Pollutant chemicals in Latin America have largely been unregulated for decades, resulting in high environmental exposures early and throughout one's life, particularly in areas where large-scale development projects and extractive industries exist, such as road and dam construction, logging, mining, oil exploration and extraction.
More than half of the energy investments are in exploration and extraction.
This leaves very little room for any large-scale exploration and extraction of oil and gas in the Arctic".
So why, he was asked, has his government been encouraging ever more exploration and extraction of fossil fuels?
One company involved had a background in hotel and resort development rather than fossil fuel exploration and extraction.
He can discuss the specifics of hydraulic fracturing, and energy exploration and extraction in general.
This agency would contract with technically savvy companies for the exploration and extraction.
First, there are the fundamental factors related to increased consumption and a decline in exploration and extraction over the past 20 years.
Russia has a long tradition of northern exploration and extraction, and since early Soviet times the Kremlin has had research stations on the Arctic ice.
But instead this administration is now investing less in energy innovation and conservation and more in corporate subsidies for oil exploration and extraction and nuclear power.
Congress should stop its headlong rush to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration and extraction.
