President Obama rang in the New Year with important action to protect environmental and public health, and rebuild our economy on a stronger foundation.
If individually and collectively we are to meet economic, environmental and public health challenges, we need plenty of options and opportunities for innovation--and the wealth to pursue them.
Within EPA, the American Indian Environmental Office (AIEO) coordinates the Agency-wide effort to strengthen public health and environmental protection in Indian country, with a special emphasis on helping tribes administer their own environmental programs.
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At our meeting, Chair Sutley discussed the importance of EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, issued last week, that provide both economic and environmental benefits while protecting public health and the Great Lakes.
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The editorial was written by Alexey Yablokov, a Russian scientist who edited a book about the public health and environmental effects of the Chernobyl disaster.
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Libous is a Southern Tier Republican leading the effort to allow drilling, arguing it would be a major source of new jobs and economic boon for the state, but environmental groups say fracking threatens public health.
Some of us can remember the public health and environmental catastrophes that propelled Earth Day, the Earth Day movement in the first place, the Cuyahoga River literally catching on fire from all the oil and dumped trash that was in it.
"What we see is a Congress who tends to think that the job of public health and environmental protection is not particularly important, that the job in some ways is done and that we don't have to worry about further reducing pollution, " says EPA Administrator Carol Browner.
Mark Lynas, a British journalist and longtime anti-GMO campaigner who is credited (or blamed, depending upon your perspective) by some with coining the word Frankenfood, delivered a public and articulate denouncement of himself or rather his former belief that GM crops and foods were a public health and environmental scourge.
Beijing sees its problem of unsafe food and other exports as part of the costs of rapid economic growth, and which plays on concerns about public health, environmental pollution and tsocial unrest---a proxy for the legitimacy of the Communist Party's rule, which is being questioned by the emerging urban middle class.
Dr. Joseph Graziano, interim department chair of environmental health sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, said the public should switch away from lead bullets -- even if the research is still developing.
"There have been a lot of studies that indicate that there are probably other mechanisms, " says the senior author of the New York City study, Robin Whyatt, DrPH, a professor of clinical environmental health sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
Intel has provided public reports on its environmental, health and safety performance since 1994 and produced an annual Corporate Responsibility Report since 2001.
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But it said potential risks included public health hazards and environmental damage, disruption during construction, long term use of land, and an impact on the community from changes to the environment, property values and tourism.
We have already seen how schemes can quickly deliver economic and environmental benefits, as well as improving public health.
Information about any unusual infection in a drug user should be given to the local public health consultant who should inform the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health.
The Regulatory Cooperation Council, in fulfilling its mandate to promote economic growth and job creation, has spurred unprecedented cooperation to provide benefits to our consumers, regulators, and businesses through increased regulatory transparency and coordination while maintaining high standards of public health and safety and environmental protection.
The RCC was launched by the President and Prime Minister Harper just over a year ago to deliver benefits to U.S. and Canadian citizens in the form of smarter, more effective regulations that enhance the economic competitiveness and well-being of our two countries, while maintaining high standards of public health and safety and environmental protection.
What we've seen, as I've been pushing our agencies and administration to take a hard look at this, is exactly what Mark just said, that in any area there's a whole bunch of underbrush that can be cleared out and made much more efficient, while still achieving the objectives of public health, welfare, environmental, and so forth.
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It helps ensure public safety, and both human and environmental health.
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Mr. Obama's decision infuriated many Democrats and environmental groups, who say he sided with polluters over public health.
On the day the Copenhagen summit started last December, the Environmental Protection Agency ruled that greenhouse gases were a threat to public health.
Her mother is one of two other less serious E.coli cases being investigated by Wales' public health chiefs and the local authority's environmental health officers.
Scientists are working to establish their exact toxicity, but a draft report from the US Environmental Protection Agency indicates dioxins are considered a serious threat to public health.
"We called in all the available resources, " said Dr. John Simkovich, director of public health for the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.
Environmental Health is looking into whether it poses a risk to the public.
If history is any teacher, most will not, and often for uniquely personal reasons (distance, cost, health, family, lack of housing, environmental concerns, public showers).
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But if the Department of Health review "finds that there is a public health concern that has not been assessed in the (environmental impact study) or properly mitigated, we would not proceed, as I have stated in the past, " Martens said.
In 2007 the Supreme Court ruled that the Clean Air Act could be applied to greenhouse gases, and therefore that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should decide whether they posed a danger to public health.
To this list could be added programs on public health, broadcasting, publishing, transportation, telecommunications, business law, environmental problems and agriculture.
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