Sentences with phrase «what environmental reports»
There is now a pressing need for sensible industry standards on what environmental reports should contain.
https://www.newscientist.com/ Not exact matches
The advisory group, in a report submitted to Congress and the U.S. trade representative in late June, suggested the USTR borrow exact language pertaining to the agricultural sector and suggested using the Asiawide trade deal as the basis for text on environmental and labor regulation, with «additional strengthening of measures beyond what was in TPP,» according to a copy of the June 30 letter obtained by CNBC.
Early indications suggest environmental water has been able to limit the impact of what could have been disastrous for a number of aquatic species and their ecosystems and scientists on the ground have reported that fish are using the refuges created.
Ben Beach, a spokesman for the Wilderness Society, welcomed attempts to debate environmental issues, but said of the report: «The thrust of what they are saying is unsubstantiated; it is just plain wrong.
Other initiatives discussed from the Dec. 14th agenda included Brad Hoylman speaking about the negotiations in the NYS Senate regarding the IDC; Laurie Hardjowirigo gave the Voter Reform Committee Report; Nat Johnson gave the Environmental Committee Report by stressing what was learned at the December 4 Future of Renewable Energy Forum; Erik Coler of Affordable Housing recapped the year's achievements by saying this year 42 units had been re-stabilized and he was hoping next year to add 90 more.
The Green Party of New York (GPNY) and its recent gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins join the chorus of New Yorkers celebrating what appears to be an imminent fracking ban, arising from today's reports from Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens and Acting Health Commissioner Howard Zucker.
As for the DEC report itself on hydrofracking, Fiala said she was yet to read, but said she hadn't changed her position on the process, insisting that she had always preferred to wait for what environmental regulators would do.
What's particularly notable about this list is its political balance, particularly when compared to the annual «green» legislative report card released last week by the Environmental Advocates (technically speaking, through its sister organization, EPL).
That report, called a draft environmental impact statement, will provide a recommendation to the New York State Department of Transportation on what multibillion - dollar option they should select for the project.
«I don't really care what an environmental group is going to give her as a report card, nor do I care that it endorses or doesn't endorse Mike Derrick,» he said.
The resulting conflict is best framed, reports E.G. Vallianatos, a scientist retired from the Environmental Protection Agency, by what he calls the «Rachel Carson paradox.»
Those surveys ignore what the report calls «community literacy» — the phenomenon by which individuals learn about and take collective action on issues they care deeply about, from AIDS to environmental justice.
«What's problematic is that this is an industry that is self - reporting and self - policing,» said Mary Greene, senior managing attorney for the environmental organization.
A new report prepared by environmental group Oil Change International (OCI) analyzes what the climate change impacts of the proposed pipeline might be.
Be sure to read all five parts of Education World's special report on the environmental conditions of our nation's school buildings, the health consequences for students and staff, and what school officials can do.
Aberdeen Standard Investments have published a new report guiding corporate bond investors on what to expect when integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis into their investment process.
from what I've been reading, environmental impacts and energy payback times (EPBT) will be different from different reports at least in part due to the state of the technology.
As the New Jersey legislature votes to ban fracking, some word on what the EPA is doing to minimize the environmental damage which could be caused with unregulated hydraulic fracturing: Natural Gas Watch reports that EPA head Lisa Jackson has said that there may soon be Federal regulations dealing with air pollution caused by the natural gas extraction process.On the air quality issues, Jackson said:
2) One thing I don't see explored in the report, and certainly don't see discussed by Matt's critics, is what seems like a profound strategic failure on the part of environmental groups and their allies — the failure to compromise earlier in the legislative effort.
Under a 1990 law, presidents must submit a report to Congress every four years summarizing what is known about impacts of climate change and other global environmental problems on the United States.
Finding a place to hike or picnic in Scotland's cities just got easier with the introduction of what is thought to be the world's first comprehensive, interactive online map of urban green space — 429 square miles in all.The interactive map, prepared by the charitable organization Greenspace Scotland with government support, allows anyone with access to a computer to search for green space using place names or postcodes, or just by scrolling around, the BBC reported today, noting the environmental as well as recreational benefits:
Kristin Møller Gabrielsen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and colleagues report in the journal Environmental Research that they examined the liver, muscle and kidney tissues taken from seven polar bears killed by Inuit hunters in East Greenland in 2011 and analysed the effect of more than 50 contaminants in plasma samples from Ursus maritimus, to see what effect organohalogen compounds could have on the bears» thyroid systems.
