Sentences with phrase «public health protection in»

Bob Keefe of the National Resources Defense Council described it as an assault, «With Washington and the world focused on the debt ceiling drama, hard - right House Republicans have launched the biggest congressional assault on the environment in history, attacking our fundamental environmental and public health protections in order to appease Tea Party ideologues and big business donors.»

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By contrast, there is little or no evidence of Mr. Pruitt taking initiative to protect and advance public health and environmental protection in his state.

As Scott explains, they «contain 30 or more chapters providing special protections for foreign investors; extending patents and copyrights; privatizing markets for public services such as education, health, and public utilities; and «harmonizing» regulations in ways that limit or prevent governments from protecting the public health or environment.»

• Restore full collective bargaining rights; • Restore strong health and safety protections in workplaces under federal jurisdiction, watered down by the previous government; • Repeal anti-labour Bills C - 525 and C - 377; C - 10; C - 4; C - 59; • Restore pay equity in the public service, with full union right of representation; • Re-open the nine veterans» affairs offices shut down in 2014.

Under the free - exercise clause every person is entitled to respect for her or his religious commitments, and their free exercise should not be burdened by governmental interference except to secure «compelling state interests» (such as protection of public health and safety, not just public welfare or order) that can be served in no less burdensome way.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Food Protection Program regulates and inspects all wholesale food businesses in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Bicycling as active transportation and healthy recreation is a fun way to experience the setting in a more natural way while also promoting public health, resource protection, and other economic and social benefits while also reducing vehicle congestion and contributing to the quality of life for surrounding communities.»

IBFAN — the International Baby Food Action Network — consists of over 27o public interest groups working in 168 countries to promote the health and well - being of infants, young children and their mothers through the protection, promotion and support of optimal infant and young child feeding practices.

Breast feeding is clearly an issue for public health consideration as it provides significant protection against infections in newborns and infants.12 Because breast feeding has been shown to protect against infections so profoundly in developing countries, it is estimated that an increase in breast feeding worldwide by 40 % would reduce deaths from respiratory infection by 50 % in children less than 18 months of age.3

Although additional studies are required to confirm these findings and to understand the mechanisms of breast milk protection, public health interventions to promote predominant breast feeding for at least six months and any breast feeding up to one year may reduce the prevalence and subsequent morbidity of respiratory illness and infection in infancy.

This guideline provides global, evidence - informed recommendations on protection, promotion and support of optimal breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services, as a public health intervention.

Gill became a councillor in 2012 and was Sandwell's cabinet member for public health and protection, alongside being chosen for the «Jo Cox Women in Leadership Programme».

... subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals,...

«In the absence of stronger protections and compensation for medical costs, the people of New York will be forced to pay these costs through our public health and social service budgets,» Krueger said.

New York's public water supplies need stronger protections to ensure clean drinking water and prevent contamination that could result in health problems, according to a report released today by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office.

And why should people who live in areas served by public water systems below this threshold be treated as second class citizens — does their health and safety not warrant the same protection as everyone else?»

WHEREAS, New York is committed to implementing new policies to promote the efficient use of energy and natural resources in the interest of the long - term protection and enhancement of the State's environment, economy and public health;

When asked about Cuomo's actions and statutes concerning environmental protection and public health, Bill Samuels, head of good government group Effective NY, believes Cuomo has been late in putting forth state mandates.

And even as multiple wells in nearby Hoosick Falls tested positive for elevated and potentially dangerous levels of the same toxic chemical more than a year ago, state health department employees suggested a delay in reporting results and did not initially recommend a wider outreach to the public, according to emails between state, county and federal officials, some of which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

«The recent public health crisis in Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh is a critical reminder of the need to be vigilant about protecting our public health and safety,» the mailer states, «and making smart investments in water quality and environmental protection.»

There will be more hunger, more homelessness, more public and mental health needs that go unmet, fewer protections for workers, and a rise in poverty,» the county executive added in his statement.

«Under Administrator Pruitt, commonsense public health and environmental protections are being slated for elimination with no regard for scientific evidence and little justification beyond the wishes of regulated entities,» Tonko said in his opening remarks.

March 5, 2010 Pomona hearing 1:00 - 4:00 PM Health and Mental Health Transportation, Economic Development, Environmental Conservation Rockland County Fire Training Center Auditorium 35 Firemen's Memorial Drive, Pomona, NY 10970 Contact: Dan Moscato at [phone] or [email protected] March 12, 2010 Bronxville hearing 4:00 - 7:00 PM Education, Labor and Family Assistance Public Protection and General Government Concordia College Sommer Center for Worship & the Performing Arts 171 White Plains Road, Bronxville, NY 10708 Contact: Shelley Andrews at [phone] or [email protected] The Hudson Valley Delegation of the New York State Senate In an effort to ensure the Hudson Valley is fairly represented in all legislative matters before the Senate, nine local Senators representing the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester have formed a bipartisan delegation to more effectively advocate for the needs and concerns of their constituentIn an effort to ensure the Hudson Valley is fairly represented in all legislative matters before the Senate, nine local Senators representing the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester have formed a bipartisan delegation to more effectively advocate for the needs and concerns of their constituentin all legislative matters before the Senate, nine local Senators representing the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester have formed a bipartisan delegation to more effectively advocate for the needs and concerns of their constituents.

This bill looks to expand protections that are already in place and ensure New Yorkers are able to access all the resources available to them at our public libraries without having worry about their health.

