But the study, which assumed that if the waste stations were not active in those locations, other industrial operations would be, concluded that the "geographical proximity" of the transfer stations does "not cause adverse combined or cumulative" environmental effects.
State government agricultural, mining and forestry policies are sometimes at odds with environmental objectives and despite progress in incorporating biodiversity considerations into large projects, the cumulative environmental effects of new and existing developments are not fully considered.
Scientists recognize the importance of studying cumulative environmental effects as stressors, as there are countless stressors in human and technological development.
OSMRE told the court that it had completed an environmental assessment (EA) that considered the direct, indirect, and cumulative environmental effects of the modification, and that it had issued a finding of no significant impact (FONSI) based on the EA.
With our dynamic approach that was made operational with the proposed formula, cumulative environmental effects by large wind farms as well as variants concerning the height of wind power plants in relation to the number of spin wheels could be considered adequately in spatial planning.
It may be that smaller watersheds, in general, experience greater cumulative environmental effects, due to their relative paucity of buffering capacity (e.g., Walling 1999) when disturbed.
"DEPA applauds the Corps for its efforts to reissue the NWPs as they are an important regulatory vehicle to authorize activities that have minimal individual and cumulative adverse environmental effects under the Clean Water Act, Section 404 Program," wrote DEPA.
But there has been no study of the cumulative environmental and economic effects of drilling and fracking the tens of thousands of shale gas wells that are projected to be constructed in NY.
The protection of human health from the adverse effects of cumulative environmental exposure to chemical mixtures is an important issue.
And the environmental effect is also uncertain.
Cadmium is a cumulative environmental pollutant.