«What's wrong with U.N. climate science: An independent scientific review of the IPCC's Third Assessment Report» (News Release), Science and Environmental Policy Project, May 25, 2000.
Benjamin Sulman − a biologist at Indiana University, but then of the Princeton University Environmental Institute in the US − and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that they have developed a new computer model to examine what really happens, on a global scale, when plants colonise the soil and start taking in moisture and carbon from the atmosphere.
The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.
This report intends to make an assessment of what the fight against climate change — prevention, mitigation and adaptation — means for the world of work, of the challenges and opportunities involved, and of how to contribute to the just transition to environmental sustainability that will serve to advance both decent work opportunities for all and the protection of the planet.
MOYERS: What do you think when you read that the White House recently ordered our Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA, to leave global warming off its report because it's such a political hot potato?
The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) recently released a report entitled Solar For All: What Utilities Can Do Right Now to Bring Solar Within Reach for Everyday Folks.
«What's wrong with U.N. climate science: An independent scientific review of the IPCC's Third Assessment Report,» Science and Environmental Policy Project, May 25, 2000.
That's what a new report from ecoAmerica and the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) at Columbia University's Earth Institute — entitled Connecting on Climate: A Guide to Effective Climate Change Communication — seeks to help us better understand.
If we try to predict what the situation might be in California two years from now by looking at a time - traveled progress report published in the summer of 2017 concerning the impacts the Governor's order actually had on the process of managing state government — we might conclude than anything under the sun can and will happen, including the possibility that the processes state agencies use in making their decisions are gummed up to such an extent that all of California's regulatory and planning activities which affect environmental issues slow to a crawl or even stop altogether.
In February, EDF estimated methane emissions from Pennsylvania's shale oil and gas sites may be more than five times higher than what oil and gas companies reported to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
Environmental Impact Reports are commissioned by the promoters themselves, and THEY call the tune — i.e. they pick the most complacent consultants, those who will ALWAYS say that the wind farm is well - sited no matter what.
The report found 95 % of the offset permits were from schemes, like the destruction of some HFC gases in China, than have since been banned from the ETS due to what Connie Hedegaard, European commissioner for Climate Action, called a «total lack of environmental integrity».
No - one took any notice of what we were saying until the Australian Democrats decided, largely on the basis of our report, to establish a Senate Inquiry into the environmental implications of the GST package late in 1998.
What is typically not reported, however, is that according to Ozone Action, an environmental organization, Dr. Balling has received at least $ 311,000 from oil and coal industries...
This talk will draw upon results from ice core research over the past twenty years, as well as a new NRC report on abrupt climate change in order to address abrupt change, as seen in the past in ice cores, as seen today in key environmental systems upon which humans depend, and what may be coming in the future.
Not only does the report clearly not do what it claims to do, and not only is this another instance of Big Insurance joining forces with Big Environment to whip up alarm (not to mention premiums) about environmental risks (Allianz join Munich Re, RMS and Catlin), but, by ranking countries in terms of energy — rather than CO2 — production, it also supports our suggestion that Environmentalism has less to do with saving the planet than it does with reining in human aspirations.
Kirk Smith, associate director of environmental and health sciences at the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of California Berkeley, United States; and a Fulbright chair at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, tells SciDev.Net that the report confirms what scientists have been sayienvironmental and health sciences at the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of California Berkeley, United States; and a Fulbright chair at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, tells SciDev.Net that the report confirms what scientists have been sayiEnvironmental Health, University of California Berkeley, United States; and a Fulbright chair at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, tells SciDev.Net that the report confirms what scientists have been saying all along.
The Global Environment Outlook: environment for development (GEO - 4) report is published in what may prove to be a remarkable year — a year when humanity faced up to the scale and pace of environmental degradation with a new sense of realism and honesty
Breakdown the content of the reports — What data & information is included within environmental, flood and other risk reports?
By spending the week seeing what really goes on at an environmental consulting firm - working in the field, data collection, report preparation, problem - solving - I decided that I wanted to find a job in that field after graduation.
Regarding the environmental history of the property — the only way to be 100 % sure would be to order and environmental report (which isn't cheap)... but if you're looking for a VERY high level idea of what's going on in the area, you can check out this site: http://www.epa.gov It might give you some ideas on whether there are any major environmental issues in the general vicinity of your property.
Consider what you hear on the average cable news network in the morning — rabid reactions to the latest economic indicators, pundits lambasting the latest partisan political ploy, and dire weather and environmental reports.