The Carnegie-Mellon researchers found that closing even one plant could have dire environmental effects.
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Hydropower is about 3 percent, and building more dams would also have environmental effects.
And those supposed environmental effects, such as the eradication of birds because of the softening of their eggs, are almost all fictitious.
He started attending GVCA meetings after becoming worried about the environmental effects that drilling for natural gas was having on the region.
And, overall, the studies have shown that the environmental effects of modified crops are not always as serious as the greens claim.
Without a more sustainable and balanced energy mix, the increase in fossil fuels will be appalling and costly, and the environmental effects devastating.
Other animals in the pipeline include livestock with leaner muscle mass and improved use of dietary phosphorous to lessen the environmental effects of manure.
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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The EPA subsequently convened public hearings in Binghampton, New York as part of their investigation into the human health and environmental effects of fracking in March of 2010.
"The fears about seismic effects can be dealt with, but there are all sorts of immediate environmental effects in terms of methane release, water quality and the release of chemicals, " he said.
The fact that people have used industrial chemistry to short-circuit the nitrogen cycle, by making fertilisers out of nitrogen in the air at a rate which greatly exceeds what natural systems can manage, has real environmental effects.
Since no plausible evidence has yet emerged of risks to human health from eating GM food, the environmentalists' main remaining objection is that GM plants may cross-pollinate others, spreading their alien genes to other species with unpredictable environmental effects.
There's been little controversy in traditional oil and gas states such as Oklahoma, but nearby landowners in Pennsylvania, Colorado and other states have complained of environmental and health effects.
General Electric Co. is opening a new laboratory in Oklahoma, buying up related companies, and placing a big bet that cutting-edge science will improve profits for clients and reduce the environmental and health effects of the boom.
Driving range may vary in real world operation, due to the effects of environmental conditions, terrain, air conditioning and heating use, driving style and other factors.
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The objectives are the recovery and monitoring of whale populations, study of the effects of not whaling on whales and research on the effects of environmental change on whale populations.
They also said the likely energy generated by the turbines would "not outweigh the significant adverse effects on local environmental quality".
Over this same period concern about possible effects of exposure to environmental toxins, including pesticides and heavy metals, has become ever more pervasive.
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So far they have documented measureable effects from a host of environmental pollutants including pesticides, fungicides, dioxins and hydrocarbons.
Still, we can try to correlate vitamin D levels with obvious deficiency diseases such as rickets, but the environmental studies that look at other possible effects are problematic.
Innovative Technology is defined as development of technologies or production systems, which are not only appropriate to a social situation at a particular point of time, but also is free from the deleterious effects such as alienation or environmental imbalances.
This has led to an improved understanding of the causes and effects, and has provided an impetus for new environmental legislation and strategies for remediation in many developed countries.
Perhaps those who argued for ever higher fuel taxes on environmental grounds, including this newspaper, were too blithe about the effects on motorists and industry.
In Africa, because of economic pressures and slower evolution of environmental awareness, local communities have been particularly exposed to the detrimental effects of mining contamination on public health, agriculture and the environment.
Shell Oil Vice President Paul Goodfellow said this is the first time the company and environmental groups have reached agreement to create an entire system for reducing the effects of shale drilling.
Egypt's Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, Maged George, predicts that by the year 2020, the effects of global warming will threaten about 15 percent of the land in the Nile Delta.
Using a market mechanism to pass on the true cost of fossil fuel usage, including the environmental damage here at home AND in the third world, and the longer term effects of greenhouse gas emissions and resulting climate change.
The solutions have potentially huge cascading effects: Obviously, a more pedestrian-friendly infrastructure leads to fewer cars and less environmental pollution, but it also creates more opportunities for physical activity and socialization and, therefore, healthier and happier populations.
The study was praised as offering "an important insight into potential effects of cell phone radiation on the human brain" by Renee Sharp, director of the Environmental Working Group California office.
Ironically, because past research studying the after-effects of exposure to things like atom bombs and radiation treatments for cancer suggests the most important environmental risk factor for meningiomas is ionising radiation.
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