could be used for projects with a large economic impact for the county.

The Smithtown Town Board voted 4 - 0 against requiring BQ Energy to submit an environmental impact statement for the proposed project on an old solid waste landfill.

The Village of Kiryas Joel filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Woodbury town and village officials, Caesars Entertainment and partner Flaum Management and others, alleging failure to consider the environmental impact of a casino project.

The League of Conservation Voters gives McMorris Rodgers a 4 percent lifetime score out of a possible 100 in their environmental scorecard because she has voted against bills that would have required the federal government to account for the social cost of carbon in administrative actions and required federally funded projects to be resilient to the impacts of climate change.

Towards their safeguarding research within HERACLES project («HEritage Resilience Against CLimate Events on Site», GA 700395) is dedicated to the design, testing and promotion of responsive systems, methodologies and techniques with the aim to mitigate the impact of climate changes and natural hazards.

An ongoing project hopes to discover if the sequence of treatments used against ROS1 cancer impacts outcomes.

Qualified projects are evaluated by the Secretary against eight statutory criteria, including among others, impact on the environment, significance to the national transportation system, and the extent to which they generate economic benefits, leverage private capital, and promote innovative technologies.

Cedric Price was one of Britain's most provocative and visionary architects, whose projects would push against traditional architectural boundaries and delight in questioning the impact of time and space on the built environment.

But to be in compliance with the Paris Agreement, all EFSI projects have to be assessed against their long - term climate impacts.»

Natural Resources Defense Council, California, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Vermont and Washington — State transportation departments will have to to continue to comply with an Obama - era rule and assess the impacts their projects will have on climate change, thanks to the NRDC and the states that filed suit against the Trump administration.

Against that baseline, «the CPP was projected to have a significant impact,» the analysis said.

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He fought (and lost) a high - profile battle against an offshore wind project in Scotland that would have impacted a golf course he was building, pushing the case all the way to the Scottish Supreme Court.

By purchasing Gold Standard credits from this project, companies will not only reduce carbon emissions, they will finance a world - leading community - impact project that delivers against a number of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals: reducing deforestation, tackling fuel poverty and reducing household air pollution.»

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

The Platform went to court with numerous cases against the coal plant project's license, environmental regulation report, environmental impact assessment report.

There is also evidence of bias against adaptation projects addressing the underlying socioeconomic factors that make marginalized populations more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

The action will come 2 days after a People's Tribunal is held in nearby Montreuil on December 10, where individuals facing the frontline impacts of these fossil fuel projects will call them out for what they are — climate crimes against people and our common future.

This important office improves development impacts by providing project - affected people with the opportunity to file complaints against OPIC - financed projects and has the potential to provide remedies.

Given the impact of climate - related disasters on the vulnerable and the poor, the project aims to provide necessary technical and financial support to the Rural Development Unit and the Divi Neguma Department of the Ministry of Economic Development to safeguard the investments made in uplifting the rural livelihoods against climate related disasters and environmental changes.

Won a multi-million judgment in Federal Court of Claims against United States on National Institute of Health project involving disruption, delay and cumulative impact.

Let's take the energy going into UPL challenges against the inevitable expansion of legal services options and instead, work on big impact projects that include technology.