Sentences with phrase «public health effects»

After four years of study by the state, the Cuomo administration now says its decision on whether to allow high - volume hydraulic fracturing in New York will have to wait until it conducts a review of the potential public health effects of the controversial natural gas drilling process.

The public comments range from complaints from environmental groups that the impact statement does not fully address public health effects or the impacts of industrialization on the state's rural areas, to concerns from the Independent Oil and Gas Association, which worries the new rules may be too strict.

In Supreme Court ruling's wake Indeed, the leaked document marks the seventh draft since EPA began compiling information on the welfare and public health effects from global warming in response to a April 2007 Supreme Court decision on global warming.

On the other hand, academic researchers who are not on the payroll of industry and who are trying in good faith to understand the possible public health effects of a new technology — which is being unrolled without advance demonstration of safety — can sometimes find results that are frightening enough to warrant immediate public conversation.

«These findings point to potential public health effects associated with global climate change,» study leader Dr. Gregory Tasian, a pediatric urologist and epidemiologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said in a hospital news release.

The EPA estimates that more than one hundred cement kilns emit more than 23,000 pounds of mercury each year, which have major adverse public health effects.

The pollution affects everyone: one Harvard University study estimated the life cycle costs and public health effects of coal to be an estimated $ 74.6 billion every year.

Rising sea levels, more intense and more frequent weather events, crop failures, and negative public health effects have all been linked to climate change, which scientists agree is caused by human activity.

Establishing lack of sleep as a risk factor for weight gain could have important clinical and public health effects, possibly allowing people to make simple lifestyle changes to improve their metabolic health.

It's hard to follow up something called the Ronald McHummer Sign - o - Matic with a description that does it justice, but we'll try: users were encouraged to make their own McDonald's sign with an appropriate message, and to send a pre-written letter to the company noting the environmental and public health effects of gas guzzlers like the Hummer.

Users are encouraged to make their own McDonald's sign with an appropriate message, and to send a pre-written letter to the company noting the environmental and public health effects of gas guzzlers like the Hummer.

This 1993 NAS report was the driving force which caused congress to enact (with some help from Al Gore) the 1996 «Food Quality Protection Act» which had as its objective to force the EPA to examine the public health effects of the OPs and Carbamates and make restrictions as necessary, which they did in some cases.

This is the story of Elaine Hill, the young Ph.D. student from Cornell who has conducted the first population - based, observational study of the public health effects of fracking.

Despite this breadth of activity, the public health effects of climate change remain largely unaddressed.

The IMF report looks at direct incentives, local pollution and public health effects, climate changes, and a host of other costs to arrive at its projected subsidy number.

You can make a case in places like China and India, where the public health effects of coal smoke are so terrible, that gas is better even if it's not helping the climate — but these are also precisely the places poised to make huge advances in renewables.