From child care to clean water projects, companies looking to mitigate their impact on working families and their children can learn some lessons from Timberland.
No systematic database exists to show how far state departments of transportation (DOTs) have identified, and taken steps to mitigate, discriminatory effects of their projects, programs, and policies on low-income and minority populations.
The state law requires them to identify and mitigate the environmental effects of their projects.
The Yellow River diversion project, in operation since 2008, aims to mitigate a projected ecosystem disaster.
And in the case of West 20th Street, the added value of Extell's prep work may not mitigate the project's overall cost.
Through this insight, decision makers can develop suitable risk strategies and action plans to manage and mitigate potential project threats and exploit potential project opportunities.
TO mitigate the project's impact on local schools, Holiday is to make an initial payment to the Plainview-Old Bethpage School District of $500,000, and provide up to $400,000 more when the first child from the new development enters school.
The lawsuit, filed Aug. 24, also asserts that the project's environmental impact report was inadequate and doesn't mitigate the project's significant impacts.
"We think that our parking and transportation plan will mitigate the project". If the expansion project is approved, it will be at least three years before construction begins, she said.
"I want to applaud the work that Five Point has done to mitigate the project's greenhouse gas emissions," she said, before expressing concerns about using open, agricultural land for the project, and about potential harm to air quality beyond greenhouse gases.
