With environmental costs and legal risks rising, share prices for some oil companies have deservedly plummeted.
Benefits include the richer and more precise data, along with improved health, safety and environmental costs.
VAT, and the government makes no attempt to price in the environmental costs of flying.
Provincial, city and county officials have an incentive to maximize economic activity regardless of the environmental costs.
The idea is that bacteria could somehow efficiently make fuels that resemble gasoline, but with fewer environmental costs.
"Until now, Tokelau has been 100% dependent upon diesel for electricity generation, with heavy economic and environmental costs, " he added.
The better approach, argue the authors, is to use risk analysis and correct pricing to encourage market apportionment of environmental costs.
Correctly done, they should help to indicate what could work, what would not, and what the financial and environmental costs might be.
For another, the commercial case for high-speed rail should be strengthened once aviation starts to pay its true environmental costs through carbon pricing.
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With the environmental benefits of a hybrid come environmental costs: 30 extra pounds of copper, mostly in the motor windings, and 22 pounds of nickel in the battery.
Advancement in the technology has brought new jobs and wealth to many communities but has spurred opposition from those who warn of health and environmental costs.
It left BP open to both clean up and environmental costs and legal claims that have been estimated in the billions of dollars in estimated costs.
The environmental costs levied on China's 400 million urban residents pale in comparison, however, to those faced by the country's more than 800 million farmers and other rural residents.
In addition to the environmental costs, Spain is counting the cost to its fishing fleet, a vital part of the Galician economy, and to the tourist industry in the region.
But unbridled industrial expansion came with unacceptable environmental costs.
Corporate executives who understand these new trends and steer their companies in directions that recognize(s) that they are not just about making profits regardless of the social and environmental costs will thrive.
"We are also working on aviation, and have started a discussion with the industry and environmental groups to see how the environmental costs of aviation can be taken account of and where appropriate, reduced, " he said.
It's impossible to add up all the indirect environmental costs of a windmill, but a good proxy for this arithmetic is simply to compare the resources consumed (in dollars) with the output produced (in dollar value of the electricity).
Two facts account for the disparity: The metals are relatively easier to access in China, and China's unregulated wild-cat mines don't need to pass on any environmental mitigation costs to their customers abroad.
The cost may be huge, but does it honestly compare to the long-term economical, environmental and cultural costs?
With substantial progress already having been made and continuing in these areas, and with further delays having large environmental and economic costs of their own, the fracking controversy has become a very expensive distraction for our nation and the world.
The argument is that just as the potential costs of environmental damage, or a lawsuit, should be revealed to investors, so should the potential costs of doing business with a pariah state.
By ignoring the costs of environmental regulations and especially the possible trade-offs against economic growth single-issue green activists tend to make unrealistic demands.
To economists, pollution gets out of hand because the prices of goods and services do not reflect the costs of environmental degradation.
Such policies will add to production costs, but the wider costs of environmental degradation, although perhaps not immediate, will often be higher.
The reduced floor space requirements, lower power consumption, and the tolerance of wider temperature and humidity ranges dramatically reduce operational costs and environmental impact through an all-flash hyperscale datacenter.
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In such an economic environment, the up-front costs of environmental protection can appear daunting, particularly for officials in the less-developed interior of the country with far fewer economic resources.
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