Finally, the BP spill has presented an unprecedented challenge as an emergency environmental response and a long-term restoration effort.
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All in all, we are confronting the largest environmental disaster in our history with the largest environmental response and recovery effort in our history.
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The meeting is expected to discuss how to improve marine environmental accident response support, such as on the radiological material discharge after the recent accident at Fukushima Power Plant in Japan in March 2011.
Recently, it has been shown that germ-cells, too, are subject to epigenetic change, sometimes in response to environmental stimuli.
In cells, enzymes are the basis of the natural circuits that switch genes on and off, maintain biological rhythms and produce molecular answers in response to environmental stimuli.
You get a special type of wood (known as reaction wood) laid down in response to environmental stimuli, such as tipping or wind, which induces these special woods to be formed.
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Although "social investing" -- notably in response to environmental, gun-related and alcohol and tobacco concerns -- has figured in the markets for some time, national security, human rights and religious freedom abuses are recent additions to the world of fund managers.
Methods must be developed to examine the full ecosystem response to multiple environmental factors.
In short, this is the largest response to an environmental disaster of this kind in the history of our country.
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But perhaps more importantly, both Rolls-Royce and Bentley have worked out strategies in response to forthcoming environmental regulations from Brussels.
But Scottish Green Party leader Robin Harper angrily denounced the two main opposition parties, describing calls for increased fishing quotas as "lunacy" and "a destructive response to an environmental crisis".
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On top of that, the Environmental Protection Agency, in response to a decision by the Supreme Court, may have to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles -- establishing another standard.
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Authorities said United States Environmental Services, an oil spill response company, was collecting oily water.
In response to feedback from environmental justice leaders at an historic White House Forum on the issue in December, many agencies have expanded their efforts to host listening sessions, sponsor conferences, and offer their programs up for public comment to ensure Americans have a chance to weigh in on issues that affect their daily lives.
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Friends of the Earth said the strategy was a "weak response to the very significant environmental, social and health problems caused by the food industry".
Train was a renowned US conservationist who played a central role in creating groundbreaking laws in response to rising concerns about environmental protection in America and around the globe.
Mr. MEAD TREADWELL (Former Spill Response Coordinator, Department of Environmental Conservation): We thought, or at least I thought, as one of the decision-makers that nature was going to take care of the issue.
We are there to ensure that BP is doing everything that it has to do as the responsible party in this disaster, whether that is paying for -- as the law stipulates -- paying for the response, paying for the environmental damages and the recovery, and paying the claims of those that -- whose economic livelihood and well-being has also been damaged by this spill.
"We find the overall industry response rate to our request for environmental information to be pretty dismal for an industry that is considered 'green, '" the group's executive director, Sheila Davis, said in an email.
DiNapoli said he is withdrawing his resolution, which was filed in response to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency progress report last summer that said PCB concentrations were higher than expected in some areas outside the project's footprint.
It has sold hundreds of the new detector units to the military, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy and emergency response teams.
But the complex, multifaceted challenges and risks ahead call for a response which addresses the social, economic and environmental issues facing the world today in an integrated and comprehensive manner.
Mead Treadwell is a former spill response coordinator for the state's Department of Environmental Conservation.
Back-up generators are only a small part of existing demand response programs and those that do participate must meet environmental standards and have limitations placed on the numbers of hours they may operate per year.
So called rainbow proteins (a spin-off from work into bioluminescence), which change colour in response to particular compounds, are also an option for detecting environmental toxins, or the potential agents of terrorism.
Councillors on the authority's transport, environmental and community (TEC) services committee have been asked to consider the response.
The investigation is in response to a complaint filed by the University of Victoria's Environmental Law Centre (ELC) and the campaign group Democracy Watch.
But environmental campaigners have warned that the harsh conditions in the Arctic could hamper any emergency response in the case of an oil spill.
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Infrared cameras on a boat accompanying the rig as it was being towed detected no signs of leakage early Monday, according to the unified incident response command, which includes the Coast Guard, Alaska's state environmental conservation department, a drilling company and Kodiak Island officials.
The move came in response to a Greenpeace initiative called the Unfriend Coal Campaign, in which the environmental group enlisted 700, 000 online activists to pressure Facebook to power its data centers with clean energy instead of coal.
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