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Environmental and skeptics
Environmental skeptics, such as Bjørn Lomborg ( the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist ) dispute the claims of environmentalists, claiming they are either inaccurate or exaggerated.

Environmental and have
Environmental conditions in Armenia have been worsened as a result of war with Azerbaijan over Armenia's claim of historic rights to Azerbaijan's province.
In 2001, Bt176 varieties were voluntarily withdrawn from the list of approved varieties by the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) when it was found to have little or no Bt expression in the ears and was not found to be effective against second generation corn borers.
Environmental advocates have called for the removal of certain dams in the Columbia system in the years since.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) includes discarded CRT monitors in its category of " hazardous household waste " but considers CRTs that have been set aside for testing to be commodities if they are not discarded, speculatively accumulated, or left unprotected from weather and other damage.
Environmental protection also includes the re-integration of quarries into the countryside after they have been closed down by returning them to nature or re-cultivating them.
The decisions of the Supreme Court in cases such as Calvert Cliffs Coordinating Committee v. U. S. Atomic Energy Commission ( broadly reading the procedural requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act ), Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill ( broadly reading the Endangered Species Act ), and, much more recently, Massachusetts v. EPA ( requiring EPA to reconsider regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act ) have had policy impacts far beyond the facts of the particular case.
Antitoxin groups are a subgroup that is affiliated with the Environmental Movement in the United States, that is primarily concerned with the effects that cities and their by products have on humans.
Environmental changes resulting from modernization — such as more intellectually demanding work, greater use of technology and smaller families — have meant that a much larger proportion of people are more accustomed to manipulating abstract concepts such as hypotheses and categories than a century ago.
With the exception of a single gray whale killed in 1999, the Makah people have been prevented from hunting by a series of legal challenges, culminating in a United States federal appeals court decision in December 2002 that required the National Marine Fisheries Service to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement.
Environmental events surrounding pregnancy and birth have also been implicated.
In environmental law, these procedural Rights have been reflected within the UNECE Convention on " Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters " known as the Aarhus Convention ( 1998 ).
Environmental watchdogs in Arabia are few, and those that do advocate the wildlife are often silenced or ignored by developers of real estate, most of whom have royal family connections and huge energy profits to invest.
Also, the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ), the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) and National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) each have more than one definition of standard reference conditions in their various standards and regulations.
Damming and irrigation uses of the Amu Darya have had severe environmental effects on the Aral Sea, into which the river flows ( see Environmental Issues ).
Environmental and health standards rose throughout the Victorian era ; improvements in nutrition may also have played a role, although the importance of this is debated.
* Environmental protection: Many pieces of land have been donated to the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation and the South Florida Water Management District as conservation easements, and the District collects data and ensures that large portions remain in their natural wetland state.
For example, the US Environmental Protection Agency have studied the impacts of perchlorate on the environment as well as drinking water.
The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's Richard Wilkin and colleagues, have conducted research on the use of pyrotechnic devices over bodies of water noting concerns over the effects of environmental perchlorate on human health and wildlife.
Environmental activists, including members of Greenpeace, have organized strong protests against the oil shale industry.
According to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ), PCBs have been shown to cause cancer in animals, and there is also evidence that they can cause cancer in humans.
Along with Symphony Woods, many other stands of mature trees have been maintained in Columbia, including the large Middle Patuxent Environmental Area in the western part of the city between Harper's Choice and River Hill villages, protecting much of the river valley from development.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency inventory of sources of dioxin-like compounds is possibly the most comprehensive review of the sources and releases of dioxins, but other countries now have substantial research as well.
Environmental events surrounding pregnancy and birth have been linked to an increased development of mental illness in the offspring.

Environmental and argued
Environmental and fishing groups have argued that the action to protect fish will ultimately save more jobs in the fishing and tourism industries than will be lost in agriculture.
Robert Doyle Bullard, Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, has argued that official responses to NIMBY phenomena have led to the PIBBY ( Put In Blacks ' Back Yard ) principle.
Ginsberg and Rice, in a commentary submitted to the journal Environmental Health Perspectives ( EHP ), argued that the 2005 NAS RfD was not protective of human health based on the following:
Tribe represented General Electric in its defense against its liability under Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (" Superfund "), in which GE and Tribe unsuccessfully argued that the act unconstitutionally violated General Electric's due process rights.
Mr Mosca submitted a Statement of Environmental Effects in July, which argued that " warehouse clearance outlets " were not specifically prohibited by the LEP, and therefore Council could consent to them.
Opponents argued that the decision was flawed and possibly illegal as there was no Environmental Impact Assessment — a legal requirement incorporated into British law two weeks after the start of the 1988 public enquiry.

Environmental and extent
Environmental determinism rose to prominence in the late 19th century and early 20th century when it was taken up as a central theory by the discipline of geography ( and to a lesser extent, anthropology ).
Ford continued merging departments and reorganizing the executive branch throughout 1973 to the extent that, by the end of the year, there were only three program cabinets ( Development, Education and the Arts, and Consumer Protection and Regulation ) and four additional departments ( Human Resources, Justice, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, and Transportation ).
It is the independent regulatory office dealing with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications ( EC Directive ) Regulations 2003 across the UK ; and the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and, to a limited extent, in Scotland.
Environmental factors are quantified with a negative and positive scale denoting the extent to which the environment acts as a barrier or facilitator.
Reports by the Environmental Protection Authority provide detail on the extent of the contamination.

Environmental and harm
* The Environmental Protection Agency has promulgated various regulations ( pertaining to e. g. smog, ozone, environmental toxins, and particulate matter ) which significantly harm the economy with negligible environmental benefit.
The second title of the bill was submitted by McKinney, seeking a Comprehensive Environmental Sampling and Toxicity Assessment Plan, or CESTAP, to minimize harm to Gulf Coast residents from the toxic releases into the environment caused by the hurricane.
The group Republicans for Environmental Protection issued Chabot an " environmental harm demerit " in 2006 for contributing to urban sprawl by sponsoring H. R.
The Appeals Court " upheld a federal judge's finding that opponents of the mine failed to prove they were likely to prevail on claims the mine would cause visual harm to Mount Tenabo and create a substantial burden on the tribes ' ability to exercise their religion " but ruled the U. S. Bureau of Land Management ’ s previous environmental review of water and air pollution impacts " was inadequate under the National Environmental Policy Act " and ordered the District Court to provide " appropriate " injunctive relief while the Bureau of Land Management conducted further study.

Environmental and coming
Environmental analysis indicated the site was occupied whilst the area was still wooded with forest clearances coming later, in the Bronze Age.
Act 250 also created the Vermont Environmental Board to review appeals coming from District Commission rulings.

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