Sentences with phrase «scientific body charged»
Every five years or so, fresh hints emerge from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations scientific body charged with assessing the state of understanding of the problem.
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The National Research Council, one of The National Academies in Washington, D.C., (scientific advisory bodies for the federal government) charges that the 18 government bodies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tasked with assessing chemical safety, have failed to prove that the diminutive particles are not dangerous.
After a couple of years working as an administrative officer, Wentworth joined the secretariat of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution — a government body charged with providing independent scientific advice for policymaking related to sustainable development.
NOAA has committed to revisit this decision by early 2013, when more information will be available about the effects of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill, as well as a new stock assessment from the scientific arm of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, the international body charged with the fish's management and conservation.
It seems almost impossible to believe that a taxpayer funded UN body, charged with a scientific task can be so reluctant to admit they were wrong.