Sentences with phrase «safety and environmental risks»

• Track record of consistently reducing the health, safety and environmental risks and threats through effective implementation of contemporary HSE protocols.

Scenic Hudson commends the Coast Guard for providing this opportunity to fully evaluate the safety and environmental risks of navigation on the Hudson River.

The paper goes on to cite the political risks facing fossil fuel companies (countries could impose caps or taxes on carbon), the risks of competition from cleaner technologies and the health, safety and environmental risks, citing as an example the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

There's safety and environmental risks inherent in either approach.»

Not exact matches

«How can any regulator, in this case the Nebraska PSC, even begin to make an informed decision about [Keystone XL] without considering pipeline safety, the risk of leaks and spills, and the potential environmental effect of spills?

In a Glass Lewis Proxy Talk held April 17, 2014, Anne Simpson of CalPERS and Michael Garland of the New York City Comptroller's Office discussed why they think shareholders should vote against the re-election of four Duke Energy Corporation directors for what they believe to be a failure of the directors to fulfill their obligations of risk oversight as members of a committee overseeing health, safety, and environmental compliance at the company.

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The environmental group Riverkeeper said the department's objection agrees with many of its own findings about environmental and safety risks, also noting the «unquestionable feasibility» of replacing its electricity output from other sources.

State health, environmental, utility and security agencies say they are launching an analysis at Gov. Andrew Cuomo's direction of the safety risks from Spectra Energy's Algonquin pipeline that would run from Pennsylvania to New England.

NRDC has long opposed relicensing its two reactors because of Indian Point's history of operational, safety and environmental problems, as well as the grave risk of a nuclear accident so close to the nation's largest city,» said Kit Kennedy, director of the energy and transportation program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Although the project applicant has agreed to more stringent construction measures near Indian Point, ongoing State investigations will assess the adequacy of these measures and may also reveal new information about the environmental, health and safety risks posed by the project's siting.

A group of risk experts is proposing a new framework and research agenda that they believe will support the most effective public warnings when a hurricane, wildfire, toxic chemical spill or any other environmental hazard threatens safety.

Though the EU has conducted risk and safety tests on the bloc's nuclear plants, environmental campaigners say the tests failed to address risks associated with ageing technology, among other things.

Of the more than $ 1.3 billion budgeted for federal nanotech research in fiscal year 2006, only $ 38 million was targeted at investigating environmental, health and safety risks; the rest was earmarked for research and development.

At the same time, he argued, despite the safety risks and environmental hazards posed by nuclear and large hydro, respectively, the climate would be in far worse condition had countries not developed those sources.

At the opposite end of precipitation extremes, drought also poses risks to public health and safety.192 Drought conditions may increase the environmental exposure to a broad set of health hazards including wildfires, dust storms, extreme heat events, flash flooding, degraded water quality, and reduced water quantity.

The two sides have fought to a standoff for years over the strategy the federal government should take to ensure that the environmental, health, and safety (EHS) risks of nanotechnology are adequately addressed.

In July, we welcomed Enablon — the leading global provider of environmental, health, safety and sustainability and operational risk management solutions — into the Wolters Kluwer family.

To increase the efficiency of the sustainability data management process and improve the accuracy of the data, we started using Enablon, a global provider of environmental, health, and safety (EHS), and operational risk management software, which was acquired by Wolters Kluwer in 2016.

In addition to his commitment to updating federal chemical safety regulations, Dooley has led efforts urging Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ensure the best available science and technology are at the foundation of government science and risk assessment programs.

The bill is intended to strengthen and provide transparency in federal research efforts to understand the potential environmental, health, and safety risks of nanotechnology.

SEAC scientists provide authoritative leadership in safety (Consumer, Occupational & Environmental) and environmental sustainability (COES) for risk / impact - based decision making to help drive Unilever's sustainable growEnvironmental) and environmental sustainability (COES) for risk / impact - based decision making to help drive Unilever's sustainable growenvironmental sustainability (COES) for risk / impact - based decision making to help drive Unilever's sustainable growth ambitions.

The House Science and Technology Committee introduced legislation today that highlights the growing attention on Capitol Hill to the need to strengthen federal efforts to learn more about the potential environmental, health and safety (EHS) risks posed by engineered nanomaterials.Introduction of the bill comes only months after J. Clarence (Terry) Davies authored a report that makes a series of recommendations for improving federal risk research and oversight of engineered nanomaterials at EPA, the FDA and the CPSC.

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also creates risk for utility companies in the form of enhanced safety and emissions standards.

A study conducted by Stanford University's Department of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) found virtually no risk to humans from feral cats.

In 2007, he was assigned to the Health, Safety, Work - life (HSWL) Service Center as the Safety and Environmental Health Officer for District 11, Southern California; where he provided risk assessments and safety assistance to 33 units in three sSafety, Work - life (HSWL) Service Center as the Safety and Environmental Health Officer for District 11, Southern California; where he provided risk assessments and safety assistance to 33 units in three sSafety and Environmental Health Officer for District 11, Southern California; where he provided risk assessments and safety assistance to 33 units in three ssafety assistance to 33 units in three states.

NRDC and other environmental groups have called on government regulators to identify risks associated with tar sands pipelines and develop safety regulations to address those risks before any new dilbit pipelines are built.

Removing offshore infrastructure is typically the best way to minimise environmental and safety risks, but there is scope in some cases for re-use or re-purposing.

Jennifer has extensive experience relating to managing Mattel's environmental, health, and safety risks and its GMP social compliance program.??

Moreover, in a world where fossil fuel resources are shrinking every year, and where the extraction of «residual» sources such as deepwater oil, tar sands and shale gas come with great environmental and safety risks, bioenergy production can also contribute to national energy security.

