The researchers point out that the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, a benchmark of environmental disasters, killed around 250,000 birds, and that communication towers are annually responsible for a figure 27 times that size.
Interpreting the data is nonetheless problematic, because exposure measurements for children 3 6 years of age are scarce, and there are few health-related benchmarks for blood levels of environmental chemicals, with Pb and carbon monoxide among the notable exceptions (Needham and Sexton 2000; Sexton et al. 2004b).
"Operators of energy utilities shouldn't sit in the official member states delegation to avoid obvious conflicts of interest in the setting of environmental performance benchmarks that they will themselves have to meet," said Christian Schaible, a senior policy officer for the European Environment Bureau.
This study analyses the circumstances of environmental advantage by benchmarking a novel Kraft pulp fibre reinforced polypropylene against its matrix material and two other composites with talcum and glass fibres.
3. New benchmark figures contributed from this study for a range of environmental noise conditions with the three databases are provided by cond.2 – cond.5.5
But Mark Brownstein, director of environmental policy at P.S.E.G., noted that such a benchmark report was routinely done in the industry to compare companies on things like safety or earnings.
CASVI's SV99, an index that tracks the top 300 companies in China on the basis of Environmental and Social Governance (ESG), has been outperforming benchmark indices in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets.
The benchmark dose (BMD) method is increasingly used in the health risk assessment of environmental contaminants [ Crump 1984; Filipsson et al. 2003; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) 1995].
An important benchmark of Mrs. Whitman's tenure at the Environmental Protection Agency will be her stand on issues of environmental justice.
Friends of the Earth produced a brilliant comparison of political parties' commitment to benchmark environmental policies for the Scottish elections but those standards have very little bearing on the real engine of environmental degradation: our religious commitment to consumption.
