The proposal was generally welcomed by environmental groups, but decried by business and the coal industry for potentially costing jobs and money while having limited environmental benefits.
Republicans counter that the composting program cost too much and had limited environmental benefits, and that the compostable utensils were a bad deal for diners anyway because they could not stand up to hot soup and the heartier salad fixings.
FEDERAL approval for the liquefied natural gas plant that Broadwater Energy has proposed for Long Island Sound got closer this month when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staff concluded that the project, with 86 recommended changes, would have limited environmental impact.
The aggregated results suggest very limited environmental benefits in this practice even taking into account different end-of-life scenarios.
Crystalline TPI absorbed only small quantities of all the solvents used, but showed limited environmental stress cracking resistance.
However HS2 says a deep tunnel would have "only limited environmental improvement" and "would result in a significant increase in construction costs".
Fat biking on snow is likely to have limited environmental impacts due to use on typically frozen ground with the greatest ecological effects most likely to occur during 'shoulder season' use when riding may damage muddy trails.
We find that TOAs aimed at knowledge sharing and coordination, research, development, or demonstration could increase the overall efficiency and effectiveness of international climate cooperation, but are likely to have limited environmental effectiveness on their own.
However, our data also demonstrate that MO inertia is idiosyncratic in that it stems from distinct MO characteristics, particularly a culture of consensus and an elitist identity, which in turn reinforce MOs' lack of champions, limited environmental intimacy, and protracted decision-making.
This program states that sites can never be cleared 100%, and that there is no criterion that allows a site to be ruled 'safe.' The program has similarly asserted that based upon Canadian experiences, MEC have produced limited environmental impacts, resulting in the characterization of MEC as a public safety issue rather than a contamination issue [35].
Installation of herbaceous riparian buffers alone adjacent to channelized agricultural headwater streams in central Ohio and other parts of the midwestern United States may only provide limited environmental benefits for these stream ecosystems in the first 4 6 years after establishment.