The reason, as noted above, is that although nuclear power has beneficial low - carbon attributes, it also has significant environmental, public safety, and national security risks — and that propping up old nuclear plants is expensive.

But we also take seriously the significant safety, global security, environmental, and economic risks that nuclear power imposes on society.

«Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages — and beyond, since even fire, the wheel and organic farming pose risks, and none would have passed the «absolute safety» test the zealots demand.

As a cobenefit, recycling of transformer oil in controlled and permitted facilities reduces the environmental health and safety risks associated with the destruction of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) found in transformer oil.

Other chapters of the TPP could put at risk green standards for public purchasing, efforts to block dirty energy projects such as oil drilling and coal mining, environmental labeling of consumer products, at - the - border regulations related to food safety, feed - in tariffs for renewable energy and the list goes on.

Carlsbad, Calif., and Lexington, Mass., February 21, 2013 — 3E Company, a leading provider of environmental health and safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, and Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), a leading provider of weather risk management solutions, today announced they have both won Business Achievement Awards from Environmental Business Information publications for their ongoing commitment to developing innovative data services aimed at reducing risk for theenvironmental health and safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, and Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), a leading provider of weather risk management solutions, today announced they have both won Business Achievement Awards from Environmental Business Information publications for their ongoing commitment to developing innovative data services aimed at reducing risk for theEnvironmental Research (AER), a leading provider of weather risk management solutions, today announced they have both won Business Achievement Awards from Environmental Business Information publications for their ongoing commitment to developing innovative data services aimed at reducing risk for theEnvironmental Business Information publications for their ongoing commitment to developing innovative data services aimed at reducing risk for their customers.

Due to the terminal's unprecedented risks to the health, safety, local economies and natural resources of Northwest communities, the Washington State Department of Ecology and Whatcom County planned to consider the project's broad impacts in the environmental impact statement, including coal dust around the terminal, rail traffic and coal dust along rail lines and waterways in Montana, Idaho and Washington; and the effects of burning coal overseas on the Northwest, particularly regarding climate pollution and mercury contamination.

Officials at the Interior Department's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement say the new rules will reduce the risk of accidents in the future.

Health, safety, and environmental risks of these early projects can be managed through modifications of existing regulations in the EU, Australia, Canada, and the U.S..

Operation of solar facilities, and especially concentrating solar power facilities, involves high temperatures that may pose an environmental or safety risk.

At issue is the safety of transporting heavy bitumen through the proposed pipeline expansion, and the environmental risks posed to British Columbian municipalities near the proposed expansion.

She specialises in contentious and non-contentious environmental advice, and her experience includes advising private and public organisations on environmental and health and safety (EHS) regulatory matters and risk management.

New government agencies like the National Transportation Safety Board (1967), the Environmental Protection Agency (1970), the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (1971), the Consumer Products Safety Commission (1972), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1975), the Mining Health and Safety Administration (1977) and so on, began compiling that kind of data that made it possible to identify safety risks with common causes on a national scale that made it possible to prove that individual injuries were caused common defects traceable to large national companies or indusSafety Board (1967), the Environmental Protection Agency (1970), the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (1971), the Consumer Products Safety Commission (1972), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1975), the Mining Health and Safety Administration (1977) and so on, began compiling that kind of data that made it possible to identify safety risks with common causes on a national scale that made it possible to prove that individual injuries were caused common defects traceable to large national companies or indusSafety Administration (1971), the Consumer Products Safety Commission (1972), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1975), the Mining Health and Safety Administration (1977) and so on, began compiling that kind of data that made it possible to identify safety risks with common causes on a national scale that made it possible to prove that individual injuries were caused common defects traceable to large national companies or indusSafety Commission (1972), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1975), the Mining Health and Safety Administration (1977) and so on, began compiling that kind of data that made it possible to identify safety risks with common causes on a national scale that made it possible to prove that individual injuries were caused common defects traceable to large national companies or indusSafety Administration (1977) and so on, began compiling that kind of data that made it possible to identify safety risks with common causes on a national scale that made it possible to prove that individual injuries were caused common defects traceable to large national companies or indussafety risks with common causes on a national scale that made it possible to prove that individual injuries were caused common defects traceable to large national companies or industries.

Environment, health, and safety: We have class - leading capability in supporting industrial and commercial businesses in relation to the full spectrum of environmental and workplace health and safety law, including providing strategic and operational compliance advice; representation in regulator enforcement action and civil proceedings (including mass torts); and risk management advice in transactions.

In today's climate of increasing regulatory scrutiny of safety, health and environmental risks, organisations and senior management should ensure that they have effective systems in place to minimise...

The mere fact that Regulation No 1829/2003 makes, according to the Commission, a distinction between the safety assessment of the food and feed concerned and the environmental risk assessment, including health risks linked to their presence in the environment, can not call into question the finding that the complaints made in the request for review which the Commission rejected in the contested decision, on the ground that they did not fall within the scope of environmental law, do in fact fall within the scope of Article 10 of Regulation No 1367/2006.

Prepare a variety of environmental reports including Phase I and Phase II ESAs, Sampling and Analysis Plans, Risk Mitigation Plans, Remedial Action Plans, Tier I and Tier II Investigations and Evaluations, Baseline Environmental Assessments, Health and Safety Plans, and Due Care Complienvironmental reports including Phase I and Phase II ESAs, Sampling and Analysis Plans, Risk Mitigation Plans, Remedial Action Plans, Tier I and Tier II Investigations and Evaluations, Baseline Environmental Assessments, Health and Safety Plans, and Due Care CompliEnvironmental Assessments, Health and Safety Plans, and Due Care Compliance Reports.

Adhere to all safety, risk management and environmental policies and procedures in performing duties, and in storing and handling supplies, agents and equipment.

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