In the current campaign, the vice president has at least sporadically tried to make an issue of the environment, though again, this focus has not received extensive coverage.
Heavy metals have become a global issue of environment and public health concern due to their toxicities, bioaccumulation in human body and food chain, carcinogenicities, and mutagenesis in various living organisms [ 2– 4].
Transportation efficiency consultant Steven Plotkin, a former engineer for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and analyst for the now-defunct federal Office of Technology Assessment, made such an argument in the November 2004 issue of Environment, a scientific journal.
His next disclosure showed $417,255 in Enersystems income". "Mountain top removal mining is not an issue of jobs v the environment.
This paper, which also serves as an introduction to this special issue of Environment and Urbanization on urban livelihoods, draws on the WIEGO network's experience to review the current state of knowledge on the urban informal economy and to identify critical policy issues in relation to the New Urban Agenda, several of which are highlighted in this issue.
Pharmaceuticals, by design, induce biological responses in animals and humans at very low doses, making their presence in the aquatic environment an issue of concern.
They make an issue of including guests in the environment - you can pick lunch from the island's huge organic vegetable garden (60% of vegetables are now self-supplied) - encouraging recycling from the paper of your menu to the special deposit area for your batteries.
By this means, as a self-referential agency, cancer proliferation becomes an issue of neoplastic cells exploring their environment, as they construe it, towards the furtherance of 'self'self
It's an issue of construction jobs vs. the environment.
In Europe, this was signalled in the 6th Environmental Action Plan (2001-2010), where for the first time the issue of environment and health was identified as a key determinant of sustainability.