That's why, I fought for significant funding for mental health — $ 5 million of which went directly to Dutchess County — and increased funding for public protection initiatives in and around the City of Poughkeepsie.

Unless this happens, and until the public knows with certainty that all protections for public health are in place, a credible decision on fracking can not be made.»

In addition to a massive transition to renewable energy, the Green New Deal would invest in other public infrastructure, including mass transit, public housing, and a pubic broadband utility, as well as public services, including education, health care, and environmental protectioIn addition to a massive transition to renewable energy, the Green New Deal would invest in other public infrastructure, including mass transit, public housing, and a pubic broadband utility, as well as public services, including education, health care, and environmental protectioin other public infrastructure, including mass transit, public housing, and a pubic broadband utility, as well as public services, including education, health care, and environmental protection.

invest in other public infrastructure, including mass transit, public housing, and a pubic broadband utility, as well as public services, including education, health care, and environmental protection.

In fact, the panel is charged with providing «recommendations as to actions that can be taken to improve the safety and environmental performance of shale gas extraction processes and other steps to ensure protection of public health and safety,» according to Chu's memo (pdf) laying out its mission, which must deliver «immediate steps to be taken to improve the safety and environmental performance of fracking» within 90 days of its first meeting.

In 2011, in response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluentIn 2011, in response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluentin response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluents.

They were asked what types of guns they owned; reasons for ownership (protection, recreation, as collector's items); their attitudes on gun policies, such as bans, arming teachers and violence against the government; and the sources of violence, ranging from God's absence in public schools to media violence to insufficient mental health screening and background checks.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today strengthened the federal public health standard for nitrogen dioxide pollution, a limit that has been in place for nearly four decades

Frits Mooi and colleagues at the Dutch National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection in Bilthoven have now shown that the O139 strain is in fact an O1 bacterium wearing a different coat.

It is shown repeatedly that the general public is largely unaware of important consumer health protection topics, such as pyrrolizidine alkaloids in teas and honey, or wrongly classifies them as being of no concern, such as food hygiene in private households.

Apart from the nine members of the Coronavirus Study Group, the authors include Zaki, Fouchier, Saudi Deputy Minister for Public Health Ziad Memish, Caroline Brown of the World Health Organization's (WHO's) European office in Copenhagen, and Maria Zambon of the U.K. Health Protection Agency, who identified the second known coronavirus case in September.

«Given both the extreme and chronic stressors Yemenis are continuing to face, there is serious cause for concern of a nationwide mental health crisis,» said Dr. Lindsay Stark, associate professor of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health and director of the CPC (Child Protection in Crisis) Learning Nehealth crisis,» said Dr. Lindsay Stark, associate professor of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health and director of the CPC (Child Protection in Crisis) Learning NeHealth at the Mailman School of Public Health and director of the CPC (Child Protection in Crisis) Learning NeHealth and director of the CPC (Child Protection in Crisis) Learning Network.

But Marc Brisson, an epidemiologist at the Public Health Laboratory Service in London, has found that exposure to children with the pox provides protection.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by US President Barack Obama in 2010, can advance public health in the USA by supporting increased emphasis on prevention, and reversing the historic division between public health and private health care services, according to the authors of new research published in The Lancet as part of a new Series, The health of Americans.

It is the policy of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory that the health and safety of the public, PPPL personnel, and on - site subcontractors, the preservation of the environment, and the protection of Laboratory property receive the highest consideration in all our work.

Congress formally recognized EDCs as a public health concern in 1996 when it passed the Food Quality Protection Act and amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Despite public health messages about the importance of sun protection, many people, including some with a previous melanoma, are not protecting themselves effectively resulting in severe sunburn.

1994 saw her as Head of the Department of Transplantation Immunology at the CLB, in Amsterdam, and in 1999 she became Head of the department of the Immunology of the Laboratory of Vaccine Research of the National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection (RIVM), in Bilthoven, where her research activities focused on defining immunological correlates of protection on the T and B cell level after natural infection and vaProtection (RIVM), in Bilthoven, where her research activities focused on defining immunological correlates of protection on the T and B cell level after natural infection and vaprotection on the T and B cell level after natural infection and vaccination.

«Thus, these findings highlight the importance of not only emphasizing avoidance of indoor tanning in public health messages and physician communication, but also reiterating the need for sun protection and skin cancer screening in this population,» the authors concluded.

In an accompanying editorial, journal editor Dr. Robert Freedman stressed that «protection of the public's health is part of our responsibility as well, and as physicians, we are responsible for preventing new drug epidemics.»

The results have significant public health implications as the increase of berry consumption is a relatively simple dietary modification for cognition protection in the elderly.

Studies show that dioxin collects in your fatty tissues, and according to a draft report by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), dioxin a serious public health threat that has no «safe» level of exposure!

Last month, in a step tantamount to heresy in the public health world, scientists at the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota released a report saying that influenza vaccinations provide only modest protection for healthy young and middle - age adults, and little if any protection for those 65 and older, who are most likely to succumb to the illness or its complications.

This black - and - white storyline plays out in education, even as other sensitive areas of domestic public policy (like health care or environmental protection) prove far more comfortable with the role that for - profits play.

are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others (Art. 9 (2), ECHR)

As state investments in higher education have declined on a per - resident basis, spending has grown in other categories, most notably in K — 12 education (from $ 1,378 per resident in 1987 to $ 1,946 in 2015) and public welfare (from $ 645 per resident in 1987 to $ 1,930 in 2015), but also in health and hospitals, police and fire protection, and corrections.